Essay #2: Justice (definition essay)
Introduction:
For this module of our class, our texts and discussions have covered a wide array of subjects from the socially constructed notion of gender to racial justice. Each of our texts takes a relatively unique position on the idea of justice, generally rooted in each authors individual, subjective experience.
Your task as a writer is to explore the mechanism by which the idea of justice is constructed. Is justice a relative term, or is there a specific, objective way to define it? Using our readings1 from the “Justice” module as evidence, respond to the following prompt.
Prompt:
What does justice mean? Do people really have fundamentally different views of justice? Is our definition of justice itself a purely human/social construct?
Additional requirements:
- 4 page minimum length (does not include works cited page)
- 12 pt. Times New Roman font
- MLA style throughout, including a complete and correct works cited page
- Heavy analysis (no summary)
- Must cite both the King and Woolf texts as primary sources for this assignment.
- Avoid simplistic five paragraph essays
- Two stage checks:
- Thesis statement
- Rough draft
Footnotes:
1 Martin Luther King, Jrs Letter from Birmingham Jail and our selection from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, “Shakespeare’s Sister.”
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
http://l-adam-mekler.com/shakespeares-sister.pdf
