Instructions are:
1. Discuss some current-day issues with technology
2. Discuss your thoughts on the future of technology and how you see technology impacting policing in the future. Use Canadian police forces as references.
References only needed with question 2.
First-person writing is allowed.
After reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” read his essay “The Philosophy of Composition” where he reflects on writing, the writing process, and the creation of “The Raven.” What insights on writing can be taken from reading “The Philosophy of Composition”? How does his use of “The Raven” help in serving as a primary example.
You have to write a paper stating the cause and effects of the social issue (police reform/brutality) you must state the cause and effects and what we should do about them.
guidelines
must be in MLA format including at least one outside source, one in text citation, and a works cited page
choose only one topic (police reform/brutality issues in the usa)
Many of the stories we are reading deal with issues of tradition. For some characters, tradition stifles personal growth and development; for others, it helps establish a sense of self-worth. Think about how tradition affects the characters and plots we have encountered in our assigned readings. Using one of the assigned stories, write an essay in which you examine how an author uses literary devices to create a specific theme about tradition.
Some possibilities include (but are not limited to) how tradition prohibits personal growth, how tradition connects people to others, how tradition can create a hostile and/or unhealthy community, how tradition distort or confuse reality.
Many of the stories we are reading focus on family relationships. Whether the focus is controlling mothers, resentful daughters, or overbearing fathers, many of the stories deal with the various issues associated with family. Using one of the assigned stories, write an essay in which you examine how an author uses various literary devices to create and emphasize a theme about family.
Some possibilities include, but are not limited to, how an author defines what it means to be a good parent, how family can stifle or impede growth, how familial love can be perverted or abused, how family can be a safety net (of sorts),
Guidelines:you must use only one of the assigned stories as the primary text for this assignment. Do not choose one of the stories from the “Working with Literature” section unless it is specifically named on the schedule. You may choose from “I Stand Here Ironing,” “Two Kinds,” “Everyday Use,” “My Son, the Fanatic,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “The Lottery,” “Rocket Night,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” “The Story of an Hour,” or “The Storm.”
Do not use any outside sources.
Your essay must be at least 1000 but no more than 1200 words (three to four pages). Essays that do not meet the word count requirement will not earn a passing grade.
Essays must be in written in MLA format and include a works cited page. Errors will result in a 5-25 point deduction.
A typed, 300-word freewrite, including a working thesis statement is due in class to the discussion board for review a week before the essay’s due date.
To begin researching for the next module’s Critical Response Essay, you will complete a mini-research project using the OCC library’s database. You may expand this project to complete your Critical Response Essay. Please refer back to Module 3 and the schools of literary criticism (Links to an external site.).
1. Select a reading of fiction from what we have read thus far this semester and craft a thesis statement that makes an argument about the work using one of the schools of criticism. For example:
• What about the genders of the characters that affect your reading? (Gender Study)
• Do any of the events of the author’s life seem relevant to the work? (Biographic Criticism)
• Do the characters seem to display behaviors that modern psychologists would find interesting? (Psychoanalytic Criticism)
• How does class or level of wealth affect what the narrator or characters are acting on? (Marxist Criticism)
• How do you think this particular reading assignment fits into its period of time? (Historical Literary Criticism)
• How does the race of the characters or author come into the narrative? (African American Literary Criticism, Ethnic Criticism)
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED. Write a 5-paragraph persuasive essay on the following topic: “compare and contrast watching a movie at home, to watching a movie in the cinemas.” PLEASE SEE ATTACHED.
Do we owe allegiance to our country?
An exploratory essay in which you narrate in first person, chronological order the evolution through time of your thinking about an issue or problem related to the print questions in the added materials
* Your task is to compose a solid essay (900 – 1200 words) in which you discuss the similar ways in which these two works explore one of their common themes. Your emphasis is on the HOW (structure, devices (such as diction, imagery, symbolism, juxtaposition, etc.), or setting and staging).
Your discussion should follow standard JFKS essay structure. It will contain an introduction and a conclusion, be led by a strong thesis-statement, and contain ample evidence with thoughtful commentary. As extra practice, you will also need to include a works cited page with an entry for both the play and the film. Your essay will be graded according to this rubric.
I need a 300-500 word essay explaining the opposing viewpoints of gun control in America.
Select one of the essay prompts below. Your answer to the prompt question should be formulated into a singular thesis/argument about the readings you will discuss. Your thesis should be placed at the end of your introductory paragraph.
Your essay should include two of the following authors from the Course Schedule readings: Faulkner, Welty, Pirandello, Tan, Poe Ellison, Whitecloud, Chopin, and Updike. Place quotation marks around titles that are mentioned in your discussion.
You will provide an objective discussion; therefore, remain in 3rd person point-of-view. Refrain from using any of the following: 1st person, “I”, “me”, “we”, “our”, “us” or 2nd person, “you” or “your.”
The paper is not a summary of the stories. The thesis should be in the form of a claim that you must prove in the discussion. Textual evidence with page number must be provided, using MLA format. Be certain that you have reviewed the sample essays in the book that were part of the assigned readings listed in the Course Schedule.
Paper format: 12-font, Times Roman, double-spaced—paper should have a heading and a title. Do not underline or place your own title in quotation marks at the top of the page.
Prompts:
1. Characters
In the readings some characters are portrayed positively or negatively or both. Think about the characteristics, details, and actions the author uses to elicit such responses in the reader. Explain how you feel the author is portraying the character and the reasons for such a portrayal.
2. Setting
Closely examine the setting of two readings. What are the main locations and how does the author use such devices as description, imagery, background information, and other details to enliven the story? Do the characters and settings work together effectively to make a convincing story? Discuss the techniques used by the author to make the settings authentic.
3. Time Period
How are two particular writings shaped by the period in which they were written? How do the characters, actions, themes relate to the setting? Consider the ways in which the characters are depicted, their beliefs portrayed, and how the issues that they must contend with are particular to the period.
4. Gender
How are male and female characters portrayed in two of the readings? Are choices limited by gender, and/or does gender influence choices. Explore how gender affects plot and character development in the readings and how would events change if the events were to take place today?
5. Detail
After a close examination of two readings, find an important detail in each that piques your interest. This can be a passage, pivotal event, or significant symbol. Examine the detail more carefully and discuss why it exists in the story and its importance to the overall theme or plot.
6. Conflict
Examine the nature of conflict in two of the readings. What struggles does the main character encounter. You might consider the question of identity of a particular character or group; issues of assimilation and acculturation; identity transformations.
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