Discussion-“The Destructors” I could tell from your responses to Greene’s “The Destructors” prompts, there was some angst and consternation over the story and what those kids did. I deliberately juxtaposed “The Destructors” with “The Nightingale of Kabyle” to showcase extremes of art– life destroying and life saving. These descriptions don’t entirely fit, yet they are … Read more
Review the Lecture for the Portfolio Project STEP ONE: REVIEW THE MATERIALS If you are writing Theme Analysis, review the following: LiteraryArguments.pptx Minimize File Preview “How To Find a Theme” | D4Darious https://youtu.be/rIuKNVny9cM “How to Do Literary Analysis (It’s Easy)” | English Nerd https://youtu.be/dI34pqtNRHA If you are writing Rhetorical Analysis, review the following: Rhetorical Strategies.ppt … Read more
Answer the following question: Motown Music Our final discussion is a reflection on the influence of the music of Motown. Please identify a song that you feel reflects the influence of Motown. How you define this influence is subjective: it may be lyrics, music, a sample, etc. While the choice is yours, you need to … Read more
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and the “Wife of Baths Tale” How is natural order imposed upon in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and the “Wife of Bath’s Tale”? Define the notion of absolute truths or absolutism within the range of analyzing the chivalric code in “Sir Gawain”, Biblical ethics, and Aristotelian ethics … Read more
Discussion response-The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Both the novel The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather and the play The Youngest by Philip Barry present an artist. The presentation of each differs, as does the scope of the work itself, not to mention the treatment of art. However, some commonalities appear after a reading of … Read more
Making a response to the question below-Thea Kronborg The character of Thea Kronborg in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark is not necessarily lauded as a protagonist of heroic proportions or even a character it’s easy to get behind. “The growth of an artist is an intellectual and spiritual development which can scarcely be followed in … Read more
What is the problem of fiction, and how do you think one should respond to it? Answer preview: word limit:1491
Using Boorstin Book the Image to answer the issue given Essay review (1500-2000 words) of Daniel Boorstin’s The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961; 50th Anniversary edition, 2012) which will be sent v.i.a google drive. 1) Any references to outside sources (though not required!) must be properly cited using an acceptable reference notation … Read more
Annotations (Choose Your Own Adventure) If you need to watch the following video to refresh yourself on how to annotate your chosen text, particularly concerning fiction. https://youtu.be/EJ8nhlzYx9o STEP 2: Look at the reading schedule you turned in Week 4: Create & Submit a Reading Plan, and set aside time during the week to read and annotate … Read more
Eight Bites Annotation Worksheet DIRECTIONS: This week we are going to be reading some fictional short stories for our Monsters Unit. The story “Eight Bites” addresses one such danger, the toxic messages women internalize about body image (Links to an external site.), which contribute to, if not engender, the various pathological conditions described in the Diagnostic and Statistical … Read more