Write an introduction to your topic and the overall problem you are addressing.

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Many Parts and due dates to this paper. Please ask questions
Part #1 due 3/9 – Project Outline
This week (week 1) you will choose your topic and submit your proposed Problem Statement for your research paper as well as an outline.
The Outline will consist of 4-5 pages. The Title Page and Reference Page are not included in the page count. The paper/outline describes your final research project. Each major section within your final project should be covered in this paper. The Project Outline must be in narrative form, and be descriptive enough that explains each element of your project. The use of graphics and charts is highly encouraged.
References must come from google scholar – Once I know which topic the write will be doing I can provide the peer reviews.
Part#2 Due 8/16 – Brief Report
Brief Report – APA format
Using your outline from week 1 as a guide, submit a minimum of 5 pages of the research you have completed on your topic to date. You should have an introduction and a beginning of a Literature Review for this assignment. You must include a Cover Page, and list of References (not included in 5 page count).
Part #3 Literature Review Due 8/23
Literature Review – This week you will expand your part 2 by adding more sources and evaluation of each source to develop a literature review.
1.Collect, organize, analyze, and critique 15 + peer-reviewed research articles that are related to a topic area and problem statement.
2.Write an introduction to your topic and the overall problem you are addressing.
3.Write a literature review.
4.Conclude your literature review with a summary of the gaps in the Literature and how this aligns with your research area of interest.
5.
Your writing should follow the standards established in the course and in-text and end-of-text references should follow APA style manual format.
Website on how to write a review of literature – https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/reviewofliterature/

Part #4 is the Research Paper – Due 9/4
The Final Research Project will be 20-25 pages and due in week 8. The project must include a title page, table of contents, abstract, and a reference page. The project will demonstrate the knowledge acquired through course work completed to date. The project is an application of this knowledge and requires the student to analyze and interpret the topic of interest. The use of graphics and charts is highly encouraged.
This report must be original work. This report cannot include papers submitted in previous courses.

Format
APA cover page
Abstract (1/2- 1 page)
2. Introduction to the topic, problem or thesis statement
3. Literature Review Background Research on the topic (use from week 5)
4. Discussion of your ideas on the topic and problem
5. Discussion of new solution(s) to the problem
6. Conclusion

The final paper must have the following key sections, clearly identified, though they can be titled creatively to reflect your question and interests:
I. An introduction that states the problem and why your topic is important.
The research question, clearly and concisely stated as a question. What do you hope to answer with this research? This section should also include definition of terms.
II. Literature Review – background research on this topic
III. The results/ discussions, describes what you have learned that helps answer the research question. What are you ideas about this topic?
IV. The discussion of potential new solutions.
V. The conclusion, which summarizes the key points of the paper and suggests further research needed on this topic.
VI. A list of references in APA format.

Topics for the course project include but are not limited to:
1) The convergence of transportation congestion and transportation security at a U.S. seaport.
2) A review of past Transportation legislation while developing a new proposal to address past weaknesses and omissions.
3) The transitioning of the Defense Transportation System toward complementing best practices in supply chain management efficiently and securely.
4) A review of the U.S. economy and its impact on transportation and logistics management.
5) Identify new challenges within transportation and logistics management and develop viable solutions to these challenges.
6) Identify an emerging concept such as reverse logistics, green logistics, etc. and analyze its impact on the future of transportation and logistics management.
7) Other topics will be considered.

Prepare a four to six page persuasive or informational essay on a topic of your choice.

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Prepare a Speech

Review the steps for preparing and delivering an effective speech that you explored in the textbook and in the learning activities.
Prepare a four to six page persuasive or informational essay on a topic of your choice.
Use the following checklist to ensure that your speech is effective:

Choose a topic that is relevant and interesting to your audience, with a clear purpose.
Ensure that you adequately research your topic.
Include an introduction that gains attention and orients the audience.
Be sure that your speech is clear, vivid, appropriate, well-organized, and powerful.
Be sure that each main point is supported adequately.
Create a speech with personal style by asking direct questions and creating immediacy.
Be sure that your conclusion summarizes your thesis and provides closure.

Assignment Submission:

The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all speeches must be cited using current APA format.

