Write an analysis of a theme in the following short story:
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing
Your thesis should reflect three points (aspects of theme) that you are going to focus on in your paper. Another approach to thematic analysis is to illustrate three methods by which an author develops a theme.
Quote liberally from the short story (citing in-text MLA style). Look up how to quote short prose passages as well as how to block longer passages of prose. Remember to introduce each quote with an independent clause (followed by a colon); the introduction to a quote provides you with an opportunity to state an opinion and make clear why the quote is significant.
You will need a works cited page (MLA format) in which you cite the short story.
You are to use only TWO sources for this paperthe short story itself AND one peer-reviewed article from a scholarly database from the my school Library Databases (such as JSTOR Academic Search Complete or ProQuest). The article should be either a critique of the short story or a discussion of themes in the works of the writer of that short story.
The link to my school library databases will be provided below inside the zip raralong with the story and should include this citation to be placed at the end
Kirschner Linda Heinlein. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen.The English Journal vol. 65 no. 1 1976 pp. 5859. www.jstor.org/stable/814700.
Quote at least twice from the peer-reviewed article in your paper.
Length: 2-3 pages (minimum) double spaced 12-point font one-inch margins
Review of the -word theme:
I. Paragraph IIntroduction
Lead-in (mention the title of the work the authors name and the date of
composition)
Provide a brief synopsis (2-3 sentences with the gist of the work)
Thesis statementlist the points to be developed in the body of the paper
II. Paragraph 2First Body Paragraph
Follow the topic sentence with supportand in a literary analysis that means
quotations quotations quotations!
III. Paragraph 3Second Body Paragraph-
Follow the topic sentence with supportand in a literary analysis that means
quotations quotations quotations!
IV. Paragraph 4Third Body Paragraph
Follow the topic sentence with supportand in a literary analysis that means
quotations quotations quotations!
V. Paragraph 5The Conclusion
Mirror the introductionrestate the thesis restate the major points without
being repetitive
End with an important thought a provocative idea a quote

Please Help!!!! Due on Feb 24 11:59pm. Please help me on a 3-4 pages English 102 essay with two sources.
As the teacher will notice that the writing format is different I need same person to work on my final research paper which is 6-8 pages with 6 sources due on April 28.
For this essay i’m willing to pay $20 & up as it’s due on Friday. Let me know! Thanks!
Here are the topic options.
Option 1
In Mark Twains classic essay Two Ways of Seeing the River he questions the cost of knowledge. What is lost? What is gained? You might want to use this essay to establish an argument in favor of a liberal arts education or perhaps some alternative form of learning.
You can find this essay by clicking on the link below.
http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/twowaysessay.htm
Option 2
If you are the poetic type you might appreciate this option. In the opening line of Robert Frosts The Mending Wall it reads Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. Is this true? Do walls make good neighbors? Ponder this question in light of Trumps proposed wall between Mexico and the United States. Quote and paraphrase lines from the poem to illustrate your points or to refute opposing points. Use the forward slash to indicate line breaks in the poem. Also include the line number(s) in the parenthetical citation.
Example of Using Forward Slash to Indicate Line Breaks:
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall / That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it / And spills the upper boulders in the sun (Lines 1-
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mending-wall
Option 3
Read the full text version of Dr. Kings Letter from Birmingham City Jail. You can access this document on several sites on the Internet. This is a powerful document. In 2017 what do you see as the greatest threat to civil rights in this country? Cite from Dr. Kings letter to illustrate your points and to refute opposing points.
Option 4
Read NASAs mission statement and create an argument in favor space exploration. I want to read your ideas. But incorporate a brief summary quote(s) and paraphrase(s). Make sure you cite the mission statement in text and on the Works Cited. (Loved watching the launch of Juno!)
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/Why_We_01pt1.html
Option 5
In his Meditation XVII John Donne wrote
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the less as well as if a promontory were as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Am I my brothers keeper? Really think about this question. Does the United States have a responsibility to assist with the humanitarian crises in the world for example in Aleppo Syria? You might want to read about times when the U.S. did / did not get involved in humanitarian issues.
http://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/
Open Letter to President Obama from 15 Remaining Doctors in Aleppo Syria.
Warning: The videos on this site contain graphic images.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/middleeast/aleppo-syria-doctors-letter-obama/
Option 6
Are most of us suffering from nature deficit disorder? Establish an argument for spending more time in nature. Identify a few of the benefits. Read and cite from Henry David Thoreaus Walking or you might want to summarize a chapter from his book Walden. The entire book can be found on the Project Gutenberg website.
http://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20documents/Wilderness/Thoreau%20Walking.pdf
Option 8
Find an article on your favorite mathematician or mathematical theory. You might find an article on The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Too often teachers hear students say Why do I need to learn math? How will learning math help me in real life.? Create an argument that shows the beauty of learning math for a greater understanding of our world.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/

