Category: Literature

Now that you have examined the horrors and crimes of the Residential School System, it is time to put a human face to the tragedy. This assignment asks you to write a fictionalized account of the Residential School experience, focusing on the lived experience of an Indigenous student. Write 3 journal entries that encapsulate the lived experience of a Residential School survivor over time. Try to address the complete experience (living conditions, education, assimilation, punishment, emotional responses etc.)

Note: This assignment deals with traumatic experiences, including institutional violence, abuse, and child suffering. This subject matter is difficult to deal with and can be traumatizing. If this assignment is triggering, please contact me and we can address accommodation.

The assignment should be about 3-4 double spaced pages. You MUST use APA citations and include historical detail from a minimum of three other sources. You may also use content from the lecture and assigned material. Please also include a Works Referenced List

For this assignment, you will evaluate characters from Gilgamesh, The Ramayana, and The Odyssey and then write an essay with a minimum of 1000 words (see specific topic below), arguing for and supporting your conclusions. This assignment will build your writing, analytical, and evaluative skills.

Both MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page are required for this assignment.

Topic

The place you currently work (or volunteer) is hiring. Its a great fit for you; your skills and knowledge are developing, you like the people, and the salary is solid. One day, your boss tells you that the organization is expanding and that there is a bonus of five thousand dollars for any employee who personally recommends someone who applies, interviews, is hired, and stays at least a year. You understand that the right recommendation would work out wonderfully, but you are concerned about maintaining your strong professional reputation and good name.

In this essay, clearly identify four characters you would consider recommending and explain why each one was selected. The four candidates will be chosen from characters found in the first three epics we have read: Gilgamesh, The Ramayana, and The Odyssey. Choose at least one character from each epic. Any character in these epics may be chosen, not just the main characters. Consider each character’s strengths and weaknesses as individuals and as members of a team. Finally, in the conclusion, indicate which character you believe to be the strongest candidate and who you would recommend. Note: Support your arguments with evidence from the texts (including quotations).

Task

Write an essay of seven to nine paragraphs presenting your argument. Include quotations from the texts as well as additional details that illustrate and enhance the points you are making. Use the following as an outline of what to include:

1. Your first paragraph should be an engaging introduction. Set up your project and state the qualities you are looking for.
2. Structure your essay as you choose, but the writing should be organized. Perhaps focus on one character at a time, or focus on one desirable virtue or trait at a time.
3. Give specific examples and quotes from the texts to support your analyses. Use in-text citations in MLA format for the quotations, and be sure to include page numbers from the texts included in this course.
4. The last paragraph should be a conclusion. Indicate which candidate you believe to be the current frontrunner.
5. Your final page should be your Works Cited page, in MLA format. It should include the three literary texts (our epics), as well as any content pages from the course material to which you may have referred. If you use any secondary sources, be sure to cite them as well!

In a well thought and presented essay of about 1400-1500 wordsnot including quotations, in-text citations, or Works Cited(about 5-6 pages) explicate a poem from the list. Explication is a type of analysis that focuses on the work of literature chronologically. When analyzing a poem, you should probably go with the formalist critical approach. Identify the theme of the poem and in your explication support this theme by breaking the poem down sentence by sentencestanza by stanza, line by line, word by wordexploring the meaning and how it works within your theme. Explication for poetry requires a close focus on the language of the poem, so use The Oxford English Dictionary found in the library database; in fact, you are required to use at least 6 definitions of words in your selected poem to support your explication of the poemfollowing MLA guidelines for documentation. If the definition you provide is the obvious definition (one that most people already know), it doesnt really add much insight into the poem.

*YOU WLL NEED ACCESS TO THE BOOK NO-NO BOY BY JOHN OKADA TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGMENT.*

Write a paper 500-800 words long based on the novel “No-No Boy”. The paper must make use of a minimum of THREE references from the novel and a minimum of TWO references from the readings provided. The paper must include a works cited page which is not included in the word count.

Your paper must use one of these topics:

1. Character analysis of Mrs. Yamada. This must be an in-depth analysis and must explain her character from at least 2 to 3 different vantage points.
2. How is Kenji’s leg a metaphor? How does this metaphor allow for a deeper understanding of some of the issues raised by this novel?
3. Is Ichiro traumatized? Using examples from various moments in the novel, analyze Ichiro as a traumatized individual.

I have listed resources that will need to be used as well in addition to the novel that needs to be used.

Referring as specifically and frequently as possible to any of the weeks course materialthe novel, Oatess essay, discussion boards, and videoswrite and submit an essay answering the following prompt.

Prompt Questions

• In the end, what kind of story is Jane Eyre?
• Do you now think of it as an extended, revised version of a fairy tale (or multiple fairy tales), a romance, a horror or Gothic, a historical or realistic novel, a coming-of-age storyor some combination, or something else entirely?
• And why does (and/or doesnt) its classification matter?

In answering these questions, make sure to use and incorporate frequent direct quotations from the novel, but also, throughout or possibly as your conclusion, let me know how you feel about the book now that youre done.

2-3 page critical reflection paper on Courtney Faye Taylor’s “Concentrate”