You are writing a 5-7 page research paper on any text of your choice from our anthology, as long as we haven't previously covered the work in class. This is not a biography of an author or a summary of their work. Rather, it is an argument about a text from a particular point of view. For this post, please include the following information:
1. Thesis Statement (3-4 sentences)
Ask yourself the following questions: From what perspective am I approaching the text? What information does my audience need to know in order to understand the text? What particular moments in the text am I going to highlight in order to prove my thesis?
2. List of Resources (5-7, plus the primary text)
Most of your sources are going to come from scholarly journals. Internet sources are acceptable if they are credible (no .com sites, no tertiary sources). Be specific in your list.
3. Presentation Information (1-2 sentences)
How are you going to present your findings to class? Keep in mind, your audience will not have read the text, so a small amount of summary will be necessary. You may use all of the multi-media resources available in the room, but you may not read your paper verbatim.
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Song of Solomon
[Flying to Africa]
page 904 book 6
By: Toni Morrison
Thesis: Song of Solomon is a novel written by Toni Morrison. The part I have chosen to read and write about is Flying to Africa. In the short story reoccurring themes are that both children involved didn’t have a father, they constantly mention the term flying Africans, and how one day a slave got up and flew away, and lastly, the idea that an Indian and black man eloped and got married.
Sources:
Title:
Editorial.
Source:
Interpretation 59.3 (July 2005): p227(1). (435 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Full Text :COPYRIGHT 2005 John Carroll University
Title:
Nature, humanity, and love in Song of Songs.
Author(s):
Daniel Grossberg.
Source:
Interpretation 59.3 (July 2005): p229(14). (5795 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
The Song of Solomon: Love Poetry of the Spirit.(Review)(Brief Article).
Author(s):
Graham Christian.
Source:
Library Journal 124.12 (July 1999): p100. (125 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Song of Solomon.(Review)(Brief Article).
Author(s):
Joyce Kessel.
Source:
Library Journal 125.3 (Feb 15, 2000): p216. (177 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
The Bedford Anthology of World Literature BOOK 6
Presenting to the class:
Read part of it, look for a song to reveal what it saying, use my paper as a source, find a short clip.
Jaime Sepe
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Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Pg. 560 Book 6
Presentaion:For the presentation, I will give handouts of the poem. As a class, we will read and discuss most of the poem aloud and hear the class's thoughts, as well as my own of the poem.
Thesis: Requiem is a emotional poem written by Anna Akhmatova. Anna's poem is explaining the horror of what many Russian people had suffered through to just watch as someone they care about is killed. The theme of love comes to mind when I read this poem. Anna had such strong feelings to stand outside of the prison for seventeen months just to see her son before he dies. The theme of horror also comes up because for Anna her son scares her because he is about to be killed right in front of her.
"Never marry a Mexican"
Sandra Cisneros
Book 6 from Anthology
For my thesis, I will discuss what is postmodernism? In this text written by Sandra, you can clearly observe this form. Is she trying to get a point across by telling her life story, or is she simply just writing an autobiography?
Some of my resources so far are:
- Anthology book #6
- Jstor database
- "Sandra Cisneros: Loose Women"
For my presentation, we will observe some videos from the internet and see what the class' response and reactions are to her readings.
Tricia
The Love Suicides at Amijima by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Pg 691 Book 4
Thesis:
The Love Suicides at Amijima is a play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, who is considered Japan's greatest playwright and is often compared to Shakespeare (he is known as the "Japanese Shakespeare"). The play revolves around the conflict between social responsibilities and personal desires. Kamiya Jihei, a married man with two children, has fallen in love with Koharu, a courtesan at the Kinokuni House in a nearby town. Bound by their duties, it is not possible for them to live a life of happiness together, and in the end, they eventually commit a double-suicide so that they may be together in the afterlife.
Resources (so far):
Bedford Anthology Book 4
Heine, Steven. "Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse." The Journal of Asian Studies 53.2 (1994): 367-393.
Gerstle, C. Andrew. "Hero as Murderer in Chikamatsu." Monumenta Nipponica 51.3 (1996): 317-356.
Ueda, Makoto. "Chikamatsu and His Ideas on Drama." Educational Theatre Journal 12.2 (1960): 107-112.
Shively, Donald H. "The Love Suicide at Amijima: A Study of a Japanese Domestic Tragedy by Chikamatsu Monzaemon." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 16.3 (1954): 605-606.
Presentation:
videos, using my paper to introduce the piece to the class and to provide some background.
The Yellow Wallpaper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Book 5, page 941
1. The Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story is about an insensitive doctor who drives a woman crazy. In order to prove my thesis, I am going to talk about the sickness in which people thought the woman in the story, who is nameless, was suffering from and the effects the medicine had. Also how this woman was made to believe she was sicker than she was because the people in her life were leading her to think that.
