FINAL PROJECT: Disease and Culture
TOPIC: The AIDS Crisis in the United States
Direction
Prompt:
Provide an essay prompt and a completed essay that reflects the cultural focus of your unit.
Provide an essay prompt, clearly outlining your guidelines and expectations.
Essay Prompt
Write a 1000-word essay on how society’s response to the AIDS pandemic reflected in the mainstream culture of the 90s, citing some artworks in this unit.
What was the purpose of the account of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, and how did the author or authors of the narrative achieve this?
Does it matter whether the narrative is historical/scientific, or metaphorical/allergorical? In other words, does it matter if these plagues REALLY happened, or did the account serve a purpose regardless of its “factual” reality. Whichever way you approach this question, be sure to explain why it matters or does not matter.
Art Loop Open: Essay About a Painting-How Can You Write It? (Links to an external site.)
Purdue University: Writing Essays in Art History (Links to an external site.)
Duke University: Writing About Paintings (Links to an external site.)
EssayPro.com: Visual Analysis: How to Analyze a Painting and Write an Essay (Links to an external site.)
You may take an approach through creative writing. For example, one of the articles (Links to an external site.) provided in the Contexts page talks about “contemporary plagues” such as war, hatred, and disease. Let’s leave COVID-19 aside for now, but how would you creatively present contemporary “blows” in our culture?
You may analyze the Exodus account as a work of literature, and respond to things like narratology, themes, figurative language, overall design, characterization, etc. Not everything applies to this particular essay, but I find this page helpful for writing about literature (Links to an external site.).
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