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Essay Instructions: Book : Benito cereno
1. you will consider how "benito cereno" relevant to an understand of (choices below) in our contemporary world. The essay should have a thesis statement or argument, and you should support this with textual evidence.

There are some choices for the essay: deception, irony, racism, charater, metaphor, symbolism,
setting,ending,narative method.

Essay Instructions: Here is the assignment as requested per the professor:

I will e-mail the reading assignment so that it is verbatim from the assigned text.

1. Write an analytical essay 750 to 1000 words in length on ONE of the following topics:

HERE IS THE SELECTED TOPIC OF CHOICE FOR MY ESSAY:

TOPIC #2: Analyze how "Benito Cereno" presents a theme concerned with the effects of slavery. Be sure to state the theme as a complete sentence that articulates what the story says about the effects of slavery. The essay should then analyze how 3-4 elements of the story (e.g., setting, symbols, characters, events) present that theme.

Remember auotations are necessary and required.

3. Use the list under the next link to CHECK all aspects of how you have written the essay before you go to the last link and submit it.

Grading Criteria: Your essay will be graded according to the quality of work in each of the elements listed below.

Use this list as a check-sheet to review your work before you submit the essay.

CHECK
•Your title is interesting and appropriate

CHECK: Your opening paragraph
•Introduces subject of essay in an interesting way
•Gives full title of work and full name of author
•Punctuates the title of the work correctly and spells title and author's name correctly
•Directly and accurately addresses the topic
•Provides your essay's main idea, or thesis, stated as a complete sentence
•May include statement of supporting reasons for
thesis

CHECK: Your middle paragraphs
•Each paragraph offers a major, supporting reason for truth of thesis, stated clearly in one-two sentences
•Each includes appropriate and sufficient quotations and details from the literary work to show reasoning is valid
•Each includes explanation of the significance of quotations and how and why they support your reasons and, in turn, the thesis

CHECK: Your last paragraph
•Brings essay's ideas to a close
•Comments on the significance of the thesis and essay's ideas

CHECK: Overall, your entire essay
•Clearly and adequately addresses one of the assigned
topics
•Sticks to the central thesis throughout
•Smoothly and clearly moves from one idea to another
•Avoids plot summary
•Has no major sentence structure, grammar, and word choice errors
•Has few, if any, mechanical, punctuation, and spelling errors
•Blends and punctuates quotations correctly

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Essay Instructions: Hello. I need a paper that is an application of the ideas and theories in Michael Omi and Howard Winant''s "Racial Formation in the United States" -to- Herman Melville''s short story "Benito Cereno". Please use a couple of direct examples from "Benito Cereno" to discuss some of the main points in "Racial Formation".
I am faxing the 19 pages of the "Racial Formation" text that contain the sections that need to be discussed.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to email me at c.edu.
Thank you.
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Essay Instructions: You will be making the case for turning one of our narratives into a film, short or feature. You need to convince me that the project is worthwhiile for a greenlight. I need to understand the work and its importance. Convince me about a few areas before an adaption can be started. This is an argument for the film's relevance, so that it should be written in a convincing and clear manner.

A working bibliography, which has two standard biographies of the author, as well as numerous critical stances on work in question. Show the range of the interpretations offered, from historical, psychoanalytical, feminist.

Share your likes and dislikes from the start. It is essential to choose a work which you feel strongly about and attempt
to articulate why you like it.

Characters: What is the conflict here? What are the central character traits? What separates the circumstances from the character.
What does the author disclose about the key characters?

THEME: What does this work mean.
SETTING: this s a work's natural, manufactured, political, cultural environment. Significance of the surrounding story? Are there cultural conditions..
SYMBOLISM: Show some key symbols which would have to be incorporated in the film version and what do these things stand for.
CONTEMPORARY INNOVATION: Is there a way to make the story more contemporary?

BIBLIOGRAPHY: List 10 works here. At least one, if not two bibliographies should be listed. I am interested to see articles for general readers, like those found in journals like The New Yorker, or widely scholarly books.

ARGUMENT SUMMATION: Give a clear and concise statement as to why I should invest money in this project.

HERE ARE YOUR TEXTURAL CHOICES:

Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Rip Van Winkle"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown", My Kinsman, Major Molineux.
Herman Melville, "Bartleby", Moby-Dick, "Benito Cereno"
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontilado", The Masque of Red Death, "The Tell Tale Heart", "The Man of the Crowd".
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life
Henry David Thoreau, Walden