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Final Essay Assignment -
The topic for our final essay is as follows: Choose three essays (or two essays and one video) that we studied in this course. Analyze how these three pieces change the narratives about human liberty and human potential. Be sure to analyze each work in detail, giving full consideration to rhetoric (devices, Appeals, patterns), themes, motifs, and implications. Be sure to also compare and contrast the three pieces you choose. Explain which of the three pieces uses the most effective devices, with the deepest implications.
Your essay should be at least 750 words, double-spaced, indented, 12pt Times New Roman, using both short quotes and block quotes using proper citation methods.
Possible texts:
bell hooks, "Understanding Patriarchy'
Sherman Alexie. "Superman and Me"
Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Left-handed Commencement Address"
David Foster Wallace. This is Water"
MLK. "I have a dream' (as text or video)
Chimamanda Adichie. " Commencement Address for American University College of Arts & Sciences" (video)
Bjork, "All is Full of Love" (video)
Janelle Monae, "Screwed" (video)
Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to be Colored Me".