Discuss three specific times when you felt as though you were an outsider, isolated because of social, intellectual, or ethnic differences between you and others. Did you resolve the problems your isolation created? If so, explain how.

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Essay 1 Directions

Choose one of the topics below and compose a 500–750 word five–paragraph essay:

1. Discuss the three people who have influenced you the most. How did they influence you? What did you learn from them?

2. If your house were on fire and there were no people in the house, what three items would you try to rescue?

3. Discuss three specific times when you felt as though you were an outsider, isolated because of social, intellectual, or ethnic differences between you and others. Did you resolve the problems your isolation created? If so, explain how.

4. What do you feel are your three best (or worst) qualities? For each one, discuss a specific instance in your life when you demonstrated that quality.

5. Describe three challenges that new or returning college students face. You may also discuss your ideas of how to overcome each of the three challenges.

6. Describe three times in your life when you felt afraid. You may choose any events from when you were a child, teenager, and/or adult.

7. Discuss three times you have achieved a hard–won victory—in sports, school, your personal life, or elsewhere. How did you prepare for each victory? What did the success of each victory mean to you then, and what does it mean to you now? Do you have advice for people who might follow in your footsteps?

8. Describe three specific places that are important to you. Why are they important? Do they offer you solitude, beauty, energy, recreation, etc.?

*If you would like to write your essay on a topic other than these, you must first get your instructor’s approval.

Follow MLA guidelines to format your essay correctly. (An example of correct MLA formatting is available in the Essay 1 Supplemental Material folder.)
Submit the final draft of this assignment to the Submit Essay 1 Final Draft dropbox.

Write a brief paragraph describing the meaning or interpretation for EACH of the statistics. For example, if some of the statistics chosen were the mean, median and mode, which is the best measure?

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Mini Study Part 2

1. Treat your data just as you would one of the datasets from the homework. Be sure you include appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion etc.

2 Construct a frequency distribution using 5 –8 classes.

3 Create 2 different but appropriate visual representations of your data (pie chart, bar graph, etc). You MUST use Excel to do this.

4 Complete the calculations for the 8 statistics you identified in your worksheet in week 3. You MUST use Excel to do this.

5 Write a brief paragraph describing the meaning or interpretation for EACH of the statistics. For example, if some of the statistics chosen were the mean, median and mode, which is the best measure?

6 Construct a 95% Confidence Interval to estimate the population mean/proportion in the claim.

7 Complete the calculations for the 8 statistics you identified in your What can you conclude from this result regarding the topic?

Write an essay on Purdue online writing lab. Include draft versions of the reference citations for at least five sources.

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Purdue Online Writing Lab

Include draft versions of the reference citations for at least five sources. These should be the sources you will use in writing assignment M5A1, the annotated bibliography, and that you think you will be using in support of your final project.

Your initial references list does not have to be perfect, but you should take care to include all required elements of each reference citation in an effort to format your references correctly according to APA guidelines

Alphabetize your references list correctly.

Write an essay comparing and contrasting laptops and desktop computers.

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Compare and contrast laptops and desktop computers.

Write an essay comparing and contrasting laptops and desktop computers.

Does doing homework actually help students learn more?

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Does doing homework actually help students learn more?

Thesis statement should come immediately after introduction.
Conclusion should be compelling by either adding new information of asking a question
Use MLA citation format

Formatting Your Paper
 Margins: One-inch on the top, bottom, and sides of each page.
 Page Numbering: Use your word processor to create a header that includes your last name and the page number in the upper right hand corner of the page, one half inch from the top of the page. Every page has this header.
 Title Page: MLA style does not require a title page; instead, the first page of the paper should begin with four lines, double spaced, indicating: your name, name of the course instructor, name of the course, and the date.
 Spacing: Double-space every line (including long quotes and the citations on the Works Cited page).
 Indenting: Indent the first line of every paragraph five spaces or one tab. Indent long quotations ten spaces or two tabs.
 Font and Typeface: Use a 12-point font in Times New Roman

From whose point of view is “Sonny’s Blues” told? How do the narrator’s values and expectations affect his view of the story? How would this story change if told by Sonny?

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CASE STUDY

In continuation of our study of short fiction, Chapter 2 focuses on the literary element of Point of View. You should read all of Chapter 2, paying close attention to key literary terms (many of which are in bold face type). You will be quizzed on these terms elsewhere in this module. Additionally, pay special attention to the short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Sonny’s Blues.”

Instructions

After reading the short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Sonny’s Blues” (found in Chapter 2 of your textbook), provide a substantive, analytical response to the following questions:

“A Rose for Emily”

  1. Why does the narrator of the story use the pronoun “we”? Who or what does the “we” encompass?
  2. What does Faulkner accomplish by not presenting the story in chronological order?

“Sonny’s Blues”

  1. From whose point of view is “Sonny’s Blues” told? How do the narrator’s values and expectations affect his view of the story?
  2. How would this story change if told by Sonny?

Be sure to provide examples from the text to support your ideas/observations. Number your responses, and make sure each response to each question is between 100-125 words in length. Your paper should be double-spaced and in MLA format.

 

Write a well-organized essay on one or more poems assigned and explore one key element of poetry: theme, speakers, repetition, imagery, tone, irony, symbols, etc.

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Discussion essay

1500 words key elements of poetry

Write a well-organized essay on one or more poems assigned and explore one key element of poetry: theme, speakers, repetition, imagery, tone, irony, symbols, etc. You have almost endless freedom, but sample topics might include discussions of:

  • Speakers in Langston Hughes’s poetry, explaining how they relate to the major themes.
  • Langston Hughes’s “I, Too” as a response to Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.”

S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as an example of a pessimistic, modernist tone, comparing it to Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” showing how tone relates to theme.

Symbolism in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why.”

Tone in Emily Dickinson’s non-conformist poems.

 

Do the research paper based on this and use this thesis. Because many foster children have no family to rely on financially, foster care facilities in North Carolina need to develop ways to raise funds to help them pursue a college education.

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Research Paper

Do the research paper based on this and use this thesis. Because many foster children have no family to rely on financially, foster care facilities in North Carolina need to develop ways to raise funds to help them pursue a college education.

Identify several situations in which single-subject research would be appropriate and several others in which group research would be appropriate.

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The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”

  1. Explain some of the points of disagreement between advocates of single-subject research and advocates of group research.
  2. Identify several situations in which single-subject research would be appropriate and several others in which group research would be appropriate.

 

Explain some of the points of disagreement between advocates of single-subject research and advocates of group research. Identify several situations in which single-subject research would be appropriate and several others in which group research would be appropriate.

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The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”

  1. Explain some of the points of disagreement between advocates of single-subject research and advocates of group research.
  2. Identify several situations in which single-subject research would be appropriate and several others in which group research would be appropriate.