OZAWA ESSAY
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope.
--Hal Lindsey
Analyze this statement by Lindsey and apply it to Letters from Iwo Jima. Take a position on whether it is correct or false; then, use data from the movie to prove the argument.
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· You may produce a one-page (typed, 11 pica, 1.5 spaces, one-inch margins, name and date in upper right-hand margin) opinion piece on the movie’s quotes.
· You need to relate each quote to the movie’s principle themes (death, suicide, hope).
· You will compose four paragraphs with a topic sentence, three to eight sentences that support the topic in the body of the paragraph, and a transition.
· Do not type the quotes; rather, reference them as quote 1, 2, 3 and 4.
1. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
2. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
3. Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
4. Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] And always do what's right because it's right.
Due Date: Tuesday, November 29th at the completion of class.
--Hal Lindsey
Analyze this statement by Lindsey and apply it to Letters from Iwo Jima. Take a position on whether it is correct or false; then, use data from the movie to prove the argument.
OR
· You may produce a one-page (typed, 11 pica, 1.5 spaces, one-inch margins, name and date in upper right-hand margin) opinion piece on the movie’s quotes.
· You need to relate each quote to the movie’s principle themes (death, suicide, hope).
· You will compose four paragraphs with a topic sentence, three to eight sentences that support the topic in the body of the paragraph, and a transition.
· Do not type the quotes; rather, reference them as quote 1, 2, 3 and 4.
1. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
2. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
3. Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
4. Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] And always do what's right because it's right.
Due Date: Tuesday, November 29th at the completion of class.