...Introduction How to Write a Compare-and-Contrast Essay in 8 Easy Steps A compare-and-contrast essay might seem like the easiest type of paper to write: just find things that are alike and then find things that are different. Piece of cake, right? There’s a catch, however. It is up to you to argue why those similarities and differences matter; otherwise, you don’t have much of a paper. The following steps will guide you through the process of writing an effective compare-and-contrast essay that actually has something valuable to say. 1) So they’re alike and they’re different. So what? A good paper will not simply offer a summary of themes, characters, or plot. Your job is to think about how these comparisons and contrasts create meaningful connections to a larger issue. 2) Create an effective thesis statement. Again, you need to say why the comparison and contrast is worthy of note. Let’s say you want to compare and contrast the heroines of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Your thesis might be this: “Although Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre are very different on the outside, their shared internal values connects them in literary history and in the fight for women’s rights.” Now you have a reason for your efforts and a compelling case for your audience’s attention. 3) Select a pattern. There are two ways you can write a compare-and-contrast paper. You can present your arguments in a "tandem" pattern or an "alternating" pattern. Tandem. Separate your pros and cons...
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... 1. Decide on one of the two books assigned by your teacher. | | 2. Divide your book into three parts. Use one week to read each part. | | 3. Write reading logs as you read your book. There are three of them on the next page, one for each part of your book (beginning, middle, end) | | 4. Create an outline for your essay by using the template below. | | 5. Write your first draft. Follow the instructions closely, Blueprint B, pp. 234-239 | | 6. Do the ”Checkpoints for Revising” on page 239, Blueprint B. | | 7. Receive peer response from a classmate or two. Use the “Peer Response Sheet” and the ”Rubric” below. | | 8. Reflect on your progress so far and ask yourself; “How can I improve this text?” Make notes in your “Self Assessment Sheet” below. | | 9. Improve your text! Turn it into a final draft – 700-1200 words. Remember to use the ”Kulturama Manual of Style". | | 10. Complete the ”Self Assessment Sheet", the ”Source Evaluation Sheet" and fill in your ”Rubric". | | 11. Export this file as ZIP and upload in Schoolsoft. | Reading Logs | Log1Explain how the novel begins in order to get a clear idea what the novel is about. Does your protagonist follow any of Campbell’s first 5 steps? | Campbell’s first steps-Call to adventure: When Elizabeth intends to visit Charlotte and Mr. Collins...
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...to engage in appearance discrimination to indulge their own prejudices. Q3. What forms of discrimination do unattractive people face? A3. Unattractive people are less likely to be hired and promoted. They also earn lower salaries, even in fields in which looks have nothing to do with the professional duties. Q4. Why do people object to banning discrimination based on appearance? How does Rhode address these objections. A4. Banning discrimination based on appearance because of people who are diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed where exposing themselves in public. Rhode address these objections if they expose themselves in public view, under the penalty of a fine of a dollar for each offense. Q5. According to Rhode, how effective are laws that prohibit appearance discrimination? What positive effects might they have? A5. The laws are unevenly enforced; they have had a positive effect by publicizing and remedying the worst abuses. Purpose and Audience Q1. Does Rhode assume that her readers are aware of the problem she discusses? How can you tell. A1. Yes, because she say, We all know that appearance matters but the pride of prejudice can rejected for a job. Q2. What preconceived attitude about appearance Does Rhode assume her readers have? A2. The attitude about appearance Rhode assume her readers have about the essay is negative because when researcher ask people to evaluate written essays the same material receive lower rating. Q3. Where does Rhodes...
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...to engage in appearance discrimination to indulge their own prejudices. Q3. What forms of discrimination do unattractive people face? A3. Unattractive people are less likely to be hired and promoted. They also earn lower salaries, even in fields in which looks have nothing to do with the professional duties. Q4. Why do people object to banning discrimination based on appearance? How does Rhode address these objections. A4. Banning discrimination based on appearance because of people who are diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed where exposing themselves in public. Rhode address these objections if they expose themselves in public view, under the penalty of a fine of a dollar for each offense. Q5. According to Rhode, how effective are laws that prohibit appearance discrimination? What positive effects might they have? A5. The laws are unevenly enforced; they have had a positive effect by publicizing and remedying the worst abuses. Purpose and Audience Q1. Does Rhode assume that her readers are aware of the problem she discusses? How can you tell. A1. Yes, because she say, We all know that appearance matters but the pride of prejudice can rejected for a job. Q2. What preconceived attitude about appearance Does Rhode assume her readers have? A2. The attitude about appearance Rhode assume her readers have about the essay is negative because when researcher ask people to evaluate written essays the same material receive lower rating. Q3. Where does Rhodes...
