Description
you need to read the assigned reading "work in lit", but do it with a specific purpose--you are looking for a selection or passage that you agree with and one that you disagree with. The idea is to begin to find out how you view "work" and "employment." You will share those selections and passages in a discussion board entry.
Once you have identified at least two passages, one you agree with and one you do not (with brief explanations of why)
Explanation & Answer
I merged the document and attached the selections chosen with a brief explanation below each.PDF is plagiarism report.
Selections identified:
1 Friedrich Engels (1820-95) The Part Played by Labour in Transition from Ape to Mari, 1896
The creative and transforming power of human effort showed that work was something more
than a tiresome necessity. From classical times onwards, , moralists preached the virtues of
labour. Work was an economic necessity; it was a divine command; and it benefited the whole
community. Before the Fall of Man labour had been pleasurable rather than painful, but even in
Eden there had been a duty to work.
And Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul . . . And the Lord God took the man and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2: 7, 15
For this ye may understand that it is the will of God that every man and woman should labour
busily. For if Adam and Eve had been occupied with labour, the serpent had not overcome them:
for idleness is the devil's desire. Wherefore ye may know well it is the will of God that we
should labour and put our body to penance for to flee sin. Thus did ...