In our previous step you’ve heard all about the five categories Change Over Time, Causality, Context, Complexity and Contingency. (Read this step again if you didn’t quite understand what they mean.)
Now it’s up to you to organize your research in these categories.
Task
Take each of our research question from the previous step, and let them guide you.
For each of the five following questions, do some research:
- What kind of change has your person brought to the world?
- Which historical processes, events, persons… have influenced your person?
- What were the surrounding conditions of your person?
- Which other perspectives on your person’s achievements exist? How do other people judge these achievements?
- What if your character had made other choices? And what does it tell us about the importance of these individual choices?
Write a short abstract of at least 60 words (like a short summary) of your research and cite where you found this information.
Advice
Do not simply copy a text from another website. Make sure you reflect on this question in a meaningful way and really answer this question. Later on, we will continue with these findings.
Also, don’t type your answer straight into the form. Write it first on your computer or another device, and then copy and paste it into the actual form.