Category: ENGLISH

How can science work both as a positive (even dangerously utopian) discourse positing human perfectibility and the order of Nature, and as a dangerously impersonal, dehumanizing discourse that allowed for millions of human “specimens”to be experimented on, and then exterminated during the Holocaust?

How can science work both as a positive (even dangerously utopian) discourse positing human perfectibility and the order of Nature, and as a dangerously impersonal, dehumanizing discourse that allowed for millions of human “specimens”to be experimented on, and then exterminated during the Holocaust? What does it mean for Levi to turn to science to tell his story, and to tell aspects of THIS history?

Does the science, like the carbon atom, give us hope, or does it act as a God-
substitute, where God has failed us, or some interesting combination of effects? How do theories of Nature complicate our theories of human nature? How does a focus on

the concrete help put the lie to systems of ideas, like Nazi ideology? How does the abstraction necessary to doing complicated science, e.g. studying the invisible world of atoms, call us to look below the surface of received History and complicate that too? If science suggests linear progress, how does the 20th Century complicate THAT myth? Can history be used to complicate what we mean by science, which is afterall, conducted by scientists – fallible people?

The novel The Periodic Table by Primo Levi needs to be cited as a source as well as If This a Man

Analyze the plot in terms of its exposition, complication, crises, falling action, and denouncement.Discuss the irony and symbolism found in the story.

Read John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums” beginning on page 459 in DiYanni

Choose one of the following questions on which to base you:

Analyze the plot in terms of its exposition, complication, crises, falling action, and denouncement.

Examine the relationships between the two main characters.

Discuss the irony and symbolism found in the story.

Describe how setting plays a role in the story.

What are you arguing in this essay? Why are you comparing and/or contrasting these two sources?

Food Governance and Food Security

What are you arguing in this essay? Why are you comparing and/or contrasting these two sources?

Choose any two sources from the following list to write your essay:
“Connected, but Alone” by Sherry Turkle
“How a Handful of tech Companies Control Billions of Minds,” by Tristan Harris
Ted Chiang “Silicon Valley is Turning into Its own worst fear”
Topics (Choose ONE):

Compare and/or Contrast the speaker’s/author’s use of logic, emotion and credibility. Who is more persuasive and why?
Compare and/or Contrast the speaker’s/author’s critique of social media. Which argument is most relevant to young people today?

Compare and/or Contrast the speaker’s/author’s solution to the challenges created by technology in our lives. In your opinion, who offers the most important, practical or realistic solutions?

Compare and/or Contrast the speaker’s/author’s observations of how technology affects our behaviour. Do you agree with their observations? Are their arguments accurate? Which argument do you identify with more as a College student?

How does Carr’s reference to pre-digital technology support his argument about the way the internet is changing our brains?

The Shallows Essay

How does Carr’s reference to pre-digital technology support his argument about the way the internet is changing our brains?

Write an essay that explains the role that this pre-digital heritage plays in helping Carr advance his arguments about our digital era. Why does he include these examples? What to they support or prove? Explain.

Write an essay in which you analyze who is the real monster in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Use examples from the novel to determine whether you think that Victor or the creature deserves a title of monster sightings specific passages to back up your argument

The Real Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Write an essay in which you analyze who is the real monster in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Use examples from the novel to determine whether you think that Victor or the creature deserves a title of monster sightings specific passages to back up your argument

 What was the most difficult problem you faced while writing? How did you go about trying to solve it?

Writers Choice

How would you tell the story of your thinking? Did your views on any topic change during your writing process?

At some point in your writing, did have to choose between two or more alternatives, such as sources, organization, or different ways to begin an essay? What were they, and how did you choose?

What was the most difficult problem you faced while writing? How did you go about trying to solve it?

Whose advice did you seek while researching, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing? What advice did you take, and what did you ignore? Why?

What similarities and differences do you find in Bartleby’s and Young Goodman Brown’s withdrawal from society in each of these stories?

Consider this as you read each story, and write a literary analysis essay answering the following three prompts:

What similarities and differences do you find in Bartleby’s and Young Goodman Brown’s withdrawal from society in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

What similarities and differences do you find in the consequences of these two characters’ withdrawal in each of these stories? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

What point are they each trying to make with their story? (What does each author seem to be telling readers through their stories?) And how does the character’s withdrawal from society convey the author’s idea/s? Cite and explain at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your claims.

Highlight the following key elements in your essay:

What is the cognitive revolution and what are its consequences on the nature and development of human civilization/society?

What is the cognitive revolution and what are its consequences on the nature and development of human civilization/society?

What role does language play in the development of human community? There are two main functions of language, as descriptive of the world and as creative. Explain these two functions and explain who they create two different types of communities.

On p. 25 the author speaks of the “Legend of Peugeot.” What is this story about, what does it illustrate and how is it applicable to the formation of human community?

On p. 102 the author talks of an “imagined order” and at other times of “fictions” “mental constructs”, “myths” “legends”, even “legal constructs. What are these things in your own words? What role do they play in human society? Can we have human society without them?

Elements separate humans from other animals in terms of the size and nature of the communities we are able to form. How are our communities different?