ENG 208:
First read Writing About Poetry at the OWL at Purdue's Online Writing Lab. Also see Quoting Poetry within a Paper using MLA Documentation to inform you while writing your essays.
Log on to EBSCOHost and search for "Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows." You will come across an essay of the same name written by Terence Hoagwood of Texas A&M University published in The Explicator. Read this and then answer the following question.
Essay:
William J. Maxwell shows how Claude McKay in particular is able to meet "the need for a medium of expanded radical communication" (qtd. in Hoagwood) through his use of Elizabethan verse forms.
Choose a poet from the assigned Harlem Renaissance poetry who has written in either closed form or blank verse. Consider how the selected poems are able to invoke feelings of fear, loss, oppression, and a yearning for change through the poet's use of language.
Please consider specifically (please research definitions where necessary): whether the poet engages in hypotaxis or parataxis, a poem is monologic or dialogic, the poet uses metonymy or synecdoche. Look at also: the use of meter and whether syllables and words are made of iambs, anapests, dactyls, trochees, or pyrrhics. Look for examples of enjambment, caesura, elision as well as falling meter and iambic feet.
This essay should follow all regular MLA guidelines as described at the OWL at Purdue's MLA Guide. Your sources should include the following as well as whatever academic research you do:
Poet's Lastname, Poet's Firstname. "Poem Title." Literature of the Black Diaspora. Handout. Poems for Study. (Richard Georges.) H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Nov. 2011. Print.
Hoagwood, Terence. "Claude McKay's HARLEM SHADOWS." Explicator 68.1 (2010): 51-54. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2011.
The essay is due Tuesday November 22nd 2011 and should be emailed to me and not printed. On that day we shall have a lecture and classroom discussion on the Contemporary poets assigned.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
ENG 200 - The Metaphysical Poets (John Donne)
Answer one of the following. The regular considerations apply.
Refer to 'The Ecstasy' and discuss the poem as an example of Donne's presentation of love. Support your response with specific reference to other poems.
OR
Select two or three of Donne's poems in order to work out a comparison between his love poems and his divine poems.
Pay particular attention to Donne's use of language and imagery as well as the characteristics of his thought and feeling.
This essay is due Wednesday October 26th 2011. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Refer to 'The Ecstasy' and discuss the poem as an example of Donne's presentation of love. Support your response with specific reference to other poems.
OR
Select two or three of Donne's poems in order to work out a comparison between his love poems and his divine poems.
Pay particular attention to Donne's use of language and imagery as well as the characteristics of his thought and feeling.
This essay is due Wednesday October 26th 2011. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
ENG 105 - Invented Rogerian Argument
Your second Rogerian assignment is pulled from today's news on a popular local online news center. Choose one of the following on which to base a Rogerian Argument.
Long Awaited Works On Manse Road Start Today
Cabinet Backs Strengthening Interest In UK
Dumping Of Human Waste In BVI Waters Will Be A Thing of The Past - Vows Candidate
Ruling Party Announces Disney Cruise Line to Extend Cruise Pier; 7-Point Plan Unveiled
Seaweed invading VI shorelines & beaches
FIFA begins Caribbean bribery cases!
After researching these issues to establish your Background and Exigence, use Invention and Hegelian Logic to construct an argument based in the BVI. Be sure to cite sources for support.
This essay is due on October 19. The essay will follow MLA standards (see the links to the MLA guide on this blog): MLA formatting, including a Works Cited page, and in-text citations. This essay is expected to be at least 1,000 words. Outlines must be submitted with the final essay.
Long Awaited Works On Manse Road Start Today
Cabinet Backs Strengthening Interest In UK
Dumping Of Human Waste In BVI Waters Will Be A Thing of The Past - Vows Candidate
Ruling Party Announces Disney Cruise Line to Extend Cruise Pier; 7-Point Plan Unveiled
Seaweed invading VI shorelines & beaches
FIFA begins Caribbean bribery cases!
After researching these issues to establish your Background and Exigence, use Invention and Hegelian Logic to construct an argument based in the BVI. Be sure to cite sources for support.
