Using two specific examples from the poem, explain how Gwendolyn Brooks’s “A Bronzeville Mother…” adapts the genre of a ballad to the murder case of Emmett Till. 

What was the dominant mass media during this time period?

In an essay of roughly 500 words, answer the following question. In your essay, have a clear, debatable thesis governing the whole of the essay. Provide specific support for that thesis from the proposed sources. Develop that thesis with specific subpoints/subclaims that answer the given questions. Using The Red Badge of Courage as your example, identify and briefly explain three characteristics of naturalism as an intellectual movement. In your explanation, show how naturalism complicates the remembrance of and memorialization for the Civil War. 

In an essay of roughly 500 words, answer the following question. In your essay, have a clear, debatable thesis governing the whole of the essay. Provide specific support for that thesis from the proposed sources. Develop that thesis with specific subpoints/subclaims that answer the given questions. Using two of the assigned sources from the course (Jewett, Chopin, or Wharton), explain the genre of local color writing. What media technology permitted the rise of this kind of writing? What were its chief characteristics? How did literary writers of the time period “elevate” the kind of writing found in local color writing? What stereotypes of the region are being presented in the works you have chosen?

Explain the concept of “progressive reforms,” giving two specific examples from this time period.

Identify two of the mythological or cultural characters Sandra Cisneros draws on in her story “Woman Hollering Creek,” explaining how she uses pastiche to change the meaning of these characters.

Socrates rejects Euthyphro’s first account of piety because it:

What did the GI Bill do?

Define irony, providing two specific examples from the short story “Good Country People” to show how O’Connor employs this postmodern technique.

Socrates rejects Euthyphro’s second definition of piety.