Section 2: Short Essay (30 points). For section 2 of your Final Exam, please write a 3-4 page(s) short essay. The short essay must be written in MLA style. It must consist of an introduction with a thesis, multiple fully developed body paragraphs, and a conclusion. When quoting, please provide the source from where you attained the quote. Also, please attach a works cited page to your short essay at the end, even for the textbook we are using. If students have not purchased “Rules of Thumb”, they can visit “Owl Purdue MLA” to see how to use MLA writing style. Also, outside or secondary sources are not required, but they can be used to write the Final Exam short essay. If students need help with writing and organizing their essay, they can read Harvard College Writing Center’s “A Brief Guide to Writing A College Paper” which is online: writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/files/hwp/files/bg_writing_english.pdf. It can be accessed by going to this url address. The topic for the Final Exam essay should not be the same topic as the Midterm Exam Essay or the Final Term Paper.

Topic(s) for the short essay: For section 2 of the Final Exam, students have free range to write about any of the readings that we have covered in this class this semester. Students are to examine and analyze the similarities as well as the differences between two or more texts that they choose to write about. Students will be able to show what they have learned from the class this semester. Some of the issues that have been covered in the readings this semester includes slavery, segregation, Jim Crow Laws, racial discrimination, voting rights, poverty, sexism, access to equal education, mass incarceration, lack of access to equal health care, unethical medical practices in prison, White mob violence of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, etc. Some suggestions for brainstorming ideas are as follows: Students can compare, and contrast different poems, like for instance, Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” to examine and analyze the differences, or similarities between the two poems. Students can look at similar readings they feel mirror each other to discuss how they speak to the same realities African Americans had to endure and overcome in their’ plight for freedom, justice, and equality. For example, some authors detested slavery and racial injustice in their writings like in Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson, and Richard Allen’s “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice”. As another idea, students could compare and analyze the aesthetics in Phillis Wheatley’s poems “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State of North-America, & c.”, and Frances E.W. Harper’s poems, “The Slave Auction”, “The Slave Mother”, and “Bury Me in a Free Land”. In general, students can also look at how the various readings we have covered helped them to better understand history, society, politics, or any other aspects of life. There are no parameters, boundaries or restrictions in terms of creative freedom when writing the short essay for the second section of the Final Exam.

Some questions for students to consider when they are writing out essays:

How are the authors using language in the texts? How do the authors use language to communicate certain ideas to the reader? What words jump out at you from the texts? Why? What type of atmosphere do the authors create in these texts? What stands out to you in these pieces of writing? Who is the intended audience in both texts? Where is the setting in these stories or writings? Describe something that stands out to you in the settings between the two stories or writings? Where do you think these events are taking place? What are some of the points that the authors raise in their stories or pieces of writing? Why are these writings important to understanding the Black experience? What do we learn about history and society from reading these texts? Do we learn anything new or important about African American people and their’ culture from these texts? What do you think was the authors’ purpose for writing these stories? What do the authors want us to learn or take away from their stories? What are the authors’ purpose in writing these texts? What specifically are the authors trying to communicate to the audience through their writings? What do the authors want their’ audiences to take away from their stories or pieces of writing? How do these stories or pieces of writing help us to address deeper societal issues like racial discrimination, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, gentrification, income inequality, mass incarceration, unethical medical practices in prison, poverty, voting rights, access to equal education, lack of equal access to health care, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Black on Black violence, and the police shootings of countless African Americans in the present day? Do the authors provide any solutions to these deeper societal issues in their writings? If you feel the authors failed this objective, do you have any solutions to these deeper societal issues? In final, how do these writings help us to learn more about the human experience?

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