Instructions: Write a comparison essay on TWO of the texts we have read this sem

Instructions: Write a comparison essay on TWO of the texts we have read this semester (excluding Spider the Artist).
Read the topics offered below and write a well-structured and well-argued, point-by point comparison essay on your selected texts.
No secondary sources are required. You may paraphrase the lecture slides, but the purpose of this assignment is to analyze the texts in comparison to each other. You will have an abundance of material to work with, including textual evidence from each text and your assessment of the rhetorical/literary devices employed by each text. You may use the ideas/information in the slides; however, any direct quotations require citation.
Your essay should be approx. 1000 words, double-spaced, in a 12-point font, and follow APA or MLA style guidelines.
Your essay should have the structure and tone of a formal essay. Avoid colloquial language as much as possible.
Your essay should have a clearly stated comparison thesis and engage critically with your primary texts. Each paragraph in your essay should have clear topic sentences (and concluding sentences) and advance your argument in a unified, logical manner.
Support your arguments with effective evidence from the text, including quotations. Quotations must be referenced in in-text citations.
The essay should be written in clear sentences; it should be proofread and edited for structure and grammar.
Your Final Essay Should Contain:
A title
A clear thesis statement that follows the guidelines of a point-by-point, five-paragraph comparison essay that includes 3 clear assertions about the texts.
Well-introduced and integrated quotations from your primary text – with parenthetical citations for direct quotations.
A well-balanced discussion that gives equal attention to each of your selected texts
Unified body paragraphs
A concluding paragraph that summarizes your arguments
Clear sentences – your essay should be proofread and edited to catch errors (grammar, word choice, and spelling).
Topics
1. Each of the fictional stories we have read is set in a distinctive setting – whether it is futuristic /fantastical or realistic. Examine the ways that aspects of the setting contribute to the theme[s] of two stories on our course (see the definition of setting in our handout).
2. Frequently, authors (of fiction and non-fiction alike) aim to challenge the prejudices or assumptions of their readers – to change readers’ perceptions of important socio-cultural issues. Explore how two course texts attempt to dislodge/undermine the prejudices of their readers. (What literary/rhetorical techniques are employed?)
3. Self-discovery or self-understanding – often through epiphany (a sudden, striking realization) – is a theme that runs through many of the texts we have studied in this course. An up-close view of the human thought-process is also a very persuasive rhetorical choice for a writer to make. Compare how two texts represent self-reflection and revelation.
Choose 2 articles to compare:
Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Films”
Excerpts from George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” (1945)
George Orwell’s “A Hanging” (1931)
Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making us Stupid?”
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury (From The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 3rd Edition, Edited by R.V. Cassill, New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. 98-109)
David Ruskoff’s “How tech’s richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse”
Chris Rock’s “It’s a white industry. It just is” (2014)
John Stuart Mill’s “On the Subjection of Women” (excerpt)
Roxane Gay’s “The Price of Black Ambition” (2004)
Amnesty International: “UN Human Rights Report shows that Canada is failing Indiginous Peoples” (2015)
Thomas King’s “A Short History of Indians in Canada”(1999)
Excerpt from Thomas King’s “The Inconvenient Indian”: “Dead Indians: Too Heavy to Lift”; (2012)
Alicia Elliott’s “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” (2016)
Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” (Ted Talk)
Salman Rushdie’s “Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies”
Huggans’s “Celia Behind Me”
James Baldwin “The Creative Process” (1962)