What should be kept in mind in writing and revising the satirical essay? Choose as your topic something you’d like to see change or be reconsidered. Choose a subject about which you feel strongly.

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Read with care and attention Jonathan Swift’s classical satirical essay, “A Modest Proposal.”

Then you are to write a satirical essay titled “A Not-So-Modest Proposal.” Topic possibilities are endless – virtually any complaint you have about the ways things and people are could work as a basic topic. A good way to get started on this paper might be to brainstorm a list of your top ten gripes and pet peeves of the moment. Then consider which ones are worth a major attack
through a satirical proposal. Do not, however, personally attack another person. Be tasteful! What you’ll be doing is proposing an outrageous remedy in a reasonable voice. Be sure in your paper to put saying one thing but really meaning the other. You’ll be using this strategy throughout your essay. The resulting tension between what you say and what you really mean is a large part of the fun of satire. Remember, good satire never lets on that it is not serious.

Proposal Writing Guidelines:
Even though you’re being satirical, you’ll need to fulfill all the conventions of any proposal: establish that a problem exists; detail exactly how your proposal will work; provide arguments and evidence that it can work; and respond to such potential objections as self-interest and lack of feasibility.

What should be kept in mind in writing and revising the satirical essay?
1. Choose as your topic something you’d like to see change or be reconsidered.
2. Choose a subject about which you feel strongly.
3. Decide which satirical method best suits your purpose.
4. Give the appearance of writing seriously. The appearance of the truth is called “verisimilitude.” Verisimilitude is necessary in order to engage your reader’s thoughtful attention and lead him through the intellectual game of satire.

Consider an emphatic approach. Can the reader follow the individual paragraphs? Is the paper well organized with good transitions from line to line and paragraph to paragraph?

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Should religion be taught in public elementary schools?

“An excellent essay will include the following:
1. Clear, concise thesis and focus. The whole paper should be tightly focused.
2. Strong development, evidence, and support for the focus.
3. Excellent organization. Consider an emphatic approach. Can the reader follow the individual paragraphs? Is the paper well organized with good transitions from line to line and paragraph to paragraph?
4. Good style. Cite your sources. Follow MLA format. Check sentence structure. Is the diction college-level?
5. Proper Grammar/Mechanics. Proofread. Are there spelling mistakes? Grammatical errors?
Be sure to proofread and follow MLA format. You must cite all your sources in the body of the essay and on a Works Cited page”

Evaluate and analyze one of the short stories we have read in class. Examine it using one of the following: character, theme, or symbolism.

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Evaluate and analyze one of the short stories we have read in class. Examine it using one of the following: character, theme, or symbolism.

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
  • Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”
  • Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”

For this essay assignment, students will individually choose one story that we read discussed in class. Analyze the story by one element: character(s), the theme, or the symbolism. Be sure to cite specific examples from the story to support your evaluation. These examples should be supported with in-text citations correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines.

Explain in some detail how you will meet the requirements of the program and what adjustments you will have to make to meet program demands․ Explain why SJSU’s MSW Program is the best place for your education․ Provide a rationale behind your choice of the program option: online/hybrid vs․ on-campus․

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Chosen Option: Online/Hybrid VRS On-Campus

The MSW program has a very demanding schedule with classes, seminars, and the field practicum․ Explain in some detail how you will meet the requirements of the program and what adjustments you will have to make to meet program demands․ Explain why SJSU’s MSW Program is the best place for your education․ Provide a rationale behind your choice of the program option: online/hybrid vs․ on-campus․ Include at least three differences between the two programs to justify your rationale․*

Compose, write, and submit a unique essay of a minimum of 1200 – 1750 words, properly documented and formatted per MLA guidelines an essay responding effectively to the following prompt for analysis.

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Declaration of independence

Each student will compose, write, and submit a unique essay of a minimum of 1200 – 1750 words, properly documented and formatted per MLA guidelines (with absolutely no exceptions allowed, even in the draft phase) an essay responding effectively to the following prompt for analysis:

Analyze the use of appeals in Jefferson’s draft and the published version of the Declaration of Independence. Your job is to analyze both how Jefferson envisions an audience – what does he do to engage that original audience and how the revision by the Committee of Five (the version published) shifts the focus of the Declaration by re-envisioning how to engage its audience. This is NOT a compare/contrast essay. This is an analysis of how appeals work and how, by shifting the focus, one shifts one’s appeals to achieve particular effects on an audience.

No sources aside from Aristotle’s On Rhetoric and the texts of the draft and revision are allowed for this assignment. All materials must be cited parenthetically and with correct and complete works cited entries.

You should use the formula given in class as a basis for your structure, but this is a more complicated essay, so you may find it strategically useful to shift it around. Remember that analysis is about hows and whys. Whats are necessary as evidence, but your job is to make me understand your provable thesis through your analytical claims and their explication.

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

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College application essay

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Create of two short essays that each examine critical approaches to literature. Pick the two passages you would like to examine.

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Submit your final project.

The final project for this course is the creation of two short essays that each examine critical approaches to literature. You will be given four literary passages to choose from, and you will pick the two passages you would like to examine. The literary passages are in the Final Project Passages PDF document. Use the critical approach that most appeals to you to examine each passage. Choose a different approach for each passage. Use only the passage, your notes, and the textbook for your responses. You will not need to complete outside research for this assignment.

https://learn.snhu.edu/d2l/lor/viewer/viewFile.d2lfile/1160650/9083,2/

During the pandemic, wearing face masks across all fifty states must be legally required and strictly enforced. Support or counter this statement.

