Humans in The Demonstration of Their Cultural Interests Discussion

Sayre’s The Humanities: Culture, Continuity & Change Third or Fourth Edition, Volume I

Chapter 1: “The Rise of Culture: From Forest to Farm”

Chapter 2: “The Ancient Near East: Power and Social Order”

Chapter 3: “The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and Sun”

Chapter 4: “The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece: Trade, War, and Victory”

I expect these papers to be 3 pages in length (typed, double-spaced, stapled), and written in the expository (argument)

style. (See the “Expository Writing” and “Formal Writing” pages at the end of the syllabus.) The papers must have:

1. an Introduction paragraph ending in a predictive thesis statement;

2. body paragraphs (BPs) which begin with a topic sentence and then fully develop and follow the order of your predictive

thesis statement, giving a minimum of 4-6 textual examples per BP topic; and

3. a Conclusion paragraph.

Pick ONE of the following four topics for your paper to be compared/contrasted between TWO examples from each of the TWO Chapters you have chosen (Chaps 1-4).
I. Compare and Contrast the following: TWO examples of architecture from EACH of the TWO Chapters you have chosen.

II. Compare and Contrast the following: TWO examples of writing/literature from EACH of the TWO Chapters you have chosen.

III. Compare and Contrast the following: TWO examples of art/artifacts from EACH of the TWO Chapters you have chosen.

IV. =compare and Contrast the following: TWO examples of power/hierarchy from EACH of the TWO Chapters you have chosen.

Ahead of time, please consider turning in or emailing me your working Introduction and thesis statement so I can help you with wording, focus, and order of Body Paragraph topics.

Remember, you will have ONE Theme/Topic, TWO Chapters, FOUR total examples, with 3-5 cited explanations for each example. The Theme is Writing
I will attach a sample of the thesis statement and should be one predictive sentence with strong claim and provides a structure for your argument

I will give access for a book in the chat