This essay is due on October 19. The essay will follow MLA standards (see the links to the MLA guide on this blog): MLA formatting, including a Works Cited page, and in-text citations. This essay is expected to be at least 1,000 words. Outlines must be submitted with the final essay.
Monday, September 26, 2011
ENG 200 - Caribbean History 1930-1949 Essay Questions
Answer the following:
Using Alison Donnell's 'Contradictory (W)omens?' essay as your foundation, explore Una Marson's poetry in this anthology both as departures from the 'British models and [their] lack of experimentation and authenticity', and declarations of identity for Jamaican women.
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Monday, October 3, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
Based on the following essay readings, what are the major concerns of West Indian writers 1930-1949? Avoid summarizing, attempt to engage the suggestions and comments of the writers. Examine where they are at variance with each other. What topics and ideas seem to persist?
Essays
Discovering Literature in Trinidad: The Ninteen Thirties - CLR James
Through a Maze of Colour - Albert Gomes
The Beacon Editorials
The Challenge of Our Time - JEC McFarlane
The Cultural Revolution in Jamaica after 1938 - VS Reid
Where the Roots Lie - Roger Mais
We Want Books - But Do We Encourage Our Writers? - Una Marson
Contradictory (W)omens? Gender Consciousness in the Poetery of Una Marson - Alison Donnell
On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously - Mervyn Morris
Images of Men and Women in 1930s Calypsoes - Gordon Rohlehr
Your response to the question must be at least 3 pages.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Wednesday, October 5, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
Using Alison Donnell's 'Contradictory (W)omens?' essay as your foundation, explore Una Marson's poetry in this anthology both as departures from the 'British models and [their] lack of experimentation and authenticity', and declarations of identity for Jamaican women.
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Monday, October 3, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
Based on the following essay readings, what are the major concerns of West Indian writers 1930-1949? Avoid summarizing, attempt to engage the suggestions and comments of the writers. Examine where they are at variance with each other. What topics and ideas seem to persist?
Essays
Discovering Literature in Trinidad: The Ninteen Thirties - CLR James
Through a Maze of Colour - Albert Gomes
The Beacon Editorials
The Challenge of Our Time - JEC McFarlane
The Cultural Revolution in Jamaica after 1938 - VS Reid
Where the Roots Lie - Roger Mais
We Want Books - But Do We Encourage Our Writers? - Una Marson
Contradictory (W)omens? Gender Consciousness in the Poetery of Una Marson - Alison Donnell
On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously - Mervyn Morris
Images of Men and Women in 1930s Calypsoes - Gordon Rohlehr
Your response to the question must be at least 3 pages.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Wednesday, October 5, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
Thursday, September 22, 2011
ENG 222 - "Postmodern Epistemology"
Read this excerpt by D.A. Carson. The full essay can be found here. While Carson is primarily concerend with Postmodern implications for Christianity, his summarizing thoughts on Postmodern ideas is useful for us.
Postmodern Epistemology
So what about postmodern epistemology? Of course, history is messy. The transition from one historical movement to another is not abrupt. Invariably, some forces prepare the way for a shift and others retard it. And even when there is a new paradigm, not everyone adopts it. Even today many modernists argue for their corner and many other thinkers have mixed epistemological pedigrees.
Even during the reign of modern epistemology, there were many anticipations that all was not well. Yet for convenience we may accept the common assessment that postmodern epistemology came to prominence in much of the Western world about 1970. It is usefully analyzed with reference to its rejection or modification of all six of the elements of modern epistemology.
1. Postmodern epistemology continues to fasten on the finite "I"-or, more corporately, on the finite group, the "we." But it draws very different inferences from this axiom than modern epistemology did. Because all human knowers-or groups of knowers-are finite, they think and reason out of a specific and limited cultural framework, some specific "interpretive community." I am a white, middle-aged, European Canadian, with a reasonable amount of Western education behind me, and a white-collar job. Surely it is not surprising if I look at things differently than, say, a sub-Saharan African scholar or a twelve-year-old illiterate street prostitute in Bangkok.
