Context: Identity and Belonging

[rafae71]

its was easy bro

[kdgamz]

its was easy bro

lol rafae shudnt u be on facebook

[kendraaaaa]

Kendra, that sounds similar to what I talked about. Did you mention something about 'greatest achievement' or whatever?

I can't remember, but I remember thinking to myself "DO NOT LEAVE IT OUT" so I think I covered it hahaha.

[invalid]

I disagreed with the prompt too, magnum...although I definitely strayed from the prompt. Using Catcher as an example I attempted to show that that 'being true to yourself' entails a resistance to change that can ultimately prove catastrophic. To simply be true to yourself is alone is a failure, but to accept the flexibility of human nature without compromising a sense of self is truly the greatest achievement.

NOW DAMN, WHY COULDN'T I WRITE THAT ON THE EXAM?

[kendraaaaa]

The CSE trial exam had a very very very similar prompt.

From memory:

"Being true to ones self is the most important consideration"

I'm pretty sure there's some words missing in between but you get the gist.

[kendraaaaa]

I knew the prompt before it was on the exam...i got it from some website
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vcaa just changed accomplishment with achievement.
But I didnt really study it properly...im just too lazy

I know nxt yrs one aswell...

lol Khalil, its not that i am doubting you or anything. But your comment makes me wonder:
1, why wouldn't you study it properly if you knew that it was going to be on the exam?
2, why would some website indicate that the quote is going to be on the exam?

I think all he meant by that is that he stumbled across the prompt before the exam. Not that he found some secret russian 1337 h4x0r website that has all the VCE exams.

[kendraaaaa]

I knew the prompt before it was on the exam...i got it from some website
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vcaa just changed accomplishment with achievement.
But I didnt really study it properly...im just too lazy

I know nxt yrs one aswell...

lol Khalil, its not that i am doubting you or anything. But your comment makes me wonder:
1, why wouldn't you study it properly if you knew that it was going to be on the exam?
2, why would some website indicate that the quote is going to be on the exam?

I think all he meant by that is that he stumbled across the prompt before the exam. Not that he found some secret russian 1337 h4x0r website that has all the VCE exams.

ROFL i see that what he meant by knowing the next year's prompt.

Didn't see that, my bad dude.

[dejan91]

The CSE trial exam had a very very very similar prompt.

From memory:

"Being true to ones self is the most important consideration"

I'm pretty sure there's some words missing in between but you get the gist.

Yeah I remember that one. But then again, you could say that for almost every single context prompt lol.

[simpak]

I disagreed, kind of.

[kurrymuncher]

Does it matter if you made scarce reference to Belonging as you responde to this prompt?- since this section if called Identity and Belonging.

My teacher has always told us to talk about identity and belong equally, but I don't know, she was shit.

[dreamz]

dw magnum....... i totally disagree with it!!!!! it was so stupid..... i used weird examples!!!!

[simpak]

Does it matter if you made scarce reference to Belonging as you responde to this prompt?- since this section if called Identity and Belonging.

But I don't understand how you can talk about a sense of identity without a sense of acceptance, especially with this prompt.
This prompt was saying it's better to push away society if needs be so that you can be true to your whole self.
It was easy to reject that idea; how else does one confirm a sense of self if not through a sense of acceptance?
We must build on it ourselves and in solitude, but we can't remain distanced from our society entirely for fear that we might have to surrender elements of our character.
That was my contention, anyway.

[monokekie]

Does it matter if you made scarce reference to Belonging as you responde to this prompt?- since this section if called Identity and Belonging.

But I don't understand how you can talk about a sense of identity without a sense of acceptance, especially with this prompt.
This prompt was saying it's better to push away society if needs be so that you can be true to your whole self.
It was easy to reject that idea; how else does one confirm a sense of self if not through a sense of acceptance?
We must build on it ourselves and in solitude, but we can't remain distanced from our society entirely for fear that we might have to surrender elements of our character.
That was my contention, anyway.

um. i reworded the prompt and place emphasis on "the greatest achievement"and "challenging" and "self"
so i had a few scanarios where individuals/society make choices according to their true need, desire and belief, faced challenges, but get rewarded in the end. and another one where individuals make "selfish" choices and didn't get rewarded at all/punished.

did i go on a tangent?

[simpak]

Does it matter if you made scarce reference to Belonging as you responde to this prompt?- since this section if called Identity and Belonging.

But I don't understand how you can talk about a sense of identity without a sense of acceptance, especially with this prompt.
This prompt was saying it's better to push away society if needs be so that you can be true to your whole self.
It was easy to reject that idea; how else does one confirm a sense of self if not through a sense of acceptance?
We must build on it ourselves and in solitude, but we can't remain distanced from our society entirely for fear that we might have to surrender elements of our character.
That was my contention, anyway.

um. i reworded the prompt and place emphasis on "the greatest achievement"and "challenging" and "self"
so i had a few scanarios where individuals/society make choices according to their true need, desire and belief, faced challenges, but get rewarded in the end. and another one where individuals make "selfish" choices and didn't get rewarded at all/punished.

did i go on a tangent?

Perhaps not entirely.
As long as you addressed the prompt, then you are okay, but it's best that with Context you simply don't respond to the prompt as it is written, you allow a contention to be drawn from it.
So I would say you're fine.
Tangents are what works for context; it's different to text response.

[monokekie]

Does it matter if you made scarce reference to Belonging as you responde to this prompt?- since this section if called Identity and Belonging.

But I don't understand how you can talk about a sense of identity without a sense of acceptance, especially with this prompt.
This prompt was saying it's better to push away society if needs be so that you can be true to your whole self.
It was easy to reject that idea; how else does one confirm a sense of self if not through a sense of acceptance?
We must build on it ourselves and in solitude, but we can't remain distanced from our society entirely for fear that we might have to surrender elements of our character.
That was my contention, anyway.

um. i reworded the prompt and place emphasis on "the greatest achievement"and "challenging" and "self"
so i had a few scanarios where individuals/society make choices according to their true need, desire and belief, faced challenges, but get rewarded in the end. and another one where individuals make "selfish" choices and didn't get rewarded at all/punished.

did i go on a tangent?

Perhaps not entirely.
As long as you addressed the prompt, then you are okay, but it's best that with Context you simply don't respond to the prompt as it is written, you allow a contention to be drawn from it.
So I would say you're fine.
Tangents are what works for context; it's different to text response.

i really do hope so, only made a tiny bit of reference to the group to which John belongs, the Close-knit amish community, and the cult group. made no reference to acceptance whatsoever..