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You will write a paper of interpretive literary criticism on the short story “The B.A.R. Man” by Richard Yates. Essays of literary criticism should aim to enrich the reading of others by identifying and explaining aspects of the reading that you find significant. This does not necessarily mean you will […]

During this unit we will write a research paper. Like all our other papers, the research paper is an argument. This time, however, you are welcome to use any or all of the tools you have learned this semester (Aristotelian argument, Toulmin method, Rogerian argument, etc.) to craft your paper. […]

Couple of hours According to Franklin Foer in his article, “Mark Zuckerburg’s War on Free Will,” there is a long tradition in the West of wanting to replace “bum politicians” (61) with technocrats – what Foer calls “Engineer Kings.” Foer goes on to state that the notion of algorithms (defined […]

What aspects of oral epic does the Roman author adopt, and what techniques does he abandon? The focus of your paper should be on the technical aspects of the poetry (use of similes, epithets, ekphrases, or repetition of formulas, for example) rather than on plot elements. What do the similarities […]

Discuss “Cathedral” as a story about “the blind leading the blind”

500-700 words