First pick one from 2-8
Option 2
In Mark Twains classic essay Two Ways of Seeing the River he questions the cost of knowledge. What is lost? What is gained? You might want to use this essay to establish an argument in favor of a liberal arts education or perhaps some alternative form of learning.
You can find this essay by clicking on the link below.
http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/twowaysessay.htm
Option 3
If you are the poetic type you might appreciate this option. In the opening line of Robert Frosts The Mending Wall it reads Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. Is this true? Do walls make good neighbors? Ponder this question in light of Trumps proposed wall between Mexico and the United States. Quote and paraphrase lines from the poem to illustrate your points or to refute opposing points. Use the forward slash to indicate line breaks in the poem. Also include the line number(s) in the parenthetical citation.
Example of Using Forward Slash to Indicate Line Breaks:
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall / That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it / And spills the upper boulders in the sun (Lines 1-
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mending-wall
Option 4
Read the full text version of Dr. Kings Letter from Birmingham City Jail. You can access this document on several sites on the Internet. This is a powerful document. In 2017 what do you see as the greatest threat to civil rights in this country? Cite from Dr. Kings letter to illustrate your points and to refute opposing points.
Option 5
Read NASAs mission statement and create an argument in favor space exploration. I want to read your ideas. But incorporate a brief summary quote(s) and paraphrase(s). Make sure you cite the mission statement in text and on the Works Cited. (Loved watching the launch of Juno!)
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/Why_We_01pt1.html
Option 6
In his Meditation XVII John Donne wrote
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the less as well as if a promontory were as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Am I my brothers keeper? Really think about this question. Does the United States have a responsibility to assist with the humanitarian crises in the world for example in Aleppo Syria? You might want to read about times when the U.S. did / did not get involved in humanitarian issues.
http://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/
Open Letter to President Obama from 15 Remaining Doctors in Aleppo Syria.
Warning: The videos on this site contain graphic images.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/middleeast/aleppo-syria-doctors-letter-obama/
Option 7
Are most of us suffering from nature deficit disorder? Establish an argument for spending more time in nature. Identify a few of the benefits. Read and cite from Henry David Thoreaus Walking or you might want to summarize a chapter from his book Walden. The entire book can be found on the Project Gutenberg website.
http://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings%20and%20documents/Wilderness/Thoreau%20Walking.pdf
Option 8
Find an article on your favorite mathematician or mathematical theory. You might find an article on The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Too often teachers hear students say Why do I need to learn math? How will learning math help me in real life.? Create an argument that shows the beauty of learning math for a greater understanding of our world.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/
Here’s the guideline.
For this essay you are using two sources one essay from the Course Topics list in the Assignmentssection (choose a new option) and one article of your choice (it must be on the same topic). To locate this second source you might want to use one of the library databases such as EBSCOProQuest Opposing Viewpoints or Google Scholar. You may even use one of the Ted talks; use the transcripts to cite information.
Essay requirements are 3-4 pages standard 12 point font such as Times New Roman and formatted in MLA style. To see how to format your essay check out the Sample MLA Essay w/Two Sources + Works Cited in the Course Resources Folder.
Here’s how to set up your essay:
(Note: Although you are not required to develop an outline before you write your essay it is a good method for organizing your ideas.)
I. First Paragraph
A. Begin with a captivating opening line.
B. Briefly summarize both articles. Make sure you introduce the authors and titles of both essays. Place essay titles in quotes.
C. At the very end of this first paragraph lead into your thesis. Take a clear stand and overview three reasons to support your position. In other words where do you stand on this issue and why?
II. Second Paragraph
Develop the first reason from your thesis. Then incorporate quotes and/or paraphrases from one or both of the essays. You may use quotes and/or paraphrases to illustrate points of agreement or to refute opposing points. Source information must be surrounded within the context of your voice and properly documented in MLA style. Do not fill up an entire paragraph with quotes and/or paraphrases; your voice should dominate. Use source information wisely and sparingly.
III. Third Paragraph
Transition to the second reason from your thesis. Then incorporate quotes and/or paraphrases from one or both of the essays. You may use quotes and/or paraphrases to illustrate points of agreement or to refute opposing points. Source information should be surrounded within the context of your voice and properly documented in MLA style.
IV. Fourth Paragraph
Transition to the third and final point from your thesis. Then incorporate quotes and/or paraphrases from one or both of the essays. You may use quotes and/or paraphrases from one or both of the essays to illustrate points of agreement or to refute opposing points. Source information must be surrounded within the context of your voice and properly documented in MLA style.
V. Fifth Paragraph – Conclusion
Reinforce your thesis statement. Remind your audience why your argument is a good one. You might want to refer back to something from the summary in your introduction paragraph. Or you might conclude with a plea for some action to be taken or for more attention to be given to the issue. Do not introduce additional points; simply reinforce the support you used for your thesis. Regardless of how familiar you may be with your chosen topic you need to documentallsource information in the bodyandin the Works Cited.
Note:Don’t forget to include a Works Cited at the very end of your essay.

