Category: English

English 101—Essay #4—Hamlet’s “Defining” Moment
When dealing with the blustery and long-winded father of his girlfriend, Hamlet belittles Polonius with the phrase “Words, words, words” (II.ii.189). This is a play filled with words, many of them confusing, many introduced by Shakespeare when the play was first performed in 1600 and often repeated since. Words have power, meaning and purpose. This paper allows you to explore that vitality.
Directions: Choose a single word or short phrase from Hamlet, and craft a well-planned, articulate argument that:
Quotes and analyzes the initial usage of the word in the text. What is the context for the word/short phrase? Who says it? Who is the line directed at and why is it uttered or thought? First, closely analyze the word/term at this initial, micro level.
Consults and utilizes the Oxford English Dictionary. Research the derivation and multiple meanings of the word. Hopefully, you will find various definitions to the word that enrich the understanding/analysis of the text.
Traces the word/short phrase further into the text of Hamlet at least 2 more times (although, it can be more). You can use the word/phrase to explore ONE character or examine it through MULTIPLE characters (remember: the word might not be used exactly later in the text, but you can use it as long as the concept is explored). Again, it will probably be necessary to quote from the text in this section of your essay.
Presents the ultimate truth/understanding of the word/short term in context of the entire play. This is your macro level analysis.
Your essay should:
Provide an engaging introduction and effective conclusion
Have a strong claim or thesis statement
Use mature paragraphs and sentence construction
Provide textual support
Explain and discuss all quotes
Provide citations for all sources
Discuss the literature in the present tense
Avoid 1st person (except in the introduction)
Present an effective, well-supported argument
Avoid plagiarism
Have an MLA formatted Works Cited Page
Must use and cite Oxford Dictionary 
Criteria for evaluation:  Your essay should be typed, double-spaced, MLA format, and 6-7pages. Your essay must provide a works cited page.

Argumentative Essay Final Draft Due Thursday by 11:59pm
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During the semester, we
have investigated many areas of criminality through film and text. Through this
course’s materials, we have entered into the dark world of criminality. Gangs,
organized crime, trafficking, drug networks, and all types of illicit systems
and structures appeared to have intertwined, making it almost impossible for
people of whatever country to hide from the giant shadow of criminal
obsessions.
Liliana’s Invincible
Summer written by Cristina Rivera Garza was our final book.
This book was about the murder of the author’s sister, Liliana. CRG often
stated in interviews, podcasts, or conferences that she did not wish her sister
to become a nameless statistic and forgotten victim of violent crime. She
wanted her personhood and life to be remembered, not only the conditions of her
death and the killer who had caused it. Yet, she also wanted the term,
“femicide”, to be more widely known and understood, as a criminal obsession, a
hate crime committed against females because of their gender.
Directions:
In
a 5-page creative essay, pretend you are a doctor, detective, friend, or
psychologist and have been called in by Cristina, to advise her on her sister’s
death. Using your investigative, personal. and/ or professional skills, center
on the character of Cristina’s sister, Liliana, as exhibited by the letters,
books, and other memorabilia left in her apartment. Even though you may not be
able to exactly know why she was murdered and by whom, you are offering a
commentary on this criminal act, the area of femicide, and helping to solve a
murder.
If
you are a friend from childhood, you may be capable of filling in some of the
blanks. If you knew her at the university or were her neighbor, perhaps you saw
her talking with someone. If you are in law enforcement, maybe you find an
important document or file and are able to track down witnesses who may know
something. If you are a sociologist, you may be commenting on nefarious social
events, on a national/global level which probably have permitted the growth of
femicide. As a psychologist, you may be documenting your observations of her
particular case and offering some sort of help to the family as they undergo
different stages of grief and mourning. Whichever moments from the past, you shared
with the author’s sister or her case, might shed light on her killing and help
to lessen the family’s grief. You do not have to assume all roles. It would be
best to choose only one or two. The time period you choose to appear in is up
to you. Since the book took many years to write, direct information, such as
files, may be missing concerning points of possible investigation. What does
this resulting absence tell?
Hearing
the author while she speaks about her sister and this book in podcasts, and you
tube videos, shows that trauma is also associated with the book and the author.
