Write an essay explaining why using animals for pharmaceutical testing should be legal.

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Pharmaceutical testing

Write an essay explaining why using animals for pharmaceutical testing should be legal.

Choose a current controversy related to diversity and persuade your reader on the topic. Accomplish this by using fact and logic, as befits your academic audience.

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ASSIGNMENT

Choose a current controversy related to diversity and persuade your reader on the topic. You will accomplish this by using fact and logic, as befits your academic audience. Steer clear of arguments based on emotion or morality. Your job is not to be the cheerleader for people who already agree with you or share your morality, and only logic will sway your opponent.

You want to illustrate that you have considered both sides of the issue; an effective way to persuade your reader is to show that you have thought through the controversy yet maintain your point of view. Dedicate a paragraph to your opponent’s strongest argument; by offering a rebuttal or ceding the point (and then proving that your cumulative points are stronger), you will win credibility.

Focus on the play and discuss: how do prophetic acts operate within the play? How is prophecy relevant to one or more major theme(s) in the play?

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Role of Prophecy in Oedipus the King

Prophecy features in Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Focus on the play and discuss: how do prophetic acts operate within the play? How is prophecy relevant to one or more major theme(s) in the play?

  • Introduction with thesis argument
    Three to four body paragraphs with examples and Conclusion

Write a detailed essay about what you would do if you were a commanding officer and what to do to better make the JROTC. program.

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Essay Contest

Write a detailed essay about what you would do if you were a commanding officer and what to do to better make the JROTC. program.

Write a coherent, well-organized, and persuasive essay that takes a position on an issue primarily using the Psychologist’s View (Rogerian Argument). Should stem cell research be funded by the government?

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Stem cell research

Write a coherent, well-organized, and persuasive essay that takes a position on an issue primarily using the Psychologist’s View (Rogerian Argument). Should stem cell research be funded by the government? Should it be outlawed? Why or why not?

What additional features of the historical context does this article discuss? Do you think twentieth-century people were more likely to be “trapped” than previous generations of people were?

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Metamorphosis

  1. What did you like about the text?
  2. What did you dislike about the text?
  3. What do you learn about Gregor and the other characters?
  4. What passages do you find especially striking as examples of the author’s style?
  5. What passages seem suggestive of theme, tone, or symbol?
  6. How does Kafka create suspense in the novella?
  7. What question(s) do you have about what you read?

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Franz_Kafka

After reading the article, write your answers to the following questions in your reader response journal. Be sure to copy each question into your reader response journal and record your response underneath. You will submit your reader response journal at the end of the lesson.

  1. What additional features of the historical context does this article discuss?
  2. Do you think twentieth-century people were more likely to be “trapped” than previous generations of people were?
  3. What effect does it have on people’s lives when they describe themselves as trapped?
  4. How does this quote from the article shape your understanding of the story? Provide textual details in your response.

 

Identify the basic argument of the text and highlight any relevant context (5 W’s). Analyze an effective rhetorical strategy being used to persuade the audience.

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Rhetorical Analysis of “Recipe for a Happy Life”

For this assignment, you will choose one “text” that employs rhetoric in order to make an argument. What is a “text”? For our purposes, let’s consider both traditional texts (i.e., articles, editorials, essays, speeches, manifestos, biblical passages, etc.) and non-traditional texts (i.e., podcasts, Ted Talks, sermons, infographics, webpages, memes, etc.). My reasoning behind broadening the field for potential analyses is simple: I want you to write about a rhetorical situation that feels relevant, interesting, and timely–on a personal level.

The overall goal for this essay is to analyze how an author is using rhetoric to support his/her argument and to persuade his/her audience. You’ll notice that the essay begins with summarizing and ends with evaluating, which means the “heart” of this assignment is clear, perceptive, and well-supported analysis.

Proposed Outline:

● Introduction Paragraph – Identify the basic argument of the text and highlight any relevant context (5 W’s).

