I have the prompt attached, as well as what I have written so far to show what I

I have the prompt attached, as well as what I have written so far to show what I was trying to go for, but i have been unsuccessful trying to figure out the rest. I have been really struggling to understand what I have been reading in order to understand and then translate it to the paper. The first sentence must be a thesis statement. I also have a lot of links for resources to use provided by my professor and can send pictures of the textbook if need be.