You can hand in essays between November 17-19; please staple the appropriate rubric (thematic or rhetorical analysis) from your assignment packet to the back of your essay.

Please bring in your drafts and peer reviews as well as your final. Staple the drafts and peer review materials into one packet, with the oldest papers on the bottom, the most recent draft at the top.

Also, submit a digital copy to turnitin.com

“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.”

― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago


Write about a time when "everything had changed suddenly" for you.


or



Write about following your bliss...but first you have to find it  What excites you? What gives your life meaning, purpose, vigor? If you're not sure, what do you think it could be? What would you most like to do/be with your life? What is your "bliss"? 

Was Winston or Julia heroic? Why or why not?

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself" -- Joseph Campbell

The usual hero is someone: from whom something has been taken who feels something is lacking from the normal experiences available or permitted to the members of his society

Assignment for Tomorrow:

ASSIGNMENT 1 for chapters 1-2 (pp 3-24) of Siddhartha (to be completed by the end of class tomorrow)

Complete the vocabulary as a pre-reading activity

Read pp 3-24 and the handout on Hinduism

Complete the questions while reading pp 3-24

Samaṇa; The Pali word for shramana (a wandering monk; a shramana is one who renounces the world and leads an ascetic life for the purpose of spiritual development and liberation)


Satyam - truth

Om

Upanishad

Samaveda/ vedas 

Atman
Bramin - priestly class or member of the priestly class

Brahman - ultimate reality, god