Write an essay in which you analyze who is the real monster in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein.

The Real Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Write an essay in which you analyze who is the real monster in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Use examples from the novel to determine whether you think that Victor or the creature deserves a title of monster sightings specific passages to back up your argument

”Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

Literary essay about Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The prompt is Why do you think the characters of Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife were included in the story? How did you feel towards each of these characters? Would you say they are loners or viewed as “undesirables”? Why do all the other characters have names except Curley’s wife? How does this reflect the society of the time it was written and in the time the story is set? Why are they all compared to some sort of animal? How does Steinbeck feel about these lone characters?

Analyze, and respond to a review or critical viewpoint related to a television show, podcast, movie, album, video game, social media platform, or other cultural product that you enjoy.

Acquisition of academic skills and desirable professional qualities.

Academic Values: Critical Thinking, Critical Analysis, Discourse, Claims Based on Evidence, Close Reading, Basic Web Research

Process

For this assignment, you will locate, analyze, and respond to a review or critical viewpoint related to a television show, podcast, movie, album, video game, social media platform, or other cultural product that you enjoy. You should choose an article that reviews or makes a critical argument about the tv show, movie, podcast, album or cultural product. (Here is an example of the type of article you might analyze about Game of Thrones: “Game of Thrones and the Paradox of Female Beauty “.) After reading this assignment, you should start looking for an article on the internet that might interest you. Good examples of publications with thoughtful reviews and analysis include The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Atlantic.

In order to respond to the text, you must first read it and comprehend the author(s) viewpoint, position, or argument. The first part of your assignment will therefore be an explanation of the author’s position using summary, paraphrase, and perhaps some quotation. The second part of the assignment will be your response, using the concepts you learned in Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of They Say, I Say. Your essay will start to bring together and synthesize your growing understanding of the templates in They Say, I Say, and the practice with them we have been doing in this course, as well as introduce basic internet research.

Therefore, on this assignment you will be assessed on comprehension, summary, analysis, understanding of the rhetorical situation, and the logic of your own response. You will also begin to use MLA format in order to design your document and cite your source(s) and practice generating an original title for your essay. Remember, you are not expected to know everything there is to know about academic reading, writing, and rhetoric, but to show that you are building the skills necessary for success in academic and professional contexts. The more practice you have, the better you will become!

At some point in your writing, did have to choose between two or more alternatives, such as sources, organization, or different ways to begin an essay? What were they, and how did you choose? What was the most difficult problem you faced while writing? How did you go about trying to solve it?

Writers Choice

Assignment—Draft, revise, and edit your text to produce a well-organized essay of at least 250 words and not more than 500 in response to the following prompt:
Your growth as a writer depends on how well you understand what you do when you write so that you can build on good habits. Reflect on some of the following questions to help you see the process that led to the creation of your essays this semester and find ways to continue improving your writing process in the future. Focus on questions that lead to significant or useful ideas that will help you in the future. Your essay should refer to specific examples from one or more of the three essays you wrote this semester.

  • How would you tell the story of your thinking? Did your views on any topic change during your writing process?
  • At some point in your writing, did have to choose between two or more alternatives, such as sources, organization, or different ways to begin an essay? What were they, and how did you choose?
  • What was the most difficult problem you faced while writing? How did you go about trying to solve it?
  • Whose advice did you seek while researching, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing? What advice did you take, and what did you ignore? Why?

Could you use blockchain technology as part of your strategy? Could you use big data? What about some combination? Which of these approaches is best from your perspective as CEO?

Blockchain and Big Data

If you were a CEO of a large bank, hospital, or trucking company (choose one)
a) Could you use blockchain technology as part of your strategy?
b) Could you use big data?
c) What about some combination?
d) Which of these approaches is best from your perspective as CEO?

​What similarities and differences do you find in Bartleby’s and Young Goodman Brown’s withdrawal from society in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

“Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Melville and “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne

This essay must not use outside or secondary sources of any kind. It is to be your own analysis, supported by material from the assigned poems only. Do not use any form of internet search or internet material in any way for this assignment.

This essay must adhere to the 500-800-word range for essay content (does not include heading, header, title, or Works Cited page).

