Imagine that you have created a blog where you post about various issues important to you and your friends and others studying in your field. Write a 1 – 1 and 1/2 page double spaced blog post that educates your audience about an issue that the article you selected raises. Make sure you provide your audience with the author’s name, title and a link to […]

Essay 2 is a short research paper.  We often read magazines, surf the Internet, and watch television without focusing on how our media environment can shape our attitudes. This essay will help us to look deeper into these images, and is worth 20% of the final grade. Here is the topic statement and question: All around us are commercial images of ideal romantic relationships and behavior. What are […]

English/Literature/Writing tutors preferred for a few short essays, as hopefully, you have read the required stories in the attachment. If you have read the stories already, there should not be any research as you are formulating a response based upon your analysis of the reading.  Otherwise, please read the stories/poems quickly; thus, English majors preferred for this. One poetry essay has a 200-300 word count. […]

Write a character analysis of one of the characters in “The Lottery.”  This essay should be at least two full pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman typeset, size 12 font.  Make sure that you follow the 5-paragraph style of writing – your first paragraph should have a hook to “catch” your reader, a thesis statement, and a list of supports that will prove your thesis statement.  […]

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) essay comparing these two (2) heroic figures from ancient epics of different cultures, especially focusing your analysis on the sources about their encounters with monsters: Gilgamesh encounters the monster guarding the forest, Humbaba, in Tablets 3-5 of the Epic of Gilgamesh (see http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/; scroll down to the Tablet links; think of “Tablet” numbers like chapter […]

Your text talks about different approaches to actor training. Some approaches work primarily from an INTERNAL perspective – through sense memory, or emotional memory actors try to get in touch with their own past experience and apply it to the emotion their character is feeling in a scene.  Some others work from an EXTERNAL perspective – through physical movement or gesture or posture actors “put […]

In the classical, Greek period, friendship consisted of close bonds between men of essentially the same race and social standing. It was unheard of for men and women to enjoy friendships or for a master and slave to interact socially. This changed a bit in Roman times, and today, many of us enjoy a lot more diversity in our friendships. Still, as Vernon shares, similar […]

Be sure to include ALL pages of this project (including the directions and the assignment) when you send the project to your teacher for grading. Don’t forget to put your name and I.D. number at the top of this page! Project 1 is worth 100 points. It is worth 10 percent of your course grade. For this project, you will choose one option for Part […]

1) In my opinion, one of the greatest things that we can witness or be the beneficiary of is a miracle. Merriam Webster (n.d.) defines a miracle as “an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs; an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing or accomplishment.”  Many see miracles in many differing forms. Whether it be a person that walks away from a fiery car […]

This story explores gender roles in the context of marriage. The protagonist, Mr. Waythorn, finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being his new wife’s third husband. Remember that, at the time this story was written, divorce was uncommon and a divorced woman was often looked down on as morally loose and even dangerous.  As you work through the story, what do you see in […]