Assignment —compare and contras

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In approximately three pages, respond to one of the following prompts:

Compare and contrast Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy” with Sophocles’ Antigone.

Daniel Mendelsohn’s

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unburi...

Sophocles’ Antigone.

https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/antig...

Or

Compare and contrast Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun with TaNihisi Coates’ “A Case for Reparations.”

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

http://dvdesignrstoll.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/5/0/3...

TaNihisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Remember:

1) ground your observations in careful reading of the texts,

2) organize your remarks around a debatable thesis, and

3) proofread carefully.

4) MLA format for citation

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Compare and contrast Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ with Ta-Nehisi Coates' ‘A
case for Reparations.'
Introduction
A Raising in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play concerning an African American
family whose aspiration was to overcome the apartheid and deprivation of rights happening in
Chicago, in the 1950s.The black family literally struggles to move from a low-class
neighborhood to a middle-class area amidst segregation. Despite the fact that this play was
written in this ancient era, it universally touches the desire to better one’s situations while in
disagreement with the most appropriate ways of attaining them. A Case for Reparations by TaNehisi Coates is an article describing the ways in which slavery’s legacy extended to geographic
and government policies in the United States for a ‘collective introspection’ on reparations. In
his article, Ta-Nehisi argues that reparations’ basis are on the fact African Americans in America
were taken from through slavery and oppression.

Comparison
The article ‘A Case for Reparations’ and the play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ strongly condemn
slavery against African Americans in the early 1900s. The title of the play, A Raisin in the Sun,
points out the frustrations faced by the African-American people when they could not meet their
dreams due to racial violence against them. The play basically involves a black family which

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struggled their way from a low socio-economic status and achieved the middle-class status. The
play signifies t...


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