Write an argument for a claim of value connecting individual identity and family heritage.

Review the Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Essay in “Creating an Informal Outline” section of Chapter 5, and then write a 1000-word argument for a claim of value connecting individual identity and family heritage. To help you develop your claim of value think through questions such as these: How are people’s identities shaped by their surrounding familial and cultural traditions? How uniform and valued/cherished is your family history? In order to support your claim of value, you’ll need to include a variety of sources and perspectives. Incorporate the following into your paper: your first-hand experiences evidence gathered from stories in this module researched scholarly insight into family and self-identity our Core Values of Excellence and/or Integrity IDENTITY AND FAMILYThe American family dynamic of the twenty-first century is fluid and evolving. Hollywood and traditional values offer us a typical love story that develops between a man and woman, followed by marriage, children, economic success, and a happily-ever-after type of ending. Of course, the well-documented reality is that many couples neither live happily together nor ever after. In fact, couples are choosing cohabitation without marriage and, increasingly, without children. Meanwhile, a parent may be pushing the baby in the stroller without a partner or, perhaps, with a partner of the same sex. Some applaud these variations on the family; after all, they argue, a loving family is a healthy one, and neither laws nor social custom should attempt to dictate the bonds of love. Equally passionate are those who decry these variations. They claim that the collapse of the traditional (heterosexual, two-parent) family structure has eroded “family values” and instigated a contagion of social illnesses that threaten the moral fiber of the country. Clearly, no single definition of the family can be agreed upon; even so, most of us do agree upon the primary importance of family in our individual lives and, as adults, aspire to create a family of our own—however different that family may be.As you read the story, poems, and essays in this chapter, some pieces undoubtedly will reinforce your assumptions and ideas about family and identity, while others may provoke you to question assumptions.When you look to the past and to the future, how do you assess the “state” of the family? And how do your experiences with family shape your identity as an individual? As you read the selections in this chapter, you may ask yourself what story you have to tell and how it “connects [you] to a history” that shapes your identity.