Literature

Please watch Crash Course US History #39: Civil Rights and the 1950s.  You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64zRnnn4Po After you’ve watched the video, create a new thread, using your name as the subject, in which you answer the following questions:1: Why was the 1950s a time of affluence for many Americans?2: What was Levittown?  How did suburbs and car culture change the country?  Were all these changes positive?3: What were the criticisms of American society and the way it was changing?4: What was the start of the “modern” Civil Rights movement?  What changed in the 1950s?  What was the NAACP’s strategy?5: What was the “true” story of Rosa Parks?  How does it differ from the story about her that has been traditionally told?  Why is this important?

 Try revising your points to give them some kind of organizational style.  Consider 3 ARGUMENT structure – make a claim and then each main point serves as an argument for that claim.   Or you can consider PROBLEM – CAUSE – SOLUTION structure where you address the problem in the first main point, what’s causing it in the second main point, and how to solve it in the third main point. For more information on Argument Structure read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_form

In the poem “Barbie Doll” Marge Piercy writes out the poem What was your purpose? What effect were you trying to achieve? What was interesting about the process you went through in writing this paper, and what did you learn from it? What was the most difficult about this paper, and what did you learn from the attempt? What do you see as the strengths of the paper, and what would you try to do if you were to revise it some more? What’s not a part of your paper that you think might help a reader understand or appreciate it more? What didn’t you put in? Are there certain events or feelings or memories that led you to write on this topic or to take this approach? What kind of feedback or response would you like from your instructor? For more information read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_Doll_(poem)

(These are some tips that you can use to write this formal essay)This is an exercise where you explore a different view on the questions we have examined and give your own evaluation of the view’s value.  In other words, don’t spend time and effort trying to find out what other people think about the piece you have chosen to focus on.  Instead, after figuring out how to summarize the main argument or ideas proposed by the author, reflect on what your answers to the following questions are: Is the view proposed a good one?  If so, what makes it good?  Why might someone think it’s not good and how can you respond to that? If it’s not so good, what is wrong with it?  Can it be adjusted so that it becomes a better view?  Why might someone disagree with your evaluation or suggestion and how can you respond? Give reasons in support of your claims.  (In other words, what can you offer that might convince a rational person who does not already agree with you that the claims or ideas you are proposing are the most reasonable to accept?)If it seems helpful, you can mention how the ideas tie in with one or two of the other views we have considered but don’t spend too much time on that.  One might do this to indicate perhaps that the view under consideration is not completely new, that it shares ideas or aspects with another view generally accepted as good, but don’t make this the whole of your analysis.  Instead, think about the ideas that might work if put into effect in everyday life, whether they would be helpful (or not), whether they might work well for people/make their lives better (or not), things like that. In summarizing the author’s ideas or arguments, work on paraphrasing them.  A few short quotations are okay, but the explanation of the view should be primarily in your own words.  Do give citations for the ideas, however, as well as for quotations as we have been practicing. These are worth 75 points.  Don’t leave them until the last minute.  You want to have time to reflect on the ideas and also to make sure that the writing in your essay is good (there’s no sense losing points for carelessness). For more information read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiview_projection

After reading Chapter 3 on stage spaces, and based on your understanding of the production needs of the play “Dinner With Friends”, what stage space would be best suited for a performance of “Dinner With Friends” and why? Be sure to use examples from the play script (scenic requirements, scene changes, etc.) and textbook (stage machinery, layout, visual aspects, etc.) to support your opinion. For more information read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_with_Friends_(film)

Each week you will be expected to provide the following information to your community practice instructor through your journal entries: What are your upcoming week’s specific learning goals and objectives? What is your upcoming week’s detailed schedule at your community practice experience placement? Were there any placement items/issues that occurred this week that you feel your instructor should be aware of that are private in nature and are more appropriately shared here than in the discussion board with your classmates? Give a brief description of an objective you worked on this week. Make sure to cite at least one reference showing how your objective relates to the public health knowledge you’ve studied during this course or the public health course. You may choose to reference your e-text, journal articles, or videos you’ve studied during these courses or you may find an outside reference on your own to further enhance your public health knowledge and practices. Remember, your journal entries are an important aspect of clinical learning as they serve to help you reflect upon and get the most out of your community practice experience. Therefore, your journal entry should include the who, what, where, and when of your community practice experience. Remember, this should simulate a dialogue that would normally take place face-to-face with your community practice experience instructor.

Here is the prompt and instructions for the paper.1. Identify the phases of dramatic structure. Summarize the content of the Exposition.Note the moment the Exposition ends and the Rising Action begins and say why this is so. Mention two or three events in the Rising Action and indicate why these events raise tension. Identify the climax, again noting why this is the climax. Summarize the Denouement.2. Select either the Limitation of Space or the Limitation of Time and show how it functions in the play. Length: Total words between 500 and 600, with 70-80% for part 1.Format: MLA or APA.Penalties for failing to underline or italicize a title and misspelled proper nouns.

Read Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and in 2-3 pages let me know, not only what you thought, but how the work deals with not only the war in Vietnam but also all “war.”  What is O’Brien saying about war and how does he go about presenting it? For more information read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried

 Analysis of Chapters 1-3 of The Nickel Boys  In at least 300 words, discuss a significant theme within the first 3 chapters of the novel. Make sure to include at least two quotes within your analysis. For more information read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nickel_Boys

1. What do you like to read? What is your favorite book, author, or literary genre (mystery, romance, serious fiction, etc.)?2. Do you think that literature has a place in today’s world? How so? Does literature have a place in your life?3. The editor of your eText, Michael Meyer, suggests that “one of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our emotional lives” (4). Do you agree with that statement? Explain your response, and offer an example of literature that has affected you in some way, either positively or negatively.