Instructions: Answer the essay prompt using the provided sources and listed movies to support the argument made in the essay.
*Please do not use AI or any outside sources to assist you in writing this paper*
Please make explicit references to the provided texts and ideas. You do not need a works-cited page (since it is all class texts). You can use a modified form of parenthetical citation for this assignment where you do not include publication year or page number (Rolston).
We have spent a fair bit of time in class deconstructing the concept of wilderness, and the work that wilderness (as an idea) does in environmentalism, in politics, in on-the-ground nature management, and more broadly in US life, both in the past, and in the present.
Questions to answer in the essay:
– Having done this analysis throughout the semester, please use this essay to think through what aspects of wilderness ideas and practices you think are useful, and which are not (you can answer personally, but also think more broadly for the US, or globally).
– What role can/should wilderness play in 21st century environmentalism?
– What role should it NOT play?
What will make an essay good or bad are the following: (1) does your essay reflect engagement with a broad spectrum of ideas and texts, including those that work against your argument? (2) does the essay treat these ideas and texts accurately? (3) does the essay exhibit personal thoughtfulness with regards to the topic that extends beyond summary? (4) is the writing and argument clear?
Movies:
– “Cree Hunters of Mistassini” (directors: Tony Ianzelo and Bryce
Richardson) [one hour] – http://www.nfb.ca/film/cree_hunters/
– “Get Out” (director: Jordan Peele) [104 minutes] – reserve
– “If a Tree Falls,” (director: Marshall Curry) [85 minutes] – reserve
– “Grizzly Man”
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Please situate your writing in the attached course readings, and films, as appropriate to your argument.
