Category: Literature

Instructions After presenting on your chosen author or text (this can be any author or text in Unit 3 “Revolutionary Period” in the textbook). Then choose a theme that the author or text presents. For instance a good thesis would be: Benjamin Franklin presented the theme of _____ in his text ________ through his use…

The purpose of close reading is to suspend personal judgment and examine a text in order to uncover and discover as much information as we can from it. The task is to analyze this passage by looking at the specifics of its structure, diction, tone, and other literary devices and how those choices from the…

The paper should have a clear and concise thesis statement that a reasonable person could argue against. Something with tension in your idea, some room for counterargument. MLA style format, with a work cited page, Times New Roman 12pt font with a title, use textual evidence to support claims, and not use more than two…

Purpose: Choose an author or text and learn/research more about them/it. Go beyond the textbook online. Wikipedia is a good place to start but use the links below to learn more and take your research further, so you site this source not wikipedia as wikipedia can change and have information written in by the public…

Finish reading the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Book attached) —————————————————————————————————— – Compare and contrast the historical and cultural background of both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as seen through the novel Oscar Wao and the cultural readings and film Mi Puerto Rico. Be sure to mention the prevalence of machismo,…

Stories I am using: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin and “The Red Bow” by George Saunders I have written the rough draft and I need editing to be done. EDIT ONLY ” ENGL 1C ESSAY ONE DRAFT” Title: This title should, in a way, tell the reader exactly…

https://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/nvcc284312/watch/8A99DC5C63B8854B?referrer=direct Please write this in a form of essay so I can read it when doing the video

In several paragraphs, describe the specific abilities, skills, and knowledge you bring to your major and/or desired career field. Why did you choose your current field? What is its appeal to you? Why are you not majoring in something else? In other words, what do you think you are good at? In what courses have…

Despair Who is he? A railroad track toward hell? Breaking like a stick of furniture? The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool? The love that goes down the drain like spit? The love that said forever, forever and then runs you over like a truck? Are you a prayer that floats into a radio advertisement?…

Instructions: The existential ideas that you’ve been reading provide frameworks for thinking about life and ourselves. It’s time for you to delve deeper into some of these concepts. Your task is to write an argumentative essay that addresses the questions below: Sartre’s existentialism was labeled by one critic “the philosophy of the graveyard,” and existentialism…