We close read literature in order to find some deeper aspect of the story for a greater understanding of what it offers us. When we close read, we analyze the details of a passage in a text, using its words and structures to see something more than we might upon its surface level.

In this five page assignment, your close reading of a text will guide some kind of claim with evidence to support an overall argument. Select a quotation from any story we read between (and including) Anton Chekhov and Dorothy Allison to write about. Select a statement which stands out to you for some compelling, interesting, weird, challenging, substantial reason and use it to discuss something deeper (for instance, one of theme, character development, or authorial choice). Choose a quotation that appears significant and relevant for an overarching, focused topic worth discussing. Then explain its significance to the text.

Consider the following questions to form an essay around a particular quotation:

What did you first notice about the quotation that stood out to you? What makes it stand out? What mood does it create and why? Does it contain any details that express or relate to themes in the entire work? What is its overall significance to the plot, the characters, and/or the main points the author attempts to express?

Are there patterns or repetition of words, themes, ideas, or sentence structure? What is the significance of these patterns or repetitions?

Are there ambiguities that alter interpretations of the story? Are there places where the text remains unclear (words that have more than one definition, symbols with multiple implications, actions that suggest opposing ideas about a character or narrative)? What do these ambiguities say about the story overall? What significance do they contain?

Are there places where the text seems to contradict itself? Do the characters contradict themselves? Why might this occur? What does that say about the story, or writing fiction in general?

Consider alternatives: What could the author have done with a particular word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, description, detail, aspect of character or plot development but did not (such as why the author chose a certain word over other words)? What would you expect the author to talk about that was avoided?

*Do not try to answer all of the above questions in the paper. Your goal is to write a unified, organized argument about something you see happening in the text. Form some kind of main claim (thesis statement) involving a quotation and provide context and evidence from the story itself to say something of substance. Be sure to support your central claim with other quotations and evidence from the story. You may bring in outside sources, but it is not required for assignment #2 (it will be for assignment #3).

It is September 1, 2020, and the Board of Directors of Mattel Incorporated has employed you as a consultant to assess and improve the companys overall situation during the COVID-19 Pandemic and recommend a set of specific, measurable and rapid actions for the company to take to (a) survive the global COVID-19 Pandemic and (b) quickly restore the company to healthy sales growth and profitability. Mattel continues to languish with sales declines and earnings losses, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please prepare a report to Mattels board of directors that makes a list of action recommendations that the company needs to follow into order to restore the company to healthy sales growth and positive earnings by no later than the end of Fiscal 2021.

Please complete the attached Mattel Incorporated spreadsheet assignment. The Mattel Income Statements and Balance Sheets (attached above) will be needed to complete this assignment. I’ve included (14) documents. Needs to be APA style. Strong finance background required!

Note: Mattel Incorporated’s 2019 Fiscal Year Ends 12/31/2019. There is preliminary 2Q 2020 data attached above.

Note: Please use the “Commonly Used Financial Ratios” handout formulas for completing the financial ratios on this assignment.

Note: Use N=4 in your calculation of revenue CAGR.

Make an argument to senior management as to whether the bank should expand or contract its mortgage exposure to lower income borrowers.

The location of choice is Cleveland Ohio. Graphs and tables are definitely needed. I pulled data some data on 3 separate spreadsheets.
A couple of paragraphs on the banks, the background on MSA’s (employment is the most important fundamental for housing).

Housing Data using https://www.redfin.com/blog/data-center/

Analysis. Tell me whether the bank is performing well in its requirements regarding supporting housing for lower-income households in your msa.

Final point. The main goal here is to demonstrate to me your ability to make assessments backed by a broad set of disparate information. This is both hard data and broad regional and firm trends. Creativity is highly encouraged

The year is 2020. Since COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, Hollywood has become very interested in producing films about contagion, epidemics, and disease. You are a young filmmaker who majored in History at CU Boulder. You have an idea to pitch a historical film that tells the story of a viral outbreak in the eighteenth century. This is your first independent film and you are looking for funding. Building off of stories and evidence found in Elizabeth Fenns Pox Americana, write a three-page film proposal that will convince a funding agency to support your film. Pick a story or stories from Pox Americana that you wish to adapt to screen. Who will be your narrator or protagonist? George Washington? A Continental soldier? A former slave in Dunmores army? A pueblo child in New Mexico? A trader in the Hudsons Bay Company? What particular historical lessons do you think contemporary audiences will learn from this eighteenth century story? What lessons do you want audiences to take away?

Decide how you want to tell this story and pitch it to your investors. Remember: There are several former History majors at this funding agency, so your description should both tell a story and make a historical argument about what you represent in your film. Youll impress the funders most if you give examples of primary and secondary sources that inform your film.

I was given this link to a youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4INB562_LA

Also I don’t know how to link the book pox Americana but I think you can find it online.