Category: English

Answer each question in about 3 well-developed paragraphs. This is open book and open notes. Each answer is worth 20 points. Submit through Turnitin. 
1. Cordelia and Isabella are both praised for their characters. Discuss at least 1 flaw and 1 virtue in each character. Include a quote by each to support your views. 
2. Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and Ophelia are both tragic couples. If you were a relationship counselor, what advice would you give to each of these 4 characters to prevent their tragedies? Use at least 1 quote from each play to support one of your points. 
3. Was Titania in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” right or wrong to refuse to let her godchild join her husband’s court? Explain why. In the end she releases him to her husband Oberon: Is this right or wrong for her to change her mind and give him up? Explain your answer. Use at least 1 quote for support.
4. Hamlet and Lear both make mistakes and learn lessons from their errors. Which one learns and grows more by their play’s end? Please use 1 quote from each play to support your answer. 
5. On a lighter note, describe 3 aspects of Beatrice and Benedick’s love that makes their relationship a good one. Include at least one quote and explain how it supports your ideas.  
liet? Give 3 reasons for your decision.
4. Compare and contrast Hamlet and Ophelia for 3 ways they resemble each other and for 2 ways they are different. 
5. What 3 lessons does King Lear learn by the end of the play?

For your final, you will be constructing a research paper based on The Great Gatsby. In eight-ten pages, you will be discussing your chosen topic, which you will then develop into a well-planned and thorough essay. Your essay will consist of:
your introduction and polished thesis statement that will reflect your chosen topic;
five-seven well-thought-out body paragraphs;
an effective conclusion;
five outside sources to support your thesis, three of which come from the Morgan State Library, JSTOR, or Google Scholar;
MLA format (Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, heading, header with page numbers, two quotes per body paragraph- one quote from your outside source, one from the novel), and your Works Cited page (separate page) to include full citations of your source material (the novel and your five outside sources). If you’ve done your Annotated Bibliography, all you’ll have to do is copy the citations (not the paragraphs that went with the citations) and then paste them onto your Works Cited page (and include The Great Gatsby).

create a critisim essay Exploring gender dynamics in Little Snow White and the Mirror of Matsuyama. Choose a common theme, topic, or motif in these two works. Your essay should explore the following:
Similarities and differences between how these works treat your theme, topic, or motif.
The significance of your theme, topic, or motif.
The main point you want to make about the theme, topic, or motif—in other words, an argumentative thesis statement.
Details from the literary works that support your thesis statement.
This essay should follow the basic introduction, body, conclusion structure learned in College Composition. Since this is a literary criticism essay, your analysis and argument should be rooted in a close reading of your literary sources. For this essay, you’ll also need to use supporting sources. In many cases, you’ll find that scholarly research has been done on your specific literary works. In other cases, you may look for research related to the genre, theme, or historical context of these works. You must have at least 5 sources. (This is a minimum number. There is no maximum number.) Your sources must include at least 2 works of literature that we have studied during this course. Your sources must also include at least 2 academic journal articles or academic nonfiction books. Your essay should be at least 1200 words long.

