1. Using the components of the critical review (introduction, main body, conclusion), the student will answer the following three questions:
2. What is the thesis of this article? What are its strengths/weaknesses?
3. How are these relevant as a leader?
This document provides an overview of the tasks and time line for completing this assignment.
Assignment Instructions
As you have learned, the stories that make up a nation’s mythology share several characteristics:
• They are set in the past, often in remote or exciting places and times.
• They are filled with remarkable, strange, or exaggerated characters.
• They feature incredible, heroic, impressive, magical, or mysterious events and their consequences.
• They convey a positive message about a nation or its people.
After reading Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” consider it as a story that helped create an American mythology. Then answer the following question in the form of a short essay. Your essay should consist of at least five paragraphs: an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
How does Irving incorporate at least three of the above characteristics into “Rip Van Winkle”? What is the impact of these characteristics on the story or on the reader’s experience of the story?
Be sure to cite specific examples from the text in your response.
Process
You should always use a process for your writing that includes planning and drafting. To complete this assignment, you will do the following:
• Review the assignment instructions and grading criteria thoroughly. The writing assignment you complete in this unit will be graded against a rubric that assesses the essay in a number of categories. These categories focus both on the essay’s contents and its clarity.
• Read the rubric on the last page of this document. Keep the criteria listed on the rubric in mind as you complete the writing assignment.
• Remember to write in standard formal English and use the third person (no personal opinions) and the present tense.
• Read and study “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving. As you study the work, you will gather information and start to plan your approach to the essay.
• Complete a plan for your essay.
• Begin drafting your paper, using your plan as a guide.
• Review and revise your first draft. You should try to have another person read your work and give you feedback as part of your revision process.
• Write the final draft of your project. Be sure to follow these requirements and recommendations when completing your draft:
• Open a new document. Type your name, your teacher’s name, your school name, and the date at the top of your document. To help your teacher know from whom the project came, save the file as:
ENG303X_04_01_Rip_Van_Winkle_Essay_FirstInitial_LastName.doc
Example: ENG303X_04_01_Rip_Van_Winkle_Essay_M_Smith.doc Type your project in the document you create.
Explain the causal factors that led to one of the big five mass extinctions and speculate on the extent to which these factors pose a risk in our world today.
Identify a health policy that was implemented on the national, state, or local level within the last five years and select a healthcare organization that was impacted by the policy. In your analysis, address the following components:
Describe the issue addressed by the policy, including relevant background information.
Explain the relevant stakeholders of the policy and their role in its formulation and implementation.
Provide a critique of the policy’s ability to achieve the intended goals initially established by the stakeholders.
Analyze the impact of the policy on the organization.
Describe any management decisions/changes that should be made within the organization to adapt to the new health policy.
How did the Gilded Age and the industrialization of the U.S. economy reshape the political and economic infrastructure of Texas in relationship with the rest of the nation?
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of the Puritans, and in many of his works, we see Hawthorne discuss and debate the world of the Puritans in ways that seem to challenge the strict tenets of the faith. One often-cited example is his 1832 story “Young Goodman Brown.” Read this story and decide: is Hawthorne creating an accurate picture of the fear that the wilderness inspired in America’s early settlers..particularly in Goodman and Faith? If so, how? If not, why not? As always, use quotes to support your ideas. (worth a possible 20 points).
Final Discussion Question #2
Rebecca Harding Davis is an early voice of Realism, the movement that is often used to chronicle social issues of her day, particularly in her writing “Life in the Iron-Mills,” a great example of how writers could generate social discussion through print journalism in 1861.
What are the key elements of her case being made in this writing, and how does she craft her voice to meet the expectations of her middle-class audience, an audience that was growing in size during the 1860s?
As always, be specific, and use quotes to support your main ideas.
In a 4-5 page paper, Times New Roman 12 pt double-spaced, respond: How did the British Empire’s policies toward the American Colonies succeed and fail?
Which policies do you feel were most successful, which were the most damaging? How did these failures lead to revolution?
What evidence is there in the treaty of 1646 document that the English campaign against the Powhatan confederacy was a genocide? Use as many examples as possible to support your argument.
Based upon the information in the Week 5 PowerPoint on Nazi Germany and the Janssen (2013) article addressing Volkswagen’s use of forced labor during WWII and VW’s connection to the Nazi regime. Briefly respond to the following prompts:
Reminder: Janssen’s (2013) four principles of CHR include: (1) respect of victims; (2) expressed remorse; (3) accountability; and (4) commitments to justice (p. 70).
For this final assignment, imagine you are a philosopher like Kant, Aristotle, and the rest, and create your own philosophy of work.
Assignment-
Write an essay of 3–4 pages in which you describe your philosophy of work, including in the essay the activities you completed earlier in the week. With and introduction, subtitle, 2-3 typed, double space pages, APA formatted, Time New Roman, 12 point and conclusion:
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