In brief:

REPORT: Students undertake close reading of two anthropological texts on witchcraft in a particular part of the world (as assigned/agreed upon in class), then produce a 1500 word reporting showcasing a close and critical analysis (and comparison) of these texts.

Details:

Your report should show a very close engagement with the two texts: Understanding of each, but more importantly comparison and connection between them. It should evaluate them at a more ‘meta’ level as academic sources and also situated cultural artifacts (i.e. what are the epistemological underpinnings of each? What paradigms does the author apply?) and also contextualize them as part of the broader body of academic work about witchcraft; What does the idea of witchcraft represent emic-ly in the location you studied? What contribution have studies of this area made to etic/anthropological understandings of the social construction of evil?

Personal Notes: For outline, I was thinking the sections could be;

1. Introduction
2. Summary of both articles
3. Contextual Background (The how, where, when, why the authors are writing the articles),
4. Focus and Epistemological Underpinnings of the Article (discussing what angle/focus the author has, how they gathered their data, and they analysed the data)
5. Analysis section( critiques if their data gathering and analyzing process is effective for their topic, as well as highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the articles in relation to anthropological goals for the study of religion, society, evil)
6. Conclusion (could make a creative link between the two sources and the overall themes, and synthesize these meanings to integrate them into a wider theoretical question on the topic of anthropology)

Discuss two plausible reason why the cultural beliefs in the excerpt prevail in your island even though students performance in mathematics at the local and national remains poor.

select one pair of unproductive/productive beliefs relating to the teaching of mathematics and discuss why the belief is, productive and unproductive.

describe one research based strategy that can be use to implement reform based demands

(a) Read the posted NYT article on “Fukushima: When Radiation isn’t the Real Risk”. (b) Do a brief calculation to show how they arrive at the quoted number of expected cancers due to radiation. (c) Write a brief summary of the key argument the article is making which should influence decision makers in emergency situations. (1 page max for (b)+(c) combined.

You are to build a windows forms application project. This project deals with keeping track of the different budgets a company allocates to each department. As well as keeping track of all the expenses make of a given budget.

You are going to build 3 classes.
1. Base class Budget
2. Child class HomeBudget
3. Child class BusinessBudget
4. in Form1 you would need a listview and a listbox. The listview is used to display all the budgets
5. the listbox is to display all the expenses of the selected budget from the listview

Building the project
1.    Create the project. Set up the Form1_Design to have a Listview, a listbox
2.    Define a class Budget. This class should have
a.    Private fields: _balance (this is the amount of money available or left in the budget
                        to be spent)
              _budgetCode (every budget has an id code by which to access it.
                        Could be a string or an int.
              _expenseList (List<decimal>) this list will contains all the
                          Transactions that took place. Every time an expenditure occurs it is
                          added to this list and the balance is deducted the expenditure made
b.    Constructor and properties for all the fields
c.    Methods: 
public bool MakePurchase(decimal expenseAmount){}
This method is to get the amount of this expense, decide whether the expense will go through or not, then to reduce the current budget balance by this amount,
and to add this expense amount to the _expenseList.
Return true or false according to the decision made.
public void UpdateBudgetBalance(decimal amount){}
This method is to update the balance by either adding the amount to it or subtracting the amount from it.
The amount is not an expense,it is the amount by which to adjust the budget balance.
you decide on what changes you need to make to this method so that you can use it for adding and subtracting the amount to/from balance
public string GetBudgetInfo(){.}
this method is return a string that contains all the information about this budget.

3.    Define a class BusinessBudget that inherits (polymorphically) from Budget.
a.    This class should define an extra private field _department (String). This is the name of the department this businessBudget is allocated to.
b.    Complete the necessary code in this class to make it a functional child

4.    Define a class HomeBudget that also inherits (polymorphically) from Budget
a.    This class should define an extra private field also  _category (String) this describe where this budget is used for such as: Food, Clothing, Entertainment, etc
b.    Complete the necessary code in this class to make it a functional child
5.    In Form1, Create a single List to hold all the budgets (Business and Home)
Define a method PreloadBudgetList that populate the budgetList with at least 5 budgets of each type.
Define also a method Display that takes a single parameter, which is a List of budgets.
This method is to display all the budgets in the listview. The listview should display:
Type of budget, budget code, budget balance
You could find out what type of budget it is and display whether the Department for the business budget, or the Category for the home budget

6.    Add code to the listview SelectedIndexChanged (when you select an item from the listview), display all the expenses of the selected budget in the listbox

7.    Provide a button remove expense to remove the selected expense (in the listbox) from the selected budget (in the listview). Note that it is not enough to remove from the listbox, it must be removed from the selected budget itself. Redisplay the budgets to see that the expense is gone from the budget.

