Category: Literature

I have to write a question paper which consists of 2 questions regarding the poet Cathy Song and her works, including “Picture Bride.” It should be 1~2 pages. Each question should contain 1. the question itself, 2. the importance of the question or why the question occurred, 3.expected answer for the question. The questions should contain deep thoughts about the themes and ourselves. Form should be in MLA,Times New Roman font, 12 point,single spaced. Number of citations should not be over 2. It is okay to have no citations at all.

Prompt: In Part 1 of the essay, explore the origins and purposes of established literary theories. For Part 2, create a literary theory, drawing inspiration from the foundational principles and objectives that guided the development of existing theories. (think of it more as a cultural or contextual theory, it doesn’t have to reflect literature). Part 1 Literary Theory Analysis
– Choose 1 (at least): Structuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism and/or Queer Theory, Marxism, New Historicism, and Post Colonialism. – Using at least one established “Critical Literary Theory” of your choosing, construct a “lens” with which to analyze one or more short stories from Stories of Your Life & Others by Ted Chiang. Three direct quotes minimum from Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.
– (At least) one direct use of at least one Literary Theory presented in Telescopes and Spyglasses: Using Literary Theories in High School (no direct quotes mandatory)
– One reference to a scholastic, peer-reviewed source (this can be a quote, data, or summary)
– Analyze at least 1 short story from Stories of Your Life & Others from the class using one or more Critical Literary Theories that you chose.
Part 2 Make Your Own Literary Theory
– 2 paragraphs minimum. This is meant to be a creative and fun exercise where you can use your analytical mind to analyze something, find the critique, and turn it into a “theory” of some kind. It can be serious in tone but it can also be goofy and silly if that’s easier for you. Guidelines:
Understanding the Foundations: Reflect on the historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts that shaped the creation of the literary theories you studied. Consider the problems or gaps they aimed to address and the principles that guided their development.
Developing Your Theory: Create a new literary theory that responds to a current need or gap in literary, media, or cultural analysis. Your theory should be informed by the foundational principles of existing theories but should also introduce your innovative perspective.
Theory Tenets: Articulate the key principles or tenets of your new theory. Explain how these tenets offer a unique approach to interpreting literature and how they relate to the foundational principles of the theories you studied.
Critical Analysis: Analyze the motivations behind your theory’s creation. Compare and contrast your theory’s objectives and approaches with those of the established theories, discussing how your theory builds upon or diverges from traditional literary analysis.
Application: Apply your theory to a specific text of your choice (TV, movie, or other is fine too). Demonstrate how your theory sheds new light on the text or offers a novel interpretation. Use examples from the text to illustrate your theory’s application.
Name Your Theory: Give your theory a name of whatever you think is a good fit and describe why. Please avoid overly controversial content, however, remember this is just an exercise.
Don’t overthink it. Take your Literary Theory, make it a ‘portable idea’, and then see if and how it shows up in Stories of Your Life & Others.

Discuss the following:   
After reading the Chopin and Gilman stories, engage in discussion to analyze the points of view of both stories.
What insight does each point of view reveal to us as readers?
Instructions:
Create an original posting and then respond to two peers.
Select the “Click to Launch” button above to get started.
Grading Expectations for Discussions
Your Original Response Needs to:
Contain at least 200 words.
Thoroughly address the topic prompt, using citations as appropriate.
Format any included citations using the APA style.
Be submitted by the end of Thursday to allow faculty and classmates time to respond.
Both Responses to your Peers Need to:
Contain at least 50 words.
Expand upon ideas expressed in your classmates’ threads by adding new ideas to points that you agree with and/or explaining areas of disagreement.
Be posted intermittently throughout the forum. Do not complete all of the replies at one time; instead, allow for conversation to develop by posting multiple times throughout the week.
Be posted by Friday of the week by 11:59 p.m.

