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English 101/Lowe Assignment 2 In "Our Time," John Edgar Wideman writes of "the forces arrayed against" (432) his brother Robby, and argues that many of his difficulties were attributable to pressures placed on Robby by his community and culture that was rooted in a history of racism and oppression. We have discussed on-line, to some extent, the level of gains made by minorities in the twenty years since the events in "Our Time" took place; some of you have argued that these have been significant, but others would contend they haven’t made that much of a difference. What would John Berger say about this, and the difficulty each of us have had in changing the ways we see members of all communities? What keeps us from changing those viewpoints, and are those viewpoints responsible for keeping people (and points of view) in a place? Are there "formidable forces" arrayed against each of us in our society that make and map the paths we take in our lives? While reading "Our Secret," you saw that Susan Griffin arrives at some of the same conclusions about how we are shaped and affected by our families, communities, and our histories, both private and public. (Indeed, one of her most passionate arguments is that we are affected by histories we don’t even know.) To put it in Berger's terms, powerful forces are at work in shaping "what we know and believe" and, of course, what we know and believe affects everything we see, and, according to Griffin, everyone we see. You have three options for this assignment, ranked here from least difficult to most: 1. For your first assignment, you discussed a time when someone or something had power over you, and how you came to understand and respond to that power. For this assignment, I would like you to take a look at yourself or someone you know and care for and how you or that other person is affected by the larger expectations placed on you by society. You may use the Berger essay, the Wideman essay, or the Griffin essay to develop your essay, but you should try to use the principles of two of them to help you discuss your experience. What are the "formidable forces" at work in the experience you describe? Who or what is responsible for their creation, and how do you or the person you’re describing respond to them? Do you fight them? give into them? a combination of both? You'll have to use your imagination here, at least in an intellectual sense, to both describe your experience and consider how it fits into a societal or cultural scheme that in part shaped that experience. The connections between the personal and cultural need not be literal or complete; they aren't made so in either "Our Time" or "Our Secret." But both Wideman and Griffin see their families and their communities for the mysteries they are, while acknowledging that these mysteries are largely shaped and reared in a culture's expectations of what a family is, what a community is, what a country is. I'd like to see you attempt to do the same in your own essay. Remember, call on Berger and Griffin or Wideman (or all three) to push your discussion forward, using their essays as context to access your own. This is a must if you take this option. 2. Consider the issue of individual responsibility for criminal behavior in light of the Wideman essay and Griffin essays. Both Wideman and Griffin, though in vastly different ways, want to argue that environment does contribute to the decisions people make for themselves, both criminal and otherwise, and Griffin goes so far as to suggest that we, ourselves, are in some small way responsible or at least connected to events, criminal and otherwise, that occur half-way across the globe. Has your reading and Wideman and Griffin affected in any way your perception of criminal responsibility? And are their possibilities for genuine redemption for criminals who commit heinous acts?” Can you apply current international circumstances to a discussion of either the Wideman or Griffin texts? Write an essay that explores the issue of criminal responsibility and how it is shaped (or isn’t shaped) by exterior forces, using Griffin and Wideman to extend and develop your discussion. Don’t forget to establish a clear thesis stating your perspective early in the essay. 3. Taken from “Ways of Reading”: “It is useful…to think about Griffin’s prose as the enactment of a method, as a way of doing a certain kind of intellectual work. One way to study this, to feel its effects, is to imitate it, to take it as a model. For this assignment, write a Griffin-like essay, one similar in its methods of organization and argument. You will need to think about the stories you might tell, about the stories and texts you might gather ([some of which are] not your own). As you write, you will want to think carefully about arrangement and about commentary (about where, that is, you will speak to your reader as the writer of the piece). You should not feel bound to Griffin’s subject matter, but you should feel that you are working in her spirit.” (268). This essay should be a minimum of 1000 words long. Please consult Blackboard postings for due dates.
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Some days I look back at my life and realize just how much I have changed to become what I am
today. For all my other siblings things were different and I would really say that they have
actually led normal average lives which are also happy. For me however things have reached a
rock bottom and it seems like I had reached the end of the road. I can remember just how many
times I have thought about committing suicide, thank God that every time I was just about to go
on with it something came up that gave me a new form of hope. If you met me today on the
street and I told you what I have accomplished you may fail to even understand why I would for
one second think that my life sucks. The truth however is that just like Susan Griffin states our
histories affect us and most importantly those that we do not really know about.
I would like you to fit in my shoes for a minute and see things my way. I was born as a third
child to happy black couple who ran a church a few blocks from home. Both of my dad and mum
thought my life have been involved in various church activities from the choir to ushering to
evangelism name them. I can the...