Please write a paper detailing a personal traumatic event in your life. The paper should be at least 4 pages long and should have the following sections (number your paper using the sections below):

 

1. Describe here briefly the personal event

2. Describe here how you felt about the personal event when it happened

3. Describe here how you feel about the personal event now

4. Describe here the immediate causes of the event (for instance, the actions of the people immediately involved)

5. Describe here the broader social causes of the event (for instance, social norms)

6. Discuss here how important the broader social causes were in causing the event

7. Hypothesize here how different social norms might have helped prevent the occurrence of the event

8. Here provide your opinion as to whether this paper was useful or not to you

Note: if you are too embarrassed to describe your own event, then discuss the event in terms of somebody else, using the pronoun "He" or "She "instead of "I".