Literature homework help

For this assignment you will write an essay that critically analyses one topic of your choice from the following
list:
1. Tufekci makes use of Gramsci’s concept of “hegemony” to discuss social media platforms and their surveillance-based advertising systems. Using examples from Google or Facebook (including their subsidiaries), discuss the implications of this hegemonic power and the surveillance-based online advertising economy. (Readings from week 6)
2. Han argues that “Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers”. Discuss how advertising for either a political campaign or product of your choice exhibits this blurring of boundaries. (Readings from week 7)
3. Billig argues that “In consumer capitalism people’s sense of personal identity is bound up with the regular acquisition of material possessions” and that “in the contemporary world, to have is to be”. Giving an example of one single product of your choice, discuss how it signifies personal identities through the ideology of consumerism and commodity fetishism. (Readings from week 8)
Your analysis should incorporate a small number of examples of advertising media that you have selected to illustrate your points. These examples should be discussed fully in a way that demonstrates your own critical perspective, and without lengthy description. You must refer to the appropriate readings available on C4 and also find additional academic resources from academic databases and libraries to provide evidence for your discussion and to support your arguments. You may also incorporate readings and concepts from other weeks if you wish. All resources that you refer to must be properly cited in the text of your essay and also be listed in a bibliography at the end of your essay.
Your assignments will be marked according to the following criteria:
Knowledge and understanding
Your essay should include a detailed discussion of concepts relevant to this course that demonstrates to the reader your knowledge and understanding of the assigned material. You must also include additional academic materials in your essay that closely related to your topic, drawing primarily from academic work in the field of media and communications.
Analysis and discussion
Your discussion should include your own analysis of academic theories and concepts and how they are applied to your topic, and closely relate these to a small number of well-identified examples. You should avoid being descriptive and focus your discussion on the meanings and implications of these concepts in light of your topic. You should also direct your discussion towards an argument that makes a clear conclusion about your topic.
Academic skills
Assignments should be written using clear language and carefully proofread. All references, quotations, and paraphrased passages must be properly cited and appear in your bibliography. You may use any appropriate citation format as long as it is clear and consistent.

My teacher wants a comparative analysis, which means the essays should address the similarities and differences. Here are her specific instructions: Compose a multi-paragraph essay that compares and analyzes the portrayal of female characters in The Great Gatsby, “Winter
Dreams” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Note that a comparative
analysis entails examining both similarities and dissimilarities.
Cite sufficient and relevant evidence from each respective text
to support your analysis. Your essay must be typed, between
four to five pages in length and in MLA format. So you need to use evidence from these 3 books and also don’t forget to double space my work, and also for the page number up to you can put ( Watson1) . And only use sources that are found in the essay.

As the assignment states, you were expected to respond to, both, the play by Hwang and the short story by Long. Your essay only refers to the play and, at that, it is not until the end of the second page that you stop summarizing information and start analyzing the play. However, as your conclusion reveals, you spend more time “agreeing with Garber” rather than offering your own argument. In several places, you make sweeping and misrepresentative claims. For instance, when you note “that in the 1980s, homosexuality was not accepted in the West,” consider that this seems to imply that homosexuality was accepted in the “East.” You may have not intended to give this impression, but it is created by the way you have structured this point. In another part of the essay, you refer to Garber to argue that the press “did not make a similar judgment on the male partner, Boursicot” regarding his homosexuality. This is not what Garber is suggesting. Rather, she aligns Boursicot’s sexuality with his nationality, implying that, for the French, the notion that a Frenchman could not tell the difference between a man and a woman was more embarrassing than has it been evident that Boursicot was a homosexual. At several points in your essay, I am quite confused by what you mean. Take this statement: “the man in a relationship who takes the role of a woman.” What does this mean? As I stated repeatedly in my lectures, Song is gender-fluid. While Song is playing a role in the relationship with Boursicot, what if you thought of that role as being less about gender and more about Song being a spy, which is in fact exactly what Song is!
For your final assignment, please pay careful attention to the assignment!! Read it and make sure that you understand its requirements. Moreover, always begin with your argument. I do NOT need a summary; I need to know what YOU think.

