Baldwin observes that “insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.”
Do you accept Baldwin’s ideas about suffering and about using art to help people recognize pain and alleviate suffering? Why or why not?
Choose at least 3-4 quotes from Baldwin’s lecture and 1-3 references from the documentary to respond to this prompt. Introduce and explain each quote. How is the quote or reference related to your main idea? Why does this quote matter?
If you choose, you can add an example from your own life about what it means to alleviate suffering. Remember that the main focus of WP 1 is your interpretation of “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity.
Choose 3-4 relevant quotes from “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” to support your opinion and select 1-3 historical context references from the video “Fighting Back” to support your opinion
Self-Assessment: At least 3 paragraphs that respond to these questions
What did you learned from preparing for and composing this writing project?
What were your struggles with this writing project?
What might you do similarly and differently moving forward? For example, how might journals be useful to free writing your ideas? What differences do you notice between high school and college writing?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P86MWG1YHHSVbP3juLekPNQrAJMItOWTU-yfyzHbEig/edit
https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/fighting-back-1957-1962.
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