Due Week 8 and worth 150 points
Now that you have completed your report it is time to design and present your findings. Your task is to organize and develop the three (3) parts (introduction body and closing) of an effective presentation based on your Justification Report (Assignment 2.3). Chapter 12 in our text provides overall information on presentation format content and delivery. Please do not simply cut and paste your justification report content to the slides. Instead develop clear concise content that enhances your presentation narration or notes. Remember that your slides are meant to be highlights and your audience should not spend a great deal of time reading from the slides but instead listening to you present the concepts.
Create an eight to ten (8-10) slide presentation in which you:
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Assignment Checklist
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Click here to view the grading rubric.

(This would need to be on domestic violence it would need to be written in stance essay also with a POV)
to write a stance essay. A stance essay takes a position on a topic and argues and supports that position with evidence. Consider your topic:
What possible positions/arguments are there?
What position resonates with you? (Which position do you believe is correct?)
What are your main points?
What are the counterpoints? Are you ready to dispute them?
Do you have enough evidence to effectively support your argument?

For the stance essay your personal voice (your perspective) should come through. This is just like assignment 1 except you should maintain a formal tone. And just like assignment 2 you will need to support your points with credible sources. Youre ready to take a position on the topic you have been writing about and to be persuasive!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Compose a three-four (3-4) page paper in which you do the following:
Use third person point of view (POV) and the appropriate voice and tone throughout your paper. a. Did you use third person pronouns? (he she they their)
b. Does your personality carry over in your writing? Are your word choices personal and consistent?
c. Is the tone formal? Does it express your atitude about the topic?

Write an introduction paragraph which includes your thesis statement. It is suggested that this paragraph contain 5-7 sentences.a. Does your introduction include solutions or approaches on the topic?
b. Does your thesis statement include three supporting reasons that clearly express your stance on the topic?
c. Is your thesis statement clear and concise?
d. Does your introduction provide a preview of the rest of your essay?

