Term Paper on "Extremist Ted Kaczynski Biopic Profile"

Quoted Instructions for "Extremist Ted Kaczynski Biopic Profile" Assignment:

EXTREMIST BIOPIC PROFILE PAPER - Ted Kaczynski

What is a biopic profile? What you will be doing is trying to capture the interesting way in which biopics approach telling the story of a person*****s life. Biopics use people, places, and events to interweave details of a person*****s life so you get to know them, their perspectives, and in essence why there are how they are and how they came to such a place. Think about it, in less than a few hours of a biopic you come to know the individual fairly well, right? Well, you are going to accomplish the same thing here, only in written form. You will harness the power of literary research to compile a biopic profile of your chosen individual extremist. Through your narrative you will evaluate some of the principal drivers behind their motives and actions. You will assess the influence of globalization and technology on how they were recruited, indoctrinated, and made sustainable members of an extremist philosophy and belief system.

Most of us know what he eventually became and the atrocities he committed.

-----How did he get to such a place?

-----Why did he decide to commit his act of domestic terror?

-----You will have to analyze the radical roots of the United States and how this heritage tends to provide polemic *****"fuel*****" for the evolution of domestic extremists and extremist groups over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries and examine some of the most influential and significant extremists, extremist organizations, and extremist events in the past half century to see if there are any commonalities among them. Remember, the biopic takes facts and uses things like flashbacks, timelines, and key events to tell the story.

-----Evaluate some of the principal drivers behind contemporary extremist violence (domestic terrorism) in the United States by investigating and analyzing a selected individual extremist that has participated in political extremism, religious extremism, economic extremism, or social extremism.

-----Within the confines of this assignment you will assess the influence of globalization and technology on domestic extremism recruitment, membership, and its sustainable impact on the individual extremist that you select.

Begin gathering resources for your biopic. Find anything written by/about the individual:

--books

--newspapers

--magazines

--Internet

--journals

--letters

--videos

--interviews

--existing biographies

--autobiography.

Know how to evaluate the credibility of a source. Only use material that is available to the public, or that you can gain explicit permission to use in your research. You will have the opportunity to forensically research documents, archival records, and artifacts through the online library and open source of the Internet. Further down in these assignment instructions I have included for your benefit some description of various types of sources used in research. The key for success will be in your ensuring the validity of the sources you use.

Through your research come to know the significant places in your extremist*****s life. This can be helpful in putting yourself in his or her shoes. Visualize witnessing what they witnessed. Imagine how they felt. Where was the person born and where did they die?

Illustrate a sharp contrast or powerful similarity between the two. What was the subject*****'s *****"refuge?*****"

Where did they go to recharge their batteries, or escape the chaos of their life?

Where did they find peace or inspiration?

Know their locations of trauma. Were there any significantly negative events in the person*****'s life that deeply impacted them?

Was there an injury, death, natural disaster, car accident, or even a bad break-up?

Assemble a timeline. Record every event that you can, from basic facts like birth, death and marriage, to minor personal anecdotes, like the night your subject had an argument with their spouse, if it is something significant.

Look for patterns. See the forest, not the trees.

*****¢ Phases. Many people go through phases during their lives. Sometimes the phases are backlashes of each other; for example, a person may go through a very dependent phase, then a very independent phase, then something in the middle. This can happen with relationships, too. One may end up with a string of abusive partners, then, being fed up, starts seeking very submissive mates, then begins to prefer aloof partners, etc.

*****¢ Progression/regression. Look for a steady refining of the person*****'s character or work, an improvement over time, leading up to a defining event that shows how far the person*****'s come. Alternatively, perhaps someone*****'s life begins promisingly and gradually unravels--a tragedy of sorts.

*****¢ Cycles. Pay attention to situations that repeat themselves in a person*****'s life. Maybe this person reaches out, gets hurt, becomes reclusive, heals, and begins again. Or the subject sets a lofty goal, burns out, draws wisdom from the experience, and starts over with a new goal. Addiction also tends to play out in cycles. Whatever the situation, it repeats itself throughout a significant portion of the person*****'s life (maybe signifying a phase) and at some point, the person might *****"break the cycle.*****

*****¢ Turning points. What are the moments in the subject*****'s life when their direction changed dramatically? The birth of a child? A near-death experience? Hitting rock bottom? It is the point at which a pattern changes; a new phase begins, progression become regression (or vice versa), a cycle ends or a new ones starts.

Make a thesis statement. Based on your *****"big picture*****" view of this person*****'s life, what are some points that you can prove? This will be your twist on the biopic - what makes it like or unlike any other individual extremists***** life. It answers the question posed in the introduction: what makes this person*****'s life different and deviously consequential by the actions they have perpetrated? Some ideas:

*****¢ What is the significance of this person*****'s life? How did he or she change the world? What would happen if this person never existed? What is unique about what they did or made?

*****¢ What led to the subject*****'s demise? A particular relationship? A single incident of good or bad luck? A decision by the subject? A particular circumstance?

Decide how to recount the person*****'s life. Write an outline and fill in the details. Try to use the organization of the outline to support the thesis (points you are trying to make).

*****¢ Chronological. Go by the timeline, recounting each event in the order in which it happened. This is the simplest way to go, but it is difficult to support your thesis in this context and the most mundane approach. You can have chronological reference; however, the point of the biopic is to make it much more interesting.

*****¢ Flashbacks. Describe a recent or current situation, then *****"flashback*****" to an earlier point in that person*****'s life. This is good for illustrating cause and effect, or how this led to that. You can even go in complete reverse order; begin at the end, and work your way backwards.

*****¢ Work. If the person*****'s life is closely tied to his or her career, you can break it up by job positions or works created. This can be tied to phases or cycles in the subject*****'s life.

*****¢ Accomplishments/events. One idea is to start and end with events that mirror each other in some way. Maybe you can start with a toy fortress the subject made when they were 5, and end off with them blowing up a fortress.

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*****"Techniques and procedures used by Ted Kaczynski terrorist attacks are still being used in the 21st century by modern terrorist, making Americans vulnerable to imminent terrorist attacks*****" --- the thesis statement should in this area...... you can adjusted left or right depending on your research.

I. Introduction and Thesis (1-2 pages): This section shall provide an overview of the topic that you are writing about, a concise synopsis of the issues, and why the topic presents a *****puzzle***** that prompts your analysis and investigation (thesis). This section can be preceded by an epigraph that creates interest in the topic. We encourage the use of epigraphs, but please follow the proper format for epigraphs!!

II. Timeline (1 page)

III. Body of the Narrative and Review of the Literature (6 pages): This section will include the bulk of the narrative where you interweave your literary sources to tell your biopic. Remember to take advantage of the some of the literary tricks mentioned in the assignment instructions.

IV. Conclusions (1-2 pages): This section will contain the concluding analytical arguments based on what research has revealed to answer your thesis. Like any conclusion, it should provide a synopsis of the project, the strategy, and the results and what they add to the body of knowledge. This section should also offer suggestions for avenues of future research for other scholars, as all knowledge is evolutionary.

V. References: This section will contain all references, cited in Turabian format, properly indented, and alphabetically arranged. Your paper must contain a minimum of 6 reference sources with at least 4 of them being peer-reviewed journals.

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