Can any one help me with my assignment??

[mariposa]

this is my assignment, i have to give it to my tutor in five days, really i dont know what to do??
plese help me:( :bawling: :bawling:




TMA02: Due Week 12
Prompt: As Simone de Beauvoir tells us in The Second Sex, “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” As we have learned from our Block 3 “Literature and Ideology” readings, a similar statement could be made about Englishness (that is, “One is not born English, one becomes English”). Use one of these two quotes as a starting point for a TMA that interrogates either the ideology of Englishness or the ideology of Gender and Language.

Student Notes:
This TMA requires that you ‘customize’ one of the above topics (‘Ideology and Englishness’ OR ‘Ideology, Gender and Language’) by developing a thesis statement of your own. This means you have to explain not only what you are arguing or demonstrating (or in the words of the prompt, interrogating) – but also why. What does this mean? Why is this important? You will also use at least two different literary texts from Block 3 of different genres, and at least one theoretical/critical reading from the same block.

As our readings in ideology are grounded in Marxist theory, it may be useful to keep the following from the online “Ideology: A Brief Guide” in mind, as well as ways in which our readings and studies have challenged or ‘denaturalised’ these assumptions:
According to Marx, ideology naturalizes, it historicizes, and it eternalizes. That is,
1. ideological structures appear to be natural, "according to the order of things" (naturalization);
2. ideological structures appear to be the logical conclusion to an historical development (historicization);
3. there is an assumption that now that this (natural) state of affairs has been reached, things will be that way, barring regression (eternalization). [http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/ideology.html]

[quasimodo1]

To mariposa: I might have a clue if you could tell me why this is grounded in Marxist theory; quite the restrictive box for an intelligent response...and what three genres? Could not access the link. Get back to me, quasi

[PeterL]

If I had that assignment, I would be inclined to write something about "Professors are born complete asses, they work very hard to become so foolish that they dream up such assignments".

I realize that there is a school of thought that makes the cultural world as stable as the natural world, but culture is man-made, and it is very mutable. Marxist thinkers of today seem to want their ideology to be regarded as laws of nature.

[subterranean]

Student Notes:
This TMA requires that you ‘customize’ one of the above topics (‘Ideology and Englishness’ OR ‘Ideology, Gender and Language’) by developing a thesis statement of your own. This means you have to explain not only what you are arguing or demonstrating (or in the words of the prompt, interrogating) – but also why. What does this mean? Why is this important? You will also use at least two different literary texts from Block 3 of different genres, and at least one theoretical/critical reading from the same block.

Isn't clear enough what you need to do here? First, you choose the topic then secondly, you elaborate it based on hour thoughts. And to do that, you can ask yourself those WWWW and H questions and you answer them with argumentative explanations. To help you get an indepth analysis, you can read books or writings with related subjects. Then you have yourself a paper.