THU DAU MOT UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

AMERICAN LITERATURE
COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT

STUDENT’S NAME : TÔ NGỌC QUỲNH

STUDENT’S CODE : 1522202010195
CLASS : D15ATM03
LECTURER : TRẦN THỊ THANH MAI
SCHOOL YEAR : 2018 – 2019

Binh Duong, December 2018

 THU DAU MOT UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

AMERICAN LITERATURE
COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT

STUDENT’S NAME : TÔ NGỌC QUỲNH

STUDENT’S CODE : 1522202010195
CLASS : D15ATM03
LECTURER : TRẦN THỊ THANH MAI
SCHOOL YEAR : 2018 – 2019

Binh Duong, December 2018

Lecturer: Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Mai Page i
 ASSESSMENT

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Criteria for assessment (Question 1) – 2 points

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Criteria for assessment (Question 2) – 8 points

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Lecturer: Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Mai Page ii

 QUESTIONS

Question 1. Pretend that Jim sold his watch in a newspaper ad instead. Design a
newspaper ad for Jim’s gold watch. You should:

- Include the image of the watch

- Include some features of the watch

- Include the reason(s) why it is sold

- Offer your expected price

- Include contact information

Question 2. Choose ONE of the two following topics and write a 300-word story/
essay:

Topic 1: Of which numerous lessons drawn out from the 3 literary works (The Road
Not Taken, The Gift of Magi and In another country), what is the most meaningful
lesson you like best? You should:

- Say what the lesson is

- Explain how you drew out that lesson from which literary work

- Explain why you like it most

- Discuss how you apply such lesson in your real life

Topic 2: Write a short essay in which you illustrate the sense of isolation or loneliness
which life in modern urban society can bring.

Lecturer: Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Mai Page iii

 Question 1

Omega
Watch

22$

This pocket watch is a great value watch

because it is made of gold and is a family
heirloom. Because I need money to handle an
important task , that is the reason why I want to
sell the watch .

CONTACT: James Dillingham

Young
 : 0335657740
 : dillingham@gmail.com
 : Apartment No. 18B, New
York City, US

Supervisor: Ms. Trần Thị Thanh Mai, M.A Page 1

 Question 2

At one time or another, people will have the time to feel lonely to the extreme.
When I say "I'm lonely because of... technology", maybe someone will laugh and
look at me strangely. But whatever reaction than that, I still say that technology
takes away my simple, genuine joys.

To be honest, I feel isolated from ineffective interaction. Specifically my

classmates and I often go out for drinking milk-tea after school, but they just sat
quietly focusing on their smart-phones to surf the Internet, as if there was nothing to
talk about or take it to talk somewhere else, where is that ? Is the social network…
Another thing is that instead of sitting together to discuss the lesson for convenience
of discussion and exchange, my group of friends just exchanged homework through
the Internet, and only through a few brief comments on Facebook they can
accomplish the presentation.

We are dominated too much by virtual life that accidentally neglects interactions,
interconnections in real life. That is the reason why I feel isolated from others.
Although smart-phones or tablets contain numerous interesting things even bring
the world in our minds, they make us being dependent on technology, lazy, afraid to
meet, and gradually self-contained. I realized the illusion of happiness turns out to
be lifeless, lost to the world.

Whereby the only way I can get out of this isolation is that I’ll be active in all
conversations as well as in meeting friends by trying to strike up a conversation
with everybody. When making new friends, I’ll ask their home address to have a
chance to visit them instead of asking for a facebook address to gossip.

It seems that today's modern technology will be slavery, a tool for life, making
human life easy. But someday people suddenly wake up and realize that they are too
lonely and isolated. They really need to interact with each other more than one click
on the phone screen to save the relationship around them, just like me.

Supervisor: Ms. Trần Thị Thanh Mai, M.A Page 1