Category: English

YOU MUST WATCH THE FILM AND READ THE BOOK
The novel and moive script will be attatched. This was an essay that I have submitted before on this platform, but the writier failed to follow instrusctions givivng me a fialing grade in the process. I will also attacth what that writer wrote so you have an example of what NOT to do. 
Select a few characters or situations from the novel and the film to compare. How do each of the
texts treat these objects, and what conclusions can you draw from these similarities or differences?
How do these objects reflect on the strategies, politics, or goals of the texts? Your argument should
be thesis-driven, and you should have textual evidence with parenthetical citation from the novel.
The film you may paraphrase; you do not need to have word-perfect accuracy in rendering dialogue. 
Here is a partial list of objects that one might compare, but you are free to develop your own: 
Mary Ann / Kurtz 
O’Brien as narrator / Willard as narrator 
Representations of women in each 
Articulations of courage in each 
War as game or play
Representations of the enemy 
Representations of home 
O’Brien’s novel (as confession) / Kurtz’s manuscri

Using this thesis statement: “The factors contributing to income inequality are complex and multifaceted, including globalization, technological advancements, educational disparities, and labor market dynamics. To address this issue, it is important to carefully examine how these drivers impact different regions and demographic groups and develop targeted policy interventions to promote equitable economic development. ” please write an argumentative paper. The purpose of the paper is to give the reader a clear idea of the issue and to convince them of your stance. While it will be necessary to paraphrase, quote, or summarize information from the sources provided to integrate into your paper, the main emphasis of your essay should be your argumentative claims. You should use outside sources to support and develop the central arguments of your paper. You should develop your argumentative points completely; avoid just asserting opinion without supporting it with explanation and examples. 
Minimum requirements: Offer an overview of what’s been said about your chosen issue and contribute to
-offer an overview of what’s been said about the chosen issue and contribute the discussion by arguing a position of your own, supported by well-chosen. 
-Make your position clear via your thesis statement. 
-Adopt an appropriate, academic tone employing third-person language. 
-use minimum 6 sources (provided)
-conform to MLA style 
-1500 words (6-8pages)
*Please use the outline plan provided for guidelines*

What will you write?
Option 1: a researched essay about the play Aubergine
Option 1 is to write a 1,500-word paper using research to analyze the play
Prompt: How does the play attempt to create connection or community with the audience?
You will choose one way the play attempts to create connection or community to focus on. The area of focus may be a theme (such as food memories, death of a loved one, strained parent-child relationships, etc.) or a technique (multilingual dialogue, the sparse and non-specific setting and set design, the use of a frame narrative). Or it may be a combination of these. You may have additional research questions related to information you need to know to analyze this play, for example information about the history of Korean immigration to the U.S. 
Your thesis will be your answer to the research question. Your paper will lay out the line of inquiry for the research (what question(s) were you trying to answer). Your thesis is the answer to your research question, which you will support with detailed analysis of multiple examples including information from your secondary sources.
Your analysis should include at least three quotes from the play (your primary source), plus quotes and/or paraphrased information from at least three secondary sources. All information from sources, whether paraphrased or quoted, should be cited using MLA style and a Works Cited page should be included at the end.

This is just a research paper, i attatched the outline i created for the paper and the project outline. 

Essay #2 Writing Directions
Your task is to write a draft of Essay #2. Download Essay #2. (Not a rough draft.) This writing does not need to be perfect, but it does need to be submitted by Monday, 4/29. You will earn 1 point for this task. You will find some directions to help you write this essay below:
Directions: Your introduction paragraph should introduce the essay topic AND have your opinion on what it means to be educated. Example: While some people may think being educated means having a college degree, I think being educated means…(your opinion) Body Paragraphs that have a single topic: Example: Define what I think it means to be educated / relate my definition to my experience in college / Use What is College For?
Body Paragraphs that address the connection between education and success. Don’t forget to make the connections between YOUR education and success
Make sure you use quotes from all of the readings we’ve done so far.

Drama Analysis Essay – Research Paper Students will write an essay which focuses on one of the following play. The Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde) Write a literary analysis that explores some of the following: What themes can we learn from the experiences of the characters? How similar / different are these characters from yourself? (Or your family? Your friends?) What can we learn about the society in which these characters live? Are these lessons relevant to today’s society? As you analyze the characters and themes, incorporate historical/cultural context related to the play and/or playwright. In addition to original analysis, the essay should incorporate information/commentary from at least three academically reliable sources. (No Wikipedia, Sparknotes, Shmoop type websites.) Follow MLA Guidelines Include a Works Cited page. Length: at least 2000 words.

