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EAC273—Introduction to Children’s Literature: Charlotte’s Web
$7.00EAC273—Introduction to Children’s Literature
Assignment #1: Short Literary Essay
Length: 5-6 paragraphs (2-3 pp. only)
Topic
- “Literature is a significant truth expressed in appropriate elements and memorable language.” Discuss the didactic (or instructional) quality of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web or Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess. OR
- Discuss the significance of the role of illustrations with respect to the storyline of Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess.
OR
- Critically assess the effectiveness of the new film on Charlotte’s Web with the original novel itself. Would children more readily identify with the story aftering seeing the film? Why or why not?
In the Copenhagen play, the characters interact with one another in a way that is meant to illustrate the role of uncertainty
$2.00The essay will address a philosophical question. In the Copenhagen play, the characters interact with one another in a way that is meant to illustrate the role of uncertainty. We know that the Uncertainty Principle in physics tells us something about what we can know about the interaction of two particles, but the author seems to be telling us that there is a similar principle that describes what we or anyone can know about the interaction of two people. ( one page , less than 300 words,and double space)
English 1000: A Very Short Story Sample
$0.00Visual rhetorical analysis (Draft)
$5.00Choose two print advertisements, cartoons, or television commercials that are complex and interesting enough to write a visual rhetorical analysis. A visual rhetorical analysis is similar to a text analysis. For example, you need to explain in your introduction the creator/author, purpose, target audience and the context. Also, briefly describe the visual documents; however, you will give a much more detailed description in the body paragraphs as well as visual design features. Include a thesis and visual documents.
Cite all sources using MLA style. (700-1000 words)
1. Who do you think the audiences are for the commercials?
$5.00Rhetorical situation: You work at an advertising agency that specializes in creating commercials. The Alzheimer’s Association has asked you to create a new web commercial. It wants to attract a new audience with its web commercial. Your job is to examine its previous commercials and come up with a new commercial that will help the organization attract a new audience.
Step 1: Examine the previous web commercials. Do a rhetorical analysis of the commercials, just as you did with the music video. Who do you think the audiences are for the commercials?
Step 2: Examine the potential audiences they could attract that the Alzheimer’s Association are not attracting.
Step 3: Examine what new information you would highlight.
Step 4: Write a speech highlighting the following: the audiences of the previous web commercials; the new commercial you will make; the audience you would attract with the commercial; how the new commercial would benefit the organization. You may also highlight other relevant issues.Please note that you will keep the same “type” of web commercial the Alzheimer’s Association uses.
Speech is characterized by the following:- Double-spaced with at least 550 words
- Discussion of previous commercials and the audiences the commercials attracted
- Discussion of new commercial and the new audience it will attract
- Discussion of how the commercial will help the organization
- Discussion of the research you found that highlights the facts
Analysis of Susan Glaspell play, Trifles
$15.00For this assignment, you will be reading and analyzing the Susan Glaspell play, Trifles. As you read the play you will notice that its format is quite different from that of a short story or novel. At first, reading the stage directions, characters’ names and dialogue may feel awkward; but rest assured that, as you keep reading you will find your rhythm and be able to follow the story with little difficulty.
Please write an essay of 1000 words or more discussing the questions below. As always, begin your paper with an engaging introduction and clear thesis statement, develop each
Interview of an old Lady from New Jersey (75 years)
$20.00Interview a Senior Citizen
This required Portfolio assignment will give you experience observing and interacting with people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real world setting. This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to:
- conduct a semi-structured interview with an elderly individual
- analyze his/her responses in a systematic manner
- integrate this real-world experience with your knowledge of the aging process based on evidence from journal articles and other scholarly sources.
Read the following articles on the behavioral determinants of healthy aging. The full-text articles are available in the Week Five Electronic Reserve Readings:
- Hartman-Stein, P. E., & Potkanowicz, E. S. (2003). Behavioral Determinants of Healthy Aging: Good News for the Baby Boomer Generation. Online Journal Of Issues In Nursing, 8(2), 127-146.
- Potkanowicz, E. S., Hartman-Stein, P., & Biermann, J. S. (2009). Behavioral Determinants of Health Aging Revisited: An Update on the Good News for the Baby Boomer Generation. Online Journal Of Issues In Nursing, 14(3), 11.