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...PRIDE AND PREJUDICE TOPICS FOR WRITING There are a lot of themes in this novel; however, this time I'd like you to focus on Love only. Please write an essay of about two pages on the what you learn from the novel in terms of love. I think it's better to do it in individuals. Suggested topics: 1. Love and Marriage: - Darcy & Elizabeth: pride, prejudice, dissimilarity, long understanding, passion, nobility - Jane Bennet & Bingley: innocence, purity, similarity, caution, timidity - Lydia & Wickham: sensuality, superficiality, vivacity - Mr & Mrs Bennet: disimilarity, indifference, insensibility - Collins & Charlotte: economic-based, security - The Gardiners: compatibility, support 2. Love and Courtship: - Darcy & Elizabeth - Jane & Bingley - Collins to Elizabeth then Charlotte - Miss Bingley to Darcy - Wickham to Elizabeth then Miss King then Lydia 3. Love and Money 4. Rules of love and courtship 5. Factors to a successful courtship/love affair/marriage 6. Features of love (eg. passionate-Darcy&Elizabeth, innocent-Jane&Bingley, crazy-Lydia&Wickham, practical-Collins&Charlotte etc.) 7. Important quotes about love - "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently...
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...images of women across genres can be varied as the authors themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft is the radical feminist who contributed to those debates and typically revolted against the social condition of women. In her work of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she believed in a push for growth in women and was disturbed by the lack of education. For most romantic feminists, their literary works focused on both the source of women’s inequality and its potential solution. The feminist novels in romantic era raised concerns about the ability of women to reject silence and express themselves. A feminist view from William Blake pointed out that female liberation some kind can make men free from the relationships based on power. Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein questioned prescribed social roles of women and illustrated the female oppression, and she reveals women as captive servants in the household. Similar with Shelley, Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice creates strong, spirited, independent, free-thinking female characters. Austen’s novels certainly laid out the groundwork for feminism, and her portrayal of the female reveals the social...
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..."Jane Austen: Irony and Authority" Critic: Rachel M. Brownstein Source: Women's Studies 15, nos. 1-3 (1988): 57-70. Criticism about: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775-1817) Nationality: British; English [(essay date 1988) _In the following essay, Brownstein focuses on several of Austen's novels, including Pride and Prejudice, to support her argument that Austen uses irony to convey a "discursive authority" from which women can derive pleasure in a patriarchal society.] It is a truth universally acknowledged, right now, that language is involved in giving and taking both power and pleasure. Whether we begin by asking if the pen is a substitute for the penis, or think about why we read stories of love and adventure, or consider, from any point of view, pornography or psychoanalysis, we end by analyzing ways people please themselves and assert authority over others by using words. (To observe that critics writing about pleasure and power have managed to get what measure of the good stuff they can is to state the merely inevitable.) Claiming that women writers are powerful--i.e. effective and influential--has been a focus of feminist critics concerned to dispute the canon, to rehabilitate forgotten writers, and to revise women's relation to the languages of power. That Jane Austen, unforgotten, canonized, and stunningly authoritative, has been a problem for feminists is not surprising: in the struggle for power between politically radical and conservative critics...
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...I found Susan Fraiman's critical essay, "The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennett," particularly illuminating and a very satisfying read. Something about Elizabeth's character struck me as inauthentic the moment she read Mr. Darcy's letter. Perhaps, it was my own desire to see her not be a submissive and passive character in her own narrative, but rather to hold on to her own convictions and, if anything, approach Mr. Darcy on the same level. Moreover, she does not have to own that she has been "prejudice," as Fraiman astutely observes, but rather Elizabeth could have owned that their was certainly more to Mr. Darcy's narrative, but that he has some fault - particularly in regards to his own pride - that goes without turning a blind eye to or brushing...
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...In this essay will discuss several issues cover in this course, that have helped change and reinforce my ideas for social change. Prejudices and Stereotypes against Mexican Americans and its impact; the color gradient system in America and other societies and the class system around the world and its impact. Finally, the civil rights movement and the impact all of society. Understanding the stereotypes and prejudices against Mexican American people has helped change my stance on many issues including immigration. Mexican-Americans have faced stereotype and prejudices which has leads to unfair treatment and judgment against an entire race of people. The stereotype that all Mexican Americans speak Spanish effectively associates...
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...1) The “Disney Princess Effect” is about young women whom feel the need to fit in a mold where society has placed value and importance. The reasoning is the effect that can occur in children whom consume this kind of behavior. Other cultural related trends that this can be related to are women wearing “hijabs”. Although this cultural trend doesn’t sexually objectify women it does place an importance on identity. Moreover, I believe media marketers are partly responsible for the increasing sexualization of little girls. They are partly responsible for propagating images and advertisements to the youth. On the other hand, I also believe parents are also responsible for dictating what their children are exploited to. 2) Personally, I think the...