2. Reflect deeply on the first point, postmodernism insists, and absolute certainty will no longer be assumed to be possible. To be frank, it is mere illusion, the product of disreputable arrogance. Moreover, absolute certainty is not even desirable. It engenders a narrow outlook and cascading self-righteousness. Surely it is better, postmoderns tell us, to encourage insights that flow from many different perspectives, including different religions and diverse moral codes.
3. Because the "foundations" that we erect are produced by finite human thought, we should abandon the comfortable illusion that they are secure. Postmodernism is profoundly anti-foundationalist.
4. Similarly, as finite human beings we invent our methods, which are themselves shaped by particular languages and cultures and social groupings. Consequently, no method has any deeper significance than the preference or convenience of some particular group. To hold, as modernists did, that to build on a firm foundation with rigorous methods would enable us to uncover truth was self-delusion, for neither our foundations nor our methods transcend our limitations.
5. From these first four points we must infer that whatever "truth" we discover cannot possibly enjoy "ahistorical universality." It will be true for one culture, but not another; it will be true in one language, but not in another; it will be true for this social grouping, but not for that one. Even in the scientific domain, it is argued, we are learning that large theories are not infrequently overthrown by later theories, that Western medicine has its triumphs and failures while Chinese medicine can make similar claims, and so on. Any claim to have achieved "ahistorical universality" is just one more form of modernist hubris.
6. Many postmodern voices still speak out of the assumptions of philosophical naturalism that are common among late modernist thinkers. Yet substantial numbers of postmoderns are now convinced that there are many, many ways to "knowledge" and "truth"-i.e., to "knowledge" and "truth" that are helpful to you or your "interpretive community." They will happily applaud traditional science, while anticipating the breakthroughs that will come by "feeling" rather than thinking ("Feel, Luke, feel!"). They accept both astrology and religious claims because they do not take them to be different in kind. Anecdotal evidence is as persuasive to such people as controlled, double-blind scientific experiments. Consequently, many postmoderns think of themselves as more "spiritual" and less "naturalistic" than their modernist forebears.
Postmodern Epistemology
So what about postmodern epistemology? Of course, history is messy. The transition from one historical movement to another is not abrupt. Invariably, some forces prepare the way for a shift and others retard it. And even when there is a new paradigm, not everyone adopts it. Even today many modernists argue for their corner and many other thinkers have mixed epistemological pedigrees.
Even during the reign of modern epistemology, there were many anticipations that all was not well. Yet for convenience we may accept the common assessment that postmodern epistemology came to prominence in much of the Western world about 1970. It is usefully analyzed with reference to its rejection or modification of all six of the elements of modern epistemology.
1. Postmodern epistemology continues to fasten on the finite "I"-or, more corporately, on the finite group, the "we." But it draws very different inferences from this axiom than modern epistemology did. Because all human knowers-or groups of knowers-are finite, they think and reason out of a specific and limited cultural framework, some specific "interpretive community." I am a white, middle-aged, European Canadian, with a reasonable amount of Western education behind me, and a white-collar job. Surely it is not surprising if I look at things differently than, say, a sub-Saharan African scholar or a twelve-year-old illiterate street prostitute in Bangkok.
2. Reflect deeply on the first point, postmodernism insists, and absolute certainty will no longer be assumed to be possible. To be frank, it is mere illusion, the product of disreputable arrogance. Moreover, absolute certainty is not even desirable. It engenders a narrow outlook and cascading self-righteousness. Surely it is better, postmoderns tell us, to encourage insights that flow from many different perspectives, including different religions and diverse moral codes.
3. Because the "foundations" that we erect are produced by finite human thought, we should abandon the comfortable illusion that they are secure. Postmodernism is profoundly anti-foundationalist.
4. Similarly, as finite human beings we invent our methods, which are themselves shaped by particular languages and cultures and social groupings. Consequently, no method has any deeper significance than the preference or convenience of some particular group. To hold, as modernists did, that to build on a firm foundation with rigorous methods would enable us to uncover truth was self-delusion, for neither our foundations nor our methods transcend our limitations.
