The Souls of Black Folk
Andrew Carnegie—“Wealth”
Due Date: Oct. 30 at 11:30 PM
• Discuss the critical thinking question in 50 words: “Would I want to alleviate immediate suffering and hunger in my own time or use my wealth to provide cultural, educational, and other opportunities to benefit humanity for a long time into the future?”
• In order to receive credit, use specific material (characters, setting, events) and date from the Carnegie excerpt to guide your personal response. A quote is not required; however, if you use a quote, do not just give a quote without explanation of the context. • Use no outside sources.
W. E. B. DuBois—”The Souls of Black Folks”
Due Date: Oct. 30 at 11:30 p.m.
• Discuss the critical thinking question in 50 words: “Can I understand DuBois wanting full citizenship as a member of the generation who never knew slavery instead of being satisfied with less than full rights as citizens the way Booker T. Washington, who had been born a slave, advocated?”
• In order to receive credit, use specific material (characters, setting, events) and date from the DuBois excerpt to guide your personal response. A quote is not required; however, if you use a quote, do not just give a quote without explanation of the context.
• Use no outside sources.
*Identification–The Naturalistic Trend
Due Date: Oct. 30 at 11:30 p.m. evening
• Use ONLY the material posted on ENG 252 Content / Unit I /Background Study Notes / Realistic Trend and the Naturalistic Trend / Seven Characteristics of Naturalism ONLY
• Use correct. standard English.
• Submit a minimum of 75 words written in sentences in paragraph form with no listing to identify American Naturalism only. Give the seven characteristics of Naturalism only. Do not include any material that is not on the posted notes. Use no outside sources. (Do not discuss American Realism in this assignment.)
The skill you are using is to take information in one format (list) and to present it in another format (sentences to form one paragraph).
The seven characteristics of naturalism are: General characteristics of naturalism, as seen in Thrall, Hibbard and Holman’s A Handbook to Literature, include the following: 1. Biological determinism with emphasis on animal nature of human beings, particularly heredity, and portraying them as animals in a struggle for survival. 2. Socio-economic determinism with human beings seen as victims of environmental forces and products of social and economic factors beyond their control or full understanding. 3. Naturalistic attempt to be objective, even documentary. 4. Amoral in view, neither condemning nor praising humanity. 5. Pessimistic in view of human capabilities—life is a vicious trap, a cruel game. 6. Frank and direct in portrayal of human beings as animals driven by fundamental urges—fear, hunger, sex. 7. Frequently choosing primitive characters and simple, violent actions. As the twentieth century
Stephen Crane—“The Open Boat” PRQ #5
Due Date—Oct. 30 at 11:30 p.m.
• With critical thinking, look at the heading of this assignment and use the named personal response question (PRQ) to discuss the question in 50 words. Do I see nature as neutral toward humanity?
• In order to receive credit, use specific material (characters, setting, events) from the named literary work to guide your personal response. A quote is not required; however, if you use a quote, do not just give a quote without explanation of the context.
• Deductions will be made for grammar errors and misspelled words.
• Use NO OUTSIDE sources; use only your opinion and specifics from your reading of the literature.
