Write a personal essay on the impact of Covid-19 on your and your families’
lives. We are all historical agents, and what we do, think, and write become part of historical processes. We
are continuously writing and rewriting history.
If you choose to take on this assignment, you must write an essay of no more than 6 pages. This should be a
personal reflection of what the pandemic has meant for you and what you think it will mean for your community,
the country, and the world. You may also speculate on the nature of the world soon to be aborning from this
experience. In addition, you should also historicize your experience of the pandemic. How it relates to what you
are learning? Think of smallpox in the Americas and its impact on indigenous populations.
Please note that this is not an easy paper to grade and in doing so, we will be guided by several factors. They
are:
1. Authenticity. A sense that it is your earnest response to what is happening.
2. A narrative that while personal or familial, connects you to a wider world.
3. A reflection on what this may mean for you, your world, and the world at large. What are the social,
economic, and political consequences? What does it tell you about what does not work in our society?
4. In a modest way at least, you should note how this relates to what you are learning?
I attach history class reading files. You can use them when you need.
My background – I’m an international student from South Korea. I was studying in UCLA but I moved to Korea
due to Covid-19. Now I’m in South Korea and taking online class. I don’t know when I can go back to the U.S.
If you want to use your own story and experience, you can do so.
he is sane when he, in fact, acts the opposite. He spends the whole story telling the reader of how he is looking at the old man and how his crime will prove he is not insane. This has the opposite effect as it proves his insanity.
Poe also does a great job at symbolism in his stories. In “Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator keeps hearing a heartbeat which represents his conscience after they committed the crime.
Poe writing reflected the times he was living in. His stories included despair and melancholy which reflected the effects of the romantic movement of the early nineteenth century. One of his major inspirations of his career was his wife Virginia, he wrote “Annabel Lee” upon her death. Being left by both parents also affected his writings. Since the early loss of his parents and the traumatic death of his young wife from tuberculosis, a death that Poe never recovered and as a result we see his despair in his stories reflected many times in his writing. “The Raven” is a perfect example of this as the main story is about the madness of a young man mourning the death of his wife.
Edgar Allan Poe was a great writer. Poe was highly intelligent and well educated, allowing him to use a huge selection of peoples, locations, and emotions to draw from in his stories. He builds up imagery and sensory with such details that it helps the reader to set the mood for the story. He builds up narrators that were either struggling with mental issues, or frightfully unreliable, the same one writers do today.