English Literature

Prep the questions listed below. Use a word doc to do so. Your grade will be based on how well you answer the question and use the unit sources to do so. Your answer should be analytical and not just descriptive in nature. This means that it should include a thesis and supporting evidence from the videos, readings and lectures. Be sure to proofread your answer. Sloppy answers that haven’t been proofread will be marked down. Use single-space, 12-inch font. Your answer should be no longer than 3 pages in length. I will select 2 of the questions below for the exam and you will be required to answer ONE of them. Prepare your essay in advance in a word document so you will only need to copy and paste it into the exam box on the day of the exam. 1. In recent years revisionist historians have produced histories that challenge traditional interpretations of historical figures and events. Use the following to assess how their views of Columbus, the Founding Fathers, & the Constitution differ from more traditional ones. Then, based on your understanding of historical revisionism, assess how modern historians might interpret the actions and presidencies of Lincoln, FDR, and Trump in contrast with more traditional approaches. 2. It could be argued that the founding fathers fear of possible tyranny is why so few expressed powers are given to U.S. presidents in Article II of the Constitution. What are these expressed powers and how and why have presidents been able to increase their power and position since the era of George Washington? Do Executive Orders give modern presidents too much power? Explain and provide examples for your argument. 3. Since the Civil War, it is common for U.S. Presidents to issue executive orders. According to Article II, what gives a president the power to issue executive orders? Under what circumstances have they done so? Select 4 executive order covered in the videos and lectures to assess their impact on Americans, the balance of power of federal branches of government and on the presidency.

– The essay should follow the structure of an academic essay. – Essay Length: 950 words  – The essay should focus on the argument that supports the need for your superhero. (McJustice is the name of the superhero.) – ABSOLUTELY NO RESEARCH/SECONDARY SOURCES!! – Describe the superhero, but it is important to analyze how the qualities are important or meaningful and address the problem or the issue.  – The essay must defend the significance of the superhero (McJustice) in our culture.  – The essay should be in MLA format – Please identify a current problem/issue – (How our police/law system is misguiding and misusing their power) that affects our culture/community and how a superhero (McJustice) could help address that issue. IMPORTANT TIP – Remember that the thesis should focus on how McJustice is the best solution. then, the essay can defend your point of view about Mcjustice and not just describe what is needed.

•The purpose of this assignment is to relate psychological research to historical or current women’s activism and empowerment campaigns by writing a traditional thesis-driven research paper. You have a lot of freedom in choosing your topic as long as it meets the following criteria. •You must provide background on a specific documented campaign or activist. This can be large scale such as women’s suffrage or smaller scale like a body image ad campaign. •You must have a thesis statement. •You must support your thesis with 8 or more sources with at least 6 being peer-reviewed psychological research articles.     •The paper should be a max of 7 pages (there is no minimum as long as you meet the source requirement), 12-point font, double spaced, 1 inch margins. •APA style for formatting and citations

Notes Requirements for Essay One: Instructions:  Below are the guidelines for essay one. You must submit your rough draft on Canvas by the due date. Late papers will not be accepted.  Guidelines: Your essay must be at least 3 pages (around 500 words) and include a Works Cited page, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman font, and in MLA format. The first 2 pages will be the actual text of the paper. The third page is your “Work Cited” page. Make sure to submit your paper as a Word Document or a googledoc (.doc, docx, googledoc, or pdf). If you submit it a different format, I will not be able to grade your work, and you will not receive credit for the assignment.  Essay Assignment: Identify and explore several elements of fiction (such as plot, characters, foreshadowing, setting, point of view, symbolism, motivation, or theme) in one of the assigned short stories: “Sonny’s Blues,” “Lusus Naturae,” or “The Open Boat”. Your essay will be two pages long and must include a Works Cited page (three pages total). Focus your paper on three literary devices, making sure to document evidence of these devices from your short story. You must use proper MLA citation (parenthetical citations and a works cited page) when documenting evidence of these elements from your short story. For this assignment, you will only need one primary source: the short story you are analyzing. DO NOT USE ANY SECONDARY (OUTSIDE) SOURCES for this first essay. Be sure to identify the author and the title of the short story in your introduction. Since you are using only one source, the in-text, parenthetical citation should only contain the page number(s) of the story. Again, the only source you need for this assignment is your short story from the Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter 13th edition. Need help with that entry? Refer to pg. 1981 in your book; at the bottom of the page, you will see an example for a short story in an Anthology. Change the author and title and pages to reflect your story.    Lisa G. Ross (318)220-6645 [email protected]

