Follow A Student: Paper Five
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For this paper, the student took on three different texts:
A basic human need is to understand the components
of one's identity and to be able to express it to others. Milbrey W.
McLaughlin and Shirley Brice Heath, in "Casting the Self: Frames
for Identity and Dilemmas for Policy," present the need for every
group within society to have the opportunity for social voice and an
appreciated and understood identity. In today's society, defining social
groups such as co-workers, classmates, community organizations, and
immediate family members contribute to one's self-concept and create
the context for social identity. Casting the whole of one's self, through,
involves not only becoming politically involved and participating in
community activities, but also conveying one's thoughts and feelings
through artistic self-expression. In Ellen Dissanayake's "The Core
of Art: Making Special," she discusses the desire to make objects
"special;" that is, to separate them from their everyday context
and put them instead in an aesthetic context. "Making special,"
she asserts, comes from the fundamental need for expression within a
society. Both "making special" and "casting the self"
make up the needs for self-identity that drove Chris McCandless into
the Alaskan wilderness in "Selections From: Into the Wild,"
by Jon Krakauer.
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The comments are instructive:
You do an excellent job of examining the complex components of how
self-identity and self-expression permeate these three works, and you
go outside of the essays and consider how these points relate to the
larger world (e.g. art and commercialization). Well-analyzed and one
of your strongest works this semester.
With this paper, we can see from the instructor's comments that the student
is moving towards an "action horizon." She or he is not simply
concerned with how these various texts connect or relate to each other;
rather, the student goes beyond the texts to consider the ramifications
of the argument in the larger world. Finally, let's see paper six.
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