Week 07 World Lit Project - Rough Draft

Submit the rough draft of your World Lit Project for instructor review. Include your Thesis Statement and Outline at the end of your paper.

Reminder 1

Remember to proofread your paper both for grammatical errors and for clarity. Don't underestimate the importance of this stage! You may have researched very thoroughly and come up with some interesting ideas about your topic, but all that work is wasted if you fail to communicate them clearly. A good guide to follow is that if something you've written sounds even a little awkward to you, it will be even more difficult for someone else to understand. You may have to rewrite a passage several time before it's finally clear.

Reminder 2

Take one more look at the grading standards for your paper on the Rubric for Your World Lit Project Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates. Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ".doc" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below: Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

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****Please submit your World Lit Project thesis and outline for feedback and final approval. Review the detailed instructions from Week 03. Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates. Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ".doc" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below: Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

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# 5:  Explore the dystopian vision in modern literature:  What was the dystopian vision of humanity's future? Dystopian literature can be seen in many science fiction novels of the 20th century as man moved into the technological age.  Many feared the industrial revolution would erode man's highest ideals and man would be ruled by the machines he created.   In reading and comparing works like George Orwell's 1984 and other modern novelists like Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we are shown visions of a future where corporations run the world and survival depends on adhering to "Big Brother's" decrees on what is acceptable.  How do relate our society with these visions of the dystopian author's view of what the 21st century would be like? Discuss dystopian literature and at least 1 author from the following list that published significant novels in this genre.

George Orwell: 1984

H.G. Wells The Time Machine

Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood:  Oryx and Crake

Richard Bachman: The Running Man

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange 

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 

Any of the newly published series, like Divergent, Hunger Games, The Giver, etc. are also Dystopian fiction and are acceptable.

Email me if you have other novels you would like to or have read previously and write about for this project and once you get written approval, you may start on your dystopian project.  For the ones above, no pre-approval needed.