Consider the elements of fiction and vocabulary terms you have learned, and then choose one specific aspect of the text(s) to analyze, such as plot, point-of-view, characterization, setting, style, theme, tone, symbolism, irony, or use of a specific figurative language device.

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To analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression; to explain the ways in which texts reflect the culture and values of their time and place; to frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape texts; to develop an interpretation of a literary text, support the interpretation with textual evidence and a secondary source, and cite the source material; to use MLA documentation and formatting; to practice using scholarly sources of literary criticism; to practice the process of writing; to practice essay organization and editing skills.

Assignment: Create a literary analysis essay built on close readings of 1-2 fictional texts. Consider the elements of fiction and vocabulary terms you have learned this semester, and then choose one specific aspect of the text(s) to analyze, such as plot, point-of-view, characterization, setting, style, theme, tone, symbolism, irony, or use of a specific figurative language device.

After you have selected one aspect of the text(s), reread the text(s), looking for patterns. Think about how and why the author uses the elements of fiction to create meaning. Try to be specific. Something like “Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ uses foreshadowing” is a fact, not a thesis. You will have to think about how and why she uses foreshadowing. Then you have an interpretation that will need proof, which is much better.

If you select two fictional texts, you should choose ones that have a significant similarity in the element you wish to discuss. Then you can compare and contrast the texts to find patterns. You may wish to consider a topic that you have already thought about or something mentioned on the course Content.

Choose two of the authors and write a dialogue for them. (Hobbe and Nietzsche) OR (Locke and Barthes) The authors can be discussing one of the selections from the Contemporary Connections or you can choose another contemporary example of their ideas.

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Hobbes and Locke are concerned with government and seem to challenge each other’s view of human nature. Galileo challenges the (religious) ideas of his day and creates a new way of conceiving our relationship to the world. Nietzsche and Barthes challenge the creation of meaning.

For this paper, you need to imagine these thinkers in conversation with each other. Choose two of the authors and write a dialogue for them. (Hobbe and Nietzsche) OR (Locke and Barthes)
The authors can be discussing one of the selections from the Contemporary Connections or you can choose another contemporary example of their ideas.

You’ll need to write a summary of each author’s argument: What is their position and how do you know that’s what they would say?
This should be a three to four paragraph, densely packed statement for each author. (Six to eight paragraphs in total). Then, create a dialogue — just like in a play — where each author makes a claim that you imagine they would make. They can be arguing or agreeing. (It’s up to you).
Just read up on whichever pair you choose online. No citing needed.

Take the characters in Oedipus Rex and Medea, and consider the following: Who is the protagonist? Defend your choice. Why do they do what they do? Are they self-motivated, or manipulated by outside forces? Are they capable of change or growth? Why or why not?

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Take the characters in Oedipus Rex and Medea, and consider the following:

  1. Who is the protagonist? Defend your choice.
  2. Why do they do what they do? Are they self-motivated, or manipulated by outside forces?
  3. Are they capable of change or growth? Why or why not?
  4. Do their actions impact others? If so, who and how?
  5. Which characters are tragic, and which are merely pathetic?

(Plays discussed: Oedipus Rex and Medea)

  1. Lysistrata and Oedipus: a study in contrasts
  1. Both Oedipus and Lysistrata had well-defined goals. In what ways did their goals dictate the paths each took?
  2. What differences did you see in the way their journeys played out, and to what extent were these differences due to their temperaments?
  3. How did the structure of each play enable or impede your understanding of the story?
  4. Why did one fail, and the other succeed?

(Plays discussed: Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata)

  1. Sakuntala and Everyman: teaching morality

These two plays are essential lessons for the audience, taught in very different ways.

  1. Name at least three lessons from each play, say why you think these lessons were important.
  2. In what ways are  the lessons similar across cultures?
  3. Why do you think they were structured so differently?
  4. Can you boil the lessons of each play down to three sentences?

(Plays discussed: The Recognition of Sakuntala and Everyman)

  1. A Renaissance Man
  1. What kind of things does Faustus desire?
  2. Why do you think he wants those things?
  3. Does Marlowe allow Faustus to achieve his goals?
  4. Why/ why not?

