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The objective of this assignment is to apply what you are learning in class and through the readings to what you experience in contemporary journalism. You’re asked to do this primarily through analysis. Your job is to explain the comparison as clearly as possible. To do this you’ll need specific examples. And you’ll need to analyze those specific examples. The genre of this paper is the persuasive essay. Your answer to the set question should be clear from your thesis statement and the rest of the paper should support that assertion. First, decide if you want to read a few longer articles or more shorter articles. If the former choose option 1, if the later choose option 2. Option 1: How is _____________ mentioned in The New Yorker? How do these references connect to what you’ve read in class? What do the references suggest about how the authors and their intended readership perceive Classical Literature and/or Ancient Greece? Option 2: How is _____________ mentioned in the New York Times? How do these references connect to what you’ve read in class? What do the references suggest about how these authors and their intended readership perceive Classical Literature and/or Ancient Greece? Second, you must pick a proper noun or adjective derived from a proper noun to fill in the blank in your question! Any of the authors we’ve read or will read before the midterm are fine choices: Herodotus, Thucydides, Homer, Sappho, Plato…. Other valid choices are the names of primary characters including, but not limited, to Pericles, Socrates, Helen of Troy, Odysseus, Aphrodite, Croesus, Antigone, etc. You can also pick famous places or peoples: Sparta, Thermopylae, Spartans Or, you may even pick adjectives derived from names: Laconic, Platonic, etc. Don’t get stuck on your first choice. After you run a few searches, you may choose to pick a different one that has more interesting or more substantial material. For Option 1, go to the New Yorker website (http://www.newyorker.com/search) and search for the term. Chose 3 articles for analysis. These articles must have been written in your lifetime. At least one must have been published in the last 12 months. You may not chose book, theatre, or art reviews; all other articles are acceptable, but some may be more suitable to the assignment than others. Be selective. For Option 2, you can go to the NYTimes website (http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/) and search for the term. Restrict your search to your own lifetime. At least one article must be published in 2016. Choose 5-6 articles for analysis. You may not chose book, theatre, or art reviews; all other articles are acceptable, but some may be more suitable to the assignment than others. Be selective. Both of these media outlets have paywalls! You may need to use resources from library.brooklyn.cuny.edu to access those portions of the website behind the paywall.