Art & The World: Your Day Of Reckoning Is Here!

Your Day of Reckoning is here!
Progression 2 Prompt (Reckoning Essay)
Read through your succession of exercises (they are attached) to locate your most prominent curiosities. What are you already beginning to grapple with across those writings? Perhaps start from there. Early on you'll need to represent your selected primary essay (attached, 'primary'), notably its main concerns, provocations, and paradoxes. Once you've established that foundation, think of the essay in the context of at least two other essays (attached, 'secondary' and 'third') and at least one piece of art of your choosing (http://time(dot)com/6094/shia-labeouf-plagiarism-scandal/) (treat the tweets, his short films, etc as the art piece). You may wonder what these ancillary texts should do in relation to the primary text. Well, they may help expose the flaws in its logic, help you to analyze its implicit claims, help put its ideas into a specific context-- they should help you to reckon. Based on these considerations, develop your own idea rooted in the judgments you've made on your primary's texts concepts.
Some nuts and bolts:
In addition to the 3 required written sources (primary, secondary, third) and 1 art source (shia labeouf plagiarism tweets and short film), you are welcome to use current events, images of personal experience, research, and anything else you deem relevant.
Create your own critical vocabulary. Your essay should include two paired-term concepts. You may use these as a way to analyze your sources and also to help develop your own argument. Play around with the ones you've already created and perhaps push yourself to come up with something new.
In general, you are reckoning with the ideas of the primary text in order to develop a compelling, complicated, nuanced idea of your own. From the lack you're able to locate, I'm asking you to present your own idea 
Your sensitive, reasonable, and logical judgment is crucial. The process of reckoning goes beyond agreement/disagreement and is decidedly not based on arbitrary reasoning.
You can approach the rough draft in letter (epistle to the author or perhaps someone else) or essay form. More details in class.
Make sure to include in-text citations and a Works Cited list for EVERY draft.
By that, I mean the texts provided mostly. Another writer on here basically took another outside source and plagiarized it for my paper, please don't do that. Only cite what's been given to you. I will upload all files.
Please don't use outside sources to plagiarize.
If anything, maybe just use the uploaded texts as a sole source. Use nuanced references, if really needed. Make sure you use quotes from the texts and cite.
I turn it in hard copy. She is smart and will detect any references to this paper from other sources.
Teacher's general values (to help understand what style of writing to use):
"I like to play with language and I hope you are to game to play too. This course is all about work and play— the way ideas work and the way our minds play with them in our heads and on the page. While you may not be coming into this course as an avid reader or writer of essays, together we will explore how to find the pleasure in reading, thinking, and writing critically about essays (as well as many other kinds of texts). We will work with them. We will play with them. As artists, we are naturally curious about the world around us. We are constantly trying to figure out how to realize those curiosities through whichever artistic discipline we practice. Think of this class as an extension of that process as your assignments will call heavily upon those same curiosities. According to Edward Hoagland, “Essays are how we speak to one another in print,” public documents in which we, as thinkers, grapple with some kind of immediate problem. A supple mind— the kind that values the negotiation between work and play— is the key."