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1March2014

 

Question 1:

 

Basically, the key features of profiling involve something interesting that needs to be brought to light about a person’s character, something that makes that person different, but at the sometime, being able to reveal just how different this person is by describing their background.  One way to discover this background is by acquiring firsthand accounts of what this person has been through to make them incredible, and something in the present that feeds off the past.  So in other words, profiling involves unraveling a person’s unique drive through their personal history and unique characteristics.

Question 2:

The paper clip essay does a great job with profiling because the writer uses more of a firsthand experience approach, which is one of the key features.  Also, the fact that the individual mentioned in the essay is attempting to break such a unique record, utilizes the key feature of viewing this person’s life from a good angle.  In other words, this essay was enticing because it was able to establish the essay in the present during the paper clipping.  This invites the reader to feel just as anxious about the outcome as those who lived it.  By making the essay an interaction between reader and the subject, it makes the reader feel like they are really apart of this person’s life, which helps the reader connect.

On the other hand, the other essay is more of a first person account.  The angle may have been interesting, but much of interesting factors that writer revealed were based on celebrity interaction, which did not really reveal much about the subject’s character.  The writer kind of assumed that just because celebrities were willing to be kind to the tattoo artist, that his unique personality was a given.  In other words, there needs to be more of the unraveling of a unique personality through history in order to understand the subject’s present state.