Category: Literature

Each reply must be minimum of 250 words with at least one scholarly and biblical citation. Due July 8
Reply #1: Curtis
This week’s discussion post will be a reflection of an effective leading event. Paul writes about the power of reflection in the first book of Corinthians. “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known” (English Standard Version, 2001, 1 Corinthians 13:12). Reflection and evaluation are powerful tools that can be used to facilitate critical learning (Means & Mackenzie Davey, 2023, p. 232).
Question One, an Observed Event
Effective leaders positively influence the people within the organization to complete goals that support organizational objectives (Hughes et al., 2022, p. 31). An example of this comes to mind during a time at my current company when we experienced an issue with a product line that failed. I had just briefed my senior manager about the problem, and he took a moment to think. He directed me to form a tiger team of subject matter experts to solve the problem. Further, he ensured this was top priority by personally addressing each person who he wanted to see on the team, conveying the sense of urgency through the organization.
I felt he was effective because he properly read the situation, understood the impact to the business, supported me in what I needed, and helped with conveying the sense of urgency. He also displayed his trust in me to be able to get the job done. The result was a team that was gathered, understood the urgency, and quickly came together to work through the issue. Currently, this is still ongoing due to supplier lead times, we are still meeting regularly and working what we can.
Leadership Impact
The impact of this decision on my development was two-fold. First, it helped me to develop my relationships internally by in-networking with other parts of the business I don’t interact with all that often. This was incredibly important for building trust with co-workers, and my credibility with other leaders in our business. The second was that I learned a whole lot more about our products and can now intelligently speak about them. This adds to my credibility as a leader in a high-tech manufacturing company of the understanding I now have about how our products operate.
Question Two, Biblical Example
When I think of examples of leaders in the Bible, I think of Elijah, specifically his mentorship with Elisha. Elijah put Elisha through many tests to make sure that Elisha was aware of what he was getting himself into. Biblical scholars believe that the final test of perseverance came from when Elijah was having Elisha chase him through Bethel and Jericho (Merida, 2015, p. 186). It was through these tests that Elisha proved himself worthy enough of becoming the next prophet.
Takeaways

answer the following question:
“When looking at the Chinese Dynastic histories we read in DeBary and the account of Tokugawa Japan written by Kaempfer, how are these texts similar or different?”
Some tips:
· This is a short paper (550-800 words) – probably space for no more than a 2-4 sentence introduction, 2 (maybe 3) body paragraphs, and a 2-4 sentence conclusion
· Make sure your thesis statement is an answer to the “how” question
· Focus on your body paragraphs. Each topic sentence should prove a piece of your thesis statement, and each paragraph should provide the evidence that proves the topic sentence
· Most (if not all) papers will cite DeBARY and KAEMPFER, but feel free to bring in other ideas from other readings (be sure to cite them in footnotes or parenthetical citations with page numbers)

1.Where was Hristo Botev born?
2.Who are the parents of Hristo Botev?
3.In which year did Hristo Botev return to
Kalofer and deliver a revolutionary speech?
4.Which newspapers published Hristo Botev?
5.What is the firstpublished work of Botev?
6.What is the title of the collection of poems by
Hristo Botev and Stefan Stambolov?

See attachments. The first attachment is paper instructions. The second attachment is the two passages to write about.

Creative writing in response to literature is a way for students to respond to literature in a personal way. Creative writing provides a way for students to practice critical thinking and develop a stronger understanding of literary criticism while showing creativity and a bit of their own personalities. For this creative writing assignment, you will do a character analysis to allow you to get inside the mind of one of the characters.
“Rip Van Winkle” and “Young Goodman Brown” are told as third-person narratives, not as first-person narratives. The difference is that a third-person narrative presents the characters to us in the words of a narrator rather than from the words of the characters themselves. The story contains descriptions such as “Rip Van Winkle did this” or “Young Goodman Brown said that,” but it’s not as if the characters themselves are telling everything from their perspective. Of course, sometimes they speak in the story, but they do not get to tell the story or what they thinking or feeling. It is up to the reader to determine what the characters might be thinking or feeling.
For this assignment, choose one of the following options:
(A) Imagine you are Rip Van Winkle’s daughter, Judith, writing a journal entry after her father reappears after 20 years. Try to get into the mind of Judith. Be imaginative and creative. Pretend you are Judith and have just seen your father after he has been missing for 20 years. You will not be retelling the plot of the story; you will be Judith reflecting on the events of the day. In this journal entry you can put down whatever thoughts she might have using absolute frankness and honesty.
OR
(B) Imagine you are Young Goodman Brown writing a journal entry the day after the events described in the story. Try to get into the mind of Goodman Brown. Be imaginative and creative. Pretend you are Goodman Brown and have just experienced the events described in the story. You will not be retelling the plot of the story; you will be Goodman Brown interpreting and reflecting on the events of the day. In this journal entry you can put down whatever thoughts Goodman Brown might have using absolute frankness and honesty.

Hello, I will need a brief reflection on my LIT-229 course in the form of 2 paragraphs for discussion posts. I will provide some of the material covered.
Here is the prompt: How has your perception of myth changed throughout this course?
How do you see myths, mythic influence, or allusions to myth playing out in the world today? This can include areas of your own life, as well as politics, film, media, literature, and more.

