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For your research project that will be due in Week 7, you will be writing a brief researched essay that will address one aspect of your reading in this course. You must select one of the six prompts listed below. Make sure to read the prompt carefully, address its questions fully, and follow closely its stated requirements.
Your submission must be at least 1000 words in length, and it must incorporate the primary and secondary sources specified in the selected prompt. Secondary sources should be substantive critical texts discovered via the library databases (no websites, dictionaries, encyclopedias, book reviews, etc.) in addition to the critical articles specified in the prompts. Make sure that your analysis includes support from the primary texts themselves rather than simply a summary of those texts. You should use proper MLA formatting, including heading, parenthetical citations, and a works cited page. Your essay must be saved as a Word document. If it is not, it will be counted late and not accepted.
Choose one of the following options.
Read MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.” (See the attached articles below.) Analyze the assigned readings from Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, and de Crevecoeur. Each offers a promise of what America could and should be. Using King and Stanton, as well as two substantive secondary sources, write an essay that argues whether America today has met the promise of an American ideal set by Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, and de Crevecoeur. Source Requirements: 4 primary sources, 4 secondary sources (includes King and Stanton).
The writings of the Puritans and Pilgrims discuss the relationship between individuality and community, particularly the subordination of individual desires to the communal quest for the greater good. However, this quest only involved, as Richard T. Hughes argues, “themselves—white, English-speaking people from Great Britain—and that is why they took such pains to exclude all people of color within their borders.” Using Hughes’ chapter, “The Myth of the Chosen Nation: The Colonial Period” as a starting point, analyze how the assigned works of Bradford and Winthrop argue this Puritan dialectic of individualism and community, inclusion and exclusion. Explore how this Puritan thought has (or has not) fostered a heritage that continues to influence modern American thinking, politics, and culture. Source Requirements: 2 primary sources, 3 secondary sources (includes Hughes’ chapter).
Reading primary sources like Columbus’ “Letter of Columbus, Describing the Results of His First Voyage” and John Smith’s description of his meeting with Pocahontas and her role in the Jamestown colony takes many students by surprise. The mythical spaces that these icons hold in our society are very different from the actual history. Using Theda Perdue’s article, “Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South.” as a starting point, write an essay that argues the problems of (and the need for) America’s mythical past. Source Requirements: 2 primary sources, 3 secondary sources (includes Perdue’s essay)
In Claudia Stokes’s essay “Hymns by the Fireside: Religious Verse and the Rise and Fall of the Fireside Poets,” the author links these poets’ embrace of religious hymn form with their decline in scholarly esteem. In the eyes of literary critics, the adoption of religious forms aligned the Fireside Poets with proponents of “stodgy traditionalism,” a value at odds with modern perspectives. Using Stokes’s central arguments as the framework for your discussion, analyze representative selections from Bryant, Longfellow, and Whittier to determine whether or not these poets were strictly traditionalists or if they ever challenged the status quo. Source Requirements: 3 primary sources, 3 secondary sources (includes Stokes’s essay)
In her book chapter entitled “Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Politics of Literary History,” Jane Tompkins refers to Stowe’s famous novel as the “summa theologica of nineteenth-century America’s religion of domesticity, a brilliant redaction of the culture’s favorite story about itself–the story of salvation through motherly love.” “Out of the ideological materials at their disposal,” Tompkins writes, “the sentimental novelists elaborated a myth that gave women the central position of power and authority in the culture; and of these efforts Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the most dazzling exemplar.” Analyze the role played by female characters encountered in the novel’s assigned excerpts to illustrate the veracity of Tompkins’s claim. Source Requirements: 1 primary source, 3 secondary sources (includes Tompkins’s essay)
In Martin Scofield’s introductory chapter to The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, the author writes of “the idea as hero.” Scofield uses this phrase to refer to “a mode of story in which the overall idea, rather than character, plot, or ‘themes’ in the usual sense, dominates the conception of the work and gives it its unity or deliberate disunity.” Using Scofield’s definition, analyze three of the assigned short stories by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe to determine each story’s “overall idea” and whether it provides “unity or deliberate disunity.” Source Requirements: 3 primary sources, 3 secondary sources (includes Scofield’s essay) Note: Scofield’s book has individual chapters on each of the four authors listed in the prompt; it is available as an ebook through the KLIC.