English Literature

Write an essay about Tales from the Thousand One Nights: “Invocation” and “Prologue” (pp. 13-23); “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” (pp. 79-105); “The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers” (pp. 106-112) I WOULD ATTACH THE INSTRUCTIONS ON ‘FILES’ Identify themes which establish connections between different stories in Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.?Discuss the significance of gender roles in Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.?Make a reasoned argument that explains and analyzes a central theme in the text—e.g. gender roles, storytelling, moral lessons, social critique.

In the course of our study of literature this term, we have focused on how literary writers produced writings that are a response to a culture or society’s way of seeing the world. For this paper assignment, I want you to extend our readings and discussions to our own contemporary social and global conflicts that we are witness to in the world today. Process To do this, you should become as familiar as you can with the scope of daily national and international news events. As often as possible, preferably on a daily basis, peruse the headlines and news stories of The New York Times at nytimes.com. Identify news stories whose themes you can relate in some way to one or more of the literary texts we’ve read in the course. Think about ways in which you might relate the literature we’ve read to some aspect of these news stories – what issues, questions, and conflicts resonate in both the news issue and the literature you’ve read? Once you decide on a news topic that interests you and one that parallels in some way the writings we’ve studied, learn more about the issue by clicking the Times Topics tab located in the row of files on the top left of the New York Times online screen on the first (main) page (just above the newspaper’s banner). On the Times Topics page, you’ll find a searchable index of all the archived stories about that topic. Read as many articles and relevant links as you are able to in order to gain a wide and deep knowledge about the topic. (Note: Eventually you will run out of allowable articles and be asked to purchase a subscription. You are not expected to purchase anything to complete the assignment. After you’ve fully utilized the Times Topics tool, you may research other news sources if needed but any alternative news source you use should be approved through me.) Paper Write a 900-1200 word (3-4 page typed, double-spaced, 11 or 12-size font) discussion of how your reading of two of the assigned literary texts helps us to better understand the complex nature of a significant news event. Start by describing why the news event is significant and then develop a discussion about how the literary texts you’ve chosen especially resonate with the contemporary topic. What is similar in both the texts and the contemporary event? What are some notable differences in the texts and the contemporary event? How can you help your reader better understand the contemporary event thru the lens of the texts? Be as creative with your choice of texts and discussion as you wish, but you must ground your discussion by quoting and paraphrasing directly from the literary texts as often as possible. Be sure to give your paper an attractive title that reflects the main idea of your discussion. Proofread your paper carefully for correct English grammar and conventions.

