Trauma & Resilience

Below are your prompts & options for the Mid-Term Research Essay, which will be due by the evening of March 22nd. After this new built-in extension, you now have well over two weeks for completion & submission. This paper will be worth 25% of your overall grade. Trauma & Resilience. A closer, biographical look at either Charles Bukowski or Valerie Solanas. With consideration for the concepts of identity, autonomy, moral vision and social responsibility, explore how these themes apply to at least one of these figures from class. What are the individual challenges that your chosen subject has dealt with, and how are these issues expressed in their work? What complications do we find between social duty, expectations and free will? Explore the struggle within the search for independence, while simultaneously seeking acceptance, validation and belonging, within the life & work of either writer. This paper will be at least 1,700 words, double spaced (12 pt font), and saved in pdf format. You will submit your draft through this moodle portal. A separate works-cited page will be required, consisting of at least two external reference sources. –