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Paper / Presentation. Paper. Compare two people’s visions of themselves One should be from reading list Basis of comparison Gender Race Era. Presentation. Select one person not from reading list Present their life Analyze how they see themselves. Considerations.
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Paper • Compare two people’s visions of themselves • One should be from reading list • Basis of comparison • Gender • Race • Era
Presentation • Select one person not from reading list • Present their life • Analyze how they see themselves
Considerations • What ideologies/assumptions underlie their story? • Why these assumptions? • Mary Rowlandson • Benjamin Franklin • Frederick Douglass
Other considerations • Intent of author • What kind of story-telling? • As-told-to? • Campaign autobiography? • Fictionalized? • Fan autobiography?
Topics? • Maya Angelou • Ron Kovic • John McCain • Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation) • Steve Wozniak • U. S. Grant
Still to come…. • Ernest Hemingway • Sylvia Plath • Malcolm X • Barack Obama