Research a bibliography before settling on something. The project won’t come to anything worthwhile if there isn’t good literature on and around the piece.

Good literature means serious, specific, academic analytical writing, (NOT programme notes or biography). Some of your literature should be about your piece directly, but some could be about other related works. Try looking in –

· Articles from peer-reviewed journals such as Music Analysis, C19th Music, Journal of the Royal Musicological Association etc. Much of this literature can be accessed from JSTOR.
· Articles/essays from scholarly collections in books. Look for books with titles or subtitles like ‘analytical studies’ etc. Also look for ‘ . . . University Press’ on the spine.
· Analytical books or monographs devoted to the piece itself (eg. The Cambridge Music Handbooks) or the music of the relevant composer, period or style, from a which a chapter or section might be relevant
· By all means try the Internet, but beware – you need material of a high standard of scholarship. That does not include Wikipedia (although this can point you to other things). If in doubt, ask your teacher.

Having found a good book or article, look through its bibliography which may lead you to other useful sources. You can also find a bibliography at the end of every article in Grove Music Online

2 Assemble the project

a) Essay
This must contain two elements –
i) Literature Review
ii) Analytical Response
You could therefore separate the essay into two distinct sections, but you may prefer to wrap the two elements into one continuous essay. Either way, each element should account for approximately half the word count.

i) Literature Review – explain how other people have approached the work. What topics seem particularly important? Do some writers comment on others? This sense of a continuing dialog can be particularly useful. You can (and should) state your own critical opinions at this point, but remember these writers are often writing in serious journals that are peer-reviewed and selective, so just saying ‘X’s analysis of Beethoven Op.59/1 is rubbish because Beethoven can’t have been thinking about that’ isn’t likely to go down very well!

Perhaps one of the most famous and publicized crime stories in contemporary America occurred in June of 1994 when the ex-wife of O. J. Simpson (Nicole Brown Simpson) and her friend Ronald Goldman were found brutally murdered at the Simpsons’ household. Mr. Simpson, a famous football star, was eventually arrested and prosecuted for the crime. After an extensive and highly publicized trial that lasted 9 months, Mr. Simpson was found not guilty for the deaths of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Mr. Simpson’s lawyer, Robert Shapiro, was able to convince the jury that there was reasonable doubt regarding the DNA evidence (and the evidence in general), and there were also allegations of misconduct by the Los Angeles Police Department, which was responsible for investigating the crime. For this assignment, you will discuss the questions below related to this case

Topic:- Organisations that best satisfy the customers’ needs are best placed to satisfy their organisation’s needs.

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your learning of marketing. Although using an example is preferable, students are advised to focus on the unit concepts [80%] and focus less on describing the example [20%].How the unit concepts relate to the example and vice versa is what should be made clear and emphasised.

In this week’s Discussion, you examine how classical conditioning influences emotional responses in humans. You begin to see how classical conditioning applies in everyday human life. Behavioral psychologists are interested not only in how classical conditioning affects behavior and emotion. They also are interested in how classical conditioning can be applied to improve well being. For example, a child with asthma may benefit from remaining calm during an episode of wheezing. To bring this about, a parent may give the child a specific stuffed animal to hold at bedtime when the child is sleepy and relaxed. The child begins to pair the feeling of relaxation with the stuffed animal. Then when the parent gives the child the stuffed animal to hold during an asthma attack, the child calms down and the severity of the anxiety is reduced. Chapter 4 in your textbook explains how classical conditioning can influence health in positive and negative ways. Understanding this information can help researchers find new ways to treat physical and mental health issues.

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To prepare for this assignment:
•    Review Chapter 4 in the course text, Learning and Behavior. Pay particular attention to the section on taste aversion and immune function.
•    Think about a physical or mental health issue of interest to you (one that is not in your textbook).
•    Consider how the issue you selected could be treated with the help of classical conditioning.
The assignment (1 page):
•    Explain how classical conditioning can help in the treatment of the physical or mental health that you selected.
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

Assignment: Part II: Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery

In Week 1, you proposed an experiment to simulate the acquisition of a behavior in a rat. You may be interested in what to do if you no longer want your imagined experimental rat, or a real animal or human, to continue to produce the acquired behavior. Chapter 3 in your textbook explains extinction, the phenomenon that Pavlov demonstrated to determine how to reduce and ultimately extinguish an acquired behavior. Your text also explains how to bring that behavior back, which is called spontaneous recovery.
This week you will explain how you would design your proposed experiment to elicit both extinction and spontaneous recovery of the target behavior in your rat.
To prepare for this assignment:
•    Review the assigned pages in Chapter 3 of the course text, Learning and Behavior. Focus on the section titled, “Extinction of Conditional Responses.”
•    Review the assigned section, Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery, of Psychology, Core Concepts.
•    Review the experiments detailed in the Rescorla article to aid you in considering how you will conduct this part of your experiment.

