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Essay Instructions: During this progression you engaged with the idea of a core text and deepened your understanding of that idea as you put it into relationship with other sources (a second text, a scene from your own experience, an artwork). What are the larger implications of that idea? How have other pieces of evidence influenced your thinking about that idea?

Now, write an essay in which you deepen our understanding of this idea, the idea you discovered in and borrowed from your original essay. Examine and evaluate this idea against the backdrop of the original selected essay; the original essay provides the foundation for your ruminations, so your reader will have to understand it. Deepen your understanding of the idea by examining and evaluating it through the lens of other pieces of evidence?a second text and your own experience or an artwork.

Your goal is to help us see this deepened, more complex understanding you've come to; you want to convince us that your new understanding has merit and value.

To do so, you must

? Write for readers who aren't familiar with your evidence.

? Present your evidence vividly and precisely.

? Analyze that evidence with clarity and rigor.

? Reflect on the evidence to reveal its meaning.

? Conceive of an essay structure that is best suited to revealing your idea.

Some parameters:

? Your evidence must include: 1) your analysis of the chosen text; 2) one other written text; 3) one recreated scene of experience or an artwork.

? Your evidence may also include additional texts and scenes of experience (used substantively and meaningfully).

? Your essay must have a beginning, middle, and end.

? Your essay must use MLA citation and have a Works Cited page.
Page limit: 5-7 pages (not including the Works Cited page).

? All other formatting requirements (as listed on syllabus) apply.

It is not enough to state your claims and list your evidence. Persuasion is an art. You must compel us, through creative form, surprising turns, elegant representations, and a familiar voice, to follow your thinking about these ideas. Be inventive as you think about how to structure your essay; there is no one formula.

1st essay (Original Essay) (1st text) is Zora Neale Hurtston - "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"

2nd Essay (2nd text) is Brent Staples "Just Walk on By"

Essay Instructions: Reflect on these questions:

Consider the question or questions the core text author wants to answer. What is his or her tentative answer, in all its complexity?

How have a second text and your own experience or an artwork changed (added complexity to; challenged; broadened) the way you think about that idea? What surprising, unexpected connections have you made/might you make among this evidence?

Why are you personally invested in these questions and this writer?s idea? Why do they engage/intrigue/trouble you? What are the implications of this idea for you? For the rest of us?

Write:

Write a letter to someone else (a real person) who also is invested in these topics/questions (some public individual). Focus the letter by providing a reason for writing?what questions lead you to reach out and pull this new person into your conversation? Write about your own exploration of these questions: what have you discovered as you've examined two texts and your experience or an image, and what do you still want to know? In particular, you want to begin to show the reader how you are building connections among the core text, the second text, and the scene?how you are putting the evidence into relationship. Your reflection on these pieces of evidence will drive the letter.

Remember that you are writing to someone. Write for a reader who does not know your evidence. Also consider the assumptions and mindset of the reader: how will your presentation of evidence, analysis, reflection, and organization all be geared toward speaking to that reader? Compel this reader to listen to you through careful and surprising presentation choices.

Although letters normally don't use citation, please do cite all your sources within the text and in a Works Cited page, using MLA citation guidelines.


3 pages total

works:
work 1 How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/theireyesessay.htm
work 2 (second text in reference to directions) Just Walk on By Brent Staples
http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/RSpriggs/files/staples%20just%20walk%20on%20by%20text.pdf

Essay Instructions: I am asked to reckon with two texts "Aria: A Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood" by Richard Rodriquez and "How it feels to be colored me" by Zora Hurston. You can Find Hurston's essay online and I will send you Rodriquez's one. The essay needs an understanding and a reckoning with both texts and the concepts it contains . I will also send a previous assignment where I reckon with both texts so that it can help you.
Thank You

Essay Instructions: Writtings to refer: The Ambitiours Violet, A Victim, How it feels to be colored me, On being a cripple, Genesis 1-3, The man who was put in a cage.

Consider this statement: "No one can make you a victim without your consent." Under what conditions is this statement true and when is it false: Also, ponder the methods by which one can overcome victimization. Provide examples from at least two of the above cources. Also, use your own experience or others experiences, articles current events videos, films and works of literature to support your ideas and produce an essay of approximately two to three pages.