The document provides instructions for a humanities assignment asking students to analyze the surprise ending of one of three short readings: Descartes' Discourse on the Method, Swift's A Modest Proposal, or selections from Voltaire's Candide. Students are to write a 3-4 paragraph essay identifying the surprise ending, when they realized the ending would be different than initially suggested, and how successfully the author convinced them to accept the unexpected conclusion. The assignment requires APA formatting and must address specific course learning outcomes related to analyzing historical and cultural contexts of texts.

1. Humanities
Choose one (1) of the three reading selections from the list of topic choices below. Read the
selection in thetextbook. Write a three to four (3-4) paragraph essay (250 words) which
analyzes the “ surprise ending” of the readingselection.Topic Choices:• Reading selection
from Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (Part IV). Descartes begins with the problem
ofbeing able to prove his own existence but ends up with an argument proving the existence
of God. Read more about theDiscourse on the Method located at
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/descdisc.pdf.• Reading selection from Swift’ s A
Modest Proposal. Swift begins with offering the solution that the Englishcould do things
which might solve the problem of over-population and the mistreatment of citizens in
Ireland and endsby offering the solution that an internal change in the Irish government
would best solve the problem ofover-population and a populace victimized by its own
government. Read more about A Modest Proposal located
athttp://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/modest.html.• Two reading selections
from Voltaire’ s Candide. The story begins by acknowledging the foolishness of
thesuperstitious traditions held by the people in the city of Lisbon but ends by confirming
Voltaire’ s belief thatreligion in general is equally based in false superstitions.For the
reading selection you choose:1. Clearly state in your own words the “ surprise ending” in
the reading you selected. Identify the point in thereading when you realized that the ending
would be different from what the beginning of the reading suggested that itwould be.2.
Since you were expecting a different ending, evaluate how successful the author was in
convincing you toaccept the validity of the “ surprise ending” that was not clearly
suggested at the beginning.Your assignment must:• Be typed, double spaced, using Times
New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citationsand references must
follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.•
Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment, the student’ s name, the
professor’ s name, thecourse title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are
not included in the required assignment pagelength.The specific course learning outcomes
associated with this assignment are:• Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic
contributions contribute to historical changes.• Explain the importance of situating a
society’ s cultural and artistic expressions within a historicalcontext.• Examine the
influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social,
cultural,and artistic expressions.• Identify major historical developments in world cultures
from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.• Use technology and information

2. resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.• Write clearly and concisely
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