How can pets make you happy and improve your life?

Can pets improve life?

Write an essay discussing on how can pets make you happy and improve your life.

This essay must be 1000 words long and include a minimum of four high-quality sources. The essay must be properly documented in MLA style.This essay will be marked using the Minimum Standard of Correctness and the Standard of Referencing.

How does the reading extend and complicate your previous understanding of the institutional racism and colonialism within English studies, including creative writing? What did you learn from the readings and how might you carry those lessons forward?

Discussion Wk 6

In an initial post of 300+ words discuss two or more of the Week 6 readings, taking care to be specific in your treatment of the readings by including short quotations and supporting in-text citations. Respond to one of the following prompts, keeping in mind that you may adapt or veer away from the prompt if so doing enables you to discuss your thinking about the readings more effectively and dynamically.

> How do the readings help you identify challenges to or the challenges of scholarly work that you have not before considered? Or, how does the reading extend and complicate your previous understanding of the institutional racism and colonialism within English studies, including creative writing?

> What did you learn from the readings and how might you carry those lessons forward?

Provide relevant background and rhetorical information about the text. Identify the text’s central claims and evidence given to support those claims.

From Outside, In

Establish a central theme that grows out of an issue raised by “From Outside, In” and provide a title indicating that theme
Demonstrate understanding of the text by providing a clear, logically-structured, and thorough summary of the text’s content
Provide relevant background and rhetorical information about the text
Identify the text’s central claims and evidence given to support those claims
Integrate and cite direct and indirect passages in accordance with the conventions of academic research
Meet academic expectations for clarity, cohesion, organization, paragraph structure, grammar, and mechanics
Use Times New Roman, black pt. 12 font, double-spaced, and indent paragraphs
Meet a minimum length of 750 words of revised, polished writing (three pages)
Explain the writer’s connection to an issue raised in the text
Pose critical questions for further research that grow out of the text and that encourage complex, debatable answers or are otherwise suitable for academic inquiry

What issue is this piece discussing? What claim is this piece making? What evidence does the author use to support the claim? Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?

Silicon Valley Sharknado

Assignment Requirements
In this paper, discuss the following:

What issue is this piece discussing?
What claim is this piece making?
What evidence does the author use to support the claim?
Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?
What assumptions does the author make?

Arguing About Literature Chapter 1 defines argument and explains the major elements of argument. For this paper, you will be identifying the above elements of argument and explaining how the chosen piece uses those elements of argument. Note that you are not arguing for or against the claim made in the piece, you are objectively identifying and assessing the elements of argument present.

Make sure to discuss the required topics in detail, using detailed descriptions and examples from the text. Remember to outline your thoughts before writing the first draft and include complete introduction and conclusion paragraphs. The submission for this assignment must be a formal, academic paper written in MLA Style and using all of the requirements of formal, academic writing learned both in ENC1101 and in this course.

What issue is this piece discussing? What claim is this piece making? What evidence does the author use to support the claim? Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?

Silicon Valley Sharknado

Assignment Requirements
In this paper, discuss the following:

What issue is this piece discussing?
What claim is this piece making?
What evidence does the author use to support the claim?
Who do you believe is the audience for this piece?
What assumptions does the author make?

Arguing About Literature Chapter 1 defines argument and explains the major elements of argument. For this paper, you will be identifying the above elements of argument and explaining how the chosen piece uses those elements of argument. Note that you are not arguing for or against the claim made in the piece, you are objectively identifying and assessing the elements of argument present.

Make sure to discuss the required topics in detail, using detailed descriptions and examples from the text. Remember to outline your thoughts before writing the first draft and include complete introduction and conclusion paragraphs. The submission for this assignment must be a formal, academic paper written in MLA Style and using all of the requirements of formal, academic writing learned both in ENC1101 and in this course.

Choose one of these pieces of writing for your textual analysis. Write a letter to someone who might be interested in the piece of writing you’ve chosen, explaining its main idea and describing in detail the strategies the author uses to convey this idea.

