English 1A
Essay 1: Does social media cause the pathologies described by Sherry Turkle? You can supplement her essay "Flight from Conversation" with a couple of essays from Chapter 6 in Acting Out Culture.
Essay 2: Compare the adolescent fixation in Lasdun's It's Beginning to Hurt with Joseph Epstein's essay "The Perpetual Adolescent."
Essay 3: Analyze Nikolai's demise in Chekhov's "Gooseberries" in the context of Man's Search for Meaning.
Essay 4: Various "best of" essays from Acting Out Culture
Essay 5: Acting Out Culture's two chapters on work and eduction will provide your capstone essay on upward mobility in America. Is upward mobility largely a myth?
English 1C
Essay 1: Write an analysis of impoverishment through substitution while addressing the three stories. Define "unhinged" in the context of "Bartleby," "Winter Dreams," and "The Overcoat."
In addition to the "Bartleby" assignment, you could have 1A students compare "The Overcoat" and "Winter Dreams."
Compare the way"Bartleby," "The Overcoat" and "Winter Dreams" illuminate the theme of that the chimera of fame and elevated status cause us to become unhinged in a psychological and existential manner. Define the term "unhinged" in psychological and existential terms and show how the stories reveal this unhinging and dislocation.
Essay 2: Analyze the causes and effects of the demon homunculus by comparing at least two selected stories from Updike's short story anthology.
Essay 3: Use online debatable topics for argumentative essay or choose a book like The Professor in the Cage.
Essay 4: Use online debatable topics for capstone argumentative essay. Is college worth it? What is the prison dilemma in light of Proposition 47?
Here are 4 good topics:
One. Is college worth the cost? Two. Is the NFL morally bankrupt? Three. Is it immoral to be an anti-vaxxer? Four. Are the NRA's defenses of guns rooted in misinformation, logical fallacies, and other forms of demagoguery?
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