Select one of the following questions to respond to. The answer to the question you select should serve as the thesis to your paper. This thesis should be included in an introductory paragraph. The paragraphs following the introduction should support and defend this thesis by analyzing and discussing specific examples and quotations from the reading you selected. Review the academic articles you located in the […]

You must submit at least 250 words of your draft. I am most interested in seeing the hook you use to catch your audience’s interest in the introductory section and in your thesis statement (make sure you underline your thesis). You must include at least one source in this draft; you should also display the correct usage of MLA in-text citations. At the top of […]

Prompt: The Museum of the Unclothed Body, located in a place of your choosing, is about to host an exhibition on the body in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The exhibition will include all the relevant visual material discussed in class in Weeks 3-4 from the Classical Age (not material from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age). The director of the department for community […]

In this module, we learned that, in Medieval Europe, friendship enjoyed a status not unlike marriage. Vernon writes: “So great was the political weight that such friendships could bear that they could effect changes in much the same way as a marriage” (p. 179). Marriages between friends, kissing, sleeping together, and even being buried together were not uncommon. In places like Africa and Asia, this […]

   Use the musician/composer Terry Riley (You tube) 1.    Many composers kept diaries during their lives. Choose a composer from the twentieth (or twenty-first) century and an important event from that composer’s life. Consider how this event relates to the music the composer wrote. Write a diary entry related to that event in 1st person voice, as if the composer wrote it (Your choice should […]

  From Shakespeare, The Tempest and Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”,  I need an essay of 650-750 words on just and fair governance. How do Prospero and the narrator of “Bartleby” rule their respective domain? Do they become (or will they become) better “rulers” by the end of each work after going through the events of each narrative? Be sure to clarify your concepts of justice and fairness. 1st […]

Common Theme Digital Poster with Smore Create a digital poster that depicts the recurring themes across the works that you have read throughout this course. The purpose of this component is to develop 1) a critical awareness of issues in literature, and 2) an understanding of the continuity and universality of themes and genres in world literature. In literature, a theme is an idea or […]

  Read Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Then, in 6–8 pages, write an analysis of one of Hamlet’s soliquoys and craft two soliquoys of your own. This assessment allows you to demonstrate your understanding of a foundational piece of literature and of the use of extended monologues within it.   In Hamlet, Shakespeare makes significant use of extended monologues, or soliloquies, to express the thoughts and feelings of […]

For most of the twentieth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was not considered an American literary classic. Because it is openly sentimental (that is, designed to appeal to the emotions) and lacks the formal complexity that is usually associated with literary merit, critics largely dismissed the novel as “propaganda” or “melodrama.” But reassessment from feminist scholars has changed the novel’s place in the American canon. For this reason, Uncle […]

Paper Topics for High Renaissance Italy  Write an essay on one of the following topics: 3-4 Pages, MLA format, Please use more than 1 source. The primary source is attached. Topic 1. How would Machiavelli’s ideal ruler compare with Einhard’s description of Charlemagne.  What is similar and what is different? Topic 2. What is Machiavelli’s view of human nature as outlined in The Prince and […]