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Social responsibility of literature

Literature has long been viewed as more than a form of entertainment or aesthetic expression. It occupies a position within society that invites questions ...

The Impact of the Setting on the Mood in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”

The short story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London is set in the unforgiving Yukon wilderness during the Klondike Gold Rush. This essay ...

The purpose of this assignment is to take a theory and show how it is related to a situation. Write an essay (at least 1,500 words) based on how Peter Cave’s “Man or Sheep?”Download “Man or Sheep?” is related to the student’s life. You can focus on either college or high school. Use only Cave’s article, provided by Canvas,Download Cave’s article, provided by Canvas, as support; do not use any other form of Cave’s article found on the Internet. Also, do not do any research for this paper. You just need to apply Cave’s theory to the way you see your school environment. You can focus on life both on and off campus but focus solely on how school rules and regulations turn students into sheep; do NOT focus on peer pressure, trends or family issues since those are not school regulations. First, your introduction must begin with opening statements to lure in your reader, followed by a one-sentence summary of Cave’s article and then your thesis statement, which must be at the end of the introduction. Be specific in your thesis and include a plan of development to let the reader know exactly what to expect in the essay. Then, relate Cave’s argument to situations in a student’s life. For each body paragraph, start with a topic sentence related to the thesis. You will need support (quotes from Cave), either directly or indirectly, and cite each quotation using the MLA format. You will also need explanations and specific examples to show the relationship between each quotation and your topic sentence. Be very specific and detailed. For your last body paragraph, find a “solution”. Cave argues that we should stop being “sheep” and think for ourselves. So how is this possible? Is there a reasonable solution for the school situation? If so, explain the solution and how it would work. If not, explain why no solution would work. Be very specific and detailed. Finally, your conclusion must start with a one-sentence restatement of your thesis, followed by final thoughts to leave an impression on your reader. The essay must be typed and double-spaced and must follow the MLA format. You will need a title page (with a creative, eye-catching title) and a Work Cited Page. (Note: I made it easy and have given you the Work Cited Page at the end of the article.) Use the Essay Checklist, located below this assignment, to make sure you have everything covered in the essay. For this paper, you are allowed to use first-person (such as “I” and “we”) and second-person (such as “you”). Below is an essay checklist that I use for the essay. I give this to you so you know exactly what I am looking for in this essay. Essay Checklist Introduction _ Opening statements to attract the reader to the argument. _ A one-sentence summary of the text. _ A strong, well-focused Thesis Statement with a plan of development that reveals everything about the essay. Body Paragraphs _ Transitions between each paragraph (“First,…”; “Second,…”; “On the other hand,…” etc.). _ A strong, well-focused topic sentence related to the thesis. _ Support, presented as a direct or indirect quotation taken from researched source or assigned text(s). It must be introduced by a lead-in (such as, who stated the quote) and/or followed by the correct in-text citation. Note: For most lead-ins, use the present tense. _ Explanations, showing the relationship between support and topic sentence. Conclusion _ A one-sentence restatement (not a repeat) of the thesis. _ Final thoughts for the reader. Other notes _ Follows the directions of the assignment. _ A creative, eye-catching title. _ Correct usage of MLA in Works Cited Page. _ Correct usage of MLA in-text citations. _ Avoidance of plagiarism or usage of AI. _ Usage of a variety of sentence structures (complex/compound, parallelism, etc.) Usage of specific, detailed and concise sentences and active voice. _ Avoidance of wordiness. Avoidance of vague, confusing, awkward sentence structures. _ Avoidance of redundancies and repetitive phrases. _ Avoidance of sentences or phrases that are irrelevant to the thesis, the topic sentence and/or the text. _ Usage of formal, academic language. Avoidance of contractions (“don’t”, “haven’t”, etc.). _ Avoidance of spelling errors. _ Avoidance of grammatical errors (run-ons, fragments, dangling/misplaced modifiers, inconsistency of verbs, inconsistency of pronouns, etc.). _ Avoidance of punctuation errors. _ If a direct quotation is longer than four lines, it is set off from the text and the quotation marks are omitted (MLA regulation). _ Titles of books, magazines, newspapers, long poems, plays, works of visual art, websites, and other long works are italicized. ___ Titles of short stories, articles, songs, and short poems are enclosed in quotation marks.

I am unable to provide the requested essay, as it requires direct use, quotes, and MLA citations from Peter Cave’s specific article “Man or ...

Descriptive Interview: Exploring Academic Experiences Through Dialogue

The purpose of this essay is to present a descriptive account of an interview conducted with a fellow undergraduate student in an English 1010 ...

Writing an essay on Emily Dickinson’s “Before I got my eye put out”, focusing on her desire for readers to appreciate important moments of life before loss

Introduction Emily Dickinson’s poem “Before I got my eye put out –” (c. 1862) uses the imagined loss of sight to examine perception and ...

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare remains one of the most studied figures in English literature. This essay examines his life, selected major works, and enduring influence from ...

The effect of norman conquest on English language and literature(literary works and writers included)

Introduction The Norman Conquest of 1066 fundamentally altered the trajectory of English language and literature. This essay examines the linguistic consequences, including vocabulary expansion ...

You will develop two separate points of argument, one per poem, exploring reasons, outcomes or implications of the thesis. my two poems are “no ordinary sun” : Tree let your arms fall: raise them not sharply in supplication to the bright enhaloed cloud. Let your arms lack toughness and resilience for this is no mere axe to blunt nor fire to smother. Your sap shall not rise again to the moon’s pull. No more incline a deferential head to the wind’s talk, or stir to the tickle of coursing rain. Your former shagginess shall not be wreathed with the delightful flight of birds nor shield nor cool the ardour of unheeding lovers from the monstrous sun. Tree let your naked arms fall nor extend vain entreaties to the radiant ball. This is no gallant monsoon’s flash, no dashing trade wind’s blast. The fading green of your magic emanations shall not make pure again these polluted skies . . . for this is no ordinary sun. O tree in the shadowless mountains the white plains and the drab sea floor your end at last is written. by Hone tuwhare and “friend” also by hone tuwhare: Do you remember that wild stretch of land with the lone tree guarding the point from the sharp-tongued sea? The fort we built out of branches wrenched from the tree is dead wood now. The air that was thick with the whirr of toetoe spear succumbs at last to the grey gull’s wheel. Oyster-studded roots of the mangrove yield no finer feast of silver-bellied eels, and sea-snails cooked in a rusty can. Allow me to mend the broken ends of shared days: but I wanted to say that the tree we climbed that gave food and drink to youthful dreams, is no more. Pursed to the lips her fine-edged leaves made whistle – now stamp no silken tracery on the cracked clay floor. Friend, in this drear dreamless time I clasp your hand if only to reassure that all our jewelled fantasies were real and wore splendid rags. Perhaps the tree will strike fresh roots again: give soothing shade to a hurt and troubled world.

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Interpretive Question on Satantango, Chapters III and IV

This short piece aims to frame an interpretive question arising directly from Chapters III (“To Know Something”) and IV (“The Work of the Spider ...

write an essay on deception and its consequences from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (No Fear)

This essay examines the theme of deception and its consequences in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Drawing on the play’s central plotlines, the discussion focuses ...

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