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

    Nah that's fair. I honestly appreciate the correction. Does "continental theory" imply that World Systems Theory falls under the academic umbrella of continental philosophy?

    Edit: also do you think my objection to using "third world" lies on overly technical grounds, like is that distinction not strictly relevant?

    • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      World Systems specifically isn't directly linked to it but they're more or less adjacent from my understanding. Keep in mind I only did philosophy as an undergrad so I could be misremembering shit. For a university essay I would probably nitpick the Third World part too but it doesn't matter for a high school one.

      • Asia_Set [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I appreciate the info. Yeah that makes sense with high school vs college