5. From these first four points we must infer that whatever "truth" we discover cannot possibly enjoy "ahistorical universality." It will be true for one culture, but not another; it will be true in one language, but not in another; it will be true for this social grouping, but not for that one. Even in the scientific domain, it is argued, we are learning that large theories are not infrequently overthrown by later theories, that Western medicine has its triumphs and failures while Chinese medicine can make similar claims, and so on. Any claim to have achieved "ahistorical universality" is just one more form of modernist hubris.
6. Many postmodern voices still speak out of the assumptions of philosophical naturalism that are common among late modernist thinkers. Yet substantial numbers of postmoderns are now convinced that there are many, many ways to "knowledge" and "truth"-i.e., to "knowledge" and "truth" that are helpful to you or your "interpretive community." They will happily applaud traditional science, while anticipating the breakthroughs that will come by "feeling" rather than thinking ("Feel, Luke, feel!"). They accept both astrology and religious claims because they do not take them to be different in kind. Anecdotal evidence is as persuasive to such people as controlled, double-blind scientific experiments. Consequently, many postmoderns think of themselves as more "spiritual" and less "naturalistic" than their modernist forebears.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
ENG 200 - Caribbean Lit 1900-1929 Essay Questions
Having read "Miss Jamaica" by Harvey Clarke and "Jane's Career" by H.G. De Lisser, examine their depictions of the working class West Indian woman. What ideas about gender roles, class, and language do they each suggest? Are the perspectives presented by the two writers in harmony?
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Wednesday, September 21, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
In his essay "Claude McKay" J.E. Clare McFarlane argued that McKay's poems in Creole "do not embrace [...] the full range of McKay's poetic powers." Using McKay's poems both in 'dialect' and 'orthodox language,' explore McFarlane's position in this essay.
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Friday, September 23, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Wednesday, September 21, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
In his essay "Claude McKay" J.E. Clare McFarlane argued that McKay's poems in Creole "do not embrace [...] the full range of McKay's poetic powers." Using McKay's poems both in 'dialect' and 'orthodox language,' explore McFarlane's position in this essay.
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 5 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Friday, September 23, 2011
NO EXCEPTIONS
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
ENG 105 - Scott Berkun Articles
Scott Berkun is a motivational speaker and author. He has written this brilliant essay about ideas and our stubborn attachments to old ones. Read How to be a free thinker.
After that, please read his entertaining article How to detect bullshit.
After that, please read his entertaining article How to detect bullshit.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
ENG 200 - Oral Presentations
Your presentations need to focus on the concepts of the theory and how they are applied to the text. Please do not spend time on historical dates or figures. The purpose of the exercise is to communicate the theory to the class. At the end of your presentation, mention your academic sources. Hint: No Wikipedia references.
The list of theories: Aestheticism, Deconstruction, Formalism, New Criticism, New Historicism, Structuralism, Liberal Humanism, Critical Theorism, Postmodernism.
The rubric follows:
Organization
Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow.
Marks: 1-5
Subject Knowledge
Student demonstrates full knowledge (more than required) by answering all class questions with explanations and elaboration.
Marks: 1-5
Mechanics
Presentation has no grammatical errors.
Marks: 1-5
Diction
Student uses a clear voice and correct, precise pronunciation of terms so that all audience members can hear presentation.
Marks: 1-5
The list of theories: Aestheticism, Deconstruction, Formalism, New Criticism, New Historicism, Structuralism, Liberal Humanism, Critical Theorism, Postmodernism.
The rubric follows:
Organization
Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow.
Marks: 1-5
Subject Knowledge
Student demonstrates full knowledge (more than required) by answering all class questions with explanations and elaboration.
Marks: 1-5
Mechanics
Presentation has no grammatical errors.
Marks: 1-5
Diction
Student uses a clear voice and correct, precise pronunciation of terms so that all audience members can hear presentation.
