Category: English

For your final essay, begin by mentally posing an interpretive question about a specific topic, section, or problem that is explored in 1984 and respond to it analytically by articulating the answer to your question in the form of an assertion, showing your readers where and how the text of the novel supports, explains, or clarifies your analysis.   (This is not a plot summary or book report.)  Look for a question that you have that might lead to differences in opinion among your audience (think about a college literary journal or the school newspaper) and offers readers new, creative, and original insights into the story and/or our place in the world.    The answer to your question is your thesis.   Your task in this assignment is not to discover the right way to interpret the text, but to explain your very focused way of reading one aspect of it or to explain one very particular insight.   That is, think about how you can participate in the knowledge-making process and add to the intellectual conversation in some way. 
Your essay topic is up to you, but you should offer an insightful, complex response in the form of a very narrow thesis that is thoroughly and thoughtfully developed.   Some topics that students have approached in the past include surveillance and social media and its connection to the novel, Winston’s conceptualization of beauty, Julia’s political ideology,  the inherent malleability of human beings, and the use of hate and deflection as propaganda.  Or, you might make a connection between the novel and something that is happening in the United States right now.  It is easy to think about the practices in the novel as methods that might occur somewhere else in the world (i.e. North Korea, China, etc), but think more about current events in our culture (i.e. hate and division, surveillance, Covid, elections, misinformation and disinformation, social media, and fake news, etc.) and then comment on the connection and its significance.   But, you must also remember that you must offer support from the text and other reliable/verifiable sources if necessary.   Remember that, ultimately, the essay is about the book, and you must stay close to the text.  
It is up to you to come up with your own assertion based on your own insight.   Be as narrow and precise as possible; then, drill down for real depth —real substance.      
Regardless of your approach, keep your commentary grounded in the text.  Remember that your essay needs to be about the book, not just a topic mentioned in the book.  And, you must refer to passages in the text to support your analysis.   
** Avoid long quotes.   Remember that best practices include paraphrase and embedded / partial quotes.   
** Do not offer any more plot summary than is absolutely necessary to support your thesis. 
** Use passages from the text and personal examples from your life and the world you live in to support your assertion.   
Final essays should be at least 3 pages in length.   
One more final note.   There is a lot of information about this book on the internet (and I have seen most of it).   Do not be tempted to use the internet to inform your essay.   Even if you do not use quotes, ideas that you find on the internet demand proper attribution.   Failure to do so is considered plagiarism of ideas (which results in an F for the entire course).   You have worked very, very hard this semester.   Do not compromise your efforts by turning to the internet to get ideas or materials for this essay.   One of the biggest lessons that college should teach is the ability and willingness to trust ourselves and our ideas.   Do your best work and be proud of your contribution.   

1. Portfolio cover letter
The portfolio cover letter demonstrates who you are as a reader and writer to your reader. The cover letter should be 250-500 words long (about a page or two) and it can be addressed to your future writing instructor if you would like. The content of your cover letter should include the following:
Identify your strengths and areas for improvement as a writer using evidence from the work contained in the rest of the portfolio. For example, if you think that one of your strengths is clear and concise language, then you should quote and analyze example sentences from your major writing projects that would demonstrate that language. You may be tempted to write an overly positive cover letter, but your failures and areas for improvement are just as important to recognize as your success. You do not need to argue that you are a perfect writer now (that is an academic myth anyway), but if there are any aspects of your writing that you want to improve upon, make sure to quote examples from your work as well.
Establish goals for how you want to continue to develop as a writer, academically and personally.
Explain how you will use what you’ve learned in this class about critical thinking, reading, and writing in other academic, professional, and personal situations (for example, how will you apply what you’ve learned in this class to other classes in your major or in your workplace).
2. Major writing projects 
Your portfolio should include the following:
Your submission for Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3, with instructor’s comments if possible (you can download PDFs of your Projects with instructor’s comments from the Grades page). You DO NOT need to include the assignment prompts.
These submissions will help contextualize the portfolio revision letters, and you can also use excerpts from your writing projects as evidence in your reflective cover letter.
3. Revision letters for all major writing projects
For each of the major writing projects that you include in the portfolio, you will write a 250-500 word revision letter to accompany each major writing project (a total of 3 revision letters, so at least 750 words total for this portion). In your revision letter, you should:
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of your initial submission by addressing your instructor feedback, peer feedback, and your own assessment now that you have developed as a writer. You should also explain HOW you utilized that feedback and how that impacted your writing process.
Explain how you would rewrite this assignment now. You will not actually need to revise your writing project, but you will need to explain in detail what changes you would make based on your draft’s strengths and weaknesses and what effect these changes would have on the draft. For example, if you think that the topic of Writing Project 1 was not engaging to the reader, you would explain in detail why the topic was not engaging, what your new topic would be, and why this new topic would be an improvement.
If for whatever reason you did NOT turn in a writing project, you can still describe your learning and writing process and discuss how you would approach the project differently.

