Heroes & Monsters

Ms. Carla Kurt

One Value In-Depth Essay

Choose one value that you discovered highlighted in The Epic of Gilgamesh and write an essay in which you discuss how this value is perceived and communicated in today's world in comparison to its treatment in Gilgamesh. You may choose one of the following formats.

Formats – Choose one option

1. Choose a quote that illustrates the value you selected. Use the quote as a focus for your essay.
2. Find a poem that relates thematically to the value you selected. Write and essay that uses the poem as a focus to discuss the value as it is perceived and communicated in today's world.
3. Find a contemporary image (photograph, art, sculpture, advertisement) that represents your chosen value and discuss how it portrays the value.
4. Find a news article that demonstrates the importance of the value that you have selected. Use the article as a focus for a more general discussion of the value in today's world.

Guidelines:

• minimum 750 words
• MLA format - typed, (12 point Times or Times New Roman)
• Proofread for spelling, grammar, and mechanics
• Any outside sources properly cited using MLA in-text and works cited documentation. 

Resources – You may use the resources below or find your own

Quotations

• Annabelle's Quotation Guide...organized by both topic and author with a quick search window ( http://www.annabelle.net/)
• Quoteland....features quotes by topic, research resources and user groups (http://www.quoteland.com/)
• The Quotations Page...bills itself as "the oldest quotation site on the Web" (http://www.quotationspage.com/)
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations...part of the Bartleby site, Simpson's features modern quotes organized by author and topic with a handy keyword search (http://www.bartleby.com/63/)

Poetry

• Yahoo Poetry Directory...links to poetry sites (http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/)
• Bartleby....search for poems by title, author and subjects, or use the keyword search (http://www.bartleby.com/verse/)
• Norton Poets Online...poetry indexed by title and author (http://www.nortonpoets.com/welcome.htm)
• The Academy of American Poets… search by port or keyword (http://poets.org/)
• Poetry Connection… search by port or keyword (http://www.poetryconnection.net/)

Images

• Fagan Finder...a huge listing of image search engines...have some fun! (http://www.faganfinder.com/img/)
• Google Image Search....by keyword, "the most comprehensive image search on the web" (http://images.google.com/)
• Altavista Image Search....photos, graphics, buttons and banners (http://www.altavista.com/image/default)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art....extensive online collection from New York's famous art museum (http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp)
• National Gallery of Art...tour the collections of the National gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (http://www.nga.gov/)
• The Louvre...view selections from the Louvre's (Paris) various collections (http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en)
• Smithsonian Photo Archive...from the Smithsonian's Office of Imaging and Photographic Services (http://photo2.si.edu/)

News

• The New York Times...read current news or search the archives (http://nytimes.com)
• Associated Press...news Web site of the Associated Press, its member newspapers and broadcasters (http://www.ap.org/pages/history/history.html)
• CNN (http://www.cnn.com/)