Category: English

writing a response essay about the story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and how her character is portrayed in the story.

A Thematic Presentation
As we finish our course you are asked to show a culmination of what you have learned through reading Frying Plantain, Monster, and Born a Crime. You are to create a presentation tracing a theme through the three works of literature and how it is connected to current events.
A successful presentation will include:
· A general discussion of the theme focused on what the authors’ messages are
· A minimum of three quotations from each book that reflect the theme and discussion about why the quotations are important
· A discussion of a key character that embodies the theme and how/ why they do so
· Ties to other media (books, movies, tv shows, news articles/current events) that have a similar theme
· Connections to current events
· Text to self-connection
Your presentation will NOT be presented to the class, but still needs to be submitted as if you were presenting.
Make sure that it is visually pleasing and include proper references as well as final Works Cited slide! Keep your presentation to help you review for your exam.
Theme Choices:
· Truth
· Acceptance and belonging
· Family Love
· Friendship
· Strength/Weakness
· Coming of Age/Growing up/Personal Growth
· Protection/Control
· Race and Racism
· Identity
You must have a minimum of 11 slides. You may follow this outline or choose your own, but keep it organized. Make sure that your slides contain point form writing and are visually appealing.
Slide Outline
Slide 1: General discussion of theme
Slide 2: Theme quotations in Frying Plantain
Slide 3: Character that embodies the theme (discussion)
Slide 4: Theme quotations in Monster
Slide 5: Character that embodies the theme (discussion)
Slide 6: Theme quotations in Born a Crime
Slide 7: Character that embodies the theme (discussion)
Slide 8: Connection to other media
Slide 9: Connection to current events (text to world connection)
Slide 10: Connection to self
Slide 11: Works Cite

