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:
  • S15-227-P4-Last Name, First Name (e.g. S15-227-P4-Leuci, Victor)
• paper copy: bring to class
• length: 600-1000ish
• Sources: see below
• 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)
  • 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
  • for the Apple event mention the speaker, musician, or band at the beginning of your paper. You only need to provide in-text citations when quoting from specific songs sung--put the name of the song in parentheses at the end of the quote or include in the text of your sentence, e.g. In the song "Yellow", Coldplay sang: "Look at the stars"
  • should be very specific as the citations are evidence that you have looked at very specific, very concrete things in the texts, etc.
• 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
  • use MLA 7th edition (see syllabus for how the entries for our textbooks should look; see beginning of the Phone version of the Norse text for how it should look)
  • for the Apple event, list the speaker/performer you used first. Speech at/Performance at "A celebration of Steve's life." Apple Inc. 19 Oct, 2011. Web. date accessed.
  • for Thucydides, use what I've provided at the beginning of both print and phone versions.
• 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!)
  • print this out and bring this to your writing lab conference and have the tutor sign here: _______________________

Write on one of the following topics:

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. Compare (and/or contrast) one of the following speeches (Tim Cook, Bill Campbell, former Vice-Pres Al Gore, Jony Ive) or one of musical interludes (Norah Jones, Coldplay) with Pericles' funeral oration. I've included below a link to the web video for the Apple event and the approximate times at which each of the speeches and musical interludes begins and ends. Make sure you give concrete examples from both Pericles' speech and the speech/performance you chose to use

"Celebrating Steve"--(click here)
• 01:00-12:40 Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) (transcript of talk at PCMAG.com) (video of commercial referenced)
• 12:40-13:40 Moment of Silence
• 13:40-23:00 Bill Campbell (board member of Apple)
• 23:30-33:20 Norah Jones sang "The Nearness of You", "Painter Song", and "Forever Young" (written by Bob Dylan)
• 34:20-47:00 Former Vice-Pres Al Gore (board member of Apple)
• 47:50-55:46 Jony Ive (Vice-Pres of Industrial Design at Apple)
• 57:00-77:00ish Coldplay sang "Yellow", Viva La Vida", "Fix You", and "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall"
• 77:00-end Tim Cook