Write an essay on the benefits and dangers of smartphone use, stating whether you agree and/or disagree with the arguments in “Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet” by Kenneth Goldsmith and “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds” by Nicholas Carr and using quotes from these essays as support.

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Benefits and dangers of smartphone use,

Synthesizing creates a new idea through combining two or more sources with our own thoughts on the topic. Keep track of your own smartphone activity for 1 or 2 days, noting the times and reasons for use. Then, write an essay on the benefits and dangers of smartphone use, stating whether you agree and/or disagree with the arguments in “Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet” by Kenneth Goldsmith and “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds” by Nicholas Carr and using quotes from these essays as support.

Will write at least 5-6 complete pages that synthesizes two or more texts. Here you join in a “conversation” with multiple perspectives on an issue. Rather than simple pro/con constructions, you start to analyze and evaluate arguments to form your own view. You establish your own “voice” and credibility.

Using a Google document, Google Presentation slides, or old school paper and magazines and scissors, make a COLLAGE to represent how this aspect of culture is evident in both nations.

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2.02 British Invasion Collage

Write a short paragraph of about 5 sentences explaining the collage. Add 10 pictures to the word document.

These are just a few major areas, but there are so many more where we see a British influence:

  • television
  • theatre and film
  • art
  • humor
  • measurements
  • fashion
  • advertising

Collage Assignment

Think of an aspect of British culture that interests you. You may choose from the list above, or select your own area. Using a Google document, Google Presentation slides, or old school paper and magazines and scissors, make a COLLAGE to represent how this aspect of culture is evident in both nations. You are welcome to assemble pics found online in a Google presentation slide and then add the one-paragraph explanation on the next slide. Your collage must include the following:

No fewer than ten images—words are optional on the collage itself (10 points)

A one-paragraph explanation (either attached to the collage or separate)—(10 points)

Neatness, Creativichoty (10 points)

 

Choose two characters, each from a different play on the Mandatory Reading List for this course. Compare and contrast these characters, addressing issues of race, gender, and class as applicable. Explore how these characters embody what it means to be an American.

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American literature

About the Assignment

Despite its relative youth, American literature has transformed through several different periods, each with distinct identities and purposes. In this course, you’ve covered several of the prominent eras and read famous works from fiction, drama, and poetry. Looking at drama, in particular, use the following prompt as a foundation to write a 1,000 to 1,500 word essay on the topic.

Essay Prompt

Several of the works in this course include characters struggling to either live by a set of standards created for them by society or by their own internal guidelines. Choose two characters, each from a different play on the Mandatory Reading List for this course. Compare and contrast these characters, addressing issues of race, gender, and class as applicable. Explore how these characters embody what it means to be an American. Make sure to support your explanation with examples from the text.

Related Lessons that Include Plays

  • Eugene O’Neill: Biography and Major Plays
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night: Summary, Analysis and Characters
  • Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh: Summary and Analysis
  • The Glass Menagerie: Summary and Analysis
  • Arthur Miller: Biography and Major Plays
  • Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Summary and Analysis

Formatting & Sources

Write your paper in the MLA format. As part of your research, you may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least four credible, outside sources and cite them using MLA format as well. Include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources,  also cite them in MLA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).

Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.

Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.)

If you’re unsure about how to use MLA format for your paper and sources, please see the following lessons:

What this is: fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, a report, etc. What you think the main point is that the author is trying to make?

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If prisoner execution should be Illegal

On an article of your choice that in exact opposition to the one that you chose last, state what is stated by this author on the issue. (Should prisoner execution be Illegal) (you can choose the article)

This must be on the same issue that you chose for your argument topic.

  • Make sure to note who the author is,
  • Who the publisher is,
  • When the article or story, etc. was written or published [VERY IMPORTANT]
  • Whether or not it is a review of someone else’s work, or is original -if you can tell-if you cannot, note that.
  • What this is: fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, a report, etc.
  • What you think the main point is that the author is trying to make?
  • IF you cannot tell, note that

If the argument is STATED or IMPLIED

  • any words that you need to look up to read this
  • any parts that are NEW information to you
  • any parts that are CONTRADICTIONS to what you have known before or have believed to be true before
  • any parts that stand out as really important to know, in your OWN opinion.

 

Find a recent example of a visual argument, either in print or on the internet. Even though you may have a copy of the image, describe it carefully in your paper on the assumption that your description is all readers may have to go on.

