Category: Literary Studies

In a research paper of approximately 1000-1500 words (5 pages/12 point font/doub

In a research paper of approximately 1000-1500 words (5 pages/12 point font/double spaced) write an argument advancing an interpretation (claim) of one of the works covered over the semester. Select any of the prompts from the last two papers (see prompts for poetry and short story paper – and yes, you can use the same prompt which you already worked on for a prior essay and expand on your previous argument) as a basis in constructing your interpretation or develop a thesis of your own. Your essay must utilize specific textual examples as well as references from at least three peer reviewed secondary sources (peer reviewed sources include books and scholarly journal articles obtained through the PBSC online database, not websites and Wikipedia) in supporting your thesis. Secondary sources must be in the form of Literary Criticism of the text you are working on. Be sure your analysis is structured effectively in adherence to the guidelines of scholarly writing as covered in the textbooks and discussed in class (formal diction, effective academic argument structure, well integrated support that makes use of appropriate signal phrases to introduce context to your quotes, grammatical correctness, proper and appropriate language usage, etc.). Your essay must be properly cited in MLA format (See Little Seagulls Handbook, page 172, # 11 for how to cite articles from a scholarly database) and must include a works cited as the last page of your paper (This should include the text you selected to interpret as well as the sources you used from the scholarly databases, each properly formatted according to the MLA guidelines for the medium-again, see appropriate pages from the Little Seagulls Handbook or Literature and the Writing Process). On pages 68-97 in your Literature and the Writing process texts you will find a complete guide to academic research writing, including how to incorporate the ideas of other scholars into your essay in order to establish background context, support your own claims, etc. Remember: developing a research project can be slow, sloppy, work, and as you begin your research and see what other scholars and literary critics have to say about your topic you might find your argument will shift and change.

LIT 1000 Professor Hollis Research Paper Prompts In a research paper of approxim

LIT 1000 Professor Hollis Research Paper Prompts In a research paper of approximately 800-1000 words (4-5 pages/12 point font/double spaced) write an argument advancing an interpretation (claim) of one of the works covered over the semester. Select any of the prompts from the last two papers (see prompts for poetry and short story paper – and yes, you can use the same prompt which you already worked on for a prior essay and expand on your previous argument) as a basis in constructing your interpretation or develop a thesis of your own. Your essay must utilize specific textual examples as well as references from at least two peer reviewed secondary sources (peer reviewed sources include books and scholarly journal articles obtained through the PBSC online database, not websites and Wikipedia) in supporting your thesis. Secondary sources must be in the form of Literary Criticism of the text you are working on. Be sure your analysis is structured effectively in adherence to the guidelines of scholarly writing as covered in the textbook and discussed in class (formal diction, effective academic argument structure, well integrated support that makes use of appropriate signal phrases to introduce context to your quotes, grammatical correctness, proper and appropriate language usage, etc.). Your essay must be properly cited in MLA format (See Little Seagulls Handbook, page 172, # 11 for how to cite articles from a scholarly database) and must include a works cited as the last page of your paper (This should include the text you selected to interpret as well as the sources you used from the scholarly databases, each properly formatted according to the MLA guidelines for the medium-again, see appropriate pages from the Little Seagulls Handbook or Literature and the Writing Process). In Chapter 5, pages 68-97, in your Literature and the Writing process texts you will find a complete guide to academic research writing, including how to incorporate the ideas of other scholars into your essay in order to establish background context, support your own claims, etc. Remember: developing a research project can be slow, sloppy, work, and as you begin your research and see what other scholars and literary critics have to say about your topic you might find your argument will shift and change.

