three-page research paper with at least three outside citations. Write an essay connecting one of our course’s literary pieces to a subject outside of literature itself. To qualify as a research paper, your essay should cite at least one outside source per page. Try to balance the rhetorical close-reading of your previous papers with an effort to locate a literary work in a larger social framework.
When looking for research sources, avoid controversial sites like SparkNotes and Wikipedia. Instead, search out books in the campus catalog (or any public library) and look at academically trusted sites available via BMCC’ online services like JSTOR, Literature Criticism Online, Oxford Reference, ScienceDirect, etc. Suggested topics.
Ben Okri’s “Spirit Children” imagines a paradise-dimension where we await to be reincarnated into our various lives over and over again. What does this story have to say about how medical technology is consistently figuring out new ways to extend lives, perhaps even beyond the point we want it to?
The reasearch topic has to connect with the reading above in #1
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