Gordon Rule Essay Assignment – The Matrix

Gordon Rule Essay Assignment – The Matrix

Gordon Rule Essay Assignment – The Matrix

Idea:

Neo wakes up and asks Morpheus why his eyes are hurting, to which Morpheus answers that his eyes hurt because he has never used them before. There are two worlds, reality and what we perceive to be reality. One is real, but people in the simulation cannot realize there is a real world out there. “The matrix is all around us.  It is a world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth…that you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage…a prison for your mind.”

* You may ONLY use our textbook “Does the center hold” and the movie as sources for your essays.

* Use two textbook citations: Palmer, Edition number, page numbers (in    parentheses at the end of the relevant quote or paraphrasing), to provide some foundation for your topic

*  Use two scenes from the movie. When using the required movie scenes provide the relevant scene times (e.g. The Matrix, 00:45 to 01:15

*  essay must be between 750-1000 words

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.