- Masotti, P. J., Fick, R., Johnson-Masotti, A., & MacLeod, S. (2006). Healthy naturally occurring retirement communities: A low-cost approach to facilitating healthy aging. American Journal of Public Health, 96 (7), 1164-1170.
Identify a senior citizen (age 65 or older) and schedule an hour to talk with him/her face to face. Be sure to tell the person that you are completing the interview as part of a class assignment and that the content of the interview is completely confidential (no names will be used). Conduct an informal interview, focusing on the participant’s health and wellness.
When interviewing the individual, ask questions that correspond to the following categories:
- Physical activity, past and present: Ask about exercise routines as well as ordinary activities that involve physical exertion such as yard work, house cleaning, walking, and so on. Try to determine whether or not the participant has maintained an active lifestyle over the years.
- Mentally stimulating activities, past and present: Ask the participant what he/she does to stay sharp. This might include card games, crossword puzzles, reading, taking courses, and so on. Try to determine the extent to which the participant has challenged him/herself to engage in ongoing, active learning.
- Social support and social interactions: Ask the participant about his/her social contacts, past and present. This could include his/her spouse or partner, friends, relatives, social clubs, social activities, etc. Try to determine whether the participant has a strong base of social support.
- Meaningful activities: What gives life meaning? Ask the participant to recall his/her most meaningful activities and ask if he/she is still engaged in such activities. This will vary from person to person but could include helping others, teaching younger people, religious or spiritual activities, giving back to his/her community, sharing talents or skills, creative activities, and so on. Your task is to determine if the participant is still actively engaged in activities that matter to him/her.
- Recreational/leisure activities: What does the participant do for fun? Try to get a sense of what he/she still enjoys and how frequently he/she participates in enjoyable activities.
- Living environment. What is the individual’s home environment like? Does he/she live in a retirement community? If so, what is it like? Does he/she still drive? If not, how does the individual manage transportation challenges such as running routine errands, getting to doctor’s appointments and attending social events? What environmental challenges does he/she face?
Try to keep the interview process light and fun. Focus on what the participant is doing well.
Part I: Document the questions you asked and the participant’s responses. This is your interview ‘transcript’ which will be turned in along with your reflective paper.
Part II: Write a 1,000-word reflective paper based on the interview. In your paper, include a discussion on the following points:
- Most notable aspects of the interview: What topics did your interviewee respond most strongly to and why?
- Most surprising aspects of the interview: Did any of the interviewee’s responses surprise you? Explain.
- A commentary about the participant’s overall functioning: Use the information from the required readings to make a general assessment of the participant’s health and well-being. Would you use the term ‘healthy aging’ to describe the participant? Why or why not? What is he/she doing well? What areas could use improvement? What suggestions would you make, based on your knowledge of the determinants of healthy aging?
- A discussion of what you learned from this experience.
Use the literature in gerontology, wisdom, and successful aging to supplement your paper and support your points. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and be sure to cite your sources in a reference section at the end of your paper.
Analysis of Scout Character in “To Kill A mockingbird”
$7.00Looking at the iconic character Scout from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, you will analyze Scout’s development of potential and talent in a 3 page narrative paper, cite from text for examples.
Book Report: The Benevolent Dictator
$20.00Book Report Instructions
Create a 2 page (single spaced; handed in hard copy in class) book report in which you provide the following:
Name of book
Author
Publication date
ISBN Number
Executive summary (1-2 paragraphs in which you describe the THEME of the book)
Your top 5 learning Points (numbered list of 5 items that you feel were the most valuable learning points for you. Describe a) what is the learning point, b) how the author made her/his point, c) why this point is valuable to you, and d) how you may behave differently as a result of knowing this point.
Your top 2 surprises (these should NOT be the same as the learning points included above). What are these surprises? Why did you select them? How may you behave differently as a result of knowing them?
Comparison of this book to relevant information provided in the Roth book. DO both authors agree? Disagree? What do you think about this? Why?
Your recommendation of this book t other business school students. Why?
Dystopia in Movies Essay
$25.00About one of these themes.
- Dystopia
- Technophobia
- Alien Contanct
6 pages, Double Space, Times New Roman. Citation is not required.
Topic statement and thesis
Talk about Film mentioned below and how these issues are raising within your topic.
