Category: English

Poetry explication! I’ve included instructions in file below. No outside resources are supposed to be used. 

For this week, watch at least five fanvids or AMVs (Anime Music Videos) related to the fandom I chose, which is the One Direction (directioners) fandom. These videos should be at least a minute long and should combine clips from the media you are studying with popular music. 
Here is a list of some different types of vids: 
Character vids: Focus on a single character, often offer an interpretation of a character’s psychology, motivations, and/or character development. 
Shipping vids: Focus on a specific ship, often making an argument for and offering evidence of sexual and/or romantic subtext between characters. 
Slash vids: Like slash fic, slash vids focus on m/m ships. 
AU vids (Ficvids): Use footage of characters and actors to create alternative narratives that either diverge from canon or transport characters into a different genre or setting.  
Cross-over vids: Bring together characters from different media properties. 
Charles Vane/Lizzie Bennet || Waiting Game  (Black Sails/Pride and Prejudice)
Recruiter vids: Made for members outside of the fandom or sub-fandom, these vids are attempt to “recruit” people to watch a show or ship certain characters. 
Write a blog post analyzing the fanvids that you watched this week. Here are some questions to get you started (you do not have to answer all or any of them). What is the purpose of this vid? What songs are paired with clips from the source text? What are the connections between them? What story does the combination of song and images construct? How do different songs shape interpretations of characters and relationships? How do fans build arguments through vids? What pleasure do fans experience looking at them? What about them generates that pleasure?
Be sure to include at least 2 of the articles I attached below.

the first slide should be a Title Slide (where you introduce yourself and your project);
next will be the Agenda Slide where you give a brief overview of the points to be covered in the presentation (you can use the Table of Contents to help you with that slide);
the third slide should cover the main issue/s with the Current Situation; next will be the Objectives slide;
review the Deliverables for the next slide;
then briefly cover the Costs/ROI;
wind up your report with a Summary (which you can create by looking over your Executive Summary);
after the conclusion of your report, include a Reference slide that will show any researched references you used in the report. Your total presentation time should be between 7 and 10 minutes long. Imagine that you have been asked to present the basic information of your report in front of the decision makers of the company. Directly address them when you introduce yourself and the topic of the presentation. You will turn in that presentation with the audio recording of your presentation along with the slides you create.

summarize and discuss the article in the required paper as it relates to Initial Operational Capability (IOC) and Full Operational Capability (FOC) Remember to include a link to the article.
link: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA488114.pdf
Write a two page paper, plus the title page and a reference page.
Writing Instructions (Please do read this): •Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
•APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
•Length of paper: typed, double-spaced pages with no less than a two page paper.
•Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

How can Orwell’s book ”Animal Farm” serve as a warning to young people of your generation? Education is important because… 

Write a 7 pages persuasive essay in APA format about why one piece is the beat anime in the world 
With an abstract page