LIT 1000 Professor Hollis Poetry Essay Topics In an essay of approximately 650-7

LIT 1000 Professor Hollis Poetry Essay Topics In an essay of approximately 650-700 words (2.5-3 pages/12 point font/double spaced) write an argument advancing an interpretation (claim) of one of the poems from your readings. Select one of the following prompts as a basis in constructing your interpretation or develop an interpretation of your own. Your essay must contain a focused thesis statement that makes a claim/interpretation of the theme of the poem and utilizes specific textual examples and provides reasoning on how the examples support your thesis/claims. Remember: poetry is a much more condensed mode of expression than the short story and thus your analysis might go as deep as how a single word choice affects the whole of the poem. Be sure your analysis is structured effectively in adherence to the guidelines of scholarly writing as covered in the textbooks and discussed in class (formal diction, effective argument structure, grammatical correct, etc.). Also, when quoting lines directly from a poem it is appropriate to insert a / in between line breaks, for instance: “He stood, and heard the steeple/Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town”. At the end of the sentence in which the quote appears you should include the line numbers, not the page numbers, inside the parenthetical citation, i.e. (2-3). Your essay must be properly cited in MLA format (See Little Seagulls Handbook) and must include a one-page works cited as the last page of your paper citing the poem you analyzed as a work from an anthology. (Remember: the following prompts are just suggestions, and you are free to interpret the poems in any fashion you so choose so long as you can back up those interpretations with direct textual support and solid reasoning/analysis). Finally, I recommend using the textbook as a resource, as the introductory chapters (which you were already assigned to read) on poetic interpretation provide crucial information on constructing your analysis, as do Chapters 1-3, pages 2-40, and the questions for discussion and writing following each poem, as well as reading any of the sample student essays at the end of each chapter (such as the one on pages 429-431) as a model for writing a proper poetic analysis. As always, please feel free to e-mail me with any questions, comments, tentative parts of your essay, etc. 1. Analyze the speaker in either “The Sins of the Father” or “The Unknown Citizen.” What is the prevalent tone in either of the poems? If selecting “The Sins of the Father”: does the speaker’s tone shift at any point in the poem. If so, how and when does this shift occur and what does it signify? What is the significance of the title and how does this illuminate the plight of the speaker? If selecting “The Unknown Citizen”: discuss the role of irony in the poem. What sort of attitudes and characteristics are being praised by the speaker and are these really praise-worthy virtues? (What is Auden’s – as opposed to the speaker’s – view of the Unknown Citizen?) Examine the satirical effectiveness of Auden’s choice of tones in depicting his detached narrator. How does Auden’s use of irony add to the poem’s function as a form of social critique? 2. Analyze the paradox that is central to “My Son My Executioner”? 3. Analyze the speaker in the poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” Why is the speaker unable to appreciate the astronomy lecture? Are the two temperaments contrasted in the poem (the poetic and the scientific/rational) truly antithetical? How is this opposition between the two illustrated in the poem? 4. Discuss Shakespeare’s strategy in “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” and how the poem works to subvert the prevalent sonnet tradition of the time. What is the speaker’s attitude towards his mistress? How is the speaker’s more grounded praise of his beloved actually more genuine and heart-felt than the cliché, artificial comparisons that predominated the sonnets of Shakespeare’s contemporaries? 5. What point is A.E. Housman trying to make in his poem “To an Athlete Dying Young”? What would you state as the theme or themes of the poem? Analyze Housman’s metaphor of athletic completion (particularly the race) as representing life? Analyze the significance of some of the poem’s central images (for instance the laurel) and how they work to strengthen this metaphor? What is the overall tone of the poem? Can the poem be read as ironic, and if so, what does this imply? 6. What about the poet’s use of regular rhyme scheme (rhyming couplets) and stanza break (quatrains)? How does the form impact the poem’s overall effect? 7. Is the poem “Funeral Blues” merely a parody or is Auden’s speaker simply carried away in the moment of grief? Identify the tone of the poem and analyze it as either mock elegy or serious composition. 8. How does the above poem compare (in both tone and structure) with Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Write an analysis comparing or contrasting both elegies and the elements that make them either similar or different. 9. In the poem “A Hundred Years from Now,” how does the prose poem form impact the overall effect of the poem? Does the lack of more traditional line breaks make the poem more or less poetic? How well is the subject matter suited to the form? Who is the speaker addressing, and why? What do you make of the last line: “Do you still have horses?” and how does the question serve to resonate in the reader’s mind long after he has finished reading the poem? 10. In “Eight O’ Clock” how does Houseman use poetic language and the poetic devices (line break, rhyme scheme, personification, word choice) to evoke a specific atmosphere, mood, and tone in the first stanza? How does that tone change in the second stanza, and how does it accentuate the twist of the poetic narrative (the hanging)? 11. Examine the theme of Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.” What type of life does Aunt Jennifer lead? What does her wedding band symbolize? How do the tigers help us to understand her plight? How is knitting a form of escape for Aunt Jennifer from the oppressive reality of her home life? What traits do the tigers possess and what do these traits help us to understand about Aunt Jennifer? Perform a close reading of the poem down to the level of word choice in coming up with your analysis. 12. What is the theme of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask”? Who is speaking in the poem? Who are the “we”? Is the “we” humanity in general, some specific, perhaps marginalized, group (see Dunbar’s biographical blurb in the book before the poem), or both? What is the poem claiming about human nature? Do “we” all wear masks and if so, why, according to the poem? 13. Analyze the main theme or themes of Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll.” What is the significant of the poem’s title? How is the poem’s subject dehumanized throughout the poem? What leads to the suicide in the poem? In what way is the poem’s ending ironic? 14. Analyze the tone of Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind.” What is the central theme of the poem and how does Crane’s use of verbal irony serve to reinforce this theme? What central message do you feel the speaker of the poem is trying to get across? Why is the flag referred to as “the unexplained glory” (line 9) and how does this work to advance the poem’s central message and theme?

