The paper should be double-spaced, 1000 words long or longer

–The paper should be double-spaced, 1000 words long or longer (but not too much longer; quality, not quantity!).
–Follow the Blackboard internal “Dropbox” instructions for how to submit your paper within Blackboard (which then gets shuttled automatically to Turnitin; you don’t need to register in Turnitin per se).
–Remember to verify that your paper has been correctly submitted. Excuses days later about problems will not be accepted. If you have a problem, you must notify me before the due date.
–Once the entire batch of essays are assessed, you will be able to go back into your paper– within the system�and see your score and feedback in bubble-comments.
–You may draw upon information/perspectives gleaned from the “Prof” lectures and associated links, but the main ideas and particular approach should be yours.
. Turnitin flags down papers that may have
plagiarized phrasing or sections.
–Use whatever citation method for the primary text(s) that you have been taught in your Composition classes here at FIU or elsewhere. Or the one that you use in your own discipline/major. Be consistent in the method. For this first essay, there should be typically no other citations than for the primary text or author him/herself.

web sample papers, SparkNotes, etc. to get ideas or for phrasing. Do NOT do secondary
research via the internet or elsewhere
Do NOT use
–Refer to the Checklist at the end of this file; you are expected to take care, to the best of your ability, to meet the criteria established on the Checklist. Note the grading scale.
–Do not provide a cover page; put your name/classname/date turned in/option#/your title at the top of the first page.
–Be prepared, should it be requested, to supply a draft stage of the essay (if you’re wondering; this helps discourage plagiarism!). This means you must remember to

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permanently save a draft at some point as you are composing.
–Organization, quality of analysis, and style will all be factors in determining your grade, worth 25% of the course grade. Be sure to make a computer-disk backup.
–Students sometimes ask what the rubrics are in respect to grading: go to the end of this file, and you will see a Revision Checklist. Those, in effect, are the rubrics for assessment, but it would be impractical and counter-productive to give you a break-down score in the four categories and subcategories: comments and overall feedback are, thus, �holistic.�
Choose one of the options below for the topic of your essay. These options are not intended to

box you in, but to provoke insightful and original analysis. Do not just “answer” the questions

below�they are intended to help you discern complexity, tensions, and even inconsistencies in

our authors:
OPTION ONE: One might make the argument that the most key passage in Locke is section 50, near the end of Chapter V, in which he concludes his discussion of gold (money) and the obtainment of a “disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth.” Read this passage very carefully. Do you agree that “men have agreed to a disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth” through “tacit and voluntary consent”? Or was this imposed upon most men by the strongest among them? Can “a man fairly possess more land� than he can use �without injury to anyone”? Does money (i.e. gold and silver) represent real wealth in goods and services? What is, or should be, the role of government in securing the right to and protection of �disproportionate� wealth? To what extent is this, indeed, the key or core of Locke�s Second Treatise? This option invites, perhaps, critique of Locke or discussion of wider political-philosophical issues raised by or in the Second
Treatise. (Remember: just don�t answer the previous questions … use them to brainstorm, not to organize your essay!!! And, if you entertain �wider political-philosophical issues� don�t lose sight that your primary goal is to demonstrate that you understand Locke�s text!)