Our modern world has changed considerably in the 700 years since Dante wrote The Divine Comedy. Bearing this in mind, your goal is to invent a new level of hell. In doing so, explain your rationale for this new level and, similar to Dante, explain how individuals placed in this level will be punished. If […]
Date: August 15th, 2022
When we are first introduced to Menelaus and Helen in The Iliad, Helen’s betrayal of her husband causes a war between the Greeks and Trojans. To this day, Helen continues to be remembered as a harlot and a temptress, but when we meet her in The Odyssey, she has returned to Menelaus. Compare and contrast […]
Date: May 18th, 2022
History – prior ro renaissance – Each student must write a 1000 words showing how ideas, values, and beliefs express and affect human experience and the human condition across cultures. Based on content, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. You should have a title, an introductory paragraph that contains the thesis, several paragraphs that support the thesis […]
Date: April 27th, 2022
Question 1. Your task for this discussion is to find and post a picture of an artifact (painting, sculpture, drawing, novel written during the period, etc.) that speaks to you from the era of the 1920s through the Great Depression (Chapters 22-23). Give a brief summary analysis of why you chose this artifact and why […]
Date: March 30th, 2022
You are asked to read two texts: The account of the Martyrdom of Polycarp, written as a letter sent from the church in Smyrna to the church in Philomelium. In this letter members of the community in Smyrna describe the persecution and death of several local Christians and mainly of Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, […]
Date: March 22nd, 2022
You have just read Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hedda Gabler”. Write a five (5-7 sentence) paragraph response in which you discuss which author was more effective in using death as a narrative device to convey themes.
Date: March 21st, 2022
