EXPOSITORY WRITING PAPER
THIS IS AN EXPOSITORY ESSAY: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/essay_writing/expository_essays.html MUST READ ALL 3 TEXTS: First White President- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ Darwin’s really dangerous idea Richard Prum – sending pdf files An army of one: Me Jean Twenge – sending pdf files ASSIGNMENT: For your midterm, you thought about Twenge’s portrait of self-esteem as a generational phenomenon, and how her model could challenge or complicate the views espoused by Coates and Prum. Continuing on this line of thought, consider now how the common theme of group identity is made complex by By putting the three texts into dialogue, and using arguments supported by specific details from each author, construct an essay responding to the following prompt: How does our understanding of social obligation square with the desire for self-value and self-preservation?