2. Resources:
- The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 5
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"Too Terribly Good to Be Printed": Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Conrad Shumaker
American Literature, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 588-599
Published by: Duke University Press
-"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Women's Discourse
Karen Ford
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 309-314
Published by: University of Tulsa
-Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Paula A. Treichler
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 3, No. 1/2, Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 61-77
Published by: University of Tulsa
-"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. Presentation Information:
In order to present my findings to the class, I am going to make a powerpoint to go over the summary of the paper. I am also going to include how it relates to the Humanities class I am taking. Then I will show a clip from internet of other students acting out the story to give the class a visual idea of what is going on in The Yellow Wallpaper.
Primary Text:
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Thesis:
The Metamorphosis can be an allegory for the inhumanity and slavery that modern day capitalist society can bring to the individual. The main character, Gregor, is trapped by a narrative of social duty and guilt to continue in a job which he despises and that has enslaved him. His loss of dignity and freedom transform outward as he undergoes a mysterious “metamorphosis” into a gigantic despicable insect. Having lost value in society as a provider, he is shunned by the family that he had been so self-sacrificing. In the end, Gregor is metaphorically crucified and takes the family’s blame and guilt so that they may enter life a new.
Resources:
The Metamorphosis: Overview, John Hibberd; Our Sons, Meno Spann; From Marx to Myth: The Structure and Function of Self-Alienation in Kakf’s Metamorphosis, Walter H. Sokel; Making and breaking meaning: deconstruction, four-level allegory and ‘The Metamorphosis’, Gavriel Ben-Ephraim; The Metamorphosis, Kiki Benson; The Metamorphosis, NYU Literature Database.
Presentation:
I will use PowerPoint to highlight passages, show images, and maybe a short video clip.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of Republican allies during the Spanish Civil War of 1936. The communist Republicans fought against a rebel Spanish military who sought to seize Spain and control it under fascist authoritarian rule. The main mission of protagonist Robert Jordan and the allies is to blow up an enemy bridge. The Republican allies face numerous individual and group setbacks which lead to sadness and longing for comfort. Throughout the novel the themes lust and death are intertwined. As an American citizen living in modern times I understand the potential power of lust. In the harsh and lawless conditions of civil war the lust of the Republican allies manifested in to a driving and formidable force.
Sources:
Primary text
Engle,Karen. JUDGING SEX IN WAR. Michigan Law Review, Apr2008, Vol. 106 Issue 6, p941-961.
Lester,Jennifer.READING FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS WITH BARTHES, BAKHTIN, AND SHAPIRO. Hemingway Review, Spring2007, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p114-124.
Hewson, Marc.A MATTER OF LOVE OR DEATH: HEMINGWAY'S DEVELOPING PSYCHOSEXUALITY IN FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.Studies in the Novel, Summer2004, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p170-184.
Trogdon, Robert W. MONEY AND MARRIAGE: HEMINGWAY'S SELF-CENSORSHIP IN FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Hemingway Review, Spring2003, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p6.
Eby,Carl. Rabbit Stew and Blowing Dorothy's bridges: Love, Aggression, and Fetishism in For Whom the Bell Tolls.Twentieth Century Literature, Summer98, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p204.
Wolfgang E.H. Rudat. Macho posturing in For Whom the Bell Tolls: The role of Andres of Villaconejos. Wolfgang E.H.ANQ, Winter96, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p27.
Mandel, Miriam B. A reader's guide to Pilar's bullfighters: Untold histories in For Whom the Bell Tolls.Hemingway Review, Fall95, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p94.
For my class presentation I will use PowerPoint. I may also give some handouts.
JR
I was originally going to do salman rushdie , however that was until i read a piece called "on the way to pretoria" by mohandas ghandi
This piece is the story about ghandi coming face to face with civil injustice on a train to pretoria. He was discarded and treated as less than human by the train authorities. It was the enlightenment for him that started his civil disobedience movement in the name of social justice. His writings and his movement of non violent protest directly influenced and affected the way American civil rights activists thought and acted such as Martin Luther King Jr.
I plan on analyzing the political and cultural climate of India before this train ride and after this train ride. I will take a further look into how his teachings paved the way for the American Civil Rights movement and how the image of todays politics is changed because of Ghandi's initial enlightment on the way to pretoria.
Sources: some of the sources i have found from academic asap
Fahey, David M., and Padma Manian.