In both “Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Melville and “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne, the title characters withdraw from life. Consider this as you read each story, and write a literary analysis essay answering the following three prompts:

1.​What similarities and differences do you find in Bartleby’s and Young Goodman Brown’s withdrawal from society in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

2.​What similarities and differences do you find in the consequences of these two characters’ withdrawal in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

3.​What point are they each trying to make with their story? (What does each author seem to be telling readers through their stories?) And how does the character’s withdrawal from society convey the author’s idea/s? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

Deliver a persuasive speech to persuade citizens in your community to vote yes toward the allocation of city funds towards a project or cause that you believe will benefit all members of your community.

Module 7 Assignment: Persuasive Speech

Imagine that you have been invited to deliver a speech at a town hall meeting. You are going to deliver a persuasive speech to persuade citizens in your community to vote yes toward the allocation of city funds towards a project or cause that you believe will benefit all members of your community.

What definition of “freedom” does Thomas Paine offer in his essay “Common Sense”?

Early American Literature

What definition of “freedom” does Thomas Paine offer in his essay “Common Sense”?

What role does language play in the development of human community? There are two main functions of language, as descriptive of the world and as creative. Explain these two functions and explain who they create two different types of communities.

Natural History of Mankind

If human beings are by nature social animals it means that our social tendencies are deeply rooted in various aspects of our biology, our common human nature. If our social nature is largley biological it means it has developed through the process of evolution by natural selection.  Our social nature is then an advantageous adaptation in the Darwinian “game” of survival and the life of the species at large.

The text we will read, Sapiens, describes key moments in the process of social formation and organization of the species as a result of evolution and the development of human civilization and history.

We will focus on those key element of our evolutionary nature which make us social in the peculiar way that we are. We have biological needs that are identical to other animals and like them, we are not self-sufficient. Nature gives us needs that we do not have the ability to satisfy under our own powers. This means we need help from others and these needs bring us together into community.

The key element which distinguishes human communities from those of other animals is our capacity to speak and to think. This is what Aristotle called “logos” or speech/reason. Our identities individually and collectively are shaped not only by a biological first nature, what what our first nature makes possible, culture. Culture is made possible by language, thought  and choice. Human life is lived not by genes alone passed down biologically, but through culture which is passed down as tradition only through experience, habit and education.

Language and the ideas it makes possible allow human beings to live a fundamentally different existence than other animals. Our special types of communities are not strictly based on biology or familial relationships like other animals, but on culture and ideas transmitted, and in some cases created, by language.

Language makes possible our special type of distinctly human community, which is both quantitatively and qualitatively different than other animals.

We live in, what the author of Sapiens calls, “an Imagined Order.”
We will look at some of the key moments in our evolution and historical development where human community became what it is.

Instructions: Answer all the questions in sentence paragraph form. A minimum of three sentences per answer. You need to read and watch the relevant videos first, then answer the questions. In addition to answering the question you need to respond to the responses of two other students.

(Focus On The Following Pages: pp. 8-32, 98-111)

Questions:

  1. What is the cognitive revolution and what are its consequences on the nature and development of human civilization/society?
  2. What role does language play in the development of human community? There are two main functions of language, as descriptive of the world and as creative. Explain these two functions and explain who they create two different types of communities.
  3. On p. 25 the author speaks of the “Legend of Peugeot.” What is this story about, what does it illustrate and how is it applicable to the formation of human community?
  4. On p. 102 the author talks of an “imagined order” and at other times of “fictions” “mental constructs”, “myths” “legends”, even “legal constructs. What are these things in your own words? What role do they play in human society? Can we have human society without them?
  5. Elements separate humans from other animals in terms of the size and nature of the communities we are able to form. How are our communities different?

 

Why do you think the characters of Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife were included in the story? How did you feel towards each of these characters? Would you say they are loners or viewed as “undesirables”?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Literary essay about Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The prompt is Why do you think the characters of Lennie, Crooks, and Curley’s wife were included in the story? How did you feel towards each of these characters? Would you say they are loners or viewed as “undesirables”? Why do all the other characters have names except Curley’s wife? How does this reflect the society of the time it was written and in the time the story is set? Why are they all compared to some sort of animal? How does Steinbeck feel about these lone characters?