Assessment 3: Short Essay, due Friday May 17
The second and third assessments in this subject, the Annotated Bibliography and the Short Essay, are designed to work together as a pairing. Together they form the Portfolio, as described in the subject learning guide, pp 10-11. Earlier in the semester you chose which of the three topics for 2024 you would study:
Public policy and the Pandemic
The Voice referendum: why did it fail?
Australia’s fraught relations with China
The Third Assessment, the Short Essay, forms the second part of the Portfolio. It should be about 750 words, and is due at midnight, Friday May 17, through Turnitin.
For the second assessment you conducted and wrote-up a brief annotated bibliography of publications in the area of your chosen theme. There you were summarising the different points of view in a number of selected publications in your area.
In the third assessment you will draw upon the research and reading you did for the second assessment to respond to the questions/problems in the Portfolio document using your own words. Here you are presenting your own point of view, grounded in the facts, evidence and expert opinions from your sources.
Note that you do not have to make direct use of all of the sources from your annotated bibliography. And you should feel free to add new sources as they come to hand.
The tasks for this assessment are very simple, and are listed in the Learning Guide and the Portfolio document, as follows:
The Indigenous Voice Referendum: Why Did it Fail?: write a short essay of 750 words or less presenting your own reasoned point of view on the strengths and weaknesses of the ‘Voice’ as a vehicle for reconciliation, drawing upon the sources from your annotated bibliography. Answer the following question: what in your view are the most important reasons the referendum failed?
Public Policy and the Pandemic: write a short essay of 750 words or less presenting your own reasoned point of view on the strengths and weaknesses of public policy during Covid, drawing upon the sources from your annotated bibliography. Answer the following question: what did Australian public policy, nationally and at state level, get right and wrong in relation to Covid?
Australia’s Fraught Relations with China: write a short essay of 750 words or less presenting your own reasoned point of view on the future of the Australia-China economic and political relationship, drawing upon literature from the same area or areas you studied for Part 1. Answer the following question: is it possible for Australia to balance Chiona’s status as our major trading partner with the fact that China is not an ally, and may potentially be a foe?
As you’ll recall from the second assessment, Lauren Tupper from the Library has kindly recorded a video presentation to assist you with researching and reading for the portfolio. This video, and the PowerPoints from it, are still relevant to the Short Essay:
HUMN 1052 Library session Autumn 2024.mp4
You will need to reference using the Harvard referencing system. See the StyleGuide here:
https://library.westernsydney.edu.au/main/sites/default/files/pdf/cite_Harvard.pdf

Here it is.
Please write a brief response to discuss her main ideas. Include some discussion of how she develops her ideas as well as the suggestions at the end.

I’m writing this essay on the book “There There” by Tommy Orange. I really need someone who has read the book and is familiar with it. Use the quotes from the outline and explan them as simple. If you need to read the book let me know and follow the instructions from the Response to Orange.pdf. If you have any questions let me know. And I will be back for a final draft on wednesday and the final draft is due friday.

Reading Journal #3
Provided a sample essay and our rubric in the files (:
For RJ3, you will select a passage (somewhere between one to three sentences) from either of the final two chapters of Frankenstein to analyze. You should select a passage that resonates with you. It is important that you pick a passage that speaks to you rather than one you think will impress me.
Please type and print the document. Please refer to the sample below in order to see how to format the passage and paper.
RJ3 will include two parts:
analysis
personal reflection
Analysis
Your analysis should be 3-4 paragraphs in length.
You do not need to introduce or summarize any part of the text.
You should not include any first/second persons or banned words.
There should be NO quotes from the text (everything should be analyzed in your own words).
You must analyze the importance of the passage within the part of the story that the passage appears in and in the context of the larger scope of the story.
Please read this RR sample to help guide you.
Personal Reflection
This is where you can use the first person (but NO second person).
Must only be a single paragraph.
Must be the final paragraph of the RJ.
Must reflect on the passage, perhaps why you selected it and what resonated with you about it
Rubric
Please make sure to review the rubric before you submit–use it as a checklist, that way you will ensure you don’t miss anything. As a reminder, this assignment should not exceed two pages.
POINTERS
You do NOT need to introduce the author or story. Just dive right into the analysis.
All RRs must adhere to MLA rules.
PLEASE make sure that your title is DESCRIPTIVE.
Using the author’s name and THEIR TITLE is not acceptable; it is THEIR WORK so YOUR title cannot be someone else’s title
No banned words.
You will analyze in your own words, and you will not use any quotations at all.
You will NOT include your opinions or biases in the analysis.

