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Compose a thesis that helps you focus in and describe how your reading of Callings is informed by Wrzesniewski’s argument. What threads are you able to find and weave together with the help of Wrzesniewski’s lens? Audience: You should assume your reader is academic and educated but may not be as familiar as you are with Isay’s or Wrzesniewski’s text. This means, for instance, that you may need to briefly explain scenes or introduce characters. Organization of assignment: Your essay should be organized generally into three sections: an introduction, the body, and a conclusion. Note, though, consistent with MLA principles, these “sections” would not be demarked by special subheadings as such. Instead, transitional phrases and careful organization of the composition will carry the day. Use of evidence in the essay: Each body paragraph should use appropriate amounts of properly formatted and cited quotations or paraphrasing. Overall, the paper should use several properly formatted citations, which would demonstrate your close reading of the text. Direct quotes should be carefully selected, properly contextualized and introduced beforehand, and commented upon and analyzed afterwards. Evaluation of your essay: Competent essays will do the following: 1. Present information and ideas from texts with accurate quotation, paraphrase, summary, and, when appropriate, enough explication/interpretation/evaluation to develop a coherent analysis or synthesis. This includes: § Demonstrating a clear understanding of central ideas in both texts. § Using relevant information from texts to support arguments. § Using appropriate amounts of quotation, paraphrase, and summary. 2. Use important conventions particular to expository essay writing, including the use of a clear thesis, effective paragraphing, and an organizational pattern, including effective transitions, that develops an idea over the course of an essay rather than simply listing supporting ideas. This includes: § Using a writing style that is appropriate for a specific audience. § Developing a clear thesis statement. § Creating paragraphs with central points and clear, relevant details. § Using transitions to bridge paragraph points.

Please be sure to cite your sources in text. Include all authors on the work cited page.     (  Not et al )  Use Personofiying as the satirical strategy   Masquerading/Personifying: Bringing to life an inanimate object by developing a biography for it and speaking from its perspective. 3 full pages 4th page workcited

The prompt is: In the play, Lysander famously declares, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.136). In a well-written essay, discuss the complicated romantic relationships and how they contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. Please plan the essay in the theme essay planning docx My theme statement that I already made is: The intension was to signify the importance of power, fertility, and sex as guiding principles, not true love. Please use 2 or more quotes from the play per paragraph. It doesn’t have to be four pages; however, it needs to be at least four to five paragraphs long.

Using the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo please answer ALL 7 questions:  Answer each question in paragraph form and using examples from the book.  I. Questions About Abandonment In what ways does Opal’s feeling of being abandoned shape her character and/or guide her actions? II. Questions About Compassion and Forgiveness Which characters inspired Opal to show compassion for others? Which characters show compassion for Opal, and how? III. Questions About Isolation Have Opal and the preacher stopped missing her mom at the end of the novel, or have they simply learned to live with their isolation? IV. Questions About Communication How does Winn-Dixie communicate to others that he actually cares about them? V. Questions About Family Why would accepting his wife’s absence change the preacher’s attitude towards Opal? What’s the magic ingredient? VI. Questions About Courage In what ways did Opal show bravery throughout the book? What about Miss Franny? Amanda? The preacher? VII. Questions About Love Was Winn-Dixie the only one who could make a difference in the lives of the characters? Without him, could Opal have had the same effect by herself?

Choose one of the following options and write a 4-5 page paper that fully and coherently explores the topic, guided by a clear, unified, strong thesis. All papers should make specific reference to the works we have studied that are relevant to the prompt/topic chosen. Feel free to make reference to texts from earlier in the semester but make sure your focus is on a combination of “The Birth-Mark,” “Bloodchild,” and Annihilation, using the texts relevant to your topic. These prompts are meant as suggestions for directions one can go and need not be followed to the letter but rather used as jumping off points for one’s own exploration of the topic. Selectively quote from the texts to support your points. How do the various authors we have studied thus far explore the function of anxiety as a motivator for human activity in the world? What do you see as the main wellsprings of human anxiety? How do you think/feel our experience of being a body within the world shapes our ideas of how to live in the world and how do the course texts investigate this issue? How do the novel Annihilation and short story “Bloodchild” work through this issue? The Annihilation book is written by Jeff Vandermeer

Issue-Oriented Research Paper Research on a Issue For this paper, you will write a persuasive essay over an issue of your choice(legalizing marijuana). Overall, you are attempting to persuade your audience to either take direct action or participate in other ways.  The introduction should create context and rationale for your study of this issue. Your thesis statement should be a defendable position on your issue and include all major points that will be discussed. Your body paragraphs will follow the order of points in your thesis, incorporating evidence and analyzing that evidence to support your thesis. Your conclusion should summarize these main points and explain what actions the audience might now take. This is a persuasive essay, providing an argumentative account on your chosen issue. This essay needs a title, 500 words, at least 2 secondary sources with proper in-text citations and works cited page

Your Task: Closely read chapter four, pages 47-65, and write a well-developed, text-based response of three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text. You must cite evidence correctly, and the evidence must be connected to both the central idea and literary element. Guidelines/Success Criteria: 1. Identify a central idea in the text. 2. Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element) develops this central idea. Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc. 3. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis.