Textual Review

“‘Cure’ Me? No, Thanks” by Ben Mattlin [PDF]

“The NBA’s Secret Addiction” by Baxter Holmes [PDF]

“The Age of Rudeness” by Rachel Cusk [PDF]

“Why Does Hollywood Keep Equating Beauty with Virtue?” by Zachary Pincus-Roth [PDF]

Next, choose one of these pieces of writing for your textual analysis. Give this piece of writing some additional attention. Read it from top to bottom, making notes on its main idea, the various claims and subtopics that elaborate this idea, the details the author incorporates (including research, experts, quotations, anecdotes, personal stories, and other elements), and anything else that might offer clues as to the author’s purpose and how readers could interpret the piece. Then, start planning your textual analysis.

Your task is to write a letter to someone who might be interested in the piece of writing you’ve chosen, explaining its main idea and describing in detail the strategies the author uses to convey this idea. The person you’re writing to may be someone you personally know, but that’s not absolutely necessary—you can probably think of famous actors and directors who would be interested in Pincus-Roth’s argument about beauty and virtue, for example. What is necessary is that you think about your audience’s perspective as you’re drafting your letter. Consider your audience’s experiences and perspectives and reference these in your letter when possible so that your textual analysis becomes interesting and relevant to this person. Notice that the word “summary” hasn’t appeared anywhere in these instructions. The goal of the letter you’re writing isn’t primarily to summarize a piece of writing. Instead, it’s to explain how the author accomplishes a purpose—to identify the writerly “moves” he or she is making. Of course, you’ll have to summarize a little bit so that your audience understands the context for these “moves,” but your primary goal is to describe these techniques and provide illustrations of how the author uses them. That means you’ll be incorporating quite a few quotations, and perhaps a few paraphrases, into your letter. You’ll get some practice with quotations and paraphrases in the learning activities for this unit.

What is being factually presented? What are the facts that are supposed to sway the audience into watching the film? How many facts are offered and what about them seem important?

Murder in the First

Look over the three posters. You might find it helpful to do some brainstorming. What do you see in the images that is designed to get an emotional reaction? What sort of logic or facts are being presented? What sort of ethos is being created?

You have to decide which one relies most on which line of argument. This may not be easy; you might want to argue all three as pathos, or two as ethos. But you need to designate each one as a different line of argument. You cannot use one poster for more than one line of argument.

For help finding the lines of argument:

 

Pathos/ emotions are often the easiest to see, but keep in mind that your personal reaction can be based on your own bias. What sort of feeling(s) is the image supposed to create in the audience? Why would this feeling compel them to see the film?

 

Logos is based on facts and reason. What is being factually presented? What are the facts that are supposed to sway the audience into watching the film? How many facts are offered and what about them seem important?

 

Ethos / character can be the trickiest part of this. Ethos depends on credibility and authority, so you might look at these images to see how those things are being represented. What type of person is being shown? How should you react to this person? How much do you trust the image to be representing the material clearly and fairly?

What would you want to keep and what would you want to change about yourself as a learner, reader, and writer after this experience?

The Beauty of Breaking in Michele Harper.

Use the questions below to develop an essay that reflects on your learning and experience. You need not answer each question but choose the topics where you can write the most effective letter. Topics get progressively challenging as you move toward the bottom of the list.

What has this first part of the semester taught you about reading and yourself as a reader?
What has this first part of the semester taught you about writing and yourself as a writer?
What would you want to keep and what would you want to change about yourself as a learner, reader, and writer after this experience?
What have you learned from reading the memoir itself? How has reading this book helped you to “see through someone else’s eyes”? Discuss a previous experience with an acquaintance, co-worker, friend, or family member and how you might approach the experience differently after reading this memoir and learning what you have learned from it.
What have you learned about rhetoric? How has examining the memoir through the lens of rhetoric helped you to better understand and make use or rhetorical ideas?
How has reading this memoir helped you better understand the current challenges the country faces with regards to racism, white supremacy, violence, and economic disparity?

How do the characters relate to the meaning of the work as a whole? What functions do the characters play in this story?

A Rose for Emily

This is an analysis paper on the short story, ‘A Rose for Emily’ by William Faulkner

How do the characters relate to the meaning of the work as a whole? What functions do the characters play in this story?

As an aspiring nurse, how do you view medical dramas and television shows that “gloss over” the truth of the industry?

English

For this week, please read the attached article and answer the following questions:

1- how does the author hook the reader?

2- In what ways does the article surprise you? In what ways does it not?

3- As an aspiring nurse, how do you view medical dramas and television shows that “gloss over” the truth of the industry?