Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer
Paper Instructions:
In this assignment, read “As We Are Now.” write a 5-7-page summary/analysis of the book using the life-course framework to explain the behaviors and outcomes of the book’s principal characters. This will not just be a review of the material. This is your opportunity to relate the issues and circumstances in the story to the material covered in this class. To accomplish this, tell us the story in one page or less. Then, you must analyze this woman’s life and death, using the life-course framework, combined with other relevant class material, as she struggled to survive in a situation that quickly developed to a level of discomfort that she found unbearable. The following are examples of the types of questions that you must ask yourself. These are suggestions; you may have questions of your own.
USING THE LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE AS THE UNIFYING CONCEPT, consider these
points:
• What life events, cohort experiences and personal choices led her to this unhappy situation?
• What are the personal and social conflicts that she confronted?
• What are the physical and mental health factors that led to her emotional breakdown and final act of rebellion?
• How might she have fared today? Are there safeguards in place, in the 21st Century, to prevent this from happening?
