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  • A Very Short Story Sample

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    Rhetorical Situation

    Genre: Flash Fiction

    Audience: Your choice

    Purpose: Your choice

    Stance: Your call; based on audience and purpose

    Medium: Electronic/digital

    Constraints:

    Length: 300 words

    Assignment Guidelines
    Beginning: Have you immersed readers in the story immediately, avoiding unnecessary commentary and instead used dialogue or action to make your reader feel as though they are in the scene with you?

    Middle: Have you focused on showing and not telling? Are you focused on leaving a dominant impression?  As your story develops, you’ll have described a setting in which the story happens and you’ll have developed the character of at least one person.  You will also have developed a plot of sorts with some type of conflict and a resolution. It’s this that makes makes your story interesting: however, it’s important to note that in extremely short stories, such as “Baby Shoes,” (attributed to Ernest Hemingway), the 500-1000 word story that you have written, these elements are often implied.

    Ending: If a story has action or movement, it has a high point (climax) and an end. However,  a story does not aim to sum up or make a point. Instead your aim is to leave an impact on the reader. For this reason you may choose an ambiguous or a cliff-hanger ending. Don’t hesitate to end somewhat abruptly. This sort of ending will produce a far more powerful impact on the reader than if you were to attempt to tell the reader what it all means.

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  • Visual rhetorical analysis (Draft)

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    Choose 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)

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  • Audiences are for the commercials

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    Rhetorical 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
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  • Susan Glaspell Trifles play

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    Susan Glaspell Trifles play

    For 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 1000 words or more discussing the questions below. As always, begin your paper with an engaging introduction and clear thesis statement, develop each

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  • Interview of an old Lady from New Jersey (75 years)

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    Interview 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.

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  • Analysis of Scout Character in “To Kill A mockingbird”

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    Looking 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.

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  • Book Report: The Benevolent Dictator

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    Book 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?

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  • Dystopia in Movies

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    Dystopia in Movies

    About one of these themes.

    1. Dystopia
    2. Technophobia
    3. 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): 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

    1. 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 . 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),

    1. 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)

    http://www.horrorflixtheaters.com/apps/videos/videos/show/17332826-stalker-1979-adventure-fantasy-english-subbed-putlocker-nowvideo

    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

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  • THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH QnA

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    A 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?

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