{"id":39,"date":"2016-04-03T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:54:40","slug":"third-essay-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/third-essay-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Essay Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that combines multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that comprise contemporary Ireland, from 1980 to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Before you begin this assignment, consider the following questions. You do not have to answer all of them, but they are an excellent starting point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did the Irish recover from the dark times of the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century?<\/li>\n<li>How have the plays helped in exploring \/ managing what happened to them, including historical plays such as <em>Translations<\/em> and <em>Dancing at Lughnasa<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>What allowed Irish women to go from unheard to becoming president?<\/li>\n<li>How were <em>all<\/em> Irish voices silenced, and what enabled them to speak again?<\/li>\n<li>How does Irish America fit into the dramatic changes happening now?<\/li>\n<li>Did the influx of EU money during the Celtic Tiger period help or hurt?<\/li>\n<li>How do the Irish handle nonconformity, and what has changed for them?<\/li>\n<li>How does shame over the \u201cbad old days\u201d (the Famine, the Civil War, the Troubles, the Magdalene Laundries, etc.) affect them now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Checklist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be from between 1980 and 2016, but articles, books, and films may be more contemporary.<\/li>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be made by Irish people, but articles, books, and films may be by others.<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least two poems<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one song<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one film<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least three plays<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one presentation by Walter, and one presentation by Sean<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one peer-reviewed article (<em>not<\/em> Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li>Use one photograph (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Use one painting (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Include your own ideas<\/li>\n<li>Include an introduction with a thesis statement, and a conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that combines multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/third-essay-assignment\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}