Write a supporting/body paragraph for each of the three (3) points/reasons from your thesis statement. It is suggested that each paragraph contain at least 5-7 sentences.a. Do your body paragraphs support each point of your thesis with relevant examples or statistics?
b. Do you address the opinions or concerns that your audience might have?
c. Did you paraphrase quote or summarize properly to avoid plagiarism? Did
Did you comment on each quotation?

Write with logic and with transitions throughout your paper.a. Are your ideas consistent and well-organized i.e. chronological order or order of importance?
b. Do your ideas flow from one sentence to the next and one paragraph to the next in the order presented in your thesis statement?

Write a conclusion paragraph. It is suggested that this paragraph contain 5-7 sentences.a. Did you paraphrase or restate the thesis in a new way?

b. Did you leave a lasting impression so that your readers continue thinking about your topic after they have finished reading?

Apply proper grammar mechanics punctuation and APA formatting throughout your paper.a. Did you check your grammar?i. The way words are put together to make units of meaning: Sentence structure pronoun-agreement etc.

b. Did you check your essay for mechanics?i. All the technical stuff in writing: Spelling capitalization use of numbers and other symbols etc.

b. Did you check the punctuation?i. The symbols used to help people read/process sentences the way you want them to be heard and understood: Periods question marks commas colons etc.

d. Did you format according to APA style? (See requirements below.)

APA FORMATTING

Your assignment must follow these general APA formatting requirements:
Be typed double-spaced using Times New Roman font (size 12) with one-inch margins on all sides. It should also have a running header short title headers numbered pages indented paragraphs and a References List with hanging indent(s).
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment the students name the professors name the course title and the date. Note: The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length of three-four (3-4) pages.
In-text citations follow APA style using attributive tags and signal verbs.
Did you cite at least four (4) sources (no more than two (2) of the provided sources in the webtext)? Are your sources credible?
Refer to the Soomo webtext or check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Hello I have a writing assignment that is due February 26 2017 before 11:59 pm.. the instructions is uploaded to the post.. please read because the writing assignment is broken up so the 1st MGA DRAFT (at least first genre) DUE: Sunday by 11:59 pmand the MGA Argument proposal is due as soon aspossibleso fill that out and send me the answers back so i can send it to instructor. This will be uploaded to the post also . Ihave a sample paper for this writing assignment #3to give you an ideal. please no plagiarism becasue i wil check beforepurchaseandplease read instructions firstoh the Peer Review will have two papers to revise and edit. Thispeer review part want you to reviseand edit peer review #1 for paper 3so it starts February 27 and end onmarch 1st. And peer review #2 for paper 3starts March 13 and end on march 15 before 11:59 pm so as you can see they are spaced out. starts 16