"Poverty and purification: the politics of Gandhi's campaign for prohibition. "
Allen, Douglas. "Mahatma Gandhi on violence and peace education.(Viewpoint essay). ." Philosophy East and West. 57.3 (July 2007): 290(21). Academic ASAP. Gale. Brookdale Community College. 24 Nov. 2008
Shiva, Vandana. "Reversing globalization: what Gandhi can teach us. " The Ecologist. 29.3 (May-June 1999): 224(2). Academic ASAP
Thomson, John R. "Inconclusive India.(Reporter-at-Large)(Critical essay). ." The National Interest. 90 (July-August 2007) todays india
Godrej, Farah. "Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth: a method for moral and political arbitration. " The Review of Politics. 68.2 (Spring 2006): 287(31). Academic ASAP
Cavendish, Richard. "The Death of the Dream.(MONTHS PAST)(Martin Luther King). ." History Today. 58.4 (April 2008): 14(1). Academic ASAP
Allen, Douglas. "Mahatma Gandhi on violence and peace education.(Viewpoint essay). ." Philosophy East and West. 57.3 (July 2007): 290(21). Academic ASAP
there are several ways i can present this information , i will use a mix of online resources , use images of ghandi in protest , and simply present the situation to the class and ask how they would to being treated and embarrassed like ghandi was.. He is a man who has paved the way for human rights
JR
Primary Text:
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Thesis:
The Metamorphosis can be an allegory for the inhumanity and slavery that modern day capitalist society can bring to the individual. The main character, Gregor, is trapped by a narrative of social duty and guilt to continue in a job which he despises and that has enslaved him. His loss of dignity and freedom transform outward as he undergoes a mysterious “metamorphosis” into a gigantic despicable insect. Having lost value in society as a provider, he is shunned by the family that he had been so self-sacrificing. In the end, Gregor is metaphorically crucified and takes the family’s blame and guilt so that they may enter life a new.
Resources:
The Metamorphosis: Overview, John Hibberd; Our Sons, Meno Spann; From Marx to Myth: The Structure and Function of Self-Alienation in Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Walter H. Sokel; Making and breaking meaning: deconstruction, four-level allegory and ‘The Metamorphosis’, Gavriel Ben-Ephraim; The Metamorphosis, Kiki Benson; The Metamorphosis, NYU Literature Database.
Presentation:
I will use PowerPoint to highlight passages, show images, and maybe a short video clip.
Primary Text:
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Thesis:
The Metamorphosis can be an allegory for the inhumanity and slavery that modern day capitalist society can bring to the individual. The main character, Gregor, is trapped by a narrative of social duty and guilt to continue in a job which he despises and that has enslaved him. His loss of dignity and freedom transform outward as he undergoes a mysterious “metamorphosis” into a gigantic despicable insect. Having lost value in society as a provider, he is shunned by the family that he had been so self-sacrificing. In the end, Gregor is metaphorically crucified and takes the family’s blame and guilt so that they may enter life a new.
Resources:
The Metamorphosis: Overview, John Hibberd; Our Sons, Meno Spann; From Marx to Myth: The Structure and Function of Self-Alienation in Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Walter H. Sokel; Making and breaking meaning: deconstruction, four-level allegory and ‘The Metamorphosis’, Gavriel Ben-Ephraim; The Metamorphosis, Kiki Benson; The Metamorphosis, NYU Literature Database.
Presentation:
I will use PowerPoint to highlight passages, show images, and maybe a short video clip.
Caleb
Charlie Orens
Darwin: The Origin of Species
Sources:
The Bedford Anthologies: Book 5- Pg 353-371
Title:
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species.(Brief article)(Book review).
Author(s):
Cary Seidman.
Source:
The Science Teacher 75.6 (Sept 2008): p92. (227 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
Strange inheritance: it's not just your parents' genes but also their experiences that determine your genetic make-up.
Author(s):
Emma Young.
Source:
New Scientist 199.2664 (July 12, 2008): p28(6). (3533 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
Evolution: a guide for the not-yet perplexed: if you think you understand it, you don't know nearly enough about it. Michael Le Page tackles some myths and misconceptions.
Author(s):
Michael Le Page.
Source:
New Scientist 198.2652 (April 19, 2008): p24(10). (4488 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
What missing link? Reports of huge gaps in the fossil record have been greatly exaggerated, says geologist Donald Prothero.(Cover story).
Author(s):
Donald Prothero.
Source:
New Scientist 197.2645 (March 1, 2008): p35(7). (3568 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
The other evolution wars: creationists have long battled with geologists and biologists, but they have only lately taken on physicists and cosmologists.(Essay).
Author(s):
David Kaiser.
Source:
American Scientist 95.6 (Nov-Dec 2007): p518(8). (4829 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.(BOOKSHELF)(Book review).
Author(s):
Laurence A. Marschall.
Source:
Natural History 116.8 (Oct 2007): p40(3). (576 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
All things bright and beautiful.(God's Universe)(Book review).
Author(s):
Edward B. Davis.
Source:
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life 173 (May 2007): p52(3). (2001 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Title:
A Division of Worms.(Jean Baptiste Lamarck's contributions to evolutionary theory)(Part One).
Author(s):
Stephen Jay Gould.
Source:
Natural History 108.1 (Feb 1999): p18(1). (5752 words)
Document Type:
Magazine/Journal
Thesis: My paper will argue the theory of evolution against religious theories, and other theories like Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s evolutionary theory. My thesis argument will be pro-evolution.
Presentation: In my presentation I will use a slide show to show examples of evolution because visual aids seem to help most people “see” certain topics better.
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