Our first reading of the semester comes from Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Happiness Hypothesis. We will be reading the Introduction and Chapter 1: “The Divided Self. ” This book will show us why our hearts and brains are sometimes at odds, how our brains can confabulate information (i.e. lie), and why it is sometimes so difficult to win an argument. Start by reading the Intro and CH 1: https://www.happinesshypothesis.com/chapters.html (Links to an external site.) (Note, you can download and save the PDF files if you choose. There is a lot of information in here, so it’s a great idea to take notes and annotate as you read.) 1. POST:   a. Summarize. One paragraph. Choose one section from CH. 1 to summarize. (Example: You could summarize “Third Division: Old vs. New,” “The Difficulty of Winning an Argument ” . . . etc.). Make sure to tell us which section you are summarizing. b. Connect. At least three sentences. Make some sort of connection to the section that you just summarized. It could be a personal connection (“This reminds me of the time . . .”) or a connection to something you read about or saw.  c. Struggle. At least two sentences. Identify something that you struggled with in this section. It could be an issue with comprehension (“I’m not sure what he meant by . . .”) or the way this is written (“I don’t like when he . . .”). You could also get more philosophical and identify a struggle inspired by the text (“I struggle with the fact that people . . .”) d. Question. Ask a question inspired by the text. It could be abut comprehension or analysis (“What do you think he meant by . . .”) or it could be a philosophical/personal question inspired by the text (“How do you think we can . . .”).

The authors all have presented a variety of characters who have some kind of driveled sautés or who lack privileged status (or, if not a character specifically, the work discusses some type of privilege in its content). Essentially, privilege is a superior set of rights or status as compared to other individuals. privilege can involve race, social class, gender, or ay number of other categories and mainly concerns one group of people who has a higher status or more access to rights and opportunities than others. Referring to at least three examples from the three different authors, where do we see either examples of privilege or lack of privilege in the readings? (Make sure you’re focusing on a particular example of privilege and not just summarizing an entire text.) What is the privilege that the character has or lacks (or that the author is discussing)? How does that possession of privilege or lack or privilege affect their life or their opportunities? What can their experience or discussion perhaps tell us about how privilege or the lack of privilege affects individuals today? Minimize the use of “I”. Must be in conventional essay format (contain an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion).  Any paraphrases or direct quotations of material from the texts you are using must be properly punctuated (clear use of quotation marks for direct quotations, for example) and must contain a parenthetical citation noting the page number of the material. Must provide a works cited page, noting full bibliographical information for your source material, with the submitted exam. Reading 1: A Modest Proposal-https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm OR Oroonoko- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29854/29854-h/29854-h.htm#oroonoko Reading 2: Candide by Voltaire- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm Reading 3: Equiano  Read Chapters 1 & 2, and you only need to read Chapter 3 until the paragraph that starts “I have often seen my master and Dick employed in reading”:

-The essay is on a novel named the Handmaids tale https://file.largepdf.com/file/2019/08/28/The%20Handmaid_s%20Tale.pdf This is a pdf of the book. -The theme of the essay has to be about the role of advesity in shaping an individual identity -The essay has to be about the main character in the book named Offred -there has to be a introduction, 3 body paragraphs and a conclusion -there has to be direct quotes from the book (the handmaids tale) and have to be well explained relating to the theme in the 3 body paragraphs.Make sure there are 6 quots all together in the essay -the essay cannot be playgerised since my professer is really strict -Has to be a critical/formal essay