Please reflect on the following questions. Your response should be two pages long double spaced. You do not need to answer every question but try to answer at least a few different ones. 1. How has mindful tea drinking changed/shifted your mindset? 2. Have you incorporated any lessons about tea drinking or meditation from class in your daily/weekly routine?3. Favourite tea of these few weeks + why? 4. Reflect on the differences between teas. 5. Monk Da Xing always emphasizes that we must focus on the tea in front of us — that this sip will be different from the next sip. What are your thoughts? Have these comments changed the way you live your life at all? If you don’t agree, what is more compelling to you & why? 6. What are some thoughts/ruminations you’ve had in the past few weeks that have come out of your tea practice? 7. In having conversations over tea, how have you noticed yourself interacting with others? If it’s different from your normal way of interaction, describe why this environment has surfaced this part of yourself. This is a reflection paper on drinking different types of traditional chinese teas gonfu style and how it aids in the meditation process and how meditation has helped you personally. Types of tea to reflect on are red, black, white, light oolong, dark oolong, puerh, and green teas. Thank you!

The topic of my research paper will be Feminist criticism, because it would be interesting with the challenges women face through the systemic inequalities within the book. I personally am huge on feminism and would like to establish perceptiveness, morality, and intuition.   there are plenty of sources on the status and role of women in the era of the Russian Revolution.  Be sure to approach the topic with an open mind, since there are examples in the novel and in history that indicate women did have some level of authority and freedom despite their socioeconomic limitations.  Clarify what you will be looking for in terms of perceptiveness, morality and intuition.  Description:             The research paper is the most important out-of-class writing assignment of the semester.  It will be tutor-reviewed before revision and submission in its final form.  The essay will be graded on completion of the various phases of the assignment listed above as well as the content of the final draft. Instructions:             The paper must be written in MLA format, including a formal outline.             The approximate length of the essay is 6-8 pages.             The paper must cite at least 5 research sources, including the following: Doctor Zhivago One full-length text (book) by an authority on your topic. Recommended sources are books and ebooks specifically on your topic that appear in the LAMC library catalog. This requirement may also be satisfied by citing a textbook for a relevant subject such as political science, psychology, sociology or history. One scholarly journal article from the LAMC Library databases. This will be an article designated “scholarly” or “peer reviewed” in one of the databases such as ProQuest, CQ Researcher, JSTOR and Gale literature sources.  One other periodical. This may be a second scholarly journal article, or it may be a major metropolitan newspaper or a magazine.  One Internet site. This may be the web site of an organization that offers authoritative information on your topic or a web site that specializes in news reporting. In some cases, other sources such as interviews or government documents may be used as well. Important Notes on Sources: Do not use or cite informal sources such as web sites that collect or sell student papers (e.g. echeat.com or 123helpme.com), blogs maintained by individuals or groups that do not have solid academic credentials or Q&A sites such as ehow or about.com.   Acceptable web sites include those maintained by university departments, libraries, museums or government agencies. You may choose to consult dictionaries and encyclopedias or general overview sites such as history.com or biography.com to gain a better understanding of terminology and the history of some aspects of your topic.  If so, these should be listed on your Works Cited page.  However, they are not substitutes for the required sources listed above, and they should not be quoted or used for specific information cited in the essay. Preferably, avoid using these at all. The required five sources must not only be listed on your Works Cited page, but must be either quoted or paraphrased in the text of your essay.   Topic Choice Guidelines:             The topic is an analysis of Doctor Zhivago from one of the critical perspectives we have discussed in class.  You may choose from the following:             – Formal criticism, in which you examine the structure of the novel and the literary techniques that are used by the author.  These include elements such as characterization, plot, symbolism, narration, and diction.  Your sources should include scholarly articles that perform this type of analysis, combined with your own observations on these literary elements.             – Psychological criticism, in which you analyze the internal and interpersonal conflicts of the characters, as well as conscious and unconscious motivations. This type of analysis may also be applied to the author as he expresses himself in his work. This approach involves applying one or more theories of the mind.             – Biographical criticism, in which you research the author’s background and examine how the novel may contain parallels with his life experience.  This includes an analysis of how the author has chosen to represent people and events in comparison with the recorded biographical information and how that may relate to particular emphases in the message of the novel.             – Historical criticism, in which you research the events occurring in the time and place represented in the novel.  This may include a focus on the time period in which the novel was written, when that is not the same as the fictional setting.  Historical criticism should include a comparison of the representation of events in the novel with authoritative  historical accounts of the same or similar events.             – Feminist criticism, in which you examine the representation of male and female characters in the novel and what it suggests about the gender norms of the period that is represented, and the extent of the author’s acceptance of — or resistance to — those.  As with historical criticism, this approach will probably include an examination of gender norms at the time the novel was written, when that is not the same as the fictional setting.             – Marxist criticism, in which you examine the way in which social classes and economic circumstances of the characters are represented in the novel.  This includes representation of political ideology as well.  The social class and political stance of the author may be considered.             – Cultural criticism, which is a variation on Marxist and historical criticism in which you research the environment in which the novel was written and published and how it was received by the public.  This includes researching the ways in which it was promoted and/or censored for political or economic reasons.   Evaluation: This essay will be graded on the completion and quality of the following elements: On-Time Submission of Topic Annotated Bibliography for Complete List of Sources Formal Outline Tutor-Reviewed 1st Draft Thesis Works Cited Selection of Sources Use of Sources In-Text Citations Essay Structure Grammar and Clarity Response to Tutor/Instructor Comments

Please help me analyze the story “Sonny’s Blues”. The 2 body paragraphs would be about the summary, conflict, theme, setting, and the characters especially the character that we stand for something about themselves or if they are symbolic.