Choose a scene from your selected text and determine the type of change or twist you want to use in your narrative. Describe your setting. Are you sticking with the original or changing to an alternate universe?

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Narra$ve Pre-Write Graphic Organizer

Step 1: Choose a scene from your selected text and determine the type of change or twist you want to use in your narrative. Make sure it’s a significant enough scene to give you a sufficient plot line. As you’re filling out the graphic organizer, be sure to answer in complete sentences.

Step 2: The next step is to describe your setting. Are you sticking with the original or changing to an alternate universe? Then consider the point of view of your story.

Step 3: This step is where you describe the new or updated conflict and characters in your story. What new characters are you adding? How will the conflict change with the addition or subtraction of characters?
Scene
What scene in the story are you re-writing?
What type of “change” are you implementing?
Setting
• Where do the events take place?
• What does it look/feel like?
• What do you need to keep from the original scene?
• (Focus on the actual physical space.)
Point of View
Explain why you will write your story in first or third person.
• Who is the narrator?
• How will their personality influence the perspective of the story?
Character
• address their physical appearance
• address their demeanor
• address how they carry themselves
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Step 4: Design your plot. Are you going to organize your story in a traditional plot structure or bring in another organization structure? How will you create interest and tension in the scene?

Characterization
Character
• address their physical appearance
• address their demeanor
• address how they carry themselves Character
• address their physical appearance
• address their demeanor
• address how they carry themselves Conflict
• What is the main conflict?
• What kind of conflict is it? Plot
Exposition: prepares you for the events to take place
Rising Action: create the mood as the tension is building
Climax: turning point of the story
Falling Action: protagonist and antagonist experience the consequences of the turning point

Complete a brief character analysis of the 3 characters in the video clip. After watching the clip from the 2012 movie The Great Gatsby, write your character analysis for all 3 characters.

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 The Great Gatsby

Watch the first link that comes up. Should star leo decaprio

Movie clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgW3pWthRa4

Complete a brief character analysis of the 3 characters in the video clip. After watching the clip from the 2012 movie The Great Gatsby, write your character analysis for all 3 characters using the questions below.

As each the 3 characters are introduced in the clip, make sure you analyze the following:

  • Describe the character (physically and emotionally) .
  • How is the character dressed?
  • How does the character act (behavior and mannerisms)?
  • What does the character say? What does the character want?
  • How do others perceive the character?

In one paragraph summarize the dangers, discomforts and distress that Michael has countered in his life as a foreign correspondent.

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Summary of an article

In one paragraph summarize the dangers, discomforts and distress that Michael has countered in his life as a foreign correspondent. ( 100 words)

How do the primary sources represent gendered behavior and aptitudes? What are seen as the “essential” characteristics of men and women? How does gender interact and overlap with other issues such as race, progress, technology, and sexuality? 


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Essay 1 Final Draft The Representation of Race

Assignment: Write an essay (minimum of 1000 words) on at least two primary sources from classes that come from different disciplines. You must draw from at least two scholarly sources from class in the process of analyzing your primary sources, as well as two scholarly sources from your research (see breakdown below). This essay will serve as the foundation for your final paper.

Possible Topics. There is some overlap between some of the topics, so you can write a paper that synthesizes these topics if you wish (e.g., you can write about how the idea of race is used in representations of savagery vs. civilization, or how the idea of technology is used in representations of progress). If you would like to write about a topic different from those listed below, come talk to me.

The representation of race. What assumptions and arguments do the primary sources make in regards to race? To what extent do the primary sources accept or reject race as a marker of superiority and inferiority? What positions do the primary sources ask you to take in regards to race, and how are these positions related to colonization?
The representation of “savagery” and “civilization.” How do the primary sources characterize savagery and civilization? What value judgments do the primary sources make when talking about what is savage and what is civilized? What positions do the primary sources take in regards to the hierarchy civilization over savagery, and how is this related to colonization?
The representation of progress. What counts as progress in the primary sources? How do the primary sources characterize progress, and what positions do they take in regards to this progress? How do the representations of progress relate to colonization?
The representation of science and technology. How do the primary sources represent science and technology? What is the importance or significance of science and technology in the primary sources, and how do the sources ask you to feel about science and technology?
How do the primary sources represent gendered behavior and aptitudes? What are seen as the “essential” characteristics of men and women? How does gender interact and overlap with other issues such as race, progress, technology, and sexuality?

What is the claim Brent Staples makes in “Black Men and Public Spaces”? How relevant is his claim right now? Analyze and evaluate that claim, explaining your position on the issue using evidence from your reading, research, and experience.

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Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences

Read the attached article by Brent Staples, titled, ”Black Men and Public Spaces”.
Write a comprehensive discussion post addressing the following:
What is the claim Brent Staples makes in “Black Men and Public Spaces”?
How relevant is his claim right now?
Analyze and evaluate that claim, explaining your position on the issue using evidence from your reading, research, and experience. Make sure to write convincingly, using formal and objective language. You may incorporate your thoughts on what is going on in the U.S. right now, but make sure to post well-formed and well-crafted arguments.

Make sure to follow the guidelines in the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for what is required of graded group discussions.

 

Note: Emotion is fine, as long as it is shaped into thoughtful, articulate, and respectful dialog. Focus on using writing to convey your perspective powerfully, and with the intention to connect with your reader

Can Prospero really be considered a colonizer if he is willing to abandon the island?

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Colonizer

Can Prospero really be considered a colonizer if he is willing to abandon the island?

Identify and explain the theme that you have selected. Explain how it impacts Odysseus or is a part of his character. Explain how it affects other individual characters in the story.

