Category: English

Please answer the following prompt with a well thought out and carefully edited essay. In responding, you should rely on class readings/PowerPoints. Your answer should be at least 750 words in length.
Prompt: As we have seen in this class so far, the label “Hero” can be attached to a wide variety of figures many of whom seem to otherwise have little in common with one another. To make sense of this, critical questions are: 1) who considers them to be heroes?; and 2) what characteristics and actions associated with them are seen as heroic?
To answer this prompt, select a person (historical, religious, political, etc.) that you do not consider to be a hero or heroic but who is seen as such by someone else. Approaching the topic as an objective observer, try to explain in detail why the individual is considered to be a hero. What is their appeal? Why are they important to those who follow/idealize them? As much as is possible, utilize perspectives on the heroic outlined in our course textbook and class discussion. 

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read the following article.
2. Write a four-paragraph personal response to the main theme and messages in the article
as you interpret them.
Create the following
 an introduction,
 two body paragraphs – each body paragraph should have a topic statement,
statements of support and a concluding thought.
 a conclusion
ARTICLE:
What is social intelligence?
Social intelligence is a person’s ability to get along with others and understand them.
It
comprises multiple communication-based skills, including:
 Verbal and nonverbal fluency: The use of verbal conversation and body language are the
primary forms of social intelligence. These help other people understand your intentions.
 Knowledge of social rules: Social rules are the basic understanding of interactions in a
group based on social status. Understanding social rules can lead to more positive
interactions by considering the age, experience and position of your peers.
 Active listening: Listening to your peers may allow you to connect with them more easily
by learning about their perspectives. It may facilitate better conflict resolution by helping
you understand a peer’s emotions, allowing you to take that information and create a
positive outcome.
 Understanding emotions: Having strong social intelligence can allow you to better
empathize with team members. Empathy can lead to communication that takes people’s
attributes and sensibilities into consideration, which makes your conversations more
authentic.
Examples of Social Intelligence
Respect
An increase in social intelligence can lead to more respect for your peers as you better understand their
feelings and motivations. This may improve collaboration and productivity by encouraging your
coworkers to express their opinions and ideas. Respect may lead to a positive work culture where team
members share a common goal of improving their professional performance.
mpression management
Impression management includes influencing the way your peers perceive you by thoughtfully choosing
your words and actions around them. For example, you can use these skills during business meetings by
focusing on the strongest parts of your proposals that may be more likely to impress your teammates.
Social intelligence can create a better understanding of your peer’s emotions, which may help you
understand how to best appeal to them.
Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution is the ability to achieve peaceful solutions through communication. Building effective
relationships between peers may make it easier to compromise when team members disagree about
how to complete a project or resolve an issue. The understanding of your peers that comes from social
intelligence may allow you to brainstorm potential solutions to conflicts that can improve overall
operations and workplace morale.
Cultural intelligence
Team members who have different cultural backgrounds may approach projects and collaboration in
unique ways, and understanding these approaches can help you better learn the viewpoints of your
peers. Social intelligence may allow you to understand your peer’s cultures better by putting their
actions and emotions into context. Social intelligence encourages improved understanding and
compassion about peers’ different opinions and perspectives.

Fill in the Grid
Be sure to review the Page on College Level Paragraphs before you fill in this Grid.
Using one of your body paragraphs from paper #2 draft fill in the right side of the chart. 
Here is a pdf version 
After completing this chart, upload the filled-in chart and the full paragraph below it.  Just like the example in the page you viewed.
For full credit on the assignment, write a note to me in the comments box of the assignment about what you noticed in your paragraph writing. What was. missing? What do you need to do before you submit your final paper.   

This essay is a continuation of an essay I have already completed just needs details to be added to it to further improve the essay. I included the essay you’re adding to under “Essay 3 Packet” all instructions and requirements are listed under “Final Essay” if you have any questions please ask.

