Month: March 2019 (Page 5 of 5)

Death Penalty in the USA

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There are many arguments for and against the death penalty. Identify and Discuss the single most convincing argument that, in your opinion, is the strongest one IN FAVOR of the having/using the death penalty in the U.S. Then, take the opposite view and identify and discuss the single most convincing argument that, in your opinion, is the strongest one AGAINST having/using the death penalty in the U.S.

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Analyzing ‘All Quiet on the Western Front

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The 1930’s anti-war classic film All Quiet on the Western Front is about youthful innocence ravaged by the brutality of war on the frontlines during WWI—through the lens of Paul Baumer and his comrades in the 2nd Company. Making use of textbook notes, the film All Quiet on the Western Front, and Susan Zeiger’s “She Didn’t Raise Her Boy to be a Slacker: Motherhood, Conscription, and the Culture of the First World War,” please write a paper in which you do the following:

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Analyzing ‘Sor Juana de la Cruz’

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Read Kataris’s article, “Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz” and Respond to the questions below regarding the text.

1) As a woman of the Renaissance, was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz of her time or before her time? Explain. 

2) Do you see any connection between the themes represented in her poems to the themes in Shakespeare’s verse reproduced on the last page of the article? Explain. 

3) Five years before Juana Ines was born, Thomas Browne stated that the philosophy of hermeticism perceived the “visible world but a portrait of the invisible.” How does that apply to Juana Ines’s view of the world and her place in that world? 

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