The Business Decision
Ethical, Moral, and Legal Decision Making
Read Leadership Principles Download Leadership Principlesfocusing on morals, ethics, and laws,  The Second and Third Order Consequences Download The Second and Third Order Consequencesbefore working on this assignment.  Reply to this post by telling what you believe is the most (1) moral, (2) ethical, and (3) legal thing to do and why you believe as you do for each of the three scenarios. Next,  list the order consequences for your decisions for each scenario’s perspective (Moral, Ethical, and Legal) with the first being ordered consequence the expected outcome and the second, third, and fourth order consequences being the alternative, unexpected, and/or undesirable outcomes. Think about how your decision could negatively affect you, others, and things in the short and long term. You can use these Decision Tables Download Decision Tablesto log your answers by cutting and pasting the table in the reply textbox. To see the in-class example, click on this Decision Table Example Link Download Decision Table Example Link.
MORAL ETHICAL LEGAL
1: You are working for a toy store during the holiday season. The hottest selling item is the Tonani Playbox 3000 game console retailing at $750. Your store has received 100 consoles and you want one, but the store policy states that employees cannot purchase hot selling toys until one week after the item has been made available to customers. Employees who violate this policy will be terminated. About three days after the consoles were put on the floor for sale, the store manager calls you into her office. She tells you that one of the consoles is missing and she believes that Harry, the games department manager who hired you, has taken it. You tell her you have no knowledge of this and leave the office. Later that day you talk to Harry who admits to taking the console before the one week waiting period. He also admits to not paying for it and asks if you could loan him the money. Harry tells you that he did not take it for himself but for his eight-year-old brother who is dying of leukemia. Harry asks that you not tell anyone that he took it. The next day the manager walks by you and Harry and says that if you hear anything about the missing console to let her know. Harry responds by telling the manager that he will tell her if he hears anything. Five days after the consoles hit the floor, they are all sold so you never get one.
MORAL ETHICAL LEGAL
2: You are the principal of Happy Dale Middle School. Two of your best teachers, Mr. Abbasi, and Ms. Chow, are newly engaged to be married and you’re invited to their wedding, which will be in one month. Since their engagement, each morning when they arrive at school, they hug in the parking lot then go teach their classes. While dropping off their children in the student drop zone, some parents have noticed other parent’s children starting to hug each other before entering the building. These parents have called for you to meet with them because they believe what they are witnessing between the children is sexual harassment. During the meeting, the parents tell you that the children have told them they are just copying what they see Mr. Abbasi and Ms. Chow do every morning. The parents state that Mr. Abbasi and Ms. Chow are encouraging children to engage in sexual promiscuity. Your school district has a strict policy against teachers dating and students engaging in public displays of affection (PDA). Teachers who are caught dating will be subject to termination and students caught engaging in PDA will be suspended for a week for each PDA violation. What do you do?
MORAL ETHICAL LEGAL
3: You are the hotel manager. Frank Farmer owns a smoke alarm company. His son, Francis, works for him as a salesperson. What Francis does is approach hotels that have smoke alarms that are past their replacement dates and tell the hotel manager that he will report the hotel if they do not buy fire alarms from him. If a manager tries to counter Francis’ “offer” by telling Francis that they will use a less expensive vendor for their fire alarms, Francis tells the manager that he will report the hotel to the city and county fire marshal who will not only assess large fines but will close the hotel immediately and until all alarms have been replaced which could take a month. Although Francis’ alarms are not the best smoke alarms on the market, they are the most expensive. Francis uses two-thirds of the money earned to pay for his college expenses and the other one-third he donates to pediatric cancer research. Francis approaches you and notifies you that your hotel’s smoke alarms are past their replacement date. What should you, the manager, do? 

