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Essay Instructions: English 2070 Documented Argumentative Essay


Listed below are the requirements for your term paper. Any deviation from the requirements listed below may seriously compromise your grade. In order to successfully complete this assignment your essay should:

? be exactly 10 pages long
? be documented and formatted according to the MLA style manual
? include a clear, complete, and well formed thesis statement
? include ample textual evidence to support your argument
? include at least 7 secondary sources, exclusive of web pages and other Internet sources
? be word processed, with double spacing, 1" margins, and 12pt. Times New Roman font
? include an informative title
? be cohesive and well organized
? demonstrate the significance of your thesis
? be based on one of the texts included in your syllabus

I will not accept biographical sketches, plot summaries or book reports of the type you may have written in high school. Please refer to the course syllabus for other policies and requirements.

I strongly encourage you to consult with me regularly as you develop your topic and revise your paper. Good Luck.

The essay is an argumentative essay. I would like for it to be on Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

Here are some links to notes on this greek drama.

Aristophanes / ?Lysistrata?

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc13.htm

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aristophanes001.html

http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/lysistra.htm

Essay Instructions: Drama essay:
The plays that we have looked at so far this semester, A Raisin in the Sun,Lysistrata, and Odeipus Rex share many similarities and differences. Though they fall into different categories, from Families and Children to Faith and Doubt, we can look at how the playwrights, for example, handle such common literary convections as characterization, dramatic structure, setting and symbolism. Everyday issues are another common theme that these plays share.
For your final paper I am more concerned that you address issues (societal, racial, gender, political, psychological, anthropological, etc.) that the plays raise. Select one or more issues that were relevant during the time the play was written and are still relevant today. The issue or (issues) that you choose to write about must have a related thread through the three plays. (A Raisin in the Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry. Lysistrata is written by Aristophanes. Oedipus Rex is written by Sophocles) For example, one could observe the protagonist/hero in each play and write a paper telling how important it is for society to have heroes and how these plays, through their heroes, develop that point. There are many possibilities.
*Two sources from internet and one source from book. (MLA Format)
*Be sure to offer plenty of information to support your thesis.

Essay Instructions: Discuss the treatment of was in Lysistrata. How does Aristophanes' attitude towards waar differ form that of Herodotus or Thucydides?

This esssay should concentrate on its topic religiously: Be sure that you have a thesis and that you prove your thesis in as many paragraphs as you need. Your thesis should probably be stated quite explicitly in your introduction, which should aslo state the major points which will prove the thesis. The conclusion must clearly conclude, not just repeat the indtroduction. What is the importance of all this and how is it significant?

Please not this is for a Honors class and can not be your normal run-of-the-mill essay. I'd like for Writtergurl (sp?) do do this essay if possible because I've heard she does a great job. :o)

Essay Instructions: The paper tries to examine how to utilize gender and sexuality to raise social awareness of the damage of the fatal war and its inevitable subsequent corruption in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Using war as an analogy this paper also tries to analyze women’s psyche as being different than men.


The paper tries to examine how to utilize (or how the playwright policies) gender and sexuality to raise social awareness of the damage of the fatal war and its inevitable subsequent corruption in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Using war as an analogy this paper also tries to analyze women’s psyche as being different than men.

The paper may be divided into sections where the following points are heeded:

1- Introduction:

Gender and Sexuality:
A- Definition and Mechanism
B- Theory and Practice (overview)

2- Gender and Sexuality in Lysistrata.
3- Conclusion.

A and B might be incorporated or rephrased as might be seen necessary. But based on the assumption that the readers have no knowledge of Gender and Sexuality, definitions of the two terms are imperative and how these terms are constituted by social norms, how do they function and so on. The greater part of the paper should be dedicated to the body (Gender and Sexuality in Lysistrata). You are free to re-plan the sections according to the purpose and title of the paper. Relevancy and consistency are of vital weight.

And writers like Simone de Beauvoir to be considered as well as the following books:

1- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
2- Sexual Politics by Kate Millett