Attached is an article talks about the Wildness and in this assignment I have to do the proposal essay about this article. So I have to choose a quote from this article to do my proposal about it. In the proposal you should mention these instructions:
1- Tell me your place for conversation that you have identified (give me the quotation).
2- Tell me what you see in terms of an opportunity- were you fascinated/shocked/perplexed? Is there a gap/tension/ambiguity/difficulty?
3- Then tell me your complex unique specific arguable claim!
4- The minimum of 250 words.
We cannot truly know freedom nor understand absolute liberty without wilderness.
The wild will exist long after human civilization.
In this quote there is something that stole my attention and made me think deep about
it. How wilderness can last more than us as humans. We should not fight against nature
because the result will be obviously total lose to human race against nature. So we
should learn how to live with it instead of demolishing the beautiful jungle and the
astonishing coral reef which is the main source of oxygen
[ya1]
The quote I chose is highlighted:
what I have learned from nature
Some of my fondest childhood memories are with my parents hiking around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One memory is particularly vivid. I was six and on the trail to Abrams Falls after a summer rain moved through the forest. The sun was just again peaking through the canopy. As my folks and I moved along the trail I noticed water droplets on the leaves of a rhododendron. We stopped for a rest next to the woody plant along the bank of Abrams Creek. I sat down letting my hands feel the damp Earth laden with bryophytes. I studied the beads of water on the plant before turning my considerations to the creek. My love for nature began young.
In the wild I am always in awe of water. Water in its many forms occupies every part of the forest. Clouds are among my favorite forms water takes. There is nothing like standing on a green mountain bald on a cool spring day the clouds steal the show. Whether weeping grey or puffy white when the land is again bursting with life clouds hug ridges and occupy valleys in ways that can only be described as breathtaking. I once had the holy experience of camping in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina on a late Spring evening at over 5000 feet. As I hiked to camp I moved across mountain meadows covered in a thick fog but my destination sat above the clouds. That night around a roaring bonfire in the company of budding plants and a vast array of newly awakened wildlife there was a piercing radiant starry night above and a sea of clouds cracking with lightning below. All of the heavens witnessed Earths wonder.
From the clouds in the chill of January snow seems to continually fall over temperate Appalachian forests. In the winter snow dusts the landscape coating evergreens and the naked limbs of deciduous trees. When running old trails in this ancient terrain in the depths of the season ones own breath is often visible as it escapes the lungs. If like I often do one follows this vapor in the white landscape it is hard not to notice the depth of the mountains this time of year. Though peppered in white something about the winter makes the Appalachians appear dark. Perhaps it is exposed ancient metamorphic rock thick ice that clings to steep mountain ridges and the bare grey bark of trees but the color avoids a description. The mountains are mysterious and beautiful beyond words.
My favorite time in the woods however is Autumn. Fall air is always brisk the sky is often a beaming cerulean blue and it is of no mystery why the southern Appalachians are long described as smoky. A thick mist settles in the mountains in the fall and the forest changes dramatically daily. Some of my favorite moments of solitude and thus my life are experienced in the mountain lowlands in late autumn. Under the splendor of November hue on the banks of a stream I am often lost in thought as I watch water carve its way through ancient rock while at the same time laying the sediments that will tell future travelers of our place in history. I swear one can feel the terrain littered with a mosaic of detritus soaked in a thick mist and carved by the river continuum breathe this time of year.
Natural places are of incredible importance. John Muir once wrote: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. This is a statement of deep ecological truth.
Nature is wild. In the wilderness one is wild. On an early September afternoon a few years ago I escaped for a lone stroll in the woods. I worked my way up and around Curry Mountain had lunch on a rock in the shade of a great Eastern Hemlock and was making my way back home when I came across two black bear along the switchbacks. They saw me before I saw them. There was a quick dash a scattering of leaves and I saw the black fur of a cub run down slope it was then I noticed the mama bear. Standing in front of me some 20 yards away was a rather large beast who was occupying the trail. We stood in silence staring at one another for sometime until she let out a slow growl. I raised my hands to the air and loudly proclaimed I mean you no harm bear! She turned and quickly disappeared into the brush.
Knowing they were still near I kept talking loudly
to them as I slowly made my way through the switchbacks. As time passed I picked up my pace. Before I knew it I was whooping laughing madly and running through the woods. I was jumping over trickling springs tree roots and piles of rock. I was full of joy my heart pounding furiously. I was myself simply a human in purest form all labels stripped away no worldly burdens just an animal wild and alive!
This unbound freedom is possible only in the wild. There await holy experiences everywhere in nature. Whether it is moments of silent still reflection or adventurous swimming in the roar of a river swallowing its current pelted by rain breathing hard and laughing under the chill of a night sky with brothers natural spaces provide us with a liberty that cannot be experienced in urban corridors. Untouched landscapes are the cathedrals of nature.
We cannot truly know freedom nor understand absolute liberty without wilderness. The wild will exist long after human civilization. We have only a precious moment on this Earth the blink of an eye regarding the eons in which we measure geology to understand boundless freedom. In the wilderness there exist only the fixed laws of nature. There are no economic systems no political powers no established authority but rather an anarchic freedom we are blessed to experience. In open spaces we are free to live even if just briefly absent of control or administration from the Leviathans of civilization.
This freedom alone is enough to protect wilderness landscapes for ourselves and fellow species nature for natures sake. Wilderness can exist without us but we are doomed without it. May we preserve wild lands coasts deserts forests and mountains so we may preserve what makes life worth living: Liberty.
Imagine the forest. Suddenly with a crack of lightning and thunderous boom from dark weeping clouds falls a torrent of water. Plummeting from the vivid horizon towards the lush ominous hue of green Earth the cascade crashes into a mixed canopy of poplar oak hemlock and spruce.
A rich harmonious chorus fills the brilliant forest. A howling melody of pattered rain pails the rhododendron splats the trillium showers the fern soaks the detritus and beads the moss before saturating the damp woodland floor. Beneath the soil among mycorrhizae annelids and abundant microbes there is a pull downslope a burst from a spring and the rush of a high country stream. Along twists and turns crags and ridge falls and flow there is a longing for and final jubilation with the communion of rivers roar. Among carved rock and knotted limb the journey across the watershed begins long toward the basin. What a great dangerous adventure!
Nothing but a dizzying wonder awaits beyond every fall rapid and maelstrom eddy. As clouds recede the Earth breaths a mountain mist illuminated by the sun that instills natures heart breaking splendor. Oh be free young wild torrent! In wildness may you travel deeper still! Rush along your crooked channel walls carve the valley shape the open plain welcome the delta bask in the sea rise to the heavens and fall once more!
Imagine yourself in this forest. A human animal. An individual. Sitting legs crossed on a moss laden log. The water showers your spirit. Soul happy! You stare into the canopy. Theres an unbreakable smile on your face. You laugh roar and howl!
[ya1]So in your essay you’re going to want to look for:
freedom
wilderness
civilization
How does he use each of these terms?
What’s the relationship in his writing between these terms?
What can we do with that relationship? How does that relationship make you feel?
these are the professor comments that told me to do.

