Week Three Draft Why Write a Draft? All writers begin a project by brainstorming their ideas and constructing a rough draft. The draft is not a completed paper; rather, it allows writers to explore and develop their ideas. As part of the writing process, it is important for writers to rehearse their materials before those materials “go live.” You will complete a draft this week […]

For your third Individual Project, you will be writing an essay of 1,000 words or more about two additional poems from the assigned reading list. Please select two works from the list of fifteen—and answer the questions below. Again, be sure to begin your paper with an engaging introduction and clear thesis statement, develop each point in the body of your paper using examples and quotes […]

 “I would like you to write an essay in response to the passage from Roger Schank that appears below.  Your essay should focus on an idea of your own in response to Schank’s passage.  Please state your idea clearly and develop 2 or 3 examples to support it.  The essay should be three pages long and formatted according to the specifications on the syllabus.  You may […]

For this post, you will analyze the major themes of Health and Well-Being, Family and Parenting, Education, Culture and Gender as factors influencing the domain of physical development, specifically safety.  Think about and comment on how child and adolescent safety regulations have changed over the past few decades.  Provide examples of new safety guidelines that did not exist either when you were growing up, or […]

Final Paper – THIS IS A THREE PART ASSIGNMENT PAPER – Read each numbered segment carefully for full instructions on the number of pages required for each segment – The total paper must be at LEAST seven pages in length.   YOU WILL LOSE POINTS FOR NOT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS.worth 150 points – this is where you can make us some points!  Please remember to complete ALL […]

Choose one of the stories from the Lesson Two readings that you did not focus on in your initial post during week two.  Think about what you believe the theme/point is behind the story.  After you have a plan, begin to write a draft of your short fiction essay.   Please make sure to review the readings from Lesson One.  You are expected to understand this […]

Choose any song you wish (contemporary is fine). Look up the lyrics using a website such as http://www.azlyrics.com/ or http://www.elyrics.net/ (Make sure to cite the source you use!). Using AT LEAST one verse and the refrain, discuss the lyrics in terms of poetry. Be SURE to discuss the following: content (story), including poetic components such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, and personification. In addition, identify the rhyme scheme, and include imagery (symbolic or […]

The research paper should discuss a major character, theme, or issue in one or more literary works of any of the authors we are reading in the course (one of the required readings). The paper is to be three pages long and should include at least one good secondary source. You may write your paper on any of the following authors: Sophocles, William Shakespeare, E. T. A. Hoffmann, […]

The trouble one encounters in trying to give a purely behavioral account of virtue explains why the Greek moralists turn to character to explain what virtue is. It may be true that most of us can recognize that it would be foolish to risk our lives and the lives of others to secure a trivial benefit, and that most of us can see that it […]

Artwork takes time, thought, and effort. To me these things are what makes a piece of art extraordinary. When you can tell the artist has put considerable amounts of time into their art, I appreciate it much more than if they had taken something ready-made. I recently admired handcrafted earnings made in Hungary. The owner of the earnings informed me how long the artist had […]