In an MLA formatted research paper, in 5-7 pages with 4 in-text citations and a Works Cited page not counting towards the page minimum, your research paper must address the following for up to 200 points:
You are reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, a science fiction time travel novel. Our protagonist Dana travels from modern times of 1970’s Los Angeles to America’s Antebellum era where she must learn to survive as a Black woman stripped of her freedom. Thus, she is forced to endure and survive being a slave.
Imagine you were thrown back into the past. What time period and/or historical event would you choose to visit? What freedoms would be lost? How would you survive without technology and the comforts of today? Why would you want to visit this era?
After researching your chosen historical era or historical event, your essay must explain to the reader what period or historical event you would travel back in time to and why.
Your introduction must provide a strong hook describing the time period or historical event (based on your research), and this introduction must end with your thesis statement, which is your strong opinion about this time period or event and why you are choosing to visit this era.
Your body paragraphs will then explore various topics about your chosen period or historical event and provide strong support for why these topics appeal to you as a time traveler.
Think of your essay as a travel brochure. Each body paragraph should have a purpose for informing the reader, persuading the reader, entertaining the reader, and/or inspiring the reader.
How you choose your organization pattern is up to you. Keep in mind that chronological order is often useful when writing about historical events. If your essay describes a specific place in history, you may want to use spatial order or order of importance in your body paragraphs.
Your conclusion should be satisfying, clear, and concise.

includes an overt debatable thesis statement at the end of the introduction paragraph 
Thesis 
includes a minimum of 4 credible sources (one is We Are Called to Rise)

Write a 1-page paper that describes and explains what peace means to you.
Your paper should be in your own words – quotes from other authors or the use of AI is strictly prohibited for this and all other written assignments in this course. Note also that for this first written assignment there is no need to use citations and references as the purpose of this assignment is to document your own current understanding of peace. However, if you think that citing other authors is helpful to you to describe your current understanding of peace, then please do so.
Write in succinct paragraphs, using 12-point font, and double-space your text.

