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Essay Instructions: In your first major essay, your thesis must focus on The Time Machine and its relevance, or lack of relevance, for today?s audience by considering a major social issue touched on in the novel. Such issues could include class inequality, modern technology, social programs, the economy, or even merely human nature itself. Just be sure that you make your approach manageable and focused so that you do not sacrifice depth for breadth. You must consult at least three legitimate and reliable sources, one of which should be the novel itself, and they must all be cited according to MLA guidelines in this 3 ?-to-4-page, double-spaced paper that should be written in a formal tone for a professional audience.

Essay Instructions: I need to choose a film version of one of the following stories:

The Lord of the Rings, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Conan the Barbarian and/or Conan the Destroyer.

Preferrable I would like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

I need to find and watch the film of the story I read and compare the book with the movie. For example how is the printed version incorporated into the movie (e.g. what are the numerous themes that may repeat themselves, parts of the plot, characterization, irony, scenes, etc.) What makes one medium more entertaining than the other? How has the film version altered/improved the orginial idea and such.

Essay Instructions: your thesis must focus on The Time Machine and its relevance, or lack of relevance, for today?s audience by considering a major social issue touched on in the novel. Such issues could include class inequality, modern technology, social programs, the economy, or even merely human nature itself. Just be sure that you make your approach manageable and focused so that you do not sacrifice depth for breadth. You must consult at least three legitimate and reliable sources, one of which should be the novel itself, and they must all be cited according to MLA guidelines in this 3 ?-to-4-page, double-spaced paper that should be written in a formal tone for a professional audience.

Essay Instructions: I need you to answer 3 questions, one page each, about the H G Wells's novel The Time Machine.
Q1
Although most modern scientists think time travel is not very likely to ever become possible, Wells goes to some lengths to make it sound entirely reasonable. In the first chapter of the Time Machine, his time traveller explains to his guests exactly why his time machine will work. Summarize his argument, and then critique it. Is it really reasonable, or is there some logical trickery involved?

Q2
Once he arrives among the Eloi, the time traveller draws a series of conclusions about the type of society he has found himself in - then replaces these with new theoris as he learns more. What is his first theory about this future society? His second? Finally, what is the true nature of the Eloi society?

Q3
When Wells wrote the Time Machine in the 1890's, a number of important events were taking place in his own English society. After decades of backbreaking labor in dark tunnels, workers had completed the first phase of building the London subway system. The rise of heavy industry had forced many other workers into dark factories, while still others worked the mines. Meanwhile, London society and royalty enjoyed one of the highest standards of living in Europe. Among intellectuals, Charles Darwin's theories of evolution raised the question of whether the human race itself might evlove further over time.
Explain how the Time Machine comments on and critiques Well's own society, and how it uses the theory of evolution to do so.