Category: ENGLISH

What was written on the note left for Barney McBride when he checked into his hotel room?What is the name of the Osage chief who testifies before Congress to tell them of the guardians’ abuses?

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What happens to Bill and Rita Smith’s house?

In response to the muders, what change or upgrade did the Osage make to their homes?

Who did Bill and a friend go see on March 9 to further investigate Roan’s death?

What is the name of the Osage chief who testifies before Congress to tell them of the guardians’ abuses?

What were “guardians” as Grann describes them?

What was written on the note left for Barney McBride when he checked into his hotel room?

Who is killed at the beginning of chapter 7?

What does Bill Smith suspect happened to Lizzie?

She died of a broken heart due to Anna’s death

Who was briefly married to Henry Roan in the early 1900s?

Where is the auction of January 18, 1923 held?

 

Why do you think she does so? Is this a productive way of organizing her essay? Why or why not? Does it reflect any of the rhetorical appeals?

Discussion 2

As you read “The Last Straw,” you were asked to pay attention to any unusual or surprising elements of the essay’s content or format. Note that Wong uses a numbered list, bullet points and includes Tweets in her essay. Why do you think she does so? Is this a productive way of organizing her essay? Why or why not? Does it reflect any of the rhetorical appeals?

Discuss the ethics of storytelling in Atonement. Is the narrator-protagonist atoning for a crime or obscuring it? How sincere is her act of repentance? How is atonement related to the problem of narrative perspective? “

Critical Essay: Atonement

“Ian McEwan’s Atonement explores the ethics of storytelling. The ethical problem is closely related to the problem of narrative perspective (i.e., the gap between the internal and external viewpoints). For most of the novel, we appear to be in the mode of conventional realism: an omniscient narrator moves freely in and out of the thoughts of the various internal characters. Only much later do we learn that the omniscient narrator is, in fact, one of the internal characters. In a further surprise, we discover that the narrator has lied to us about crucial facts of the story. This discovery forces us to reconsider the story, which now appears to be told from a highly partial and unreliable perspective.

Discuss the ethics of storytelling in Atonement. Is the narrator-protagonist atoning for a crime or obscuring it? How sincere is her act of repentance? How is atonement related to the problem of narrative perspective? “

Write about the innocence of George Takei during this time and how his innocence changed into an awareness of the injustices that was happening during this time in history.

Reflection Paper – They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Write about the innocence of George Takei during this time and how his innocence changed into an awareness of the injustices that was happening during this time in history.

Does the sensationalism of the murder (the fact that four bodies are found at once in one location followed by the discovery of several body parts nearby soon after) make the crimes more palatable to the public, meaning, do people only begin to care when there are multiple victims/a serial killer may be involved? Why?

Prompt:

Does the sensationalism of the murder (the fact that four bodies are found at once in one location followed by the discovery of several body parts nearby soon after) make the crimes more palatable to the public, meaning, do people only begin to care when there are multiple victims/a serial killer may be involved? Why?

Decline, which you will describe, and then offer your explanation of “how?” “why?” “what does it mean?”

Western Civilization I – Essay 1

Using examples from Ancient Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire (you must cover all three), explain instances where civilization progressed forward and particular instances where it declined (you must cover both for each of the three).

Civilizations rise and fall. But even on that trajectory there are many fluctuations. Instances of smooth progress are actually quite rare in history, especially when we lengthen the time to examine.

Ancient Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire, existed for centuries and extended across vast territories of land and sea.

Your essay should offer a brief narrative background on each one, followed by specific instances of both progress and decline, which you will describe, and then offer your explanation of “how?” “why?” “what does it mean?”