Literature

Article Review the article is attached below https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/black-austin-matters-artistic-challenge-city/

Many poets of the Harlem Renaissance made extensive use of the sonnet form; module 2 contains examples such as Countee Cullen’s “From the Dark Tower,” Helene Johnson’s “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem,” and Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die.” Write an essay in which you compare some of the sonnets written during the Harlem Renaissance. How do different approaches to the sonnet form signal different thematic concerns? Fully address the prompt within 500 – 800 words. Essays must have the proper structure. This includes an introduction paragraph, a minimum of three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. The first page must include a page number, heading, and a title in MLA format. The introduction must begin with a hook/attention grabber, proceed with general background information on the topic, and the ONE SENTENCE thesis is the LAST sentence in the introduction. Use your own ideas and quotations from the literature to support your thesis. When using quotations, remember to introduce the quote with a signal phrase and follow each quote with an interpretation in your words (review the quote sandwich). Do not use any secondary sources for topic #1. The textbook is the only approved source for topic #1. Use MLA parenthetical citations immediately following each quotation and/or paraphrase. Please review Chapter 34 for additional support with quotations and in-text citations.

B Prompt: Now that you have read “Marijuana Legalization’s Costs Outweigh Its Benefits” and “Marijuana Regulation Works and Prohibition Fails” decide which side of the debate that you most agree with. Writing Prompt Write your argumentative essay ( choose a position or side and support it)in your own words, supporting one side of the debate in which you argue EITHER that the state of Georgia should legalize recreational marijuana usage OR that Georgia should continue to ban the usage of marijuana and punish those who break this law. Be sure to use information from both texts in your argumentative essay. Now write your argumentative essay. Be sure to:  Organize your ideas with an introduction, several body paragraphs and conclusion. ? Support your claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence from the texts.  ? Acknowledge that there is another side besides yours in the argument. ? Organize the reasons and evidence logically.  ? Use words, phrases, and clauses to connect your ideas and to clarify the relationships among  ? claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.  ? Establish and maintain a formal style.  ? Check your work for correct grammar, usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation  Story 1:  Marijuana Legalization’s Costs Outweigh Its Benefits Legalization will cause a tremendous increase in marijuana use. Based on the experience elsewhere, the number of users will double or triple. This means an additional 17 to 34 million young and adult users in the United States. Legalization will mean that marijuana businesses can promote their products and package them in attractive ways to increase their market share. Increased marijuana use will mean millions more damaged young people. Marijuana use can permanently impair brain development. Problem solving, concentration, motivation, and memory are negatively affected. Teens who use marijuana are more likely to engage in delinquent and dangerous behavior, and experience increased risk of schizophrenia and depression, including being three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts. Marijuana-using teens are more likely to have multiple sexual partners and engage in unsafe sex. Marijuana use accounts for tens of thousands of marijuana related complaints at emergency rooms throughout the United States each year. Over 99,000 are young people. Despite arguments by the drug culture to the contrary, marijuana is addictive. The levels of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient) have never been higher. This is a major factor why marijuana is the number one drug causing young people to enter treatment and why there has been a substantial increase in the people in treatment for marijuana dependence. Marijuana legalization means more drugged driving. Already, 13 percent of high school seniors said they drove after using marijuana while only 10 percent drove after having several drinks. Why run the risk of increasing marijuana use among young drivers? Employees who test positive for marijuana had 55 percent more industrial accidents and 85 percent more injuries and they had absenteeism rates 75 percent higher than those that tested negative. This damages our economy. The argument that we can tax and regulate marijuana and derive income from it is false. The increased use will increase the multitude of costs that come with marijuana use. The costs from health and mental wellness problems, accidents, and damage to our economic productivity will far out strip any tax obtained. Our economy is suffering. The last thing we need is the burden that legalization will put on us   Story 2:   Marijuana Regulation Works and Prohibition Fails A majority of Americans espouse ending America’s nearly century-long, failed experiment with cannabis prohibition and replacing it with a system of limited legalization and regulation. Recent national polls by Gallup, Rasmussen, The Huffington Post, and Angus Reid show that more Americans now support legalizing the adult use of cannabis than support maintaining its prohibition. In two states, Colorado and Washington, ballot measures to allow for the limited possession and distribution of cannabis by adults are ahead in the polls by double digit leads. In Colorado, pot is more popular than either of the two leading presidential candidates. Come November 7, voters in one, if not two, U.S. states will have decided in favor of legally regulating cannabis. Why? The answer is clear: regulation works; prohibition fails. Since 1965, the FBI reports that U.S. law enforcement have made over 22 million arrests for marijuana violations. Yet cannabis consumption and the public’s access to pot remain undeterred. Cannabis prohibition financially burdens taxpayers, encroaches upon civil liberties, engenders disrespect for the law, impedes upon legitimate scientific research into the plant’s medicinal properties, and disproportionately impacts communities of color. It’s time to stop stigmatizing and criminalizing tens of millions of Americans for choosing to consume a substance that is safer than either tobacco or alcohol. How much safer? A 2009 study estimated that health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers of alcoholic beverages—and more than 40 times higher for tobacco smokers—than they are for those who consume cannabis. Inhaling cannabis temporarily alters a person’s mood and may pose other potential risks to health. However, a pragmatic regulatory framework that allows for limited, licensed production and sale of cannabis to adults—but restricts use among young people—would best reduce risks associated with its use or abuse. Just look at America’s contemporary experience with tobacco, a legally marketed but deadly recreational drug. Teen use of cigarettes has recently fallen to its lowest levels in decades. Conversely, young people’s self-reported use of cannabis is rising and has now surpassed the number of teens consuming tobacco. Why the disparate trends? Simple. In short, it’s legalization, regulation and public education—coupled with the enforcement of age restrictions—that most effectively keeps mind-altering substances out of the hands of children.

