American Literature

Explore 1 of the Cult of True Womanhood principles (purity, domesticity, submissiveness, and piety) examined in Jacobs Narrative and its impact. The goal with this question is to explore what the principle means using Jacobs Narrative as evidence.

Complete Writing Quiz #1 after reading Jacobs Narrative. Select 1 of the following prompts below to answer for this assignment. Explore 1 of the Cult of True Womanhood principles (purity, domesticity, submissiveness, and piety) examined in Jacobs Narrative and its impact. The goal with this question is to explore what the principle means using Jacobs […]

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Date: May 25th, 2022

writing a speech about your views on the United States of America.

(copied and pasted from assignment instructions, please do the 600 word essay rather than the poem:) This assignment is designed to give you the space to reflect on and share what you have learned and thought throughout the year. You will be writing a speech about your views on the United States of America. THE […]

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Date: May 23rd, 2022

Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm

For this essay I am requesting 4- 4.5 pages. The prompt is asking to explain how one of the 3 readings from our class (The Crucible, A Scanner Darkly, or Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm) conveys a theme of one of our three class themes: Conspiracy, paranoia, or hysteria. Essentially it is asking to interpret the […]

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Date: May 14th, 2022

George Orwell once offered this definition of heroism: ordinary people do whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed.

Consist of at least 5 paragraphs Word count: 900-1500 George Orwell once offered this definition of heroism: ordinary people do whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed. In Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, Orwell creates an ordinary person, and […]

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Date: May 14th, 2022

Compare treatments of the natural environment in (a) “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth and (b) a key chapter of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Compare treatments of the natural environment in (a) “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth and (b) a key chapter of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In your view, which work more vividly illustrates the healing power of nature? The only two source you need are… Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Dover Thrift […]

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Date: May 14th, 2022

Essay in which you consider whether fiction trivializes a traumatic event by minimizing its importance in order to entertain or creates an appropriate bridge to shared traumatic experiences, allowing for a way to address and heal trauma

Write an essay in which you consider whether fiction trivializes a traumatic event by minimizing its importance in order to entertain or creates an appropriate bridge to shared traumatic experiences, allowing for a way to address and heal trauma. For this prompt, you should consider The Things We Carried but also other examples of fiction […]

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Date: May 10th, 2022

d‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍iscuss critically the effects of satire in different genres such as novels, poetry, song lyrics, etc. Compare and contrast, in multiple aspects, how the‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍ power of satire varies in different literary genres.

d‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍iscuss critically the effects of satire in different genres such as novels, poetry, song lyrics, etc. Compare and contrast, in multiple aspects, how the‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍ power of satire varies in different literary genres. Feel free to use any of examples but please focus on employing a wide variety of literary theories‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍.

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Date: May 10th, 2022