Exit skills
Write well-organized, well-developed, effective, well-edited, logically sound, and clear essays.
Write effective, well-edited, well-organized research papers of 1,600 words minimum that apply appropriate and clear organizational strategies.
Objectives
Demonstrate effective use of prewriting strategies (outlining)
Contextualize quoted and/or paraphrased passages.
Write topic sentences that accurately express the main idea of the entry.
Write concession topic sentences that introduce divergent ideas using “although,” “though,” “even though,” or “while.”
Write well-organized and coherent entries that accurately explain what the quoted text means and why it matters.
Analyze or explain passages with illustration (explain the passages in a way that makes their main ideas more memorable or coherent). 
Write a counterargument and rebuttal that aligns with the concession topic sentence.
Demonstrate sentence variety and style, using such structures as FANBOYS, subordination, and concession.
Use appropriate college-level diction in writing.
Write a well-developed, clear, and original outline for a 3,000-5,000 word research paper.
Add appropriate popular and/or scholarly sources for each topic sentence in the outline.
Create source entries for each source on a Works Cited page.
Example
Here’s an example of what we’re looking for:
Working Thesis Statement (one sentence long): 
Although automakers have argued that a ban on conventional cars would put them out of business, and even though politicians claim there is no “political will” for the US to ban conventional cars, my position that the US should stop producing gasoline-powered automobiles is very reasonable given the dire state of our climate, our government’s ability to subsidize the transition to all-electric vehicles, and consumers’ growing demand for cleaner emissions.Topic Sentence #1 with clarification/expansion: 
Topic sentence w/concession and clarifying sentence: Although the future market for electric vehicles looks bright, some automakers inaccurately argue it will put them out of business. In other words, it’s a misconception that automakers who transition to electric fleets will go bottom up.
Say w/context: If it were easy to do and initial profits were high, automakers would have switched their conventional fleets to electric vehicles long ago, but that’s not the reality; the transition is slow, in part, because of “the high initial cost of manufacturing electric vehicles,” writes UC Davis researcher David Sperling in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (15).
Mean w/illustration: The keyword here is “Initial.” This means that the high costs won’t last forever; things will just be costly in the beginning. It is like rockets that appear to be barely lifting off the ground until their momentum gets going, and then that initial investment of energy really starts to move things along.
Say w/context: General Motors President expands on this point of long-term gains: “we believe ultimately that the whole world will go that direction” (Bradsher qtd. in Sperling 11).
Mean w/illustration: Given GM’s President predicts that the future of transportation is electric, it seems reasonable that other manufacturers of conventional cars likely feel the same kind of pressure, then one could argue that delaying the transition could actually prove fatal to automakers. It’s like they’re looking into their crystal ball, and the crystal ball is actually quite clearly telling them it makes sense to transition their fleets. It’s noteworthy that this prediction is coming from an established American manufacturer of conventional cars. It’s not like a member of the Chicago Bulls predicting they’ll win the next playoff game; instead, it’s like an adversary of the Bulls predicting the Bulls will win the next playoff game. It reveals a giant of the American automobile manufacturing sector has come to terms with their new reality.
Say w/context: Moreover, it appears that the “high initial cost” may not be as steep as one might think given many conventional cars’ electrical components are already sufficiently advanced: “Although today’s automakers are weighed down by the legacy of 100 years of internal combustion engines and mechanical engineering designs, they are well along in converting the car’s infrastructure to electronic controls” (Sperling 13).
Mean w/illustration: In other words, automakers who choose to transition to electric fleets don’t need to reinvent the proverbial “wheel” to do so. That is, there’s already a foundation for the transition to occur; the “rocket” is not cemented to the launchpad.
Counterargument and rebuttal (turn against and turn back): Yes, it will be costly, but that’s part of doing business; a good business will inevitably incur costs to stay competitive. We’ve seen it with lucrative corporations like Amazon, which is remarkably different from their 5-year-old selves–having branched out into new territory (web services, grocery stores), which at first is costly, but ultimately leads them to greater market shares in new arenas. This is what the promise of electric fleets holds for conventional automakers who can’t afford to get left behind selling outmoded car tech to a society that is always thirsting for the next new thing.
Matter: It is significant that high initial costs are not grounds for stalling EV expansion in the US. If this is true, then the term “cost” is even something worth challenging because it seems more accurate to call it an initial investment. Large investment entities who buy into the EV sector early, then, are going to see the largest earnings when things take off. Similarly, even small-scale individual investors could also benefit from early investment.
Topic Sentence #6: 
Topic sentence w/concession and clarification: While transitioning toward an overall reliance on renewable, green energy remains one of our best bets at mitigating the climate crisis, we may lack the required energy infrastructure to successfully transition to an all-electric automobile platform. In general, the achievement of a net zero carbon or emissions reality and existence is something that is probably unachievable in the immediate or, perhaps, even foreseeable future.
Say w/context: Poria Hasanpor Divshali and Bong Jun Choi, both part of the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, as well as the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, New York, discuss, in their article “Electrical Market Management Considering Power System Constraints in Smart Distribution Grids,” also published in the peer-reviewed journal energies, contemplating the rising demand of energy amplified by the climate crisis, growing fuel costs, outdated power system infrastructures, and new power generation technologies, how much of our electrical systems foundation was developed long ago when when “energy production was relatively cheap” (1) and that the recent changes in energy technology advancements have been steadily increasing people’s reliance on electrical energy by about 2% per year (1), resulting in the need for greater innovation, which, according to Hasanpor Divshali and Choi, can be seen in the creation of the smart grid (SG), which is itself an advancement over the microgrid (MG) (1). However, according to the authors, “[Smart Grid Distribution Generations] SDG still is in early stages of development and . . . there is no large commercial implementation of a complete SDG to date” (1).
Mean w/illustration: In effect, the authors are saying that the kind of technology we need to produce sustainable and renewable energy on a national or even international scale does not exist yet. This meaning is similar to that moment in Robert Zemeckis’ classic film Back to the Future in which Marty (played by Michael J. Fox) shares video footage of an older Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown (played by Christopher Loyd) with the younger “Doc,” video footage that reveals the impossible scenario in which Marty finds himself as a teenager from 1985 stuck in 1955: they need 1.21 gigawatts to generate the required nuclear reaction to propel their Delorian to travel through time. While 1.21 gigawatts may be easier to come by today, it was beyond civilian reach in 1955 and even beyond general civilian comprehension in 1985, which is attested to by Marty’s reaction to Doc’s exclamation of “Great Scott!” when he replies, “What the hell is a gigawatt?” 
Counterargument and rebuttal (turn against and turn back): Despite our imminent need for a wide scale renewable energy infrastructure, something akin to the SDG platform about which Hasanpor Divshali and Choi write, the fact remains that what we need remains something we don’t yet possess. Nevertheless, possession is a matter of time even though ours is, arguably, limited; however, just as innovation is itself a product of time, we may discover ways in which to produce what we need when and where we need it, just as a bolt of lightning produces the 1.21 gigawatts unimaginable in 1955 to help Marty return to 1985, something not so far fetched when we consider the fact that it was a kite experiment that initially captured the promise of electricity from a bolt of lightning. In other words, a lack of infrastructure is not equivalent to a lack of a collective will determined to produce such an infrastructure. Therefore, our limitations today may and probably will dissipate as our urgencies and demands multiply tomorrow and beyond.
Matter: On the whole, then, the questions of feasibility, availability, probability, and acceptability, at least in terms of achievability, are less pivotal and impactful when compared to the need for innovation in the face of impossibility because, without innovation of the kind heretofore unattempted, the future itself may be rendered humanly impossible since the possibility of human life may become more and more questionable. Therefore, banking on availability principles is like waiting for just the right time to get on a train in order to arrive at just the intended moment, missing the bigger picture that is the destination itself. This distinction is important because our destination is what’s at stake; that is, without heretofore unseen innovation we are left without a train to anywhere because there may be nowhere left for us to go.
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