Literature

cite SPECIFIC evidence from the text to support your assertions. Avoid just summarizing the plot. don’t plagiarize pls This quote is part of the prompt: “I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there’s nothing I can do to change it.” Discuss the way in which Atwood has chosen to present Offred’s story to us saying how effective you find it.

odule 6 Critical Reflection—Financing Policy Aim: This Critical Reflection Assignment will allow you to identify, analyze, and reflect upon the concept of state budgeting in terms of fiscal responsibility for implementing policies. You will examine fiscal revenue and critically reflect upon current sources of revenue for state governments and local governments in a federal system. You will consider and evaluate what this means for localities. odule 6 Critical Reflection—Financing Policy Aim: This Critical Reflection Assignment will allow you to identify, analyze, and reflect upon the concept of state budgeting in terms of fiscal responsibility for implementing policies. You will examine fiscal revenue and critically reflect upon current sources of revenue for state governments and local governments in a federal system. You will consider and evaluate what this means for localities.  Materials: You will read one article provided in Module 6 of CANVAS (also hyperlinked into this document below), refer to Chapter 4 of your textbook, and reflect upon the content pages within Module 6. https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/state-and-local-expenditures (Links to an external site.) Instructions: You will write a 2-3 page (350-500 words), double-spaced essay, using 12-point font. Use an MLA or APA style guide to cite your source(s) and provide a reference or “works cited” page (3rd page or 4th page). In total, you will submit 3 or 4 pages. Your essay will have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Two days after the due date, submission will result in a 10% reduction of points per day. Late work after 1-week past the due date will not be accepted. Missing parenthetical citations and a reference page will result in a zero for the grade (academic dishonesty). Respond to the Following: How are a variety of local policies being financed in a federal system? Why must states balance their budgets and how does that work? Can a state just fail? What are the main sources of revenue for implementing policies such as services at the local level? According to the Urban Institute, what do state and local governments tend to spend money on? Are certain policy areas main priorities? How does state spending differ from local spending and why? Materials: You will read one article provided in Module 6 of CANVAS (also hyperlinked into this document below), refer to Chapter 4 of your textbook, and reflect upon the content pages within Module 6. https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/state-and-local-expenditures (Links to an external site.) Instructions: You will write a 2-3 page (350-500 words), double-spaced essay, using 12-point font. Use an MLA or APA style guide to cite your source(s) and provide a reference or “works cited” page (3rd page or 4th page). In total, you will submit 3 or 4 pages. Your essay will have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Two days after the due date, submission will result in a 10% reduction of points per day. Late work after 1-week past the due date will not be accepted. Missing parenthetical citations and a reference page will result in a zero for the grade (academic dishonesty). Respond to the Following: How are a variety of local policies being financed in a federal system? Why must states balance their budgets and how does that work? Can a state just fail? What are the main sources of revenue for implementing policies such as services at the local level? According to the Urban Institute, what do state and local governments tend to spend money on? Are certain policy areas main priorities? How does state spending differ from local spending and why?