1) On the basis of two NEW Emily Dickinson poems, “The Bee” and “A Bird Came Down the Walk,” does Dickinson feel at home or out of place in nature? (80 Points) Discuss these poems in the body of your essay response and make sure to take a strong position on the key question. The two poems can be found at the following links: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/bee/; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56593/a-bird-came-down-the-walk-359 2) Is The Metamorphosis mostly tragic or mostly comic? (80 Points) 3) Despite Achebe’s depictions of Okonkwo’s flaws, are there any characters in Things Fall Apart whose characteristics or values DO deserve to be admired? Select one or two characters maximum (CANNOT be more than two), or argue that the novel does not feature any truly admirable characters. Please note that you are NOT allowed to select Okonkwo for this question. (90 Points)

Reflection Essay This assignment requires you to review elements of your learning about writing and revision throughout the semester. You have option of either writing this piece in essay format or compose an audio or video file where you speak directly to me. You can record thorugh the Canvas interface–it’s the green wreath next to the You Tube icon. This piece should be 700-800 words long (clips should be about 3 – 7 mins long) and address the following: • Personal Introduction: Include a brief introduction, reflecting on how you have felt about your writing before this class and how you feel now. How did you come into class day one? Questions to consider: How did you feel composing the first paper? • Assessment as a Writer: Questions to consider: 1 What challenges did you overcome this semester? 2 What were your most helpful or proudest moments in writing? 3 What do you still need to work on, and how might you do so in your next writing class? 4 What are the three most important insights/lessons you learned that have helped (or will help) you in writing scholarly essays in future courses? 5 Which three adjectives best describe your efforts this semester? 6 Which do you feel is your strongest essay? Please identify elements that support this claim and explain why it appears to you to represent your best work.  (Be sure to be concrete—give evidence and examples from your writing/paper itself). • Unprecedented Semester: This semester is the first full semester influenced by COVID 19. Specifically, how did the external COVID 19 environment affect your semester? You can use this section to discuss Virtual Teaching methods and how you were affected by them in general and in my class. • Conclusion and Going Forward: For the conclusion, assess how you will take these skills into your future, assessing when and where they will come in handy. For example, how do you plan to use these skills in other courses throughout college. What will you take from the COVID 19 experience long after it has ended.

SSH 102 Final Essay Spring II 2020 (Murphy) Your essays are required to be at least 750 words long and in paragraph form with topic sentences. Use specific details and form complete sentences. If you use a quote from Foner or Zinn, it must be cited (MLA or APA). If you use a source other than Foner or Zinn, it must be cited as well. Please keep all quotations and citations very brief, and paraphrase whenever possible. This essay should be either entirely, or almost entirely, in your own words. Since you are writing this outside of a classroom where time is limited, your answers are expected to be more comprehensive, thoughtful, and detailed than in an in-class essay. Some of the questions may require some information that we have not yet covered in the class but is available through further research into the textbook or other sources. Choose one of the questions below to construct your essay around. Grading of your exam will be based upon organization, clarity, completeness, thinking, writing, and content Warning: Any detected plagiarism, cut and paste from another source, duplicate efforts, or similar attempts at cheating will result in a grade of 0 for the final exam. Your final essay will be worth 50 points. Completed exams are due Monday, August 1 by midnight. As the national holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day suggests, Americans have by and large embraced the Civil Rights Movement as a source of pride in their national history. But did the Civil Rights Movement “win”? Assess the changes, obstacles, legacy, and challenges to civil rights in the United States between 1954 and the present. Fully discuss and examine the limitations placed on freedom after September 11, 2001. Then compare the surrounding circumstances with those during the McCarthy Era (Cold War), World War II, and World War I. What is the balance between security and freedom during war? In what ways does the Constitution protect peoples’ rights during wartime, and in what ways does it not? Should dissent be equated with a lack of patriotism? Why or why not?