AWSP Arts and Social Science

Review and select your essay question
You can select any of the available essay questions
You must answer one of the available AWSP essay questions
Your answer should be between 500 and 1,000 words long, and you can use any referencing style
1. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ (L. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878) Discuss the depiction of a family in a book OR poem OR play you have read.

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Evaluate the importance of literature for society. You may make reference to any form of literature (fiction, non-fiction, creative writing, poetry, social media posts, etc.).

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2. Choose a word and provide discussion and analysis of its etymology (history), usage, and the development of it as a concept.Evaluate the adaptation of a piece of entertainment from one medium to another (e.g. book/comic into a TV show or TV show into a film). Make specific reference to the successes or failures of the adaptation.

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‘TV is dead; long live Netflix!’ Evaluate the successes and failures of live broadcast television versus streaming services.

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Can the true history of a country/group/people/nation be found in examining its art?