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...may tell you that we're worse than we've ever been, albeit for some of the same reasons stated above, or for reasons such as governmental corruption, theft of data, and countless hackings into our private accounts. But I think regardless of what you think of the current condition, there are a few things we need to think about before we go about trying to better our world. Human Pride. Pride is a word that has so many connotations to it. One can be proud of an art project they created, then, after selling said item, they become wealthy, gaining renown and respect across the art crowd, the person can then take that renown as tangible and physical proof of their superiority over their fellow artists, valuing only the renown gained and forgetting what made them create in the first place. We've seen this time and time again, whether it be Orson Welles' higher than thou attitude after gaining popularity, or John Lennon's "Bigger than Jesus" quote. Pride changes people, and, in my belief, for the worse. Obviously people are still people, we all make mistakes and sadly some of us decide to only see the good side of ourselves and fearing to see whats wrong is wrong. Pride is the biggest perpetrator of broken promises and war that...
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...Sept 3, 2014 The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a play written by Shakespeare, the most influential writer in history. The Merchant of Venice is about a variety of relationships: “Father-daughter; husband-wife; male friends; female friends; money lender-borrower; and Christian-Jew.” The relationship explored in this essay is the father-daughter relationship of Shylock and Jessica. Shylock is a Jewish moneylender in Venice, and he is so immersed in the business that he neglects his daughter Jessica. Shylock despises Christians, because of the mistreatment he suffered at their hands, and he encourages Jessica to do the same. Jessica is very different from her father. She is in love with Lorenzo, a young Christian boy, who her father disapproves of. The relationship between shylock and Jessica is very dysfunctional. Example is when Jessica is talking with Launcelot and she says “I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so; our house is hell, thou a merry devil” (p.30). Jessica detests her home life and wants to leave it behind. She also states “Alack, what a heinous sin is it in me to be ashamed to be my father’s child...I shall end this strife, become a Christian, and thy loving wife” (p.31). Jessica is confined to her father’s wants and wishes, but she is very unhappy. Therefore, when a chance of freedom came she took it. Jessica chooses to elope with Lorenzo, the one she is in love with and convert to Christianity. Shylock was a bad father. For instance, he says...
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...why are the women so controlling and want to wear the trousers in the relationship? Well in the four stories, Macbeth, My Last Duchess, Pride & Prejudice, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you will learn how all four of these stories are related to today’s time relationships compared back in the medieval or renaissance romans era. In this essay I will discuss and point out key terms about today’s current relationships and what they lack in order to have a strong stable relationship versus back in the old ages where it was more related to today’s, but more complicated and dishonored. My goal in this research paper is to explain how destructive love affects the relationships in Macbeth, My Last Duchesses’ and Pride and Prejudice. Who wears the pants in the relationship? In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth wore the pants in the relationship. In the...
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...TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 1. The passage is taken from Volume II, chapter xx of the novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. The bildungsroman begins to focus on the turning point in Jane’s maturity. She will have to make moral decisions and the passage relates her inner forebodings. The novel cannot be truly characterized as gothic however; this chapter appears to have a very gothic tone. This can be seen in the ghostly vision and weather which exhibit supernatural tones, the damaged chestnut tree, and Jane’s restlessness for no apparent reason which she describes as “hypochondriac”. Other gothic elements include Jane’s sense of terror at seeing a vision, wearing and ultimately ruining her wedding veil, the weather, and the symbolic imagery of the Chestnut tree. The passage also represents a significant issue in regards to the morale personae of Mr. Rochester. His untruth at leading Jane to the door of marriage knowing he had an insane wife, whom he could not divorce. One may suppose he should not have offered marriage to Jane. Jane would have to make a moral decision in spite of her deep love for Mr. Rochester and make choices which will affect her life from this time forward on societal and inner morality. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 2. The passage is taken from the novel Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot, page 68. The passage refers to the narrator speaking of Mr. Riley a “gentleman” who was a very educated auctioneer and appraiser. The passage can be analyzed on different perspectives:...
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...women in society? In both novels society is presented as an underlying constraint on both of the protagonists lives. Beth Hanson wrote, “A woman can move only downwards” and that “feminine compliance, through the surrender of self is death of a different sort, for to be selfless is not only to be noble, it is to be dead”. This outlook on societal pressures ultimately leads to Tess’ demise in ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ as she falls from the ideal image of a women in the Victorian era and her “selfless” acts does in fact end in her death. Hardy presents ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ as a bildungsroman where we see Tess’ life unfold from innocence to regret and follow her as she is metaphorically ‘kicked’ down the social ladder. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Lizzie, the female protagonist, is represented as a strong and defying character by Austen. However despite her lack of care for societal pressures she and her sisters are chained down and ultimately need a man, the “governing sex” to set them free. Both Hardy and Austen use societal context to shape the female protagonists lives and show the patriarchal influence on women in the Victorian period. In the first phase of the novel, “The Maiden” and the first phase of Tess’ life she is presented as a “girl” naïve and unaware. Hardy separates the novel into sections to represent Tess’ development and also to foreshadow the later events that will change her life. The term “maiden” in a traditional sense simply means virgin symbolising...
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