Kai Erickson, sociologist, has written that “trauma is a wound to the psyche
that breaks through the subject’s defense so suddenly and brutally that the
subject cannot react.” Therefore, Cristina’s text can also be seen through this
lens of hurtful and haunted situations/memories.  These elements have definitely been reflected
in CRG’s novel, especially regarding society’s norms, law enforcement, and
traumatic scenes of violence and power. 

Essay Two: Independent Research –    Helping Ourselves to a Better Self-Image
(based on Chapters 5 and 6 of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
What is the Purpose of this assignment?
The purpose of this assignment is to apply the theme of “Helping Ourselves to a Better Self Image,” based on chapters 5 and 6 of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, to an independent research project that taps into social media posting as a research basis–whether you are using Instagram posts, TikTok videos, Vlogs or trending Reddit threads. Acceptable samples of social media will be by individuals who highlight themselves—as individuals—in their post(s), and whom you can LINK to, so that their social “statements” can also be viewed by the reader of your essay as well. The individual(s) you choose as your “sample” must demonstrate a particular brand of “self-presentation,” as shown in selected visual post(s) that you will use as your primary evidence. Our prior Discussion Board posts and Journals should have prepared for you for this assignment, as they mostly all asked for very specific examples of your reaching out to social media.  Remember the theme, “Helping Ourselves to a Better Self Image!”
What Position ABOUT “Helping Ourselves to a Better Self-Image” Will I Take? 
By now, it is clear to you that Ariely is an observer of our sometimes inconsistent, sometimes even comical, practices of “helping ourselves” toward honesty (or dishonesty) about ourselves. So collectively, all in all, Ariely presents varying views of whether our tendency toward both honesty and/ or dishonesty is “good” or “bad.” Really, our tendencies toward dishonesty, in Ariely’s view, just “is” what it is; I don’t think Ariely is judging us.  But just because Ariely “doesn’t judge,” that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take a position. 
For this essay, you should take a definite position and that position should carry through your entire paper. The two possible theses for this paper to work are given to you below. 
CHOOSE ONE: 
My Position Choice: 
CHOOSE EITHER Thesis One OR Thesis Two for your paper.
Thesis One:
Self-puffery, like the blue crab (see chapter 6), impacts our social relations today, usually negatively, in which individuals create exaggerated or unhealthy means toward “helping ourselves toward a better self-image.” This kind of self-puffery is evident in the type of posting which I am calling ___, as exemplified by ____ , as it infuses an individual’s self-presentation and perpetuates harmful messages about ___ through their popularity. 
OR
Thesis Two:
Self-puffery, like the blue crab (see chapter 6) , fulfills the essential function of “fake it ‘til you make it” –a practice that constructively promotes self-signalling for positive effect. This kind of self-puffery is evident in the type of posting which I am calling ___, as exemplified by ____ , as it infuses an individual’s self-presentation and builds confidence and helpful messaging about ____ through their popularity. 
Sources You Will Use.
An individual who exemplifies the type of posting you want to draw attention to
A comparison individual who exemplifies the same type of posting (comparison as a way to show off your additional insight) or a CONTRAST individual who exemplifies a kind of opposing, or opposite, type of posting (still relevant, but opposite).
One other research source that could be either based in psychology, communications, behavioral economics, or marketing. While you do not need to report in-depth on your research, it should be written about in such a way as follows the format of Assistive Handout # ___ in the Course Menu.
How Should This Essay Go?  Let’s Keep Working in “Steps”
Basically the essay goes like this:
Step 1:
An introduction that opens the essay to the topic of “helping ourselves to a better self-image,” also including some reference to Ariely from the opening pages of either “Calling All Chloes” (chapter five) or the story of the blue crab (chapter six); some concept or keyword terms related to “self-presentation” from Discussion Board Post 5 (Who Do We Think We Are); your thesis statement choice (either Thesis One or Thesis Two). 
Step 2:
A paragraph that deals with the “type of posting” you are identifying. (If you did a good job on Discussion Board Post 6, step 1, this shouldn’t be hard—it’s the same thing.) This paragraph should also include your description that critically characterizes this type of posting for a better self-image. (Again, this is being taken from Discussion Board Post 6, step 2—it’s the same thing.) 
Step 3:
A restatement of your thesis at the beginning of paragraph three; what Ariely might say about this type of posting and how you know he would say this. (Refer to some writing and details from either Chapter Five or Chapter Six to back up your idea of what Ariely would say about this type of posting.)  A sentence or two that leads into an individual—a specific person who posts—doing this type of posting; general statements about this individual’s posting style that connects to the beginning of this paragraph three.
