DISCUSSION 2A:  THE PERSON OF THE CENTURY

THE SCENARIO

The year is 1999.  You are a journalist for Time magazine.  You have just been asked by editor Dan Hinman-Smith to participate in the process of choosing The Person Of The Century for a special millennial issue.  Because the reporters are spread out around the world on assignment, the editor has decided to use an e-mail forum to reach the decision.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Required Reading:

• "Time 100 Persons Of The Century," Time (June 14, 1999):  A complete list of the nominees.

• Muhammad Ali:

• Louis Armstrong:

• Leo Baekeland:

• Lucille Ball:

• Beatles:

• David Ben-Gurion:

• Tim Berners-Lee:

• Marlon Brando:

• Rachel Carson:

• Charlie Chaplin:

• Winston Churchill:

• Jacques-Yves Cousteau:

• Princess Diana:

• Walt Disney:

• Bob Dylan:

• Albert Einstein:

• T. S. Eliot:

• Alexander Fleming:

• Henry Ford:

• Anne Frank:

• Aretha Franklin:

• Sigmund Freud:

• Mohandas Gandhi:

• Bill Gates:

• Robert Goddard:

• Mikhail Gorbachev:

• Che Guevara:

• Adolf Hitler:

• Ho Chi Minh:

• Edwin Hubble:

• Steve Jobs:

• Pope John Paul II:

• James Joyce:

• Helen Keller:

• The Kennedys:

• John Maynard Keynes:

• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini:

• Martin Luther King, Jr.:

• Ray Kroc:

• Estee Lauder:

• Leakey Family:

• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin:

• William Levitt:

• Charles Lindbergh:

• Nelson Mandela:

• Mao Zedong:

• Louis B. Mayer:

• Margaret Mead:

• Charles Merrill:

• Harvey Milk:

• Marilyn Monroe:

• Akio Morita:

• Robert Noyce:

• Emmeline Pankhurst:

• Rosa Parks:

• Pele:

• Pablo Picasso:

• Ronald Reagan:

• Eleanor Roosevelt:

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

• Theodore Roosevelt:

• Andrei Sakharov:

• Jonas Salk:

• Margaret Sanger:

• David Sarnoff:

• William Shockley:

• Frank Sinatra:

• Steven Spielberg:

• Igor Stravinsky:

• Mother Teresa:

• Margaret Thatcher:

• Alan Turing:

• Unknown Rebel:

• John von Neumann:

• Lech Walesa:

• Sam Walton:

• James Watson and Francis Crick:

• Thomas Watson, Jr.:

• Ian Wilmot:

• Oprah Winfrey:

• Ludwig Wittgenstein:

• Wright Brothers:

• Walter Isaacson, "Who Mattered And Why," Time (December 31, 1999).

• Walter Isaacson, "Thinkers Vs. Tinkerers, And Other Debates," Time (March 29, 1999).

• "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (April 12, 1999).

• "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (July 8, 1999).

• John Keegan and Tom Wolfe, "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (August 30, 1999).

• Henry Kissinger, "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (September 27, 1999).

• Kofi Annan and Jesse Jackson, "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (October 25, 1999).

• Boris Yeltsin and Donna Shalala, "Time 100: Who Should Be The Person Of The Century?," Time (December 20, 1999).

• Time 100 -- The Most Important People Of The Century, Wikipedia:  An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.

• Walter Isaacson, "Our Century . . . And The Next One," Time (April 13, 1998).

Optional Reading:

You may complement your Time browsing with any additional reading and research.

PROCEDURE

1)  After extensive preliminary reading, pick your choice for The Person Of The Century  as well as a runner-up and a third-place choice.  It is not mandatory that your person be one of Time's one hundred contenders.

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