After reading the poem and selected short stories for this week, you should have noticed that the stories share a commonality of how history, culture, and the background of the author all played an important role in developing works of literature in the 20th century. For your initial discussion post, share your thoughts on how history, culture, and the background of the author played key […]

Prompt: Submit Section III from Appendix D at the end of the syllabus your Research Methodology, Subsection A. Data Collection of how you plan on collecting your primary research data. Also, submit Subsection B. Data Management and Analysis on how you plan to manage and analyze your primary data. Requirements: One to two (1-2) pages, 250-500 words for the Research Methodology, Subsection. Data Collection and […]

   Elizabeth Bennet’s Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a complex romantic novel that follows the life of a girl named Elizabeth Bennet. Many different themes are shown throughout the book but no matter what theme is being portrayed the audience still becomes awfully familiar with Elizabeth. In the late 1700’s the idea of a strong woman who makes decisions and expresses […]

For this assignment, you will write a 2-page compare and contrast paper on two of the authors from this week’s reading or video. Be sure to give equal weight to each author. You may include some background information on your authors, especially if their backgrounds impacted their subject matter. When writing about short stories, you do not want to simply restate the plot or events […]

  C L O S I N G C A S E LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP Group Danone SA, the Paris-based marketer of yogurt, nonal- coholic beverages, and baby foods, has long been a savvy inter- national competitor. Employing 101,000 persons, its sales in 2010 totaled €17 billion, 45 percent of which are outside its home base of Western Europe. It is the world’s largest […]

ENGL 102 Research Paper PLUS Thesis/Outline/Bibliography. Instructions written below and also uploaded with Grading Rubric. *APA Format*    Research Paper Instructions You must complete the required textbook readings in preparation for the Research Paper. This will equip you to objectively respond to the readings by compiling information from a variety of sources in order to compose a persuasive analysis of a literary work. You will […]

Poetry of William Wordsworth Selection Test A Critical Reading Identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. 1. Which line from “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” best describes Wordsworth’s response to nature when he had visited the abbey five years earlier? A. Nature was a passion and intense love. B. Nature was less appealing than city life. C. Nature […]

  Instructions Analyze: Artifact of Popular Culture Evaluation Title: The Business of Pop Culture We have seen throughout this course how popular culture influences our attitudes, both positively and negatively. In this final paper, you will examine an artifact in pop culture to determine its message and effect. For this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly creates a negative bias or promotes […]

students already know about African American history, the experiences of American slavery, and the struggle for abolition and equal rights, but I hope that everyone will be able to find something surprising and/or novel in Douglass’s narrative (and/or the links collections from the Library of Congress). Please identify (referring specifically to the source) at least one detail from any of those sources that you think […]

 For the following quotations, first identify the author, title, and year of publication. Then, in two to three complete sentences, explain the quotation’s significance in terms of a larger theme developed in the text.   1.)  Hardest of all, though, was when Grandmere sternly bade him cease speaking the soft, Creole patois that they chattered together, and forced him to learn English. The result was a confused jumble which was no language […]