English Literature

Self-care can come across as yet another buzz word, but is critical to your success as both a student and person navigating challenging times. Explain what your self-care routine will look like for the spring semester and how that differs from this semester. Make sure to address exercise/movement, sleep, nutrition, and your emotional health. What activities will you need to include in your routine? How will you navigate stressful times when self-care tends to wane? What time management strategies will you need to use to ensure you have time for self-carE?

I need a research paper detailing the interpretation of the american dream in the book The Great Gatsby. Specifically detailing how the american dream is a romanticized notion, More of an illusion then something that is necessarily achievable. Please use sources that provide analysis on the American dream and quotes from these sources

I simply want to be dead.        Weeping she left me        with many tears and said this:        Oh how badly things have turned out for us.        Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you. Step 1.  Identify the work, the approximate date of the work, its author, who is speaking, to whom he or she is speaking (if applicable), and the significance of the quote to the work as a whole. Write 1 blue-book page. Step 2. Choose one of the following questions and write a short essay (two blue-book pages) in response. Develop a relevant thesis and support your discussion with textual evidence. Include quotes and line citations from the readings. (You don’t need to quote any outside sources.) Identify your essay with the letter of the question.   A.   Discuss the theme of fate versus free will in Sophocles’ tragic play Oedipus the King. How much of what happens to Oedipus is fate, and how much is the result of his own free will? Do you think Oedipus makes mistakes when he exercises his free will? What turns out to be stronger in the play, fate or free will? Include quotes, with line citations, to support your statements.   B.   Discuss Hamlet’s treatment of women in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet is the hero, with many good qualities. Nevertheless, he has “issues” with the main female characters in the play: Queen Gertrude (his mother) and Ophelia (daughter of Lord Chamberlain Polonius). Why is Hamlet at odds with these women? Do you understand his actions? Do you think he is treating his mother and Ophelia unfairly? Bring in quotes—with act, scene, and line citations—to support your statements.

Write a composition of 850 words in which you explain how people can be transformed through their relationships with others and/or their environment. Cite thorough textual evidence from the novel to support your points throughout the essay.

Paper length – a minimum of 8 typewritten pages (1.5 spacing, 12pt font) • Use of APA formatting style (other than line spacing and font requirement) and references is expected. See the APA Publication Manual for specifics on this. • Use a cover page with title and your name • Use of good grammar and paper construction logic….please show your best effort at writing skills as I will randomly select some papers for writing assessment purposes. • Minimum of 5 legitimate scholarly references. Focus • A research proposal typically contains an abstract and the first two major sections of a traditional research paper – the literature review (including a current study section) and a methods section. • For this proposal: o The literature section should review important historical and current research articles covering your area of interest. ? The literature should serve as the basis for the why of the current study…what work is yet to be done? What were some unanswered questions in the previous research that begs for a new study to be done? o The current study section should address (1) how it will add to the literature, (2) what questions it is attempting to address, and (3) the specific hypotheses being tested. o The method section should include the following three segments: (1) Participants – who will be in your study; (2) Materials – what questions will you include in your study or what kind of instrumentation will you use?; (3) Procedures – how will you conduct the study? What will participants do that will address your hypotheses?

Write an essay on the poem where you analyze its language and images, using your chosen school of literary criticism (feminist)  in order to interpret the poem’s overall meaning. Remember to include your word count at the end of your essay, and also a Works Cited page that cites your poem, plus at least one credible outside source to support/explain your interpretation.  Reminders: Use your chosen literary theory (feminist) to analyze the poem to explain what the poem “means.” Use examples from the text to convincingly support the claims you’re making. When quoting extensively, take time to explain the specific parts in the quote that prove your point. Avoid simply offering a summary or restating of each line, but analyze and discuss the words/lines with a purpose. Use the present tense when describing or discussing events in the poem. In writing about literature, the convention is to always use the present tense throughout. The idea is that the poet is currently communicating thoughts to you in the present time. Ensure you have correctly spelled all names and titles. Put the name of the poem in double-quotation marks.  When referring to the poet, write out his/her full name (and later references can be last name only). Don’t confuse the poet with the speaker of the poem – they are different. Remember to put quotation marks at the beginning and end of each quoted part.

Write a composition of 850 words in which you explain how people can be transformed through their relationships with others and/or their environment. Cite thorough textual evidence from the novel to support your points throughout the essay.

