For this assignment, you will research a topic connected to Monsters you are interested in learning more about. You will read articles, books, and other materials outside of class, and may elect to interview people whose expertise or experience is relevant to your topic.

Your Task:

For this essay, you will pick a topic about Monsters to research.

The Steps:

1. Pick an issue related to monsters that interests you
2. Narrow down the topic to something you can cover in 6-8 pages e.g. How have zombies movies influenced the conversation about global pandemics?
3. Read articles and books, and watch some media clips that interest you on that topic. Make sure to get sources you agree and disagree with
4. Put your sources on your source list. You must use the sources in Annotated Bibliography.
5. After doing a little research, develop your topic on your issue develop a hypothesis. Basically, take a stand on how your topic impacts the local community. Hint: This will turn into your thesis.
6. Write a 6-8 page argumentative research paper, written in response to a research question of your choice about monsters.

Essay Requirements:

1. An introduction that provides context on the topic, eases the reader into your essay, and has a “hook” that grabs people’s attention.
2. A thesis statement or controlling idea that takes a strong stand and is narrow enough to cover within the page limit e.g. if your umbrella topic is “The nudism movement promotes a healthy body image” you would have to narrow that down into a more focused topic that fits into that larger topic.
3. Research is secondary and personal voice is first.
4. Transitional topic sentences that are clear, provocative, develop your thesis, and provide unity in your essay.
5. Body paragraphs that have a transition, a topic sentence, multiple examples, and a concluding sentence.
6. You must use research that you used in Essay #4
7. The Quote Sandwich model (lead-in, quote, and analysis of quote) must be used with each quote.
8. Some analysis of all your supporting examples.
9. A conclusion that offers some ideas about what can be done about the situation.
10. Strong sentences that are both grammatically correct and sophisticated.
11. MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page are required for this paper.

PAPER FORMAT:

o 1800+ words (about 6-8 pages).THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE WORKS CITED PAGE!

o All drafts must be typed and double-spaced.

o Size 12 Times New Roman Font

o Have: Name, Class, Date, Assignment, and Topic in upper left hand corner.

o A title that is not GENERIC

o Paper MUST follow MLA format and MLA citation guidelines.

Tittle: So Far from God
 Author Castillo, Ana   Description Magical-Realistic/ Chicana

Write an analytic essay on it. You essay should follow the
guideline in the handout “How to analyze Literature”; so yes, do aim to argue a
message that the book offers, using quotes and clearly explaining how  those quotes prove your viewpoints. You may analyze
characters

-3 full pages

-Provide at least 3 quotes

HOW TO ANALYZE LITERATURE

Introductory Paragraph (The
essay’s first paragraph):

-Your introductory paragraph
ends with a thesis; by “end”, make sure it’s the last sentence of your first
paragraph.

-Your thesis must take a
position; it’s must explicitly state you think people should (or should not)
do. Your thesis should refer to the character or he author; it should refer to
people who exist in reality, don’t write what you think is the author’s viewpoint;
instead write your own.  

-Make sure that the position
is worth arguing. In other words, make it an opinion some people would disagree
with it. If your position is one that most people agree with, then is a week
thesis that makes a week essay.

Your analytic paragraph (the 2nd paragraph, but also the
3rd, the 4th and the 5th at least)

 Open each analytic paragraph with viewpoint; state what
you think people should do; it should act as a sub-heading for your thesis that
also declares what people should do.  

1—Do not open your analytic
paragraph by announcing the story/poem/play/ and what happen in it, or what the
writer believes. When staring your analytic paragraph, try not to mention the
work- or the author – at all. Neither one relates to what should be your
viewpoint.

– Do not open you analytic paragraph by mentioning the
characters and their problem; remember you must focus instead on opening with
what you think people should or should not do.

– Do not open you analytic paragraph with a quote. You must star
with  your own words, not the author’s.

2–Provide a quote. After you have finish opening with viewpoint
for your analytical paragraph, then introduce the quote; before writing it, you
may briefly relate the character’s trouble or situation that relates to your
viewpoint , You certainly want to name (narrator? Character? Authors? ) who
says this quote.

– Start the quote with a quotation mark and finish with one;
keep them close to the letters and each one should pint toward the quote.

-you must add citation after your quote.

