For this assignment, you will write a 2-page compare and contrast paper on two of the authors from this week’s reading or video. Be sure to give equal weight to each author. You may include some background information on your authors, especially if their backgrounds impacted their subject matter. When writing about short stories, you do not want to simply restate the plot or events […]

Write a 3- to 5-page literary analysis essay that analyzes Gilgamesh epic.  Your essay must be an argument that provides your interpretation/analysis of the work and supports that claim with appropriate and sufficient details (evidence) from the work.  Your interpretation must come from your own reading and thinking about the work—not from critical or literary analyses you have read about it. You must develop a […]

 They should read or listen the piece that you’re talking about. Try to make your responses at least a paragraph How would you define the word “literature”? What makes something a piece of literature (a story, poem, or play) vs. something else (a tweet)? Is it the length of the piece? The medium (how it’s presented to us as readers)? Introduce yourself to your fellow […]

For this discussion, I’d like you to introduce yourself by discussing a place that’s been meaningful to you during the pandemic, or over the summer, or during remote learning. It can be a place that you love, that makes you happy, or a place that you hate, that makes you unhappy. This might be an outdoor space, a building, a room, or even a part […]

 Author Willa Cather, in her novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, explores images integral to the 19th Century Southwestern United States as the belief in Manifest Destiny propelled the expansion of our nation. Consider Cather’s themes/aspects of importance, and discuss her presentation of one or several of these (list found in Cather slides in “Content”) in a well written essay. Be sure to include the […]

 American both believe that the European Immigrants’ best chance for success in America lies in the land itself, but their ideas about what the land will produce for these immigrants and the motives the immigrants will bring with them to America are not exactly the same. In your essay, describe in detail the primary benefits Smith believes will come to those who work the land […]

For this final essay, I will use the book “Their Eyes Are Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. I want to use this book and with an application of the feminism methodology. I decided to use this book because throughout she is constantly learning life lessons. She learns lessons that help her grow as a woman and she stands up for herself in her skin […]

Discussion Threads are a place for you to ask questions, engage with your TAs and peers, to find collaborators, and generally deepen your engagement with the course and your own learning. You should think of these posts as mini papers. Write in complete sentences, do not use bullet points or ellipses. Your response should be between 250-500 words. The style of your post can be […]

 For the second part of this assignment, you must watch or read any three of the following. All your sources for this assignment must be current (within the past week or current month for magazines).  A morning network news show (like the Today Show) A local news show A national news show A daytime/late night talk show An entertainment show (like Entertainment Tonight) A magazine […]

For the final paper, you will write a critical analysis of The Awakening. When finished, the paper should be 1,600 to 2,000 words in length (approximately 5 double-spaced pages). In addition to creating an introductory section that provides the reader with a thesis statement that is original and arguable, you will choose one of the three critical perspectives studied during the course of the term […]