Write a research paper in which you analyze ONE of the following themes or issues.
The focus of this paper will be on one of the issues below (or a variation that you create). As part of discussing
this issue, use at least one story, poem, TV show, or film as an example within your discussion of this theme/
issue. You may choose to compare and/or contrast two works in regards to their treatment of the same or related
themes. (Do not use more than 3 primary texts). Ultimately, your goal is to create a set of insights about this theme/
issue. You are using the literary (or other) texts to help illustrate/build these insights, but it doesn’t need to be the
primary focus of the paper. Rather, your primary focus is on insights about the issue itself.
Clearly, this assignment is intended to encourage each student to find an original path of research in which one can
suit her/his interests and through which one can demonstrate unique analysis & insights. As part of this, you will use
at least one literary or film/tv text as an example. You also must use at least 3 secondary sources that meet the
standards of “legitimate academic texts.” This will require you to do library research (and/or use the academic
databases) as this requirement will negate much of what you might find on the general internet. It is expected that you
will incorporate quotes and ideas from these sources fluidly within the context of your own analysis.
-This paper must be typed, double spaced, font= times new roman 12 or arial 10. Do not add spaces between paragraphs.
-Use 1 inch margins.
-This paper will be at least 1200 words (approximately 4 complete pages) in length. Do not exceed 8 pages. (This count does NOT
include the Works Cited Page).
-This paper should be in proper MLA format and should include a Works Cited Page. If this is not written as a properly formatted
MLA paper, you cannot receive a passing grade in this course.
• How does society’s views on gender influence individual identity? What are the psychological effects of
this influence?
• In what ways do people’s perceptions of/experience of sex influence their sense of identity?
• In what ways do people’s perceptions of sex influence their views of/approaches to relationships (and
vice versa)?
• How does one’s understanding of/experience of love influence the way one views oneself? How does
love impact one’s self-image?
• How do family relationships shape one’s sense of self?
• How do family relationships shape one’s approach to other relationships?
• How is love learned? How do people define love’s function in life?
• How do the relationships among siblings influence a person’s adult personality, approaches to love, and/
or perceptions of family?
• What are the psychological effects of the parent/child relationship on one’s adult identity or one’s adult
approach to family?
• How does society’s views of race, ethnicity, economic class, religion, or sexuality influence individual
identity and social stratification?
• How do the roles of the “outsider” or “minority” groups impact the way the “insider” or “majority
groups see themselves?
• How do labels/stereotypes about “outsider” or “minority” groups impact the way people within those
groups see themselves?
• How can one move beyond the psychological limits imposed by social stereotyping?
• What are the psychological effects of war and how do the impact a person beyond their time in war?
What impact do these effects have on those around the effected and on the broader society?
• What are the psychological effects of confronting death and/or the recognition of mortality?

ENG 101
Prof. Sgroi
Essay 2
Position Paper- A Position Paper explains a topic and argues a particular position or opinion. It must include outside sources, facts, studies, statistics, and reliable expert voices to back up your position or opinion. Use 3rd person, avoiding “I, me, my” as academic papers are informational rather than personal. Use a professional tone. 
Structure your Essay:
Intro
Background
Lines of Argument
Alternative Arguments
Conclusion
You must use 3 outside, reliable sources to back up your argument:. gov.edu.org. Review the Library Instructions and use the online databases in our library.
3 pages plus a Works Cited page. MLA style, with in text citation after all summaries, stats, and quotes. 

The parameters for your response are as follows:
The response must be between 850–1150 words. Students that fall short of the required word count will receive a 10% deduction.
You must cite a minimum of 3 scholarly sources—news media articles do not count as scholarly sources, only peer-reviewed journals, books, etc.
You must cite all sources clearly and consistently, regardless of the citation style you choose be sure to keep it consistent.
You must include a works cited (not part of the word count) at the end.
Your response should include considerable reflection on the pertinent course terms and concepts, failing to reference these consistently throughout will result in a deduction.
Week Two Prompt
We have stated that our primary theoretical framework in this course in Intersectionality, which states that we should not view identity as ‘either/or’ but rather ‘both/and’ across different categories. From this point of view, we must work hard analytically to understand an individual’s ‘Standpoint’ on the basis of their relationship to categories of identity. Selecting at least two of the major categories of your own identity, discuss how those categories have intersected to shape your own life experiences, and how your experiences may be similar or different from others on the basis of one or both of those categories. A good example if Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t I a Woman,” in which she points out that her status as a woman of color means she is not included in many of the conversations her fellow white feminists were having at the time.
I am Hispanic, Male, 28 years old, straight male, and Christian. Feel free to ask any questions about me if it will aid you in anyway.

