Take home exam and Turnitin.com

On Wednesday, the exam is due. Please make sure you type and double space it for me. Beyond that, you will need to upload your paper to Turnitin.com.

To do this, you will need to go to turnitin.com's website. If you have never used the site, you will need to create a student account (It is free. You'll need an email account). After you create an account, you will need to join our class.

Here is the information you need:

Class ID number: 2182559
password: hammett

The class you are joining should be: spring2008english272

The process is simple. Read the directions and follow them. Once your account is created, you should be able to upload your paper. The assignment is listed in the class area. It should be a piece of cake. Let me know if you have problems.

Homework for Wednesday: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Mallarme.

Homework for 3/5

Homework:

Read Candide. It is long but you WILL like it. Answer the following:

Starter Question for Candide

Candide is a black comedy with a biting point about the world we live in. Voltaire uses hyperbole—the overstating or exaggeration of events and speech to make his philosophic point.

Examine a character or a specific scene to show how the grisly, cruel and anything-but-perfect world we live in is exposed through Voltaire’s outrageous use of hyperbole. Consider the pain, torture, multiple miseries and deaths characters experience. Examine the language used. The entire work seems to exaggerate nearly everything.

Your examination should be 1 to 1 ½ pages in length. Please double space and type as usual.

Homework for 2/27

Read Racine's Phaedra and Swift's "Modest Proposal."

Do the following Starter Paper:

Phaedra Starter Question

Racine’s Phaedra explores passion (emotion or irrationality) and logic (reason) in a very different way from Moliere’s Tartuffe. Its tragic approach leaves us with burning questions and troubling statements. Consider one of these ideas in a one page response:

Passion’s boundaries. What does the play say about the limits of passion?

Rationality. How effective is rationality in decision making?

Father and Son relationship. How do the achievements of a father weigh on a son?

Step Families. What does the play imply about step family structure?

Royalty and governmental power. How is power controlled in a monarchy?

Make sure you select only one theme. Double space and type your paper.