Requirements for the Science Writing Essay:

Your task for this essay will be to follow the Scientific Method to collect physical data to study either society or nature. You will construct a hypothesis, consult current research, experiment, and interpret your findings then write a structured report that demonstrates what you have learned. Science writing follows a very predictable, rigid pattern. Learning that pattern will be one of the chief objectives of this unit. While you may present the data in a lot of different creative ways, your report must include the following headings:
Introduction:
Origin: The “story” of your topic. Why you chose it; why it matters. Research Question: States a question that the study hopes to answer.
Hypothesis: The expected outcome of the study.
Literature Review: Survey of related scholarly, professional, and/or government studies. Consider published articles, books, and .gov websites. (3-8 paragraphs)
Method: A detailed description of your data collection process. (1-2 paragraphs)
Result: Explain and analyze your field data. Use tables, charts & diagrams, maps, and/or images to help. (1-2 paragraphs + charts/tables) Discussion: Interpret the data as an answer to the hypothesis. Show key findings. Compares to studies mentioned in the literature review and offer an explanation of contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses. (2+ paragraphs)
Conclusions: The implications of the study, including its importance and recommendations for action or further study. (1+ paragraphs)
References: In addition to the data you collect, you should reference at least three other professional, scholarly, or government sources (including datasets). Whether you choose to write in the Social Sciences or the Natural Sciences, most papers will still have a very similar structure. Here’s an overview of that structure:
Introduction — Much longer than introductions for traditional essays. They include several key sections. The Introduction should be at least 3-4 paragraphs long, but well-written introductions will be longer, up to 8 paragraphs or more.
Origin: How this study came to be and why it matters.
Research Question: States a question that the study hopes to answer. Hypothesis: The expected outcome of the study.
Literature Review: Survey of related scholarly, professional, and/or government studies. Consider published articles, books, and .gov websites.
Methods — A detailed description of your data collection process. Should be at least two paragraphs.
Results — Explains and analyzes the data you collected. Uses tables, charts & diagrams, maps, and/or images to help communicate visually. Should be two or three paragraphs, plus charts/tables of your data.
Discussion — Interprets the data as an answer to the hypothesis. Shows key findings. Compares your findings to the studies referenced in the literature review and offers an explanation of contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses. Should be two or more paragraphs.
Conclusions — Shows how the study should influence future actions, including its importance to the field and recommendations for further study. Should one or more paragraphs.
Decide what kind of data you need to collect. To conduct your study, you’ll need to create a data collection tool, collect data for at least five days, and then enter the data in a spreadsheet so you can analyze it. How you collect the data depends on the study you are conducting. Let’s get an overview of the possibilities, and then take a deeper look at each option.
Personal Biometric: There’s a wider variety of options here. Some options include: Fitness: Use your Fitbit or other health trackers to collect data. Data can usually be exported into a table, depending on the software. Nutrition: Use a calorie tracking app to record intake. You can also collect data from nutrition labels on food packages.

Please discuss EITHER
1) the character of Briar Rose in “Briar Rose” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
OR 2) the questions below about “Love in L.A.”

1) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Briar Rose: Please discuss the character of Briar Rose in this fairy tale.

2) In “Love in L.A.” the protagonist returns to his car after speaking with the woman whose car he hit, “Back in his car he took a moment or two to feel both proud and sad about his performance” (277). What does this mean? How would describe the main character in this story? The author writes in his essay “On Writing ‘Love in L.A.'” that he identifies with the main character of this story (eText 268-270). What do you think Gilb mean by this? How does/did he identify with this character? Do you recognize or identify with this character in some way? Does he seem like someone you’ve known?

COMMENT/DISAGREE/AGREE ( A FEW SENTENCES):

Good Morning Everyone,

“Briar Rose” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a very interesting story. At the festival celebrating the birth of their beautiful daughter the king and the queen invite the wise women of the land. Each of the twelve wise women who are invited presents the child with a special gift. For example, one wise woman bestows virtue on the child,, another gives the child wealth, and another gives the child beauty. Unfortunately, the thirteenth wise woman was not invited to the celebration and is so upset that she suddenly appears and declares that the child will “prick herself with a spindle on her fifteenth birthday and die.” Fortunately, the twelfth wise woman is able to soften this declaration and proclaim that the child will not die but will fall asleep for a hundred years.

Reading Response 8: First Half of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Please see the attached file for the source. Only refer to Act One for this assignment.

The Reading Responses are designed to give you low-stakes, judgment-free places to develop your ideas and prepare for the essay. Therefore, you should read the essay prompt first, understand what is going to be asked of you in that assignment, and to keep it in mind when you write your responses. As such, these responses should not be plot summaries, nor should they merely describe the content of a reading; they should be insightful commentaries on the ideas/images/feelings that are expressed in the works that you will be reading. You may choose to respond to a single work or make comparisons between any number of the class’s assigned readings, but you must limit your responses to the works we are covering in this class only. This also means that, for the Reading Responses and for the Essays, you should not discuss things that are outside of the poem, story, or novel. A literary analysis means you have to analyze the work of literature itself and nothing else. If, for example, we are reading a poem about a soldier in World War I, don’t digress and discuss foreign policy or military warfare or even your own views about war. The essay requires you to address only the author’s or the work’s message; so for the previous example, you would focus only on what the poem itself is telling us about war. While this assignment is somewhat informal, your responses should be thesis-driven, argumentative attempts to establish an interpretive point about the text (interpret its message/lesson). Always support your observations by referring to specific passages from the text but do not oversaturate your reading responses with quotes or summaries. Use only the right amount of textual detail that illustrates your point.

