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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.

Mock interview for a speech. My dream job( Sonographer at Pediatric Hospital). I attach all the instructions and the outline sample.

Use this ROUGH PLAN worksheet Download ROUGH PLAN worksheetto help you plan you response to the Assignment #1 writing prompt. The short story I chose was the Cast of Amontillado, by Edgar Allen Poe, and the required and chosen essaus and the short story will be included in the files: FILL OUT THIS CHART AS THE ASSINGMENT
OPTIONS for Submitting ROUGH PLAN: fill in worksheet and submit as pdf
print out worksheet, fill out by hand, and submit scan or photograph of completed work
copy format of worksheet in a word document and submit typed assignment as word document
How a ROUGH PLAN works
Once you’ve generated some ideas about your possible responses to Assignment #1 through brainstorming, focused freewriting, clustering, listing, or your preferred method of prewriting, try to impose some tentative order on your ideas. First, create a rough thesis by responding directly to the Assignment #1 prompt. You can use the language of the prompt if it helps you to more clearly express your response.
Next, think about the points you need to make in order to support your thesis. These points will become your topic sentences.
Choose concrete examples from “Hills Like White Elephants,” ONE other short story from the list, and ONE of the critical articles that support your thesis and help the reader to understand your thinking about the topic of subtlety and omission in the short story. Explain how the examples you’ve selected advance your thesis. The ROUGH PLAN worksheet asks you to fill in a “Purpose” for each paragraph. Another way to think about this purpose is to think about what the paragraph is “doing” to advance your thesis. Refer to the list below to help you think about what your paragraph is “doing” in the essay.
Use as many paragraph sections as you need; depending on your thesis, you may need fewer or more sections.
What is my Paragraph DOING?
Here are some suggestions for how to think about what your paragraph is “doing” (this list is not exhaustive):
Stating: Making an assertion.
Supporting: Providing evidence for an assertion.
Concurring: Agreeing with another author’s assertion.
Qualifying: Restricting the meaning of an assertion already made.
Negating: Offering reasoning or evidence to demonstrate the falsehood of an assertion.
Expanding: Stating more comprehensively an idea or assertion already expressed.
Analyzing: Breaking an assertion down into its constituent parts in order to clarify or evaluate it.
Describing: Naming one or more features of an object or concept, to help the reader imagine it
precisely or understand it fully.
Comparing and contrasting: Examining objects alongside each other for the purpose of clarifying their
features, evaluating them or noting differences and similarities.
Evaluating: Making a judgment about something discussed previously
Synthesizing: Combining elements of previous paragraphs into a coherent whole; often this includes
presenting a new perspective on the subject.
Summarizing: Restating the principal idea of an argument or point already introduced.
Transitioning: Moving from one aspect of the argument to another by connecting the points for the reader.
I will upload additional files and the required documents
Rubric
A#1 Rough Plan Rubric
A#1 Rough Plan Rubric
CriteriaRatingsPts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescription of criterion
30 to >27.0 ptsExcellent / Exemplary
Rough Plan is impressively thorough in its inclusion of specific points and supporting examples. In addition, the plan is well-written. Reader has a strong sense of writer’s thesis and the direction of the essay’s argument.
27 to >24.0 ptsGood / Above Average
Rough Plan contains some concrete details and is clearly written. Reader has a good sense of writer’s thesis and the general direction of the essay’s argument.
24 to >21.0 ptsAcceptable / Average
Rough Plan contains general points and support, but reader has some sense of the essay’s tentative thesis and direction.
21 to >18.0 ptsBelow Average / Needs Improvement
Rough Plan is overly general and superficial. Reader cannot identify writer’s thesis and/or the direction of the essay.
18 to >0 ptsFar Below Average
Rough Plan does not meet minimum requirements of assignment and/or student did not submit the assignment.
30 pts
Total Points: 30

write an annotated bibliography with five different sources that are all about internal conflict. The annotation should be a summary of the source being used, and how it relates to internal conflict. Each annotation for each source must be 100 words at least and please stick to using books and articles. please use the source provided as the primary source. 
primary source: https://bgsp.edu/avatar-the-last-airbender/
and use these two sources:
adaption in the face of internal conflict   https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12983.
Rules of Riot : Internal Conflict and the Law of War (1st ed.). Princeton University Press,. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400867400
the other two sources can be whatever you choose but just make them be from a book or article like the two I provided. 