-do not quote too much; no more that forty per cent  of the
paragraph’s words should be the author’s if your quote is that long or longer,
then you need to either edit your quote or write more.

3– Comment after you r quote
in your words after your quote; do not end the analytic paragraph with a quote.

-Write how your quote connects back to your viewpoint at the
paragraph’s beginning .

-do not write what happen next in the story or play after your
quote.  

-Do not end your paragraph telling about characters; end it,
like you opening, without mentioning either the character or the author, again
end your paragraph by clarifying how your quote proves your papers arguments.
This will inevitably refer back to your opening paragraph’s viewpoint.  

The three partners of an international joint venture, located in the Asian country of one of the partners, are locked in a profit distribution dispute that repeated negotiations between the partners have failed to resolve. They are beginning to think about formal dispute resolution methods. In this context, what strategy would you implement? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the strategy?

Provide a thorough response in one or two paragraphs, using appropriate terminology from the chapter.

In response to your peers’ posts, recommend strategies to overcome the disadvantages of the methods your peers chose. Engage your peers in a meaningful discussion on the module topics. Use at least one scholarly reference.

Refer to the Discussion Rubric for directions on completing these discussions.

Activity 1: Analyzing the Purpose of Public Communication

Instructions: In class, we discussed how public communication is used to achieve a specific purpose. For this activity, you will apply your knowledge about the different purposes of public communication to analyze the purpose of public statement released by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to the 2016 Cambridge Analytica data hacks. Refer to class notes and course readings from Unit 1 (Introduction to Public Communication) to help you complete this activity.

Read Mark Zuckerberg’s public statement in the article attached to this online activity.

(1) Identify which one of the three generalpurposes of public communication (to inform, to persuade, to entertain) you believe that Mark Zuckerberg is using in his public statement. Consider this carefully and explain your answer using at least 3 pieces of evidence from his public statement.

(2) Based on your answer to (1), identify Mark Zuckerberg’s specificpurpose (e.g., Mark Zuckerberg was informing Facebook users about ____; Mark Zuckerberg was persuading Facebook users to _____; or Mark Zuckerberg was entertaining Facebook users by ____). Explain your answer using at least 3 pieces of evidence from the email.

• In 2-3 sentences, explain why it is important for an audience to be able to identify the purpose of a speech/email/essay/etc.

Film Analysis Paper for “Part One: Join or Die” in HBO John Adams Series

The John Adams series is on Course Reserve at the Library. It is available for three hours of viewing inside the library. Based on the historical record, John Adams is a work of dramatized historical biography. Think about the Questions below, and take notes as you watch the episode in its entirety.

Write a response to the Questions. Support your answers with specific details and key quotations from the film. Watch the film, and do not use Wikipedia for your answers. You can add as many as 2 points towards exam totals for this assignment. The assignment is due to me as an e-mail attachment by Thursday, November 8th.

Questions:

1) In your own words, describe the Boston Massacre. Why did the soldiers fire? Who was provoking them?

2) What was the principle and argument of John Adams’ defense of the soldiers? Why did the jurors, being colonists themselves, vote not guilty?

3) Describe Abigail Adams counsel and comments of her husband’s speeches for the trial. Does he perhaps value her opinions and respond to her advice?

4) What were the colonists’ reactions to the ‘not guilty’ vote? Who was the man shouting loudest – John’s cousin that he hastened from the scene of the massacre?

5) Describe their actions to “tar and feather” and “burn in effigy”? Why did they attack the customs officer attempting to get the tax for unloading the tea from the ship?

6) How did the British respond to the “Boston Tea Party”?

7) Look at the scene where the British proclamations were read to the colonists. There is a specific “act or law” being enforced when the Redcoats were throwing the people out of their house. What is that act called? Referred to your book or the lists of “acts” that I put up on Canvas.

8) What did it mean to me offered the position to become “the King’s man”? Look at the dinner scene. Listen to the discussion, and write what you understand this position is and what it means in the colonies.

9) John gives a speech in the church. What actions and reasons did he give to move into “political action” and go the First Continental Congress?

10) In the last scene, where are the colonists going? What are they going to do there?

“Join or Die” Part ONE of John Adams, directed by Tom Hooper, written by Kirk Ellis (2008)