Humanities HW

Due date: Tuesday 11-17-2020

Number of pages: 6

Sources: only 2 sources should be used for this essay.

1)Thomas Hobbes Leviathan book

and

Download Luther – Address to the Nobility (Excerpts)

2)

Prompt:
Another key theme that runs throughout our course is the concept of “human nature.”
Consider the views of Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther with regard to this problem.
Write a thesis-based essay in which you compare or contrast the ideas in Hobbes’s
Leviathan and the assigned texts from Luther about what human nature is like. Along
these lines, for example, you may wish to consider such matters as what these writers
think our “natural” qualities and character are, and what they say about the difference
our shared human nature makes in the way we live our lives.

Instructions:
This is a compare-contrast argumentative essay
Engage a counterargument: You must identify and respond to a counterargument.
For each prompt option, your examination should focus either on a critical difference (or
differences) between the views presented or on a key similarity (or similarities) between
them, but not both. Although you may at the outset briefly note that there are various
similarities between the two works (in an essay that focuses on differences) or certain
differences between them (in an essay that focuses on similarities), do not attempt to
comprehensively address both differences and similarities, given that this is a short
essay. Remember that you will need to advance a unified thesis and provide a claim
clarification and be careful to avoid the problems of offering a split thesis or a list thesis.
See the Humanities Writing Handbook for guidance on all these points

More detailed instruction:
Intro: maybe 2 general sentences about the topic. Present necessary information for
understanding the thesis. The thesis should be unified, not split, specific argument,
precise, concise.

Body paragraphs: This is not a 5-body paragraph paper. So, there is no limit for
number of body paragraphs. But each body paragraph has to be centered to thesis
statement and somehow clarify and explain it.

Counterargument: a paragraph that challenges either an element of the thesis or your
interpretation of a specific piece of evidence. There has to be a respond to
counterargument and why my thesis is stronger than the counterargument. This has to
be supported by the text.

Conclusion: This paragraph shouldn’t be a summary of the essay. Restating the
argument and stating its importance is what we need to write in this paragraph. What
can we understand better or think clearer about after reading this essay?

Paragraph structure:
Topic sentence

Context/background: introducing the evidence that you are about to use by giving some
background/context to the quote.

Evidence/quote

Interpreting the quote: what does this quote mean? What do you want the reader to
notice in the evidence that you have chosen?

Analysis of the evidence: Explain how/why your interpretation of the evidence answers
the prompt.