I will be in my office all week (Mon
6/15-Thurs 6/18) from 10-12 if you have any questions.
3 PAGES, DOUBLE SPACED, SIZE 12
TIMES NEW ROMAN
USE
TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES (NOT INCLUDING THE TEXT!) AND QUOTE THE PRIMARY TEXTS AS
WELL.
This link will also help with MLA
questions: owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01
Refer to the class blog for outside
source info: eng102summer12015.blogspot.com
Pick ONE of the essay topics below for
your paper.
Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to
support your thesis.
1)
Compare
Truman from The Truman Show and the
prisoner that is freed to view the outside world. Talk about how they were both
“imprisoned,” achieved freedom through knowledge and what ends up happening to
them.
2)
Discuss
three symbols (the sun, the cave, the chains, the outside world, the
prisoners…to name a few) and explain what they may represent and their
importance in “The Allegory of the Cave.”
3)
Discuss
the effects of Magical Stranger in Literature as seen in "The Handsomest
Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use at least two of these texts to display how
a “magical stranger” comes into the lives of these people and changes how they look
at themselves. Outside sources on different cultures would help answer this
question.
4)
We also
discussed the importance society places on appearance when discussing "The
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use an example from
at least two of these texts to explain how appearance played a role in their
stories while discussing how important it is in today’s world
5)
Use the
sources on the blog that discuss office culture to explain how the office
workers were positively influenced by the temp. What was it like before she got
that? How did the workers feel about their jobs before and after? Why do people
sometimes feel like this about their jobs?
6)
How does
Nawabdin change over the course of his story? What is like in the first half of
the story and what/why does he change in the second half? How does this
complicate your view of him as a character?
7)
Pick a character from “Nawabdin,” “The Man
From the South” and Captain Phillips and
describe their uniqueness as characters in their respective stories.
8)
In “The Man
From the South” how are the characters described? Why does each man enter into
this bet? This question is asking you to explain characterization.
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DO NOT
USE QUOTES IN INTRO OR CONCLUSION
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CITE AND
QUOTE TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES
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DO NOT
START OR END A PARAGRAPH WITH A QUOTE
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MAKE
SURE QUOTES ARE 4 LINES OR SHORTER
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Movies get italics and “Short Stories” get quotation marks
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Below is
an example of a paragraph that uses quotes from an outside source, the primary
text and the students’ own words.
As explained by many specialists,
obsession has two main stages. The first stage is the upside of obsession. This
stage states, “Obsession … can lead us to greatness” (Likerman), since the
person who is obsessed over someone think that they –the one who is obsessed
and the person from whom he is obsessed- can be together and be happily ever
after - like in fairytales. The main character was happy when Lola finally
accepted to go and look at his artwork, even more when she kiss him. On the
other hand, there is the downside of obsession. This stage states, “Obsession
is an iron mask that permits us to gaze in only one direction at one thing”
(Likerman). This stage clearly refers to the main character situation, for all
his life, he only concerned about Lola. He was so obsessed about her that he
did not care about him anymore. He spent sleepless “night making one drawing
after another of her, naked, framed by the window, smudging the charcoal with
[his] fingers to capture the soft swell of her breasts” (Santlofer 83). He even
stopped going to work just to stay home and make more sketches of her, and to
follow her around Hoboken trying to encounter her ‘accidentally’, which never
was like that; he always planned every encounter he had with her.
Likerman is the outside source and
Santlofer is the primary test. The student used the outside source to explain
what was happening in the primary souce.
