Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places.
In your response, refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.
2010:
‘An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging‘
Discuss this view with details reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing.
2009:
‘Understanding nourishes belonging. A lack of understanding prevents it.’
Demonstrate how your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing represent this interpretation of belonging.
General
1. 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 2. You have been invited to write an article for a teenage magazine called Youth and Belonging. In your article, analyse the ways in which belonging is represented in the texts you have studied. 3. What do you think are the most powerful influences that impact on an individual’s sense of belonging? (Independent 2009 Trial)
How belonging creates a sense of identity 1. 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. 2. 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 3. 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 4. Belonging to a certain entity is the result of a