In this paper, you will employ revision strategies by revising a page from your Rhetorical Analysis paper. In addition to this revision, you will also compose a reflective memo that details the changes you’ve made in the revision and how they reflect your development as a writer and thinker over this semester. That is, in the memo you want to explain to me not just what you revised but why you revised in the way you did. 
Your Revision
You will choose a page from your Rhetorical Analysis essay. To guide your revision, you will consider the writing strategies you’ve learned throughout the semester, review the feedback I’ve given you on your essay, reconsider the suggestions students have made on your drafts, and reflect on your own ideas and concerns that you articulated in your reflection assignments. You will then decide which feedback to incorporate and which of your own new ideas to incorporate and revise your draft in way that – to the best of your ability – addresses the core issues in your first draft. Your revision will demonstrate your assessments of your writing and your mastery over the skills you’ve identified as critical to the revision. The idea here is that you demonstrate how you’ve continued to fine-tune your writing skills over the course of the semester and that you can now use these new understandings to revise your work. Your revised essay should reflect your end-of-the-semester knowledge and rhetorical expertise.
Understand that this will entail doing more than simply fixing spelling mistakes and grammar – you need to substantially change the page you’re revising, whether by changing the organization, adding key information, or rewriting segments all-together. If in doubt, consider reading the original page once, then putting it away and rewriting the page entirely – this may show you how your instincts as a writer now have changed compared to you instincts at the start of the semester.
Reflection
The three-page memo is your chance to justify these changes, as well as your chance to show me how your writing has evolved over the semester. If you find that you’re unable to come up with 3 whole pages when it comes to reflect on your changes, it means that you haven’t done enough to change your draft and you need to go back to the drawing board. This should be a substantial and thoughtful attempt at growing and evolving in your writing and self-reflection. However, those three pages do not need to be entirely about your revision specifically – you can use this as a springboard to talk about how your writing and thinking has evolved overall this semester. Just make sure that you’ve explained your revision enough so your reader clearly understands what you’ve changed and why that change was so significant.
What to include to receive full credit:
The original page that you’ve chosen to revise, looking the way way it looked when you submitted it earlier in the semester
The newly revised version of that page (clearly labeled). This revision must be substantial and be more than small fixes.
A three-page (minimum) reflection on both your reasoning behind those changes and how they reflect on your evolution as a writer and/or thinker over the course of the semester. This reflection can talk about more than the revision itself, but it must clearly demonstrate why the changes you’ve made are significant. 

You are writing a paper that is to be a minimum of 1,000 words and that details your research on the topic you have chosen. This is where all of the hard work you put into learning about your topic pays off. Use that research to explain the issue/problem to your audience (its history and current state), explain your chosen plan of action (after you have determined it has the most benefit), and explain what you expect to accomplish on your issue/problem. Make sure you turn the sources your researched into a proper bibliography in the MLA format.
Specific Requirements 
Must be a minimum of 1,000 words in the body of the paper
Must be double spaced
Must use 12 pt font (peferably Calibri, or Times New Roman)
Must have 1 inch margins
Must have a Works Cited page in MLA format
Proposal Format
Section 1: Identifying the Policy that needs change
Describe the policy/policy-change in detail. Include which level of government is responsible for addressing your concern, the historical context surrounding the issue/policy, and provide evidence for support.
Describe the importance and timeliness of the issue. Explain why you selected this issue to address.
Identify who is impacted by the policy and how they are impacted
Required word count: Minimum of 400 words
Section 2: Suggested Method of Policy Influence and Plan of Action
Summarize the method of policy influence you believe will best address the issue you’ve selected and why.
Outline your proposed plan of action, including a review of each step of the action plan
How will you motivate or engage others to actively advocate or participate in your plan?
What objections (same as counter claim) might your plan face?
Required word count: Minimum of 400 words
Section 3:  Desired Outcome of Plan
What effects are you hoping to accomplish with your plan?
What can citizens do to support your plan?
Required word count: Minimum of 200 words

