Comparative Textual Analysis

Write a comparative analysis: that is, put the two texts together in a meaningful way. Since we are doing that process, I’ve opened up the assignment so that students can put together any two things from their own life. (Only take this option if you can have a visual analysis that will meet the portfolio guidelines by the end of the semester.) Do not Goggle comparison topics! Please have a genuine connection to the theme you want to explore. Using the following link? Cats vs birds: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/opinion/sunday/the-evil-of-the-outdoor-cat.html Method of college education: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/lecture-me-really.html (PDF below too) Silicon Valley real-estate vs people problem: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/the-tent-cities-of-san- francisco.html?_r=0 A possibly up & coming social topic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-a-guaranteed-minimum-income-just-money-for-nothing/2016/06/22/46a4b8c6-3889-11e6-8f7c- d4c723a2becb_story.html?utm_term=.800e88769d1e On forced fatherhood: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/is-forced-fatherhood-fair/?_r=0 College: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/the-lie-about-college-diversity.html Time to break-up Google, Apple & Microsoft? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-powerful-ask-google.html Serious social critic or self-interested, hypocritical opportunist? https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/08/tim- gunn-designers-refuse-to-make-clothes-to-fit-american-women-its-a-disgrace/?utm_term=.de52423ce461 An essay/argument from the NY Times magazine (by the author of one of my favorite short stories) on her opinion on using a particularly taboo word to refer to a woman: it’s from the New York Times so it’s not dirty, but if you feel you might be offended, don’t open the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/an-unspeakable-word-is-the-word-that-has-to-be-spoken.html? pagewanted=all Typically I’ve avoided this topic since I don’t have a real sense of the facts and it is quite controversial. Feel free to take either side: just be sure to analyze: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ Summer 2016’s hottest topic on social media, the Stanford University rape case: this is the dad’s letter to the judge asking for leniency for his son: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2852614-Letter-from-Brock-Turner-s-Father.html#document/p3/a300156. Originally, I was going to post the female victim’s letter to the court but it’s well over 10 pages long and I’m not sure it’s easily analyzable. But, try if you like. An emotional farewell to the environmental movement be a well known (former) environmentalist: https://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6599/ On college admissions: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html