Write a short essay about someone you know and admire OR hate. Analyze their character traits. Include plenty of specific examples and details to prove each point you are making about this person.

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REVISION

Write (TYPE) a short essay (5 paragraphs) about someone you know and admire OR hate. Analyze their character traits. Be sure to include plenty of specific examples and details to prove each point you are making about this person.

NOTE: A basic college essay structure must be applied (a properly formulated thesis statement, topic sentences, etc.).

Write a campaign text aimed at parents to persuade them to think carefully about what they throw away. In your text, create a sense optimism and belief change.

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Recycling

A recycling charity in your area is very concerned about the amount of waste and household rubbish. Write a campaign text aimed at parents to persuade them to think carefully about what they throw away. In your text, create a sense optimism and belief change.

Write an argumentative essay in which you compare how epilepsy is represented in both Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits.

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Argumentative essay

Write an argumentative essay (of about 1200-1600 words) in which you compare how epilepsy (as conceptualized by Oliver Sacks) is represented in both Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits.

To what extent is the United States’ foreign relations with the Middle East suddenly represented as a fitting metaphor for the music video “Black Honey” by Thrice?

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Research-Based Analysis of a Music Video

You would need to watch the music video Black Honey by Thrice.

Here is my inquiry question: To what extent is the United States’ foreign relations with the Middle East suddenly represented as a fitting metaphor for the music video “Black Honey” by Thrice?

2 out of the three sources are Berreby, David. Rituals and traditions: It takes a tribe and Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. You must pick three others that will help.

Summarize the time management methods proposed by the author.

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Write a summary

Summarize the time management methods proposed by the author. ( 150 words)

Find 4 other research sources, including ONE Internet, ONE book, and ONE journal, magazine, or newspaper article.

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How the grading system effects students

The paper must be AT LEAST 3 PAGES, and the format must follow the MLA format we have been using throughout the course this semester.
You must follow MLA formatting requirements for in-text citations and a Works Cited list.
Besides one or two essays from the course readings, you must find 4 other research sources, including ONE Internet, ONE book, and ONE journal, magazine, or newspaper article. Please note: sites like Wikipedia ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE INTERNET SOURCES.
The research essay must be persuasive and not just informative. That is, your goal is to present one side of an issue and convince your reader to agree with you.
If you do not submit any of the required parts below on time and in completed form, you will not earn credit for that part.

Who did you choose as your mentor and why were you drawn to this story? Do a tiny bit of research on the author. Give 1-2 interesting facts about them, when they were writing, or what surrounding context is interesting to know to help us understand their story a bit better.

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MENTOR TEXT memoirs

Look over the MENTOR TEXT memoirs by professional writers provided for this project.

Choose ONE to explore in this discussion.

Read it carefully, paying attention to the critical thinking concepts that I went over in Tuesday’s lesson.

Answer the following questions:

  1. Who did you choose as your mentor and why were you drawn to this story?
  2. Do a tiny bit of research on the author. Give 1-2 interesting facts about them, when they were writing, or what surrounding context is interesting to know to help us understand their story a bit better.
  3. What community are they a part of in this story? What community/group are they writing about? Explain who you think makes up this group or community at the time they are writing this text.
  4. Are they writing to outsiders or insiders?
  5. What assumptions does the audience have about this community? What stereotypes, biases, generalizations, or confusions does the audience have that they writer is trying to fix?
  6. Why DO YOU THINK the writer hoped their story would clarify or challenge assumptions about their community? What are they trying to change?
  7. ANALYZE THE NARRATIVE ARC:

 

Use research techniques and strategies that will be taught to you in this course in order to find appropriate and scholarly sources about the topic you have chosen.

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Investigating Animal Cruelty

You will need to use research techniques and strategies that will be taught to you in this course in order to find appropriate and scholarly sources about the topic you have chosen. Be sure to include scholarly books, websites, and peer-reviewed journals as your sources, along with other reputable periodicals and websites. You will need 10 scholarly sources for this paper.

*Note: All sources used for the research paper MUST be scholarly. Verifying sources as scholarly will be discussed in the course lectures.

Select a topic for which you are interested in doing intensive research. Write a research paper on Animal Cruelty using MLA format.

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Animal Cruelty

“For the research paper, you will need to select a topic for which you are interested in doing intensive research. The topic must coincide with the themes of the umbrella topic found in the class overview and the syllabus. Before you begin researching this topic, you must have it approved by me, since there are certain topics that are not appropriate for this assignment. ”

You will need to use research techniques and strategies that will be taught to you in this course in order to find appropriate and scholarly sources about the topic you have chosen. Be sure to include scholarly books, websites, and peer-reviewed journals as your sources, along with other reputable periodicals and websites. You will need 10 scholarly sources for this paper.

*Note: All sources used for the research paper MUST be scholarly. Verifying sources as scholarly will be discussed in the course lectures.

Write a research paper on Animal Cruelty using MLA format. Times New Roman 12 font.

Analyze the role of the speaker in “The Unknown Citizen” or “The Workbox,”. Analyze connotations in “Mutability” or “My heart leaps up when I behold.”.

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Introduction to Poetry Assignment

Students are to write an analysis of a selected poem, chosen from the following. The papers are to be five paragraphs, approximately 750 words, and are to be written in MLA format. Choose from one of the following:

1. Analyze the role of the speaker in “The Unknown Citizen” or “The Workbox,”

2. Analyze connotations in “Mutability” or “My heart leaps up when I behold.”

3. Analyze imagery in “Pied Beauty” or “The winter evening settles down.”

4.Analyze figures of speech in “Metaphors.”

5. Analyze symbolism in “The Road Not Taken” or “The Lamb” and “The Tiger.”

6. Analyze symbolism in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

7. Analyze historical meaning in “Ozymandias”