Jhumpa Lahiri, the author of The Third and Final Continent has said, “The question of identity is always a difficult one, but especially for those who are culturally displaced, as immigrants are . . . who grow up in two worlds simultaneously.” Typical among contemporary Latin American authors, Junot Diaz portrays his characters’ Hispanic heritage to at times overwhelm and be superimposed upon an American […]

      One of Ibsen’s biographers argues that the play is not so much about women’s rights as about “the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is, and to strive to become that person.” 1 For this writing assignment, you must use two of the articles of critical commentary that are posted in the Critical Commentary folder in […]

1. Describe Okonkwo, the protagonist of “Things Fall Apart.” How does he work to achieve greatness as defined by his culture?  2. Describe Unoka, Okonkwo’s father. What are Okonkwo’s feelings toward Unoka, and why? How does his father shape Okonkwo’s character and actions?  3. Describe the setting (time, place, culture) of the novel. How is social life organized?  4. What do we learn from the […]

You are an opera composer. Choose a scene from a film you think would translate well into the operatic medium. Write your libretto, which should be a paraphrase of an important dialogue and accompanying dramatic event from the scene. Next, describe your answer to the following musical decisions: What part of the dialogue should be in recitative style, and what part should be in aria […]

Write an essay (approx. 700-1000 words) on one of the given topics. To support your ideas, provide plenty of specific evidence, including correctly introduced and documented quotations.  Use any two of these four poems. Read the following poems from Good Poems for Hard Times  (hint: pay particular attention to issues of memory and the ways the poems treat the daily and quotidian; the small moments and the “ordinary”:o […]

Cronbach’s Alpha This week, you have learned about how to use Cronbach’s alpha as a measure of scale reliability. In this Application, you will calculate Cronbach’s alpha for provided data. To prepare for this Application:•Review pp. 706–711 of the Field text for a description of using Cronbach’s alpha to measure scale reliability. •Review Chapter 5 from the APA manual, “Displaying Results.” The assignment: Calculate Cronbach’s […]

This is an assignment you will complete by yourself. Each learner chooses three key words from a list of words provided by the instructor. You will also choose an organization you are familiar with to define and explain the term in a succinct and scholarly manner. This includes clearly stating the context and audience within the organization. You will have 400 words to introduce the […]

In the first short essay (3-4 pages, double-spaced), you will make an argument about one aspect (theme, language, style, etc.) of a poem or poems that we have discussed in class.  For this essay, you need a clear thesis that makes a claim about the poem, supporting arguments, an introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs.  You also need to cite at least two sources (including the […]

Here are the instructions for exam 2. You need to respond to 4 out of 5 sets of questions. If you will respond to more than 4 sets of questions, I will not correct anything beyond the 4th set of questions. You can have 105 or 110 possible number of points (with 5 or 10 extra-credit points). Two sets of questions have 30 possible number […]

I have attached all the questions below, I need to answer all of them for the final portfolio in one of my class and I am not able to answer them all before the due date which is 11/30/2015. I can provide you all the texts that professor updated online, but there are some books I purchased in bookstore I am not able to provide […]