ESSAY HAS TO BE FREE OF PLAGIARISM. Original. No copying pasting at all please. Very strict teacher that knows everything. Here’s the instructions. I need you to have a works cited page please and thanks. 1. Your essay should address the topic you choose by using your ability to be critical and analytical, and by using your ability to interpret the story or poem. Your essay should be between 500 and 750 words in length with internal documentation.

ESSAY HAS TO BE FREE OF PLAGIARISM. Original. No copying pasting at all please. Very strict teacher that knows everything. Here’s the instructions. I need you to have a works cited page please and thanks. 1. Your essay should address the topic you choose by using your ability to be critical and analytical, and by using your ability to interpret the story or poem. Your essay should be between 500 and 750 words in length with internal documentation.
2. Check out the possible topics for this paper and choose one. See the next few pages about possible topics. First possible essay : Writing an Essay on T’ao Qian
Citing quotations: You will need to cite the material as you quote from it. If you quote from the prose piece “The Peach Blossom Spring” or prose parts of other selections, simply use the page number in your citation. If, though, you quote from poems or poetry sections of selections, cite by line number and use a forward slash between lines. If it is unclear from the context which particular piece you’re quoting from, you will need to put an abbreviated version of the title, with quotation marks, in your citation. Here is an example: (“Begging” 5).
If you decide to write about T’ao, choose the following topic. Certainly, you may narrow it down, making it more specific. Write a personal essay in which you describe T’ao’s world view, which seems to involve retreat and renunciation, as clearly as possible. Use plenty of specific examples from the text, including quotations, to help you articulare his world view. To what degree do you share it or not share it? Does his world view seem attractive, ethical, and practical to you? Why or why not? Second possible topic:
Writing an Essay on the Inferno A note about citing quotations and paraphrases: When you use a quotation or paraphrase from a source (including when the source is a piece of literature), you will need to cite the source. The Inferno is a poem, so cite it same way you would a poem. Give the canto number in Arabic numerals, a semicolon, and the line numbers, like so: (4; 12-13). Remember also to put a forward slash between the lines of a poem when you quote more than one line at a time. As you have done with earlier essays, use the words “canto” and “line” or “lines” the first time you quote. Omit those words afterwards. Below is an example.
Dante’s lovers in Canto V, Paolo and Francesca, show the power of the medieval romances. As they are reading the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, they become aroused and, as Frencesca says euphemistically, “That day [they] read no further” (5; 131). Their love is awakened by reading of the forbidden love between Lancelot and Guinevere.
If you decide to write about the Inferno, choose one of the following topics. Certainly, you may narrow down the topic, making it more specific.
1. From Cantos III , IV, V, VI, XXXII, or XXXIII, select one sin or one sinner. Explain and describe the sin or the sinner. Explain and describe the punishment for the sin or the sinner. Do you think the punishment fits the sin or sinner? Why or why not? Discuss. Pull quotations from the cantos to support your ideas.
2. When Inferno is joined with Purgatorio and Paradiso, the other two parts of the Comedy, we can clearly see that Dante has worked out a thorough, all-encompassing vision of the universe: a “poetic summa,” (or poetic “everything”) as one critic put it. It is both a theological and a moral work, but I would argue that it continues to be read and enjoyed not because all readers find Dante’s religious or moral beliefs so compellling, but because it works so well as a POEM. Consider the sensual imagery (for instance, the light, the sounds, the specific motions depicted, the topography and other details of setting) in any one canto. Assuming “almost literally nothing was left to chance,” as one critic has claimed, what can you make of these details? How do the sensual images make us understand Dante’s religious and moral view more clearly?