Try using these films (include 5 films in the essay): A Trip to the Moon (1902), Metropolis (1962), Things To Come (1936), Forbidden Planet (1956), Richard III (1995), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), THX 1138 (1971), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Colossus: The Forbidden Project (1970), Stalker (1979),The Last Man on Earth (1964), Soylent Green (1973), Blade Runner (1982), The Terminator (1984), Alien (1979), Contact (1997), The Matrix (1999), Avatar (2009).
8 pages double space
talk about 5 films
reference to these articles:
Dyer, Geoff (2012). Zane: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room.
New York: Pantheon. (Available as an e-book from the Toronto Public Library)
Caroti, Simone (2004). “Science Fiction, Forbidden Planet, and Shakespeare’s The
Tempest.” CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.1, pp. 1-12;
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol16/iss1/11.
Cormier, Raymond (1990). “ The Closed Society and Its Friends: Plato’s Republic
and Lucas’s THX-1138. “ Literature/ Film Quarterly. 18:3, pp. 193-197.
Freedman, Carl (1984). “Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip
- Dick. “Science Fiction Studies, 11:1 (March 1984), pp. 15-24.
——. (1998).”Kubrick’s “2001” and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema.
“Science Fiction Studies, 25:2 (July 1998), pp. 300-318.
Grant, Barry K. (1986). “Looking Upward: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and the
Cinema. “Literature/Film Quarterly. 14:3, pp. 154-163.
Kapell, Mathew Wilhelm and McVeigh, Stephen, eds. (2011). The Films of James
Cameron: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
(e-book available from the York University library).
Poole, Robert (2001). “2001: A Space Odessey. “ History Today, 51:1 (January 2001),
- 39-45.
Links and films
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDaOOw0MEE
Metropolis (1926)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSj_ETP6UVE
Things To Come (1936)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57uWpWcn8w
Forbidden Planet (1956),
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/963041/
Richard III (1995)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/7FA5C6D89FE11AF8#
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/36A23BAFF9AA2D30#
THX 1138 (1971)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/DTPS74UKHRKS400#
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/1220379/
Colossus: The Forbidden Project (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjebwUrhvc
Stalker (1979)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/F7565107477E8A18&smaller#
Soylent Green (1973)
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/1295026/
Blade Runner (1982)
http://www.novamov.com/video/447208fdbfdd4
The Terminator (1984)
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/365887/
Alien (1979)
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/892934/
Contact (1997)
http://www.putlocker.com/file/3OCCZKRAH64GCOOK#
The Matrix (1999)
http://www.solarmovie.so/link/play/366385/
Avatar (2009)
http://www.megavideomovielinks.com/watch-avatar-2009-2-on-megavideo
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH QnA
$3.00A serious critical assessment of the Gilgamesh story must include consideration of both the offensive Gilgamesh depicted at the beginning of the story as well as the transformed Gilgamesh depicted at the story’s end.Consider the significance of the story’s conclusions.
Question 1
Comment on what parts of the story interest you and why.
Question 2
What do various parts of the story reveal about this ancient culture?
Question 3
What does this great ancient epic reveal about our history as humans?
Reading Magic by Mem Fox
$17.00Assessment 1 (Total 30%): Mini essays (1000 words)
This assessment is focused on developing your capacities to be a literacy teacher. Key aspects of these capacities are: knowledge about literacy, knowledge of how children learn literacy, knowledge of key theories regarding literacy.
Part of this assessment will also be ensuring that you demonstrate appropriate personal literacy skills as described in the course outcomes. These include the structure of essays and paragraphs as well as writing cohesive sentences.
Task Name Task Description Word Limit Task 1: 10% Children’s literature selection
· Select a children’s text by one of these authors: o Mem Fox
o Dr Seuss
o Babette Cole
o Pamela Allan
o Bruce Whatley
· Provide the author’s name, book title, publisher and place of publication.
· Using the readings, as well as further references, explain two ways in which you could use this text to develop oral language skills. Consider the readings for Week One, and in your own words, write a comprehensive definition of literacy.
· Explain why you included particular concepts or aspects in the definition.
