discuss your view of the intersection of biography and history,

  discuss your view of the intersection of biography and history,   Referring to the book What Matters, discuss your view of the intersection of biography and history, how individual lives impact and are impacted by broad social phenomena such as illness (especially the increasingly common Cancer, as well as chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Heart Disease and Obesity), or unemployment, or debt, or violence (sexual or otherwise), or any of a myriad other circumstances that are all too often understood as individual troubles and not part of much wider currents.