Marks: 1-5
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
ENG 200 - George Orwell
Review the following essay and respond to one via email to georgeshlscc@gmail.com by Monday 22 August 2011. Your response should include be 350-400 words. In it, summarize Orwell's main points, talk about what measures you can take to avoid similar impreciseness in your own work.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
See a video of interest on George Orwell after the jump.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
HUM 205 - Unit Essay Questions
The essays should be about 750 words long and selected from Eight of the Ten Units. Please make sure you only answer one question per Unit. I encourage you to illustrate your responses with real world, personal, and historical examples both within and outside the read text. The final deadline for submission is May 6th. The film questions will be provided by Mrs. Smith.
Unit One - Personal Leadership Philosophy
1. The Philosopher King - Write a defense or critique of Plato's Philosopher King.
2. Discourse of Angostura - "No other form of government is as weak as a democracy." Discuss Bolivar's provocative statement on democracy and examine the weaknesses and strengths of it as a political system.
Unit Two - Leading by Serving
1. The Art of Charodic Leadership - Do you agree with Hock's implications that the tenets of servant - leadership are important to growth as an individual as well as to the growth or improvement of society and the economy?
2. Journey to the East - Write a defense or critique of Leo's "Law of service".
(or previous essay on Harriet Tubman)
Unit Three - Understanding Ethical Leadership
1. Universal Human Values - If Kidder interviewed you, how would you answer the question "If you could create a global code of ethics, what would be on it?"
2. K'ung Fu-tzu - What do The Analects tells us about followership?
Unit Four - Articulating a Vision
1. Enlist Others - Under what conditions are people most responsive to the appeals of others?
2. Vision and Meaning - Do you agree with Vaughan that "you never achieve your vision?"
Unit Five - Building a Team
1. The Secrets of Great Groups - For a group to be a "Great Group," must there always be a price to pay on the part of the individual members?
2. 1984 Address to The Commonwealth Club of California - Why do you think Chavez succeeded in organizing farm workers into a group or team that could successfully negotiate labor contracts with growers, when other organizers had not?
Unit Six - Leading with Goals
1. Man's Search for Meaning - What does Frankl suggest is the outcome of a person's lack of clear purpose?
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Douglass' vision for the future could be said to be the abolition of slavery for all blacks. For each of the steps or goals that Douglass sets and achieves for himself in this reading, describe how each is a necessary step toward attaining the vision for the larger group.
(or previous question on Douglass)
Unit Seven - Making Decisions
1. A Question of Leadership - Do democratic processes always result in groupthink?
2. Chief Joseph - How do Chief Joseph's decisions seek to uphold the several 'laws,' or values, important to the Nez Perces that he lists early in the speech?
Unit Eight - Guiding Through Conflict
1. Conflict - What are the author's four suggestions of actions that may help the individual resolve a conflict? Are these good suggestions for group decision making too?
2. Chimate Chumbolo - Why do you think Chimate Chumbolo tried to persuade disputants to use Dita custom first before turning to the courts?
Unit Nine - Realizing Change
1. Allegory of the Cave - What role does insight play in defining and influencing change within an organization?
2. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Why do you think King encountered resistance to his tactics and goals from people within the civil rights movement?
Unit Ten - Empowering Others
1. From Transactional to Transformational Leadership - Why do you think employees exert extra effort for transformational leaders?
2. Long Walk to Freedom - How does Mandela balance his ideals of African democracy, unity, and peace with the policy of violence adopted by the African National Congress (ANC)? Is his justification acceptable to you? Why or why not?
Unit One - Personal Leadership Philosophy
1. The Philosopher King - Write a defense or critique of Plato's Philosopher King.
2. Discourse of Angostura - "No other form of government is as weak as a democracy." Discuss Bolivar's provocative statement on democracy and examine the weaknesses and strengths of it as a political system.
Unit Two - Leading by Serving
1. The Art of Charodic Leadership - Do you agree with Hock's implications that the tenets of servant - leadership are important to growth as an individual as well as to the growth or improvement of society and the economy?
2. Journey to the East - Write a defense or critique of Leo's "Law of service".
(or previous essay on Harriet Tubman)
Unit Three - Understanding Ethical Leadership
1. Universal Human Values - If Kidder interviewed you, how would you answer the question "If you could create a global code of ethics, what would be on it?"
