Week 6 Forum: Post-modernism and Psychoanalysis    Part One: Several of our works this week portray significant or complex relationships between characters. Choose one that stood out to you as particularly moving or engaging. Describe the relationship and explain its personal resonance with you. Part Two: Research one of this week’s authors and tell us what about his or her biography struck you as being reflective of […]

  You are a teacher in a small rural community. The student population of your district is 80% white, and students of color have only recently become a permanent part of the community. Some of the minority student’s families have moved into the district and others are part of your school because of open enrollment that allows students living in other districts to attend. Crystal […]

Write a 2-page elements of fiction essay on one of the short stories, or the poem, from the assigned readings for Module 01. Explain the following in your paper: Key historical events which influenced the piece: Expand on how the key historical events influenced the plot and theme. Setting: Why is the setting important to the story? (The setting is where the story takes place). […]

In fewer than 250 words, begin a thread in which you respond to the following question: If Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet were the only two 17th-century puritans in the world and the works you’ve read the only written record of puritanism, what would you say is a defining quality of puritanism?  Offer some original thinking.  Leave aside any textbook definitions of ‘puritan,’ and don’t […]

  Instructions Develop: Presentation Evaluation Title: Monomyth and Superhero, Recycled Themes Heroes have always been a part of written stories. Heroes from Greek mythology often had super-human characteristics, but also had fatal flaws, and often met with tragic ends because of these flaws. The era post World War I and II created comic book heroes that did not seem to have any flaws. The current […]

Both Emerson and Thoreau are frequently quoted (and misquoted) on inspirational posters, coffee cups, and calendars. Identify one sentence (or two) from our assigned readings of Emerson AND one from Thoreau that you think are particularly insightful, sage, thoughtful, real, true– or maybe valuable to you in some way. Quote those two sentences and explain their significance. Then, respond thoughtfully to at least one post […]

 Here are the actual instructions: For this assignment, choose one of the short stories, picture books, novels or films and write an in- depth analysis of your text or media work. Choose a central theme (for example, gender and colonialism, class and colonialism, monkeys as a symbol of both colonialism and/or racism and childhood, the symbolic role accorded to girls/boys within colonialism), and then analyze […]

   Write a 10 page paper using Time Romans, 12 fonts, double-space, in-text citations and references.  Select a topic that suits your fancy. (choose 1 of the 4 topics I listed below that will help you write 10 pages) You can write a case study, literature review, or deep-dive analysis of a particular topic.  · Housing policy helping homeless vets · Housing policy hurting homeless […]

Lucy Lawless Benito Cereno has three sources of narration: 1. A limited third person narration that divides in two: a. Primarily, the narrator limits him/herself to the thoughts and perceptions of Amasa Delano, so everything is described from Delano’s persepective. b. At times, the narrator demonstrates fuller knowledge than Delano has, even lightly criticizing Delano’s naivete: in particular, the third person narrator seems already to […]

   Choose a topic from the lesson/readings that interests you and compose a journal reflection paper that is two pages, double-spaced, in length. Be sure to clearly identify what topic you’ve chosen to write about.  The journal should consist of a reflection upon your own experience connected with the course topics in our readings, discussions and assignments. Feel free to make it personal and draw […]