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The Odyssey themes

Homer: The Odyssey Important themes in The Oefresg include the following: 1. Hubris. 2. Trickery. 3. Hospitality. 4. Divine intervention. 5. Loyalty. 6. Perseverance.
Your assignment is to select one of these themes and to write a well argued, and formulated essay. You should:

1. Identify and explain the theme that you have selected.

2. Explain how it impacts Odysseus or is a part of his character.

3. Explain how it affects other individual characters in the story.

4. Explain its importance to Greek culture and its importance to the story.

5. **Explain whether the quality or characteristic embedded in the theme is part of or relevant to modem American culture. If so why, and if not, why not?

** Essay should be two (2) pages in length. Properly formatted. DUE Wednesday, October 26. Submitted via Google Classroom on the correct post titled, “Odyssey Essay”.

Briefly explain the four dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Explain how cognitive and social-learning theories explain your self-image.

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  1. Briefly explain the four dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Write 10 different paragraphs
  2. Explain how cognitive and social-learning theories explain your self-image. Write 10 different paragraphs
  3. Define collectivism and individualism and explain how they may influence an individual’s self-concept. Write 10 different paragraphs

 

Analyze an essay in an attempt to argue the author’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness in getting his/her message across to his/her intended audience.

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Analyze meaning within given text.

For this assignment, you will be asked to analyze an essay in an attempt to argue the author’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness in getting his/her message across to his/her intended audience. This will require you not only to identify the purpose of his/her work but also to identify who the intended audience is. After selecting any essay from our textbook or an article from online, please follow the guidelines below in order to articulate your argument of the source work’s effectiveness. Be sure to consider the author’s intended purpose and intended audience. Also consider what parts of the essay reached or failed to reach the intended audience, and why those parts succeeded or failed. When analyzing writing, there are a variety of things you can possibly discuss involving the text, from close readings of sentence structure, word choice, and tone to deeper messages or commentary on cultural matters and historical context. Analysis is based on interpretation, so find your own interpretations of the text and build your analysis from there.

The essay will need to be properly structured (introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion) with clear topic sentences and transitions. Just like any other essay, your writing must have a clear point to it—a thesis statement that gives an argument, which your analysis will support. You will also need to thoroughly illustrate what your thesis is claiming by giving examples from the essay through the use of quoting, paraphrasing, and/or summarizing. Follow the format given below to structure your essay:

Paragraph One: Summary
Begin your essay with an effective 6-12 sentence summary of the source text. Be sure to clearly identify the author and title of the piece and to use recurring identifiers throughout the summary so that the reader knows you are still summarizing (e.g. The author goes on to explain…, Smith also states that…, …according to the essay).

Paragraph Two: Introduction of Purpose, Audience, Effectiveness of Source
Follow your summary paragraph with a 6-12 sentence introduction paragraph, which transitions from your summary to your thesis and rhetorical analysis. This paragraph should introduce two key components: intended purpose and intended audience. Most importantly, this paragraph must contain a well-developed thesis statement arguing the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the author’s argument. Your thesis should clearly state whether the essay was effective or ineffective. A good thesis often builds tension and forecasts the essay’s major points of argument. A model for a thesis arguing “ineffective” may look like this: Although [author]’s essay was intended to [purpose of essay], “[title of essay]” is ultimately ineffective because [forecast major points of your argument].

Body Paragraphs
The body paragraphs should attempt to illustrate the thesis of your essay through organized arguments and use of the work itself to help support your claims. Use the piece by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or directly quoting to support what you say about the essay. Only discuss the effectiveness of the essay; do not expand on its topic with your own knowledge or opinions. This is not a personal response or a personal critique. Your life experiences, your personal stance on the issue, and your enjoyment of the essay are nonessential to this assignment and should not be included. Your goal here is to dissect the source and show its effectiveness. Did the author successfully meet his or her purpose, considering his or her intended audience? That’s all you’re answering. Be sure to stick to that task.

You should not do other research for this paper; you will only use your own perceptions, observations, and the chosen work itself. Be sure to correctly give both in-text and Works Cited citations in proper MLA documentation style (refer to your textbook for help on this). Both are necessary in order to avoid committing plagiarism, so do not forget them! Go to the Writing Center for help with this if needed.

Conclusion Paragraph
This is a place for you to ponder the significance of what your essay has revealed about this piece. Try not to summarize the main points your essay discusses (your readers don’t have short-term memory loss; they can remember them). Instead, try to answer the “So what?” question. Return to your thesis and expand your paper out by discussing the larger implications or effects it could have. Remember, you’re joining the conversation that has been going on about this piece, and the conversation shouldn’t end after your paper is complete. There’s a lot you can do in a conclusion paragraph, but keep in mind that it is the last thing your reader will read and, hence, has the possibility of leaving a lasting impression. Take advantage of that!

Your essay will be 3-4 pages in length and follow MLA formatting guidelines. Also, remember that this essay will be reviewed by your fellow classmates. Your final draft will be submitted to Canvas (here) and the workshop sheets to me on the assigned due date. If needed, you may use your one-week extension on this assignment.

How could adopting eco-friendly materials, methods and design assist in reducing the effects of infrastructure projects in United States?or reducing the effects of infrastructure projects on the environment?

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Research question :
How could adopting eco-friendly materials, methods and design assist in reducing the effects of infrastructure projects in United States?or reducing the effects of infrastructure projects on the environment?

Discuss the evolution of your research question:

  • How has your research question evolved over the course of compiling your bibliography and writing your proposal?
  • How does your research question fit within a specific discourse community?
  • How is it significant for a specific audience? How might your question spur additional questions for a specific audience?
  • What other avenues of research are currently unexplored but might be viable research questions for your area of inquiry?
  • How might different key terms, a different focus (on a specific demographic, on a subset of the problem, on a different audience) might shift the current research question?