Choose a character from Hanberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and write at least a diary or journal entry that this character might have written. Try to reflect what is happening in the play in the entry and be sure to include the character’s private thoughts and ideas. You should also use the information you learned from the “Cultural and Historical Contexts” reading to shape the diary entries; in other words, try to have the diary entry reflect the character’s experience of the larger world around him or her, based on current events of the time. Writing well-developed paragraphs relevant to the prompt(s) (minimum 300 words). Be sure that your thesis is explicit and supported with one to two quotations from the literature. Do not write in first or second person. Following the rules of Standard English. Please proofread your writing before clicking the ‘submit’ button! When you include a quotation from the literature in your mini-essay, please place an in-text citation (also called a parenthetical citation) immediately after you close the quotation marks and before you place a period at the end of your sentence. That way, anyone in the class (including me!) can easily find the quotation in the literature if necessary. If you’re not sure what to place inside the parentheses, there is instruction in the textbook in Chapter 34- Quotation, Citation, and Documentation.  When you include in-text citations, there must be a Works Cited listing at the bottom of your post. Be sure to follow the “Quote Sandwich” when you insert quotations.

1. Article Summary ? Have you communicated the source’s purpose? ? Have you included all of the source’s main points? ? Have you restated the source’s argument in your own words? 2. Article Response ? Have you provided your perspective on the source’s argument? ? Have you used specific examples from the source to illustrate why you either agree or disagree with the argument? 3. Reflection ? Have you answered all reflection questions thoughtfully and included insights, observations, and/or examples in all responses? ? Are your answers included on a separate page below the main assignment? B. Reflection Questions DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions. What ideas originally came to mind when you first read through the article? Did your initial response to the article change after reading it for a second time? (3-4 sentences) How does paying attention to the way you respond to a source help you formulate your stance on a topic? (2-3 sentences)

analyzing a specific research question about a work of detective fiction of your choice. paper should include close readings from primary text and thoughtful engagement with 3 relevant scholarly sources.

Compose a clear argument in response to the selected essay. support your response with examples and at least 1 quote and paraphrase from the essay. state specific details, the topic it explores and your critical response.

Compose a clear argument in response to the selected essay. support your response with examples and at least 1 quote and paraphrase from the essay. state specific details, the topic it explores and your critical response.

In Chekhov’s Russia, marriage helped provide economic stability. This play is a farce that explores the process of courtship in upper middle class society. What is Chekhov saying about marriage in this play? What is the nature of the conflicts between Lomov and Natalya? What do those conflicts represent?  Please answer with an initial post of 150 words and two comments to classmates of 50-100 words each.

Write about my years in high school, until a call with my grandpa changed my life. My first two years of high school were horrible I was just focus about being the “class clown” I didn’t have goals about attending college because of the money, my goal was to pass all my classes with at least a 70, I was happy about passing a class with a 70. 19-20. I don’t know what I was doing. Until my junior year I started thinking about attending college, but it wasn’t until the pandemic of the COVID-19 that as my family and I were really affected by the pandemic. My grandpa from Peru was really sick because of the COVID 19, as he was so sick I was thinking, how would my life be without him? A call of my grandpa suffering, he couldn’t breath, it broke my heart and I decided to make true the promise I made to him. He’d always been telling me to study. I remember a promise I made to him that I’ll become a professional and I’ll attend college to make him and mom proud. That motivates me even more, I have two special people in my life my mom and my grandpa. Since that day I’d been studying so hard, studying to take CLEP exams for college credits, while my friends are enjoying their summer, I am most of the day at home studying to make true the promise. In conclusion, about a moment that changed my life.