Directions:

• electronic copy: e-mail me at victor.leuci@westminster-mo.edu; the name of your attached file (not the subject header of your e-mail) should be:
  • F17-227-P2-Last Name, First Name (e.g. F17-227-P2-Leuci, Victor)
• paper copy: bring to class
• length: 600-1000ish
• In-text Citations
  • you must have in-text citations for your sources of information (facts, theories, parts of myths, etc.)
  • every main body paragraph should have in-text citations (you want at least 2 good examples with citations per paragraph)
  • check back later for more specifics
  • for Thucydides, give the number in brackets, e.g. "No movement ever stirred Hellas more deeply than this" (Thuc. 1.1) or (1.1) if you've already mentioned Thucydides earlier in the paper.
  • for the Apple event mention the speaker/performer and the context/source in your opening paragraph. Thereafter, you won't need to give in-text citations when referring to things that Jony Ive said or Norah Jones sung.
• Works Cited "Page" reminders:
  • to save paper, don't put on a separate page
  • in the same font, font size, etc. as your main text
  • use hanging indents
  • for the Apple event, list the speaker/performer first. Speech/Performance at "A celebration of Steve's life." Apple Inc. 19 Oct, 2011. YouTube, uploaded by give name of uploader. URL. Date accessed. [Scroll down at the following link to see some examples click here]
  • for Thucydides, use what I've provided at the beginning of both print and phone versions.
  • see pdf in Moodle for how much of a deduction there will be for failure to use hanging indents, italics (properly), etc.
• writing intensive:
  • Don't forget to turn in the draft copy with my or the Writing labs' comments on it for it to count towards your revised paper total (and don't forget to make the revisions!)
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Write on one of the following topics:

• Funeral Orations:
  • Background: In Thucydides' History, instead of giving a typical funeral oration when all the Athenians gathered to commemorate those who had died in the first year of the war, Pericles gives a funeral oration celebrating Athens. Similarly, when Apple Computer took a moment to gather all its employees at its headquarters and via weblink all its employees at all of its stores worldwide to have a commemorative "service" for Steve Jobs, it did something similar to what Pericles did.
  • Prompt: Compare (and/or contrast) Jony Ive's speech (click here) or Norah Jones' performance (click here) with Pericles' funeral oration. Make sure you give concrete examples both from Pericles' speech and Ive's speech (or the lyrics for Norah Jones). [Note this is a compare/contrast topic: see Moodle for how it must be organized]


• Athens & the Plague:
  • Background: Immediately after Thucydides recounts Pericles' funeral oration on the greatness of Athens, he describes the plague that hit Athens. While there is still considerable debate about what the actual pathogen that caused the plague was, one of the things Thucydides was interested in was showing how the plague affected the moral character of the Athenians.
  • Prompt: Examine how the plague affected the moral character of the Athenians, using these two parts of the Funeral Oration as the starting point for their character (2.37 and 2.40) [Note this is really a type of compare/contrast topic: see Moodle for how it must be organized]