English 120

paper #3

Literary Analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale

Length: 4-6 pages

As a dystonia novel, the Handmaid’s tale imagines a nightmarish future in which a totalitarian theocratic government subjugates and enslaves women for the purpose of sexual reproduction. Published in 1985, the novel confronts many complex themes still relevant to our culture today, including the relationships pf power to sex, gender, language, religion, memory, and love, just to name a few. For this paper, choose a recurring idea, image, or theme in The Handmaid’s Tale and make an argument about its role and relevance to the novel as a whole. In order to make your argument, you will need to enlist at least two outside sources that offer clarity of insight into your argument and synthesize them into your paper-adding other academic voices to depend and complicate your argument.

Audience: Imagine writing to an intelligent person who has read The Handmaid’s Tale but who may not understand the role, relevance, or meaning of your particular subject matter.

Goal: Help your audience to understand the complexity of your subject matter, both through your own reading of The Handmaid’s Tale and through your use of except outside sources.

Below you will find some necessary questions to consider before beginning to write this paper. Please take some time to think about them.

1. What element of The Handmaid’s Tale most interested you? What would you feel most passionate about exploring in this paper?

2. Where might you go to find credible sources? How will these sources enter into conversation with your own ideas-to support, deepen, or complicate them?

3. What might your paper’s thesis look like?

4. What will your body paragraphs look like? How will you synthesize credible outside sources to support, deepen, or complicate your own ideas?

5. What is the primary goal in writing a literary analysis paper like this? What are you attempting to show your audience?

Grading Rubric:

1. Does the writer present a clear, coherent, and intelligent argument about a specific of The Handmaid’s Tale? Is the topic focused, defined, and developed through the course of the paper?

2. Does the writer properly introduce the topic and offer necessary context for readers to enter the conversation?

3. Do the body paragraphs employ clear topic sentences, textual examples, and work to explain and interpret the relevance of the chosen subject?

4. Do the body paragraphs introduce, contextualizes, and integrate at least two credible sources into the conversation? Does the write work to make connections between the sources and his/her own ideas? Does the writer include a Works Cited page?

5. Is the paper mostly free of mechanical and grammatical errors that might interfere with a reader’s understa

Comprehensive Learning Assessment (CLA 2):

By using the data (Up to the year 2008) for Euro zone countries (excluding Malta and Cyprus) from ‘OECD fact book’ discuss the impact of the following factors in bringing about the ‘Euro crises’:

1- Budget deficits and national debt

2- Balance of payments

3- Social expenditures

Using graphs compare the above factors for the countries in trouble, PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) vs. other countries in the Euro zone like Germany and France that fared well and contrast which of the above factors may have contributed to the crisis.

The fact that all these countries were using a single currency and did not have the power to devalue their own currency could be another factor you need to consider when analyzing this issue.

CLA2 Comprehensive Learning Assessment (CLA 2) Presentation

In addition to your CLA2 report, please prepare a professional PowerPoint presentation summarizing your findings for CLA2. The presentation will consist of your major findings, analysis, and recommendations in a concise presentation of 18 slides (minimum). You should use content from your CLA2 report as material for your PowerPoint presentation. In addition, you should include learning outcomes from all your major assignments. This would include PA1, CLA1, PA2, and of course, CLA2 (unless otherwise specified by your Professor). An agenda, executive summary, and references slides should also be included

Citing specific examples, defend or refute one of the following statements:

Question: The Mongol Invasions of the 13th Century CE positively impacted humanity

Positive argument: The Mongolian Expedition organically linked Eurasia for the first time and promoted cultural and economic exchanges.

Negative argument: Mongolia destroyed a large number of countries and cities during the Western Expedition, bringing indelible pain to the civilization of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

I will provide you with a essay, please follow the pattern of this essay

Discussion Question: Cynthia Brown (2011) states that a divided loyalty exists post 9/11 for American law enforcement. Analyze and assess her argument. Is she right or wrong? Why? Provide reference to scholarly sources to support your statements.

Your initial post should be at least 500 words.

Forum posts are graded on timeliness, relevance, knowledge of the weekly readings, and the quality of original ideas. Sources utilized to support answers are to be cited in accordance with the APA writing style by providing a general parenthetical citation (reference the author, year and page number) within your post, as well as an adjoining reference list. Refer to grading rubric for additional details concerning grading criteria.

As we have seen this semester, civil liberties and homeland security can often appear to be two goals that are at odds with one another. Protecting the freedom and privacy of the American citizenry often limits the government’s ability to provide security to them, yet at the same time, the pursuit of maximum security can sometimes entail a curtailment of civil liberties for the citizenry.

For your final paper, address the foregoing topic and explain how the federal government has attempted to strike a balance between protecting civil liberties, while simultaneously working toward its goal of protecting the homeland.

– Choose ONE of the topics we have previously discussed this semester to focus your discussion for this paper and answer the following questions thoroughly:

1. With respect to your chosen topic, what limitations/restraints were placed on the government in order to safeguard civil liberties?

2. In what ways were the American peoples’ civil liberties limited/curtailed by the government in the pursuit of homeland security and what justified those limitations?

3. Come to a conclusion about whether you believe the government is achieving a good balance between these two interests.

– This is NOT merely an opinion essay — you MUST use caselaw, statutory law, the textbook, and other relevant sources to justify your conclusions, otherwise they will be of little value.

– You should NOT regurgitate/replicate a prior discussion board/essay. You can use some of that prior work to help, but I’m looking for new writing and analysis in this essay, grounded in a topic we’ve already addressed.

– The overall goal of this paper is to reflect on an important issue in homeland security and to explain how the government achieved a balancing of interests between civil liberties and national security.

– Because this is your final paper, I am expecting it to be the culmination of all your hard work and learning this semester. I’m expecting you to demonstrate your BEST writing, grammar, citation, and analysis. Impress me.

– You MUST cite the course textbook in support of your arguments. Online sources may help supplement your arguments, but they may not constitute your only sources of citation. You must use parenthetical citations as well as end citations in APA format.

– Your final paper should be 3-4 double-spaced pages in length. I am looking for QUALITY over QUANTITY here. Don’t waste my time with empty rhetoric — directly address the questions posed and make the most compelling arguments you can. Do not use excessive quotations to fill space.