English

•Choose a play and discuss the overriding theme or themes.address it in your sentences without using the word, “theme.”

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Assignment •Choose a play and discuss the overriding theme or themes. Address it in your sentences without using the word, “theme.” •Focus your essay on evidence of a theme found on the checklist on p. 1762. •Compare and contrast your play with another that exhibits similar thematic traits.  500 word count requirement.

Choose of the following suggested poems,read then find their audio recordings of the poems you are reading.After reading and listening,discuss the difference between reading the poem and listening to it.

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1. Choose of the following suggested poems,read then find their audio recordings of the poems you are reading.After reading and listening,discuss the difference between reading the poem and listening to it. “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by John Godfrey Saxe  “He Worried About It” by Sam Walter Foss “The Female of the Species” by … Read more

Find a critique about a play/poem/short story and demonstrate how the author reveals this bias or ideological predisposition.

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Assignment • Find a critique about a play/poem/short story and demonstrate how the author reveals this bias or ideological predisposition. • Then explore literary criticism that either supports or refutes the view that bias does in fact, exist, or suggests another inherent meaning. • Provide a cogent, logically reasoned thesis you can support with evidence … Read more

Literature Criticism: does literature imitate life, or does life imitate literature?explain.

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Literature Criticism • The history of literary criticism dates back to Plato and Aristotle. • Both philosophers expressed ground breaking opinions about literature, specifically on the issues of literary mimesis and didacticism. •Does literature imitate life, or does life imitate literature?Explain. •How does the text lend itself as an instructional or moral guide to life?

Thinking Critically about Writing: explore literary criticism that either supports or refutes the view that bias does in fact, exist, or suggests another inherent meaning.

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Thinking Critically about Writing • Choose a short story, play or poem. Relying upon your own analysis and literary critics you find, draw upon those earlier examples of literary criticism, to aid you to identify possible bias . Demonstrate how the author reveals this bias or ideological predisposition. • Explore literary criticism that either supports … Read more

Choose 2 from the following and create a cohesive argument that synthesizes the texts.

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Choose 2 from the following and create a cohesive argument that synthesizes the texts. Homer’s The Iliad The Middle Ages: Boccaccio The Lay of the Were-Wolf Beowulf Chapters 1–6 of Cervantes’ The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1 Sonnets I-X, XVIII, XLIII, and CXXX from Shakespeare’s Sonnets The paper should be 3-4 pages in length, … Read more

How do our food choices affect society?how do food policies affect us?

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How do our food choices affect society?How do food policies affect us? APA or MLA style formatting, as specified by your instructor, with a References (APA) or Works Cited (MLA) page Observation of the conventions of Standard Written English Minimum 1250 words for the final draft (Works Cited or References list does not count in … Read more

Love and Empowerment in Memoirs of a Geisha:is sayuri the victim of a cruel and repressive system that is disempowering where a woman can only survive by submitting to men, or is she a tough, resourceful person who nhas not only survived but also built a good life for herself with independence and even a certain amount of power despite difficult odds?

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Love and Empowerment in Memoirs of a Geisha In Memoirs of a Geisha, is Sayuri the victim of a cruel and repressive system that is disempowering where a woman can only survive by submitting to men, Or is she a tough, resourceful person who nhas not only survived but also built a good life for … Read more