This essay assignment, you will write an analysis paper looking at how Critical Race Theory (systemic racism in American society) relates to the Maxsons, the family in August Wilson’s play, “Fences” (Literature 657-709). You are only allowed to use this play for this essay.
Your introduction must include a one-sentence summary of the play. The summary must include the full title of the play and the full name of the author. The introduction must end with your thesis, arguing on how racism affects Troy and his family.
For your body paragraphs, focus on Troy and show how being African American damaged his dream of becoming a professional baseball player.
For the following body paragraphs, focus on how his shattered American dream affected the rest of his family – his wife, Rose, and his sons, Cory and Lyons.
Use only the given play as support in your body paragraphs. Do not do any research. You must also explain the relationship between the support and your topic sentence in the body paragraphs. Do not summarize the whole play again in the body paragraphs. What I am looking for is your close reading on particular lines or sections of the play. Also, only use direct, not indirect, quotations from the play as support.
The essay must be at least 1,500 words, typed and double-spaced. It must include an eye-catching title and a Work Cited page, following the MLA Format.Links to an external site.
Introduction
___ An opening statement to attract the reader to the thesis statement.
___ A summary of each work that is only one sentence long and mentions the author’s full name, the title of the work and the key points of the work.
___ A strong, well-focused Thesis Statement that reveals everything about the essay.
Body Paragraphs
___ Transitions between each paragraph (“First,…”; “Second,…”; “On the other hand,…” etc.).
___ A strong, well-focused topic sentence related to the thesis statement.
___ Support, presented as direct quotations taken from assigned poems. It must be introduced by a lead-in (such as, who stated the quote) and/or followed by the correct in-text citation. Note: For most lead-ins, use the present tense.
___ Explanations, showing the logical connection between the support and the topic sentence/thesis statement.
Conclusion
___ Restatement (not a repeat) of the thesis.
___ Final thoughts for the reader.
Other notes
___ Follows the directions of the assignment.
___ Title Page included. Avoidance of a generic title.
___ Correct usage of MLA in Works Cited Page.
___ Correct usage of MLA in-text citations.
___ Avoidance of plagiarism.
___ Usage of specific, detailed and concise sentences and active voice.
___ Avoidance of wordiness.
___ Avoidance of vague, confusing, awkward sentence structures.
___ Avoidance of redundancies and repetitive phrases.
___ Avoidance of irrelevant sentences or phrases to the thesis, the topic sentence and/or poems.
___ Usage of formal, academic language.
___ Avoidance of first-person (“I”) and second-person (“you”).
___ Avoidance of contractions (“don’t”, “haven’t”, etc.).
___ Avoidance of spelling errors.
___ Avoidance of grammatical errors (run-ons, fragments, dangling/misplaced modifiers, inconsistency of verbs, inconsistency of pronouns, etc.).
___ Avoidance of punctuation errors.
___ If a direct quotation is longer than four lines, it is set off from the text and the quotation marks are omitted (MLA regulation).
___ Titles of books and websites are italicized.
___ Titles of short works (such as short stories and poems) are enclosed in quotation marks.

As an 22-year-old American and aspiring graduate student, you have an interview at Oxford University in Thom Yorke’s hometown. Your interviewers are: (a) Sir Gordon Downton-Downs, a 45-year-old aristocrat who holds a Ph.D. in Classics (Latin and Greek) from Oxford. He is wary, shall we say, of your ability as an American to fit into the university, although he’s willing to be proven wrong. (b) Gillian Feathenan, a 23-year-old radical who’s just graduated from Oxford with a degree in English and lit Postmodern Culture. She, too, is la tad suspicious of you because she doesn’t believe you took a hard-line stand in favor of the striking students and farmers in New York State, where you grew up and went to undergraduate school. She also, to be honest, has a crush on you; she doesn’t want this to come up during the interview, but it does. Handle her flirtation carefully! (c) The final member of the interviewing committee is the ghost of Joe Orton. Before his every comment, the wooden windows rise up and a chilling breeze blows into the room. You find it somewhat refreshing.
[All of the Complications need to be included in the text.]
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.. is nervous because he or she is waiting for his or her
score on the Coral Gables Realtor’s Exam. He or she is five years older than you and doesn’t really like the idea of your moving to England for college. After the interview has started, he or she calls every five minutes to try to sabotage the interview. This has to be a part of your text.
The Interview
Each of your three interviews has three questions to ask you, with optional follow-ups.
(That’s nine questions total.) They are going to gauge your reactions to the reading, viewing, and listening list you have followed in preparation for this meeting (which happens to be all that we have studied this semester). Because they do not entirely trust you as an American, sometimes they are kind but sometimes they are cruel. Their questions range from the general (intended to let them know what stereotypes and preconceived notions you have of England) and specific (aimed to let them know how carefully you read the required texts). They will ask, and you will answer, specific questions!
The Format
The paper should be written in description and dialogue, like a play. Write yourself in the third person in italics, for example:
Eleanor sighs audibly. She realizes she had too many cups of English Breakfast Tea this morning at her bed-and-breakfast. She wishes she had also had some avocado toast.
he dialogue should look like this:
GHOST OF JOE ORTON: Let me be transparent, Get it, Peter? I’m a ghost!
The Distraction from Your iPhone
Johnny Depp is now in his 168th week of his counter-defamation suit against his former wife, Amber Heard. You’ve been watching it for almost a year, and you can’t stop but watching it in your lap, hopefully unnoticed by your interviewers. For full credit, you must include excerpts from the actual 2022 legal testimony. You’re also waiting for the latest single to drop from. Lil Nas X, who’s recently dating your cousin from Nashville;
this single may or may not drop during your interview.
The Complications, Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5
At the three-minute mark, one of the interviewers asks a question that seems a tad too personal; your character gets upset, but eventually bounces back.
At the five-minute mark, an Olde English Sheepdog wanders in, creating a brief havoc.
She seems to have eaten something she shouldn’t have and feels demonstrably guilty.
At the seven-minute mark, you receive a call from a prominent American back in the states; his or her call changes your interview considerably, for better or worse.
At the nine-minute mark, a WWII-vintage RAF fighter plane crash-lands outside the classroom in which you are interviewing. A pilot with a handle-bar mustache and a bright yellow scarf wanders into the classroom to ask you the final questin of your interview.

