Research Project:

Choose any one of the selections listed and any one of the suggested themes provided. Write a 5 page typed paper providing researched documented material for support of your thesis. The tentative thesis, outline and background information about your chosen topic,(a seven to 10 sentenced paragraph, including the source that you used to familiarize yourself with the chosen literary selection..If your selection comes from the Norton text, you may use it for the information . The assignment is due Wednesday, October 26, 2016. The final paper and presentation is due on Monday, December 5, 2016.

1.Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Selections not read in class)

“Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun”

The Leiden Hymns (trace similar theme through several poems)

2.The Bible: Old Testament (Selections not read in class)

3.Book of Songs (Chinese Poetry)

4.Confucius and Analects

5.Chuang Chow Chuang Tzu

6.The Nine Songs

7.The Mahabharata/ Ramayana (Indian Epic)

8.The Jataka

9.The Bhagavad – Gita

10.The Tamil Anthologies

11.The Koran

12.Li Po Chinese Poetry

13.The Thousand and One Nights

14.Beowulf

15.African Mythology

16.The Orphan of Chao

17.Canterbury Tales

18.The man Yoshu

19.The tale of the Genji

20.Augustine Confessions

21.The thousand and one nights

22.Yian Chen; The story of Ying-Ying

23.The Pillow book

24.Essays in Idleness

25.Virgil’s Aneid.

26.Sapphos and Lesbos

27.The Aesop Fables

Choose one of the following themes to trace through your literary selection:

1. Attitudes Toward Women
2. Attitude Towards Family Trees
3. Ideas About Leadership and Responsibility
4. Societal Demands and Burdens of Leadership
5. Attitudes Toward Evil
6. Punishment, Mercy and Law
7. The Power of The Word
8. The University of Love and Passion
9. The Intervention of God/Gods in The Lives of Humankind
10. Images of Sensuality and Spirituality
11. Poetry As a Political Form
12. Retribution and Justice
13. Human Mortality
14. The Expression of Emotion in Nature/Animals
15. Sensual Imagery of The Devotional Lyric
16. The Role of Fate
17. Role of Religion or Belief System

and about the outline, papers and presentation the thesis should be one sentence and 3 to 5 major ideas they must be in order for example

Ali is great due to his strength , courage and whatever

1-strength

2-courage

3-whatever

so please I want the outline , papers and presentation to be the same at least 5 sources.

and here is an example for the outline

Outline

Thesis:

The attitude towards women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as expressed by the wife of Bath depicts women in “The Wife of Bath Tales” as strong minded, powerful, and sexually free.

I.Women in the “Wife of Bath Tales are strong minded.

1. Unwavering, she states that women should be able to have multiple husbands like men.
2. She emphatically sees her husband as the supplier of her money.
3. She controls her sexuality by not allowing the church fathers to define her sexual role as a woman.
4. She refuses to be defined by the way she looks.

II.Women in the “The Wife of Bath” are powerful. ( This section should not be in all caps. Note roman numbers I and Ii and Properly format your outlines.

A.The wife of Bath refuses to have sex with her husband unless he gives her money.

B.She freely expresses that women use sex to control men.

1.She is in charge of her lovers.

2.the women had power to punish their men.

C.She is not afraid to fight her husband when he frustrates her.

D.They had power to punish the men.

E.They were in charge of their lovers.

1. The women in “The Wife of Bath Tale” are sexually free.

1. They could choose to have multiple sex partners if they wished to do so.
2. The wife of bath uses her sexual prowess to get her husband to submit.
3. The wife of bath takes ownership that sexual seduction is a gift to women.
4. She commits to the fact that sexuality is not determined by the way a woman looks.This sample outline is the way that all outlines for your research project should look. Note the structure and format of the outline. Then of course, your paper will support and supply the evidence from your literary selection and your five outside scholarly sources. Wikipedia and similar sources are not scholarly sources.Use Morgan’s library port to find sources.