English Literature

Please See Attachment Read pages 1331-1334. This is a weird play, and definitely a strange one to study in our discussion of comedy. In what ways does this play conform to the conventions of comedy and in what ways does it challenge those conventions? (100 words) Read pages 994-999 and explain how the writer uses dialogue and the characters to express something about cultural identity and heritage in Trying to Find Chinatown. (100 words)

The presented information on the causes and effects of increasing teenage depression in the United States calls for immediate action through public policy to alleviate this problem so that the country’s future can be prosperous. Therefore, as a reaction to the increasing rates of depression in teenagers, the federal and state government should take the following strategies to make mental illness services to be easily accessible through the following public policies. First, there is the necessity of formulating regulations that illegalize insurance firms from providing plans, which tend to put higher financial restrictions on services concerning mental health conditions than the physical ones (Curington 5). Such practice can reduce the costs of mental health services encountered by insured people and promote access to medical treatment, thereby improving the mental health results of this group of individuals. Public policies must be inclined towards prevention programs that promote the family environment. In this case, family-based programs are essential strategies to alleviate depression among such individuals. Parental psychopathology is linked with high dysfunction in a family context (Treat et al., 390). Consequently, there is a need for federal agencies to adopt greater coordination across the National Institute of Health alongside engaging other research resources. Such coordination is beneficial as there are higher possibilities that many disseminated programs will be realized to effectively address the prevalence of depression across the country. Since most of the teenagers are school-going children, the federal and state governments need to establish public policies for use in educational centers to target both behavioral and cognitive risk factors for this health condition. Essentially, as a school-based program, cognitive behavioral therapy will teach the target group the association between life events, the emotional impacts of their understanding, and their beliefs on those encounters 2. Underneath, re-write the paragraph in half the number of words without removing any of the ideas. 3. Briefly explain how you approached trimming the paragraph – wordy sentence patterns, repetition, redundancy?

Final exam paper: Knight’s Tale Things to remember: Having a clear thesis statement. So far, everyone has been pretty good about this, but remember that you cannot get a passing grade for a paper without a clear thesis statement, so at the end of your intro make sure to make a claim about the poem, but a claim that needs to be proven based on discussion of the poem. 1. Suggestions to write about: theme of the Tale; what is the main message Chaucer or the speaker of the poem trying to say to their audience? ** I have included 2 short lectures of the professor discussing the tale. 2. Historical context; what specific historical elements are being commented on in the Tale? For example, what is the impact of not having a printing press in this society, and how does that impact play out in the Tale? 3. Relevance to modern times; why do we read and study this poem nowadays? Why is it important for us in the modern times? What elements or aspects of the Tales, or the society in which they take place, impact our modern world? And in what ways?

The essay should focus on theme of the story and how symbolism is used to convey them inn Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Bureaucratic Proverbs (taken from Will Shortz, “Puzzle Master” NYTimes) The following are common sayings or proverbs (the kind your grandmother might have told you) that have been translated into wordy bureaucratic language. See if you can translate them back to their original form. You may have to use a dictionary for some of the vocabulary. 1. It is undesirable for one to exhibit lachrymose tendencies, when confronted by a carelessly decanted lacteal substance. 2. A lengthy verbalization, concerning a given subject, is less efficacious, in comparison to a solitary nonverbal depiction of that subject. 3. A member of the avian family that initiates questing for helminthes, prior to that same activity by others of its kind, is more likely to be rewarded with success. 4. Persons with little intelligence and tendencies towards misjudgment are inclined in the direction of little contemplated behaviors, in situations in which extra terrestrial beings are hesitant to take action. 5. An antedated survey of a visual nature is recommended prior to the physical launching of one’s body over a given distance or obstacle. 6. Visitations by a practitioner of the healing arts may be obviated by the expedient of diurnal ingestion of a red or yellow edible fruit. 7. The state of not being in attendance at a particular location gives rise to an incremental expansion of internalized emotions of affection. 8. One is more able, when employing the use of an insect-produced, viscid material, as contrasted with the usage of a liquid obtained by fermentation of dilute alcoholic liquids, to entice and capture certain other insects

Design an activity around one of the course’s texts for analysis, choosing any of the critical methodologies covered in the course text. Imagine that the context is a topical course in either a genre, or historical literary movement (including women’s literature). The tasks are threefold: 1. Argue for why the theory you have chosen is a compelling and effective methodology for textual interpretation. 2. Introduce students to the assumptions and techniques of that specific critical approach. 3. Design an hour-long activity to familiarize students with the assumptions of the critical approach, and prepare them to analyze the work you have chosen in terms of the theory. Include any supplemental materials or documents needed for the activity in the assignment submission. 4. Design a formative assessment activity to measure students’ mastery of the material. 5. Include citations and references documenting the effectiveness of the teaching and assessment practices that you have chosen. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies: 2.6: Apply appropriate pedagogical practices to the teaching of literature. 2.7: Develop examples and materials appropriate for the teaching of literature 2.8: Apply current critical theories to teaching and assessment practices RUBRIC Attempt Start Date: 16-Jul-2020 at 12:00:00 AM Due Date: 22-Jul-2020 at 11:59:59 PM Maximum Points: 120.0

These are three-page to four-page (3-4 pages), uniformly double-spaced papers (minimum of 900 words each). Each paper must be a minimum of three full pages, and this requirement will be enforced strictly. You may choose to offer a reader-response to the required readings. A response to a text or texts is not a “book report”; Your paper should be original, thesis-driven, and analytical. Identify an issue or issues raised by your reading of the material, and let your choices in this regard inform your writing. Choose specific passages from the text/texts you are working with, and analyze their significance regarding a thesis/argument you have posed in the introduction of your paper. Alternately, you may choose to write a response to issues raised during class discussion, whether in the Teams virtual class sessions or on the discussion board in Canvas. A successful paper utilizing this option will make an original contribution to the discussion, not just report on what happened in class or on the Canvas discussion board. Again, cite and analyze specific passages from the text/texts as related to a thesis/argument you have outlined in your introduction. I want to encourage you to make appropriate original analytic connections between our course material, other literature you have read, and/or elements of contemporary popular culture (e.g., television, cinema, music), as I will be making such connections throughout the semester. Use of secondary sources–critical/biographical/historical material–is not required for either option. If secondary texts are consulted, all rules for appropriate use and acknowledgment of such materials apply. Keep in mind that—among other things—two of your goals herein are to demonstrate to my satisfaction that you have read the required course material, and that the work submitted is your work.

Barry Keith Grant writes that “horror movies aim to rudely move us out of our complacency in the quotidian world, by way of negative emotions” and that the “ideology of horror has shifted historically according to contemporaneous cultural anxieties” (1). What “contemporaneous cultural anxieties” is the movie Searching (or another horror movie of your choosing!) responding to?

Prepare an essay highlighting the most relevant aspects of the readings made throughout the course. In the essay it must denote synthesis capacity, as well as writing and coherence with the ideas that it seeks to express.

In an essay of five or more paragraphs, explore your own opinion on the imagery in “Daystar” by Rita Dove. Daystar She wanted a little room for thinking: but she saw diapers steaming on the line, a doll slumped behind the door. So she lugged a chair behind the garage to sit out the children’s naps. Sometimes there were things to watch — the pinched armor of a vanished cricket, a floating maple leaf. Other days she stared until she was assured when she closed her eyes she’d see only her own vivid blood. She had an hour, at best, before Liza appeared pouting from the top of the stairs. And just what was mother doing out back with the field mice? Why, building a palace. Later that night when Thomas rolled over and lurched into her, she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers for an hour — where she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day.