Attached is an article talks about the Wildness and in this assignment I have to do the proposal essay about this article. So I have to choose a quote from this article to do my proposal about it. In the proposal you should mention these instructions:
1- Tell me your place for conversation that you have identified (give me the quotation).
2- Tell me what you see in terms of an opportunity- were you fascinated/shocked/perplexed? Is there a gap/tension/ambiguity/difficulty?
3- Then tell me your complex unique specific arguable claim!
4- The minimum of 250 words.
We cannot truly know freedom nor understand absolute liberty without wilderness.
The wild will exist long after human civilization.
In this quote there is something that stole my attention and made me think deep about
it. How wilderness can last more than us as humans. We should not fight against nature
because the result will be obviously total lose to human race against nature. So we
should learn how to live with it instead of demolishing the beautiful jungle and the
astonishing coral reef which is the main source of oxygen
[ya1]
The quote I chose is highlighted:
what I have learned from nature
Some of my fondest childhood memories are with my parents hiking around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One memory is particularly vivid. I was six and on the trail to Abrams Falls after a summer rain moved through the forest. The sun was just again peaking through the canopy. As my folks and I moved along the trail I noticed water droplets on the leaves of a rhododendron. We stopped for a rest next to the woody plant along the bank of Abrams Creek. I sat down letting my hands feel the damp Earth laden with bryophytes. I studied the beads of water on the plant before turning my considerations to the creek. My love for nature began young.
In the wild I am always in awe of water. Water in its many forms occupies every part of the forest. Clouds are among my favorite forms water takes. There is nothing like standing on a green mountain bald on a cool spring day the clouds steal the show. Whether weeping grey or puffy white when the land is again bursting with life clouds hug ridges and occupy valleys in ways that can only be described as breathtaking. I once had the holy experience of camping in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina on a late Spring evening at over 5000 feet. As I hiked to camp I moved across mountain meadows covered in a thick fog but my destination sat above the clouds. That night around a roaring bonfire in the company of budding plants and a vast array of newly awakened wildlife there was a piercing radiant starry night above and a sea of clouds cracking with lightning below. All of the heavens witnessed Earths wonder.
From the clouds in the chill of January snow seems to continually fall over temperate Appalachian forests. In the winter snow dusts the landscape coating evergreens and the naked limbs of deciduous trees. When running old trails in this ancient terrain in the depths of the season ones own breath is often visible as it escapes the lungs. If like I often do one follows this vapor in the white landscape it is hard not to notice the depth of the mountains this time of year. Though peppered in white something about the winter makes the Appalachians appear dark. Perhaps it is exposed ancient metamorphic rock thick ice that clings to steep mountain ridges and the bare grey bark of trees but the color avoids a description. The mountains are mysterious and beautiful beyond words.
My favorite time in the woods however is Autumn. Fall air is always brisk the sky is often a beaming cerulean blue and it is of no mystery why the southern Appalachians are long described as smoky. A thick mist settles in the mountains in the fall and the forest changes dramatically daily. Some of my favorite moments of solitude and thus my life are experienced in the mountain lowlands in late autumn. Under the splendor of November hue on the banks of a stream I am often lost in thought as I watch water carve its way through ancient rock while at the same time laying the sediments that will tell future travelers of our place in history. I swear one can feel the terrain littered with a mosaic of detritus soaked in a thick mist and carved by the river continuum breathe this time of year.
Natural places are of incredible importance. John Muir once wrote: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. This is a statement of deep ecological truth.
