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HUMA 1021-02 Dr. Claire Senior Fall 2014

Compare/Contrast Paper

Please see the course information sheet for complete information regarding due dates, required length, policies on late papers and extensions, and so on.

The finished, stapled product should be approximately 1500 words in length and is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, November 27th. You must also submit an electronic copy of your paper to the dropbox by 1PM that day. Essays not submitted on time will lose 10% of value for each day that they are late and will not be accepted after one week. If you miss the deadline, you will have to contact me directly for instructions on how to submit your paper. Don’t miss the deadline.

For this assignment, you need to identify one of our major themes as it appears in two of our texts. Your goal is to identify whether that theme is similar or dissonant in each text. The idea is to compare and contrast the texts, but to do so with having arrived at a reasonable thesis concerning not only if the texts are similar or different, but WHY THAT SIMILARITY OR DIFFERENCE IS SIGNIFICANT. The answer to this question should be the thesis of your paper.

Some of our major themes include the following (not an exhaustive list):

Hubris

Contrapasso

Religion

Progress

Hegemony

Science

Class and economics

Gender and sexuality

Race and oppression

Society and social organization

Monism/Dualism and the mind-body split

Meaning making

You might consider approaching the planning of your paper in the following way:

Step One: Pick a theme with which you feel comfortable and which you understand well.

Step Two: Pick two texts with which you feel comfortable and which exhibit your theme well.

Step Three: Generate an outline in which you itemize in two columns how your chosen theme compares in the two texts.

Step Four: Generate a thesis and send it to your wise professor so that she can point you in the right direction (just in case your idea is very, very bad. It happens). Do not do this the night before the essay is due.

Step Five: Generate three criteria that you plan to discuss.

Step Six: Write your essay.

Step Seven: Submit your essay.

Step Eight: Enjoy a tasty beverage.

You might want to consider formatting your paper in the following way:

Introduction: Define the theme and identify the texts you plan to investigate. List the three criteria you plan to use, and finish with your thesis statement.

Body Paragraph One: Criteria one as it appears in text one (connect to thesis).

Body Paragraph Two: Criteria one as it appears in text two (connect to thesis).

Body Paragraph Three: Criteria two as it appears in text one (connect to thesis).

Body Paragraph Four: Criteria two as it appears in text two (connect to thesis).

Body Paragraph Five: Criteria three as it appears in text one (connect to thesis).

Body Paragraph Six: Criteria three as it appears in text two (connect to thesis).

Conclusion: Wrap up your ideas and restate your thesis.

This assignment is worth 25% of your final grade. That’s a lot. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Good luck!

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