What does Don Quixote want and value and who does he want to help vs. who does he want to attack? Why?

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Address the following questions and support your answers with a specific example/passage from the reading:

a) What does Don Quixote want and value and who does he want to help vs. who does he want to attack? Why?

b) What monsters or armies do they fight, and who does Don Quixote try to rescue or save, and is he fighting for the underdogs in the world? For example, consider the cloud of sheep and why he assumes it is an army versus his views of the prisoners.

c) Is there anything noble or admirable in his actions/beliefs, or is the novel a parody of some obsolete values when you consider what makes Don Quixote’s actions comical?

Write a paragraph below in which you discuss the source of horror in the story, the main characters’ reaction to it, and your own interpretation.

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MDC West

Barros’ ENC1102

Horror in Ray Bradbury’s “The Last Night of the World”

 

NAME:

  • Write a paragraph below in which you discuss the source of horror in the story, the main characters’ reaction to it, and your own interpretation.

 

How would you describe Delia’s feelings as she watches Sykes die? What emotions does she experience? What do the “tubs” and “lamp” symbolize here? And what does Sykes’s eye “know by now that she knew”?

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Reflection (Hurston, “Sweat”)

Reflection on Hurston’s story using the following prompts.

Go to the end of the story (page 1030). How would you describe Delia’s feelings as she watches Sykes die? What emotions does she experience? What do the “tubs” and “lamp” symbolize here? And what does Sykes’s eye “know by now that she knew”?

Discuss the idea(s) developed in “Night” about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others.

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Critical Analytical Response Essay, assignment for the English 30-1 course.

Write about this topic: Consider the idea(s) the author develops regarding the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others. Discuss the idea(s) developed in “Night” about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others. The novel is “Night” by Elie Wiesel.

Provide a paper that deals with two of the tragedies and investing the language of the tragedies. How do people deal with the trauma of conflict?

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Trauma of conflict

Provide a paper that deals with two of the tragedies and investing the language of the tragedies. How do people deal with the trauma of conflict?

Based on “The Odyssey” by Homer & “Seven Against Thebes” by Aeschylus

  • https://archive.org/details/pdfy-T2WaiIPwOMJF1pR3 (Odyssey)
  • https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/SevenAgainstThebes.php

Briefly free write about your understanding of Sonny’s music at the end of the story. What is his blues about? What lesson does his blues contain?

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Reflection #5 (Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”)

Briefly free write about your understanding of Sonny’s music at the end of the story. What is his blues about? What lesson does his blues contain (including how he managed to finally play his blues)? Pay attention to Baldwin’s use of poetic/figurative language. EACH REFLECTION MUST BE TITLED.

What similarities do you notice between the concepts of early Christianity Matthew ascribes to Jesus and those of the other cultures we’ve studied so far?

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Early Christianity

1. Read the Book of Matthew Sermon on the Mount pp. 801-818 + 821-824 + read, view, listen to or watch all the documents, links, and multi-media assets under Early Christianity.
2. Post to the Discussion Forum: What similarities do you notice between the concepts of early Christianity Matthew ascribes to Jesus and those of the other cultures we’ve studied so far?
3. Respond in complete sentences. Include specific examples and direct quotations from the texts to support your conclusions. You must include quotation marks and MLA style in-text citations for quotations, summaries, and paraphrases from the literature. Use They Say/I Say style templates to acknowledge the literature and your classmates’ posts.

See the Discussion Rubric under Content. Your initial post should be at least 300 words.

Use your knowledge of the verb ser, to present tense, and descriptive adjectives to describe yourself and three colleagues at work.

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Mis compañeros de trabajo

You are going to use your knowledge of the verb ser, the present tense, and descriptive adjectives to describe yourself and three colleagues at work (Use the image below for ideas).  Follow the suggestions below to describe yourself and three colleagues.

  • physical characeristics (age, hair color, stature)
  • character, mood
  • what you/they do at work (or in your studies)

 

After you have finished your descriptions, save the file and then upload to Canvas.

Your descriptions should be double spaced.

Your descriptions should be at least 60 words in total.

 

How far do you think this can be taken, considering that science is moving so fast that it may already be hard for scholars and students to be experts in a single academic discipline?

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Disciplinary boundaries

“Coherence and integration across disciplinary boundaries are prominent guiding ideals. They are powerful tools for carving out more empirically informative theories: they are able to detect and correct mistaken beliefs.”

How far do you think this can be taken, considering that science is moving so fast that it may already be hard for scholars and students to be experts in a single academic discipline? Or should the concept of‘expertise’ be adapted to this trend towards interdisciplinarity?

 

When Dante enters Hell proper, through the famously inscribed gate, how do you make sense of the claim that Hell was built by “Justice,” “Wisdom,” and “Love”? c) Why do Charon and Minos among several others try to turn Dante and Virgil away?

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Dante’s inferno

2. Address the following questions and support your answers with a specific example/passage from the reading:

a) The Virgin Mary, St. Lucia, and Dante’s beloved Beatrice form a shadow Trinity of sorts (just as the 3 beasts on the hill form a Trinitarian “Axis of Evil”). We shortly meet their fallen sisters in the Inferno. How do Dante’s categories of women compare with those of Virgil and Augustine?

b) When Dante enters Hell proper, through the famously inscribed gate, how do you make sense of the claim that Hell was built by “Justice,” “Wisdom,” and “Love”? c) Why do Charon and Minos among several others try to turn Dante and Virgil away?