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Section 1: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from The Prince, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Gutenberg.org, 1532
    • “Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961,” John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, 1961
    • “Introduction,” excerpt from The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2000
  • Digital Access
    • “How to Start a Movement,” Derek Sivers, TED.com, 2010
    • “The Danger of Silence,” Clint Smith, TED.com, 2015