3. Modern readers often find the ordering of Dante’s levels of hell peculiar: sinners that strike us as really bad are let off pretty easiy, while sinners whose sins seem mild are punished severely. Does some of Dante’s ordering strike you as off-kilter or even wrong? Find one or two examples where the severity of the sin doesn’t seem to match the level of hell and argue for re-arrangement. But as you do this, be sure to try to explain why, in your mind, Dante put the sinner where he did — and why your scheme is better, or at least more in accord with contemporary values. Again, use plenty of details and quotations from the text and, of course, from the contemporary world. Third possible topic:
Writing an Essay on the Bhagavad-Gita
A note about citing quotations: When you use a quotation from a source, you will need to cite the source. The Bhagavad-Gita is presented as a poem, so cite it as you would a poem. Give the teaching number in Arabic numerals, a semicolon, and the line numbers like so: (2; 11-12). The first time you cite from the source, use the words “teaching” and “lines” before the numbers. Omit those words afterwards. Remember to put forward slashes between the lines of a poem when you quote more than one line at a time. You’ll notice that in this work, one line (as it is numbered in the text) often takes up more than one actual line of print. Treat the entire little stanzas, usually of four printed lines, as simply one line. (These directions might strike you as convoluted: if so, please ask me for clarification.)
You’ll also notice that our text has lines over the first some of the vowels in the words Bhagavad-Gita. Feel free to omit them, as I have.
If you decide to write about the Bhagavad-Gita, consider the following question. Certainly, you may narrow down the topic, making it more specific. 1. The history of non-violent protest in the twentieth century is intimately connected with the Bhagavad-Gita. In India itself, Mahatma Gandhi, a great admirer of the Gita, interpreted the text in a radically different way from other, more traditional readings. He believed the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita did not justify war or violence; rather, he believed it teaches that one must act without anger and desire at all times, and this translates into refraining from all forms of violence, physical or mental, against one’s fellow human beings. Gandhi put this interpretation into practice and led a completely nonviolent struggle against the British colonial government, preferring to go to jail rather than resort to violence. His leadership eventually brought the Indian people to freedom from colonial rule. In our own country, there is the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Christian rather than a Buddhist, King was nevertheless a great admirer of Gandhi and used Gandhi’s example as well as his own interpretation of Christian theology to lead the Civil Rights movement. Of course, a central tenet of King’s philosophy was that the only correct means for Blacks to gain civil rights was through non-violent protest. What do you think? Do the portions of the Bhagavad-Gita that you have read seem to support Gandhi’s interpretation? And are King and Gandhi correct in their insistence on refraining from physical and mental violence under all circumstances? When, in your judgment, is violence justifiable? Is it ever? Use the text to help articulate your own stance on this issue. 4. The essay will be evaluated for how well you address the topic, clearly state a thesis, support your thesis statement, and explain your ideas and opinions. Ideas and content will be the focus of evaluation for the essays, but I will also point out egregious errors in mechanics, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
5. Internal documentation should be included in your essay (See Little,Brown Handbook, 49a), and you will be shown how to document each of the stories or poems you may choose to write about. Use plenty of quotations from the text to back up your assertions. And the Works Cited page for your essay can be omitted since I will assume you are quoting and paraphrasing from the story or poem as it appears in our textbook.
Writing an Essay on T’ao Qian
Citing quotations: You will need to cite the material as you quote from it. If you quote from the prose piece “The Peach Blossom Spring” or prose parts of other selections, simply use the page number in your citation. If, though, you quote from poems or poetry sections of selections, cite by line number and use a forward slash between lines. If it is unclear from the context which particular piece you’re quoting from, you will need to put an abbreviated version of the title, with quotation marks, in your citation. Here is an example: (“Begging” 5).
If you decide to write about T’ao, choose the following topic. Certainly, you may narrow it down, making it more specific.
1. Write a personal essay in which you describe T’ao’s world view, which seems to involve retreat and renunciation, as clearly as possible. Use plenty of specific examples from the text, including quotations, to help you articulate his world view. To what degree do you share it or not share it? Does his world view seem attractive, ethical, and practical to you? Why or why not? Second possible topic!
Some of these essays may ultimately be posted to the class web pages.
7. Remember to have a debatable thesis statement. That is, your thesis statement (the last sentence of your first paragraph is a good place for your thesis statement) should take a stance that is not obvious and with which other readers might conceivably disagree.
8. In your essay, please do not retell the story, summarize the events, or tell your reader what happened. Know that your audience has already read the story or poem and knows what it says literally.