For the mid-term, your assignment will to be to write an essay that is four pages on one of the following topics. Use MLA format. The minimum page length is three and a half pages. Your essay should include an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Make sure to answer the prompt in the introduction, focusing on something specific about the prompt. Make sure to make a point you can argue against others when interpreting the work in the thesis. Make sure to present background information and an overview of what will be in the body paragraphs in the introduction. You can focus on any of the philosophical, thematic, ideological, psychoanalytical interpretations of the characters, as well as historical, religious, political, and ethical viewpoints in the essay. Make sure to have a clear topic sentence that has the purpose of the paragraph stated. Make sure to, then, state your claim that is your analytical viewpoint. After that, make sure to use a quote from the text to support your idea. State who is speaking and the context of what is taking place in the scene to lead into the quote and then use a parenthetical citation as follows: (author, pg). If you cite from a play, cite as follows: (Act I. Scene ii. 400-405). Explain what the quote means in the context of the argument and prove your point. Make sure to conclude with a statement that describes how the paragraph proves your thesis. The conclusion paragraph should explain how your essay proved your argument. Think about how other scholars might counter your argument, in order to refute opposing views in your claims. Focus on ethical, logical, and emotional appeals that appear in specific quotes that support your ideas to make your own claims. You are required to have a works cited page with the textbook and any other scholarly sources you use. You can use peer reviewed journals from the Troy library, books from the university’s library, or a .edu source to support your own claims. This assignment is due no later than November 15th. Choose one of the prompts that are described as follows: 1. Apply psychoanalytic criticism to the characterization of Gilgamesh or Achilles. Compare and contrast their motivations. Are they controlled predominately by reason or the irrational mind? Review ethical and logical standpoints of the characters. Freud explains that the neurotic crisis is “the struggle between the interest of self-preservation (ego) and the demands of man’s aggressive nature (id).” Apply psychoanalytic criticism to analyze the motivations and roles of these characters. Analyze how Achilles exemplifies the Homeric code of ethics through his courage, despite his irrational nature at times. Focus on specific lines from the dialogue that will justify your claims. 2. Define the heroic identity of Beowulf as an epic hero. Focus specifically on two or three ethical motivations behind the predictability of the rationality in his actions. How do his traits make his role stand out among other epic heroes within the historical context of the work? In other words, the context of the ancient world. Focus specifically on how historical, religious, philosophical, political, or cultural elements in the work influence his predictability as a heroic character. Would his role as an epic hero be the same if he was not a predictable character? Why or why not? Compare and contrast him to Achilles, who is not a predictable character at all times, due to the unpredictability of his emotions. Though he, too, is an epic hero like Beowulf. 3. Justify a point of view on Antigone in which you either support the female as a tragic heroine, or refute her identity as such in the context of the matter of state versus religion. You can focus on how Antigone stands for the philosophical components of the ancient Greek culture, such as stoicism, Plato’s philosophies on the divine law, or Aristotle’s view of the soul as one with the body. How does her appeal to the ethics of the philosophers of the divine law of the gods justify her case as a tragic heroine as she stands for these schools of thought? How does her tragic role represent the past views of the ancients that were changed with new worldviews represented by the role of Creon? 4. You can also focus on how Antigone’s character exceeds her limitations within the view of the state by following the divine law of her gods and refusing to take part in what the present leader wants. Creon became the ruler because he was seen by the people of the time as the best interpreter of the oracle, as Oedipus sent him to interpret the oracle in the first play of the series. Creon more or less disregards other views and makes his own decisions with whatever wisdom he is given, as opposed to previous rulers, which became accepted by the people of that time. Since Antigone defies Creon, the one who represents the views of the populous, how does she exceed her limitations by defying the law of the state?

This essay needs to be a compare and contrast essay, 4 pages long comparing and contrasting the two main characters from the story “A good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulker. I’d like the essay to compare and contrast the grandma from a good man is hard to find and emily from a rose for emily. The two sources need to be those two stories.

You will choose ONE of the Dickinson poems to analyze for this assignment.  Choose any one poem that you want, as long as it appeals to you and you can talk about it.  This does NOT require any outside research.  I am only interested in your own opinion here. Please do an in-depth analysis of the poem talking about themes or symbols or underlying messages conveyed in the poem. Please follow standard essay structure with an intro, thesis, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

*no extra source needed, no introduction/conclusion needed, do not write in essay format.* As you have now learned, distribution was always the biggest advantage of traditional publishers. Ebooks and audio books have been challenging that advantage as more and more smaller companies offer electronic distribution services. These companies have also increased market access to self-published titles, which have been exploding in number. With the increase in numbers of books and the varied formats for sale, discoverability of any title has become an even bigger challenge for publishers. QUESTIONS: 1. As a reader, how do you find new titles? 2. If you read fiction, how do you discover new authors? 3. What is the key indicator that helps you decide to buy a book? 4. Do you use online sites such as Goodreads to find reviews and/or recommendations? 5. What advice would you offer a publisher looking for new ways to better reach their audience? 6, Do you have an example of finding and buying a book which you had never thought you would be interested in?

Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Women of the 19th Century.” (texts can be found attached below) Find a secondary source on either text and read it. In one paragraph, explain the main idea of the secondary source. In 2-3 paragraphs, using the primary texts, explain two examples that either support or refute the main claim of the secondary text. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8642/8642-h/8642-h.htm Subject

I. Background & Given Circumstances Identify the specific time and place in which your play, and your chosen scene, take place. (1 paragraph) Identify central relationships your character has with other characters in the play. (1-3 paragraphs) Analyze the values your character holds, based on both what they say about themselves, and what their actions express. Identify major conflicts for your character in the world of the play, especially focusing on conflicts of role and conflicts of objectives. (1-2 paragraphs) The moment before: describe what happens to the character for the 5 minutes leading up to your chosen scene, based on evidence from the play, and your own imagination, as necessary. (1 paragraph) II. Action Analysis (1-2 paragraphs) Identify an over-all objective for your character (super-objective) that motivates them throughout the duration of the play. Identify your character’s objective/goal for your chosen scene Identify at least 1 internal and one external obstacle to your character’s attempted objective in the scene. Identify the character’s motivation for pursuing their objective Divide the scene into beats, and name each beat with the actions/tactics that your character attempts over the course of the scene. In your submitted written materials, include a copy or scan of your script with the beat divisions and names clearly indicated—highlighted or boxed in different colors, for example.   III. Structural Analysis: Character Arc Analyze your character’s role in the major events of the play (exposition, complications, crisis, climax, denouement) (2-3 paragraphs) Does the character have a major moment of self-recognition? If so, describe it & it’s significance to the overall plot. (1 paragraph) IV. Character Research Locate and summarize three unique written reviews of productions of your play that address how your chosen character was played/interpreted. You do not need a separate Works Cited page, but you must cite the sources of your reviews, including the author, publication, and date of publication. (1-2 paragraphs) Analyze your character’s capacity for self-understanding (complexity), and their degree of willpower/strength/persistence in pursuing their objectives. (1 paragraph) Describe the appearance of your character, including the style, cut and color of their clothing, their hairstyle, and the way they carry themselves. (1 paragraph) Submit a minimum of 3 visual images that inspire/support your ideas about the appearance of the character. These can be a literal or metaphorical as you wish. These should be included in whatever final file you submit (pdf, doc, etc) Use the play ‘Oedipus’ as the play for this assignment. You can use any scene that you want, but please make sure it is meaningful to the plot and will result in a good job being done. Don’t worry about the page limit, if you have to go over the limit I’m fine with compensating you for that.

Essay 2: Entering a Conversation (3-4 pages) Choose one of the sets of essays listed below. Summarize both of the arguments (“they say”), explain how the authors agree and disagree, and craft your own response to the issues the two essays raise (“I say”). Make sure you include a naysayer to show possible objections to your argument, and address the “so what?” factor: why does this issue matter? MLA, Times New Roman, 12 point, with Work Cited page. — SHERYL SANDBERG, “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” [p. 642] BELL HOOKS, “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In” [p. 659] — ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” [p. 676] RICHARD DORMENT, “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All” [p. 697] — CHARLES MURRAY, “Are Too Many People Going to College?” [p. 234] SANFORD J. UNGAR, “The New Liberal Arts” [p. 226] — PAUL KRUGMAN, “Confronting Inequality” [p. 561] BRANDON KING, “The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold” [p. 610]

discipline-based thoughts on Watchmen (the graphic novel! not the movie!!) The discipline of Literature is as being important to either the events or understanding — you must provide specifics examples citing chapter, page, and panel.explain the relevance/importance of these examples to the chapters/events as well as 2. explaining/analyzing them as examples of the discipline you claim they are representative of AND 3. how Watchmen might be viewed through these disciplinary/interdisciplinary lens/perspectives.