Reflective Paper Assignment
What: Write your own biography of origins and descent (around 2-3 pages).
Why: To give you reflexive experience with narrative rendering of personal history and its power.
How: Follow Anthony Smith’s 6-staged model of “Mythology of Origins and Descent” (as
illustrated in second half of this essay linked above): 1) origins in time and space, 2) ancestry
and descent, 3) migrations and liberations, 4) golden ages, 5) current sad decline and 6) future
rebirth.
Here is the link for reading:Reading: https://origins.osu.edu/article/new-view-israeli-palestinianconflict-needs-and-narratives-negotiation/page/0/0
“A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Conflict Resolution: From Needs and Narratives
to Negotiation”
