Compare and contrast how each portrays the position and role of Native American culture(s) in the United States.

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Exam instructions: Answer two of the following questions, writing a 700-900-word essay for each. Choose your questions and texts so that, in the exam as a whole, you write about works from each of the three major author since the midterm: Anzaldúa, O’Brien, and Harjo. Each essay should include close analysis of at least 2 passages of approx. 2-3 lines long and use proper MLA format for in-text and final bibliographic citations. You may use a single bibliography for the whole exam.

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  1. Critic Jake Adam York has argued that some writers seek to alter national culture by describing national “common places” (iconic places, events, monuments, people, etc.) in ways that reimagine their meaning. Analyze how two of the authors we have read since the midterm (Anzaldúa, O’Brien, and Harjo) write their marginalized experiences into iconic spaces or places in US culture to alter our understanding of that culture. Consider land- or cityscapes, monuments, cultural icons, documents, and even how these authors transform literary forms significant to the US’s cultural tradition.
  2. O’Brien and Anzaldúa view the US from its borders, where it interacts with other cultures. How does this vantage point reinforce or alter the dominant culture’s perspective of itself? What motives or principles govern white US culture’s interaction with foreign cultures? How does this interaction relate to the democratic ideals we have studied? (Do these ideals clash, mesh, collaborate, etc. with the culture at this border?) Consider how O’Brien’s perspective growing up in relative privilege and Anzaldúa’s as member of a marginalized culture (at the time she writes, barely recognized) shape their view of the US’s image of and interaction with the other culture?
  3. Anzaldúa and Harjo combine elements of Native American and European American cultures in their work. Compare and contrast how each portrays the position and role of Native American culture(s) in the United States. How does each use Native American images, stories, beliefs, deities, traditions, artforms, etc. to reimagine, critique, or transform US culture? In addition to considering the significance of the aspects of Native American culture they incorporate, how do they use the performative role of story-telling from oral culture?

What is one thing you didn’t do particularly well this semester that you would like to improve next semester?

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Example: What is one thing you didn’t do particularly well this semester that you would like to improve next semester?
(sarcasm) Academic rigor is just not strong enough during a Global Pandemic which causes emotional and mental anguish to students, parents and guardians, as well as teachers.

  Write a letter to your employees explaining the need for the camera.

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To save money, your company orders office supplies in bulk. Each department then gets its allotment of supplies, which are kept in a supply room for employees to access when needed. The room is locked at night, and only you and security guards have the key.

Large amounts of office supplies have been disappearing from your department’s supply room for several months. It started with small items such as pens, tape, and sticky notes. Now, staplers, calculators, and expensive poster and certificate frames are missing. You have no idea who is responsible, but the thefts appear to be happening during regular business hours. The total loss from the thefts is now more than $1,000.

You tried having employees sign materials out on the honor system, but the thefts continue. Security recommends a hidden camera for the room, but the idea of “spying” on employees troubles you. You have agreed to a compromise: a security camera placed in plain view.

You believe the thefts are the work of one person and that the other 90 employees in your department are innocent. Therefore, the camera may offend people and harm employee morale.

Morale already has been down because the company has experienced profit losses the past two quarters due to increased competition. Rumors are spreading that some jobs will be transferred overseas and layoffs are imminent, though you have no solid information on management’s plans. Your employees—many of whom have been with the company for more than 10 years—are apprehensive about their future with the company.

But the alternative is to allow the increasingly costly thefts to continue. You also want to avoid having to search employees and their belongings, the next step according to security if the camera fails to discourage the theft.

Write a letter to your employees explaining the need for the camera.

[Please note: You are using modified block letter formatting. Please address this letter to a ‘single’ employee so you can practice using the ‘full’ name, title, and mailing address of a recipient in your letter as shown in the sample letter on page 129 (Professor provided sample). Use a letterhead address that is different from the recipient’s address (i.e. your letter could come from a corporate office).]

Discuss Iago’s motivation. What drives him to do what he does?

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Discuss Iago’s motivation. What drives him to do what he does? Why does he continually discuss his motivation in soliloquies? Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said that in Iago’s soliloquies we see the “motive hunting of motiveless malignity.” Is he right? You will want to review the lecture on Rene Girard in the learning module.
Choose one of the essay topics below and write a four to five page essay on it, using the texts to support your argument. Be sure to have a thesis that you are proving about the text(s). Also be sure to follow the proper MLA format for quoting and citing texts. You need to be sure to quote the original Shakespearean languafktge if you write about Othello.