Step 4:
A full-in, ALL-IN, description of ONE post by this individual as an example. You know what to do! Follow Assistive Handout #6 in Course Menu for how to read and describe a post with visual elements. Make sure you offer the details you choose to include as proof and support of your thesis.
Step 5:
A comparison post of some kind—either by another individual doing the same kind of thing like your first individual, or someone who offers a kind of contrast (maybe showing an “opposite” demonstration of self-presentation).
Step 6:
A personal perspective: Who are you in terms of your style of self-presentation? How do you compare to or contrast the individuals you’ve studied? What from your own life or experience connects you—in terms of interest or background—to the individuals you have highlighted? 
As part of this reflection (either within your Step 6 paragraph or in a separate paragraph), add some supplemental research—one source—that backs up the personally-relevant point you are bringing forward in this step of your essay.  Make sure the way you write about this source coordinates in style with Assistive Handout 3 on incorporating research, which you will find in the Course Menu.
Step 7:
Back to Ariely—Bring him back in; Recap and re-mention (a sentence or two) the supplemental research you included in step 6; find a way to conclude (offer your resolve to self-present in this way or not to self-present in this way). Your conclusion, and DONE! 
Step 8: 
Make sure you have a Works Cited list that includes the two posts you used, Ariely’s text, and your supplemental source as well.  Required Length:  4-5 pages (not more).

you will be doing something similar to your poetry analysis essay (Essay #3); instead of a poem, you will analyze an event that has taken place anywhere in the world. For your last formal essay, you will look at a particular event and use a critical theory (feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race theory, Marxism) to analyze it (ex: the narrative surrounding Breonna Taylor). Make sure that the lens or perspective you select is one that resonates with your ideology as a human. In other words make sure that you agree with the lens and its philosophies. Step 1: Select an event. You can pick any event, including one that has happened to you or a family member. If picking an event reported in the news, please keep it within the last five years. Step 2: Select a lens to use to analyze the event. Remember that you do not have to agree with your selected lens′s perspective. You are simply using it to root your critical thoughts into a single perspective. Feel free to use a lens not presented or discussed in class.
Step 3: There are also some questions to guide students through the thinking process listed to help you through the writing process, but as always, feel free to create your own structure.
Please use the following questions as a guide for your body paragraphs or general structure;
1) What is the narrative being delivered about the event?
2) What voices are being centered?
3) How is the narrative in one form (perhaps the news) different from the narrative being presented in another form or other platforms (perhaps social media)?
4) What is missing from the narrative?
5) How do we want the narrative to change?
Essay Guidelines:
This essay is for a general academic audience; don’t assume your reader is in our class and knows the story/event as well as you do.
You should research and find your source material to support your claims in the essay. Since you can write about any event, please translate articles in different languages into English when necessary. No sources will be required if using a personal event, but you may still need to use sources to help define your lens and its historical context. Write in MLA format with a Works Cited page. See MLA info at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ . Links to an external site. Your thesis should identify the critical lens and how that lens interprets your selected event.
Like the previous essays, always use specific passages to support your discussion since doing so offers more opportunities for close analysis.