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Visual argument

Find a recent example of a visual argument, either in print or on the internet. Even though you may have a copy of the image, describe it carefully in your paper on the assumption that your description is all readers may have to go on. Then make a judgment about its effectiveness, supporting your claim with clear evidence from the “text.”

In your discussion of the visual argument, do your best to follow the examples provided in the middle pages of Chapter 6. Keep in mind that you will need to explain what argument/position the visual “text” is putting forward, and then analyze how and why it is or is not succeeding in convincing the audience of that position. Aim for roughly 500 words, or 2 pages, for this assignment

 

Using the videos and the two poems presented, discuss how having the author’s voice influenced your understanding of the poems.

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Reader Response in Poetry

However, this unit requires you to read all about how other people — including the poet herself– interpret the works. Do you like this?

Is it helpful or not to have the author’s words (or another’s visual aid) as you read the works? Did you see the work the same way the author did? Why or why not?

Using the videos and the two poems presented (Introduction to Poetry and Daddy), discuss how having the author’s voice influenced your understanding of the poems.

Poetry:

  • Introduction to Poetry BY BILLY COLLINS
  • Daddy BY SYLVIA PLATH

 

 

Clearly show how specific aspects of the text contribute to your understanding of the work as a whole and/or how it illuminates one of the broader issues we discuss in class.

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Critical analysis on “Groff At the Rounds Earth Imagined Corners”

A critical analysis must be written.

Your analysis should form a central argument about “Groff At the Rounds Earth Imagined Corners” e.g., identifying how a leading idea is communicated via textual components, or identifying a theme present, or identifying how the historical circumstances of an artist inspired a text to convey particular meaning.

Your critical analysis should consider the complexity of a text and offer a unique understanding of it.

Each essay must have a clear, specific argument in the intro section that identifies the point you’re making about the text and explains how this helps us to understand the meaning of the text. In order to support this argument, your paper should exemplify with specific details or components from the text that illustrate your ideas.

In making your argument, the paper should clearly show how specific aspects of the text contribute to your understanding of the work as a whole and/or how it illuminates one of the broader issues we discuss in class.

 

What do these professionals do on a daily basis? What kind of education do most of these professionals have? What is the job outlook for this career?

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CYBER SECURITY

Directions: Select one career you are interested in, do some research about it, and then write a short essay about what you learn.

Topics to Discuss:

What do these professionals do on a daily basis?
What kind of education do most of these professionals have?
What is the job outlook for this career? (In-demand now and in the future? Or not?)

Write an essay in which you narrate and describe ONE experience that propelled you into epiphany or transformed you in some way.

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Successful College Composition essay

After reading and studying pages 1-95 in Successful College Composition, you will write a descriptive narrative essay.

Use all materials available on this textbook’s expansive website. Peruse, search, and use this tool. It is essential to your success in the course.

Write an essay in which you narrate and describe ONE experience that propelled you into epiphany or transformed you in some way.

Does confinement have a positive, negative, or combination of effects on the mental state of Antigone and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

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Directions for Essay 2:

Background:
“Antigone” was written by the male playwright, Sophocles, around 440 BC, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by the female social reformer and author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, more than a millennium later. Despite these great differences, Sophocles and Gilman compose powerful stories with plots focusing on a female character.

According to Schlib and Clifford, the tension created in Sophocles’ play “ exists between the human laws of government, an arena of exclusive male dominance, and the emotional imperative of honoring the death of a loved family member, thus preserving traditions of family and religion—activities important to women” (191). While “Antigone” struggles to live in a society with laws she considers unjust, Gilman’s main character struggles to live in a society that is also “an arena of exclusive male dominance” based on social norms instead of enforced laws, and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is denied opportunities that would allow her to be “preserving traditions of family…[and] activities important to women.” Antigone and the nameless narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” experience physical and emotional confinement that affects their mental psyche and behavior.

Essay Prompt:
Does confinement have a positive, negative, or combination of effects on the mental state of Antigone and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”? In the conclusion, make a connection between the confinement experiences of 440BC characters (Antigone), 19th century characters (“The Yellow Wallpaper” narrator), and real-life people in contemporary society.

Guidelines:
MLA 8 or 9 format
Minimal (or, none) research is necessary. Your perspective and analysis is more important than how experts view the texts.
Use Argument genre/structure. Make a claim (thesis) and support it with text based evidence and analysis
Use college-level diction but maintain “voice.” In other words, avoid vague nouns (thing, stuff), but write naturally instead of relying on a thesaurus.