Develop a clear and arguable thesis that can be supported and examined. Aim to create a multimedia essay (through presentation/slides and recorded virtually) to examine a theme from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The challenge is to choose a theme in which you see influence from the novel in the modern age. The presentation should reflect how the theme is not solely found in the 1840s but in the modern age too. Themes include: -hypocrisy -morality and ethics
-freedom
-growing up
-religion -social class
-influence of geography -education
-racism
-slavery
Examples of a multimedia is attached to files. For each major point (AKA body paragraphs) you will create 3 slides (First-point, Second-Evidence & Commentary, Third- link back to thesis) In total, you will have a thesis slide, 3 slides per point (9) and a conclusion slide, then a resource slide. (12 slides) It must all be in MLA. References within the past 5 years.

Research paper on Food insecurity in America. Be sure to include 3 online sources for the paper. Also write the essay that has a thesis argument and uses evidence throughout in support of argument and analysis.

This assignment is an argumentative essay that analyzes “The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky”    by Stephen Crane. The link to the story is below.
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/bride.htm

Imagine you avoiding a short story for publication on your class or school website. Your story should be focused on a character who is involved in a team or individual sport or game.

Revise Your Film Analysis (Essay Two)
Your second option is to substantially revise your Film Analysis Essay (Essay Two). These revisions must go beyond merely fixing formatting, grammatical, and/or organizational issues we identified in your earlier versions. In addition to addressing those issues, you will also generate a strong thesis statement about your article and use new evidence from Capital to support your analysis.
For example, if your Film Analysis Essay (Essay 2), posited that,
“the 2013 film Snowpiercer examined Marx ideas about the role of technology in the exploitation of labor and the creation of surplus value,”
then your revised thesis might be modified so that you are making an argument for how effectively the film models these concepts, such as
“the 2013 film Snowpiercer effectively/ineffectively explores Marx ideas about the role of technology and primitive accumulation in the exploitation of labor and the creation of surplus value and a reserve army of labor.”
In this example you would be moving beyond a mere theoretical analysis and making an argument about the film’s effectiveness/ineffectiveness in portraying the concepts you originally wrote about (technology, exploitation, and surplus value) while also exploring concepts we’ve learned about more recently (primitive accumulation and the creation of a “reserve army of labor”). The new concepts will require that you find new evidence from both the film (scenes, dialogue, etc. that you didn’t analyze in your first essay) and from Capital (passages where Marx defines these concepts and offers examples).
Guidelines for Options Two
Generate a 1750 word revision of your Film Analysis (Essay 2).
Your new draft must have an argumentative thesis.
Option One requires a call to action: What do we do to address the issues you uncover in your Article Analysis?
Option Two requires an argument for the efficacy/inefficacy of the film’s portrayal of Marx’s concepts. How well does the film depict these concepts? Why? What problems arise from the film’s depiction?
In addition to evidence from your earlier draft, your new thesis must be supported by at least two new pieces of evidence from the film/article and at least two new concepts from Capital (four new pieces of evidence, total).
This essay should follow MLA formatting guidelines, and include in-text citations and a Works Cited page.

The final assignment for this course is a 10 page research paper (the 10th page being the works cited page). Select one or more of the literary
texts that you have not already covered in your two essays, develop a research topic, and write an
analytical essay that includes four secondary sources. 
Use “These Ghosts are Family” by Maisy Card as the main source for the research topic
I added some reading from class that we had to read if you want to use those for sources, or other things if you want. 

Write a reflection on playing the downward spiral board game a second time. 
i have attached a reflection example of the first time.
please use spefic cards that were chosen like given in the example.