Assignment Info: Length- 3-4 pages (1,000-1,200 words) Format: MLA Times new Rom

Assignment Info: Length- 3-4 pages (1,000-1,200 words) Format: MLA Times new Roman 12 Point font, double-spaced. Number of sources (in addition to your text) two – cited both in the text and in a works cited page. Assignment Details: Once you’ve chosen your topic (Listed in Summary), choose two of the works we’ve read so far this semester. Decide what you’d like to say about the topic you chose, and look for specifics in your sample text. Look in the library databases for serious, scholarly sources about your topic and your sample text. This means no Wikipedia, Course Hero or other sites that are not scholarly. Once you’ve found sources, you’ll need to work on integrating them into your sentences and ideas. Be sure you cite them properly in-text and in a Works Cited page. In your essay, you’ll need a strong introduction, a thesis that makes your point, and a good conclusion to wrap up the ideas. Remember, when you use your sources, avoid long quotes. You are better off using shorter sections of the text and thoroughly explaining them than relying on a large block of text that you don’t have time to explain in your paper. You will be using TurnItIn, which will give you a report on how you’ve used sources. I will expect you to have close to 20 percent in that report, though I will check. In addition, TurnItIn will show me whether you have used a source without mentioning it. That will cause you to fail, so avoid that. If your paper results in an A.I. report of more than 20% A.I. generated content and you have not cited it as a source, you will not pass the paper. Be sure and avoid all sites and software that could be considered A.I., including grammar sites. If you have questions, be sure and ask me!

This week we are learning about ordinal/categorical, continuous, and dichotomous

This week we are learning about ordinal/categorical, continuous, and dichotomous variables. Using the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset that is located in the tabs at the bottom of the Framingham dataset provided, perform the following problems using R Studio or Excel. Create a simple distribution graph (histogram) where we will explore the age of women after giving birth to their first child. Remember that a histogram consists of parallel vertical bars that show the frequency distribution of a quantitative variable in the graph. See the example in Introductory Statistics with R on pages 71-7 or pages 123-124 in EXCEL statistics A quick guide. The area of each bar is equal to the frequency of items found in each class. Determine the mean age of the women in the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset. We will be testing the hypothesis that the mean age (μ = μ0) for women is 37 years in the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset. The topic of hypothesis testing was introduced in HCM505. If you need a review see Chapter 7 of our text. H0 The mean age of women giving birth is 37 years old. (Null Hypothesis) H1 The mean age of women giving birth is not 37 years old. (Alternative Hypothesis) Ensure to submit the following requirements for the assignment: Present your findings in a Word document, by copying and pasting the histogram into the document. After your analysis state whether you accept or reject the null hypothesis and your reasoning why. Always use a title page, an introduction, a discussion where you interpret the meaning of the histogram, and a conclusion should be included. Your submission should be 2–3 pages to discuss and display your findings. Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. One of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but the others must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these sources and should be your primary resource for conducting research. Follow APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University writing standards. Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment. You are strongly encouraged to submit all assignments to the Originality Check prior to submitting them to your instructor for grading.

In at least 250 words, discuss the poets we have read for this unit. First, choo

In at least 250 words, discuss the poets we have read for this unit. First, choose a selection from one of the poems and quote that at the beginning of your post. Make sure that everyone knows what poem and author you are talking about. You may quote one line or an entire poem. (Just note that this quote does not count toward your word count.) This quote will provide the basis for your discussion. It gives your classmates context to your discussion and aids them in ease of understanding what you are basing your argument on. Then, make an argument about that selection. You can talk about its relevance to the material you learned about American Romanticism, or you can propose something about what the author’s intentions are in writing the poem. What effect does the methods the author deploy create in the poem? What do we learn about American Literature from the poems? The important thing is that you make an argument and back it up with evidence from the text. Remember, we are close reading during this semester. Demonstrate your ability to close read. I know this is last minute! Links to poems and material are below- https://pressbooks.nvcc.edu/writingthenation/chapter/ch1_introduction/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46480/i-hear-america-singing https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45706/i-felt-a-funeral-in-my-brain-340

Write about an essay on “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston and explain what tone the

Write about an essay on “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston and explain what tone the narrator uses and how that tone is created. Make sure to include literary elements such as narration, diction, imagery, or language as support for positions taken. What You Turn In • Your essay should be approximately one to two pages in length. Use one-inch margins and a 12-point font. • The first paragraph should contain a thesis statement in which you clearly present the argument you want to make in your essay. • Each body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence in which you clearly state the argument for that paragraph. • Be sure to support your arguments with brief, relevant examples. Each body paragraph should include at least three pieces of supporting evidence and should be clearly linked together with intelligent commentary. • When using direct quotations from the text, document your citation using standard conventions (for example, use line numbers when quoting poems, act and scene numbers for drama, and page numbers for fiction).

1,200 – 1,500 words (Double-space, Times New Roman, Font 12) *Word count include

1,200 – 1,500 words (Double-space, Times New Roman, Font 12) *Word count includes direct quotes, footnotes, but excludes bibliography This paper has a research component: you will need to use a minimum of TWO sources. One source should be scholarly: this source can be a journal article of literary criticism; a chapter from a book that explores the historical or cultural context of your chosen novel; or a scholarly article that explains a theory of place, for example. The second source should be from a reputable source such as an author interview, a book review, a newspaper article etc. Please state the question number and provide a title for your essay. 2. Both primary and secondary source materials are needed to support and develop your argument. Remember to provide relevant in-text citations and a reference list. 3. Use MLA referencing style for your essay.