Welcome to the end of the course! The rest of our material is devoted to bringing the different components of your research papers together and polishing them up. As always, if you have any questions please let me know as soon as possible, and feel free to post questions on the Discussion Board as well. Ultimately, this essay should have 5 parts. Introduction Summary and analysis of one article on “The Red Wheelbarrow”(Any article about the poem will be fine.) Summary and analysis of another article “The Red Wheelbarrow”(Same as above any article about the poem will be fine.) Your own analysis of “The Red Wheelbarrow” Brief conclusion Because of what has happened to all classes this semester, don’t be concerned with page length for this essay. You want to have all five parts of the essay, but there is no specific length or word count. So let’s talk about putting this all together. When we started this paper project, you posted a Discussion on what you thought the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was about. After that, you conducted academic research on the poem. You found articles discussing what the poem is about. Most recently, you worked summarizing and analyzing those articles. To finish the essay, you’re going to combine that information into an essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion. Specifically, this lecture will focus on four things. Introduction. Conclusion. Transitions. Checklist. Introduction: In standard academic writing, an introduction is supposed to do three things. 1) Introduce the topic. 2) Provide a thesis statement. 3) Get the reader’s attention. It can do these in any order, and sometimes you can accomplish all three with more or less the same sentence. But let’s look at them separately. For the last one, getting the reader’s attention, while you don’t have to open your essay with some amazing fact or powerful quote, you do want to bring the reader in with something interesting. You could mention something about the author’s life, or something about what a person has said about the text or perhaps some facts regarding the publication history of the poem. You also need to provide a thesis that explains what your essay is about. Please note: While I obviously know what your essays will do since I assigned the topic, you do not want to write as if it’s for a class or for an assigned topic. In other words, don’t write “for my essay I chose…” or “for this assignment I looked at…” or “for my two critical sources I found…” or anything like that. Your thesis therefore must inform the reader as to what you plan to do in the essay. It doesn’t need to be complicated. You might write something like “While it can be argued that “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem about the importance of beauty, it is also interesting to note what previous critics have said.” This would tell your reader that you are going to make a point that the poem is about beauty, but you’re also going to look at other interpretations. Conclusion: Many of you have been told throughout your academic educations to restate your thesis in the conclusion. While that’s ok, if your essay is relatively short (less than, say, 15 pages), and if it was well written, you really don’t have to do that. Your reader just read it. He/She knows what you said. No need to repeat it. It’s better to just wrap it up. One good method is to refer back to something you mentioned in the introduction (this is called the “framing” pattern, because your intro and conclusion frame the essay). But in any case, don’t spend too much time on the conclusion. By the time you get there, you generally want to finish writing, and your reader generally wants to finish reading. Transitions: As you move from one section of the essay to another, you want to use transitions to guide your reader along. So after your introduction, perhaps something like “In the 97 years since Williams published this poem, it has received a considerable amount of critical attention. One such analysis is…” As you move from the first critic to the next, you might write something like: “Another critic who has analyzed Williams’s text is…..” As you move from the critics to your own point, you might write something like “While most critical analyses of this text have noted its attention to an image, few have observed that Williams is also talking about simple beauty” The idea behind these transitions, like the overall thesis in the introduction, is to prepare your readers for what is coming next. Checklist: The following checklist can be used for almost all the essays you will write, not just this one. Obviously, you should proofread carefully (having other people read your work is one of the best ways). We talked about the “divided draft” technique, which can take a bit longer for these longer essays, but is still very effective. As always, feel free to e-mail me any questions or to post them on the Discussion Board. Good luck brining the essay together, and best of luck finishing the semester. Paper Checklist Paper presentation Does the paper look “correct?” Are Font, margins, spacing, heading, page numbers correct? Does the paper have paragraph breaks? Title Does the paper have a title? Is the title properly formatted? (NOT underlined, italicized, in quotations marks, in bold, larger in font) Is the title interesting? Introduction Does the intro do the three things an intro should do? Introduce the topic Provide a thesis Get the reader’s attention Paragraphing Are there separate paragraphs? Are there transitions between paragraphs? Are there topic sentences in the beginnings of paragraphs? Quoting Are all quotes properly introduced and cited? Do the quotes fit, make sense, and add to the essay? Do the quotes dominate the essay? Does it have a separate Works Cited? Style Sentences Do your sentences vary in length? Do your sentences vary in the way they begin? Vocabulary Do you use exciting vocabulary? Do you avoid clichés? Do you repeat certain words or phrases?

Explain the setting of the play, placing Nora within cultural context, particularly domestic life for women at the end of the nineteenth century. If you wish, you may research the cultural/historical context for A Doll House, particularly social standards about marriage, roles of women, divorce, and child custody. Format: MLA, 12-point font, Times New Roman or Arial font. Choose an original title that represents your work. (Think of book titles – draw in your reader, grab their attention!) Directions: Write a well-organized and developed paper on one of the options below. Develop and focus the paper on an overall, central, narrow thesis so that you are making a clear argument, not presenting a list of general ideas. In other words, avoid plot summary and have a clear point. This is very important!

