Instructions   

After reading the three web articles listed in the readings for this week, compose a short essay (using a Word doc that you will upload, adhering to MLA formatting guidelines, writing no less than 350 words) that addresses the following:

1. What is resistance to you? What does it mean to resist something? Can reading really count as resistance, according to you?

2. Combined, these articles argue that reading is both absolutely essential in our world today as well as counting as an act of political defiance. Imagine you're attempting to convince a friend or a peer of these authors' arguments. What would you tell them to convince them to read and to read as an act of resistance? You can write this in the voice you would use for your pee.

End Date   

Jan 29, 2021 8:00 PM





Links to Readings


Walter Moss, "Why Literature Matters"
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/138304

For the article summary, do not inject their personal opinions or ideas, using value-free language, and remaining as impartial and objective as possible. Focus on summarizing the authors ideas, research question, hypothesis, methodology, results, and discussion.
Avoid long quotes in summary, and paraphrase whenever possible, citing the authors last name and year of the publication. Do not cite secondary sources from reading. Maximum quotes = 2 short quotes (less than 40 words each). No citing secondary sources.

In this assignment, you will need to submit a word document with three multiple choice questions (each with four response options and the correct response highlighted).  These multiple choice questions will draw from material in the Overview, Class, Age and Gender topics, either from lecture, class discussion or textbook.  The nature of these multiple choice questions should be more application or connection based, rather than pure definition.  Questions will not be reviewed in advance by the teaching team, consider the first mini assignment as a guide for the second.



Marking Guide:

5/5 - Three well written/conceived multiple choice question, each with four response options and the correct response highlighted and all are application/connection based.

4-4.5/5 - Either one of the questions was not sufficiently application/connection based, responses were not highlighted, or there were not the correct number of response options.

3-3.5/5

Consider the following information about the composition of the Earths population. Attempt to determine the source and validity of the information.

Whatever the source of this information you do (or do not) find may be, accept the information as true for the purposes of this Assignment. Prepare an essay of between 250 and 400 words that discusses your questions and conclusions regarding the information, as well as what, if any, action you would propose based on those conclusions. (100 points)


The current population of Earth is around 7.8 Billion. For most people, it is a large figure, that is all. However, someone has condensed the 7.8 billion in the world into 100 persons,

and then into various percentage statistics. The resulting analysis is relatively much easier to comprehend.



Out of 100 :

11 are in Europe

5 are in North America

9 are in South America

15 are in Africa

60 are in Asia



49 live

In-Seat Students :
Review the discussion prompt below. Then prepare a list of talking points in order to be prepared for the class discussion. Please bring a printed copy to class.
Discussion Prompt : Weak and Strong Christians
Christians today are divided on what a "good" Christian looks like. Can you drink alcohol, smoke cigars, gamble, go to "R" rated movies, or vote for political candidates who are not "Pro-life"? In this session, we will look at Romans 14-15:13 and try to discern Paul's view (biblical view) of "weak" versus "strong" Christians. Read the passage again and then respond to the following questions:
Define what Paul means by weak and strong based on this passage.
What conclusions can you make regarding weak and strong Christians in our culture today?
Paul is using the issues of 'diet' and 'special days' to illustrate his principles. What kind of issues do these translate into in our current culture?
What principles is Paul giving that we can apply

Read pages 41-83 (end of section 2 in Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid) Follow all MLA and formatting requirements.
Review pages 41-83 of Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and make notes of what you find interesting, disturbing, fascinating, or confusing, and try to explain why. A well-written response will demonstrate that you have read closely and tried to make sense of the concerns within the novel.

Our experience in society is dominated by visual texts, from television commercials to
memes, to music videos. These texts attempt to shape our worldview via the rhetorical
approached they employ, and in turn we are constantly faced with the dilemma of
interpreting this influence.
For this weeks homework you will be tasked with identifying and analyzing a piece of
visual media (the genre is up to you) and the different rhetorical elements utilized within.
In a document, include a link and/or image of the text you are working with, a thesis
statement that puts forth your argument, and identify and include a brief discussion of
the following rhetorical elements:
1. The rhetorical situation
2. The overall argument
3. At least two claims
4. Evidence the supports those claims
5. At least two rhetorical strategies, including an analysis of how they are functioning
6. Any appeals working within the text
7. Any assumptions the text makes<

Although marking the passage beyond heterosexual marriage as a narrative ending, Lily Briscoes rise as even an alternatively public woman and meaning-giver does not then fully dismantle the ideological dichotomy of public/private that To the Lighthouse encodes in Part One as masculine/feminine Mary Lou Emery, Robbed of Meaning: The Work at the Centre of To the Lighthouse. Do you agree with Mary Lou Emerys statement that Western feminism is about the construction of the subject through processes of exclusion? Is this what To the Lighthouse does with Lily? Discuss by making close reference to the text and the article.

Our experience in society is dominated by visual texts, from television commercials to
memes, to music videos. These texts attempt to shape our worldview via the rhetorical
approached they employ, and in turn we are constantly faced with the dilemma of
interpreting this influence.

-Analyze one or more of the scenes read in Updike or Yuknavitch or Greenwell using Kate Milletts sexual politics lens.

-Your paper should be 3 full pages long. Begin with a clear thesis and support it with specific examples from the text or texts.