Assignment 1: Essay
Write a four-to-five (4-5) paragraph essay (350 words minimum) which analyzes the work following the list of four things "your paper should cover" given just after the topics.
Topic Choice
1. Reading selection from Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789. This selection can be found in chapter 26 of our class text on pp. 887-8 (with background on pp. 869-872). The context is the process of enslavement and then passage across the Atlantic.
For the reading selection and topic chosen, your paper should cover the following:
1. Briefly introduce the writer and the situation that this reading is about. identify the genre or nature of the reading.
2. Using specific examples or lines within the reading, suggest the author's key views and key aims for the reading audience.
3. Evaluate the author's strategy and what you see as the work's likely effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) for the target audience. if there is any known historical result, discuss that.
4. Evaluate how the reading impacted you. Identify any analogous situations today, and also key lessons you get from the reading that could be relevant to one's professional and personal life.
Subject: World Cultures ll (HUM112237VA016-1186-001)