Here are the reading and instructions for this assignment, I also attached important reading as well.
“With the grain” or “against the grain”…
The text talks about reading “with the grain” or “against the grain”. This brings up a very critical issue that is the base of literary criticism – how should we read a text? 
Think about all the books and texts that you have read – that can include watching TV shows and movies too! When you read or watch, you are bringing your own psychoanalytic ideologies with you to the interpretation of the reading or watching. For example – the book “50 Shades of Grey” (and the movie) can be interpreted as anti-feminist – anti- a LOT of things. But they can also be viewed as a love story where a bad man is brought to true romance with the love of a nice girl. There are so many different ways of viewing the actions of the main characters. 
Have you ever read a book or watched a movie and your opinion of it clashed with that of your friends or family? Think about some of the reasons that your opinion has been different from them? The reason is that, whether we like it or not, we bring our own background and experiences to everything we read or watch. We bring our opinions, societal expectations, cultural backgrounds, life experiences to everything and they influence our interpretation of the reading. 
Elements of Fiction
As we begin our journey through literary lenses, we should do a quick dive into the elements of fiction. There are roughly 5-7 different elements, but we are going to focus on five of them to help our understanding of the motivations of our authors. All fiction stories (which can be a book, a play, a movie, a reel, etc.) have an arc that you are already familiar with:
introduction of characters and setting
rising action of the plot
introduction of conflict
the climax (when the protagonist accepts their fate and changes the outcome for all)
the denouement which is the resulting action of the climax
Here’s a breakdown of each. In this section will be begin looking at the five elements of fiction which make up the Dramatic Structure (also known as Freytag’s Structure). This is a way to map out a storyline that typically involves a classic literary trope – the hero’s journey.
The Hero’s Journey was made popular by Joseph Campbell in his book “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” in 1949 and drew on years of work by anthropologists and psychologists. His thesis is that: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man” (Campbell).
In the Dramatic Structure, our main character, or hero, moves from the known, the comfortable, the “everyman” existence, into the unknown, challenging, the “übermensch” existence. If you think of movie characters like Harry Potter, or Neo from The Matrix or the protagonist from any of the animated films that you love, you’ll realize that they all fall into the hero’s journey dramatic structure. 1. Characters
The first of our five is “Characters” – the people/things that move the plot along. Without characters, we have nothing – so a review in detail of this element of the structure is very important. Think about the books and stories that you love – what is it that kept you interested to read the entire story? If there’s a “flat” character, you are uninterested. But a dynamic character and their companions kept you reading/watching.
Classically, there are a couple of types of characters:
The “hero” or protagonist is the main character (and it can be a person, thing, entity, etc.). It’s very important to understand that the word “hero” doesn’t necessarily mean a good person doing good deeds with a cape or superpowers. The word “hero” came about in the 1600s as the chief character in a story. If you think about a lot of movies or books – sometimes the main character isn’t nice at all. How about Gru from “Despicable Me”? How about V in “V for Vendetta”? The second character is the antagonist (anti-hero). This is the force against the protagonist. You have to have opposition, right? There has to be good to counteract evil; lightness to counteract darkness, etc. The third type of character is the “sidekick” or “companions” and usually (not always) there are two – one with brains and one with braun (muscle). The main character cannot achieve what they need to without the sidekick or companions. If you think about Harry Potter – he had Hermione (the brains) and Ron (the muscle); how about Star Wars? Luke (the main character) had Princess Leia (the brains) and Han Solo (the muscle).
2. Setting
The setting is the time and place a story takes place. Why is that important? Well, think about reading a story which takes place before cell phones and the internet were invented. As a 21st century adult, you might question the actions of the characters if they don’t use a phone or a computer. It’s difficult to put yourself in the place of someone else in a different country, planet, or time period.
3. Plot
Plot is the action sequence – if a friend asked you what the book or movie was about, you’d typically reply by telling the plot. “First this happened, then this happened..” etc. It’s how the story unfolds and develops.
The plot encompasses a few characteristics:
Rising Action: The main character is in crisis and events leading up to facing the conflict begin to unfold. The story becomes complicated.
Introduction to Conflict: as the rising action builds, suddenly we are introduced to a conflict that will affect the characters and plot.
4. Climax
At the peak of the story, a major event occurs in which the main character faces a major enemy, fear, challenge, or other source of conflict. The main character must make a decision which changes the outcome for all – it’s when they meet and accept their fate.
5. Denouement/Resolution
The story begins to slow down and work towards its end, tying up loose ends towards the Resolution/Denouement: Also known as the denouement, the resolution is like a concluding paragraph that resolves any remaining issues and ends the story.
In a 500+ word response, please reflect on this week’s reading assignments, and explain whether we should go with the grain or against the grain given the psychoanalytical that we all bring to our opinions.
Please use two quotes from the assigned readings. 
Please use MLA formatting.
This should be in your own words – I’m all about your opinion, rather than perfect sentence structure and wording. I just want YOUR OWN WORDS…

You will write a literacy narrative in which you describe an important moment in your writing life and reflect on how this moment changed you as a writer.

Need help writing a spa 4 format on a 12 point double space on the topic of labor laws on color people.  Need to talk about how the pay wage is for people of color to the people of none color are how there rights are being effected by the government when it comes down to labor laws. There need to be pro and cons on the labor laws of color 

