My name is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  I was born in 1712 in the Republic of Geneva, and moved to Paris in my adulthood and became a philosophe.  I would identify myself as a writer, musician, and political theorist.  Probably my most famous published work is the Social Contract that I wrote when I was 50.  I won my first prize for my essay A Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts.  In this essay as well as many of my other writings I discuss the intrinsic goodness of man, and the corruption of people by society.  I strongly believe that man is born innocent and good.  It is the evil and cruelty of the world that makes man malicious.  Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains.  However, it is also my belief that there is hope for a brighter future.  Society can be changed, because it is us who make up society, and we choose who we will be.  Thus, if we work towards the goal of making society benevolent, then that is what society shall teach future man born into this world.