Questions To Be Answered And Emailed To The Foundation With Your Essay
(Please copy question and then answer it)

Peter Gabel

Q1- Number the “fault lines” mentioned in paragraph one, #1 to #7 according to your personal priorities.

Q2- In paragraph three, what is meant by “defeat of community”?

Q3- Do you sense “the pain of isolation” in the adults in your community?  Explain.

Q4- Discuss your feelings about the SAT in light of paragraph six.

Q5- In considering a future career, what are your “prime motivations”?

Q6- What do you think about a less “objectified” legal system?

Q7- Would you describe yourself as an idealist? Why or why not?

Q8- Share an anecdote about a local idealist over age 40. 

Roger Scruton

Q9- How does Scruton describe the differences in political culture of Islam and the west?

Q10- What does Scruton suggest are the prerequisites in Western societies for citizenship?

Q11- What is the danger to the Western social contract that Scruton identifies in the last paragraph?  Do you think the Western social contract involves “patriotic self-sacrifice”?  Should it do so, in your opinion?  Why or why not?

Ayn Rand

Q- Comment on the quote taken from Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged.  Do you agree with it?  Why or why not?  Have you read Atlas Shrugged?

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