EXPOSITORY WRITING
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As an aspiring creative immersed in an entrepreneurial context, I wanted to explore the ethical themes that might play into the realization of important and impactful art. In my Global Professional Practices class, I learned about the diverse regulatory systems that exist in different parts of the world and how they all play a part in the development of any new idea - that being in the context of art, business, innovation, or entrepreneurship. When I started exploring Steve McCurry’s huge success, one that largely revolves around Sharbat Gula’s Photograph, I was not expecting such a debate on ethical practices. I was very surprised by Gula’s story, and how different positionalities within the worlds’ strata of privilege might unconsciously contribute to entrenched situations of capitalized exploitation. Therefore the main topic of exploration for my analysis was - do the ends justify the means? - which transformed the Sharbat Gula debate into a complex philosophical analysis of the world as a whole.
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For my Persuasion class, I was tasked with reading Marcus Tullus Cicero’s Two Books on Rhetoric. In order to successfully complete a structural summary for the text, I had to first thoroughly understand the ideas in order to rearrange the contents into my own version of the essay - all of this while writing without paragraphs and avoiding the use of the word “and”. My professor believed that by consciously deciding to steer clear of the word “and”, one would find where ideas truly connect.
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For my Persuasion class, I was tasked with reading “Traffic” by John Ruskin, a philosophical text that critiques the excessive focus on material wealth and commercialism in Victorian Society. The main focus for this writing assignment was: How does Ruskin persuade his audience? How does he make them believe that what he is saying is true? This is my take on the query.