What is Human?
For this essay, you need to get know about the theme that we watched during class. the movie is called The Ghost in the Shell
We have already watched Mamoru Oshii’s animation, Ghost in the Shell. However insightful (or disappointing) the animation might have been, the film surely invites us to our class theme, “body,” specifically to the topic of “what is human?” and “what is not human?” Needless to say, our body is the site, where the various issues such as language, race, gender, sexuality, and recognition “take place” and operate. And the identity of a person is affected and defined by those issues that are already inscribed on his/her body. Then, considering the film we watched, we might ask this question: does cyborg or android could claim the seemingly ‘human’ identity, since they are shaped physically the same as or similar to the human bodies? Now you might answer to this question in preparing your first paper by using the rhetorical and analytical skills you have equipped yourself with in this class.
In this 3-4 page paper (Do not exceed 4 pages in total), you will take a persona of a renowned philosophy professor, and write a formal letter to the director (though he is not the screenwriter of this film) to discuss how well he did his job in portraying cyborgs and what insights regarding the question “what makes us human” he gave to you. Suppose that you as a philosophy professor prepare for a lecture dealing with “what makes us human.” And you are planning to use this film as a useful material for your lecture. So, this letter is your chance to discuss the film with the director, and analyze the film according to the theme of your lecture.
Your letter should include:
Complex and persuasive arguments(s) backed up by close reading of the film.
Incorporation of evidences drawn from the film and outside sources.
Awareness of possible counter-argument(s). Stakes for your argument(s).
The title of the letter that might summarize your argument best.
Formal language (which means to avoid casual everyday English) and style that might be appropriate for formal letter, which will