Thesis Statement: Illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico are not a major source of violent crime and drug trafficking in the US.
What skills or talents or traits does Rowlandson have that enable her to survive her eleven-week captivity? There is definitely her faith (and her ability to read her Bible), but what about her assumptions about housekeeping? Focus on her interactions with the Native Americans she lives with, and look for her focus on “typical” housewife concerns like food, shelter, and clothing. How does she view Native American life based on those elements? What is new and strange to her about how the Wampanoags live? Is she able to adapt to this new way of life, or not, and what does this say about her response to this experience?
Are Mexican Americans assimilated, and are recent Mexican immigrants likely to assimilate over time?
Each paragraph has to be a minimum of 5 sentences. Do not exceed 375 words.
Option One:
Produce an argumentative essay that makes a specific claim regarding one or more ideological positions produced in your selected stories. You may choose your own topic – developed out of lectures, class discussions and your own reading – for the essay and provide an argument to support the claim you deliver in your thesis statement.
Option Two
This includes the components of option one with the added explicit focus of one or more of the literary theories mentioned in the relevant chapter in your manual to help shape, guide and focus your thesis and argument. For this option, your secondary sources should carry you beyond the basic theory summaries provided in your manual. You should not be quoting from your manual here. Do some research, find out more about your selected theoretical method and/or theorists themselves and develop an argument regarding how your story illustrates or generates commentaries on the concepts you have identified. Here you could also look for literary criticism influenced by your theoretical focus. Productive directions here include one, or a mixture of more than one, of the following: Feminist and gender criticism, Queer Theory, Marxist Theory, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial theory, Historical or New Historicism, Psychological Theories, Reader-Response Theory, or Poststructuralism and Deconstruction. I suggest that you work with a critical essay that you can see utilizes one or more of the theories listed above. Note: These are general topics and your thesis statement would make a claim regarding a specific commentary on a particular topic.
Option Three: Cultural Studies
Select one story from your options and another narrative or text (novel, graphic novel, poem, advertisement, film, t.v. show, current event, play, song, art exhibit, dance performance etc.) that focuses on similar issues and generates a specific thematic commentary that connects with your reading of the thematic commentary that your selected short story makes. Then develop a comparison essay that demonstrates how your selected story helps to illuminate or extend your critical understanding of the subject you identify in the cultural text or event that you have identified. This essay should begin with your argument regarding the course text and then shift to the claim and argument regarding the second cultural text. Remember, the list of what can function as a cultural text is a long one and the suggested guideline here is that it is a text, a mixture of language and visual/auditory representation that provides an illustration and exploration of a concept or thematic commentary that you have identified in your reading of a course text. You can also use different theories to focus your engagement here. For example, how does your text critically engage an issue you have spotted in a film, an advertisement, or in a current event?
Option Four: Reader-Response
Select your short story, and an example drawn from your own experience and develop a comparison essay that demonstrates how the course text helps to extend and expand you’re your critical engagement with a significant aspect of your own experience. This essay should begin with your argument regarding the course text and then shift to the claim and argument regarding your experience. Remember, the list of what can function as an experience is a long one and the suggested guideline here is that it provides an illustration and exploration of a concept or thematic commentary that you have identified in your reading of a course text. You need to be able to use evidence (description of events and quotation of speakers) from your own experience and provide effective explication of this evidence to support your claims. You can also use different theories to focus your engagement.
Option Five: Short Story and Analysis
Note: For this option your story will be scored out of 5, and your analytical section will be scored out of 10 for a total score out of 15.
Focus on a specific thematic commentary developed in your selected short story and then develop your own short story that produces a thoughtful critical engagement with the thematic or ideological commentary you claim is produced in the course text. Your story can be entirely fictional, a fictionalized treatment of an aspect or fragment of your own experience, or a creative engagement with the character or events of your selected course text. Your story can agree or disagree with the author’s commentary that you identify but in all cases it should provide an illustration and exploration of your own critical position on the issue or thematic commentary that you have identified.
The length for your original story is 3-5 pages and should adhere to the same format requirements for the essay option. In addition, you must include a 3-4 page critical explication and analysis of the course text and how it produces the thematic commentary you claim it does, and then of how your own story produces your stated thematic commentary This section must include references to at least one critical secondary source.
Write a book review for the book Beloved by Toni Morrison. You can use book reviews published in high-quality publications such as The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/book-reviews) or The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/tag/book-reviews) as models, but don’t forget to adapt yours to your word-limit and audience. Feel free to get creative!
Write a 3 page literary analysis for my Introduction to Fiction class. The literary analysis is on the short story “Drown” (attached).
– Intro – Thesis – Body – Conclusion – Works Cited Page
I live in the USA in Queens, NYC we have a certain way to us (LOL) and how we speak so, the paper has to be worded like it came from me.
This is a formal essay; follow the writing process (prewriting, drafting, and revision).
This essay should have the traditional essay components: an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. The essay should be organized around a thesis or main idea which is stated early in the paper (the introduction). Excellent essays use evidence from the primary source (the epics themselves). Be sure to use quotations and cite them.
