Working Thesis Statement Exercise Answer the following two questions and submit to Seton for grading. 1. Working Thesis Statement Select a person from the required topic list. You must choose from the list; we cannot approve substitute topics for any reason. Required Topic List for Research Essay Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill, Clara Barton, Thomas Edison, Maximilian Kolbe, Horatio Nelson, George Washington, Therese of Lisieux, Pope Paul VI, Padre Pio, Elizabeth Ann Seton, George Washington Carver, Edith Stein, G.K. Chesterton, Florence Nightingale From some brief initial research, choose three personality traits of the person. You may use traits from the suggested traits list, create your own, or use a mix of suggested traits and your own. If you create your own, make them one-word traits like those in the suggested list. They should be positive traits. Note: The essay needs to be on the person’s actions, not his or her writings. Suggested Traits List bravery, humility, piety, fortitude, resourcefulness, kindness, loyalty, ambition, patience, frugality, meticulousness, gentleness, humorousness, introspection, practicality, forcefulness, resilience, strong-mindedness, modesty, asceticism, calmness, patriotism, generosity, self-denial, compassion Putting the person and three traits together, make a simple working thesis statement. Later, you will write your research essay on this thesis. Later on, you may change some or all of your traits to others from the suggested traits list or ones that you create like them. If you only change traits later on, you do not need to resubmit this exercise. However, if later on you change to another topic from the topic list, please resubmit this thesis exercise to grading. Example Answer (on a topic not from the topic list for purposes of illustration): 1. Katharine Drexel was noteworthy for her humility, fortitude, and charity. Working Thesis Statement: 2. Initial Plan Although you have not had time to conduct in-depth research,