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Essay Instructions: * A two page essay which reviews an article from the website www.crimelibrary.com tittled "THE TRIAL OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE LAST SUPPER" http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/jesus_trial/

* The review should be directed to the general reader who may or may not be interested in the subject

* Needs to interpret the article so that the reader can make the decision as to whether the article is worth reading.

* Include: do you think the author has been successful in achieving what he set out to do. ( Yes!)

Essay Instructions: - Write an interpretive essay on Franz Kafka's "The Trial" focusing on the aspect of power relations and the law.
- One quote from the text per paragraph excluding the introduction and conclusion
- No outside research is required.
- Write three body paragraphs using following examples from the text (one for each) to further exemplify the novel as a commentary on power and law in the context of the human condition:
1) The court house: Its claustrophobic nature and labyrinthine structure to further clarify the theme of bureaucratic excess.
2) The Flogging of the two guards as an allegorical symbol of the tyranny of the court system
3) The parable of the doorman and countryman as exemplifying the ambiguous and self serving nature of man made law.

Essay Instructions: Read the book "The Trial" by Kafka. Write an 500 word essay. Essay must be double spaced w/1 inch margin on both sides of the paper.

Choose one of the following Essay questions below

1. Discuss the role of the female character in the Trial. What do these characters convey about Kafka's attitude towar women and his writing?

2. Is the ending of the novel appropriate? If not, what kind of ending do you think would be more suitable?

3. Discuss Joseph K's guilt in the novel. Does he deserve the ordeal he is put through? Why?

4, If you were in Joseph K's shoes, what would you do differently in the handling of your case? Why?

form of paper
Put name of the title and author in the opening paragraph, provide a little backfround on the story then put thesis at the end of the paragraph. Paragraph should be broken down by faith to reason.
1. idea is the paragraph (sub type)
2. support from the text
a. brief quotes (page # where quote was taking from)
b. summary
3. explanation
Summarize text in present tense [ ] changed a word in quote

Essay Instructions: This is an essay to be written from this book:
Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods (New York: Basic Books, 1997)

The Scopes Trial, or the “Monkey Trial” as the he media called it, was the most famous trial in the 20th century, if not all of American history. The trial occurred in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, and portrayed a showdown between the Bible and God versus Charles Darwin over the issue of the origins of humankind. Specifically, did humans evolve in a week as the Book of Genesis tells us, or did humans evolve gradually from lower animals, such as apes, over several millenia. When it ended, conventional urban mainstream media, and later generations of historians, proclaimed that evolution triumphed over religious fundamentalism. While science teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution, his attorney, the famous Clarence Darrow of Chicago, demolished the Biblical views of attorney, and witness for the state, William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State and multiple times the Democratic Party Presidential candidate.

In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Edward Larson cautions us not to accept such conclusions and results. Larson notes that the Darwinian evolutionists did not destroy the fundamentalists as commonly believed because the arguments still rage today with the fundamentalist movement larger, stronger, and more persistent than previously stated.

For this essay, you are to first explain the context in which the Scopes trial took place. Why Dayton, Tennessee? Why 1925? Describe the historical, political, economic, and religious conditions in both Dayton and the nation at that time. Next, you are to choose three (3) important actors (or groups of actors) listed below and explain how their individual backgrounds, values, behavior, and choices shaped the Scopes trial. Last, you should address the post-trial developments to the present and how the Scopes trial has shaped the present debate. How does Larson see the present debate?

Make sure your essay is well-organized, well-written, with a proper introduction and conclusion.

People:
1 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)/Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney
2 George W. Rappleyea
3 John T. Scopes
4 Clarence Darrow
5 William Jennings Bryan, Sr
6 John T. Raulston
7 John R. Neal