summarize relevant parts of at least three (3) different chapters of Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez;
2) evaluate and analyze Rodriguez’s examples, reasoning, conclusions, and related evidence;
3) incorporate meaningful material from at least six (6) credible outside sources, at least three (3) of which must be scholarly sources/from scholarly library databases;
4) cite textual material using correct MLA documentation, including a Works Cited with at least seven (7) entries (Rodriguez himself, and your six outside sources);
5) SYNTHESIZE information from Rodriguez, your secondary sources, and your own views into a new argumentative whole. The key rhetorical demand of this assignment essay is to synthesize, meaning to make detailed connections, comparisons, and contrasts between Rodriguez’s ideas and examples and the six outside authors you find and discuss. In other words, take your chosen topic and place Rodriguez’s views on it in debate and dialogue with your own views and with those of Rodriguez’s interpreters and the related commentators you research;
6) incorporate Essay 1’s tasks of summary and evaluation, and build on Essay 2’s techniques of introducing opposing views and counter-arguing them. Thus, your paragraph development and structure should reflect your argumentative strategy: your major rhetorical task is to refer to several different, scholarly sources within (at least) one paragraph or (ideally) one long section (several pages) of the paper, avoiding separate-source-block-by-separate-source-block reference. Although multiple positions must be present in your paper and supported by credible sources, you must maintain a clear focus in support of your own position;
7) organize the essay so that intellectual connections are clear and coherent; and
8) express ideas in standard English and academic writing conventions, writing almost completely error-free prose in terms of spelling, punctuation, grammar, and academic formatting.

Choose one of the three topics listed below:
TOPIC A: Explain, analyze, and evaluate the American dream as reflected in the lives of the Rodriguez’s.