Description This essay is regarding a character from the story “A” is for Alibi” by Sue Grafton. There is a question regarding a comparison with the character Kinsey Millhone in the book “A” is for Alibi” and the character Honey West in “This Girl for Hire”. •Describe her personality. • Describe her physically. • […]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. For a fiction book, select one of the following options: (1) Identify the most important theme of the book and provide an analysis of that theme. (2) Describe how the setting contributed to the overall mood, feeling, lesson or theme of the book. (3) Complete a character analysis. (4) […]
1.What particular insights do such marginalized characters offer? Consider this question in relation to two course texts. 2. Discuss the function of memory in two course texts. 3. Discuss gender issues as they appear in two course texts. How is marriage represented? What are the power imbalances between male and female voices or characters? Consider […]
Create a poem that is an alternative ending to the novel, omitting the creature’s final scene where he is heading North, apparently to die. The Novel is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.
After reading Lysistrata, answer the following two questions: Is the women’s strategy effective? What might the women’s boycott in the name of peace reveal about what humans find to be important? Write at least 300 words and be sure to cite and then fully analyze a rich, juicy quote to support and complicate your ideas. […]
The quotation, poems, and images explore the nature of conflict and our responses to it. The speaker in “Hiroshima Exit” implies that conflict is perpetuated because of a lack of a global perspective, which is an idea also supported by the quotation by Mohandas Gandhi. The first illustration shows two children caught in the middle […]
1. For each of the authors from today’s reading, record at least one of their conceits (click for definition) (Links to an external site.) and briefly describe what it represents. Example: Donne, “The Sun Rising”: Donne addresses the sun as if it were a person, while he and his lover are represented as celestial bodies. Pick a poem […]
Compare the styles of two different kinds of books.What attributes are similar or different, why, and to what effect?Discuss Article (https://www.owleyes.org/text/le-morte-arthur-volume-i/read/preface-of-william-caxton#root-6)
TOPICS LIST: 1. ‘Why, since life holds only so many hours, waste one of them on being lectured?’ (Woolf, ‘Why?’). How does Woolf’s writing respond to figures of authority and power? 2. Discuss the ways in which Woolf’s writing engages with questions of materiality and/or spirituality. 3. ‘Nature, who has played so many […]
Use Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea to compose a 550-600 words paragraph that answers the following question: Many critics have argued that Wide Sargasso Sea upends patriarchal and colonial hierarchies in its revision of Bronte’s Bertha. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not? The paragraph should make an […]
