Choose one of the following two readings for your focus.
the crucible, act 1, part 1
“dr. heidegger’s experiment,” part 1
to connect the text to a personal experience, you can ask yourself questions like
•does the text remind me of something that has happened in my life?
•do i relate to the characters in the story?
to connect the text to another text, you can ask yourself questions like
•does the text remind me of something else i have read?
•do i see similarities between the text and something else i have read?
•to connect the text to the world around you, you can ask yourself questions like
•does the text remind me of something that has happened in the world around me?
•do the events in the story remind me of something that has happened in the world?
in a short paragraph, explain the connection you made. be sure to provide specific examples from your chosen reading and your experiences.

what's the topic we have to write about?

awnser:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran