Literature homework help

SELECT ONE, BETWEEN 1-3 WRITING PROMPT.
This Writing Assignment is to be at least one page and no more than three pages, with a thesis, multiple paragraph development and conclusion. A five-paragraph essay structure works well. Reference or citations should be made to textual evidence from the assigned readings or any outside sources used to support your position.

#1. According to the introduction, the period known as Harlem Renaissance “laid the foundations for the representation of their people in the modern world, with a complexity and a self-knowledge that have proven durable even as the African American condition changed considerably with the unfolding of the twentieth century.” In your opinion, what contemporary cultural phenomenon evidences this movement? For example, the emerging cultural divisions within the African American community between a bourgeois high culture, vernacular folk culture and vernacular urban street culture; continued conflict between advancement theories like agitation which focused on education and politics or accommodation which stressed moral education and economic stability; and an increased interest among white mainstream Americans in African American culture.

#2. As is noted in the introduction, the increased volume, popular dissemination and critical recognition of African-American cultural production during the Harlem Renaissance revealed some tensions amongst African-American artists themselves as theories of Negro literature emerged. How do you understand the nature of these conflicts? In what ways do you see these divisions in artistic style & philosophy as inevitable, or repeated throughout the African-American experience? For example, some authors of the period vernacular genres and folk aesthetic (jazz, blues, dance, fashion, etc.) was central to articulating the African American experience, while others cultivated written literature and a bourgeois aesthetic; some authors focused on crafting art that spoke to an increasingly proud, informed and connected African American community while authors sought to create art that encouraged patronage, critical acclaim and public recognition among white audiences; and regarded themselves part of the modernist movements while others saw themselves outside of the broader modern literary movements taking place in the US and Europe. There were members of the older generation who still saw negro literature as a serious endevour primarily used for counter hegemonic social and political messaging; however, there were many of the younger generation who did not feel the need to limit the function of literature to messaging; for them literature could have value for its own sake, for fun, and for personal expression.

#3: The Harlem Renaissance can been seen in many ways as a return on investment for all of the educational, artistic and political cultivation of the previous generation. The result was the increased ascendance and slow academic and critical acknowledgement of African American artists whose works reflected a broader diversity of black voices and experiences. Jean Toomer sought to escape the confines of blackness as he merged with the Modernist expat communities of Europe; Langston Hughes used poetry, critical essays & short fiction to celebrate the folk traditions and street culture of the black working class every man; Dorothy West & Nella Larsen explored the rarefied world of the black elites and bourgeoisie; and Zora Neale Hurston deflected those concerns to deftly give voice to the black female. Of each of these approach to writing, which was most valuable? Which would you adopt? Why?

Requirements for the Science Writing Essay:

Your task for this essay will be to follow the Scientific Method to collect physical data to study either society or nature. You will construct a hypothesis, consult current research, experiment, and interpret your findings then write a structured report that demonstrates what you have learned. Science writing follows a very predictable, rigid pattern. Learning that pattern will be one of the chief objectives of this unit. While you may present the data in a lot of different creative ways, your report must include the following headings:
Introduction:
Origin: The “story” of your topic. Why you chose it; why it matters. Research Question: States a question that the study hopes to answer.
Hypothesis: The expected outcome of the study.
Literature Review: Survey of related scholarly, professional, and/or government studies. Consider published articles, books, and .gov websites. (3-8 paragraphs)
Method: A detailed description of your data collection process. (1-2 paragraphs)
Result: Explain and analyze your field data. Use tables, charts & diagrams, maps, and/or images to help. (1-2 paragraphs + charts/tables) Discussion: Interpret the data as an answer to the hypothesis. Show key findings. Compares to studies mentioned in the literature review and offer an explanation of contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses. (2+ paragraphs)
Conclusions: The implications of the study, including its importance and recommendations for action or further study. (1+ paragraphs)
References: In addition to the data you collect, you should reference at least three other professional, scholarly, or government sources (including datasets). Whether you choose to write in the Social Sciences or the Natural Sciences, most papers will still have a very similar structure. Here’s an overview of that structure:
Introduction — Much longer than introductions for traditional essays. They include several key sections. The Introduction should be at least 3-4 paragraphs long, but well-written introductions will be longer, up to 8 paragraphs or more.
Origin: How this study came to be and why it matters.
Research Question: States a question that the study hopes to answer. Hypothesis: The expected outcome of the study.
Literature Review: Survey of related scholarly, professional, and/or government studies. Consider published articles, books, and .gov websites.
Methods — A detailed description of your data collection process. Should be at least two paragraphs.
Results — Explains and analyzes the data you collected. Uses tables, charts & diagrams, maps, and/or images to help communicate visually. Should be two or three paragraphs, plus charts/tables of your data.
Discussion — Interprets the data as an answer to the hypothesis. Shows key findings. Compares your findings to the studies referenced in the literature review and offers an explanation of contradictions, strengths, and weaknesses. Should be two or more paragraphs.
Conclusions — Shows how the study should influence future actions, including its importance to the field and recommendations for further study. Should one or more paragraphs.
Decide what kind of data you need to collect. To conduct your study, you’ll need to create a data collection tool, collect data for at least five days, and then enter the data in a spreadsheet so you can analyze it. How you collect the data depends on the study you are conducting. Let’s get an overview of the possibilities, and then take a deeper look at each option.
Personal Biometric: There’s a wider variety of options here. Some options include: Fitness: Use your Fitbit or other health trackers to collect data. Data can usually be exported into a table, depending on the software. Nutrition: Use a calorie tracking app to record intake. You can also collect data from nutrition labels on food packages.

Reading Response 8: First Half of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Please see the attached file for the source. Only refer to Act One for this assignment.

The Reading Responses are designed to give you low-stakes, judgment-free places to develop your ideas and prepare for the essay. Therefore, you should read the essay prompt first, understand what is going to be asked of you in that assignment, and to keep it in mind when you write your responses. As such, these responses should not be plot summaries, nor should they merely describe the content of a reading; they should be insightful commentaries on the ideas/images/feelings that are expressed in the works that you will be reading. You may choose to respond to a single work or make comparisons between any number of the class’s assigned readings, but you must limit your responses to the works we are covering in this class only. This also means that, for the Reading Responses and for the Essays, you should not discuss things that are outside of the poem, story, or novel. A literary analysis means you have to analyze the work of literature itself and nothing else. If, for example, we are reading a poem about a soldier in World War I, don’t digress and discuss foreign policy or military warfare or even your own views about war. The essay requires you to address only the author’s or the work’s message; so for the previous example, you would focus only on what the poem itself is telling us about war. While this assignment is somewhat informal, your responses should be thesis-driven, argumentative attempts to establish an interpretive point about the text (interpret its message/lesson). Always support your observations by referring to specific passages from the text but do not oversaturate your reading responses with quotes or summaries. Use only the right amount of textual detail that illustrates your point.

Your reading response should mainly address the question: What is the message of the work? In other words: What is the author trying to teach us? When answering this question, do not be content simply with a surface level interpretation. Do not settle for clichés or platitudes, such as “The message of the work is that you have to keep trying, no matter what.’” That kind of superficial sentiment is something we hear all the time. We don’t need to read poetry or fiction in order to come to realize that perseverance is a wonderful trait to have. Authors write imaginative works of literature in order to get at deeper things about life. Let’s try to hear what they’re saying! Use these assignments to explore that.

Requirements:
12-point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins
500 – 800 words per assignment (That’s approximately 2 to 3 pages)
Use MLA style in-text citations (But no Works Cited page is required)
Do not use ANY sources other than the assigned readings themselves. The reading response should include only your own words and ideas with quotes from the text you’re analyzing to illustrate your points. Do not plagiarize or even use other sources (whether that includes ideas, analysis, quotes, or information).

Assignment Instructions:
In sum, you are to write at least THREE different thesis statements in which you explain the lessons that you think these three works of art teach us about life. Since this is mostly practice, YOU get to choose the works of art that you write on. For example, you may choose three of your favorite movies or songs, or you may choose any of the assigned readings to write a practice thesis for. All you need to do for this assignment is to write three solid thesis statements that could potentially work for the essay prompt. (Note that no further development is required for this assignment – no intro paragraph, etc.). But since this assignment is intended to be practice for the essay, you want to think about how you might support each statement, since writing an unfounded thesis statement is not really practicing).
In addition to the basic requirements, however, you should remember to be insightful in your argument. Avoid cliches, stock phrases (that are repeated ad nauseum in our culture), and other surface-level ideas, and be aware of how you use unqualified words such as “always” or “never.” Finally, be insightful and make sure that you are adding to your readers’ understanding of the work you are writing on; help them see something that you learned from the work and that most people might not have seen on a first reading/viewing!

Assignment Requirements:
-Three different thesis statements, one for each of three different works of art you choose (poems, stories, movies, songs, etc.);
-Answer the “What” question in your reader’s mind (from Essay Writing Essentials); this must include the author’s name (or director/song-writer) + the title of the work + an insightful lesson they teach;
-Then answer “How” for your reader (i.e., how and in what specific ways does the work teach that lesson).

Example of a Weak/Poor Thesis Statement:
Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” shows us that everyone can get lonely.
? While this thesis follows the basic required structure, it is not insightful. This is a “lesson” that no one needs to “learn” because we all, really, know it already. And it doesn’t do justice to the work of art, which is part of the purpose of literary study.

Example of Strong Thesis Statements:
1.) In “Whales Weep Not,” D. H. Lawrence reminds us that life, to be lived fully, must include spontaneity, vitality, and a constant connection with our emotional experiences.
2.) Throughout Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison tries to show us that a person’s authentic identity can not come from an external source (such as someone’s race, ethnicity, or even so-called cultural authorities) but from an individual’s own unique experiences.
3.) Jonathan Demme’s 1993 film, Philadelphia, not only gives a sympathetic depiction of a homosexual man’s struggle with HIV/AIDS but also makes audiences realize that all people deserve dignity but that because of persistent stereotypes, freedom from discrimination is still a dream that America has yet to fulfill.

Reading Response 9: Second Half of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Please see the attached file for the source. Only refer to Act Two for this assignment.

The Reading Responses are designed to give you low-stakes, judgment-free places to develop your ideas and prepare for the essay. Therefore, you should read the essay prompt first, understand what is going to be asked of you in that assignment, and to keep it in mind when you write your responses. As such, these responses should not be plot summaries, nor should they merely describe the content of a reading; they should be insightful commentaries on the ideas/images/feelings that are expressed in the works that you will be reading. You may choose to respond to a single work or make comparisons between any number of the class’s assigned readings, but you must limit your responses to the works we are covering in this class only. This also means that, for the Reading Responses and for the Essays, you should not discuss things that are outside of the poem, story, or novel. A literary analysis means you have to analyze the work of literature itself and nothing else. If, for example, we are reading a poem about a soldier in World War I, don’t digress and discuss foreign policy or military warfare or even your own views about war. The essay requires you to address only the author’s or the work’s message; so for the previous example, you would focus only on what the poem itself is telling us about war. While this assignment is somewhat informal, your responses should be thesis-driven, argumentative attempts to establish an interpretive point about the text (interpret its message/lesson). Always support your observations by referring to specific passages from the text but do not oversaturate your reading responses with quotes or summaries. Use only the right amount of textual detail that illustrates your point.

Your reading response should mainly address the question: What is the message of the work? In other words: What is the author trying to teach us? When answering this question, do not be content simply with a surface level interpretation. Do not settle for clichés or platitudes, such as “The message of the work is that you have to keep trying, no matter what.’” That kind of superficial sentiment is something we hear all the time. We don’t need to read poetry or fiction in order to come to realize that perseverance is a wonderful trait to have. Authors write imaginative works of literature in order to get at deeper things about life. Let’s try to hear what they’re saying! Use these assignments to explore that.

Requirements:
12-point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins
500 – 800 words per assignment (That’s approximately 2 to 3 pages)
Use MLA style in-text citations (But no Works Cited page is required)
Do not use ANY sources other than the assigned readings themselves. The reading response should include only your own words and ideas with quotes from the text you’re analyzing to illustrate your points. Do not plagiarize or even use other sources (whether that includes ideas, analysis, quotes, or information).

For the “Introduction to Literature” Unit:

1) Look at the What is Literature slides under Information. There is an mp4 file you can watch/listen to.

2) Go to Content and check out all three of the Cinderella case studies. Choose one of the three versions. Write me a 1-page response as to how and why and that version is literary. Include critique of the other two versions: why don’t those have as much literary value?

Check out all three of the Cinderella case studies (Disney animated, Disney live action, and Anne Sexton’s poem). Watch/read each.
Choose one of the three versions. Write me a 1-page response as to how and why and that version is literary:
Overall, what makes it literary? (Think about the big definitions of what literature is and choose one for that version.)
How can you prove that literary value? (Find where literary elements might be present in that version. How do they serve its overall lit value?)
Include critique of the other two versions: why don’t those have as much literary value?