unior Seminar Common Assignment
Guiding Questions:
What is work? What is leisure? What is technology?
What is the place 01“ work and leisure in the life 01“ the individual in societg?
What impact does technology have on work and leisure?
What part does making a living plag in making a lite?
In our seminar, Tracking Your GFS, Grace, Place, and lnteriorSpace, we have read a
number 01C texts that engage the lite question oi what it means to work. ln a cogent, well organized,
and well written essay (I 2.504 500 words), please take on the Persona oi either Caliban or Ariel
irom “The Tem est” and interview Fo e ohn Paul H as that character who wants to understand the
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nature oi work. In the iirst halt oi: this paper, have your character oi choice ask the Pepe what he
thinks the place 01C work is and how technologg and leisure have an important role to play in how we do
our work. Please don’t think that Caliban is simply a brute. He has some poetic things to sag about
teaching Frospero how to live on the island and even though he hates his labor, he states that he “shall
seek grace” by the end oi: the play. Ariel, though obedient to Frospero, constantlg seeks treedom
and oddlg tinds himsehC touched by the sorrow 01“ those who were shipwrecked. What does this have
to do with work? be creative in your questions and be mindtul oi citing Laborem Exercens in the
Fope’s response to those questions. For instance, what does the Pope actually sag about the
purpose oi: work? Should we care about the sutFering and injustice others Face? Can work make us
tree?
I hen in part two, draw on relevant examples at your own personal experience to explore the
guiding question otgour choice. How has this seminar and the readings and our ongoing
conversation helped you to change or claritg your understanding 01C work? For instance, is “work”
simplg a career or can it be flour vocation? How, then, can gou live out your vocation? What does
that require ot you and will you stand in flour truth in order to pursue it? Can you, like Caliban, “seek
tor grace”? Do you have that right? Will you make the changes necessary to icind work that makes
you tree?
To do well in this paper, you must engage the texts, cite them correctly using MLA style, and
show how these texts (and gou may reter to others trom class as well) have intermed gour
understanding oi the nature oi work. The paper, 01c course, must be well written, prootread, and
paginated. Flease include 3 Works Cited page. You will submit two copies oi: the paper, one with
your name on it, which will be read, responded to, and returned, and the other without flour name on it.

