The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationship between home and self identity. I did not developed this topic and the argument in the paper before I started writing. Rather, the concept of “home” in the context of self identity came to my mind as I was reading the sources assigned for the class. As I was wandering about which topic I should focused, I took down sentences that I found interesting from the text and organized them as an annotated bibliography. As a result, “home” gradually became the focus of my thought and as I was looking at my bookshelf for extra sources, I found one of books I have read to be useful to defend my argument in the paper. The book is Escape from Camp 14 which narrates the story of a North Korean born in one of the forced labour camps. It not only rebukes the argument of one of the other sources I incorporated but also more strongly defend my argument that home defines oneself.
The purpose of this proposal and annotated bibliography is to present a writing plan for one of the formal persuasive paper assignments to be completed in ENG 221RW course at Emory University. Instead of writing the paper from scratch, making a proposal with an annotated bibliography is certainly helpful since the concept dealt with in this paper is “place” which is very abstract and needs much critical thinking.
The blog post this week is free writing activities proposed in being a writer and is about yi-fu tuan's interpretation of "place"Activity 1
Free Writing… Haha, I cannot believe that I actually doing the same thing again as two days ago. I just felt I am really hungry and so I am going to make some dumplings after I finish this activity. I really don't understand why I have to repeat doing this as every single time, I can only write about the iPhone 6 but I don't want to repeat the same thing that I have done. Just one random thought: Space and Place is really hard to understand. I thought “place” is a concept easy to grasp but it turns out that is not something easy. Maybe the Tuan kind of make the concept abstract. I feel like I can better understand it when more concrete examples are given. I am the kind of person who does not like philosophy or abstract thinking. comparision and cotrast of place by patricia price and space and place by yi-fu tuan First thought after reading...
The theme of both pieces is similar as both talk about the meaning of place. What surprises me is that Price and Tuan attach many different aspects of humanity to the concept of “place”. I have never thought of the distinction between “space” and “place” since for me, they have always merely mean somewhere for us to exist. So, the most interesting yet complicated question for me to think through is what makes “place” so important to the existence of human beings. |