Why Machiavelli Still Matters Essay Due: Tues. 1/9 @ 11:59pm on TII

For this essay, you will connect Machiavelli to a current event found through the New York Times. In a well-written 500 word essay, you will explain the connection between “The Prince” and something happening in our world.

  1. Find something published in The New York Times anytime in 2017 that you think connects to Machiavelli’s “The Prince” in some interesting, meaningful way.
  2. Use these questions to help guide your connection:
  3. What relevance does your academic content have to our world today?
  4. What does it have to do with your life and the lives of those around you?
  5. What parallels do you see between it and something happening in our culture or the news?
  1. You can pick any article or Op-Ed as long as it was published in 2017.
  1. In 500 words or fewer, tell us how and why the two things connect.
  1. Submit your response to the New York Timed competition on the expected due date, as well as on turnitin.com.

Excellent / Proficient / Developing / Beginning
Strength and Originality of Connection: What two specific things are linked, and why? How compelling are the parallels between them? How fresh is the idea?
Insights and Conclusions: Submission makes a strong, detailed case that the two choices “speak” to each other in interesting ways, and shows how.
Language: Submission engages the reader. It uses language, style and tone appropriate to its purpose and features correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Correctly Embedded Text Evidence: Text evidence from both Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and your chose NYT Article are present in your writing. Each have appropriate source context and are embedded with signal phrases and correct documentation throughout.
Guidelines and Submission: follows the Challenge’s guidelines. (you will need the hyperlink to your article for this)

Online Submission:

Create a Free New York Times Student Account

1. Go to nytimes.com/grouppass .

2. Create an NYTimes.com account using your school email address. If you already have an NYTimes.com account using your school email address, please log in with those credentials. To reset your password, just visit nytimes.com/forgot .

Note: You must use your school email address and password

3. When you see START YOUR ACCESS, the expiration time and date of your pass will appear.

4. Go to NYTimes.com and enjoy your access from any location. Now you can enjoy seamless access to NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps from any location, on or off your school’s campus, just by logging into your NYTimes.com account. You may download NYTimes mobile apps at nytimes.com/mobile .