Nature is wild. In the wilderness one is wild. On an early September afternoon a few years ago I escaped for a lone stroll in the woods. I worked my way up and around Curry Mountain had lunch on a rock in the shade of a great Eastern Hemlock and was making my way back home when I came across two black bear along the switchbacks. They saw me before I saw them. There was a quick dash a scattering of leaves and I saw the black fur of a cub run down slope it was then I noticed the mama bear. Standing in front of me some 20 yards away was a rather large beast who was occupying the trail. We stood in silence staring at one another for sometime until she let out a slow growl. I raised my hands to the air and loudly proclaimed I mean you no harm bear! She turned and quickly disappeared into the brush.
Knowing they were still near I kept talking loudly
to them as I slowly made my way through the switchbacks. As time passed I picked up my pace. Before I knew it I was whooping laughing madly and running through the woods. I was jumping over trickling springs tree roots and piles of rock. I was full of joy my heart pounding furiously. I was myself simply a human in purest form all labels stripped away no worldly burdens just an animal wild and alive!
This unbound freedom is possible only in the wild. There await holy experiences everywhere in nature. Whether it is moments of silent still reflection or adventurous swimming in the roar of a river swallowing its current pelted by rain breathing hard and laughing under the chill of a night sky with brothers natural spaces provide us with a liberty that cannot be experienced in urban corridors. Untouched landscapes are the cathedrals of nature.
We cannot truly know freedom nor understand absolute liberty without wilderness. The wild will exist long after human civilization. We have only a precious moment on this Earth the blink of an eye regarding the eons in which we measure geology to understand boundless freedom. In the wilderness there exist only the fixed laws of nature. There are no economic systems no political powers no established authority but rather an anarchic freedom we are blessed to experience. In open spaces we are free to live even if just briefly absent of control or administration from the Leviathans of civilization.
This freedom alone is enough to protect wilderness landscapes for ourselves and fellow species nature for natures sake. Wilderness can exist without us but we are doomed without it. May we preserve wild lands coasts deserts forests and mountains so we may preserve what makes life worth living: Liberty.
Imagine the forest. Suddenly with a crack of lightning and thunderous boom from dark weeping clouds falls a torrent of water. Plummeting from the vivid horizon towards the lush ominous hue of green Earth the cascade crashes into a mixed canopy of poplar oak hemlock and spruce.
A rich harmonious chorus fills the brilliant forest. A howling melody of pattered rain pails the rhododendron splats the trillium showers the fern soaks the detritus and beads the moss before saturating the damp woodland floor. Beneath the soil among mycorrhizae annelids and abundant microbes there is a pull downslope a burst from a spring and the rush of a high country stream. Along twists and turns crags and ridge falls and flow there is a longing for and final jubilation with the communion of rivers roar. Among carved rock and knotted limb the journey across the watershed begins long toward the basin. What a great dangerous adventure!
Nothing but a dizzying wonder awaits beyond every fall rapid and maelstrom eddy. As clouds recede the Earth breaths a mountain mist illuminated by the sun that instills natures heart breaking splendor. Oh be free young wild torrent! In wildness may you travel deeper still! Rush along your crooked channel walls carve the valley shape the open plain welcome the delta bask in the sea rise to the heavens and fall once more!
Imagine yourself in this forest. A human animal. An individual. Sitting legs crossed on a moss laden log. The water showers your spirit. Soul happy! You stare into the canopy. Theres an unbreakable smile on your face. You laugh roar and howl!
[ya1]So in your essay you’re going to want to look for:
freedom
wilderness
civilization
How does he use each of these terms?
What’s the relationship in his writing between these terms?
What can we do with that relationship? How does that relationship make you feel?
these are the professor comments that told me to do.

