Due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on Canvas, by 11:55pm
Wednesday, March 4 (in PDF or any format easily converted to PDF,
e.g. MSWord, OpenOffice, LATE X, RTF, plain text).
Respond to any one of the prompts listed below in 2–3 pages (double
spaced).
The questions are keyed to different sections of the reading, with the idea that
each question is raised most centrally in a certain section. However, you can and
should use material from anywhere in the text where it’s relevant to the
answer.
Some of the prompts are in the nature of suggestions for the topic of a very
short original essay; others are more like questions which just required an answer.
Even in the latter case, however, the answer can never simply be read out of the
texts, nor is it clear that there is just one “correct” answer (although there are
certainly incorrect ones). And, of course, as usual, your answer must be
“original” in the sense that it is your own work. (If you use any outside
source — which I don’t recommend — you must cite it.) To cite any of
the texts assigned for class, just provide enough information for me to
find the source (page number, short title and/or author if not clear from
context).