Discuss the following: After reading the Chopin and Gilman stories, engage in discussion to analyze the points of view of both stories.
What insight does each point of view reveal to us as readers?
Your Original Response Needs to:
Contain at least 300 words.
Thoroughly address the topic prompt, using citations as appropriate.
Format any included citations using the APA style.

You’ve finished The Hate You Give, and now it’s your turn to write your own short
story in the Young Adult Genre.
Your story should:
• Be 5-6 double-spaced pages
• Involve a unique main character, and/or narrator, it MUST be a teenager
someone between the ages of 12-18. Young Adult fiction is also usually
written in 1st person.
• Employ writing that is accessible to an adolescent. Avoid language that is
too easy (no need to dumb down language too much), or too complex.
• Demonstrate the perspective of a teenager. While the subject matter does
not have to be about teen life, it should express a topic from the perspective
of a 12-18 year old.
• There must be some kind of conflict—and the conflict must be presented
from the eyes of your teenage main character(s).
• Have a”hopeful” ending. While there doesn’t need to be happy ending,
young adult authors like to write what they call “hopeful” endings. A clear
depiction of what the main character(s) learned from the story is important.
It’s also important to have some kind of closure in your tale.
Elements of Popular YA Fiction:
• Reflects young adults’ age and development by addressing their reading
abilities, thinking levels, and interest levels.
• Deals with contemporary issues, problems, and experiences with
characters to whom adolescents can relate. This includes topics such as
dealing with parents and other adults in authority; facing illness and death;
dealing with peer pressure, specifically relating to drugs, alcohol, and sexual
experimentation; and facing the realities of addiction and pregnancy.
• Considers contemporary world perspectives including cultural, social, and
gender diversity; environmental issues; global politics; and international
interdependence.

I have three essays needed to be done by tomorrow one argumentative essay based on the book sula with debate questions, the second being a synthesis essay based on the great gatsby book with 3 sources needed that I can provide, and a final essay being a rhetorical analysis of the Kendrick Lamar and drake beef in hip hop, I have the assignment overview and objective with instructions 

Each post, 500 at least words in length. Read all the information that is posted, regarding author, historical, and textual background before you respond to the thread. You should include quotes from the text as reference in proper MLA documentation which will improve your grade.
Read Kate Chopin′s ″The Story of an Hour″ (in Course Documents), while annotating the text and/or
taking notes. Discuss your response to
the piece including what you liked and why, what you didn’t like and why, and
one theme you see Chopin trying to get across in/through the story.
WHY?- This is the most important question to ask always, followed closely by
HOW? This is because these are the only
questions that elicit more than a one word answer, which is all WHAT, WHERE,
WHO, and WHEN questions usually require. WHY and HOW questions provide you with the most information, which is
why, when children are learning about things and the world, they are
continually asking WHY? Because this provides the most information. Therefore, all semester when you are reading
these texts you should ask yourself WHY?, why is a character doing this, why is
he saying this, why is the author creating this situation/scenario, etc. and
what does this all add up to or what message is he/she trying to get
across. This will help you to perform
thematic readings of the text, delve deeper, and get a better understanding of
the time of composition of any text, the author’s views, etc.

In my essay I’m going to talk about the symbolisms of death and the passing of time in the mentioned works of W. B. Yeats. I’m going to be connecting the poems based on similarities and differences and I will also talking about them individually during the essay. The main point that I’m going to talk about is the significance of passing and W. B. Yeat’s way of putting it into words. 
Introduction to the writer 
Main themes  
The atmosphere of Yeats’ works 
Difference in the images of death in the poems 
Representation of passing away 
Difference in meaning 
The significance of death symbolism in poems in general 
Exploration of mortality 
Yeats’ philosophical reflections on existence and the afterlife 
Conclusion 
Dalsimer, Adele M. “By Memory Inspired: WB Yeats’s” September 1913″ and the Irish Political Ballad.” Colby Quarterly 12.1 (1976): 6. 
McBean, Cary Albert. “Antithesis and reconciliation in WB Yeats’” Under Ben Bulben”.” (1977). 
Yeats, William Butler. Sailing to Byzantium. M. Didier, 1971. 
Yeats, William Butler. “Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats.” Poetry Foundation (2020). 
PS: You can use other sources as well.

