- How does the pleasure principle and the reality principle concern our “online image”? How do people “make themselves look good” online? What are the problems (potential and present) with this “invention of me”?
- How is being a citizen in a democratic country affected by narcissistic social pressures? How have these pressures affected credibility and truth? Has politics in America been the casualty of the pleasure principle?
- We read that “narcissism is a short term strategy.” What does this mean? Why is that the case?
- How does one become an adult in today’s world?
HOW TO WRITE ENG 100.5 ESSAY #1? – GUIDELINES
ESSAY #1 is due before class via email:
This week during the pause from meeting on zoom, you will integrate some of the ideas you encountered in the three readings in a synthesis essay. (2 pages typed)
GUIDELINES: - Choose your topic
- Re-read the readings so far
- Choose quotes from the essays that address the question you chose
- Write about the quotes
- Free write your ideas in response to the question.
- Choose the ideas from your free-write and add them to your elaborated quotes
- Organize the ideas
- Make sure you state your claim in the first paragraph
- Proofread at least twice
Respond to ONE of the four questions. - How does the pleasure principle and the reality principle concern our “online image”?
How do people “make themselves look good” online?
What are the problems (potential and present) with this “invention of me”? - How is being a citizen in a democratic country affected by narcissistic social pressures?
How have these pressures affected credibility and truth?
Has politics in America been the casualty of the pleasure principle? - We read that “narcissism is a short term strategy.” What does this mean? Why is that the case?
- How does one become an adult in today’s world?
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