In Book 1 or Book 2 Select a scene from Tale of Two Cities and explain in detail with specific textual references the mood that is created through the description.
***Use college level word choice and sentence structure for a senior in high school taking AP!
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Choose your own topic for the final essay or, if you do not have a topic of your own, you may choose from the prompts suggested here. The subject matter can be anything you find to be noir/neo-noir related. Use whatever you wish. Mix and match topics, bring in new texts (graphic novels, films not seen in class, books, music, photography, painting and more).
Remember, this assignment is not a research paper. It is a medium-length film analysis essay, designed to encourage you to develop your own critical, observational and analytic skills. However, to support your own arguments you may use course readings or outside texts, but do so sparingly. If you do use citations, MLA of Chicago Manual of Style.
How does the iconic figure of the “femme fatale” function in Ex Machina (2015)? How does Ava’s uncanny status as non-human behave within this archetype? Compare Ava to the earlier (biological) incarnations of the “femme fatale” from the 1940s like Phyliss Dietrichson or Kathie Moffat. Think about how Ava functions compared to the non-human replicants, Pris, Rachel, and Zhora in Blade Runner (1982) Do you agree with Stephen Teo that Asian noir borrows from classic American noir but was also born out of its own regional, cultural and historic realities? How can we position Chungking Express (1994) and/or Fallen Angels (1995) within a noir sentiment? What does it take from American historic noir? What does it add to its own Neo-noir sentiment? Describe the character types, style and structure of the film within a noir and neo-noir context. The specificity of American cities and the complex realities of increasing urbanization in the U.S. figure very large in the historic American film noir of the 1940s and 1950s. How is early 21st century Shanghai imagined as a noir-tinged city in Suzou River (2000)? In the essay “Problems of Memory and Identity in Neo-Noir’s Existentialist Antihero,” Andrew Spicer argues that neo-noir “remains a form that continues to accommodate complex, difficult ideas” whereby “existentialist attitudes continue to flourish.” How do these attitudes manifest in Memento (2000)? According to Jerold Abrams in the essay “Space, Time and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema,” the postmodern condition in neo-noir films such as Memento (2000) increase the inability to distinguish the real from the unreal and makes the self and world so unstable that social alienation borders on psychosis and paranoia. Can we apply this sentiment to Oldboy (2003) as well? Writing about numerous films produced by Black directors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Manthia Diawara writes that they “participate in the discourse of film noir” but also “force the audience to reexamine the genre and its uses by Black filmmakers. They orient the noir style toward a description of a Black public sphere…and the specificity of Black culture.” Do you agree with this assessment? Can we apply this theory to the film A Rage in Harlem (1991)? Compare and contrast the imaging and depiction of “heartland noir” in Night of the Hunter (1955) and/or Fargo (1996). How has the darker, more pessimistic urban sensibility of noir migrated to “idyllic” small-town America in each film? Using the argument developed by Giuliana Bruno in her formative and historic 1987 essay, “Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner,” evaluate the postmodern attributes of Blade Runner (1982) as they relate to neo-noir themes and aesthetics.
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Here’s a basic framework for your research paper:
1) Abstract
2) Introduction (250-300 words) • Provide overview with significance of the topic to military transformation
3) Literature Review (2-4 pages) • Literature review should be focused on your two selected areas for research. • Conclude this section with concise statement of the factors identified in your literature review about your selected areas.
4) First area you selected for research (2-4 pages)
5) Second selected area of research (2-4 pages)
6) Analyze the transformation of your selected areas for the wars you selected. • In your analysis link identified lessons learned in your research • Identify significant challenges you believe the military will encounter in the future • Provide a recommendation on how the military should deal with such challenges.
7) Conclusion (250-300 words)
8) Reference list
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You will be required to write one shorter research paper with one of the literary works from the semester as your central focus. The paper must be 1,500-2,000 words (six to eight pages) in length and include at least two outside sources (the text itself does not count as one of these sources). Your paper should analyze the literary work using a clear and specific critical lens. For example, you could analyze the text using a cultural or historical lens, focusing on how the literary work reflects the cultural/historical society that it represents. Another option would be to analyze the text through a gender focused or feminist reading, discussing how gender roles are represented in the text. Yet another option would be a literary analysis, looking at how a specific theme or style in the work of literature is developed through the storytelling choices of the author(s). Your outside sources should clearly and specifically support your topic and your thesis. USE THESE SOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED Cervantes, Miguel De; Ozell’s Revision of Translation by Peter Motteux; Herschel Brickell. AbeBooks.www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31213088845&searchurl=fe%3Don%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D1%26tn%3Ddon%2Bquixote%26an%3Dcervantes&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp2-_-title1. Kluge, Sofie. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History. Taylor & Francis, 2022. Ma, Ning. “La Mancha to the Indies: The Romance and Materiality of the Empire in Don Quixote.” Academic.com, Feb. 2016, academic.oup.com/book/6864/chapter-abstract/151074879?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Vilches, Patricia. “Chivalry, Materialism, and the Grotesque in Don Quijote and Alberto Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera.” Open Cultural Studies 1.1 (2017): 17-31. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2017-0003/html
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What did/does Lexie Lawson’s research say about human nature? How does this compare how most people think about human nature. Why was the motor cortex stimulated? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10669435/ It’s just answering this question based on the research bellow.