Twelfth Night is a comedy, but there are definitely some very dark moments in is, as is true for any Shakespearean comedy. Bearing this in mind, what do you think about the subplot revolving around the characters of Feste, Maria, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew? Is this part of the play funny or not. Explain your answer, especially when it comes to the end of the play. Is this subplot wrapped up in the ending? How does it affect the ending of the play?
Briefly discuss Bierce’s portrayal of the subjectivity of Peyton Farquhar in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”: focus on how Bierce describes his main character’s mental state, his sensory awareness, his sense of the passage of time, etc. Is it “realistic,” and if so, in what sense?
Discuss Howells’s “Editha” as an anti-war story. This story is also about the social class of the men sent to fight; be sure to address this in your paper, and to explain how George’s class identity shapes his fate, especially regarding his relationship with Editha, whose identity is upper-class. Be sure to note the details that help us to see and understand the social identity of the character(s).
Briefly discuss Stephen Crane’s naturalism as expressed in an “The Open Boat.” To what degree is Crane also a “realist”? That is, how does his fondness for the “impressionistic” detail in certain important scenes pose a challenge to any reader of his story who has made realistic assumptions?
Briefly discuss the role played by the natural world—extreme cold, snow and ice, instinct, the “survival of the fittest,” etc.—in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
Discuss Henry James’s “realistic” treatment of the manners and morals of the genteel members of the English aristocracy and leisure class in “The Real Thing.” What aspects of James’s fiction are the most realistic: his characters, his dialogue, his narration, his plot, or his setting? What sorts of thing does he develop in detail, and what sorts of thing does he leave unsaid or merely allude to? What elements of his fiction are most dependent on the reader’s understanding of the world he depicts?
Finally, how seriously do you think James himself takes the social scenes he depicts? In other words, to what degree does he seem to be a comic writer and an ironist? Where do his sympathies seem to lie? Do you think he is inviting us to judge his characters? If so, on what grounds?
Argumentative Literature Review
Dr. Kaine Ezell
Your literature research assignment for the semester will be an argumentative literature review on a topic of your choosing. You will need to choose a literary text that we have read this semester and focus on a particular issue within that text that has sparked significant critical attention. First and foremost, you should state YOUR interpretation of the topic using specific evidence from the text to support your ideas. Then, conduct research in which you will find at least FIVE secondary articles that address your chosen work in a significant way. Next, write an analysis in which you synthesize the various points that critics have made about your chosen text. Finally, you should state YOUR interpretation of the topic using specific evidence from the text and the secondary evidence you have found to support your ideas. As you work on your literature review, you will want to keep the following guidelines in mind:
–For beginners, you need to establish clearly the various topics that the secondary criticism explores. For example, what topics do critics typically address when discussing your chosen work? What are the various opinions on these topics? If you are writing your synthesis of critical interpretations of The Aeneid, for example, you might find that many critics interpret the function of the gods in the story differently, OR you might observe many different interpretations on the fate of Aeneas and Dido in Book IV. Which interpretation is most persuasive to you? What is your argument on the chosen passage? Ultimately, these are the kinds of issues that you will want to address for this assignment.
–In doing the research for this paper, you must use at least 5 different secondary sources. For upper-level research papers, general textbooks are not acceptable sources. Do not use your textbook (Perry) for this course at all. Encyclopedias such as the Britannica, Americana, or Encarta are not acceptable under any circumstances. Obviously, Wikipedia is also not an acceptable source.
–Although there is now much material available through the internet, much of it is not appropriate for use in a college-level research paper. The only internet sources which are acceptable for this paper are those which you find through EBSCOHOST, MLA International Bibliography, Literary Reference, and JSTOR, online services available through the OBU Library Online Catalog. You should also use the Civ Course Reserves in the library, which are listed in the back of your Ancilla.
Also be sure to focus your research. Try to find articles that address the same topic(s). Do not just choose the first five articles or books you find. Take the time to comb through the sources. Make sure you also include sources beyond the recommended search engines, which includes numerous sources in OBU’s library.
–While writing this assignment, be alert to the possibility of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when one uses the ideas of another without giving appropriate credit in a citation and/or failure to use quotation marks when called for. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! CITE EVERY INSTANCE OF USING AN OUTSIDE SOURCE! If you are not sure, cite or footnote. It is better to cite too much than too little. Plagiarism will result in a grade of 0 for this assignment. Also, in keeping with University policy, any cases of plagiarism will be reported to the Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
–As this is a literary research paper, you will be interacting in your paper with the primary texts we’ve been reading and discussing. My expectation extends to the notion that you will quote from and analyze your chosen text in conjunction with your research. You should document the text as carefully as you do your outside sources. The primary class text does NOT count toward your required research total of five outside sources.
–To ensure sufficient progress, you will submit a topic proposal/annotated bibliography on the date indicated on your syllabus. A topic proposal should include a paragraph in which you state the work you will be addressing, the critical essays that you found most persuasive, and how you plan to support your assertion. An annotated bibliography should be a list of your sources (in MLA “Works Cited” format) with a paragraph that states the article’s thesis and explains how you plan to use the article in your review.
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