The assignment (1 page):
•    Explain the steps you would take to exhibit extinction of the target behavior in your rat. Include how you would know extinction of the behavior has taken place.
•    Explain how spontaneous recovery occurs and what it might look like in your experiment.
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.
Submit your assignments (Parts I and II)

Readings Resources:
Course Text: Learning and Behavior, Chance P. (2014). (7th ed.) Belmont,CA: Wadsworth
Chapter 3, “Pavlovian Conditioning” (pp. 78–92 only)
Chapter 4, “Pavlovian Applications”

Rescorla, R. A. (2001). Retraining of extinguished Pavlovian stimuli. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Thanellou, A., & Green, J. T. (2011). Spontaneous recovery but not reinstatement of the extinguished conditioned eyeblink response in the rat. Behavioral Neuroscience.

Book Excerpt: Zimbardo, P. G., Johnson, R. L., & Weber, A. L. (2005). Learning. In Psychology: Core concepts (pp. 224–269). Boston: Pearson. Retrieved from http://www.ablongman.com/samplechapter/0205424287.pdf (Read only p. 231)
Optional Resources
•    Sniffy the Virtual Rat Lite Version 3.0
o    Chapter 3, “Phenomena of Classical Conditioning: Acquisition, Extinction, and Spontaneous Recovery” (pp. 29–32 only)

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Assignment: Novel Journal Book One – Chapters Seven through Thirteen

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” ~ Willa Cather

Directions: Below is the journal assignment for Book One, Chapters Seven through Thirteen. Complete the journal according to the guidelines and submit it to your teacher. The journal will be scored using the Journal Scoring Rubric.

Journal Guidelines for Book One – Chapters Seven through Thirteen

My Antonia

Paragraph One: Summarize what you have read in Book One, Chapters Seven through Thirteen, of My Antonia. How do the shared experiences of Antonia and Jim begin to show that they have similarities, despite their differences in culture and background?

Paragraph Two: How do the weather and landscape in this part of the book begin to provide the reader with hints and ideas of the characters’ feelings? Use specific quotes that show the author’s point of view. Explain why the quotes you chose demonstrate the message and what you have learned about these ideas.

Paragraph Three: What are some of the symbols you see emerging in the book? How might the author and the time period reflect these symbols? Use this website to help you find information that may be helpful. In addition, what is your personal connection to this part of the book? Have you experienced anything similar? Have you met a person who reminds you of one of the characters? Is there a current event, movie, song, or another book that reminds you of this portion of the novel? In this paragraph, explain these cultural, personal, and author connections.

Here is the link for the story : http://www.classicreader.com/book/1050/

and here is the rubric I want you to follow :

Joe has scheduled a meeting with his management team for next week to talk about the Peninsula Hotel chain contract. He hopes that he will be able to work with them to draft a contract favorable to Peninsula that will ensure its renewal for another year. He is reasonably sure that the contract renewal will ensure his continued success, and employment, with UWEAR.

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On his way out of the office today, Joe receives a call from Bill.

Bill: “Joe, how are you doing? Got any great plans for the weekend?”

Joe: “No, my wife and I are just planning on hanging out at home and relaxing. How about you?”

Bill: “My family and I are planning a short trip on the yacht. We haven’t been out in a while, and the weather looks perfect. Maybe you and your wife could join us? We haven’t seen you guys in quite a while, and it will be good to catch up.”

Joe is relieved to get the invitation from Bill because their relationship has been strained lately because of the contract negotiations. Answer the following:

• What should Joe consider about this invitation?
• Who are the stakeholders in this situation?
• What are the potential outcomes to this situation?

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Considering the four domains: professional values, communication and interpersonal skills, nursing practice and decision making and leadership management and team working and complete the following questions;
1. Consider a woman who requires care from your own field of nursing (learning disability nurse) who is also pregnant.
• How could you meet the needs of the woman, her family and her unborn baby?
• How may you ensure their continued good health?

2. If a woman is admitted to an area in your field of nursing ( learning disability nurse) in advanced labour;
• What should your immediate reaction be?
• How would you facilitate the birth of the baby?
• How would you facilitate the delivery of the placenta and membranes?
• What would be your priorities in caring for the new-born baby?.