Key Concept Paper Instructions Choose a DB topic that you have written about this term (in this class) that you would like to further explore and write a 900 – 1000 word paper on the topic. The paper will have 5 scholarly articles, which have been published within the previous 4 years; you may use articles used in the original DB, however, each of the articles must be a narrative on the results of a study/research.  The paper is not a restatement of the original DB post, but is a review of all 5 of the scholarly articles.  Some of the questions that must be addressed in the paper are:             What are the common themes among the findings all 5 of the research articles?             What are the differences among the findings of all 5 of the research articles?             What is unique in each article regarding the author’s approach to the concept?             According to the authors of the articles, why is the concept important to an organization’s leadership?   Paper Requirements:  The paper is to be your original work and written solely for this course. Although past papers can be minimally referenced, papers previously submitted or work from previously submitted assignments cannot be used to fulfill this assignment. The paper must be written using current APA format and include a title page, an abstract, and a references list. The paper must have a minimum of 900 words and a maximum of 1000 words. The word count does not include the cover page, abstract, or reference pages. It must be submitted as a Word document (.doc). The finished paper must be uploaded, as an attachment, by the published deadline. Any charts, graphs, pictures, etc. must be put in an appendix and do not count toward the word count. Block quotes cannot be used and will not count toward the word count requirement. References must be as follows: A minimum of 5 peer-reviewed references must be used. Each reference must be from a different peer-reviewed journal published within the past 4 years.  Each of the articles chosen must be a narrative on the results of a study/research.   Textbooks, books, web blogs, abstracts, dissertations, magazines, and other ancillary materials cannot be counted as one of the required references. All references must be cited somewhat equally in the narrative with no references over- or under-represented. Quotations must not be more than 15% of the paper – paraphrase and properly quote the citations. The following should be used as headings: Introduction to the concept (definition and overview of the paper) What were the differences and similarities in the research done regarding the concept? What was unique in each article regarding the author’s approach to the concept? What are the similarities in the research findings? What are the differences in the research findings? Conclusion

What: A researched environmental humanities analysis. Environmental Humanities combines cultural analysis with historical research on actual environments as well as research into the scholarly conversation around a given work of literature or author in order to contextualize and support an analysis of cultural objects or society. In our case, the cultural objects will be literary texts. The essays you have read for this class by Kelly Sultzbach (Links to an external site.), Jeremy Diaper (Links to an external site.), and Jesse Oak Taylor (Links to an external site.) are all forms of environmental humanities scholarship, also the work of Rob Nixon (Links to an external site.) which you will read in a couple weeks. Though your essay will not be as complex or detailed as theirs for you only have a few weeks and not a few years to write as they have, consider their work to be a model for your own—the way they work at the cross-section of the literary and the environmental, of the fictional and the real. Project goal: To create an analysis essay which contextualizes your interpretation of environmental representation in a given text or texts which we have read for this class within the actual environmental contexts of its stated setting and/or places referenced within the text of interpretive significance. Examples of such settings and their environmental contexts in the real world include: Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier and British-owned mines in Mexico; D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the coal pits of England—especially its Midlands region; or T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and London pollution. In connecting text and context your analysis will discuss the role literary representation can play in constituting real material relations between people and their world through the formative effect popular or highly valued cultural representation (like these texts) has the potential to have on a person’s feelings and actions towards the environment. Research requirements: Must incorporate 2-4 peer reviewed sources (journal articles, books, or book chapters) – at least one of these must be an environmental history source (focusing on time period in which text is set) and at least one must be a literary criticism source (focusing on author(s) and/or text(s) chosen). You may use literary criticism we have read for this class, but, these cannot be part of your core 2 sources. See accessing library databases and why peer reviewed sources handout here (Links to an external site.) for more information on what peer reviewed means, why it is the academic standard for research, and where to look for such sources at RISD. For help on incorporating research into your writing, see this handout (Links to an external site.) from RISD’s Center for Arts & Language. Also, look back at my feedback on your Week 7 project. Remember, research supports and contextualizes your ideas and argument, don’t let it take over your essay. Prose or writing requirements: Essay must have: 1) a thesis statement (see handout); 2) all body paragraphs (paragraphs that are not the introductory or conclusion paragraph) must follow the LEAF format (see handout); 3) all body paragraphs must contain close reading of the primary (literary, not research) text’s quotes/examples (see handout); 4) you will be absolutely required to revise this essay once all the elements are included. You can expect to lose up to one letter grade if you do not do this, or, if your revision is insufficient—i.e. you just edited for grammar and typos. You will prove you have done this by turning on track changes once you have completed your first draft and making all revisions in track changes (this way I can see what was done in revision). Visually, while you compose, this can get kind of annoying, so, I recommend setting it in word (under “review”) to “no markup” so it hides the track changes from you. Make sure you turn on track changes each time you go to revise your paper. Guides for using track changes here (you will not, I don’t believe, be able to do this in google docs, so you must use Word—if you don’t have it on your device, get it for free here (Links to an external site.)): on a mac (Links to an external site.) and on a pc (Links to an external site.). Required Length: 2000 words, not including works cited page (and, no more than 25% can be quotations from other sources). (If you choose a multimedia option – see below – your required length will be different.) Format: MLA Formatting is required. See syllabus and this website (Links to an external site.) for more information on how to cite your sources in-text, in works cited page, and the stylistic requirements (12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1” margins, double spacing, etc.). See also this handout (Links to an external site.) from RISD’s Center for Arts & Language, where you can also schedule online appointments (Links to an external site.) with writing tutors for paper help at any stage (among other things).

Please read the instructions, and the notes after each question carefully. Also, please only use the readings I attached as a reference for each question.