Rutgers Joseph Stiglitz on Governments Response to Covid 19 Crisis Rough Draft FINAL INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE As I mentioned in my last message to all of you

Rutgers Joseph Stiglitz on Governments Response to Covid 19 Crisis Rough Draft FINAL INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE

As I mentioned in my last message to all of you, instead of writing a final analytic essay in the same vein as your other papers, you’re going to write a shorter, 2 to 3 page Final Interpretive Exercise.

For this exercise, I want you to select ONE of the texts we’ve read this semester and use it to construct a simple frameor lensthrough which you’ll reflect for 2-3pp (700-900 words) on some element of your – or our collective, public – experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can use any concept from any onetext to relate to something you’ve observed or experienced during this health crisis.

Consider how the following ideas and their respective texts may offer ways to think carefullyabout what’s occurring in the world and our lives. Remember, too, that you’re welcome to select a concept that’s not on the list.

Franklin Foer might ask how the technocratic underpinnings of our society may affect our ability to manage this crisis.

Joseph Stiglitz might ask us to critique the government’s response to this crisis, and how it may favor the will and interest of rent-seeking corporations.

Jonathan Lethem may ask us to reconsider the concept of individualism and individual property in the midst of a crisis in which we all depend on each other to be responsible for the health and well being of our most vulnerable friends and neighbors.

Karen Armstrong might encourage us to consider the ways in which we’ve used rituals during our self-isolation, and how those rituals might have helped us assuage our anxieties or come to terms with the pain of this crisis.

Lethem may also aid us to think about how the COVID-19 crisis encourages to abandon enframing and see the world in a new way.

For the first draft of your FIE, make sure that you (1) identify the reading and concept you’ll be working with for this assignment, offering a brief close reading of an idea-rich passage where you see this concept at play, and (2) outline one example of how you’ve seen this concept enacted since the onset of the pandemic. This draft should be at least 1 page double-spaced.

Rough Draft Due Thursday April 23rd on Canvas and in your Peer Review Groups by 12pm.

Google Docs Peer Review due Monday, Apr 27 at 12pm.

Your final draft should be 700-900 words, or 2-3 pages, double-spaced. It should have an introductory paragraph that provides context for your ideas and an assertion of a thesis that connects your one textual idea to the COVID-Epidemic. Your writing should be a balance of your own original observations and analysis from your life, for which you should use the first-person, and quotation from the text.

Final Draft due Thursday April 30th at 12pm.

All work should be Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced.