Use the elements of a personal history that we identified in Berger’s own life account (as well as my own) in drafting your autobiography on how you developed your career/intellectual interests and how you came to study at QCC.
We identified the following elements of a personal history:
--How the social background (economic, cultural, educational, geographic etc.) of your family determined how you related to one another at home
--How you were labeled (e.g., “good student,” “problem child,” an ethnic identity, etc.) and how this affected your outlook and actions
--Your experiences in social settings such as school, neighborhood, church, work, etc., and how they affected how you saw yourself and the world
--Opportunities given (or not given) to you in different settings that altered your interests, perspectives, and path in life
--The people you met, what brought you together (including chance meetings), and how they altered your life
--How social and political developments (economic downturns, changes in job market, war, new public policies, etc.) or movements (anti-war, pro-war, pro-life, pro-choice, labor, etc.) altered your interests and life-path
--How chance events (natural disaster, fire, etc.) altered your direction in life
Your autobiography should have at least some of the above elements and link them to form a coherent personal history, similar to the ones we read.
Your personal history should be at least three pages long, typed, using 12 point font, in Times New Roman style with one inch margins. In addition, your work should be proofread and corrected for stylistic matters (i.e., grammar) and spell-checked.