3 career choice arre marketing , realestate or accouting 
the univercities are UCLA , CSULA or CSUN
criteria, up to 2.5 points each
10 points total score
_____ 5-page typed essay (at least 1250 words, not including quotes) with introduction, body, and conclusion format as specified below, presented in formal academic English, free of spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors, and submitted on time; in-text citations and Works Cited page prepared in MLA format for all 16 sources (specified below); 1 word count of entire essay and 1 word count not including quotes (Works Cited page not included in either);
_____ Introduction begins by generally identifying the topic and its importance, then outlines the range of opinions analyzed and presents as specific thesis topic focus student’s research into a career of personal interest, in the context of ideas from Christian’s Alignment Problem and Shakespeare’s Midsummer (plus, optionally, Hamlet). Thesis opinion explains the student’s current educational and career goals and why the selected career was chosen, how ideas from Christian might/might not enhance preparing for and embarking upon a career, plus how ideas from Shakespeare compare metaphorically; conclusion restates thesis and summarizes argument;
_____ Body explains as support for thesis reasons, researched examples, and other evidence, including at least 1 quote from the OOH on each of 3 careers, at least at least 1 quote from each of 3 schools’ websites, at least 1 quote from each of at least 3 experts/interview subjects, at least 1 quote from each of 2 relevant personally-researched, preferably academic articles, at least 2 quotes from Christian’s Alignment Problem, at least 2 quotes from Shakespeare’s Midsummer (or 1 plus 1 quote from Hamlet), plus, at least 1 quote from a classmate’s discussion post; summary of sources is avoided, instead, brief quotes and examples are thoroughly explained as support for thesis;
_____ Essay shows good advantage made of the research and journal activities to research, outline, draft, and revise ideas before submitting essay (average score of recent discussion activities); bonus for sending draft to NetTutor and including a copy of the response
3.8, Revising discussion ideas into Essay 3
3.8, Revising discussion ideas into Essay 3
Please develop your outlined ideas from the previous steps into paragraph form, then revise into more formal essay style. Feel free to submit a draft before the due date and send any questions by Inbox message. It’s recommended you draft and revise in your word processor, then click Start Assignment when you’re ready to copy and paste from your essay and submit it.
Create an introduction and conclusion as specified in the rubric. Build an argument of support for your thesis by thoroughly explaining your reasons and the various required sources of examples as the body of your essay. Revise to formalize language and argumentation (limit/avoid I-, we-, and/or you-style perspective). Proofread to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Use MLA format for the in-text citations and Works Cited page. To maximize scores, use rubrics as checklists as you revise, and make sure to address each separate criterion of the criteria.
Try to start your writing projects for college in this so-called process approach. None of us writes our best in one draft between midnight and six am, and research often requires its own schedule that cannot be forced into one day but must be done stepwise over time.
Optional bonus opportunity
This semester, students have the opportunity to consult with a tutor from the college’s Embedded Tutor program. Where the following instructions address the Net Tutor service, students have the option, and are highly recommended, to consult through the LACC Penji Tutoring link in Canvas, and for more info see the Writing Support Center..Links to an external site.
For NetTutor, on the left side Canvas menu, below Discussions, Grades, Syllabus, down toward the bottom is an item NetTutor. Please consider sending your e1 to Net Tutor for advice then revising as an optional bonus opportunity. Click NetTutor then “English,” then “Drop off a paper,” answer the questions, and upload. It may take a couple days for their response. It’s a good idea to copy and paste the rubric into the file with your essay, so that the tutor can see how your work is being evaluated. You might add a note that you have the chance to revise for a better score, too.
Access to the NetTuor service is provided by the college for your use, and in classroom sections, we’ve looked together at the advice of several of their tutors. They all seem to give some general advice at first then specific proofreading comments. While their advice is not wrong in most cases, the general comments often apply to all writing, and the specific advice often focuses mainly on grammar, spelling, and MLA format. Their responses sometimes haven’t much addressed whether or how well the students’ thesis and argument structure met the requirements of the assignment, even when students included the rubric. Let’s see what you think this semester.
Properly researching and outlining writing projects for college makes the difference between passing and failing. Explaining thesis and argument clearly and completely distinguishes good B writing from average C work. Formal academic style makes the difference between As and Bs. This fits with the advice of the course overall. A friend or tutor at a writing center might give good advice on minor details at the last minute, but if you need help with understanding an writing assignment or how to structure your ideas, you may need to consult with instructors well before due dates while there’s still time for drafting and revision.
This is not required for anyone. It’s a bonus option, but it’s a good idea for everyone. To earn the bonus, attach the pdf file of the tutor’s advice. The Essay 4 rubric will, however, ask students to include a copy of NetTutor’s response as a specified criterion, not as a bonus, so it’s good idea to practice this time for that reason, too.
6.a, Initiating contact with interview subjects and continuing with Shakespeare
3.6, Initiating contact with interview subjects and continuing with Shakespeare
Plan ahead to discuss your ideas with a variety of others: former instructors, guidance counselors, more advanced students, working professionals, etc. Initiate contact with at least three people who can respond to you as an individual. Don’t forget about email or even the phone. Also remember, since essay 4 will ask students to continue, expand, and revise essay 3, if you can’t contact everyone you’d like at this point, don’t give up, and you might be able to while revising essay 3 into essay 4. This activity specifies quotes from subjects required, but make as much progress as possible, and if necessary, explain contacts initiated before you’ve secured all the quotes.
