Global Issue Research Paper: Part II

Remember when I said that I thought writing my draft would be easy because of my outline? I was wrong. When I sat down to write my draft on Sunday, I had the hardest time articulating my ideas. I know people say that getting started is the hardest part but after that it gets better. Well everything was the hardest part for me. Even with my outline as a guideline, the order that I put my points in didn't seem to make sense. All of my information could go in different parts of my paper depending on which approach I took.

I decided that I should just follow my outline for now so that I could get all of my ideas onto the paper. And that since it was just a draft, I could always go back and change it up. I do have a few questions about citing that I would like to address in class, but overall with my first draft written, I feel pretty confident about this paper.

Nervous Conditions: Chapters 1 and 2

Last Thursday, we started reading a new book in class. It is called, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. It is a semi-autobiographical novel about a girl named Tambu, who grows up in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s. The story focuses on themes of gender, race, class, and cultural change and how it affected Tambu. 


The first two chapters are mainly about the education that Tambu and Nhamo, her brother, received. Though it also talks about their way of life and Tambu's relationships with her family members. Honestly, I was not really intrigued by the beginning of the book but hopefully that will change. However, the first sentence of the book: "I was not sorry when my brother died," did raise my curiosity. If for no other reason, I want to keep reading the book so I can learn the story behind Nhamo's death.