As You Like It
Literary Criticism Essay
The As You Like It Literary Criticism Essay must be a minimum of 1200 words, and it is due on [Sunday] May 12. Four research resources are required. One resource must be literary criticism. Three of the research resources must be from Canvas. Essay #4 is worth 150 points.
Potential resources from Canvas include:
• In-Class Schema Builders
• Lesson Plans
• Film Versions of As You Like It and YouTube clips
• Input about As You Like It Documents
• Essay #4 Resources [Literary Criticism] .pdf
• “Old School Man with New School Views” or another Essay #4 Student Model
Essays without resources from Canvas or without significant changes between drafts will be too incomplete for me to grade. Requirements:
• Freewrite Draft or MLA Format Outline
[Students who submit an MLA Format Outline will earn 10 extra credit Points]
• Complete Rough Draft
[Significant changes between drafts are required.]
• Standard Format Final Draft
• MLA Format Works Cited
Potential Topics for Essay #4 Include:
Finding and Interpreting a Theme: • Nature has the power to heal people morally and psychologically.
• Corruption at the national level can lead to corruption at the personal [family] level.
• A woman has the same responsibility as a man to pursue her destiny, romantic and otherwise.
• Gender is presentation.
Analyzing Character and Action:
• Why does Rosalind continue to cross dress as a man when it is no longer required for her safety?
• Does Orlando suspect that “Ganymede” is actually Rosalind? When and why?
Interpreting Symbols:
• The chronological progression of Winter into Spring is symbolic of As You Like It’s transition from challenge to triumph.
Commenting on Form: • How does Shakespeare use the theatrical convention of men playing female roles for comedy and psychological insight?
Analyzing Modern Parallels to Situations and Characters in As You Like It:
• Young Romance in 2024 versus Young Romance in As You Like It
• Write a modern version of a scene or monologue of As You Like It.
• Cast an imaginary production of As You Like It with modern actors.
• Compare characters and situations in As You Like It with characters and situations in Cannery Row, If Beale Street could Talk or The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.

5-7 pages (Not counting Works Cited page or Outline) MLA format
This should be an analytical and/or persuasive paper on a topic chosen and researched by the student.
This paper must do more than just document what others have said; it should express and demonstrate the student’s own conclusions based on the research conducted (no simple biographical sketches, survey or summary of information, historical narrative, personal experience, or book review).  The introductory section should contain a clear and focused thesis statement, and the body should follow the mapping (outline should match paper), with clear transitions between big sections (Roman Numerals of Outline).  A separate concluding section should be included.  The paper must use MLA documentation and a minimum of four different sources must be cited.  No more than two articles from a particular publication may count toward the six minimum sources, and at least three of the sources must be from recent (last three years) periodical sources (newspaper, magazine, journal).  Subjects with no currently published information should be avoided.  The paper should cover a well-focused subject, presenting the writer’s findings clearly, with accurate and relevant use of source material. 

It is a book essay, I did not read the book so I’m struggling to write the essay. But I found a 
website with information on the book. What you’re going to do is pick one of these topics in 
the file below and write the essay based off it. All the criteria is included in the file.
The website with all the information about the book is 
https://www.supersummary.com/what-strange-paradise/summary/
the book is: What Strange Paradise By Omar El Akkad
The website includes summaries on all the chapters, character analysis’s, themes, quotes, 
etc.
Please do not use AI but use the source I provided, and other reliable sources if needed.
I Included files of the assignment guide, the topics, the rubric and an exampler essay you 
can go off of.

My topic was the all in one printer/copier/ fax machine that will be purchased for each work station.

Thesis: Belonging profoundly influences the characters in ‘Ulysses,’ ‘Day Trippers,’ and ‘Frankenstein.’ When present, it sparks journeys of discovery and nurtures personal growth; when absent, it results in desolation and ruin.
Body Paragraph 1 should be about the sense of belonging sparks new journeys and discoveries using quotes from two to three of the above literary works.
Body Paragraph 2 should be about the sense of belonging nurtures personal growth using quotes from two to three of the above literary works.
Body Paragraph 3 should be about the absense of belonging results in ruin using quotes from two to three of the above literary works.

For essay 2, you will compare and contrast two works:  
1) Brokeback Mountain (either the film or the story)
and
2) either The Great Gatsby or The Tortilla Curtain
Choose ONE of the following numbered topics below.
As with the previous essay, this essay should argue a specific, debatable interpretation on the topic and not be merely a factual survey of that topic.
Compare and contrast the marginalizing of stigmatized group(s) in Brokeback Mountain and either The Tortilla Curtain or The Great Gatsby. How is stigmatizing expressed?  What are the “justifications” for this stigmatizing, and what are the consequences?
Compare and contrast how setting has meaning in Brokeback Mountain (rural) and either The Tortilla Curtain (suburban and urban) or The Great Gatsby (East Egg vs. West Egg, the East vs. the “Middle West,” the Valley of Ashes). How do the settings help define the societies and affect the characters in the works? 
Compare and contrast how economic factors (jobs, money, and their lack) and class categories affect main characters in Brokeback Mountainand either The Tortilla Curtain or The Great Gatsby. How do these factors offer or restrict opportunities in their lives? Which factors do characters have control over–and which control them?
Analyze main characters in Brokeback Mountain and either The Tortilla Curtain or The Great Gatsby through the lens of toxic masculinityLinks to an external site..  In what ways are characters powered and disempowered via patriarchyLinks to an external site.?