Your reading response should mainly address the question: What is the message of the work? In other words: What is the author trying to teach us? When answering this question, do not be content simply with a surface level interpretation. Do not settle for clichés or platitudes, such as “The message of the work is that you have to keep trying, no matter what.’” That kind of superficial sentiment is something we hear all the time. We don’t need to read poetry or fiction in order to come to realize that perseverance is a wonderful trait to have. Authors write imaginative works of literature in order to get at deeper things about life. Let’s try to hear what they’re saying! Use these assignments to explore that.

Requirements:
12-point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins
500 – 800 words per assignment (That’s approximately 2 to 3 pages)
Use MLA style in-text citations (But no Works Cited page is required)
Do not use ANY sources other than the assigned readings themselves. The reading response should include only your own words and ideas with quotes from the text you’re analyzing to illustrate your points. Do not plagiarize or even use other sources (whether that includes ideas, analysis, quotes, or information).

Outline
The outline must be full sentence outline with the following:
a. Topic
b. General purpose
c. Special purpose
d. Thesis statement
e. Introduction
f. Main points. Make sure you have 3-5 main points
g. Conclusion
h. Bibliography. You must cite at least 3 authoritative sources on the outline.
I. Visual Aid. You must state what the visual aid is on the outline.

Mobilize Graff’s “Determinacy/Indeterminacy” to think about the many forms of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee. Especially to think not just about the forms that she finds valuable (visual image; poetry; translation) but also the forms that she critiques (history; bureaucratic document). That bad stuff gets included here too, and such repurposing seems like an important part of her revisionist method. Involve Graff’s ideas in “Determinacy/Indeterminacy” to describe the structural style in Dictee, while using those same ideas to create a cohesive argument on how Cha’s different perspectives is linked to indeterminacy.

Throughout this semester, we have been exploring the concept of the hero in literature. We began with the epichero (Beowulf). Then we examined the tragic hero in an ancient Greek drama (Oedipus Rex) and then the fairy tale hero. You have also become familiar with Joseph Campbell’s and Vladimir Propp’s theoretical works and how literary critics help us to understand what we read a little better (Bettelheim, Luthi and others). For Essay #4, your goal is to reflect on what you’ve learned and read this semester and apply it to a story/movie of your own choice. Tell us briefly about the story and discuss how it reflects the ideas and concepts we’ve covered. Students have chosen stories by Anton Chekhov, Spiderman (comic book), and Japanese anime stories, just to give you some ideas. Students have also written about Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Katniss from The Hunger Games, Rey fromStar Wars, The Joker, and even Deadpool!

You will create an artifact (i.e. a poster, handout, Instagram ad, billboard, etc) of a hypothetical campaign on a specific topic in which you have personal interest with the intent on changing a specific behavior. I would suggest thinking about the specific target audience, messages, channels, public policies, and possible theoretical frameworks we have discussed in this class when planning your artifact. For example, communication practitioners:

Partition a target audience into segments with different sets of knowledge, attitudes, and skills and thus different orientations toward a specific behavior. For instance, a campaign might segment adults into those who are not considering recycling, those who are considering, and those who are already recycling.
Develop a message to persuade a specific target audience to enact or not enact a specific behavior. For example, a social norms message might try to discourage binge drinking among college students.
Disseminate a message through a channel. Examples of channels include television and interpersonal networks.
Rely on a public policy that supports the desired behavior. For example, the U.S. tax code imposes a fine on adults who withdraw money from an individual retirement account or IRA prematurely.
After you have created your artifact include a small discussion regarding your thought process as to how and why you made the choices you did and what implications you think this would have if this were a real campaign. Also include how you would measure the campaigns success after the campaign were completed if it were real.

An example of an excellent Artifact Submission from a previous semester can be found here

You will be graded on the following:

How well did your artifact appeal to the intended audience. For example: if the intended audience were millennials, was it presented in a medium they use such as Instagram or Snapchat.
How persuasive was the message and did it use any theoretical framework such as Stages of Change, Theory of Reasoned Action, Diffusion of Innovations, etc.
Summarize/conclude by discussing why you made the choices you did when creating your artifact and what implications you hope they would have on changing your audiences’ behaviors and discuss how you would measure the success of your campaign based off this artifact and/or other factors if it were real
Artifact is well organized and easy to understand. It is clear and fluid, and creative
Review the rubric below to learn how your artifact will be graded.