Practice Essay Questions for Belonging

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Practice Essay Questions for Belonging 

these are random questions i found from here and there:

1. The need to belong marks us as human and it is such connections that lead to fulfilment.
After studying belonging, to what extent do you agree with this statement? In your answer refer to your prescribed text and two text of your own choosing

2. To what extent do different groups to which we belong define who we are you’re your answer refer to your prescribed text and two texts of your own choosing.

3. Membership of any group requires obedience. Rules and conventions are the cornerstone of acceptance.
What is the relationship between belonging and rules? In your answer refer to your prescribed text and two texts of your own choosing.

4. Belonging is not always a good thing. What disadvantages are there for individuals and society in belonging? In your answer refer to your prescribed text and two texts of your own choosing.

5. Claude Levi Strauss once said ‘being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, society, a country and a civilization’ explain this statement with close reference to your prescribed text and a variety of supplementary texts of your own choosing in 1000-1500 word essay

6. To what degree has studying the concept of ‘belonging’ augmented your understanding of yourself, of others, and of the world?
In your answer, refer to your own prescribed text and at least three other related texts of your own choosing.

7.’depsite an individual’s desire to belong to a group or community, this not always possible’
How do the texts you have studies represent the processes and results of belonging and/or not belonging?

8. You have been invited to speak at the book launch of a new collection of texts entitled belonging in our society.
In your speech, explain and assess the ways in which belonging is represented in the texts in the collection

9.’belonging to a community of group has a significant impact on an individual’s sense of self’
Discuss this statement, focusing on how the composers of the texts you have studies represent belonging