Overview
Roughly five-page essay responding to the prompt.
Prompt: A learns that by drumming her fingers on the table she is annoying B. C learns that D has unplugged the hose from the cistern so that in raising and lowering the handle on the pump C has not been punmping water into the house. E learns that in scolding their child they are expressing an anxiety inherited from their own anxious parent. While smoking a cigarette F realizes that G has been watching her and presumably faulting or deriding her for smoking. J and K learn that while picking flowers on the same farm all summer they have also been falling in love. M learns that in being married to N, making her sexuality and reproductive labor available for N’s use and enjoyment, she has accepted and sustained his power over her. O has been writing philosophy papers that she thinks express her own autonomous thoughts about real problems; in conversation with P she learns that P sees her as a careerist-conformist trying to move up through the academic hierarchy by following intellectual fashion. Q, R, S, T, and you learn that while picking flowers all summer you’ve gotten to know each other--grown to trust one another--so that when your employer forces you to bunch flowers during your unpaid lunch break everyone can count on the whole crew to keep striking until you win your lunchbreak back. (a) each of these is arguably the story of someone who is already doing something and who then comes into a fuller awareness of what she’s already doing. develop and compare two or more of these stories as examples of persons’ gaining a fuller awareness of what is already their own activity. (b) use one or several of these examples to defend, criticize, or explore the following claim: gaining a fuller awareness of what you’re already doing can be a basis for doing it differently or doing it better