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Shackleton Exercise
Section - Legacy: Later

Sources - Forged In Crisis

Within a few years, he was thoroughly overtaken in public esteem by Shackleton, whose popularity surged while that of his erstwhile rival declined. In 2002, in a BBC poll conducted to determine the "100 Greatest Britons", Shackleton was ranked 11th while Scott was down in 54th place. '''One could speculate that this reversal of recognition would greatly satisfy Shackleton's obvious thirst for glory. Nancy Koehn wrote in her book, Forged In Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders, "he sought a pathway to fame, fortune, and social status," and he came to see the National Antarctic Expedition as that pathway.

Lincoln Exercise
Section - Family & Childhood: Early Life

Sources - Forged in Crisis

After the family relocated to Illinois, Abraham became increasingly distant from Thomas, in part because of his father's lack of education, although occasionally lending him money. '''After suffering through the deaths of his mother, sister, and brother, Abraham was left with a single member of his immediate biological family, his father. Upon receiving news of Thomas' impending death in 1851, Abraham made the choice to remain in Springfield with his family rather than visiting his father. He also abstained from attending Thomas' funeral. Apart from his stepmother and step siblings, Abraham became the only surviving Lincoln.''' In 1831, as Thomas and other family prepared to move to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham left home. He lived in New Salem for six years. Lincoln and some friends took goods by flatboat to New Orleans, where he witnessed slavery firsthand.

Douglass Exercise
Section - Life as a slave

Sources - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In 1833, Thomas Auld took Douglass back from Hugh ("[a]s a means of punishing Hugh," Douglass later wrote). Thomas Auld sent Douglass to work for Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker". He whipped Douglass regularly, and nearly broke him psychologically. The sixteen-year-old Douglass finally rebelled against the beatings, however, and fought back. After Douglass won a physical confrontation, Covey never tried to beat him again. 'Douglass recounts his riches to rags to riches experience at Covey's farm in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave''. His will to hope, to read, and to live being torn away by Covey's physical and psychological beatings, Douglass describes himself as "a man transformed into a brute!" Just as this degradation affected his being deeply, Douglass comes to understand his physical encounter with Covey as a transformation towards life and freedom. He introduces the story of the fight with this sentence: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."'''

Bonhoeffer Exercise
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Carson Exercise
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