Compare and contrast the use of the diary form in Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” and Ding Ling’s “Miss Sophia’s Diary.” What are some interesting differences and or similarities between the two works? Why is it an effective literary device?

Compare and contrast the use of the diary form in Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” and Ding Ling’s “Miss Sophia’s Diary.” What are some interesting differences and or similarities between the two works? Why is it an effective literary device?

Literature review on the Effect of Strain Variability on Heat Resistance of Listeria Monocytogenes

Effect of Strain Variability on Heat Resistance of Listeria Monocytogenes

1. Write a literature review about this topic( abstract, method, result ..etc) 2. design experiment( lab work) regarding this topic  3. there will be a lab work later, so expect to receive a data from me to included in the result and the conclusion.
4.Meta-analysis study will be combined with this thesis( Xls sheet files).
5. Provide updates every 3-4 days with any new out come.
6. Check the attached proposal that will help you to know more details regarding this Thesis.
7. Deadline and the order can be changed and extended depending on the lab result or any new task
8.PowerPoint presentation is required and the number of slides should be six.

Answer textbook-based short questions using Amy Tan’s ‘The Rules of the Game’, pgs. 124-129 in “We Are America” textbook.

Please answer the following textbook-based short questions.

Required references: Joy, Anna. We Are America 6th Edition ISBN: 9781413030372

Read Amy Tan’s The Rules of the Game, pgs. 124-129 in “We Are America” textbook. Answer the discussion questions, using well-developed reasoning and examples from the text to support your response.
1) Choose a few favorite scenes from “Rules of the Game.” What makes these scenes effective? (Please answer it no more than 30 words)
2) Waverly’s mother is an important force in her life. What is the dominant impression conveyed by her behavior and speech? (Please answer it no more than 50 words)
3) Locate passages that include speech or dialog between characters. Discuss why Tan might have included these passages. (Please answer it no more than 50 words)
4) In paragraph 2, Waverly’s mother advises her daughter: “‘Wise guy, he not go against wind.'” Then she quotes the Chinese proverb: “‘In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind–poom!–North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.” Examine paragraphs 1-4 carefully and decide how this advice applies to Waverly. Explain how this scene and the passage in paragraph 2 contribute to our understanding of the relationship between mother and daughter. (Please answer it no more than 50 words)
5) Reread the last exchange between Waverly and her mother at the end of paragraph 9, beginning with the sentence “One Day, as she struggled to weave a hard-toothed comb through my disobedient hair, I had a sly thought…” Write a one sentence summary of what happens next. What does this dialogue imply that is not stated directly? (Please answer it no more than 50 words)
6) Choose six unfamiliar words from the text, and use them in a sentence. (Please answer it no more than 50 words)

Read Donald Hall’s Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, pgs. 280-283 in “We Are America” textbook.
1) Answer the discussion questions on page 282-283, using well-developed reasoning and examples from the text to support your response.
, please answer each question in around 30 words).
2) Hall makes sophisticated use of metaphor and image in his essay. Interpret two of his metaphors, explaining what they mean.
The first is in paragraph six, “What matters is the clear and fine knowledge of this day as it happens now, permanently and repeatedly, on a deep layer of the personal Troy.” What is Troy, and what does it mean to have something happening there on a deep layer? (Please answer it no more than 50 words)
The second isn’t exactly a metaphor — it’s more a mind-bending image, where in paragraph 6 we suddenly soar off the planet and read: “The reality of 1929…does not matter, not to the memory of the living nor to the bones of the dead nor even to the fragmentary images of broken light from that day which wander light-years away in unrecoverable space.” How does the journey of light into the starry void have anything to do with memory? What’s the relationship, here? Explain. (Please answer it no more than 50 words)

Medieval Dance I. Introduction: Explain why you chose the work and why it appealed to you.

Medieval Dance
I. Introduction: Explain why you chose the work and why it appealed to you.

II. Cultural Context: Place the specific individual author/artist/musician/philosopher and work in a cultural historical context. Identify iconography and patronage if applicable. Include historical and biographical details if they apply to an author’s or artist’s style and work you chose. Explain how the artwork/literature/philosophy/music served an important cultural function in society. Explain in what ways the composer/author or artist’s style is unique or representative of his/her historical/cultural period. Explain the circumstances surrounding the creation or patronage of that particular work.

III. Literary Analysis or Visual Analysis or Musical Analysis: Analyze the work in terms of form or style or historical significance.

IV. Conclusion: What value or meaning does the work hold for us today? Is it

aesthetic, philosophical, historical?

Looking Connections Links and Clues Between and About Characters

Literary Analysis
Short Stories/Novel
Theme – The idea or point of a story formulated as a generalization literature, several themes are evident which reflect and define our society. The dominant ones might be innocence/experience, life/death, appearance/reality, free will/fate, madness/sanity, love/hate, society/individual, known/unknown. Character – Imaginary people created by the writer. Protagonist – Major character at the center of the story.
•    Antagonist – A character or force that opposes the protagonist.
•    Minor character – 0ften provides support and illuminates the protagonist.
•    Static character – A character who remains the same.
•    Dynamic character – A character who changes in some important way.
•    Characterization – The means by which writers reveal character.
•    Explicit Judgment – Narrator gives facts and interpretive comment.
•    Implied Judgment – Narrator gives description; reader make the judgment.
Look for: Connections, links, and clues between and about characters. Ask yourself what the function and significance of each character is. Make this determination based upon the character’s history, what the reader is told (and not told), and what other characters say about themselves and others.
Plot – The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story.