African and Caribbean Literature
35% of my final grade
Due Date: 10 May 2010
This will be my most difficult essay. I chose this question:
"The only privilege literature deserves- and this privilege it requires in order to exist- is the privilege of being the place where the struggle of languages can be acted out." (Salman Rushdie)
"Let no one be fooled by the fact that we write in English for we intend to do unheard of things with it." (Chinua Achebe)
"Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world." (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
With these comments in mind, write an essay on the "struggle of languages" in African and/or Caribbean texts you have read.
Art History: Neoclassicism and Romanticism
30% of my final grade
Due Date: 21 May 2010
There is one question for this paper:
Art is a representation of artists beliefs. Through reference to three works of art explain how and to what extent this idea is borne out in work of the Neoclassical and Romantic period.
Here is one of the works I have chosen. I need to choose two more
Caspar Friedrich: Monk by the Seashore, 1808
History of Victorian England
40% of my final grade
Due Date: 27 May 2010
I chose this question because I enjoy social history:
Discuss how leisure changed in the Victorian period (or some part thereof) and relate these changes to larger changes such as urbanisation, the commercialisation of culture, or secularization.
Ok, I'm going to go and do some study now......