Essay 2: Fiction? Analysis?Relationships: Choices and Consequences

Essay 2: Fiction? Analysis?Relationships: Choices and Consequences

Essay Requirements:
This essay will be 4-5 pages minimum 1,000- 1,250 words. Your word count includes everything and you are allowed 100 words over the maximum; you must reach the minimum of 1000 words and should not exceed the maximum of 1,350 words. See Essay Rubric on Blackboard. You should use vocabulary that is appropriate to literary analysis and fiction in particular. For example, terms like character, narrator, irony, foreshadowing, dialogue, conflict, climax, etc. are appropriate. Refer to the Literary Terms PowerPoint posted on Blackboard.

You are not required to use outside sources, but if you do decide to use something like a quote from a book review, critical essay, author interview, etc., you must cite correctly both within your essay and on your Works Cited page.
Below are seven decision-making strategies. Read them and think of examples from our readings, discussions, and from your own life experiences. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy?

?Impulsive
Little thought or examination, taking the first alternative, “don’t look before you leap”
?Fatalistic
Letting the environment decide, leaving it up to fate, “it’s all in the cards,” “my hands are tied”
?Compliant
Letting someone else decide, following someone else’s plans, “anything you say”
?Delaying
Postponing a thought and action, “cross that bridge later”
?Agonizing
Getting lost in all the data, getting overwhelmed with analyzing alternatives, “I don’t know what to do”
?Planning
Using a procedure so that the end result is satisfying, a rational approach with a balance between cognitive (mental/logical) and emotional forces, “look before you leap”
?Intuitive
A mystical, preconscious choice, based on “gut instinct” or the sense that “it feels right”
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Motivations

Hierarchy of Needs: What Motivates People?

(based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from his book Personality and Motivation, 1954 and James A Wood in Speaking Effectively, 1988—reprinted in Wood, Nancy V. Essentials of Argument. 3rd ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 32. Print.)

1. Survival Needs: food, warmth, shelter, physical safety

2. Health: physical well-being, strength, endurance, energy, mental stability, optimism

3. Financial well-being: accumulation of wealth, increased earning capacity, lower costs and expenses, financial security
4. Affection and friendship: identification in a group, being accepted, liked, loved, being attractive to others, having others as friends or objects of affection

5. Respect and esteem of others: having the approval of others, having status in a group, being admired, having fame

6. Self-esteem: meeting one’s own standards in such virtues as courage, fairness, honesty, generosity, good judgment, compassion, meeting self-accepted obligations of one’s role as employee, child, parent, citizen, member of an organization, etc.

7. New experience: travel, change in employment or location, new hobbies or leisure activities, new food or consumer products, variety in friends and acquaintances

8. Self-actualization: developing one’s potential in skills and abilities, achieving ambitions, being creative, gaining the power to influence events and other people

9. Convenience: conserving time or energy, satisfying the other motives with considerable ease
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The Reiss Profile—Measures how basic motives result in a particular joy
(Reiss, Steven and James Wiltz. “Why People Watch Reality TV.” Media Psychology ,2004 reprinted in Petracca, Michael and Madeleine Sorapure, Reading Popular Culture. 1st ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2011.
216. Print.)

Motive Joy
Acceptance: desire for approval Self-confidence
Curiosity: desire for knowledge Wonderment
Eating: desire for food Satiation
Family: desire to raise own children Love
Honor: desire to obey a traditional moral code Loyalty
Idealism: desire to improve society (including altruism, justice) Compassion
Independence: desire for autonomy Freedom
Order: desire to organize (including desire for ritual Stability
Physical exercise; desire to exercise muscles Vitality
Romance: desire for sex (including courting) Lust
Power: desire to influence (including leadership) Efficacy
Saving: desire to collect Ownership
Social contact: desire for peer companionship (and desire to play) Fun
Status: desire for prestige (including desire for attention) Self-importance
Tranquility: desire for inner peace (prudence, safety) Safe, relaxed
Vengeance: desire to get even (including desire to win) Vindication