Category: English

Essay #1 Personal Influences:  Who or What Has Shaped You? Background: “My family, my surroundings, and most especially my beloved pets influence my life and shape my writing.  They are the well of my creative soul.” — Beatrix Potter (author of Peter Rabbit and Mother Goose, etc.) Many writers will tell you that they have special people and…

The purpose of this assignment is to engage with a reading of the article “A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames” and develop your own position in a well-developed, logically arranged academic argument essay.  Your essay will have an academic tone but may also use a more journalistic…

(**This project is due in Lesson 5**) OVERVIEW Identify at least four prominent people or organizations related to your chosen discourse community (DC) who are posting on social media. Write an analysis of the content that is posted and the conversation that seems to be happening on social media. Platforms could include but are not…

For this weeks writing assignment, you will be analzying poetry. You will select two poems from the attachements below to analyze individually and collectively by comparing and contrasting. You are to write a three paragraph response (5-7 sentences in each paragraph). Be sure to utilize the MLA Format completely to include a Works Cited page.  Paragraph 1: Construct a paragraph…

Critically analyze the character of the eponymous protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s play, Hedda Gabler. Compare and contrast her with the other dominant female characters that you see in the play. Do you think the society is responsible for what Hedda has become? Explain your rationale. What do you think is the purpose of Ibsen creating…

For the assignment, we will think about the environmental issues covered in the readings and combine these to Chief Seattle’s quote regarding the concept that “all things are connected”. First, you will create a piece of art or a useful object from recycled materials. Second, write 2 paragraphs of at least 5 sentences each. Paragraph…

The three body paragraphs (a minimum of 5–7 sentences each) should describe and analyze each example. You will also connect the example to Linda Flower’s concept of intercultural rhetoric in the Unit 2 Reading.  In each body paragraph, you will do the following:  Describe As you describe each example, think in terms of audience, setting, and purpose. For example, does your professional example…

Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula explored nineteenth-century anxieties about sexuality, “abnormal” desire and disease. Write an essay analysing how these concerns have been transformed in ANY TWO versions of Dracula studied on this course.  Two versions are 1) Francis Forde Coppola 1992 movie and 2) Bram Stokers 1897 novel 

The research paper will be on a topic of your choice being that of a European film from 1945 to   present. Therefore, no film made outside Europe, before 1945 or depicting issues prior to WWII are part for this assignment. US films set in Europe are NOT a possibility. Also, Amelie or Life is Beautiful are not options. Be…

Texts: Read “is google making us stupid: – Nicholas Carr “whem the internet thinks it knows you” – Eli Pariser you can find both articles on the internet Questions: In ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr considers how the internet has changed his reading habits. He writes, “What the [internet] seems to be doing…