ENGL 114A Graded Essay 1 Assignment This essays objective is for you to formally enter and engage with

some of the contentious arguments surrounding important contemporary issues that have a significant impact on our societies. You will build upon the skills you acquired in earlier exercises for closely reading and summarizing various authors textual arguments (what they say), plus your acquired skills for questioning and criticizing these arguments through your I Say responses that were expressed both individually and in informal online asynchronous discussions with your peers. Your goal is to: (1) Choose one of the hot topic cultural/political events discussed in class and then discover and write about the Big Idea or larger social implications behind the eventhow the Big Idea affects human rights and social relationships between people or nations/cultures. (2) Use at least four of the source texts we discussed in class or were placed on Moodle (one of the source texts MUST be your Persepolis novel; I would recommend at least one third of your essay should discuss how Persepolis helps support your thesis claims). How do these source prior discussions affect/influence your argument/stand on the Big Idea? What do you have to say in response to these other source texts? Write good quote sandwiches when you use evidence from the source texts to support your line of thinking in the essay. (3) Make connections to your own personal experiences (or the experiences of people you know), plus your own acquired knowledge. Use both these real life example connections, as well as the source texts mentioned above, to help support your claims. Assume your reader is an intelligent member of the academic community but will not be aware of the debates behind this issue. Dont forget to plant the naysayer and address some counter arguments that might be raised against your thesis stance, although you will still show how YOUR claim is a more enlightened position. In the conclusion, address the so what positive social implications behind your thesis and the social benefits that will result if we accept and follow your claims. You want to demonstrate your sensitive awareness of the difficult complexity of the Big Idea issue. However, make an attempt to come up with your own unique alternative synthesis or solution to the challenging dilemma behind this Big Idea, and try to persuade us to accept your thesis, using various rhetorical appeals to logic, ethos, pathos, or shared values. Length: 4 to 5 double spaced typed pages for hard copy hand in on Tuesday Sept. 24. Essay also needs a Work Cited page in correct MLA format. Check Purdue OWL website for correct format. You do not need any outside sources; use only the source texts on Moodle or the Persepolis novel.