Category: English

  • “The World of Tarka: Exploring the Themes and Symbolism in Henry Williamson’s Classic Novel”

    Tarka the otter is my primary source, i only want to wrtie about one of the novels i read, use 3 secondary sources, and cite them at the end 

  • Exemplifying the Power of Education: An Analysis of its Impact on Individual Success

    Exemplification Essay First Draft Content
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    1. Please upload your Exemplification Essay First Draft here. Remember, the essay must be in MLA format, state a CLEAR thesis statement at the end of Paragraph 1, contain 5 paragraphs (1 introduction, 3 body paragraphs, 1 conclusion), include in-text citations in each of the body paragraphs, and have 1 separate page for Works Cited. 2. Before submitting your essay, make sure you followed all the instructions in the ‘Instructions for the Exemplification Essay’ document attached to Week 3.
    3. Papers assisted by any Artificial Intelligence software will not be accepted, and it will be considered an act of academic dishonesty.
    4. Late papers will be graded with the points penalty stated in the instructions.
    5. DO NOT attach your essay as an external link or document; attach it by clicking on the Attachment Icon (Paperclip symbol) in the menu bar at the top. 6. Please, read the Evaluation rubric on the right hand side to know how your essay will be graded. read carefully the document ‘Instructions for the Exemplification Essay’ attached to Week 3. Then start writing your essay’s rough draft. You must submit the rough draft as clean and error free as possible, observing the guidelines of the MLA format, also attached to Week 3: Documents.

  • “The Hero’s Journey in the Ramayana: Rama’s Exile and Triumph over Ravana”

    Show how the Ramayana conforms to Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. This paper must
    focus on Rama’s second adventure, the one that begins with his exile from Kosala and
    culminates in his victory over Ravana, rescue of Sita, and return home.

  • “The Life and Lessons of Tarka the Otter: Examining Nature and Survival through Literary and Scientific Perspectives”

    i only want to use one source, Tarka the otter and 3 secondary sources. please add the refernces at the end. 

  • Title: Uncovering the Power of Literary Devices: A Critical Analysis of [Literary Text]

    Your literary essay is your interpretation and documented analysis of a particular text. It is supported by documentation from primary and secondary sources. To write the essay, you should explore the themes, language, and characters in the text. You should reflect on the writer’s point of view, what the text reveals to children about the society we live in, and what the text reveals about human nature and literacy. You should then decide how these ideas could be used to construct a thesis about the text EVALUATING HOW THE AUTHOR USED AT LEAST 3 LITERARY DEVICES TO PRESENT A THEME (SEE VOCAB LIST). Your thesis will serve as your guiding point for developing an outline and composing your paper. Make sure you revise and edit your paper for content, documentation, style, grammar, and sentence structure.
    All literary essays must follow MLA style of documentation. Papers should be approximately four double-spaced pages and should have the following structure: (1) an introduction, stating the purpose of the essay or the problem to be addressed in the essay, the rationale for the topic, and the literary text(s) and/or author(s) on which the essay will focus; (2) a main section, with at least three key points, clearly marshaled and illustrated with reference to the chosen text(s) and relevant secondary, critical sources; (3) a concluding section, summing up the key points of the essay and calling attention to the main thrust of its argument, and (4) Correct in-text citation and Works Cited page or, presented in strict adherence to the MLA style of documentation.
    Please note that a Works Cited page is obligatory and you are required to make use of no less than two secondary sources in addition to the main text.  

  • “Building the Foundation: Rough Draft #1 of the Critical Essay on Education”

    This week you will be working on your “shitty first draft” of the Critical Essay. This is the first of two rough drafts you will submit. Before you submit your rough draft #1, be sure to review the lecture and check that you have the basic structure and all required paragraphs of your essay in place. As the lecture points out, all good essays start with a strong foundation. In this assignment, you will begin to build that foundation. Once you have instructor feedback, you will then submit rough draft #2 next, ultimately building up to the final essay. Before you submit your rough draft #1, check that the following parts of your essay are present: The Introduction: Using the knowledge you have gained through working with the two provided sources, introduce the topic of education to your readers. Provide your readers with background information, and end with a thesis or purpose statement that reveals your connection to the issue. Be sure to introduce the two sources you are asked to analyze. Include each author’s last name, title of the TEDxTalk/article, and date of the source. Remember that both sources are linked in this assignment’s desсrіption. Body Paragraph 1 (Source Summary 1): Start this paragraph with a topic sentence that includes the author’s last name and date of the work in question. For example: In Bernadotte’s TEDxTalk (2018), she indicates… This paragraph is a summary of the first provided source. Remember to return to the feedback you have received on the Summary and Citation assignment for advice on how to develop a good summary. Your summary should contain the author’s most important ideas. Body Paragraph 2 (Source Summary 2): Introduce this paragraph with a topic sentence that includes the author’s last name and date of the work in question. For example: In Kent’s essay (2019), she tells the reader… This paragraph is a summary of the second provided source. These first two body paragraphs should provide your reader with a solid understanding of your sources and the issue you have been researching on education. Body Paragraph 3 (Connection/Reflection): This paragraph is where the source’s ideas and your experiences converge. This paragraph is an analysis of what you have researched and an illustration of how this issue connects to your own life and experiences in education. The Conclusion: The final paragraph will tell your readers what they should take away from your essay. This paragraph will illustrate the significance of the issue, showing your readers why this topic matters. Format: Check that your Critical Essay is formatted properly using APA (hint: use the provided template in Canvas). This includes: A title page; A References page listing full references for your two provided sources (in alphabetical order, double-spaced, with a hanging indent on the second and each additional line of each source); Additional APA Formatting (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font, indented paragraphs, page numbers). Remember, this assignment is only a first rough draft. While it is important to draft each required paragraph, it is fine to approach the new content (introduction, body paragraph 3, and the conclusion) as freewriting. Be sure to review instructor feedback on body paragraphs 2 and 3 to make improvements on those sections for rough draft #1.

