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Essay Instructions: Honors English 112
Rice/SP10
Essay #4
Analytical/Critical Review

Criteria
Play Review
3-4 pages (suggestion)
12 point font, typed, double spaced, stapled
MLA format (Works Cited, 1 source)
Audience=uninformed, newspaper reader

For your fourth and final essay assignment, I would like you to write a review for a LIVE play production. When you write your review, you should assume that your audience is not familiar with the work. In other words, you should give enough information for comprehension of ideas and thoughts without giving away too much information about the plot and storyline of the play. Your main objective is to look at the elements of the play that help “create” the story and enhance the LIVE performance, such as the images, setting, dialogue, lighting, characters/actors, etc. Remember the elements and devices we discussed (and will discuss) in class concerning drama.
Before getting started with this assignment, you must consult an outside source and/or read several reviews of plays, films, books, etc. from professional critics, including magazine and newspaper writers. After looking at several examples from professionals, you should attempt to write your own review. Your in-depth look at your chosen work should look at all of its components, including why it is "good" and why it is "bad." **Remember that not all reviews reflect only positive qualities.



Above is the exact details we were given. The only source you really need is the play The Liar. She wants us to look at specifics about the acting, the theatre, etc. Other reviews of this play should be able to do that.


Shakespeare Theatre Company - Lansburgh Theatre
450 Seventh St. NW
Washington, DC

That is where the theatre is located. and the name of it.

Essay Instructions: Honors American Literature
I know this is a lot of detail but it is all important to my paper and I would appreciate it if you read through all of it carefully. Thank you
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Reading Authors from the 18th century to the 19th century our class has encountered American social thinkers arguing for expanding women''s rights. Over the course of time, these arguments also changed. We have to choose THREE advocates of women''s rights from our weekly readings and write an essay comparing thier views. (I will list the authors I have to choose from below this paragraph). I have to chart the sililarites and differences in terms of broader trends in American social thought that we''ve encountered so far (e.g. the religious revivals of the early 19th century, mid-19th century Transcendentalism etc.) I MUST also consider WHAT these thinkers advocated and HOW they argued for their views.
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I have to choose one author from each group below assigned to us on a weekly basis. I can not choose two authors from the same weekly group.
I listed the authors and the selection from a piece of literature by them that we read. The ones listed in Bold are the ones I originally choose (Judith Sargent Murray, Margaret Fuller and Charlotte Perkins Gilman), but YOU are FREE TO CHOOSE anyone of these authors that you think would best fit the criteria. Also we are not limited to the one or two peices listed by each authors name. We can use anything that he or she wrote and any other outside sources related to that author, but we should at least include some refernce to the peice that is listed by each authors name.
NOTE: ALL THESE SELECTIONS FROM THESE AUTHORS APPEAR IN "The American Intellectual Tradition" EDITED BY DAVID A. HOLLINGER AND CHARLES CAPPER VOLUMES I AND II. ONCE YOU SELECT THE THREE AUTHORS YOU THINK WOULD WORK BEST LET ME KNOW WHICH THREE THEY ARE AND I CAN FAX/EMAIL YOU A COPY OF THE SELECTION FROM THEIR WORK PROVIDED FOR US IN OUR BOOK. each selection is no longer than 15-20 pages and usually only about 10 pages (my email addres is EthanBenoit@aol.com)

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Benjamin Franklin--"The Autobiography"
John Adams--"A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law"
Thomas Paine--"Common Sense"
Alexander Hamilton--"Constitutional Convention Speech On a Plan
of Government"
"Brutus"--"Essays of Brutus"
James Madison--"The Federalist"--"Number 10" and "Number 51"
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY--"On the Equality of the Sexes"
Thomas Jefferson

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William Ellery Channing--"Unitarian Christianity"
Nathaniel William Taylor--"Concio ad Clerum"
Charles Grandison Finney--"Lectures on Revivals of Religion"
William Lloyd Garrison--"Thoughts on African Colonization"
William Lloyd Garrison--"Prospectus of The Liberator"
Sarah Grimke--"Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the
Condition of Woman"
George Bancroft--"The Office of the People in Art, Government
and Religion"
Orestes Brownson--"The Laboring Class"
Catharine Beecher--"A Treatise on Domestic Economy"
Henery C. Carey--"The Harmony of Interests"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson--"The Divinity School Address"
Ralph Waldo Emerson--"Self-Reliance"
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody--"A glimpse of Christ''s Idea of Society"
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody--"Plan of the West Roxbury Community"
MARGARET FULLER--"Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
Henry David Thoreau--"Resistance to Civil Government"
Horace Bushnell--"Christian Nurture"
Herman Melville--"Hawthorne and His Mosses"

----------Week 4---------------------------------------------

John C. Calhoun--"A Disquisition on Government"
Louisa McCord--"Enfranchisement of Woman"
George Fitzhugh--"Sociology for the South"
Martin Delany--"The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and
Destiny of the Colored People"
Frederick Douglass--"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Abraham Lincoln--"Speech at Peoria Illinois"
Abraham Lincoln--"Address before the Wisconsin State
Agricultural Society"
Abraham Lincoln--"Second Inaugural Address"

-------Week 5--------------------------------------------------

Charles Peirce--"The Fixation of Belief"
William Dean Howells--"Pernicious Fiction"
William Graham Sumner--"Sociology"
Lester Frank Ward--"Mind as a Social Factor"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton--"The solitude of Self"
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN--"Woman and Economics"
Josiah Royce--"The Problem of Job"
William James--"The Will to Believe"
Henry Adams--"The Dynamo and the Virgin"
Frederick Jackson Turner--"The Significance of the Frontier in
American History"
George Santayana--"The Genteel Tradition in American Philosphy"
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ONCE YOU HAVE SELECTED THE THREE AUTHORS YOU WISH TO USE PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK ASAP AT EthanBenoit@aol.com SO I CAN EMAIL OR FAX YOU THE SELECTED READINGS ON THOSE THREE AUTHORS. (Altogether the readings should only be roughly 30 pages, and as I stated before we are encouraged to use outside sources in additoin to the selected readings.

There are faxes for this order.

Essay Instructions: Discuss the code of honor of warrior-heroes in Chinese historical novel - Outlaws of the Marsh, also known as Water Margin. What does this code honor consist of? What is its origin? In what ways does it influence or even determine characters' intentions, words, and actions? How does the code manifest itself in the novels? When does the code apply and to whom? When and to whom does it not apply? What are some of the competing visions of proper human conduct?

This is a RESEARCH PAPER, so please write an in-depth analysis based on one or some of the issues mentioned above. Indeed, it is not necessary to address all of the questions above.
Please include a clear argument / thesis statement and the detailed historical background for this study, also a conclusion in the end of the paper.
Please use at least three non-internet sources. Also, please please please deliver the paper on time (before June 7, 2am). Thanks!!!

Essay Instructions: Its' an investigation paper. The paper is based on the book : '' Elements of argument '' by Annette T. Rottenberg and Donna Haisty Winchell. Ninth edition

The exact debate topic is about academic integrity ( page 566-594 ).
The question is : What is your opinion of honor codes? What if that code includes the statement that the student will report any instances of cheating that he or she observes?
Include quotes from at least three sources from the book and an MLA bibliography entry for each. Your thesis should be a claim of policy, but perhaps supported with claims of fact or value