Minimum of 800 words (*which means write a bit more than 800 words–NOT counting the running header, the identifier, the title, or the WC page citations if any) to ensure no issue with the “Minimum Standards” grading statement)
1″ margins
Double-spaced
10-12 pt. Times New Roman font (no others accepted)
Standard indented paragraphs with NO additional spacing between paragraphs (check the “Before/After” spacing in the Formatting of MSWord and make certain it is set to 0pt for the document)
MLA-formatted in-text citations and an MLA-formatted Works Cited page ARE required if sources/materials not self-generated are used but do not count to overall text/page length.
Content–Select a “recent” article (within the past month) that is concentrated on your chosen theme (Censorship/Education, Government/Politics, or Environment/Nature).  It does NOT have to specifically be about the theme as its main topic…only have the theme as the underlying concept of the article.
Analyze the material in the article to discover/define the author’s perspective and biases with regards to the topic being discussed (i.e. the paper is exploring what the author of the article ACTUALLY personally thinks about the topic they are writing about rather than what they’re actually writing–this is NOT a summary of the article but an exploration of the subtext).
Why are certain phrases and quotes (from other individuals) employed by the author? What do those phrases and quotes say about the author’s biases?  Why did they select those quotes?
How are “facts” utilized by the author? How are the “facts” presented? How does this indicate the author’s “real” opinion on the topic?
What biases come out due to these methods? How does the author’s public verbiage belie their actual personal/private opinions/feelings?
Employ quotes from the article to substantiate (“back up”) your claims and observations. 
NOTE that the use of general knowledge encyclopedias in any format is strictly prohibited.

Fill out 3 sections, a paragraph, references, and a reflection.
All instructions included in doc.
Must use APA 7th edition.
Please message me if you have any questions.

Be the teacher: For your main post, select any one of this week’s assigned stories and briefly identify and explain what you believe its central theme to be. Provide one quotation from the story that you best believe supports your identification of the theme. Then, juxtapose this story and theme from Week 3 with a completely different theme from a story in Week 1 or 2. Explain how they differ but why each could be considered an important theme/lesson. 
Address your classmates and explaining it to them as if they are your students, and need the material explained to them in a professional but conversational tone- no stuffy “professor-speak” allowed! 
In your explanation, include a brief personal experience or example that helps illustrate your story’s theme, or the concept of theme in general. In other words, what is a theme you recognize in your own life, and how might you explain that to students? 
Then, at the bottom of your post, write at least one relevant, engaging discussion question about this week’s assigned literature/author. 
The question shouldn’t be purposefully confusing or difficult, nor should it be overly obvious or simplistic. 
Any question should require a short sentence or sentences to successfully answer- no multiple-choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank questions allowed.
Continue discussion of questions and answers as the week progresses. When responding to a classmate, be sure to reply meaningfully with an answer to their question(s).  If possible, respond to classmates who haven’t already had their question answered by another student.  
Be sure to use MLA citation formatting for parenthetical/in-text citation and works cited citation.  
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Task 1: Submit your main response to the discussion forum prompt on or before the required date/time by clicking the ‘**REPLY HERE**’ link. Your main response should be substantive, addressing each required part of the forum prompt. Your main response should be at least 175 words.  
Reminders:
Observe proper MLA documentation formatting style. MLA style should be observed when quoting/paraphrasing information, ideas, or opinions from approved primary or secondary sources. 
Outside scholarly sources beyond the primary literature (see below), if used, should be used sparingly and follow MLA documentation guidelines. Review the “How-To Guide: MLA Formatting and Citations” page (linked in class) as needed. 
Approved sources for all graded assignments are restricted to the assigned primary texts/literature, resources linked in class, and scholarly articles found via the GMC Library databases. 
This means no AI-generated material and no general website, blog, etc. material should be used in general or as a source in this class. 
More information regarding discussion forum guidelines (including the rubric used to grade discussion forum activities) can be found in the “Civil Discourse Forum Guidelines” section of the Course Syllabus.
MLA documentation guidelines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Construct a 750-1,000 word (3-4 pages properly formatted) literature review using the resources you have found over the past few units (you may use the resources briefly discussed in your Introduction if you wish). Use the discussion and samples to help guide the structure of your literature review. You should use a total of at least six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources in your literature review, synthesizing resources based on common themes.
The Preliminary Works Cited/References page should include a minimum of six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources.
TOPIC: HOW DO AUTISTIC SINGLE PARENTS COPE VS A MORE TRADTIONAL FAMILY, AUTISM POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL BEHAVIORS AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html 
Essay is a rough draft based on the information in the article