Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne Humanities Essay

Assignment:

The assignment is THREE total essays—approximately 500 words each. The first two you have a choice of the prompt from the selections below. The third essay uses a slightly different rubric. For ALL ESSAYS, it is important that you provide clear organization, a thesis statement (your argument) that reflects critical thinking, and support that is rich in relevant vocabulary from the course as well as examples from history and from the primary source readings (essays in RTTP and novels).

Make sure your essays are in your own words (save any brief quotations if necessary). Quotations from the novels and primary source essays only need a parenthetical citation with the author’s last name and either the page number from the RTTP Game Book [GB] or the chapter number [e.g. VI] and page or paragraph number from the novel [14] like this: (Cervantes VI: 11) (Rousseau GB: 106)

The first two essays should include AT LEAST FIVE pertinent vocabulary terms from the semester (with definitions) as well as references to AT LEAST THREE primary source texts (including the novels and essays in the RTTP game book).

Essay 1 Pick ONE of the two prompts below:

A. Describe technology’s influence on individuals and society in history and literature

B. How does the information you have access to impact your perspective on society?

Essay 2 Pick ONE of the two prompts below:

A. Discuss social class conflict and how each class effects society to make a successful government.

B. Describe how governments and belief systems influence each other in history and literature.

Essay 3

Compose an expository essay based on ONE of the two quotes below (selected from the four on the assessed essay rubric sheet under General Resources (see attached)). Your argument (thesis statement) should reflect critical thinking in how you interpret the quote and apply it to the course material. Provide examples that are comprehensive, that is they come from texts read throughout the entire semester and include reference to material in the textbook, works of literature, and other supplemental writings covered in the class. Use effective topic sentences to maintain organization and tie your main points of support back to your thesis statement. Analyze, connect, and show (do not summarize).

Tolstoy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a “man” goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

Plato: “Poets and story-tellers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are often happy, and the good miserable; and that injustice is profitable when undetected, but that justice is a man’s own loss and another’s gain.”

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Notes:

Required readings:

Popiel, Carnes, and Kates. (2015) Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791. 2nd Edition. Reacting to the Past. Norton. 9780393938883 (You can look it up on the internet or see RTTP_book attached in zip file)

Shelley, Mary. (2003) Frankenstein. Revised Edition. Penguin Classics. 9780141439471 (look it up)

Huxley, Aldous. (2006) Brave New World. Harper Perennial. 9780060850524 (look it up)

Don Quixote, ch. 1–8 (attached as Don in zip file)

Prince, ch. 16–18 (attached as ThePrince in zip file)

link for the zip file :https://www.mediafire.com/file/gu7siq2mtaxl6xo/F.z…

For the vocabulary I will gather as much as I can from this course and provide it to you here