What country is Calaca found in?

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What is the name of the creature?
What country is Calaca found in?
What are some strengths that the Calaca has?
Where did you find this information?

Create your own Science and Society reading list. T

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Your task in this assignment will be to create your own Science and Society reading list. This reading list may focus on an historical topic (the state of science in medieval Europe), a contemporary problem (the connection between the funding sources and research agendas of large universities), a philosophical question (the impact of gender or culture on scientific prowess), or a political issue (the role of scientists in shaping legislation on climate change, stem cell research, public education, &c). You must include at least six (6) reliable and relevant peer-reviewed sources in this assignment. You may use readings from the course as evidence, provided that they are suitable for your argument, but no more than two (2) readings from the course will count toward the required eight sources.
Your final reading list must include the following:
• abrief(2-3pages)introductiontothereadinglistasawhole.
• a presentation of at least six (6) sources, using MLA annotated bibliography formatting, which will include perfect MLA citations.
• abrief(1-2pages)paraphraseofeachsource.

Topic of choice: how scientists were viewed in the history

How does sexual abuse affect a child’s future relationship?

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  • How does physical abuse affect a child’s temper in the future?
  • How does sexual abuse affect a child’s future relationship?
  • How does emotional abuse affect the child’s thinking capacity and ability to make decisions in the future?

Use the novel, 1984, and “ideological control and human nature in the dystopian society”, to write a well-developed essay in which you evaluate the critic’s argument in his/ her analysis of the novel

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The assignment is as follows. Use the novel, 1984, and “ideological control and human nature in the dystopian society”, to write a well-developed essay in which you evaluate the critic’s argument in his/ her analysis of the novel. Include sufficient evidence from the texfktts to support your claims.

Provide three different views on fracking and make sure to spend around the same amount of time discussing each stance.

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Provide three different views on fracking and make sure to spend around the same amount of time discussing each stance. Use sources to help back up claims and cite of course. Thanks!

How does each author reflect different realities (or challenges) of post‐Civil War America in the way that she or he represents the human relationships involved in courtship, marriage, and/or family life?

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Part Two: Essay.

Write an essay that responds to the given question by building an argument based on a discussion of two different authors we have read this term. At the top of your final exam essay, provide the following names: (1) the authors to be discussed in this final exam essay (THESE WILL BE ADDED BY ME; JUST DISREGARD THIS INSTRUCTION); and (2) the authors to be discussed in your final paper.

Write an essay that responds to one of the two topics below by building an argument based on a discussion of two different authors we have read this term (in works of theirs read for class). The essay should have an opening “thesis” paragraph, and at least one paragraph for each author discussed. Include as many relevant details from each author’s work as you can to make your argument more concrete and persuasive.  You are not expected to quote from each author’s work directly in your essay – as this is not something that would be required from an in‐person exam – but you can chose to do so if you prefer.  You can earn up to 8 points for the essay. [You will be writing only one essay, based on one of the provided topics.]

FINAL EXAM ESSAY TOPIC #1:

“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus’s poem dedicated to the Statue of Liberty, ends with this famous statement about the possibility of acceptance and promise in America: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Chose two of the literary authors we have read this term and write an essay that argues why these authors agree or disagree with Lazarus’s vision of American acceptance and promise for those of different racial, religious, national, and/or ethnic backgrounds.  How do these authors present their own views about American acceptance and promise?  If American acceptance and promise exist, under what terms?  If they don’t exist, why has the vision failed?

FINAL EXAM ESSAY TOPIC #2:

As discussed by David Shi, different writers in the post‐Civil War era turned away from “idealistic” representations of human life to ones that were more “realistic.” This transition from “idealistic” to “realistic” representations can be seen in how different post‐Civil War authors represented problems of courtship, marriage, and family life.  Chose two of the literary authors we have read this term and write an essay that argues how each author’s representation of courtship, marriage, and/or family life reflects this post‐Civil War interest in realism. How does each author reflect different realities (or challenges) of post‐Civil War America in the way that she or he represents the human relationships involved in courtship, marriage, and/or family life? If these relationships succeed, what obstacles must they overcome? – if they fail, why do they fail?