Powerful Paragraph Prompt for Julius Caesar
In a well-organized and thoroughly developed paragraph, please respond to the following prompt.
Henry Kissinger once remarked that “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they
are to where they have not been.” In today’s political arena, citizens are looking for their leaders
to advance society economically, scientifically, defensively, and technologically, and by extension,
to guide the country to frontiers it has not previously explored. Using Shakespeare’s depiction of
leadership qualities as evidenced in the characters of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, write a welldeveloped paragraph in which you enumerate two qualities presented in the characters (which
character displayed this quality and how he displayed it) and why this would be an absolute must
in a present day leader.
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Because this assignment is asking you to focus on composing a single paragraph, you will condense
your intro to just a thesis statement and your conclusion to a concluding sentence. The major focus of
your well-developed paragraph needs to be in your specific examples and analysis. You may want to
use the following outline as a guide:
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Thesis (subject + opinion)
Specific example #1
o Quote (optional)
o Commentary (EXPLAIN how your example proves your thesis)
Specific example #2
o Quote (optional)
o Commentary (EXPLAIN how your example proves your thesis)
Concluding sentence