Assignment Prompt: Rhetorical Analysis
Overview
Before you start working on your own research argument essay, you will spend some time studying the arguments of others, to better understand how they successfully structured and presented a persuasive project. The rhetorical analysis is a foundational assignment to introduce you to the “rhetorical situation,” as a concept. The goal is for you to take what you learn about successful argument, and apply it to your own writing in this course.
For this rhetorical analysis assignment, you will analyze a speech (see the options below) to gain a better understanding of “the rhetorical situation”- the audience, purpose, medium, and context–within which the speech was created. In addition to dissecting the speech’s rhetorical situation, you will also identify and discuss the author’s choice of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) or evidence. *This is the one and only assignment that is not driven by your personal topic selection, as all the following assignments build on each other starting with the Annotated Bibliography and concluding with the Research Story.
Expectations
As a foundational assignment, the rhetorical analysis will help you to:
Identify and analyze the rhetorical elements of a piece of communication
Assess the effectiveness of a speaker’s choices, in relation to the rhetorical situation
Build a foundation for future argument writing based on the skills and strategies identified and analyzed in this assignment 
Requirements
Length:  There is a 1000 word-minimum. All elements noted below are to be included in the analysis. See Assignment Organization.
* if the minimum word count is not met, your assignment will be returned with no grade and a resubmission will be required.   
Organization: Check out the table below for more information about the required content and conditions of each component:
Component
Content
Conditions
Introduction (Description)
The intro is your first chance to reach your reader, engage their interest, and include all of the forecasting for the rest of the essay, such as the purpose of the writing project, and the parameters of your investigation. Be sure to focus on what the speaker is doing, how, and why, using the conditions as your guide.  
Make sure that you clearly state the speaker and the title of the speech, along with any other details that will help provide the reader with context about your analysis.
Place the speech in a broader context.
Introduce the speech by characterizing the speaker and the occasion.
Identify the audience and situation for which the speech is intended.
Describe the speaker’s purpose.
THESIS/CLAIM: Identify the rhetorical strategies that you have decided to discuss and indicate, in general terms, how they function to promote the author’s purpose in relation to the intended audience. 
Body (Analysis)
The body will include paragraphs that will have their own topic sentences developed with specifics from the speech. You may want to focus each paragraph on one rhetorical strategy, or you may focus on different parts of one strategy.  Useful strategies for developing paragraphs include:
Defining the rhetorical strategy(ies).
Quoting or paraphrasing examples to illustrate the writer’s use of the strategy (two or three examples generally suffice).
Explaining how the example illustrates the strategy and how the strategy contributes to the writer’s purpose. 
Conclusion (Evaluation)
The conclusion serves the purpose of reiterating your thesis, briefly summarizing the main points of your analysis, and explaining the significance of your analysis. The significance of your analysis may be suggested by asking questions such as these:
How do the rhetorical strategies that you discussed explain the effects the speaker achieved with his or her audience?
Why were the strategies effective or not effective with the speaker’s core constituency and with other audiences?
What do the rhetorical strategies suggest about the speaker’s agenda?
Document Formatting: MLA formatting: Heading (name, assignment name, course name, date), original title, header (page numbers), line-spacing (double-spaced), 1”margins, and 12-point font size, Times New Roman or sans-serif font. The thesis must be underlined.
Genre/Style: Formal analysis: thesis-driven and paragraph formatted
Speech Options
Please rhetorically analyze ONE of the following speeches for this assignment. All speeches can be found within the “Opposing Viewpoints” database connected to this course. See the “Banner” to access the “Opposing Viewpoints” link.
“I Co-Founded Facebook. It’s Time to Break It Up.” NYTimes.com Video Collection, 9 May 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT585557102/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=6cc2e568. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021.
“Just Whom Is This Divorce ‘Good For?’.” Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 74-78. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2688300041/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=d68cc44c. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021.
Smith, Margaret Chase. “A Declaration of Conscience.” Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 181-184. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2687500079/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=24661ce7. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021.
“To Every Englishman in India.” Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources, edited by Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 387-390. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2560000142/OVIC?u=bal3345&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=526cff51. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021.