PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT This assignment is designed to help you focus on a topic from the literature we have read in Units 4 and 5 and develop an argument about that topic based upon one of the questions provided for you below. You only have to choose one of the questions for this assignment, but […]
American Lit Paper 2 Suggested Outline Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” Hemingway_clean_well_lighted_place%20%283%29%20%281%29.pdf · Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” Hello students– Basic Directions for Essay 2: First read, Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Hemmingways “A Clean, Well Lighted Place”. You will only write your essay on one […]
American Literature Research Essay Task: Compose a 2-4 page essay in MLA format that directly responds to the topic below. Your essay should include your own analysis of literature and incorporate credible research to support your argument. Essay Topic: Choose a single character from any of the assigned readings from this semester, and form an […]
Research Question: What are the differences between the utopic and dystopic versions of the American dream that we can find in the work of American literature? Focus of research question: comparison Answers to research question: A. utopic dreams of America are represented in the idea of longing for a better life 1. pursuit of happiness. […]
Identity, Womanhood, and Motherhood in American Literature The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks – Inked in History The Yellow Wallpaper | Writing on Women Writers Your prompt response should be, at least, 150 words. Discussion Question: What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in this week’s readings? Is motherhood defined in each […]
• Discuss and compare how we see the idea of “injustice” portrayed in the specific primary texts included in our course materials by Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Rebecca Harding Davis. What contextual factors contribute to the depiction of injustice, and what might “justice” to counteract it look like? What elements of “injustice” do […]
American literature • Discuss and compare how we see the idea of “freedom” portrayed in the specific primary texts included in our course materials by Mary Rowlandson, Thomas Jefferson, and Harriet Jacobs. How do the authors define “freedom,” and why is it important to them? What contextual factors contributed to their idea of “freedom”? What […]
Topic • Discuss and compare how we see the idea of a woman’s power portrayed in the specific primary texts included in our course materials by Hannah Foster, Judith Sargent Murray, and Margaret Fuller. How and why do the women exercise their power, and what contextual factors might limit it? What elements of “power” do […]
• Discuss and compare how we see the idea of “spiritual awakening” portrayed in the specific primary texts included in our course materials by Phillis Wheatley, Jonathan Edwards, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. What contextual factors led to this awakening, and what did it mean for those who experienced it? What elements of a “spiritual awakening” […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mA-Xn2Dx-s Listen carefully (headphones recommended) to the above song. With reference to phrases and lines from this song, compose an extended or long form essay within the range of 750-1000 words. Watch this trailer (2.35minutes) Your essay must incorporate dominant ideas of Self, Solitude , Isolation and Society from the pieces of American Literature by […]