8.    Provide a button (Add new expense), a label (new expense) and a textbox (txtNewExpense) to add this new expense to the selected budget. Redisplay to see the effect. (make the necessary addition to the Budget class to make this operation possible.)

Select a film about a person, event, issue, or idea relevant to the timespan of this course:

Research your subject using primary and secondary sources.
Write an essay that analyzes and evaluates how the portrayal of your subject in that film compares to the historical record of your subject.
Conclude your analysis with an assessment of the films educational valueeven if it is not historically accurate. Be sure to address whether the film challenges your thinkingi.e., whether it provokes you to think in a new way, or helps you to understand something more thoroughly than you did before.
Recommended films for review are:1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Agora (2009), Alexander (2004), Becket (1964), Ben-Hur (1959), Black Death (2010), Braveheart (1995), Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), Caligula (1979), Cleopatra (1963), Destiny (1997), El Cid (1961), Elizabeth (1998), Gates to Paradise (1968), Gladiator (2000), Ironclad (2011), Joan of Arc (1999), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Luther (2003), Mad Love (2001), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Outlaw King (2018), Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli (1981), Robert the Bruce (2019), Secret Passage (2004), The Advocate (1993), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), The Conclave (2006), The Last King (2016), The Lion in Winter (1968), The Lost Legion (2014), The Physician (2013), The Seventh Seal (1957), The Ten Commandments (1956), Trollsyn (1994), Troy (2004), Vision (2009). Please check with me first if the film you want to analyze is not listed here.

Your essay is to be four (4) to five (5) pages in length, typed in size 12 Times New Roman fonts, and double-spaced.

AssignmentDiscussion Questions
In this weeks course materials we saw that, while no project executes exactly according to plan. Changing the scope of a project needs to be done deliberately. Before we can decide whether to change the projects scope we need to first determine if we need to change project scope.
For this discussion forum, finish this sentence: you know your project scope probably needs to be changed when.
    So, how do we know whether project scope change is really needed?
    What events, activities or other warning signs tell us project scope needs to be re-evaluated?
    Identify one distinct event, activity, or warning sign that indicates a project scope change is probably necessary.

Format: Answer all questions above, 250 Words and Reference.

(1) Choose an ancient building(s) in your hometown to answer questions 1 to question 11. (70 points)
1.    What era does this building belong to? Why are you so sure?
2.    Please describe the layout (architectural complex) or structure (single building) of the building(s).
3.    Is the building material locally sourced or transported from the outside? Prove what you say.
4.    What do you think is the highlight or feature of this building?
5.    What are the specific aspects of this building affected by local politics, economy and culture?
6.    Talk about its decorative features.
7.    What do you think are the deficiencies in the protection of this ancient building? How to improve?
8.    Please talk about the role of the protection of ancient buildings in tourism development and cultural heritage.
9.    How can modern public buildings learn from the forms of traditional buildings?
10.    Is there a chronology (division of history into periods) in your hometown? Why?
11.    Is the modern urban planning of your hometown reasonable? Talk briefly.

(2) Choose a famous architect in the history of architecture to analyze his architectural style. (Structure; Scale; Light; Materials and surfaces; Details; Proportions; Context; Social / cultural impact) (700words, 30points)

Write a response essay in which you explain your thoughts on a specific topic related to one of the two readings – either Leamnson or Carr. Focusing on just a few of your chosen  authors key points, assess the usefulness of their ideas and discuss their implications.  Respond with your own ideas on the topic, and compare your approach to the authors. 

Your ideas should cohere into a specific perspective, with a message you develop throughout the essay. Your essay should include direct references (quotations and/or paraphrases) from Leamnsons or Carrs text, followed by your explanations and responses.

This response essay will be graded based on the quality of writing fundamentals such as clear organization of content, development of a focused idea, use of evidence to support claims, conscientious source integration, and control of an elegant writing style.

High-quality essays will be distinguished by a focused and insightful reading of the chosen text that connects or applies the source authors ideas to a clear message from the student writer.

Remember the word argument does not mean a fight in a writing context. An academic argument is more like a thoughtful conversation between two people with differing viewpoints on a debatable issue. However, you are required to take a position on one side of the issue.

Your submission must include an APA style reference page following the essay. In your research, you will need 2-4 credible primary or secondary sources to use as support in your essay.
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