4 pages double space not including mla citation essay due in 8 hours

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the first attachment is sample essay you need to follow, the format should be exact the same. the second attachment is the primary essay, the third and fouth is the secondary essay.

Consider your close readings of “When Tom Sees Jerry,” “Language and the Self,” and “Obeying the Speed Limit” (and if you haven’t yet read them, do so immediately) and how the student writers put their primary text into conversation with other sources by questioning and advancing their/our understanding of the primary text. The work of this exercise will entail selecting THREE additional sources to put into CONVERSATION with Williams.

PART A:

Look back to your previous assignments for this progression to get the best sense of where you think your many readings and considerations of Williams’ essay are leading you. What, to your mind right now, is the most problematic or inadequate piece of Williams’ argument, logic, and/or approach to articulating her ideas? Achieving this clarity is essential to your next step: beginning to seek out texts that are both ideologically complementary and challenging to your primary text.

Some guidelines for selecting additional sources:

* At least ONE secondary source should come from the Zotero digital anthology (though the second and/or third sources can certainly come from Zotero as well; there are tags that will help you determine where to look)

* One secondary source must be a written text, though there is flexibility in terms of genre (essay, article, research, poem, story, play, novel)

* You have permission to use ONE of the texts you already explored in your Deepening essay (either the primary or the lens), if it is relevant and if you are committed to thinking about it in this new context

* One secondary source MAY be something visual, such as a piece of art (sculpture, photograph, painting), a film, a song, or even a scientific theory, something historical, something in the news, current events, etc. (ALL essay/text is fine too!)

Here are some SUGGESTIONS for complementary essays. Note these range drastically in terms of concepts, arguments, tensions, and conversations; these may or may not be the right fits for you, but hopefully they will at least help you to make productive connections and/or think more clearly about “A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness” and what you perceive as its insufficiency.

Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Zotero)

Berger (multiple essays about art on Zotero)

Bernd, “Dying and the Dead” (Zotero)

Brogan, “Don’t Anthropomorphize Inky the Octopus!” (https://slate.com/technology/2016/04/inkys-aquarium-escape-reveals-the-mystery-of-octopus-intelligence.html)

Cole, “A Too Perfect Picture” (Zotero)

Cooper, “Burl’s” (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-27-tm-5000-story.html)

Didion, “On Morality” (Zotero)

Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras” (Zotero)

Goulish, “Criticism” (Zotero)

Keegan, “Why We Care About Whales” (Zotero)

Rodriguez, “Late Victorians” (Zotero)

Shklovsky, “Art as Technique” (Zotero)

Solnit, “Climate Change is Violence” (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/11/20/climate-change-violence)

Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me” (Zotero)

Wallace, “Consider the Lobster” (Zotero)

Woolf, “Death of the Moth” (https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib8/CA01902727/Centricity/Domain/3981/Death%20of%20A%20Moth-Virginia%20Woolf%20copy.pdf)

PART B:

Now, write a CONVERSATION between WILLIAMS and your THREE additional sources, and YOURSELF (you should ask questions of everyone, keep the conversation going). While this can and should be a FUN exercise to complete, you’ll also want to take this work seriously – if completed carefully and, with thoughtfully selected additional sources, this can essentially serve as a PRE-DRAFT that will make writing your essay that much easier.

You’ll write 3-4 pages (typed, double-spaced) formatted like a script or a scene from a play. You’ll make up whatever scenario you’d like (the authors of the texts meet up for coffee, or they are watching a movie together over Zoom, or they are at a museum – whatever!) and, though you can make up dialogue that sounds like something the writers would say, you should also make use of SOME of their actual language from their essays, particularly key vocabulary and accurate representation of their arguments (for the primary essay, you’ll likely find your paragraph distillation helpful here). You won’t achieve sketching out your entire essay through this dialogue exercise, but it should help you gain a better grasp on how to initiate the conversation between these texts and see where it’s all potentially going.

*I’ve attached two example dialogues from past students (with their permission) so you know what I am looking for*