(Play discussed: Doctor Faustus)

  1. Love and Other Drugs
  1. Compare Hippolyta’s relationship with Theseus and Oberon’s relationship with Titania.
  2. Why does Oberon want Titania to give him the child?
  3. What does Bottom say about the nature of love?
  4. What kinds of love does Shakespeare describe? Which characters are emblematic of which kind of love?

(Play discussed: A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

  1. Tartuffe
  1. Why is the play named for a character who doesn’t appear until Act III?
  2. In what ways were your opinions of Tartuffe formed before his arrival?
  3. How do you think Orgon is changed by Tartuffe’s betrayal?
  4. What purpose does Cleante serve?
  5. What is the deus ex machina?

(Play discussed: Tartuffe)

  1. Love Suicides
  1. Take a moment and compare this play to Oedipus Rex. What similarities can you find?
  2. How does Tokubei compare to Oedipus as a tragic hero?
  3. Are you able to see any other options for Ohatsu and Tokubei?
  4. Given the opportunity, how would you rework the end of the play?

(Plays discussed: The Love Suicides at Sonezaki and Oedipus Rex)

  1. That’s the Way
  1. What do Mirabell and Fainall have in common?
  2. What does each man want?
  3. Compare the actions each takes to achieve their goals.
  4. What’s the deus ex machina?

Choose 3 different literary critics. Make sure all three of your critical essays have a named author. Present each critic’s findings with regard to the novel/play, include your assessment of the critic’s judgment, and attempt to find common themes and tie these critical essays together into a unified essay.

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The topic however is still completely open ended. The requirements are found below:2300-2800 words in length (This is approximately 7 typed, double-spaced pages, with 12-point typeface in Times New Roman, one-inch margins at top, bottom, and sides.) The Works Cited page, though numbered as the final page in the essay, is not to be included in the calculation of the essay’s length. Research papers which go over or under the length requirement will be substantially penalized and most likely will be assigned the grade of F or zero.
Formatted according to MLA standards with regard to page numbering, placement of title, etc.
Documented according to MLA standards with regard to attributing your outside source material.
Your primary source should be a novel or play chosen from the list you will be provided. You should read this work of literature and incorporate quotations/paraphrases from it in your essay.
For your secondary sources, find three critical essays or portions of books where a literary critic is analyzing the novel or play. Choose 3 different literary critics. Make sure all three of your critical essays have a named author. Present each critic’s findings with regard to the novel/play, include your assessment of the critic’s judgment, and attempt to find common themes and tie these critical essays together into a unified essay. Quote/paraphrase from each critical essay in your essay and document each one properly.
All secondary sources should be authoritative and appropriate for a college essay. In other words, do not use internet websites to gather your research. Library books and databases are strongly recommended when looking for your sources.

Name five differences between comedy and tragedy. Find specific examples of these differences in Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata. How does the temperament of the protagonist contribute to their failure?

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Name five differences between comedy and tragedy. Find specific examples of these differences in Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata. How does the temperament of the protagonist contribute to their failure?

Discuss the purpose and placement of oracles and/or reliance on a deity in Oedipus Rex and in Everyman. How were the lessons derived from each play indicative of its society?

Discuss the origin and use of the deus ex machina in Oedipus Rex, Medea, and The Love Suicides at Sonezaki. How does its use influence the outcome of each play?

Examine Tartuffe at length in terms of genre, structural style, the time period from which it comes, the playwright’s message, and how the play speaks to a modern audience.

Discuss the use and value of Sakuntala and Everyman as mechanisms for teaching morals and ethics in their respective cultures. How does the world in which each play was written dictate its form and content?

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1. Discuss the use and value of Sakuntala and Everyman as mechanisms for teaching morals and ethics in their respective cultures. How does the world in which each play was written dictate its form and content?

2. Discuss the nature of love as presented in The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Way of the World. How do these plays compare in their treatment of the subject matter? How is the prevailing social belief mirrored in each play?

Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression; to explain the ways in which texts reflect the culture and values of their time and place; to frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape texts; to develop an interpretation of a literary text, support the interpretation with textual evidence and a secondary source

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  • “How to Write a Good Essay”. This chapter explains how to write literary analysis essays on different topics: themes, characters, genres, language, symbolism, imagery, and historical context. It also discusses how to compare and contrast two texts. Finally, it explains how to get started with a thesis and outline, and it shows how to organize your paper with examples. This is from a book on Gabriel García Márquez, so many of the examples are drawn from works by García Márquez; however, the strategies and examples in it should be useful for writing about any author or fictional text.

    Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression; to explain the ways in which texts reflect the culture and values of their time and place; to frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape texts; to develop an interpretation of a literary text, support the interpretation with textual evidence and a secondary source, and cite the source material; to use MLA documentation and formatting; to practice using scholarly sources of literary criticism; to practice the process of writing; to practice essay organization and editing skills.

    Assignment: Create a literary analysis essay built on close readings of 1-2 fictional texts. Consider the elements of fiction and vocabulary terms you have learned this semester, and then choose one specific aspect of the text(s) to analyze, such as plot, point-of-view, characterization, setting, style, theme, tone, symbolism, irony, or use of a specific figurative language device.

    After you have selected one aspect of the text(s), reread the text(s), looking for patterns. Think about how and why the author uses the elements of fiction to create meaning. Try to be specific. Something like “Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ uses foreshadowing” is a fact, not a thesis. You will have to think about how and why she uses foreshadowing. Then you have an interpretation that will need proof, which is much better.

    If you select two fictional texts, you should choose ones that have a significant similarity in the element you wish to discuss. Then you can compare and contrast the texts to find patterns. You may wish to consider a topic that you have already thought about or something mentioned on the course Content.

Why does Jeff participate in Abnesti’s project at Spiderhead? Has he chosen to participate? Thanks to Verbaluce, Jeff is able to wax poetic about loving Heather. He refers to his deepest longing fulfilled (50-51)? Does Jeff love Heather?

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Understanding Free Will vs Determinism – How can we know we have free will? Gaining an understanding of this timeless philosophical problem is our main objective.

George Saunders’ “Escape from Spiderhead” is a dystopian short story that portrays a controlled pharmacological environment in which scientists experimentally manipulate the desires and emotions of human subjects. We are confronted with the question whether the chemical cocktails produced by our brains grant greater freedom than Spiderhead. Sanders’ riveting story is thought-provoking and challenges us to probe the topic of free will and determinism.

How does the story reinforce your preferred position on free will? How can the story challenge your preferred position on free will? Explain.
Brief Definition of Positions on Free Will:

Hard Determinism – People’s actions are causally necessitated and their actions are therefore unfree.
Compatiblism – Although all actions are caused, people act with free will and are morally responsible whenever they are not constrained or forced to perform the action.
Deep Compatiblism – People are free only if only if they act on desires they truly want to act on (i.e., desires that move people are genuinely “their own”).
Libertarianism – People’s actions are not causally necessitated. People have special powers to cause their actions and are morally responsible for their choices.
Essay Questions:
Why does Jeff participate in Abnesti’s project at Spiderhead? Has he chosen to participate?
Thanks to Verbaluce, Jeff is able to wax poetic about loving Heather. He refers to his deepest longing fulfilled (? Does Jeff love Heather? If not, how is genuine love different from what Jeff experiences? Abnesti says, “Say someone can’t love? Now he or she can” . Does the project at Spiderhead support Abnesti’s claim?
Why does Abnesti tell Jeff to make a decision whether Rachel or Heather should get Darkenfloxx? What is Jeff’s decision? Does he make it freely? Explain.
What was Jeff’s fateful night? In what sense was it “fateful”?
How does Jeff “doink with [Abnesti’s] experimental design integrity”?
Why does Jeff feel “a little jerked around”?
Does Jeff freely participate in the Confirmation Trial? The test reveals that he no longer feels any romantic love toward Heather. Verlaine says that he’s showing “just pretty much basic human feeling.” What is the difference between feelings that belong to Jeff and those s(t)imulated by the study?
Saying “acknowledge” implies permission, but why would it be misleading to call this consent?
Does Jeff choose his fate at the end of the story? Is it completely up to him?