Essay format 500 words
(+/- 10%)
Task 2: 10% Diversity in the Speaking and Listening Classroom
· With reference to the readings, discuss how a teacher can create an environment that fosters development of SAE whilst valuing linguistic diversity. ·
Essay format 500 words
(+/- 10%)
Writing Skills: 10% Your written Standard Australian English, essay structure, academic writing style (using APA 6th edition style), and referencing skills will also be assessed. Let your creative juices flow! Have fun and write your own two poem
$3.00Let your creative juices flow! Have fun and write your own two poem:
- Write a limerick The limerick is always light and humorous. Its usual form consists of five predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba; lines 1, 2, and 5contain three feet, while lines 3 and 4 contain two. Limericks have delighted everyone from schoolchildren to sophisticated adults, and they range in subject matter from the simply innocent and silly to the satiric or obscene. The sexual humor helps to explain why so many limericks are written anonymously. Here is one that is anonymous but more concerned with physics than physiology. (About 25 words)
- Write a haiku Another brief fixed poetic form, borrowed from the Japanese, is the haiku. A haiku is usually described as consisting of seventeen syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Owing to language difference, however, English translations of haiku are often only approximated, because a Japanese haiku exists in time (Japanese syllables have duration). The number of syllables in our sense is not as significant as the duration in Japanese. These poems typically present an intense emotion or a vivid image of nature, which, in the Japanese, are also designed to lead to a spiritual insight. (About 12 words)
- Explain in 250 words how you went about writing these two poems. Where did you get your ideas from? Did you use a dictionary for words? How long did it take you? did you ask anyone for help?
Cannabis Legalization Debate
$17.50Should cannabis be legalised in Australia? Your response should provide a considered discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of both legalisation and criminalisation which shows evidence of wide and varied reading.
The essay should be well written with Harvard referencing. it should be 1500 words…strickly no more than that. can be abit less. The essay should be written in a ANTHROPOLOGIES view.
“How Poetry Comes to Me” and “Introduction to Poetry”
$7.00“How Poetry Comes to Me” by Gary Snyder
How Poetry Comes to Me
It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.- Read “How Poetry Comes to Me” and compare it to “Introduction to Poetry” in terms of the figurative language used. (50 words)
- Why do you suppose they choose the types of figurative language that they do? (50 words)
- Describe how Snyder treats poetry compared with Collins.(200 words)
Read this poem
While most of us copied letters out of books,
Mrs. Lawrence carved and cleaned her nails.
Now the red and buff cardinals at my back-room window
make me miss her, her room, her hallway,
even the chimney outside
that broke up the sky.
In my memory it is afternoon.
Sun streams in through the door
next to the fire escape where we are lined up
getting our coats on to go out to the playground,
the tether ball, its towering height, the swings.
She tells me to make sure the line
does not move up over the threshold.
That would be dangerous.
So I stand guard at the door.
Somehow it happens
the way things seem to happen when we’re not really looking,
or we are looking, just not the right way.
Kids crush up like cattle, pushing me over the line.
Judy is not a good leader is all Mrs. Lawrence says.
She says it quietly. Still, everybody hears.
Her arms hang down like sausages.
I hear her every time I fail.- Describe the situation of the poem, the tone, and how the figures of speech used contribute to the poem’s meaning. TIP: Consider what time period in US history that knitting mills functioned and why they might have a schoolroom on the premises. (200 words)
Intro to Poetry Lecture Notes
$5.00Intro to Poetry Lecture Notes: http://iwc.learninghouse.com/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=8000
News article on Langston Ward: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/articles/
Walt Whitman poem “A March in the Ranks…”: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/wwhitman/bl-ww-amarch.htm
How to Read Poetry: http://youtu.be/aQ8baj8O8Bo
Spoof on How to Read Poetry Out loud: http://youtu.be/EqlPKnPTz7s
Winner of Poetry Out Loud: http://youtu.be/7ZYiJpfwzb0
- Name five helpful techniques or strategies or information you learned from the How to Read Poetry video.
- Read Walt Whitman’s poem, which is the one Langston Ward recites out loud. What stands out for you in this poem? What do you hear as you read? What is it about?
- How did Langston Ward read this poem? Try reading it out loud with Langston as you watch the video again. What does Langston do to make this poem worth listening to? Explain your answer.
- Now that you have heard an expert read a poem, explain what the spoof on how to read poetry out loud video was making fun of…!