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Metaphor in Music: Analyze the use of metaphor in a song or series of songs. • One song This would be either be rich with numerous metaphors in which case you might make your projects a study of the artist skills and with a metaphor or It would feature extended metaphors about which I can offer you some guidance, as we no longer cover that in this course material Several songs This could be an analysis of an artist’s use of metaphor over their catalogs of songs. This could also feature various artist groups according to Genre according to Similar or contrasting uses of metaphor

Discuss your opinions of gay lifestyles based on the way gay people are portrayed in the media:  TV, motion pictures, popular music, and professional sports.  You should use as many specific examples (in addition to the film we watched) as you can think of, and certainly mention any people you may know who are LGBTQ, and if the real people are like the ones in the media.      If you are religious, how do your beliefs affect your opinions? -MLA Format -Works Cited as in the pdf -Times New Romans 12pt Font -No Plagiarism

Your final paper will be six to seven pages that meets the following three rhetorical goals: It develops your own original idea with a theme of monsters.   It incorporates 6-10 sources, with at least one essay from our class book, Monsters, and two scholarly sources. It exhibits a firm grasp of MLA style including format and documentation.  Your essay grade will reflect how thoroughly you have met all three of these goals as well as the quality/clarity of your prose and your control at the paragraph and sentence level. A properly formatted Works Cited is required.  As with your initial draft, highlight the thesis statement and the topic sentences.  Use at least two the following in the essay: Japan’s Nuclear Nighmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla by Peter H. Brothers -Here Be Monsters By Ted Genoways -Curse by a Bite by Matt Kaplan -why Vampires Never Die by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan -Why We Crave Horror Movies by Stephen King -From Dracula by Bram Stoker

There are three major conflicts in “A Wall of Fire Rising:” man vs. man, man vs. society, and man vs. self. Discuss what you think the three conflicts in this story are. Be specific in the responses.

For your final essay, you will write an analytical research paper on Mindset. This paper is not a summary of what the author and literary critics say but an original analysis on how one should interpret and develop Carol Dweck’s model for growth mindset development. According to Carol Dweck, how do we acquire a “growth mindset” and why is it important? Expand your research on what Dweck is saying. Include your own thoughts and reflections on different perspectives of growth and fixed mindset. Your goal is to ENGAGE sources and not to simply RESTATE other interpretations.

below you will find eight questions; choose five and provide medium length answers to each (350 words minimum, but not more than 450 words)       i.         Why did T.S. Eliot claim that Ezra Pound’s translations heralded ‘the invention of Chinese poetry in our time’, and what does this say about Pound’s approach?      ii.         How would you describe the differences between Ezra Pound’s translations of the Book of Odes (??) and James Legge’s versions?    iii.         What role did missionaries play in the early translations of the Book of Changes (??) and how did they view the classical text and why?    iv.         How was Richard Wilhelm’s approach to translating the Book of Changes different from James Legge and how has this difference contributed to the positive and popular reception of Wilhelm’s version (as translated by Cary Baynes into English)?      v.         Why did early European translators choose to avoid the Zhuangzi (??) and what does this say about the uniqueness of this classical text?    vi.         What are some of the challenges related to translating philosophical texts and how did Brook Ziporyn deal with these challenges when translating the Zhuangzi?   vii.         If a single poem written by Wang Wei can be translated nineteen different ways, can a ‘correct’ and ‘authoritative’ version ever be produced? Should a translator even try? Why or why not? viii.         After reading nineteen versions of a single Wang Wei poem, which would you say produces a more accomplished poem, a ‘poet-translator’ or a ‘critic-translator’?

Five secondary sources and two primary sources For this assignment, you will write a 12-page (that’s FULL pages of writing, please!) essay in response to the prompt below. Our main goal for this essay is to move from textual analysis of a single work to a the larger argument about how sources work together to show us trends, changes, and/or similarities in human nature over time. In other words, you will be making a claim about the ways in which our ideas or definitions of monsters and monstrosity have changed (or not changed) over time, using our course readings as evidence. Prompt: By the time this paper is due, we will have discussed several texts that deal with monsters and monstrosity across several different time periods, including Titus Andronicus, Frankenstein, Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and the first X-Men film. For your term paper, you will choose at least two primary source texts that we have read or viewed in class to compare in terms of their presentation of the concept of monsters and monstrosity. You may use a third primary source text if you wish, which could be either a text we have or a text we have not covered in class, for example, another novel, film, or video game that deals with similar themes.

This essay is essentially a research paper relating to phonology and morphology, and also involving a specific topic of interest to you.  In your first essays, you learned linguistic information about yourselves.  In this one, you will learn more about the academic environment involving structures of English and language.  You will get a brief introduction into some studies that are being conducted and how and where people present their findings, and you will also learn a little about a topic more specifically interesting to you. For this essay, you will find TWO (2) scholarly essays/articles dealing phonologically and/or morphologically with a topic of interest to you.  You will summarize and analyze both sources (using quotes and examples) from the sources, and then provide a general reaction to the information you learned.  Introduction: ……………………………..1-3 paragraphs Summary and Analysis of Source 1:……. 1 ½ pages Summary and Analysis of Source 2:……. 1 ½ pages General Reaction to the information: ..…..1 page Conclusion:………………………………  1-3 paragraphs

Write a This I Believe essay of your own.  Write  300-600 words on the topic: This I believe. Start off with “I believe in kindness”

Martí’s essay “Nuestra América Actions and his famous poem, “Yo Soy un Hombre Sincero  (Links to an external site.) .”  Both of these links are to English translations, but if you are fluent in Spanish feel free to read them in the original. Please answer the following questions in the discussion:  1.  In “Nuestra América” Martí uses several animal metaphors.  Select one and explain its significance. 2.  In “Nuestra América” Martí keeps returning to the figure of the “natural man.”  What does the “natural man” have in common with the speaker of “Yo Soy un Hombre Sincero”?