HIS 101 Task: The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)

Here's the instruction, but I'll attach the file for the instruction as well. HIS 101 Task: Choose one of the following topics. This assignment should be about two pages (maybe longer) in length. In addition, your paper must include complete bibliographic citation at the top left of the page (if necessary) with your name and date. Book review (50 points). Write a review of the book.

Do not just summarize the book's contents but also examine its strengths and weaknesses and place the book in its proper historical context. You can suggest a different book. Archibald MacLeish, J. B.; Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Herodotus, Histories; Homer, The Iliad or The Odyssey; Plato, The Republic; Sophocles, Oedipus or Antigone; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars; Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander; Julius Caesar,Commentaries on the Gallic Wars; Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Plutarch, Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans; Virgil, The Aeneid; Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy; Bede, Ecclesiastical History; Beowulf; Egil's Saga; Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica; Umberto Ecco, The Name of the Rose; Chrétien de Troyes,Arthurian Romances; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron; François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote; Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Sir Thomas More, Utopia; Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Folger Shakespeare Library (50 points). Visit the Folger Shakespeare Library at 2nd and E. Capitol Sts., SE, and submit a short report describing Shakespeare's life and what you have seen at the Folger. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. National Gallery of Art (50 points). Visit the Renaissance collection at the National Gallery of Art and submit a brief essay explaining how certain specific paintings illustrate some of the characteristics of the Renaissance. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (50 points). Visit the Human Origins Hall at the Museum of Natural History and submit a one-two page essay explaining what you discovered. Note some specific artifacts from the exhibit. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Renaissance, or Madrigal, concert (50 points). Attend a Renaissance concert, or fair, and submit a short report explaining what you heard and saw and how music was evolving during the Renaissance. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Walters Art Museum (50 points). Visit the collections dealing with Egypt and the Ancient Near East at the Walters Art Museum and submit a brief essay explaining how certain, specific items illustrate some characteristics of life in the Ancient world. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Egyptian Building, Richmond, Virginia (50 points). Visit the building, now a part of the VCU medical center and explain the building's unique history and its Ancient Egyptian style. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Washington National Cathedral (50 points). Visit the National Cathedral at the corner of Massachusetts and Wisconsin Aves., Washington, D.C., NW, and submit an essay about its construction and how it is, or is not, similar to other Gothic cathedrals in Europe. Please submit either a photo of yourself (or a photo of a brochure or ticket) as evidence of your visit. Architectural portfolio (50 points). Locate and document at least eight examples of buildings in the DC area that were modeled after pre-1600 architecture. You must include your own photographs with an explanation of your samples. Check out outstanding examples of the architectural project done by Stacie Weiss (very large *.pdf file) (http://www(dot)ctevans(dot)net/Nvcc/Student/Weiss/HIS101_Special-Project/HIS101-Architectural-portfolio-Weiss.pdf) and Lori Plunkett (large *.pdf file) (http://www(dot)ctevans(dot)net/Nvcc/Student/Plunkett/Architecture%20Portfolio.pdf). Note that if you have any other proposals for a project, such as a visit to an out-of-town museum like any of those located in New York,please contact your instructor for approval and point value before you begin.