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Write a 3 page paper, using the readings provided ONLY, answering the following two questions:

What are the main virtues being celebrated in pre-Islamic poems? And
what were the shunned/bad qualities that were being denounced?

Your paper should have a clearly identifiable thesis and a discernable introduction, body and conclusion. Overall organization and transitions between paragraphs should be logical, and each paragraph should have a topic sentence to which the rest of the paragraph relates. Paragraphs that are close to a page long and sentences that are over four lines long are probably too long and need to be broken up.
Your paper should consist primarily of your own writing, but must use properly cited evidence from the work being consulted. Avoid too many citations and try to utilize your own words. If you are going to use citations they must be apposite and well incorporated into the text. All borrowed ideas and paraphrases must be footnoted. All direct quotations must be footnoted and placed between quotation marks. The use of borrowed ideas or phrases without attribution constitutes plagiarism.