THIS IS WHAT IT WRITES ON MY ASSIGNMENT PAGE 
Building on your close analysis skills, you will now zoom out and shift from a primarily academic to a popular/public audience. Imagine you are writing a cultural studies piece for a venue like Slate, Atlantic, New Yorker, New Republic, LA Review of Books, or Jacobin. You will zoom in on a few key moments or scenes from the text, film, or TV show you’re analyzing, but your goal now is to situate that text within broader cultural and artistic conversations in order to make an argument for the text’s political, social, or philosophical significance. For example, you could examine Anatomy of a Fall as an innovative take on the whodunit, one that draws attention to the slipperiness of narrative. How does the film draw on but also depart from thrillers and mysteries, and how does its genre allow it to illuminate something about narrative in unique ways—ways that other genres or forms perhaps couldn’t or won’t? Or how does The Good Place draw on and innovate within the tradition of the sitcom in order to stage new conversations about what it means to be a good person? And why does this matter?
Consider a contemporary (from the last five or 10 years) text, film, or TV series and analyze the way it innovates (or fails to innovate!) within a genre or genres. Think about how and why this matters. How does the text’s use of genre(s) or tradition(s) illuminate cultural, political, or social questions? You can choose a text that asks interesting and complicated questions by innovating within a genre, or you can choose a text you think is dangerous or problematic (or simply disappointing) for its use or misuse of genre.
– THE MOVIE I PICKED IS SPLIT BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN
– YOU ALSO NEED TO PROVIDE A WORK CITED PAGE 
THE LINK I PROVIDED IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT’S SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE

Assignment:
Write an explanatory essay in which you discuss how and why two sources were written differently. Specifically, you’ll examine these sources from a rhetorical perspective as you explore their goals and strategies.
In a 1,000-word essay, explain how two articles are written differently about the same topic. Specifically, how do they present their ideas? What kinds of rhetorical choices do they make? What vocabulary do they use? How long are their articles? What pictures have they chosen? What are the political implications for both articles?
Articles:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/25/the-covid-bump
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/covid-vaccines-an-update-on-balancing-risks-and-benefits/
Types of Content:
In your essay, you might discuss questions of style and tone, vocabulary, background knowledge, sensitivity to different topics, initial beliefs (mythos), structure and more. If it relates to how these news sources and articles are presented, then it will work this project.
Organization:
This essay must include an introduction, thesis statement, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a conclusion. (Thesis sentence must be at the end of the intro paragraph.)
Purpose:
This assignment gives you the chance to practice organizing complex ideas, structure your paragraphs, and practice your mastery of academic English. This essay should demonstrate your understanding of essay structure and standardized language.
Requirements:
1,000-word essay, MLA Format, word count
Assessment:
Your essay will be assessed based on its prompt compliance, structure, style/tone, and mechanics.