"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack." Winston Churchill

Basics: Write a 2-3 page paper in a reasonable font and observing all the normal rules of grammar and style. Make sure that you have a clear and specific answer to the question asked: a thesis. Be sure to base your answer to this question on primary sources that you read for the past three weeks. DO NOT rely on the introductions, lectures, or any other source. Use specific examples from the sources to back up your argument. BE SURE to use footnotes to indicate where you got your examples.

The Question: Over the past few weeks, Rome (Sallust), Early Christianity (The Bible), and Ancient China (The Analects). All of these works deal at some level with government and the problems with governmental systems. Here is the question then: Do all three works see the same problems with government or does each work point to different issues with government?