Write your thesis and claims based on the model below:
Debate: Should we or should we not allow single-use plastic water bottles?
Basic thesis:
We should ban single-use plastic water bottles. Developed:
We should ban single-use plastic water bottles because plastic is not biodegradable; in addition, the bottles contain BPAs, which are highly toxic to humans. Finally, the bottles find their way into the world’s water systems, particularly oceans, where these bottles have formed a “plastic tide” hundreds of miles long. Others, however, argue that the bottles are convenient and should be continued. Claims:
1. Bottles are non-biodegradable
Source 1
Source 4
Bottles contain BPAs
Source 2
Source 3
Bottles form “plastic tide” in the world’s oceans
Source 1
Source 2
Counterclaim: The bottles should not be banned because they are convenient
Source 3
1.Also write a counter claim paragraph

Paper 3 Guidelines: Analyze a Film
3. Justifications and Claims
Overview: Requirements and Guidelines
Choose any film (a feature-length, short, or animated work) and write a 6 to 8 page (note: 6 FULL is ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, so aim for 7 pages) evaluative analysis of your subject using any combination of the critical strategies discussed in this class, such as the issue, conclusions, and reasons you feel are presented in the movie.  
The paper should demonstrate your ability to balance close textual analysis with MLA-style research on a broader topic supported by the text, or movie in this case, under analysis. Your thesis should forward an arguable interpretation and evaluation of the movies’s positive or negative value or impact, skill effectiveness or not, or significance or lack of significance,  according to the criteria of any of the critical strategies covered so far. 
Find some main, arguable point you will make about the movie, and then prove that point.  Remember that words like “shows” and “displays” are summative words, not evaluative.  You must continue to go beyond mere summary by displaying analytically critical judgement.  Yes, that’s right, you must logically argue, based on analytic evidence, in favor of your educated opinion.
Whatever you do, you must make a judgement, an evaluation, which you express clearly in your thesis and then prove through your critical analysis and logical presentation of evidentiary details and examples.
Guidelines
Your essay should:
Have a compelling, original title.
Put forward a thesis that asserts an arguable evaluative claim about the text based on any of the critical strategies we have discussed.
Include at least four reliable, scholarly or professional sources that support your observations/analysis about the text.
Be 6 1/2 – 8 pages in length, submitted in MLA format with in-text citations and a separate Works Cited page. 
Examples of Critical Strategies
For a documentary, analyze for any of the following:
Soundness of Argument
Issue
Conclusion
Reasons
Evidence
Ambiguous Language
Context
Logical Fallacies
Misleading Information
Credibility of Data
Focus of paper: An argument about the movie’s impact or value based on the soundness of its arguments.
For a fictional movie, analyze for any of the following:
Film’s Significance
Figurative Language
Literary Elements
Plot Structure
Mood/Tone
Characters
Any element of literary criticism
Any element of literary analysis
Focus of paper: An argument about the movie’s significance or value based on the power of its figurative and literary elements.
These are just examples. If you want to talk about issues and conclusions in a fictional movie, that’s fine, too.
Analyze, Don’t Summarize
Remember, this paper is not about summary. It is about analysis and critical judgement and evaluation. Figure out your evaluative thesis, and conduct an argument by using specific examples and analysis of the examples to show supportive evidence to prove your thesis. Having a clear judgement – an evaluative thesis – will help you stay on track because it provides the purpose of the paper, namely prove the thesis!

1. Incomplete Report. The Works Cited page needs to be its own page after the conclusion. After that, you need a list of all the poems that you read for the report (you were supposed to read several). After that, I want copies of poems that you analyzed inside the report (these are called “inside sources.” Remove the “My Favorite Poem”–that’s not the assignment. 
2. Works Cited page:
a. You need hanging indentation for the two entries/citations.
b. Remove n.d from the first entry
c. Article titles require quotation marks around them.
d. Check your current MLA–your entries are not quite right. 
3. I don’t think that an obituary is a good choice for any source in this assignment. I recommend that you remove this and find a better source. 
5. Intro: It’s too long. Please cut this down. 
6. Intro: You must include one in-text citation at the tail end of the introduction that follows MLA Guidelines. 
7. You are missing the assigned body paragraph. See assignment 
8. Remove the random words Literary Criticism. 
9. The Poetry Archive source literally is titled “Biography” so this will not work as a literary criticism source. You will need to find a new source and borrow something else…you might need to write a new conclusion, in fact. Having already helped others with this poet, she was difficult to find quality sources, so I totally understand where you might have had some difficulty.