"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset — we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'”
Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml
‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]”* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
This essay must focus on the Victorian response to animals and/or to India.
You have two basic options: a new multimedia essay of at least fourteen hundred words (four pages or so) or a revision of project one integrating at least five hundred new words (for a new total of nineteen hundred words). When deciding which option to take, consider that the primary grading criterion will be coherence: how well you have hammered your thoughts into unity.
Thus if your P1 essay compares the Victorian college experience with your own, it is not very likely that you be able to achieve true unity. You can certainly connect Hardy and/or Carroll to the Victorian treatment of animals but how are you going to connect all that to the Victorian college experience? It could be done, no doubt, but it would not be easy. Most likely, if you wrote about the college experience you will have to write a new essay for project two.
However, if you wrote about a single author for project one, connecting that author to the Victorian response to India or animals might not be so difficult. For example, Darwin, Carroll, and Hardy obviously write a lot about animals; Mill was a senior official in the East India company and Josephine Butler wrote about India. On the other hand, there are few obvious connections between Dickens and India, and I know of none between Wilde and India or animals.
In any case, even in revision of a single author essay, shifting the focus to animals or India may make it difficult to hammer your thoughts into unity, especially if your primary focus had been on leadership. No doubt it could be done, but it might be easier just to write a new essay.
THE ESSAY MUST INCLUDE AT LEAST FOUR QUOTATIONS FROM VICTORIAN LITERATURE WITH FULL DOCUMENTATION, other than those you included in project one. At least two citations (with page nos.) must be from actual, physical books or articles in the library which are not available in any way on the internet.
THIS ESSAY (ALL OPTIONS) WILL BE GRADED PRIMARILY ACCORDING TO THE SWORD CRITERIA
As always, you can earn points by quotations from our course anthology and other sources. Citations (with page nos.) from actual, physical books from the library which are not available in any way on the internet will be worth twice as much.
Make sure you have a word count and follow all the other requirements, such as use of the U. of Chicago documentation system.
Finally, include in your folder not only the revised essay two, but also the original essay two, the one you uploaded for others to read and review. Mark the original essay two to show how you revised in response to each reviewer's suggestions. Perhaps the most obvious way would be to assign a color to each reviewer and color code your original essay to show where you decided to make changes in response to that reviewer's suggestions.
In addition to this color-coded original essay two and your revised essay two, include in your folder all of the reviews others made of your essay two (with the color code indicated), your self-evaluation of essay two, and the same materials for essay one as well.
Finally, if you choose the revision and expansion of project one you need to highlight all changes in the material transferred from project one, especially changes made in response to my edits of project one.
