Assignment task:
What historical traditions, movements, and/or public figures have affected you and helped shape you intellectually, culturally, and spiritually?
The purpose of this assignment is to prompt your thinking about your own relationship to the past--to history-- in order to understand the meaning of the past as it relates to your inner life and your exterior actions in the world. Your past includes your familial origins, experiences, education, and the wider community in which local, national, and global events affect your life and all that you do.