INSTRUCTIONS:  You have forty minutes in class today to respond to the essay question below.  After forty minutes you are to submit your composition to Turnitin.  

 Former president of the United States, Barack Obama, commented about doing the right thing: “The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.” 

In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Atticus attempts to impress to his children about doing the right thing when he expresses, The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

 YOUR PROMPT:  How important is it for you to always do the right thing? How effective is society in doing the right thing?  When we fail to do the right thing ,who is more to blame the individual or society?