  • “Cliché Busting in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: Challenging Conventional Ideas of Healthy Relationships” “Redefining Friendship: Debunking the Cliché of Loyalty and Betrayal in Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’”

    Premise:  The operating premise for this argument is that Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew challenges our notions of what makes a healthy relationship/partnership.
    After selecting a cliché idea of what makes an unhealthy relationship, use the following structure to organize the bust.Use the list provided of “signs of an unhealthy relationship”  Download “signs of an unhealthy relationship” as the source of the cliché.   
    Debunk this cliché. “When you and your partner disagree, they insist you do things their way or leave. It’s their way or the highway, and you don’t have a sense that when you disagree you’ll find a way of coming together.”
    Create an effective lead-in and present one of the cliché warning signs about what makes an unhealthy relationship. Cite the source for the cliché.  Explain the reasoning behind the warning sign. 
    Next, make a claim that Shakespeare/Taming busts this idea and shows that the cliché is actually the foundation of a good relationship.
    Contextualize the scene from which you will be providing an example. The contextualization is a concise mini summary of the scene, making the dynamics and spirit of the scene clear without wasting space on minutia.  
    Create a lead-in that introduces the supporting lines for the bust and that suggests the tone with which you want the quoted lines read.  
    Present quoted lines from any scenes in the comedy. Provide proper parenthetical citation using Dr. Womack’s guidelines for MLA citations of Shakespeare Download Dr. Womack’s guidelines for MLA citations of Shakespeare.
    Follow-up by translating and analyzing the quoted lines, explaining how the support busts and refutes the cliché idea offered.
    Finally explain the implied “spin” on the cliché relationship warning sign—Shakespeare’s implied carefully nuanced definition implied by the specific example presented.
    Cliché Busting:
    Even when searching for new insights into the human condition, we unconsciously gravitate towards preset, worn-out “truths,” comforted by a belief in the predictable: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” or “A friend is someone who is always there for you,” or “Hope springs eternal.” Because our regard for these trite truisms is largely subconscious, we may reject ideas that challenge the brain’s locked tabernacle of sacred clichés. Cliché Busting is a three-part process for breaking through an audience’s attachment to formulaic ideas and for helping readers rethink conventional wisdom and consider new meanings of a concept.
    Identify:
    We all hold many general, “this-is-how-life-is-supposed-to-be” notions; these assumptions may be hidden-even from ourselves. Therefore, the writer’s first step in Cliché Busting is excavating those buried clichés with their attached hackneyed notions. Before uncovering the widely held belief, the writer prepares the audience for the impending debunking by using a lead-in that signals to the reader that the upcoming statement— however familiar or taken for granted as true—is flawed. In A Taste of Others, consider Gail Godwin’s opening lead-in that precedes the standard definition of a friend; Godwin begins downplaying the definition even before presenting it. After identifying the cliché, a writer may offer support of just how well established and prevalent the belief is. For instance, in another example Lauren Slater provides several quick proofs about the pervasiveness of our cultural regard for having self-esteem.
    Bust:
    After identifying the cliché, the actual bust follows—a deconstruction explaining why the stock concept is limited, worn out, inaccurate, shallow, or fallible. A writer might support the debunking of the definition using outside evidence; in her Cliché Busting, historian Barbara Tuchman provides evidence from an historical source that the calamity of the Black Plague did not, as one might think, bring people together. Or a writer might use Anecdoting (see the Time Warping chapter) to disprove a clichéd idea and reveal its shortcomings.
    Redefine:
    Once stripped of the old conception, a reader becomes more open to the writer’s finely tuned and newly forged definition. The writer now argues for a revised definition or offers a more unsettling, ambiguous, or complex vision of a concept:
    Absence can make one’s heart vulnerable to being stolen; a friend is someone who can betray you; hope fades. A writer may be inspired to a new meaning through current events, a personal experience, or be stimulated by researching the derivation or history of a word in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary).
    Start the paper in a similar fashion. “The dutiful first answer seems programmed into us by our meager expectations: “A friend is one who will be there in times of trouble.”
    Debunk this cliché. “When you and your partner disagree, they insist you do things their way or leave. It’s their way or the highway, and you don’t have a sense that when you disagree you’ll find a way of coming together.”
    Use quotes provided below to support.
    In ACT IV.4 Line 192 Petruchio says, “It shall be what o’clock I say it is.” (Use this one in support of the cliche)
    Use what is below to debunk the cliche
    Kate in ACT V.2 
    KATE
    Fie, fie, unknit that threat ning unkind brow And dart not scornful glances from those eyes To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
    It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet or amiable.
    A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
    Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance; commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
    And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience –
    Too little payment for so great a debt.
    Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
    And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
    I am ashamed that women are so simple
    To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
    Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
    Come, come, you froward and unable worms, My mind hath been as big as one of yours, My heart as great, my reason haply more, To bandy word for word and frown for frown.
    But now I see our lances are but straws,
    Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
    Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot, And place your hands below your husband’s foot, In token of which duty, it he please, My hand is ready, may it do him ease.
    PETRUCHIO
    Why, there’s a wench! Come on and kiss me, Kate!
    CITE:
    Psychology Today
    Alice Boyes Ph.D. 57 41 Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship Toxic connections ring multiple alarms, if partners can only hear them.
    Posted Feb 10, 2015
    “Taming of the shrew” Shakespeare. The pelican editions (I believe)
    Attached I have the work I did. It was the same concept. Mainly I provide this to give an idea of how I write and what I am looking for. 
    NOTE: 
    I tip well when papers are done well. 

