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1)Discussion: Marra, rokazu, Ogawa  (Need 250 words) one page ?check the example i upload For your final discussion post of the semester, provoke a conversation about our three texts that present us with the relatively contemporary, postmodern world. In these texts, we face a city that is being deconstructed and has no center, a family that is torn apart, warriors whose battles are brought into work rather than the battlefield, and lovers who bring a temporary pleasure and enduring absence. Within these losses, how do cities, families, worker-warriors, and lovers create meaning? Substance? Relationships they value? How do characters transform what used to be into what is? Assignment: Discuss two texts for each discussion posts in light of one of our archetypes: My warrior, my lover, my father, my home. How do the texts present transformed possibilities for one of these foundational elements? Bring in a quote from Bennett & Royle. You might want to reference one of our earlier texts to have a basis on which to compare/contrast. Definitely quote from the two texts you’re comparing and contrasting. Example: Perhaps you’ll compare and contrast Marra’s novel and Ogawa’s in terms of how the texts depict a home, including its loss and its re-creation. The notion you could bring in from Bennett & Royle could be something from “Beginnings,” such as their warning against giving priority to your first reading. Thus, you could start out by quoting B&R’s warning against thinking your first reading of Messina as a depiction of a neighborhood in Much Ado as being inconsequential but, upon revisiting it in light of Marra’s and Ogawa’s depictions, you now…Whatever it might be! 2)Journal  ( 350 words) one and half page For your fin

al journal post of the semester, you have the opportunity to explore three of the texts we have read or viewed that present us with the relatively contemporary, postmodern world. In these texts, we face a city that is being deconstructed and has no center, a family that is torn apart, warriors whose battles are brought into work rather than the battlefield, and lovers who bring a temporary pleasure and enduring absence. As you did with this week’s discussion, analyze, suggest, explore, and / or ponder how, within these losses, cities, families, worker-warriors, and lovers create meaning, substance, relationships they value or how characters transform what used to be into what is. Assignment: Discuss two texts for the journal post in light of one of our archetypes: My warrior, my lover, my father, my home. How do the texts present transformed possibilities for one of these foundational elements? Bring in a quote from Bennett & Royle. You might want to reference one of our earlier texts to have a basis on which to compare/contrast. Definitely quote from the two texts you’re comparing and contrasting. Example: Perhaps you’ll compare and contrast Marra’s novel and Ogawa’s in terms of how the texts depict a home, including its loss and its re-creation. The notion you could bring in from Bennett & Roylecould be something from “Beginnings,” such as their warning against giving priority to your first reading. Thus, you could start out by quoting B&R’s warning against thinking your first reading of Messina as a depiction of a neighborhood in Much Ado as being inconsequential but, upon revisiting it in light ofMarra’s and Ogawa’s depictions, you now…Whatever it might be! 3) important: the example file for Discussion Board only