Litr201 | Literature homework help

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BOOK and section: 3ÿTHE SACRED
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Art work showing Krishna and Arjuna on horseback
Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. Painting made by ISKCON, Mayapura, India.
Philippe Lissac / Godong / Corbis
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This essay should be a 600-900 word essay focusing on the assigned readings from the course. It is by 11:55 pm ET on Sunday ofÿWeek 6.

This should be aÿclose reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the work or works that you discuss.ÿYou may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor’s approval.

The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the attached sample essay below), and use MLA citations.ÿA works cited entry and in-text citations for each text discussed are required.

It should have a self-assessment (which should answerÿthese questions) as the first page.

Analytical essays should be focused on making aÿdebatable claim about the work in question; creative submissions should be focused on presenting a work or kind of work from a different angle. Informational essays or essays consisting of summary are not appropriate for either type of essay. Both types of essay should be supported with discussion of specific passages from the text(s) on which the essay is focused. The grading rubrics for both analytical and creative choices are attached.

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Chooseÿ1ÿof the following topics fromÿeitherÿthe Analytical or Creative categories. For the analytical choices, be sure to write aÿthesis-driven essayÿin response to the topic. Creative choices should be written as narratives.
Analytical Choices

Defining the Sacred:ÿchooseÿ2ÿsacred works that we have read,ÿ1ÿfrom the two Abrahamic faiths (Islam and Christianity) andÿ1ÿfrom the Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) and make an argument about what similarities these excerpts have, and what those similarities can tell us about what it means for any work to be ?sacred.?