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For Paper only: Showcase how the Humanities apply to everyday life. Choose a work of art and interpret what the artist is trying to convey in terms of human life/living. Be critical, and identify/apply key themes and characteristics learned from our course. Draw connections with your personal life. Write a 6-7-page paper using 2 or more sources. 1 outside source and 1 source from our class. Papers must be at least 6 total pages long and follow standard MLA formatting (typed, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins). Please cite (using MLA) all of the required sources and have a Works Cited page.

Checklist for Draft Paper:

• 2 full pages or more; 1 minimum. Treat this as brainstorming, try to get some ideas out; write multiple versions if needed.
• Start your draft paper as if you are having a conversation with your friend, talk about life, and talk about your thoughts on the subject you are writing about.
• Do not include MLA heading, (my name, your name, class); only page numbers and title, please.
• Works cited should be at the very end.
• Your paper should include one in-class source and one source from your own research. So, one of the texts from class and the other is from your research from the library or a valid scholarly source. If you are unsure, ask me. NO WIKI.

Checklist for Final Paper:

• Check your page length and sources.
• If completing a project, submit the project separately. (Picture, video, or pdf; will be found in final module)
• Do not include MLA heading, (my name, your name, class); only page numbers and title, please.
• Works cited should be at the very end.
• Your paper should include one in-class source and one source from your own research. So, one of the texts from class and the other is from your research from the library or a valid scholarly source. If you are unsure, ask me. NO WIKI.
• Remember, this is a creative project, so be creative!
• For your paper, you are essentially doing what we have been doing in our discussion posts. Seeing how these methods of creative expression are relative to human life. Be that through any method of artistic expression.

  Reading: :

• Hamlet

  One of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy dramas is Hamlet. William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeares plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeares poems also remain popular to this day. Synopsis:Events before the start of Hamlet set the stage for tragedy. When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlets father, suddenly dies, Hamlets mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king.A spirit who claims to be the ghost of Hamlets father describes his murder at the hands of Claudius and demands that Hamlet avenge the killing. When the councilor Polonius learns from his daughter, Ophelia, that Hamlet has visited her in an apparently distracted state, Polonius attributes the princes condition to lovesickness, and he sets a trap for Hamlet using Ophelia as bait.To confirm Claudiuss guilt, Hamlet arranges for a play that mimics the murder; Claudiuss reaction is that of a guilty man. Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. Claudius sends Hamlet away as part of a deadly plot.After Poloniuss death, Ophelia goes mad and later drowns. Hamlet, who has returned safely to confront the king, agrees to a fencing match with Ophelias brother, Laertes, who secretly poisons his own rapier. At the match, Claudius prepares poisoned wine for Hamlet, which Gertrude unknowingly drinks; as she dies, she accuses Claudius, whom Hamlet kills. Then first Laertes and then Hamlet die, both victims of Laertes rapier.T

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Students will create a 1 page-long typed response to one of three review prompts. Responses must be in MLA format.

Purpose:

• Explore in writing what you have read/watched and what we have presented in the modules.

Instructions:

• No Citations; this is purely based on your knowledge.
• Restate the chosen topic/question in the first few sentences of your response.

Topic/Questions:

1. Compare and Contrast two works from Weeks 3-4. Focus on symbols, archetypes, and universal themes.

A Domestic Cookbook

Matilda Russell, A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen

Malinda Russell: African American Cook and Author

First African American Cookbook Author, 1866

Fruitcake, page 8 in A Domestic Cook Book; baked and photo by Mercy Ingraham.

The only information we have about Malinda Russell is what was published in the introduction to her 1866 cookbook. Sadly, the entire print run, except it seems for one copy, presumably hers, was destroyed in a fire that destroyed the newspaper printing plant where her book was published, along with a number of other commercial structures in Paw Paw, Michigan.

Following is the only concrete information currently known. If you are a student looking for a research project or a scholar working in this period of African-American history, you will find in Malinda Russell the story of a woman of indomitable will, and impressive talents. Besides the fact that she lived in the South during the period when virtually all people of African descent were enslaved, which will have made her one of the relatively few African Americans with agency. Her boy was born disabled, so on top of everything else, she had a son who was not fully able-bodied to take care of. I imagine that for many reasons, baking worked for her, but also that it was something that she could do with her son.

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I was born in Washington County, and raised in Green County, in the eastern part of Tennessee. My mother, Malinda Russell, was a member of one of the first families set free by Mr. Noddie, of Virginia. I am the daughter of Karon, the youngest child of my grandmother. My mother being born after the emancipation of my grandmother, her children are by law free. My mother died when I was quite young. At the age of about nineteen, I set out for Liberia; but being robbed by some member of the party with whom I was traveling, I was obliged to stop at Lynchburgh, Virginia, where I commenced cooking, and at times traveling with ladies as nurse; and always received the praise of being faithful. The following is a certificate given me by Doct. More at the time I started for Liberia:

We, the undersigned, have been acquainted with Malinda Russell, a free woman of color, for the last eight or ten years, and certify that she is a girl of fine disposition and business-doing habits. Her moral deportment, of late, has been respectable; and we have little doubt, should she reach Liberia, in Africa; to which place she is now bound, that she will make a valuable citizen.

