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Assignment 2:
Project Paper
Due Week 8 and worth 200 points
The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or
literature.
The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic.
This project is designed to help
you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are!
Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to
four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.
Note:
Your instructor may require you to submit your topic choice for approval before the end
of Week 5.
For the topic you choose
:
1.
Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples.
If there are questions or points associated
with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items
in that topic. If your topic requires you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each
of the things listed.
2.
While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not
restricted to the specific format suggested for the individual topic. For example, you may
do an
“interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other
written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as informative,
so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information.
3.
Use at least three (3) good quality academic sources, with one (1) source being the class text.
Note:
Wikipedia
and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources. You are highly encouraged to use the Resource

Center tab at the top of your Blackboard page.
Topic
Choices

Self-Portraits.Journal.The Renaissance artists Titian, Rembrandt, and Durer have each painted self-portraits. Imagine yourself as
one of these artists(or another artist of your choice that has painted a self-portrait)
and write a journal expressing your thoughts on “your” art (in other words,
the journal entries the artist would probably write.) (1) Explain “your” primary reason for painting a
self
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portrait. (2) Describe “your” artistic choices in composition: use of color, space, etc. (3)
Explain what the portrait represents about “you” (as the artist.) (4) Explain “your” choices of
subject with regard to at least three
(3)
other specific pieces “you
” have painted.
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Ladies
and
Gentlemen.
Survey and Report.
Some may believe that being “gentleman” or a “lady”in today’s society is an outdated notion,but others may disagree.

(1) Briefly summarize the main characteristics of a well-rounded person, “l’uomo universal,”referring
to specific sections within the excerpt from
The Courtier
which identifies these characteristics. (2) Create a “survey” based
on the identified characteristics and “poll” at least ten people to find out whether or not the
characteristics are relevant for a “gentleman” or “lady” of today. (3) Tabulate and discuss the
responses in terms of gender, age, vocation, etc. of your survey participants, making note of any
interesting or surprising results which show up in your poll answers. (4
)
Finally, explain whether or not you agree with the characteristics expressed by Castiglione in
The Courtier
.

Bayeux Tapestry
Experience.
Letter
. Imagine yourself as one of the figures in the battle depicted
in the Bayeux Tapestry ; in a letter home, you describe your experience to your family.
(1)
Write a first-person account of this historical event from the perspective of one
(1)
of the figures in
tapestry
. (2)
Use your senses to describe your impression of the event.
(3)
Describe specific
elements
of the scene such as uniforms, weaponry, fighting styles, etc.

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