Paper One:
Prompt:
Watch the movie “The Battle of Algiers” (it is available for streaming through amazon and on youtube). Using Walzer’s book, assess the means the French and the Algerians used to fight each other. Given the circumstances, was it possible for the two sides to fight more “decently”?
Here is the youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE3j8pDMds
Paper Two:
You love listening to music. It’s your true passion. You were naturally thrilled when the newest generation iphone came out. The phone promises (and early reviews have confirmed it succeeds) to reproduce sound at a quality indistinguishable from that of compact discs. You gladly shoved your older iphone in the drawer and shelled out $700 for the new machine. But when your father discovers the old iphone in the drawer he is puzzled: “did you really have to upgrade? Isn’t there something better to do with all that money?”
How would Peter Singer respond to his question?
How would Ayn Rand respond?
What would you say to all three of them?
Please use at least 4 quotes from (each) the Singer and Rand readings.