English 101 prompt for Essay # 4Please write a five-paragraph essay using the studied essays in this section as your support. The overall topic is IDENTITY and HERITAGE. What can also be addressed here is gender and class. PROMPT: As indigenous people, people of color, immigrants and women here in America, how are Americans able to dissect their past, their upbringing, the past of their people and current lives to clarify who they are?What are the elements of everyday life that create identity?What, perhaps, is the most important element in the creation of identity?How do subcultures in America play a part in identity?What is society’s role in creating our identities?What types of labels, assumptions, stereotypes and/or pressures drive an identity that is disingenuous?How do people combat these stereotypes or pressures?Don’t forget the TED Talk we watched and the idea of a “single story.”Remember, we are talking about America. There are five essays assigned for this essay, but with the 50 Essays book, you are allowed to Write an history on Identity and heritage.explore other essays for this assignment. You will find a list of essays under the title Race and Culture on page xxii in the front of the book.50 Essays page xxii.jpgThings to considers for your introduction:What is identity? Is identity understood early in life or is it a life-long process to a conclusion?What is society’s role in creating identity? Because of America’s history, how can historically oppressed persons reconcile/realize/re-invent their identity?How important is it that we as Americans understand American history as it really happened? No matter where our people came from, there is still burden and complication coming to a new land. In general, immigrants come to America to seek refuge or asylum, or at least find a better life and create a better life for their children. Things to consider for your conclusion:How has the “establishment” kept people (who are not white men) in their places? Have things changed at all in the last 50 years in that regard? 20 years? 3 years? How so? Whose voices are heard? Whose voices should be heard? Why and How?What ethical responsibility do we have to each other? Our family? Our environment? Are we a depraved society that allows failure in this regard?GROUND RULES: Do not use the titles of essays you’ve read or the authors in your thesis or topic sentences. You must focus on an abstract idea that you analyze, and then use what you have read from the essay book to support your interpretation and explanation of said conceptual idea. Think in THREES, I always say, because you have three body paragraphs that need focus and power. Each body paragraph should cover some aspect of the conceptual idea. Your paper should be around 750+ words or about three or four pages. You should make use of quotes (at least four) and use MLA formatting.HELPFUL HINTS: Consider journalistic questions as you configure your plan, as well as the rhetorical modes cause and effect and definition. Professional writers you are reading often consider reasons why things occur or consequences of behavior or actions. They also consider redefining an issue or concept in their own terms to help all of us make sense of their way of looking at the concept and their expression about it.
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