Review your interview notes and select at least one quote from each of your interview subjects. Decide what you think about the experience of collecting data for the project, your subjects’ thoughts on your career research. Post a response briefly explaining your ideas:
Alignment Problem, personal research
There are more ideas on Christian’s Alignment Problem in the More details section below.. I found the ideas in the second half of the book most interesting and most applicable to education and learning in general, but I don’t want these pages to look too long. 
As you research your career and schools for essay 3 and 4, also review a variety of articles online. Select a couple most related to aspects of the career you’re most interested in at the moment.
As you’re researching articles on your career and planning for interviews, try to find at least one professional academic article from the field Here’s a tip: add the expression site:.edu to the end of searches in Google. This will restrict returns to educational websites (n.b., this also works with other domains and extensions, such as site:.org, or site:.mit.edu, or site:.cia.gov, see more under Google Advanced Search).
Shakespeare’s Midsummer and responding to a classmate
Select another quote from Shakespeare’s Midsummer (or optionally Hamlet) that you can compare or contrast to your ideas on the focus on your choice for essay 3. Decide how you will explain your ideas. In addition to the quiz on Midsummer previously mentioned, you can also find an optional quiz on Hamlet that might be useful for review and/or choosing quotes.
Select another student’s post and briefly respond. If you’re the first to post, or if you simply want to read a few posts before choosing a quote to respond to, you can add this later. As before, if someone had already posted on a quote you chose to write on, you can respond to that person and explain your ideas on the quote for this part of the discussion.
More details
Prepping for research interviews
It may seem an exaggeration to call an interview an experiment and an interviewee an experiment test subject, but an important part of conducting research and experiments is making sure that any people involved are treated ethically, and with ethics, it would better to be excessively careful than not careful enough. When conducting research with human subjects, it’s important to follow ethical research standards. The next step does involve discussing motivation, happiness, creativity, and Lieberman’s ideas with others, and we need to be sure that we’re treating people nicely when our experiments involve others. Anyone interested in thousands of pages of examples why experimental ethics are important may peruse the DoE’s Human Radiation ExperimentsLinks to an external site. website or find a couple by searching in Google for radioactive oatmeal or the expressions radiation experiment pregnant women Vanderbilt.
Here’s a big, long list of ethical standards on research involving human subjects from the American Psychological AssociationLinks to an external site.. At least look over the General Principles, then see more detailed explanations following if you’re interested. This may seem like a lot, especially so early in a term when our interaction with others is mostly interview, but it’s important, we should do it before not after you interact with others, and it’s something we can do without the textbook. These ethical standards are all good and right, but if the list looks complicated, you already know most of it:
be nice and polite: don’t deceive, cheat, or otherwise mistreat others
be safe: don’t break any laws or endanger yourself or others;
be professional and honest: don’t make things up or distort your analysis through selective framing; keep good notes on real experiences and face the reality of unexpected discoveries; protect interview subjects’ privacy in your writing (use a first name only, make up a pseudonym, or describe subjects, for example, a community college counselor, or a 50-year resident of the neighborhood, life-long patron of the local library, and mother of three kids who also used the library but have since grown up and moved away). For references to other students in the course, let’s use initials (see below).
For the most part, your interview subjects will not be speaking in official capacity on behalf of an organization, you will not have returned to the subjects with your draft to verify their quotes accuracy and contextual meaning, and the organizations those subjects represent will not have signed official release forms. That’s ok, and part of why you might refer to someone as Mary, a community college counselor, or Jim, who’s worked 24 years as a nurse at three different hospitals. The subjects will be speaking from their own personal perspectives, and that’s the point, and why the description is also useful.
The Alignment Problem
“…simple models, made from hand-selected, high-level variables, perform about as well as more complex models—sometimes better—and consistently as well as or better than human experts…How…might one build not just a simple model from a given dataset but the best simple model?” (Christian 99)
“finding optimal simple rules…requires tackling an ‘intractable,’ or ‘NP-hard’ problem…in which there is no straightforward means of obtaining the guaranteed best answer” (Christian 99)
The interested may like to know about Christian’s previous Algorithms to Live By, which discussed how some problems lend themselves to algorithms, or decision-making strategies, that can make big complicated jobs simpler, but how some problems don’t. in math, simply trying all the possible answers to a problem one by one is called the brute force method, for example X + 1 = 20. Let’s start with 0: 0 + 1 ≠ 20. Let’s try 2: 2 + 1 ≠ 20. And so forth. Do you stop at 19? Do you keep going and going? What if the problem were X + Y = 20?