This Documented Research Essay Assignment is designed to: apply research techniques and critical understanding of readings. A. You will write a rhetorical analysis of the essay you have chosen. In this analysis you will discuss the purpose and the rhetorical modes/strategies that the author has used to present his/her position. You will also discuss whether the strategies have been effective and if the author has successfully achieved his/her goal. When you critique a source, you are evaluating how far you feel you can trust or recommend the source’s main argument. Even if you disagree with the issue, you may find the author has made a strong case with strong support. Alternatively, you may agree with the issue but feel the argument has been constructed weakly. The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen your writing skills by critiquing a reading assigned by your instructor. In addition, researching various sources (democratic, newspaper-of-record, and academic) will contribute to providing a close analysis of the text using textual evidence closely. B. To satisfy the research component of this assignment and to develop your research skills, you are required to search the Centennial College Library database for secondary sources. These secondary sources can include another essay on the same topic that you wish to compare to the one you have chosen, or an essay that provides context to the primary essay you have selected. For example, if “Call It What it Is – Anti-Blackness” were one of the choices, you could research Black Lives Matter, or historical background to racism in the United States to provide context to the writer’s essay.

Prepare an essay highlighting the most relevant aspects of the readings made throughout the course. In the essay it must denote synthesis capacity, as well as writing and coherence with the ideas that it seeks to express.

Discussion Board #2 (250 words – 10 points)- due Thursday 7/23 at 11:59 pm. Respond to one of the following: What exactly do you think is Paul’s problem? Why do his teachers dislike him and why does he not see another way out? What do you think he is responding to in choosing his end? In answering this question, refer, using short quotations, to 3 details you notice in ONE specific paragraph. OR: a.) what are the father’s “politics” in the story and how is O’Connor commenting on them. b) starting with Blake, we learned that childhood is an “idea.” Explain what I might mean by this and use details from the story (and possibly earlier readings in the semester) to support it, or c.) how is race/racism part of the context of this story? For your response, find two posts on the question you answered. Do you agree/disagree and why? Be specific in your answer.

TIMELINESS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Technical difficulties are not acceptable excuses for failure to hand in your work on time. Format: • Double spaced, 1” margins, 12 point font, Times New Roman • Heading in upper left corner: Your name, EN 213, Essay Questions 1, Date Plagiarism Reminder: Please review my plagiarism policy in our syllabus and remember that it is not negotiable. Put bluntly, plagiarism = failure in class. You should be able to answer the questions by referring to our textbook and your notes. If you quote a passage from our textbook, cite the page number only in parentheses after your quote. If you paraphrase information in our textbook, you should cite that as well. Notes will be considered common knowledge within this class and do not need to be cited. You should not use outside sources. You may consult your classmates to gather additional information and brainstorm, but you should be the sole author of your essay. Essay Questions Choose only ONE of the following questions write a well thought out but concise essay. You must include direct references from the texts that are being discussed in the essay. 1. In “Hills like White Elephants,” describe what you think the characters’ relationship is like and has been like in the past. Do they seem to be expressing their feelings or avoiding them? How can you tell that they are at some point of crisis? 2. In “Young Goodman Brown” and Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” both Connie and Young Goodman Brown are being initiated into adulthood. Compare and contrast their respective journeys and its outcome for the character.

COVID-19 raises ethical dilemmas or challenges for many physicians faces as front line How can physicians deal with the mental stress of making life-or-death decisions caused by equipment shortages? With a shortage of PPE, what ethical dilemmas do physicians face when it comes to caring for patients who may be infected with COVID-19 but the doctors lack the proper equipment to safely treat the patient? What are the ethics around not allowing end-of-life visits by family members, leaving someone to die alone? Many physicians have young children or elderly parents at home. Is it ethical for them to not show up for shifts at a hospital where COVID-19 is prevalent? How should physicians keep their families safe while still meeting their ethical obligations as a doctor? ***u can also use this website to get information and three more The American Medical Association is developing short-use cases that apply guidance from the AMA Code of Medical Ethics to issues as they are emerging in the pandemic that are posted to the AMA’s COVID-19 Resource Center as they become available. The full Code is available online at https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/code-medical-ethics-overvie

Summarize what “Last Seen: Voices from Slavery’s Past” is about. Describe what it is to someone who has never seen or heard of it. (2) Explain what you think the purpose of this performance is. What is it trying to accomplish? (3) Discuss your reaction to this performance. Did you like it? What did it make you think about?