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Essay Instructions: In a 3 page research essay about neptune cover the following topics/ questions:
Describe how both chance and calculation played major roles in the discoveries of the outer planets. What is responsible for the colors of Neptune? How is the interior of Neptune thought to be constructed? How was Neptune discovered? Discuss the moons of Neptune. Describe and discuss the rings of Neptune. Explain what the moons of the outer planets tell us about their past.
*Have an introduction and conclusion* *Bibliography should contain 5 cited sources; you dont need to necesarily pull in quotes; voluntary*

Essay Instructions: The research paper must include the following information on Neptune
1.The Roman name and the Greek name of the deity?
2. Family tree who were his/her parents and relatives
3. The realm of each deity(god of war, the hearth, Etc.)
4. A short personality description(jealous? Qucik to anger? VAin? Friendly and helpful?
5. A physical description along with his/her symbol(how would we reconize him/her?)
6. A short version of one myth involving this deity what is the most famous interesting story about him/her?
7. Any particular responsibilities of this deity war, hearth, love, etc.
8. Why was the god/godess important to the Romans and do they have different characteristics from the Greek version of deity?
9. In your conclusion, reflect on how the deity would fit into the world today. How would he spend his time? Where would he hang out? What would he like to do based on what you have learned about him/her? Who would worship him/her?

Essay Instructions: Directions:
1. Discuss symbolism in a (specific)19th century literary text.

Respond to one of the following essay prompts in a multiparagraph essay (800 words).

Be sure to address the essay prompt directly in your response and develop your essay accordingly.

Write in your own words and use primary source quotations as examples in your body paragraphs.

Document any sources you use in your essay via complete parenthetical and bibliographic citations


THE INFLUENZA
Oh how shall I its deeds recount
Or measure the untold amount
Of ills that it has done?
From China's bright celestial land
E'en to Arabia's thirsty sand
It journeyed with the sun.
O'er miles of bleak Siberia's plains
Where Russian exiles toil in chains
It moved with noiseless tread;
And as it slowly glided by
There followed it across the sky
The spirits of the dead.
The Ural peaks by it were scaled
And every bar and barrier failed
To turn it from its way;
Slowly and surely on it came,
Heralded by its awful fame,
Increasing day by day.
On Moscow's fair and famous town
Where fell the first Napoleon's crown
It made a direful swoop;
The rich, the poor, the high, the low
Alike the various symptoms know,
Alike before it droop.

Nor adverse winds, nor floods of rain
Might stay the thrice-accursed bane;
And with unsparing hand,
Impartial, cruel and severe
It travelled on allied with fear
And smote the fatherland.
Fair Alsace and forlorn Lorraine,
The cause of bitterness and pain
In many a Gaelic breast,
Receive the vile, insatiate scourge,
And from their towns with it emerge
And never stay nor rest.
And now Europa groans aloud,
And 'neath the heavy thunder-cloud
Hushed is both song and dance;
The germs of illness wend their way
To westward each succeeding day
And enter merry France.
Fair land of Gaul, thy patriots brave
Who fear not death and scorn the grave
Cannot this foe oppose,
Whose loathsome hand and cruel sting,
Whose poisonous breath and blighted wing
Full well thy cities know.
In Calais port the illness stays,
As did the French in former days,
To threaten Freedom's isle;
But now no Nelson could o'erthrow
This cruel, unconquerable foe,
Nor save us from its guile.
Yet Father Neptune strove right well
To moderate this plague of Hell,
And thwart it in its course;
And though it passed the streak of brine
And penetrated this thin line,
It came with broken force.
For though it ravaged far and wide
Both village, town and countryside,
Its power to kill was o'er;
And with the favouring winds of Spring
(Blest is the time of which I sing)
It left our native shore.
God shield our Empire from the might
Of war or famine, plague or blight
And all the power of Hell,
And keep it ever in the hands
Of those who fought 'gainst other lands,
Who fought and conquered well.

Essay Instructions: Looking back on his years as Secretary of War (1940-45), Henry Stimson ruefully recalled "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church."

And while the solutions Alfred Thayer Mahan proposed over a century ago may no longer be relevant, the questions he raised certainly are. For example, in 1892, Mahan announced to his Naval War College class that America was building a new navy. Then he asked, "Well, when we get our navy, what are we going to do with it?"

In that same spirit, what should we do with the United States Navy today?