Write an essay wherein you will compare and contrast two readings from the Contemporary Challenges
section (Conway, Cooke).
these are the two articles: Perpetual Strangers: Animals and the Cosmopolitan Right
by Steve Cooke and
Trudy D. Conway
Cross-cultural Dialogue on the Virtues
The Contribution of Fethullah Gülen
Choose a focused point of comparison, a specific claim about tolerance, hospitality, or listening (or
something related to one or more of those themes) to argue that what the articles have in common or
contrast matters to some end. Here's a worksheet that might help you get organized. Consider the
following templates for a thesis (these aren’t required but are suggested ways of getting started or
thinking complexly about compare –
contrast essays):
While X and Y appear to approach topic T similarly, their difference of _ matters because __________.
X and Y are different with regard to topic T, yet what they have in common, namely _, is more
important insofar as _______
Sample Solution