2. K'ung Fu-tzu - What do The Analects tells us about followership?
Unit Four - Articulating a Vision
1. Enlist Others - Under what conditions are people most responsive to the appeals of others?
2. Vision and Meaning - Do you agree with Vaughan that "you never achieve your vision?"
Unit Five - Building a Team
1. The Secrets of Great Groups - For a group to be a "Great Group," must there always be a price to pay on the part of the individual members?
2. 1984 Address to The Commonwealth Club of California - Why do you think Chavez succeeded in organizing farm workers into a group or team that could successfully negotiate labor contracts with growers, when other organizers had not?
Unit Six - Leading with Goals
1. Man's Search for Meaning - What does Frankl suggest is the outcome of a person's lack of clear purpose?
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Douglass' vision for the future could be said to be the abolition of slavery for all blacks. For each of the steps or goals that Douglass sets and achieves for himself in this reading, describe how each is a necessary step toward attaining the vision for the larger group.
(or previous question on Douglass)
Unit Seven - Making Decisions
1. A Question of Leadership - Do democratic processes always result in groupthink?
2. Chief Joseph - How do Chief Joseph's decisions seek to uphold the several 'laws,' or values, important to the Nez Perces that he lists early in the speech?
Unit Eight - Guiding Through Conflict
1. Conflict - What are the author's four suggestions of actions that may help the individual resolve a conflict? Are these good suggestions for group decision making too?
2. Chimate Chumbolo - Why do you think Chimate Chumbolo tried to persuade disputants to use Dita custom first before turning to the courts?
Unit Nine - Realizing Change
1. Allegory of the Cave - What role does insight play in defining and influencing change within an organization?
2. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Why do you think King encountered resistance to his tactics and goals from people within the civil rights movement?
Unit Ten - Empowering Others
1. From Transactional to Transformational Leadership - Why do you think employees exert extra effort for transformational leaders?
2. Long Walk to Freedom - How does Mandela balance his ideals of African democracy, unity, and peace with the policy of violence adopted by the African National Congress (ANC)? Is his justification acceptable to you? Why or why not?
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
ENG 105 - Invented Rogerian Arguments
Your second Rogerian assignment is pulled from today's news on a popular local online news center. Choose one of the following on which to base a Rogerian Argument.
1. Click hereto read an article on burglary in our community and the main offenders. Using Invention and Hegelian Logic, construct an argument based on the given Background and Exigence. Be sure to pursue research to support your arguments.
2. Click here to read an article on the political environment of the Turks and Caicos. After researching these issues to establish your Background and Exigence, use Invention and Hegelian Logic to construct an argument based in the BVI. Be sure to cite sources for support.
This essay is due on March 21. The essay should follow MLA standards (see the links to the MLA guide on this blog): MLA formatting, including a Works Cited page, and in-text citations. This essay is expected to be at least 1,000 words. Outlines should be submitted with the final essay.
HUM 205
The Due Date for your Unit Essays is Friday May 6th. The questions will be posted here in time for your return from Spring Break.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
ENG 125 - Hamlet Essay Questions
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 4 pages), it is expected that you will provide at least two sources separate from the stories and authors selected. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me. Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced. Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
Answer one of the following:
1. Though Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most famous and most popular tragedy, the tragic action is constantly disturbed by comedy or irrelevance and the protagonist is inadequate as a tragic hero. How fair is this comment about the play?
2. Examine the ways that Shakespeare presents and uses revenge in Hamlet.
3. ‘In the end the revenge plot deals out justice to all the characters.’ How far does your reading of the play support this view?
Due Wednesday 9th of March, 2011 before 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
ENG 105/HUM 205 - All Black Everything
Please listen and where possible read the lyrics to Lupe Fiasco's "All Black Everything"
Click here for lyrics.
Come to class ready to discuss the following:
What seems to be the message of this song?
Examine Lupe's rhetoric, who does he seem to be addressing?
Make sure you research and understand each of the figures Lupe references and alludes to.
Is there an argument here?
How much has the legacy of slavery affected the present day mindsets and lifestyles of blacks in the New World?
How much has the legacy of European colonialism affected the present day viability of African states?
What strikes you about this song given the genre of music Lupe Fiasco performs in?