Instructions: Your first essay the critical evaluation essay is due at the end of week three. In this essay you will be critically evaluating a classic argument. Do not submit the rough forum draft to me as the final draft–because you will need to revise it heavily based on peer feedback first. This is the article I chose. Eastman Crystal Now We Can Begin About.com. Women’s History. 2012 Web Choose one argument from the historic American or global works listed in the Supplemental Readings section of the course lessons. Decide whether this argument is successful or not. If you decide this essay is successful discuss why. You may use the structure of the argument the tone and the various types of support (ethos pathos and logos) as proof of the arguments success. Make sure that your thesis has an introduction that contains a hook and a thesis body paragraphs that discuss one proof at a time (one paragraph per example) and a conclusion. If you decide that the essay is not successful then discuss the fallacies that the argument makes. You are still required to have a strong introduction (hook and thesis) body paragraphs that discuss one fallacy at a time and a conclusion. You may also discuss how the essay is successful with reservations. In this case point to both the support and the fallacies you have found in the work. This paper should be at least 700 words but no more than 850. The paper should be formatted correctly MLA style and written in third person (do not use the words I me us we or you). The essay should also contain citations and a works cited list based on your selected essay in the assigned readings. Formulate the structured response from your own close reading of the text. Do not use outside sources (open Web) without explicit permission from the instructor.

Persuasive Essay Due 2/22/17 @11:59
Explore the viewpoints of a particular essay inPatterns. Once you settle on a topic research a perspective and write a 3-4 page (notincluding the works citedpage) persuasive essay about a particular viewpoint. Integrate research on the opposing perspective of the same topic. Consider the two sides of an argument when choosing your topic and argue for and against your chosen topic in the essay always remembering to bring in counter-arguments. The goal of this essay is to question your own thinking especially on what is right and what is wrong and why. Refer toRules for WritingandPatternson constructing and evaluating arguments.
An exemplary persuasiveessay will:
have a coherent persuasive structure engage with the chosen supplemental texts through specific discussion of particular passages or quotes attend to grammar spelling appropriate punctuation and appropriate citation.
MLA format is required including in-text citations and a works cited page.
Must include two sources (one being aPatternsessay) and the other source must be approved by the instructor.