Industrial Revolution Writing Assignment Help

Question Description

  • Do not plagiarize. Use only your own words and ideas toanalyze the texts. The only sources you should use are the works ofliterature themselves.

  • Use MLA format for citations.

  • Proofread your posts.

  • Youwill be posting 3 times. Your first post will be one of the optionsabove; your second and third posts will respond to a classmate’s postusing Options 2 and/or 3. You mustwrite substantive response posts.  This means you have to do more thansay you agree, disagree, or compliment what your classmates have said.

  • You must submit your own post before seeing your classmates’ comments.
  • Be sure to specify which prompt you’re responding to.
  • Review the grading rubric that will be used.

Discussion Topics for the Industrial Revolution:

1. The introduction to this section in your book quotes Alex de Tocqueville’s thoughts on the impact of industrialization:”From this foul drain, the greatest stream of human industry flows outto fertilize the whole world.  From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and itsmost brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man isturned into a savage” (1580).  Explain what you think de Tocquevillemeans and use one text from those assigned in this section to illustrateyour analysis.

2. One of the major challenges faced by writersseeking to portray the sufferings of the working classes was how to givethem a voice.  Select one text from the section and discuss how theauthor successfully provides that voice. Make sure to use a quoteto illustrate and support your analysis.

3. Explicitly orimplicitly, several writers in this section use slavery as a metaphorfor the industrial worker’s condition.  Select one of these texts anddiscuss how the author employs the metaphor.

For this discussion you must post your Option 1 before being able to read/respond to your classmates.

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