Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, homework help

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Midterm Essay Assignment Guidelines

Due: Sunday, June 11th at 11:30 pm

100 points/ 20% of final grade

1.)You may only choose from the writing prompts provided. You should choose one prompt from the document titled Midterm Essay Prompts.

2.)Your essay should NOT summarize the text or texts about which you are writing. Instead, your essay should feature a thesis statement that is argumentative as it responds to the bolded question in the prompt you’ve selected.

3.)You should support your argument with textual support from the texts about which you are writing. Your essay must feature at least three direct quotations and include proper MLA in-text Citation as well as a Works Cited page. Revisit the “Writing About Literature” resources in the Start Here folder for help with citation as well as help with how to incorporate quotations into your essay. Failure to use direct quotations from the text may result in failure of the assignment.

4.)No OUTSIDE or SECONDARY sources are required. This essay should feature your own original argument and only be supported by passages from the text. If you do use an outside source, it needs to be cited in-text (even if you paraphrase or summarize) as well as be included on the Works Cited page. Avoid websites like gradesavers.com, enotes.com, shmoop.com, etc.

5.)Your essay should be a minimum of 750 words and five paragraphs. Essays that fail to meet the word count requirement or the paragraph requirement will fail the assignment. Use the following outline to help you draft and organize your argument.

a.Introductory paragraph: Introduce the text or texts you are writing about by name as well as include the author’s name. You may briefly summarize your text or texts here. This paragraph should lead up to and end with your argumentative thesis statement.

b.Body paragraphs: You should have three body paragraphs. Each should feature a topic sentence that makes a claim and that specifically addresses your thesis statement. You should strive to develop one idea in each body paragraph in order to keep your paragraphs unified/coherent. Make sure you introduce all of your quotations.

c.Conclusion paragraph: Sum up your essay and tell the reader why they should care. This paragraph should do more than just restate your thesis.

d.Works Cited page: This should appear on a new page. Your entries should be alphabetized. See the MLA resources in the Start Here folder.

6.) Do not use first person or second person pronouns. Your essay should be in the third person, objective point of view.

7.)Consider taking a rough draft to one of the SPC Learning Commons to be reviewed by a writing tutor. You may also consider submitting your essay to SmarThinking.

8.) Proofread/edit more than once. You don’t want to lose unnecessary points for typos or grammatical/mechanical errors.


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Midterm Essay Prompts *Choose one of the following questions as your Midterm Essay topic. After you’ve chosen your topic from the list below, make sure you see the accompanying document that outlines the assignment requirements including word count, textual evidence, etc. No outside research is required for this essay. 1. What is, and what should be, our attitude toward the natural world, especially if nature is indifferent to human beings and often hostile to our purpose? Write an essay that addresses this question and support your position with at least three direct quotations from at least two of the texts we have read this semester. Though this question refers to nature and the natural world, you don’t have to limit your textual evidence only to the stories we read in the naturalism unit. 2. At the end of “The Blue Hotel” Crane writes, “We are all in it! This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. Every sin is the result of collaboration. We, five of us, have collaborated in the murder of this Swede” (619). What does Crane mean by “Every sin is a collaboration”? How does this work with the tenets of naturalism? How does declaration explain the action in the story? How might the collaborative nature of the Swede’s death speak to or challenge Whitman’s thesis in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”? Write an essay that interprets what “every sin is a collaboration” means in terms of the theme of “The Blue Hotel.” You should support your interpretation with at least three direct quotations from the text. These quotes should be carefully chosen to work as evidence for your thesis statements. You may also want to consider how this collaboration works to characterize the text as a naturalist text. 3. Both “Editha” and “The Real Thing” provide commentary on human perceptions of truth or reality to those of appearance, artifice, or ideals. Write an essay that compares OR contrasts the relationship between truth/reality and appearance/artifice/illusions in these two stories. You must use direct quotations as textual evidence from both stories (a minimum of three). Your thesis should be argumentative and you should do more than merely point out similarities or differences in the two texts. You may want to consider theme or what Howells and James want us to learn from these stories in order to develop your argument. 4. All of the stories we have read this semester (and Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”) have reflected the literary movement of its particular time period as well as the changes the United States was experiencing. For the purposes of the course, they have been defined has realist or naturalist texts. However, all of these texts have other themes or messages that extend beyond those characteristics. Write an essay that examines a secondary theme in any of the texts we have read this semester. You must use at least three direct quotations as textual evidence. You may choose to compare or contrast two or more texts. You may also consider things like gender, class, historical concerns, or democratic principles that present themselves in the text(s).
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Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
Introduction
This is one of the historic and iconic poems that were written by Whitman, the time many
New Yorkers who worked in Manhattan commuted back to Brooklyn by use of ferryboats. In the
poem Whitman uses this metaphorical statement of the crisscrossing journey to imply the human
journey of soul. Being a journalist, Whitman contributed a lot in the Daily Edge and Brooklyn
Freeman newspapers. This poem was written long time ago before actual emergence of the
American Civil War; which was of detrimental repercussions to the people of the United States
of America. This war caused a lot of rivalry among the America people; driven by a number of
causes. Thesis statement: the poet is trying to make connections of his people, fellow passengers
and to the large extend everyone in the United States of America and the world at ...


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