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 Argumentation Essay

Following the MLA formatting guidelines, create and develop a persuasive paper to address the following argument:

During the pandemic, wearing face masks across all fifty states must be legally required and strictly enforced. Support or counter this statement.

This is an important essay assignment. It should be a well-constructed essay that consists of five solid paragraphs and a very clear thesis statement. Your three sub-arguments should be well-articulated, and each one of of them should be detailed in a separate paragraph–following this model:

1. Introduction with three sub arguments (three basic ideas to present as arguments).

2. Body paragraph 1: Articulate your first sub argument and give two examples.

3. Body paragraph 2: Articulate your second sub argument and give two examples.

4. Body paragraph 3: Articulate your third sub argument and give two examples.

5. Close with a solid conclusion. Two to three lines will not count as a sufficient conclusion. Please make sure that your paragraphs are well detailed.

Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate.

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Virtually all of Stanford’s undergraduates live on campus.

Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate.

Use the following thesis statement to develop a focused, structured, and coherent multi-paragraph literary analysis essay.

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Reread Act 4, Part 6, of The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

DANFORTH (considers; then with dissatisfaction): Come, then, sign your testimony. (to Cheever) Give it to him. (Cheever goes to Proctor, the confession and a pen in hand. Proctor does not look at it.) Come, man, sign it.

PROCTOR (after glancing at the confession): You have all witnessed it—it is enough.

DANFORTH: You will not sign it?

PROCTOR: You have all witnessed it; what more is needed?

DANFORTH: Do you sport with me? You will sign your name or it is no confession, Mister! (His breast heaving with agonized breathing, Proctor now lays the paper down and signs his name.)

PARRIS: Praise be to the Lord!

(Proctor has just finished signing when Danforth reaches for the paper. But Proctor snatches it up, and now a wild terror is rising in him, and a boundless anger.)

DANFORTH (perplexed, but politely extending his hand): If you please, sir.

PROCTOR: No.

DANFORTH (as though Proctor did not understand): Mr. Proctor, I must have—

PROCTOR: No, no. I have signed it. You have seen me. It is done! You have no need for this.

PARRIS: Proctor, the village must have proof that—

PROCTOR: Damn the village! I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this! It is enough!

DANFORTH: No, sir, it is—

PROCTOR: You came to save my soul, did you not? Here! I have confessed myself; it is enough!

DANFORTH: You have not con—

PROCTOR: I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!

DANFORTH: Mr. Proctor—

PROCTOR: You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!

DANFORTH: I do not wish to—

PROCTOR: I have three children—how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?

DANFORTH: You have not sold your friends—

PROCTOR: Beguile me not! I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence!

DANFORTH: Mr. Proctor, I must have good and legal proof that you—

PROCTOR: You are the high court, your word is good enough! Tell them I confessed myself; say Proctor broke his knees and wept like a woman; say what you will, but my name cannot—

DANFORTH (with suspicion): It is the same, is it not? If I report it or you sign to it?

PROCTOR (He knows it is insane): No, it is not the same! What others say and what I sign to is not the same!

DANFORTH: Why? Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free?

PROCTOR: I mean to deny nothing!

DANFORTH: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let—

PROCTOR (with a cry of his whole soul): Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

DANFORTH (pointing at the confession in Proctor’s hand): Is that document a lie? If it is a lie I will not accept it! What say you? I will not deal in lies, Mister! (Proctor is motionless.) You will give me your honest confession in my hand, or I cannot keep you from the rope. (Proctor does not reply.) Which way do you go, Mister?

(His breast heaving, his eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect.)

DANFORTH: Marshal!

PARRIS (hysterically, as though the tearing paper were his life): Proctor, Proctor!

HALE: Man, you will hang! You cannot!

PROCTOR (his eyes full of tears): I can. And there’s your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. (Elizabeth, in a burst of terror, rushes to him and weeps against his hand.) Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it! (He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion.)

REBECCA: Let you fear nothing! Another judgment waits us all!

DANFORTH: Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption! (He sweeps out past them. Herrick starts to lead Rebecca, who almost collapses, but Proctor catches her, and she glances up at him apologetically.)

REBECCA: I’ve had no breakfast.

HERRICK: Come, man. (Herrick escorts them out, Hathorne and Cheever behind them. Elizabeth stands staring at the empty doorway.)

PARRIS (in deadly fear, to Elizabeth): Go to him, Goody Proctor! There is yet time!

(From outside a drumroll strikes the air. Parris is startled. Elizabeth jerks about toward the window.)

PARRIS: Go to him! (He rushes out the door, as though to hold back his fate.) Proctor! Proctor!

(Again, a short burst of drums.)

HALE: Woman, plead with him! (He starts to rush out the door, and then goes back to her.) Woman! It is pride, it is vanity. (She avoids his eyes, and moves to the window. He drops to his knees.) Be his helper!—What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!

ELIZABETH (supporting herself against collapse, grips the bars of the window, and with a cry): He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

(The final drumroll crashes, then heightens violently. Hale weeps in frantic prayer, and the new sun is pouring in upon her face, and the drums rattle like bones in the morning air.)

 

Use the following thesis statement to develop a focused, structured, and coherent multi-paragraph literary analysis essay:

John Proctor is the hero of this story because he stands up against the corrupt court and refuses to lose his good name by confessing to lies, even if it means his death.