these are my teacher instructions below
Purpose
- To formulate and develop an argument supported by inquiry-driven research
Specifications
- Length: Full 3-4 pgs in + Works Cited
- Evidence: Include direct quotes and other evidence from On Beauty & Being Just by Elaine Scarry. (You can also provide evidence from additional sources, if relevant, to support your argument; keep in mind this is nota full-on research paper. Your arguments will be the primary focus, supported briefly by facts from outside sources.)
- Rhetorical methods: argumentation / persuasion (including counterargument + rebuttal); description; examples; you may also use comparison, cause-effect, or other rhetorical methods as appropriate.
Prompt
In Part II of her book On Beauty and Being Just (specifically in the section from pages 57-86), philosopher Elaine Scarry advances an argument (I am paraphrasing throughout here, fyi) that attention to beauty can give us the urge to protect the thing we consider beautiful, and that this impulse can expand to other similar things, as well, even if they aren’t quite as attractive. In contrast, she argues that generalizing things (e.g. trees, flowers, landscapes, sunsets, people, etc.) can lead us to overlook individual uniqueness. In other words, by generalizing, we homogenize or lump things into one broad and vague category that mistakenly assumes each individual is the same. (Her earlier disregard for the palm tree is a good example; she assumed they were all alike until she paid close attention to one.) The remedy, in her view, is that developing more acute attention to singular beauty makes us more open and aware, which will lead us to protect things (both beautiful and adjacent), and in doing so expand our capacity for empathy and justice.
Keeping this in mind, for this paper, I would like for you to choose something specific you consider beautiful that is worth protecting, and argue for its preservation. In order to make this argument, your subject should be something that is at risk (i.e. if it’s already being kept safe, there’s no argument to make).
OUR SUBJECT:
- Must be something tangible, not a concept, idea, or feeling
- Must be specific (e.g. not “trees” but a particular tree; not “murals” but a specific mural, etc.)
- Can be something local in your neighborhood (a particular park or building that is threatened by development, for instance) or it can be distant (a beautiful monument or building or place that’s at risk, etc.) but preferably something you have actually seen / experienced.
- Again, in some way it should be at risk of being ruined, torn down, degraded, underfunded, etc. so that you can make a convincing case for its safekeeping.
my teacher left me a comment on my thesis
“This sounds like a meaningful topic for this paper, and I appreciated hearing your personal connection to the canals.
The thesis is on the right track too, but it is somewhat adjacent to the prompt. The prompt is asking you why you think this beautiful thing (or place) that’s at risk is worthy of protection. That would help make the thesis more specific.
So reframe the thesis to be more direct about that. (You can use some of the points in your current thesis draft as part of the intro to set up your argument though.)”
when I upload my thesis and other info please change up my thesis to fit my teachers liking. Also the comment she left for me was based on what I uploaded below “Essay 3 prep 1”. Please open that document to see what my “subject is”. I have also uploaded a copy of the book online, you may also use outside sources. please make sure all the quotes are real and do exist. make sure to follow MLA and all grammar rules and make sure you clarify everything in the essay you say, and everything makes sense when you read it.
Requirements: 3-4 pages MLA
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