Identify an emerging risk in your country. Explain why you have selected it, identify the stakeholders and discuss the likely response. How will this emerging crisis affect international partners?
Category: English
The Stages After a Crisis: Understanding the Process of Recovery
Describe all the stages ‘after the crisis. What happens during them? Find a current or past crisis. Identify who was involved? What types of steps do you feel were needed to resolve any issues ‘after the crisis’?
Should minimum wage be raised?
Write an argumentative essay on Should minimum wage be raised?
Gendered Expression and Social Critique in Female Spaces: A Comparative Analysis of Othello and “The Description of Cooke-ham”
Unobserved by the play’s male characters, Desdemona shares a private moment with Emilia in her bedroom as Emilia helps her get ready for bed in Act 4, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. Compare their exchange in this scene with Aemilia Lanyer’s representation of an all-female space in “The Description of Cooke-ham.” What kinds of gendered expression does female community make possible in these texts? What kinds of social commentary or critique emerge from these marginal spaces? You may also want to consider how performance and publication complicate our understanding of “private” female spaces and conversations in these texts.
Depictions of Motherhood in Margaret Cavendish’s “Earth’s Complaint” and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: Persuasion and Moral Education
Towards the end of Paradise Lost, Milton adapts a passage from the biblical Book of Genesis (3:16) in which God punishes Eve for eating the forbidden fruit by cursing her to experience painful childbirth. In both Margaret Cavendish’s “Earth’s Complaint” and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, the reader encounters descriptions of pain related to motherhood experienced by two non-human characters: Earth and Error. Write an essay that explores how Cavendish and Spenser use these “personified” mothers to educate and persuade their readers to a specific moral or argument. What responses do these writers hope their depictions of motherhood will elicit from their readers, and how do their depictions elicit these responses? You might also consider what poetic devices each writer uses, and what ideas, stories, or stereotypes of motherhood are invoked in each text.
Exploring the Mediating Role of Animals in Marie de France’s “Milun” and John Donne’s “The Flea”
In both Marie de France’s “Milun” and John Donne’s “The Flea,” a non-human animal (swan and flea, respectively) serves as a kind of mediator between human lovers.
Consider the ways both poems explore the relationship between human and animal. Do these poems imply a blurring between the categories of human and animal or do they re-inscribe them? What role do forms of physical contact and violence play in this relationship?
A Tale of Redemption and Conflict: Comparing “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” with “Captain America: Civil War”
Compare OR Contrast Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption with “Captain America: Civil War”
Advice on Potential Claims in Tort
John went to the store The security guard suspected him of stealing a toaster. John was taken to a waiting room where he was told that he was needed to give evidence. He stayed there quietly for 2 hours. Unknown to John, the guard locked the door. After not finding a toaster on him John was about to be released but on his way out an employee of the store stood with a bucket of water and told him that he has to clean him of his dirty thoughts of stealing from the store and threw the
water at him. After that hard experience John went home to relax. He sat by the window to look at cars and pedestrians passing on the highway. John was the victim of extreme racial harassment by
persons using the highway. He called the police. The police officer who came was disruptive and made John feel very uncomfortable. John asked him to leave but he told him that this is his house
now and the police officer stayed for 3 hours in John’s apartment. Advice John on any claims in tort
Guiding questions:
1) consider the following potential tortfeasors: the store employees, the highway users, the
police officer.
2) Consider whether there was trespass to land, battery, false imprisonment and nuisance.
Rhetorical Analysis
For this paper, you will be analyzing the rhetoric of one of the essays from this unit (NOTE: You may NOT use “He Said She Said” or “The Gender War is On”). In a rhetorical analysis, you should not say whether or not you agree/disagree with the author. You are just analyzing how the writing is effective or where it is not effective. Your thesis statement should be built around an answer to the following questions: What is the author’s intended purpose in this essay (what is the author trying to achieve) and is the author successful; why/why not?
In your analysis, consider at least a few of the following:
Content: How does the author treat the subject matter? What sort of evidence does the author provide to support the assertion/thesis? Note where the author relies on logos, pathos, and/or ethos.
Style: Is the style of the essay formal or more casual? Is the style appropriate to the content? Choose an important passage (a sentence or a few sentences) to “close read.” To perform a close reading, consider all formal elements the author uses (including punctuation and word choice) and decide how that helps effect the content.
Structure: How is the essay structured? Does there seem to be a logical order to the essay? Consider introduction and conclusion paragraphs.
Tone: What is the tone (or tones) of this essay and how is the tone achieved? For tone, note diction (word choice) the author uses.
You should cite direct quotes and paraphrased evidence from the text to support your analysis. Avoid first-person (“I”) statements.
Exploring Fantasy and Genre Elements in “The Bleak Shore” by Fritz Leiber
Please do a Critical analysis of the story “The Bleak Shore” by Fritz Leiber using the concepts below
• Fantasy from the Century
• Genteel Fantasy
• Pre- 20th Century Gothic/Horror Fiction
• American Fantasy from 1820-1950
• Tolkien, Lewis, and Genre Fantasy
• Quest Fantasies
• Urban Fantasy
• Dark Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance
• Magical Realism
• Fantasies of History/Religion and political Readings