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Post to the discussion board your takeaways from watching this video. What did you learn? Do you agree with Dolly’s thoughts on how to become a ‘better person’? What did you find most interesting in this talk? watch : https://youtu.be/s2cixaL9H3U
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Write an Impact outline about a subject that must be at least 5 pages and have an extra page of just sources. -Sources must be APA work cited. -Must be in font New roman 12, single or 1.5 spacing; JUSTIFY MARGINS for a nice even line up.
A) In the assessment part you should try to answer the following questions (from your viewpoint, of course):
1. Is the author trying to be objective, or is he expressing an highly personal viewpoint? What does it make you think that?
2. Is it reliable? which means: is the book based on some objective sources, does it quote any kind of source (researches, studies, personal communication). Can you believe or take seriously what you find in it? What does it make you think so?
3. does the material look like anything else you read before (a book, an article) or you watch before (a movies etc.)? What are the similarities? B) In the “reflection” part you should state your opinion about the text, motivating it with what you read (taking examples from the text, quotations etc), stating your thoughts (whatever it comes to your mind), and using the questions listed under “Critical essay” as a guide. Format for Annotative Bibliography Name Course Date (Single Space in the Headings) Original Title (Your title should reflect the essence of the paper in a creative manner)
Summary: Summarize a description of the book and articulate the way you would describe the material. This section should comprise an abridged paragraph that encapsulates the general topic points of the material. (½ paragraph)
Author’s Main Argument: Here you should discuss the author thesis as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the author’s argument. Evaluate the argument’s relevance, the logic, and what questions needed further investigation. ( ½ page)
Assessment: You should then move into another full paragraph in which you assess your material. In essence, you should decide whether or not the material is biased, objective, reliable, comparable to other sources in your library, etc. the prior terms (should all be reviewed and then answered separately within your paragraph. The length should be the second half of the first page. (1 page)
Critical Essay: Finally, your critical essay should be two full pages in length comprised of three paragraphs. Introduction includes the thesis statement” (identify with BOLD TYPE), followed by the body that provides evidence for your argument and a conclusion that answers the question posed in your thesis. The reflection should critically analyze the information from the author’s claims. How has it helped or hindered your own argument? What were your thoughts on the subject before reading and how have they changed? What conclusions can be drawn from the study? How do these issues advance your understanding of drug use and abuse? (2 full pages)
Annotative Bibliography Format Checklist: Your Annotative Bibliography must be four full pages, 12 point type and double space. Use the subtitles (Summary, Author’s Main Argument, Assessment, Reflection) to organize your annotation and put them in bold, 12 point type, underlined format. The Summary, Author’s Main Argument, and Assessment should make up the first complete page; the Reflection should make up the second complete page. Papers will be uploaded on Blackboard and checked for plagiarism.
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Create a literature review on why S1 SOPs are needed in the Army.
The literature review focuses on how other researchers have addressed similar questions. It places the study in context and discusses how it will differentiate itself from what is already in the field. 7-10 pages and 10 scholarly articles as references in this submission. You are attempting to establish what the existing literature says and where the gap exists that you plan to fill with your project.
Make sure not to “stack” sources. Weave each source into the relevance of your project and each other. It is usually a good idea to move from the academic scholarly literature to the national studies, then to state and local studies, and finally to anything else specific to your work. Many projects have government reports or state or agency documents in this section (as compared to what you would find in a thesis literature review) but you also need some scholarly peer-reviewed journals to set the stage.
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Topic: Generational Poverty Theroist: Karl Marx Instructions: Explaining concepts; applying scholarly concepts in novel ways; critiquing theoretical arguments; organizing information in a clear way Task: write a 1500-2000 word research proposal (approx. 5-8 pages) in which you will develop a research question based on the theoretical insights of one of the theorists we are learning about. A research proposal outlines how a researcher would plan to explore a research topic of interest to them. Because theories provide a systematic framework for explaining and predicting the world, you will draw on the work of one of the theorists we are learning about in developing your research question.
Introduction: Briefly explain the research topic in which you are interested, and the theory that is best suited for exploring this topic. (approximately 1-3 paragraphs)
Literature review: Find at least three peer-reviewed sources that are relevant to your topic, and review their overall findings (approximately 2-5 paragraphs)
Research question: Based on the review of existing research on this topic, explain what question you would like to answer by conducting research on this topic (approximately 1 paragraph)
Theoretical orientation: Explain the theoretical lens that you will be using to examine this research question. Describe the theorist, their ideas, the concepts that are relevant to your research question, and what you would expect to find in your research, based on what this theorist says. (approximately 5-8 paragraphs)
Conclusion: Summarize your topic, how the theories you’ve chosen apply to that topic, and what your research question is (approximately 1-3 paragraphs)