Midterm Essay Exam Select only one (1) of the following essay topics to complete

Midterm Essay Exam
Select only one (1) of the following essay topics to complete: Question #1 or Question #2. Your essay should not be less than 500 words. However, there is no maximum word count. However, your essay must be at least 500 words for full points. Please give word count at the end of the essay. Be sure to include at least 3 citations and a Works Cited page. Follow example #29 “One Selection From an Anthology or a Collection” on page 184 of A Writer’s Reference.
Note: Your essay and works cited page entries must only come from the following articles in this module.
“Authority”/ Essay topics over Authority and Monsters
Read the following article link:
“The Milgrim Experiment” by Saul McLeod
Read the following selection from Monsters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader (e-textbook) found under Getting Started-Click Here to View: E-Textbook in your NSOnline course shell
“Monsters and the Moral Imagination” by Stephen T. Asma pages 59-65
Question #1: “The Milgrim Experiment” by McLeod
Question #2: “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” by Stephen T. Asma
There are no outside sources for this essay. Using outside sources will result in loss of points. Remember, this essay is over explanatory synthesis of the required materials.
Stay away from using first person pronouns (I, my). Stay away from second person pronouns (you) too. Instead, you will want to express your essay without saying phrases like:
“In my opinion”
“I think”
“I feel”
“When thinking about this topic, I”
Question #1:
Use information from “The Milgram Experiment” (linked above) in an explanatory synthesis.
The Milgram experiment has been conducted many times, and researchers have come to certain conclusions about why “ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.” Using this statement as a principle, discuss what came from these studies and suggest examples in our world today, close at home or far away, that suggest these conclusions are valid.
1.) Use explanatory synthesis to fully explain the Milgram Experiment. Remember, don’t bring in your own opinion, yet.
2.) After explaining the Milgram Experiment, discuss where this type of behavior may be found in our real world. This is an opportunity to compare the Milgram Experiment to something outside of the text. You may use any example as long as it is relevant to the same ideas presented in the Milgram Experiment.
Use at least 3 citations and include a Works Cited page that you should format following the model in your A Writer’s Reference handbook on page 176, #12 b. Web, “Basic format for an article or other short work”. You will have only one Works Cited entry. Essay should be at least 500 words.
Question #2:
Use “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” by Stephen T. Asma to answer this question.
Stephen Asma believes that “[t]he monster concept is still extremely useful, and it’s a permanent player in the moral imagination because human vulnerability is permanent. The monster is a beneficial foe, helping us to virtually represent the obstacles that real life will surely send our way. As long as there are real enemies in the world, there will be useful dramatic versions of them in our heads” (63). Using this statement as a principle, discuss the validity of it.
1.) Use explanatory synthesis to fully explain Asma’s views on how fictional monsters work in our society and the “moral imagination”.
2.) After discussing Asma’s views, give examples, from the text, that supports your explanatory synthesis of Asma’s work. In other words, give an example of how monsters help us to realize real life dangers and problems.
Head your paper appropriately. You will need at least 3 citations and a Works Cited page. You will have only one Works Cited entry. Follow #29 on page 184 in A Writer’s Reference. Note: you will need to have the term “E-Book” in your works cited entry before the name of the publisher because it is an E-book version. Length should be approximately 500 words.
After finishing the Midterm Essay Exam, please complete the Midterm Survey. Then, continue on to Module 4.