● Body Paragraphs – Analyze an effective rhetorical strategy being used to persuade the audience. Either quote or paraphrase from the text. Remember to start with observation. Tell me what the rhetorical technique in view is, then transition into analysis by telling me how the technique functions in the larger argument and/or affects the audience.

● Body Paragraphs – Criticize any rhetorical weaknesses in the argument. This includes omissions, misrepresentations, a failure to address counterarguments, significant blows to ethos, imbalances (overall or on specific issues), structural defects, and, of course, logical fallacies. Explain how these weaknesses undermine their specific position in the text and the author’s larger argument.

● Conclusion Paragraph – Evaluate the text’s overall rhetorical effectiveness in light of Aristotle’s ideal. In what ways was it effective? In what ways did it fail? Is it particularly persuasive for certain demographics? Avoid simplistic “good vs. bad” assessments. Attempt to offer a fair, nuanced review of the text’s various strengths and weaknesses.

Good proficiency in English language is the most important factor for international students if they want to be successful in British higher education’. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Good proficiency in English language is the most important factor for international students if they want to be successful in British higher education’. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

How does racial segregation affect Trevor and his family members? Consider the limitations on the jobs, school completion, neighborhood, and relationships that they experienced due to segregation. What similarities exist between what Trevor and his family experiences to those living here in the U.S.?

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CASE STUDY

Write a 3-4 page essay, about 750-1000 words, double-spaced. Your essay will demonstrate your reading and understanding of the memoir Born a Crime. You will use Beverly Daniel Tatum’s “The Complexity of Identity Links to an external site.” as a secondary source, along with one more source of your choice. This source can be a video, a newspaper article, or an interview. Your essay will have a works cited page (not counted as a page of the essay length requirement) and will follow MLA formatting. Below are the topics–please choose one.

1-Criminality is a theme that runs through Noah’s memoir Born a Crime. Indeed, crime is so central that the author takes the idea in his title. In your essay, you will examine the role of criminality in Apartheid-era South Africa. How was crime perceived by Trevor and his community? How does crime affect them during apartheid? Do you feel that the laws passed during this time are just or unjust? Consider how Trevor’s identity centers him as a crime, but also at times, how his identity helps him to evade prosecution or suspicion?

2-In what ways does Noah’s racial or linguistic identity affect his experiences with his own family, friends, school, community, or the law? In what ways does his unique identity contribute to experiences and spaces that are both “dominant and subordinate” as described by Beverly Daniel Tatum.

3-How does racial segregation affect Trevor and his family members? Consider the limitations on the jobs, school completion, neighborhood, and relationships that they experienced due to segregation. What similarities exist between what Trevor and his family experiences to those living here in the U.S.?

How would you describe the duke? Is he a reliable narrator? How does the title of the poem affect your understanding of the duke?

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My Last Duchess 

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BY ROBERT BROWNING

FERRARA

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands

Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said

“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read

Strangers like you that pictured countenance,

The depth and passion of its earnest glance,

But to myself they turned (since none puts by

The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,

How such a glance came there; so, not the first

Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not

Her husband’s presence only, called that spot

Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps

Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps

Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint

Must never hope to reproduce the faint

Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff

Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough

For calling up that spot of joy. She had

A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,

Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er

She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,

The dropping of the daylight in the West,

The bough of cherries some officious fool

Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule

She rode with round the terrace—all and each

Would draw from her alike the approving speech,

Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked

Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame

This sort of trifling? Even had you skill

In speech—which I have not—to make your will

Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this

Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,

Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let

Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set

Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse—

E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose

Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands

As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet

The company below, then. I repeat,

The Count your master’s known munificence

Is ample warrant that no just pretense

Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;

Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed

At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go

Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

 

How would you describe the duke? Is he a reliable narrator? How does the title of the poem affect your understanding of the duke?

Note: An unreliable narrator refers to a narrator that the reader shouldn’t or can’t trust entirely. The narrator’s description of events might be incorrect or tinged by their experience. They add to the overall story through their biased, compromised, or simply incorrect understanding of the story.