For the discussion this week, you will discuss the steps of the research process. Specifically, you’ll be sharing how your process went as you established a topic and then completed the research for your annotated bibliography.
Who is your audience?
What was your thesis statement?
Explain how you conducted your productive online searches using academic databases in the Herzing library.
What were your Boolean operators?
How did you use limiters to yield better results?
What databases did you use?
What is CRAAP?
How did you determine if your sources were suitable using CRAAP?
As you sort through your sources, which CRAAP criteria did you use most?
Which resources proved most helpful to you as you conducted your research and compiled your annotated bibliography?
What challenges did you meet during the process, and how did you overcome them?

I want to start a radio program in connection to the youths. I don’t have a name for the program yet but I will be glad if you can help out.
Basically the idea is to talk extensively on why they should learn a skill before school, and in school because NYSC is basically a non income required means of marketing, networking and building a long last business chain if you play your cards well enough as it’s basically the last big free gathering you will get after school for free.

Please watch Kaurismaki’s film “Le Havre” linked here https://ww9.soap2day.day/le-havre-soap2day/ and please read the two attached files and please write a blog post (500-1500 words) responding to one of the following prompts (500-1500 words).
2. Address how Kaurismaki frames globalization, migration, and xenophobia in “Le Havre.”
3. Explore how Balibar’s “World Borders, Political Borders” intersects with Kaurismaki’s “Le Havre.”
4. Explore how Zizek’s “Multiculturalism, or the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism” intersects with Kaurismaki’s “Le Havre.”

For this week, you have a choice of two different prompts about Wide Sargasso Sea. The first option asks you to zoom in close to do a close reading of a passage from the perspective of the character of Rochester (although note that he remains unnamed in the book); the second to zoom out and to consider what the title reveals about larger themes and preoccupations of the novel. Choose one to answer!
Option A: For this short response, I’d like you to zoom in on the novel to do a close reading of a short selection from the text that captures Rochester’s impressions and inner thoughts as he experiences the terrain and the countryside near Granbois, in Dominica, Windward Islands, for the first time. He and Antoinette have recently been married and have traveled to Dominica for their honeymoon.
What does the passage below reveal to you about the character of Rochester? What are his reactions to the environment around him? What themes emerge or repeat in this passage? What does this short passage predict or foreshadow about the relationship between Rochester and Antoinette?
The road climbed upward. On one side the wall of green, on the other a steep drop to the ravine below. We pulled up and looked at the hills, the mountains and the blue-green sea. There was a soft warm wind blowing but I understood why the porter had called it a wild place. Not only wild but menacing. Those hills would close in on you.
“What an extreme green,” was all I could say, and thinking of Emile calling to the fisherman and the sound of his voice, I asked about him.
“They take short cuts. They will be in Granbois long before we are.”
Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near. And the woman is a stranger. Her pleading expression annoys me. I have not bought her, she has bought me, or so she thinks. I looked down at the coarse mane of the horse…. Dear Father. The thirty thousand pounds have been paid to me without question or condition. No provision made for her (that must be seen to). I have a modest competence now. I will never be a disgrace to you or to my dear brother the son you love. No begging letter, no mean requests. None of the furtive, shabby maneuvers of a younger son. I have sold my soul or you have sold it, and after all is it such a bad bargain? The girl is thought to be beautiful, she is beautiful. And yet… “ (Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 63-64.)
Option B: An effective title gets at the essentials of a story or a work of art, it grabs a reader’s attention, it is memorable, and it gives a reader new or interesting perspectives on the themes of a work. For this response, you’re going to zoom out and think about how the title gives us a way into understanding some of the larger themes running through the book.
According to the NOAA, “the Sargasso Sea is a vast patch of ocean named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum. While there are many different types of algae found floating in the ocean all around the world, the Sargasso Sea is unique in that it harbors species of sargassum that are ‘holopelagi’ – this means that the algae not only freely float around the ocean, but it reproduces vegetatively on the high seas. Other seaweeds reproduce and begin life on the floor of the ocean….
While all other seas in the world are defined at least in part by land boundaries, the Sargasso Sea is defined only by ocean currents. It lies within the Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. The Gulf Stream establishes the Sargasso Sea’s western boundary, while the Sea is further defined to the north by the North Atlantic Current, to the east by the Canary Current, and to the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. Since this area is defined by boundary currents, its borders are dynamic, correlating roughly with the Azores High-Pressure Center for any particular season.”
See this map: Wikipedia: Sargasso Sea
Historically, boats carrying enslaved people from Africa to the Caribbean (and later, on to the United States) would pass through the Sargasso Sea during the voyage. See this video, “The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes,” for a visual representation of the routes taken by these ships and of the millions of lives lost, stolen, and subjugated:

Finally, remember that Rochester and Antoinette would have had to pass through the Sargasso Sea on their journey back to England (thus it separates England from the Caribbean).
For option B, please choose one of the following to answer:
Based on the above, and on your reading of the novel, why do you think Rhys chose the title Wide Sargasso Sea? Consider the various rationales you could come up with for the author’s choice and choose one to explain in more detail.
What alternative title would you give the novel? (This title does not have to be in English.) Please translate if necessary and give a rationale for your title, using specific evidence from the novel to support your choice.
As always, please post your name and approx. 1-paragraph response to either Option A or B below.https://pdflake.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Wid…