Instructions
This essay should be a 600-900 word essay focusing on the assigned readings from the course.
• This should be a close reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the work or works that you discuss. You may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor's approval.
• The essay should be in MLA essay format, and use MLA citations. A works cited entry and in-text citations for each text discussed are required.
• Analytical essays should be focused on making a debatable claim about the work in question. Informational essays or essays consisting of summary are not appropriate for either type of essay.
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be sure to write a thesis-driven essay in response to the topic.
Analytical Choices
1 Defining the Sacred: choose 2 sacred works that we have read, 1 from the two Abrahamic faiths (Islam and Christianity) and 1 from the Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) and make an argument about what similarities they have, and what those similarities can tell us about what it means for a work to be "sacred."