Trujillo Dictatorship Writing Assignment Using the assigned documents please answer the following questions in a cohesive, well- reasoned essay:
• How did Rafael Trujillo govern the Dominican Republic? • What was Trujillo’s influence on the economy of the Dominican Republic?
• What were Trujillo’s policies towards Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic?
• What were the main characteristics of Trujillo’s personality?
The essay must be 5-6 pages in length, doubled spaced and footnoted. The essay must be written in Microsoft Word. 
Trujillo Paper
Footnote Format
1)    
Footnote
for the “1937 Massacre” document.[1]
2)    
Footnote
for “The Trujillo Era” document.[2]
3)    
Footnote
for “Trujillo’s Fortune” document.[3]
4)    
Footnote
for “Trujillo’s Megalomania” document.[4]
5)    
Footnote
for “Diplomat’s Diagnosis of the Dictator” document.[5]
[1]
Lt. Col. Howard Eager, “The
1937 Massacre” in The Dominican People: A
Documentary Reader, Ernesto Sagas and Orlando Inoa, eds. (Princeton: Markus
Weiner Publishers, 2003), 157-161.
[2] Jesús de Galíndez, “The Era of
Trujillo” in The Dominican People: A
Documentary Reader, Ernesto Sagas and Orlando Inoa, eds. (Princeton: Markus
Weiner Publishers, 2003), 186-191.
[3] Juan Bosch, “Trujillo’s Fortune”
in The Dominican People: A Documentary
Reader, Ernesto Sagas and Orlando Inoa, eds. (Princeton: Markus Weiner
Publishers, 2003),  172-180.
[4] “Trujillo’s Megalomania” in The Dominican People: A Documentary Reader, Ernesto
Sagas and Orlando Inoa, eds. (Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2003),
154-157.
[5]
Richard A. Johnson, “A
Diplomat’s Diagnosis of the Dictator” in The Dominican Republic Reader:
History, Culture, Politics,  Eric
Paul Roorda, et al, eds., (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 307-312.

Research Questions
How do race, class and gender intersect in the
characterization and development of the main character Delia Jones and what
implications does this intersectionality have for her experiences and choices?
How does the relationship between Delia and Sykes
evolve over the course of the story in relation to intersectionality? How does
Delia’s experience as a black woman shape her response to Sykes’s actions and
influence the power dynamics within their relationship?
Annotated outline:
1. Introduction
2. Characterization and Intersectionality of Delia
Jones
In this section, I will explore how Delia’s race,
social class and being a woman all shape how she sees herself and interacts
with others as well as how these factors might affect her identity and
relationship. I want to see how the author develops and portrays Delia’s growth
throughout the story and in which way her identity as a black woman intersects
with her socio-economic status to shape her lived experiences.
3. Relationship Dynamics Between Delia and Sykes
In this section, I want to provide an overview of
Delia and Sykes’s marriage. I want to analyze the power dynamics and control
within the marriage and explore how issues of race class and gender influence
those dynamics between the pair.
4. Conclusion
I want this kind of outline. I want to rewrite everything so i can answer the questions better. I want some quotes directly from the short story “Sweat” (by Zora Neale Hurston).
I want academic style writing.  Each paragraph should follow: In academic writing, paragraphs should begin with a clear topic sentence that states the main idea. Following this, include several supporting sentences that provide evidence, examples, and details to elaborate on the topic. Analyze and interpret the supporting information to connect it back to the main idea and demonstrate critical thinking. Conclude the paragraph with a sentence that summarizes the main point or provides a transition to the next paragraph. Ensure coherence, logical flow, formal tone, and proper citations throughout the paragraph.