Category: ENGLISH

Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

Compare and Contrast: Art/Media/Other

This could involve finding a text for your Compare and Contrast Essay, or simply reading more in-depth on a subject you’re interested in. The only restrictions are that you must locate a text to review, and then respond to the prompts below.

PROMPTS:

1. What is the central  of this text? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

2. Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

4. Cite this source in MLA format.

What is the central of the source you found on EBSCO Host (or other database)?Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved?

Research

1. What is the central of the source you found on EBSCO Host (or other database)? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer. — (NOTE: once you click a source, you should be able to click “CITE” on the right side of the screen to access a complete MLA citation)

2. Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

4. Cite this source in MLA format. (NOTE: once again, after you click a source, you should be able to click “CITE” on the right side of the screen to access a complete MLA citation)

What compare/contrast conclusion are you supporting (again, for example, which technological subject is better, and why? — or which tech subject serves a purpose that others do not and why?). How does this text help support your conclusion?

Compare and contrast technology

Find a text to help you make a decision based on comparing and contrasting technology.

This might be a thing good, thing better, thing worst; approach (i.e. which is the better phone, Apple or Samsung? Which is the superior console, Playstation or Xbox? Which is the better social media platform, Facebook or Instagram? Which TV brand is better? What model of car is superior and why? What kind of fuel source is the best option?)

PROMPTS:

1. What is the central thesis of this text? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

2. What compare/contrast conclusion are you supporting (again, for example, which technological subject is better, and why? — or which tech subject serves a purpose that others do not and why?). How does this text help support your conclusion? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

4. Cite this source in MLA format.

Was this text convincing in any way? Did it effectively challenge any of your views or parts of your views? Why or why not? Which views or information does it directly challenge?

The steel man argument

PROMPTS:

1. What is the central of this text? What evidence do they provide to support? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

2. Was this text convincing in any way? Did it effectively challenge any of your views or parts of your views? Why or why not? Which views or information does it directly challenge?

3. Do any aspects or conclusions of this text seem illogical or unreasonable? If so which ones stand out, specifically? Can you counter these conclusions with information that supports your own perspective? See if you can find a reliable text with fact-based information that can challenge this text! Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

4. Cite this source in MLA format.

What measures should be taken to control the spread of infectious disease? How do you weigh public health and individual rights to make appropriate decisions?

What measures should be taken to control the spread of infectious disease? How do you weigh public health and individual rights to make appropriate decisions?

This issue has come up before, in the inoculation debates in 1721. It became a more serious problem in the late 19th and early 20th century as microbiologists quickly realized that many diseases (cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, etc.) were caused by contagious bacteria.

Both the “Discussion on the Advisability of the Registration of Tuberculosis” and Leavitt’s “Typhoid Mary” discuss what powers health officials should have over the lives and rights of individuals.

These debates recurred repeatedly throughout the 20th century: can states require children to receive immunizations? Can patients with tuberculosis be confined to hospitals to receive antibiotics? (the answer to these questions is yes). They are again emerging as active policy questions: with COVID-19, will individuals be hospitalized involuntarily, can cities be quarantined? etc.

Many of the most contentious past debates are related to HIV/AIDS.Should public health authorities have the right to confine people, as was done with Mary Mallon, to keep them from spreading the disease?

Should all patients with AIDS be reported to health officials, as has been done with tuberculosis and syphilis, do that their behavior can be monitored?

How have our institutions changed? What was school like in the past as opposed to today? How has our justice system altered? How have our government and political parties shifted?

Compare and contrast time

For this Compare and Contrast exercise, the theme is: time.

This could be the past vs. the present or even the present vs. the future — how has our society and culture changed over time? How has being young, working, career paths, values, and beliefs shifted?

How have our institutions changed? What was school like in the past as opposed to today? How has our justice system altered? How have our government and political parties shifted?

How have our interests and tastes changed? From the food we eat, the drinks we drink, the houses we live in, the clothes we wear, our pets, the movies we watch, the advertisements we’re forced to endure, radio to podcasts, the way we interact with the world is constantly changing (for better or worse, and sometimes both).

And of course, we are continuing to speculate how this might even change in the future — how might we prophecy how these elements of our lives will continue to evolve into the future?

PROMPTS:

1. What is the central thesis of this text? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

2. Does the text claim whether these changes are good or bad? If so, what is their justification — regardless of the text’s conclusions, do you think this is a positive or negative change (or maybe a little of both)? Why or why not? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

4. Cite this source in MLA format.

How does the theory help you to understand something about the literary text that would have otherwise been hidden, and how does the literary text help illuminate some questions or ideas from the theory.”

Consider how the literary text (Native Son) figures certain problems or dynamics raised by the theoretical text (C.L.R. James essays), and furthermore, how the novel may afford us insight into problems posed by the theoretical text.

Your essay should answer the following two-part question: “how does the theory help you to understand something about the literary text that would have otherwise been hidden, and how does the literary text help illuminate some questions or ideas from the theory.”

Ground the ideas in marxist theory

Use the novel and essays attached.
Minimum outside sources.

Novel: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.499539/2015.499539.native-son_djvu.txt

Why Joyce Carol Oates should be taught in High schools-Discuss?

Must use these sources
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3441/the-art-of-fiction-no-72-joyce-carol-oates

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-me-anything-joyce-carol-oates

A Portrait of the Writer: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates

https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/10/14/joyce-carol-oates-lost-landscape

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-9AcFdSJ0 (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOEYkMYjtI (Part 2)