About this time I married in Virginia. Anderson Vaughan, my husband, lived only four years. I have always been called by my maiden name since his death. I am still a widow, with one child, a son, who is crippled; he has the use of but one hand. While in Virginia, I kept a wash house. The following is my advertisement:

Malinda Vaughan, Fashionable Laundress, would respectfully inform the ladies and Gentlemen of Abingdon, that she is prepared to wash and iron every description of clothing in the neatest and most satisfactory manner. Every article washed by her, she guarantees shall pass unscathed through the severest ordeal of inspection, without the remotest danger of condemnation. She can conscientiously boast of a proficiency in her business, and all clothing committed to her charge shall be neatly executed and well taken care of. She hopes to receive, as she shall exert herself to deserve, a sufficiency of patronage to insure her a permanent location. Her charges shall correspond with the times.ABINGDON, May 3.

I returned to Tennessee, and, after the death of my husband, kept a boarding-house on Chuckey Mountain, Cold Springs, for three years. My boarders and visitors were from almost every State in the Union, who came to the Springs for their health. After leaving the boarding-house, I kept a pastry shop for about six years, and, by hard labor and economy, saved a considerable sum of money for the support of myself and son, which was taken from me on the 16th of January, 1864, by a guerrilla party, who threatened my life if I revealed who they were. Under those circumstances we were obliged to leave home, following a flag of truce out of the Southern borders, being attacked several times by the enemy.

Hearing that Michigan was the Garden of the West, I resolved to make that my home, at least for the present, until peace is restored, when I think of returning to Greenville, Tennessee, to try and recover at least a part of my property.

This is one reason why I publish my Cook Book hoping to receive enough from the sale of it to enable me to return home. I know my book will sell well where I have cooked, and am sure those using my receipts will be well satisfied.

PAW PAW, MICH., May, 1866.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE KITCHEN.

The Kitchen should always be Neat and Clean. The Tables, Pastry Boards, Pans, and everything pertaining to Cookery, should be well Cleansed.

I have made Cooking my employment for the last twenty years, in the first families of Tennessee, (my native place,) Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. I know my Receipts to be good, as they always have given satisfaction. I have been advised to have my Receipts published, as they are valuable, and every family has use for them. Being compelled to leave the South on account of my Union principles, in the time of the Rebellion, and having been robbed of all my hard-earned wages which I had saved; and as I am now advanced in years, with no other means of support than my own labor; I have put out this book with the intention of benefiting the public as well as myself.

I learned my trade of FANNY STEWARD, a colored cook, of Virginia, and have since learned many new things in the art of Cooking.

I cook after the plan of the VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE.

MALINDA RUSSELL.

El Cocinero Espaol

Encarnacin Pinedo, El Cocinero Espaol

El Cocinero Espaol was the first Mexican-American cookbook published in the U.S., written by Encarnacin Pinedo. Cookbook contains Introduction, recipes in alphabetical order by type, and index. Published in San Francisco in 1898.

In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnacin Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero espaol (The Spanish Cook), Encarnacin’s Kitchen is the first cookbook written by a Hispanic in the United States, as well as the first recording of Californio foodMexican cuisine prepared by the Spanish-speaking peoples born in California. Pinedo’s cookbook offers a fascinating look into the kitchens of a long-ago culture that continues to exert its influence today.

Of some three hundred of Pinedo’s recipes included herea mixture of Basque, Spanish, and Mexicanmany are variations on traditional dishes, such as chilaquiles, chiles rellenos, and salsa (for which the cook provides fifteen versions). Whether describing how to prepare cod or ham and eggs (a typical Anglo dish labeled “huevos hipcritas”), Pinedo was imparting invaluable lessons in culinary history and Latino culture along with her piquant directions.

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The Pinedo family was prominent in the Santa Clara Valley and its history is intertwined with that of Mission Santa Clara and the city itself. In 1839, Lorenzo Pinedo (the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Monterey) married Carmen Berreyesa. Lorenzo and Carmen had two children: Dolores, born in 1840, and Encarnacin, born in 1848.

The family was well-placed, as is evidenced by Encarnacin Pinedos account of attending the wedding of Juan Bautista Alvarado, the governor of Alta California, in 1839. According to Encarnacins personal writings, her father Lorenzo Pinedo built the first family residence in Santa Clara in 1844. The house was located just outside of the Mission Santa Clara grounds on what is now the north side of Alviso Street.

The Pinedo, Berreyesa, and Peralta families were all highly influential Californio landowners, but the United States-Mexican War of 1846-1848 sharply reduced the wealth and privilege of these early families. Encarnacin was a well-known cook during her lifetime, and published the seminal Californian-Mexican cookbook El Cocinero Espaol in 1898. The book was written in Spanish, and featured mainly Mexican, Spanish, and Basque ingredients and recipes. She attended college from 1851 to 1852.