I have an essay due for my HS senior English final. Don't have any friends so its available here [Imperialism, Vietnam, and Sacred Soldiers] if I could get some feedback. I changed the name of myself and the teacher for privacy; the prompt is "How do varying perspectives, points of view, and narrative techniques define the diverse experiences of a conflict?", "the conflict" being the Vietnam War. The "two sources out of ten" comment is referencing a project for this essay where we had to write notes on ten assigned sources for the final. Most sources are from my own research/reading. Unfortunately it does have to be 12 pt and double spaced even though that gives you like five words a page.

Edit: don't mind the "we are challenged with" bit at the beginning, it's been removed in the actual document

    • Asia_Set [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah the use of "define" is almost farcically idealist lmao

      • robinn [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Just saw this. I agree the prompt is circular but I don't know exactly what you mean by "farcically idealist." Can you explain a bit more?

        • Asia_Set [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It almost implies that the points of view/perspectives/narratives themselves primarily shape the conflict, which I think is generally congruent to the idealist assertion that "ideas change the world"

          Edit: IMO the implication comes across as "primary" because the prompt specifically includes POV/perspectives/narrative and excludes material forces and conditions. Although you did say this was for English class lol