  • “Peer Feedback Letters: Improving Writing through Constructive Criticism”

    Please the 3 peer essays and write a one page letter for each. Assignment instructions are attached. Thank you.

  • Final Assessment: Analyzing the Controversy of the Elgin Marbles using Argumentation, Persuasion, and Critical Thinking

    COMM 103 – Final Assessment
    Argumentation, Persuasion, and Critical Thinking
    This assessment will be completed in short answers. Each answer will be one to several sentences. I expect full sentences with correct spelling and punctuation.
    First and foremost, what is the full correct name of this course? (8 pts)
    Name of course
    Using what we have learned from our text, define the first word in the course name.
    Using what we have learned from our text, define the second word in the course name.
    In your own words, define the third part of the course name.
    The next section of the assessment will be looking at the analysis of the controversy surrounding the Elgin Marbles. You will really need your book for this section (there is one chapter in the book that’s primary focus is the Elgin Marbles). If you never obtained a book, you could use the internet and “Google” the Elgin Marbles Controversy.
    The goal of this class and the arguments we will examine in the assessment is to be able to create a Prima Facie Case. In your own words Define Prima Facie Case. (10 pts)
    Does the name “Elgin Marbles” support the Advocate or the Opposition in this controversy/ why? (5 pts)
    What would some argue to be a better name than “Elgin Marbles”/ why? (5 pts)
    Write out propositions supporting the advocate (I will be grading you on key words and phrasing that make these propositions either fact, value, or policy). (15 pts)
    Fact
    Value
    Policy
    Do you support the Advocates position or the Oppositions? (There is no right or wrong answer to this, just state your position. Go over the ground thoroughly because you will be discussing your position in later questions).                         “I support the _________ position in this controversy.”
    What Grounds makes you want to support your position of advocate or opposition? What are the Grounds that are most compelling to you? List at minimum of three.
    Analyze the propositions and the grounds. Determine and define six key terms that will help clarify the controversy. (There are many more than six).
    How does the opposition use the Appeal to Tradition in their arguments?
    In your own words, what primary inference (supporting your position of advocate or opposition) do you draw from the arguments presented?
    Bonus Points (Extra Credit 10 pts)
    Looking at the arguments presented; what are the universal truths / the intangibles that we all can relate to in the arguments presented by both the advocate and the opposition. Name one universal truth / intangible concept that each side of the controversy is using further their emotional appeal? I am NOT looking for an example of the actual “tangle” grounds, but you can use the tangible example in illustrating your intangible concept.
    Advocate’s appeal to…
    Opposition’s appeal to…

  • Title: “Finding Common Ground: A Rogerian Approach to the Banning of Tobacco Advertisements”

    rogerian essay on Banning of tobacco advertisements
    sources ONLY FROM Google Scholar – MUST use 7/8 sources