Select TWO questions from the list below and provide a 250 word response for each

Select TWO questions from the list below and provide a 250 word response for each.

1. Based on your reading of the Introduction, what does Franklin’s The Way to Wealth tell us about the 18th century? How does Franklin shift the question of social responsibility to the individual citizen rather than the state?
2. As Mulford points out “As a woman writer, Stockton was faced with the troubling problem of writing on issues related to sentiment (that is, a recognition of the emotional life and its relationship to friendship and poetic inspiration) without being discounted as too emotional and irrational and thus being excluded from serious consideration by intellectuals.” Do you believe that Stockton achieves this balance of intellect and emotion in her poetry?
3. How does Olaudah Equiano’s narrative perceive Christianity? How does race figure into that concept?
4. Discuss how Jefferson’s commitment to liberate his fellow men from the potential tyrannies of church and state is reflected in the Declaration of Independence?