This week you will write a proposal that will help you to prepare the Recommendation Report draft that is due in Week Four, and then the final version of the Recommendation Report that is due in Week Five. Your Proposal this week requires you to identify your Final Project – Recommendation Report topic (see the list of topics below) and complete an Audience Analysis.  Guiding […]

Juan Dahlmann, the main character in “The South” is a man who has particular pride in his grandfather, Johannes Dahlmann and his Argentinian culture. Juan has inherited his grandfather’s ranch that he dreams of fixing up and living in, however he works in a library and leads a dull life, with the exception of all of the adventures he reads in the books at the […]

Attend a classically-oriented concert and write a minimum of 500 words (roughly two double-spaced pages) based on your experience. 1) Discuss the context: Describe the performance space. What is the function? Where is it located? Describe the audience (size, age, gender, ethnicity, etc.) 2) Describe the music: What is the instrumentation? What pieces and composers are featured? Describe the musical sounds in detail. Whenever possible, try and […]

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 […]

 Proposal and Annotated Bibliography You are required to write a research topic proposal and compile an annotated bibliographycorresponding to the topic proposal. Your research topic should indicate the questions you are interested in pursuing, the methods you will employ in research, and the anticipated contribution your topic makes in the field.The annotated bibliography will contain a minimum of 5 entries. Presuming that many of your […]

http://trojan.troy.edu/library/databases.html#dAnother mask for you to try – you’re back in the audience. You should have a better use of theatre terminology this go around and have clear ideas on themes that you are watching.  Here’s what you do:  Find a theatrical production from the digital theatre plus library. Click on the link above see Digital Theatre Plus click it and you should get a screen […]

 Several of the works we have read this semester focus on a relationship between two or more people (Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Bata and Anubis, Joseph and his brothers, Ruth and Naomi, Medea and Jason, Phaethon and his father, Orpheus and Eurydice, etc.). Choose two different works and write an essay that makes an argument aboutthe theme of relationships. Some questions to consider: What defines a […]

 Several of the works we have read this semester focus on a relationship between two or more people (Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Bata and Anubis, Joseph and his brothers, Ruth and Naomi, Medea and Jason, Phaethon and his father, Orpheus and Eurydice, etc.). Choose two different works and write an essay that makes an argument aboutthe theme of relationships. Some questions to consider: What defines a […]

  In Voltaire’s tale, Candide travels across the known world witnessing the horrific brutalities that humans commit against one another in the name of religion, power, or simple greed. Having witnessed and experienced this violence, which puts into doubt Candide’s belief that life has a purpose and is primarily good, Candide comes to the conclusion that he and his friends must devote themselves to cultivating their garden. What […]

  You are to select a moral issue you find compelling?capital punishment, pacifism, abortion, what have you?and say what a deontologist like Kant would say about it.  Then you are to assess that argument.  Your paper should, then, be structured like this: a)      Some people grant that capital punishment causes distress and pain to the capital criminal, but say that the criminal has earned his suffering.  […]