Bring two copies of the essay with you to class and post a copy to the page of the course Blackboard site. ● HW7 -- Two parts. Part 1, Create a bullet list of the following from a journal article you found: key words, key phrases, key ideas Part 2, Create a properly formatted works cited page entry for the article. SATURDAY, 03/16 ● Quiz 7 9 FRI 03/22 ● RW – “Supporting a thesis,” p.460-64 ● BB – AB Chapter 8, "Writing the Exploratory Essay" ● BB – Exploratory Essay Assignment ● Discuss the Exploratory Essay ● Workshop discussion points for Exploratory Essay assignment ● Peer Review 3 ● HW8 – Create and evaluative bibliography entry for the HW7 journal article SATURDAY, 03/23 ● Quiz 8 10 FRI 03/29 NO CLASS SPRING BREAK 29 MARCH – 7 APRIL 2013 11 FRI 04/05
Another main character was Velda. She felt very depressed during Rumspringa and did end up joining the Amish church. After returning she decided that the Amish life was not for her and she left. She was shunned from her family, which she believes was their last way of showing her, that they loved her. She lives on her own, works for herself, and was accepted into a Christian college in Texas.
At the same time, Mississippi Masala presents a love story and shows that if people can move past their fears, ignorance, and prejudices instilled into them by their parents, they can learn to love one another despite their differences and find out they are not so different after all. An Indian man named Jay, played by Roshan Seth, was born in Uganda and felt like it was his home, but was forced to forfeit his house and land and move out of the country, after government propaganda tried to blame Indians for Uganda’s economic problems. After moving to America with his wife and daughter Mina, Jay integrated with relatives to help run
Assignment 3: Literary Analysis Paper From Historical Perspective The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a paper of at least two pages in which you write interpretively from a historical perspective about the assigned poems from W4: Assignment 1, not on The Awakening. Within your paper you will need to assume, first of all, that your audience must be informed as to what constitutes a historical critical perspective of literature. Additionally, you should consider some of the following critical questions that will help you in your analysis: When were these works written and published? Did social attitudes of that time influence the works and their reception? What kinds of social and historical understandings do readers need to have to interpret the works?
Tupac Shakur had hope for a better tomorrow and a changed community. (Thug Angel) Tupac was very proud of his mother and were he came from. (Family Tree) His poem “Family Tree” is a prime example of that. In this poem he expresses how he grew from a mistake but continues to be proud of his mother for overcoming many of the obstacles his birth and involvement with the Black Panther party had caused her. Tupac writes “Ashamed I am not in fact I am proud of my thriving family tree” which shows his belief in becoming something out of nothing and depicts his admiration of where he came from.
He has attained what he wanted: the Indian Child. But his behavior seems to change concerning Titania who witnesses tenderness for Bottom on line 46 “Her dotage now I do begin to pity”. Indeed, she has crowned Bottom, her new lover, with a ‘coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers’ (l.51). So, Oberon wakes Titania up after having pressed the juice on her eyelids so that she’s now able to be aware of her attitude. But instead of being angry and outraged of her husband’s trick, she makes peace with him so that together they will go back to Athens to bless Theseus’ marriage.
After Odysseus reveals himself to the swineherd and cowherd in book 21, he said: “If a god beats down the lofty suitors at my hands, I’ll find you wives, both of you, grant you property” (ll.240-241). This was Eumaeus’ reward for giving good hospitality. Odysseus would find him a wife, and even give him a house, instead of looking after swine for all his life and living in a hut. Thus, because Eumaeus was a good host, he was rewarded with property and was treated well. In contrast, an example of a bad host was Polyphemus.
Faith Bandler * Reproaches the Australian community for moving too slowly towards true reconciliation and racial equality after the quick progress made in the 1960’s. * Her real message is a positive one that talks of moving “mountains” and shows faith and hope in the future, calling for the process to quicken towards reconciliation, closing with a carpe diem type statement placing personal responsibility on all who hear the
Many believe that patriotism is an act of duty without emotion ,but I believe that it is a beautiful desire that should blossom freely in one ,that can lead a person to strive for a better nation. Remarque’s All Quiet In The Western Front focuses on the life of Paul Baumer ,and his fellow teenage comrades who were ridiculed ,and forced by their teacher to join the army ,but because they weren't there for the right reasons they end up despising it,and questioning its purpose. Remaque truly plants the seed of uncertainty into the minds of his characters as they come to realize that their idea of patriotism is only a tool used by men with political power in order to control civilians. On a recent excursion to the
The Moe Bandy song "Too Old to Die Young" (written by Scott Dooley, Kevin Welch, John Hadley; see YouTube video below) appears several times in the novel. As a pre-reading activity, students could listen to the song (and, perhaps, read along with a print-out of the lyrics) and write a journal entry about what the lyrics mean to them. Upon finishing the novel, students could listen to the song a second time and write a response about how the song relates to Ben and his last year of