“Their goal was to create a a model that was not only as accurate as possible, but also so simple that it could run quickly and reliable on…old school…physician’s [paper] notebooks” (Christian 101)
“They developed a model called SLIM…to find not just decent heuristics but provably optimal ways make decisions under severe constraints. The upshot…was twofold…First the model showed—contrary to received wisdom and current practice—that patient symptoms were significantly less useful than their histories” (Christian 101)
“Second, the machine-learning community had scored a methodological victory it could carry through into other collaborations and other domains” (Christian 102)
“[we] want to expect…from our machines…to know not only what they think they see but where [or at what], in particular, they are looking. This idea in machine-learning goes by the name of ‘saliency”: the idea that…some parts of the [data] were more important or more influential than others in making [decisions]…machine-learning systems…Often…latch onto aspects of the training data we did not think were relevant and ignore what we imagine weas the critical information [often wrongly, but sometimes rightly]” (Christian 103)
We humans can also misattribute salience, get distracted counter-productively on seemingly point-scoring loopholes that do not achieve goals, get our reward systems misaligned, and otherwise follow less-than optimal algorithms.
“They tested their system against a group of twenty-five dermatologists. The system outperformed the humans…This…landed them a widely cited paper in Nature in 2017…The…system…was much more likely to classify any image with a ruler in it as cancerous. Why? It so happened that medical images of malignancies are much more likely to contain a ruler for scale than images of healthy skin” (Christian 104-105)
“One of the simplest ideas in making complex models more transparent is simply to have them output more” (Christian 105)
“…the network could be used to make not just a single prediction…but dozens…This technique has come to be known as ‘multitask learning’” (Christian 106)
“…if you had a multitask net predicting all sorts of things…anomalies would be much more visible. The asthmatics [cf. Christian 84]…might have better-than-average morbidity but astronomical medical bills. It would be much clearer that these were no ordinary ‘low-risk’ patients to be sent home with instructions to take two pills and call back in the morning” (Christian 107)
“More than achieving mere predictive accuracy, the model suggested an intriguing path forward for medicine itself. The combination of multitask learning and saliency techniques…don’t just make for better medicine. They might also make for better doctors” (Christian 108)
“Imagine if you walk into a doctor’s office and he says, ‘Oh, I’m going to open you up and remove maybe a couple of things.’ And you ask, ‘Oh, why?’ He says, ‘Oh, I don’t know. This machine says that that’s the best option for you. 99.9%” (Christian 113)
“Users were better at anticipating the model’s predictions when it used fewer factors and was made more ‘transparent’ to the user. But neither the simplicity nor the transparency actually affected the level of trust that people reported toward the model. And, in fact, people were less likely to realize that the model had made a mistake when the model was more transparent” (Christian 114)
How much do you trust a calculator to do arithmetic? How good would you be at noticing if a calculator made a mistake and gave you a wrong answer?

Write a narrative with a plot that clearly follows one of the four main plot archetypes (the Initiation, the Journey, the Quest, or the Task).
You will use your best writing to create a story that
clearly follows a plot archetype;
includes a clear exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution;
clearly uses at least two narrative techniques (dialogue, flashback, foreshadowing, juxtaposition, pacing, or sensory details);
includes a clearly developed symbol;
uses temporal words and phrases; and
is 500 words

see the attached rubric and the handout to be completed. As well as need a short paragraph answering questions in the rubric.

Consider Milkman’s search for gold as a metaphor for his search to find himself. Analyze the stages of his search in relation to the stages of his emotional growth and discovery of identity. This idea requires you to prove how various stages in Milkman’s life change as he matures into a more connected and empathetic person.
My teacher said I wrote it like a book report and not an argumentive essay.  I need to use my same essay but revised to be an argumentive essay.
Literary Analysis Essay for Song of Solomon,
by Toni Morrison 
Length: Five paragraphs (3 well-developed BP’s along with proper intro and conclusion paragraphs in full MLA)