Professor Charu Bhaneja DUE DATE: December 1st , 2021 Instructions DUE: You should submit your assignment via the drop-box on Blackboard by December 1st , 11:59pm. There is a 5% penalty for every late day up until 7 days after which you receive a maximum of 50%. LENGTH: Each essay should be approx. 1000 words (4 pages double-spaced, not including title page and bibliography). FORMAT: Standard margins, Times New Roman, 12pt font. TITLE PAGE: Include a title for your essay, your name, my name, the date, and your Humber ID on a separate page, including a bibliography. QUOTATIONS: Include at least two quotations in your essay to back up your argument from the course article. SOURCES: These are NOT research essays. Use the resources provided (course readings and online learning materials). Avoid the use of the internet because all you require to complete the assignment are course materials. CITATIONS: Make sure that you direct me to where you took a quote or an idea from – every time. Failure to do so is plagiarism and there is no excuse. I am obligated to report you. PLEASE DO NOT PLAGIARISE. You can review the proper way to cite APA style by going to the “Research and Cite Resources’ tab located on the left-hand side of your screen. The easiest way to cite is APA citation style. This means that you include a bibliography at the end of the essay with a list of the sources written in this format (with variations for articles etc.). Author, A. (2015). The Art of Not Plagiarizing. Name of Publishing Location: Name of publisher VERY IMPORTANT: after every idea or quote taken from a source you refer your reader to the bibliography by including the name of the author, the date of publication and the page number in brackets like this (Author, 2015, p. 24) in the essay. Your essays should draw explicitly on the ideas from the article and discussed in class. This is not an “opinion” piece. BUT you should show me that you have thought about the ideas – that you are making sense of them for yourself – that you are testing them against what you know. So I also do not want simply a description of the article. 2 2 You can use “I” so long as you make it clear that it is your understanding of the article, for example: “In my understanding, Caldeira believes that temperatures will rise by 5 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years if we continue to burn fossil fuels. This means that our average temperatures in summer will be 32 C which could create major problems, given that our air conditioning units and grid are already overburdened. I imagine Toronto’s vegetation will change etc.” …..rather than your private opinion of something you don’t know much about, for example: “I think that climate change is a government conspiracy” or “the article says x, y, z” Grading criteria. 1. Grammar, spelling, sentence structure, paragraphs, understandable English, format, word count, citations etc. 2. Content – detailed understanding of article and lecture. 3. Creativity – using your understanding to draw your own conclusions – insights not necessarily spelled out in the article. Guidelines & Reminders Be sure to fully address each part of the topic. Focus on the arguments for the theories that you discuss, i.e., the reasons why, according to the author(s), we should accept their ideas. Do not forget to define key terms and use brief examples to explain main ideas. Be sure to use at least one quotation (properly cited with a parenthetical reference) but no more than three quotations. Remember to also explain each quotation in your own words. Use your best writing skills, e.g., proper sentences, fully developed paragraphs, coherent essay development. Before you begin this assignment, be sure to read the topics carefully, re-read or re-watch the relevant sources, and review your notes. You must write on two sources. The first must be Franco & Zimbardo’s “The Banality of Heroism”; the second, however, is your choice from the list specified in the topic. It would be a good idea to write on the topic that interests you most. Note that this is not a research paper. Please use the following materials ONLY: course readings, on-line learning materials, videos posted our course website. Do not use any other sources. Be careful not to plagiarize! With the exception of the quotation(s) you use, do not copy and paste from the readings, learning materials, or from the internet. Put ideas into you own words and paraphrase as much as you can. Per college policy, any plagiarized papers will result in a mark of zero (0). CONTINUED BELOW ? 3 3 Topics Choose ONLY ONE of the three topics below. Topic #1 (This is a creative option.) Franco and Zimbardo suggest that the “banality of heroism” can be encouraged through story-telling. Explore this idea with reference to Franco and Zimbardo’s “The Banality of Heroism” and one of the following: “Hugh Burnett and the National Unity Association” (Ontario Heritage Trust) OR El Contrato (Lee) OR “Globalization Benefits Powerful Businesses at the Expense of Poor Nations” (Lambrick). In the course of your paper, make sure that you do all of the following:  Summarize what issue your second source is generally about and explain in detail an instance of injustice or “evil” that it addresses.Write a narrative – e.g., a short story, play, poem, or song – that describes an “everyday hero” related to your second source (e.g., an anti-globalization activist, an NUA activist, a Migrant Workers’ Support Centre activist). Your story can be about a real-life person (e.g., Hugh Burnett, Teodoro Bello Martinez, Evelyn Enclada Grez) or a fictional person Explain how your narrative demonstrates the “four independent dimensions” of heroism exhibited by your everyday hero. (Hint: Keep this part of the topic in mind when you write your narrative.)  Define “heroic imagination” and discuss how your narrative might foster “heroic imagination” in others todayExplain why you do or do not believe that narratives are an effective way to maximize the “banality of heroism” within society. Be sure to provide at least one major reason for your point of view. * Note: It is probably best to present your narrative at the start of your paper. It should then be easy to make reference to the narrative as you address other components of the topic