What Caused the Panic of 1819?
What Caused the Panic of 1819?
Chicago style format, end notes counts as a page, along with the bibliography. 13 pages of text, one page with end notes, one with bibliography meets 15 page requirement.
What values and ideas did the writers of the Revolutionary period have in common with their Puritan forebears?What values and ideas did they leave behind?
What values and ideas did the writers of the Revolutionary period have in common with their Puritan forebears?What values and ideas did they leave behind?
What are these ideals and values?Why were they important?How do different writers incorporate them into their works?
Consider the ideals, values, and themes that early American writers considered to be important and worthy of inclusion in their journals, sermons, and poems.
What are these ideals and values?Why were they important?How do different writers incorporate them into their works? Did certain values or ideals seem to become more or less important over time? If so, why?
Cite specific examples from the writings of Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, and Edwards in your response.
Analyze the differences and similarities between “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Analyze the differences and similarities between “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Compare women writers (Phillis Wheatley, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Mary Rowlandson) and feminism to modern day women writers (any of your choosing) and modern feminism.
Compare women writers (Phillis Wheatley, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Mary Rowlandson) and feminism to modern day women writers (any of your choosing) and modern feminism.
Discuss what Beloved tells us about the experiences and afterlives of chattel slavery in the United States.
Beloved
Aadded the instructions on the file provided.
Drawing on at least one additional assigned text from Weeks 1-5, discuss what Beloved tells us about the experiences and afterlives of chattel slavery in the United States.
Response papers should be between 2-3 pages double-spaced in length,and 12-point,standard font.
Do you agree with this point?What boundaries should exist to those interventions?
Post 1: Look at Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government.” He claims that it is not just our right as Americans, but it is also our duty to defy unjust laws. This is a very American idea. Part of the American identity involves intervening in the face of injustice. Do you agree with this point?What boundaries should exist to those interventions?
Support your claims using “Resistance to Civil Government” AND one of the other assigned readings from this week.
Criteria:
300 words minimum (excluding quotations and citations)
Include two properly and integrated quotations (one from each work) to support your claims. You may use either direct or paraphrased quotes. See the Literary Analysis Tools Modules in Weeks 1 and 2 for information about integrating and citation quotes.
Examine Hemingway’s notion of heroism as it pertains to the character of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea.
Answer the following question in the form of a short essay. Your essay should consist of at least five paragraphs (1200 words)
Examine Hemingway’s notion of heroism as it pertains to the character of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea. How is Santiago a conventionally heroic figure? How is Santiago’s heroism unique or unusual?
Explain the ways in which Santiago’s heroism relates to his belief that “a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Cite specific examples from the text in your response.