help with disc (4) and assgn due in 5 days

novel midterm 

Write a minimum of eight sentences (which must  include a cited and introduced quote). You do not have to submit a works cited page with the midterm.

1. Janie had spent time under a  pear tree in the backyard.” How does she describe this experience? Any ideas what  this might symbolize?

2.  What does her idea of marriage before she was married herself tell the reader about her?

3. What did she learn from each relationship and how did it change her?

4. How does she use her power?

5.  After finishing the novel, what is  Zora Neale Hurston saying through her novel about "true love"

Week 9 Discussion

Answer BOTH questions in fully developed paragraphs.  Use a quotation from the text to prove your point. 1) Go back to the Terminology Power Point and look up the definition of "Intersectionality."  How might you apply that principle to Sojourner Truth's, "Ain't I a Woman?" https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp 2) In "The Destructive Male," what does Elizabeth Cady Stanton think is the nature of men?  What is the nature of women?  Is this essentialism? https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/the-destructive-male-1868/

Edna St. Vincent Millay Discussion

Answer both of the following questions in well-developed paragraphs, using a line or two from the texts to prove your point.  As always, bonus points may be given for commenting thoughtfully on the posts of your classmates. 1) "Spring" is very much a poem about Millay's depression.  What is unusual or striking to you about the way she describes/personifies depression?

2) "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" shows a very different view of women's sexuality and relationships with men than what we have previously seen.  Contrast this view with how women were viewed or expected to behave in  Pride and Prejudice or some other writer from the previous modules.

Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems

Read  "Spring"  (Links to an external site.)  here. https://poets.org/poem/spring-0

Read  "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"  (Links to an external site.)  here. https://poets.org/poem/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-and-where-and-why-sonnet-xliii

Dorothy Parker Discussion

Choose  ONE of the following questions to answer in a fully-developed paragraph.  Use a line or two from the text to support your ideas.  As always, bonus points may be given to students who comment thoughtfully on the posts of their classmates.

1) Dorothy Parker is known for her sharp wit and biting sense of humor.  Discuss one or both of the poems and how Parker uses humor to address the serious issues of how men and women relate to each other.

2) Look up "Empowerment."  How does Dorothy Parker empower herself in her relationships with men?  How does this contrast with past depictions of women/relationships that we've seen so far?

Dorothy Parker Poems

Read  "A Certain Lady"  (Links to an external site.)  here. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-certain-lady/

Read  "Men"  (Links to an external site.)  here. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/men-2/

A Jury of Her Peers Discussion

Please choose ONE question below to answer in a well thought out paragraph, including a passage from the story to support your point.  As always, bonus points may be awarded to students who comment thoughtfully on the posts of their classmates. 1) Think of your typical detective story like Sherlock Holmes for example.  How does Trifles take the tropes or rules of detective stories and subvert them?

2) Choose three items in the story that you see as symbolic and describe in detail what they might symbolize.