Construct a basic sketch of what you believe Lupe's ideology to be. Is it far from your own?
Click here for lyrics.
Come to class ready to discuss the following:
What seems to be the message of this song?
Examine Lupe's rhetoric, who does he seem to be addressing?
Make sure you research and understand each of the figures Lupe references and alludes to.
Is there an argument here?
How much has the legacy of slavery affected the present day mindsets and lifestyles of blacks in the New World?
How much has the legacy of European colonialism affected the present day viability of African states?
What strikes you about this song given the genre of music Lupe Fiasco performs in?
Construct a basic sketch of what you believe Lupe's ideology to be. Is it far from your own?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
ENG 125 - Hamlet Revision Questions Act 2
What does Scene 1 reveal about Polonius' character? Provide examples to illustrate your point.
What is ironic about Polonius' statement 'brevity is the soul of wit'?
According to Polonius, what is the difference between madness and sanity?
Why does Hamlet refer to Denmark as a 'prison'?
Compare and Contrast Hamlet to Pyrrhus.
In less than 500 words, examine the episodes of parents spying on their children as seen in Act 2.
What is ironic about Polonius' statement 'brevity is the soul of wit'?
According to Polonius, what is the difference between madness and sanity?
Why does Hamlet refer to Denmark as a 'prison'?
Compare and Contrast Hamlet to Pyrrhus.
In less than 500 words, examine the episodes of parents spying on their children as seen in Act 2.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
ENG 125 - Hamlet Revision Questions Act 1
What is the importance of Hamlet's remarks on the Ghost in Act I Scene 4 lines 18-23?
Where is the Ghost's torment?
What was the manner of King Hamlet's death?
What does the Ghost charge Hamlet to do?
Why does Hamlet decide to 'put an antic disposition on'?
Tomorrow we will have a 500wd essay in class.
Where is the Ghost's torment?
What was the manner of King Hamlet's death?
What does the Ghost charge Hamlet to do?
Why does Hamlet decide to 'put an antic disposition on'?
Tomorrow we will have a 500wd essay in class.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Week of January 31 to February 4
Please find my arrangements for my classes over the course of Jan 31 - Feb 4.
ENG 104 - Substitute: Sowande Wheatley
Tuesday 1 Feb 9:00 - 10:20 S3
Description - Write 2 descriptions (one fixed; one moving vantage points) due Feb 3
Thursday 3 Feb 9:00 - 10:20 S3
Description Quiz / Beginning Narration
Homework - Read 'Dead Men's Path' in the Mercury Reader
ENG 105 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Monday 31 Jan 4:00 - 5:20 MB6
Definition In-Class Outline
Wednesday 2 Feb 4:00 - 5:20 MB6
Definition In-Class Essay
ENG 125 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Monday 31 Jan 10:30 - 11:50 TV 1
Work it Out English
Wednesday 2 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 TV 2
In-Class Essay on General and Textual Introductions
HUM 205 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Tuesday 1 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 MB6
Developing a Personal Leadership Philosophy
Thursday 3 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 MB6
Developing a Personal Leadership Philosophy
ENG 104 - Substitute: Sowande Wheatley
Tuesday 1 Feb 9:00 - 10:20 S3
Description - Write 2 descriptions (one fixed; one moving vantage points) due Feb 3
Thursday 3 Feb 9:00 - 10:20 S3
Description Quiz / Beginning Narration
Homework - Read 'Dead Men's Path' in the Mercury Reader
ENG 105 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Monday 31 Jan 4:00 - 5:20 MB6
Definition In-Class Outline
Wednesday 2 Feb 4:00 - 5:20 MB6
Definition In-Class Essay
ENG 125 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Monday 31 Jan 10:30 - 11:50 TV 1
Work it Out English
Wednesday 2 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 TV 2
In-Class Essay on General and Textual Introductions
HUM 205 - Substitute: Sauda Smith
Tuesday 1 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 MB6
Developing a Personal Leadership Philosophy
Thursday 3 Feb 10:30 - 11:50 MB6
Developing a Personal Leadership Philosophy
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