Category: ENGLISH

Write a short story appropriate for inclusion in the upcoming issue of Tomorrows’s future. Throughout the story, you must reinforce or challenge a contemporary cultural assumption, attitude, belief or value.

Post-apocalyptic experience in texts

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Write a short story appropriate for inclusion in the upcoming issue of Tomorrows’s future. Throughout the story, you must reinforce or challenge a contemporary cultural assumption, attitude, belief or value.

These can include cultural identity, age, gender, family/community and authority/power. For example; making a little girl the protagonist would challenge age and gender.

The stimulus for this essay is the movie Am Legend”, meaning it is based in their world and laws but can change almost everything else.

My teacher is really big on challenging the contemporary, so do that. Also pay special attention to the criterion throughout the assesment.

What can you tell the class that will enhance their understanding of the author as well as his/her work?

James Baldwin

Requirements for the Author Presentation:

Your discussion will include insight into the authors’ work based on your analysis, opinion, and research

What can you tell the class that will enhance their understanding of the author as well as his/her work?

Don’t just report the facts, be able to discuss them in detail

Discuss how your research expanded your knowledge of the author and their work

Include any information that will be interesting and relevant to the author’s work:

Biographical, historical, cultural, writer’s style, influences, publications, awards, etc.

Minimum of 3 sources/ Maximum of 5 sources

Use college-level sources. Do not use WIKIPEDIA or other encylopedias! Use Library database and credible websites.

Find one peer-reviewed journal article

Can include an interview with the author

Use the outline attached to complete the presentation.

Why does Joseph Boyden use two narrators to tell the story of Three Day Road? What effects does he create by interweaving Niska’s and Xavier’s narratives?

Why does Joseph Boyden use two narrators to tell the story of Three Day Road? What effects
does he create by interweaving Niska’s and Xavier’s narratives?

2. Niska tells Xavier about the stories her father told her family. “Sometimes his stories were all
that we had to keep us alive” (p. 35). What role do stories play within the novel?

3. Why does Niska spend so much time telling Xavier stories of the past? Why does she say that
she “feeds” him stories? What effect do her stories have on him?

4. Early in the novel, Thompson asks Elijah if he likes combat and killing, to which Elijah
responds, “It’s in my blood.” But Thompson doesn’t ask Xavier, who thinks, “Does he sense
something? How am I different?” (p. 75).

How is Xavier different from Elijah? How do they
each feel about combat and killing? In what ways are they alike?

5. Elijah has a dream in which three of his dead fellow soldiers tell him: “Do what you can.
There is nothing sacred any more in a place such as this. Don’t fight it.

Do what you can” (p.
282). How does Elijah interpret this? Are these spirits right in suggesting that in war nothing
is sacred and that a soldier should do whatever he can—even if it involves killing innocent
people—to survive and win?

6. In what ways is it significant that Xavier and Elijah are Cree? How do their fellow soldiers
perceive them? What aspects of their traditional ways of life affect how they perform during
the war?

7. How does Niska begin to cure Xavier of his despair and morphine addiction? What does this
cure suggest about the difference between Native Canadian and Western views of medicine
and healing?

8. Niska has the gift of receiving visions. What do her visions reveal to her? How do they guide
her?

9. What does the novel as a whole say about war and what it can do to those who must kill in
war? How are Elijah and Xavier changed, physically and spiritually, by their experiences in
war?

10. In what ways is Three Day Road relevant to our own time and circumstance?

What does it mean to be human?” From scientific creations, to scientific experiments, all of our texts have attempted to answer this.

What does it mean to be human?

The central question we’ve tried to respond to throughout the summer is “What does it mean to be human?” From scientific creations, to scientific experiments, all of our texts have attempted to answer this. Now, you’re asked to respond to it as well.

As with all the other writing tasks throughout the semester, there isn’t a right/wrong answer am more interested in hearing how the texts we have read influenced your thinking, how your thoughts might have changed since May, and why this question might continue to be important as science advances.

Some things to consider, based on our conversations this summer:

Is “human” an adjective in addition to being a noun? That is, can organisms demonstrate human qualities without themselves being human?

Language and communication: is one the domain of “human” more than the other?

How is human learning different from other organisms’ learning?

Can science create a soul?

Does the presence of a soul (or spirit?) reveal humanity?

Is “human” born, or made—or both?

To what extent is science blurring the lines between human and not-human? Will that distinction become more or less meaningful with time?

The kids in Never Let Me Go were judged based on their creativity. To what degree is that a quality of being human?

Requirements:

5 well-developed paragraphs, with a controlling idea outlined in the first paragraph and a strong introduction & conclusion

2-3 points in support of the controlling idea, demonstrating smooth transitions, detailed evidence, critical thinking, and appropriate mechanics

Direct quotations from at least 2 of the texts we have read/watched/listened to, cited in MLA format

Submitted in Word or PDF format.

What do the United States Handicapper General agents do, and why do they do it? What threats to society do they target? What present circumstances in our society could lead to such absurdities?

Critical Thinking Questions: “Harrison Bergeron”

Why is the first line of the story significant? What does it suggest? What does it establish?

What do the United States Handicapper General agents do, and why do they do it? What threats to society do they target? What present circumstances in our society could lead to such absurdities?

What actual developments, policies, or trends does Vonnegut parody in the story?

Why is Harrison Bergeron such a threat to society? How has he been “handicapped”?

What is the significance of the dance that Harrison performs with the ballerina?

 

Explain the methodology used in the article. What kinds of evidence does it present to make its case?

Critical Summary

Write a critical summary, Your summary should:

Synopsise the key arguments of the article in your own words.
Make it clear what primary material is being analysed in the article. (Is it about

a specific novel, author, genre, historical moment? etc)

Explain the methodology used in the article. What kinds of evidence does it present to make its case?

If relevant, mention other critical work upon which this article is building (does

the article mention somebody else’s work as an important precursor to its own argument?)

At the end of your summary suggest a way in which this article could be used as a jumping off point for another question or line of enquiry about texts on your course.

The text: Warkentin, E. (2011). A bloody pulp: Women in two early fictionalizations of the Jack the Ripper case. Clues, 29(1), 5-15.

Briefly describe the artifact and explain why it is relevant or controversial. For this project you will develop a  statement that makes some point about the significance of the artifact and its relevance to some broader social and/cultural idea or issue.

Need the essay to be written about crypto currency more specifically bitcoin.
ENG 101: CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Purpose:

The aim of this project is to give you practice in examining an artifact or topic (in this case the artifact/topic is some element of digital information or communications) in order to determine both effects and broader implications of the artifact/topic.

By acquiring a thorough understanding of the artifact, one can than began to develop ideas regarding how the artifact is related to broader social and/or cultural conversations.

Task: You will select an artifact related to digital information/communications for which you will engage in a meaningful analysis and evaluation that will be demonstrated in an essay.

You must briefly describe the artifact and explain why it is relevant or controversial. For this project you will develop a  statement that makes some point about the significance of the artifact and its relevance to some broader social and/cultural idea or issue.

The essay will be developed by evaluating key features of the artifact and making connections that clearly illustrate how these features prove your statement.

• Refer to the sample essay posted in Assignments labeled “Sample Critical Analysis”

Guidelines:

Include a description or explanation of the artifact/topic

Include a discussion that provides context (why it’s relevant) for the artifact that will be analyzed

Clear thesis statement

Effectively developed supporting paragraphs that describe and evaluate the elements related to the thesis

2-4 pages

You can use sources to help develop your ideas. If you know how to use MLA documentation use that.