Humanities Homework Help

“The City of Brass” Paper Prompts – Please choose prompt to write your paper on. The prompts are described as a sequence of questions but your paper should have a coherent and smooth flow to the writing so that one would not need to see the prompt in order to follow your writing easily. Each paper should have an introduction and conclusion that synthesizes the points of the paper into one statement about the author’s work. Also, you need to use at least two quotes to show evidence and support for each given questions (a-f). You must cite the page numbers in parentheses after the quote. For example, (p. 11) This paper must be no more than three pages long.

Ethics – Give a brief review of what the whole book is about. Then according “The City of Brass”, answer the following questions with as much detail as you can and still have the paper the appropriate length.

A) What is the major human difficulty described by the poetry of the abandoned palace?

B) Why was the Jinn, Dahish, punished, and by whom?

C) Describe one time in the story when virtue saved the life of a member of the campaign.

D) Why did the City of Brass fail, despite its riches?

E) At the end of the story, why do you think amir Musa retires and moves to Jerusalem to live a more religious life?

F) What is the overall ethic (manner of living a good life) of “The City of Bras?”