Day: October 1, 2020

Hate Crime Case Study

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Social Sciences

A few young men, two white males and one black male, ranging in age from 19 to 21, lived across the street from a gay couple.  On June 27, 2015, angered by the legalization of same-sex marriage, the three men used a noose to hang an effigy of Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL player, from a tree on the front lawn of their own property. They also posted a sign next to the tree that said, Gay Pride Just Died.  The children of the gay couple from across the street saw the effigy and sign and ran in the house crying hysterically.  The young men got in their pick-up truck and drove to a local park. While walking through the park, they shouted, We dont want any queers in our neighborhood, to random people in the park.  On the way back to their truck, they passed a gay couple, who was cuddling on a bench, outside of a restaurant, in a neighborhood where a number of gay bars and business are located.  They pushed the men to the ground, grabbed their money and cell phones, hurled antigay slurs and ran off. The victims cried out for help and a passerby called 911 from her cell phone.  You, a 15 year veteran of the Local Police Department (LPD), are the first responder on the scene.

Using the general definitions of hate crimes and hate incidents in the textbook, would the following conduct constitute a hate crime? Explain why or why not. Using the IRAC method, please evaluate each incident as if it were a separate incident and determine if each incident would constitute a hate crime or a hate incident.
Hanging the effigy from the tree on their own property.
Placing the sign on the lawn on their own property.
Shouting insults in the park.
Attacking the gay couple outside of the restaurant and taking their cell phones and money.
In accordance with the IACP recommendations, describe the initial steps of your response to these incidents.

Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOacBkfMq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_HvJ0PXuYs
https://www.theiacp.org/resources/responding-to-hate-crimes-a-police-officers-guide-to-investigation-and-prevention
https://www.adl.org/50statesagainsthate

Whats the point of a sociology course about health? If you want to learn about health, you need a course that teaches you about biology. You need a course that is focused on medical research. Theres not much that sociology can tell us about whe

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

Drawing on major points made in at least two documentaries (Feeding Frenzy, In Sickness and In Wealth, When the Bough Breaks).  (Be sure to cite at least two documentaries.)

Whats the point of a sociology course about health?    If you want to learn about health, you need a course that teaches you about biology.  You need a course that is focused on medical research.  Theres not much that sociology can tell us about when and how and why people get sick and die.  And theres certainly not much that sociology can teach us about how to prevent illness!  Drawing on what you have learned in the first three modules of the course, respond to this statement.

Please watch the video. Then write a 1-page paper discussing your thoughts on information provided

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Health Care and Life Sciences

 
Please watch the video.
Then write a 1-page paper discussing your thoughts on information provided. You can pick whatever topic within the video you found particularly interesting. Suggestions for topics include the limitations of BMI to assess health or if diets don’t work long-term for weight loss and is associated with negative health outcomes, should we continue to focus on weight as a measurement of health

Any topic (writer’s choice)

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Philosophy

Find a claim Mill makes in the reading for this day that he also backs up with evidence, and discuss both the claim and the evidence.  In the course of your discussion, do the following:

1.  Restate the claim in your own terms.

2.  Restate the evidence Mill gives for his claim in your own terms.

3.  In your second paragraph, say whether you think Mill is correct or incorrect in his claim, in addition to the next step.

4.  Examine Mill’s evidence.  Do you think it’s true?  If it is (or if it were) true, would it lead to the conclusion he is claiming?

Remember to give page numbers for all your points.  And always keep in mind that your goal is to go beyond the videos, not just to repeat them, for full credit.  Your reflection and reply must demonstrate at a minimum that you have both done the reading and watched the video(s) for the week.

!!!!PLEASE READ PAGES 227- 239 in linked file and watch this video before completing assignment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8X6sgu-c4&feature=youtu.be

Culturally Responsive Teaching

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Psychology and Education

    Articles for your Literature Review:  Each student must locate 2 peer-reviewed RESEARCH articles on the selected topic. The UH library has created a resource for our class to help you find appropriate peer-reviewed articles and APA citations. Articles be either RESEARCH articles or articles from a government website.
    After reading the articles, the student should
o    Create a bulleted summary of EACH article.  The bulleted summary should include at minimum 8 big ideas for EACH article.  If you cant identify 8 big ideas, then you need to locate a different article. The 8 bulleted summary points should be IN YOUR OWN WORDS.  Dont quote the authors and put a citation DONT COPY THE SENTENCE FROM THE ARTICLE.  It should be written in your words, otherwise its plagiarism.  Each bullet point should be written as a complete sentence.
o    Each article needs to include an APA-formatted reference which includes the author(s), title, journal name etc.  Use the APA Reference Doc in the Assignment Folder on BBL to correctly format your APA References. 
o    To receive full credit, your information needs to
o    a) be relevant to your topic;
o    b) focused on elementary age/early childhood age;
o    c) written with no spelling/grammatical errors and in complete sentences;
o    d) written in a robust, meaningful, informative way.
o    When uploading a template into Blackboard.  Save as a Microsoft Word document. Save in the following format:  last name.first name Part A Lit Review

Critical Thinking Questions What PESTEL factors supported Teslas success? Which factors posed challenges? How has Teslas strategic position changed since it was founded in 2003? What kind of responses would you expect from Teslas rivals in the automobi

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Critical Thinking Questions (chapter 8)
What PESTEL factors supported Teslas success? Which factors posed challenges?
How has Teslas strategic position changed since it was founded in 2003?
What kind of responses would you expect from Teslas rivals in the automobile manufacturing industry to the Model 3s popularity?
Sources: Tesla company website: https://www.tesla.com/ and investor relations site: http://ir.tesla.com/; Edmunds, Top 10 Best Selling Cars in 2003. https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/top-10/top-10-best-selling-vehicles-in-2003.html (updated May 12, 2009); Bill Vlasic, In Pivotal Moment, Tesla Unveils its First Mass Market Sedan. New York Times, July 29, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/business/tesla-model-3-elon-musk.html?ref=business.

Artwork Analysis: Simone Martini and Robert Campin

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment Art, MLA

Paintings
1. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation, Siena Cathedral, 1333

2. Attributed to Robert Campin, Annunciation panel of the Mrode Altarpiece, c. 1430

Prompt
How do Simone Martini and Robert Campin envision the Annunciation in similar and different ways?

In your analysis, be sure to discuss:
–What is the subject of the artworks and what narrative is portrayed?
–Formal qualities of both artworks
–Organization of the composition
–How do both artists use symbolism in their paintings?
–Setting of both paintings
–Which painting reflects innovation and which reflects continuity with the past?

Move through the following steps to complete the assignment:

1. Learn about both works of art through research and reading. (We learned about Martini’s painting in Gardner’s Late Medieval Italy chapter.) Be sure to note the academic sources you reference; you’ll submit a works cited list. (See #4)

2. This website may be a useful resource for learning about the symbolism included in both artworks. https://www.christianiconography.info (Links to an external site.)

Use these images to support your research and analysis. You may also use them as visual aids in your recorded analysis.
Annunciation Panel, Merode Altarpiece Images

Artwork Analysis: Simone Martini and Robert Campin

3. Take time to look closely at both artworks and make a list of comparative points (similarities and differences). Organize your list in the format used for the previous assignment (Formal and Art Historical Analysis) on formal and art historical analysis. (You’ll submit your notes for credit.)

4. Include two academic sources in addition to our textbook that you used to learn about the artworks in a works cited list at the bottom of your comparative list. Use APA or MLA style.

5. Refer back to your research and what you learned about both paintings as well as what you noted about their formal qualities to develop the comparative list into a more complete analysis. (Refer back to the content on artwork analysis in previous modules if you need help here.)  Decide how you’ll talk through the comparison in order to respond to the prompt.

perception

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Other

This link will take you to a Google Doc that each person in the class can view. Please review the list and choose the topic you want to investigate for the Research Article assignment. First-come, first-served. You’ll find two links per topic – one is a popular press article that is easy-reading and references an article from the Journal of Consumer Research (the flagship academic CB journal). The JCR article link is also provided. Simply click on each and read. If for some reason a link doesn’t work, try searching for the article through other means (e.g., TU library online). If that still doesn’t get your article, let me know – I may ask you to choose another topic.

In your one-page summary, emphasize the practical implications of the articles, key takeaways for consumers and/or businesses, and summarize the basic approach used and findings found in the JCR article (and try not to get lost in the weeds!). An example one-page writeup is posted on Harvey for your reference. Articles will be due according to their fit with the topics we’re covering at different points in the course. Once you post your writeup to the Discussion Forum, be ready to discuss at our next Live Online Session.

Material link:
-https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-shaping-us/202005/balancing-your-home-workspace-well-being-and-productivity
-http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/668525
Ryan Rahinel, Joseph P. Redden

Format and example are in the file box.
The summary should be one page just like the example. And I need a speech draft for presenting.

Micro- history

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), History

Your micro-history should have two parts: the first part is descriptive, and the second part is analytical.

The Descriptive
All micro-histories should begin with a brief (~1 page) description of the following elements (the questions provided are merely to get you going; you needn’t respond to all of them):

Your own experience with the communication technology artifact. Where did you locate it (in a museum, in an online exhibit, on a vacation to Egypt, on your daily commute)? Did you physically interact with it (if so, what was that experience like)?
All you can tell us about the origins of the artifact. Where it was produced, and by whom (to the best of current knowledge)? How was it made (using what materials and techniques)? Is it a copy of a text (one of many), or is it a unique artifact (the only of its kind)?
The relationship between the technology artifact and its culture of origin. What were the artifact’s original functions and uses? How did this type of communication technology benefit its users?
The Analytical
Once you have described your communication technology, provide an analysis that helps us understand this form of communication in a little more context. You can take one of two approaches in this analysis: a genealogical approach or a historiographic approach. This analysis should be ~2 pages in length.

If you choose to adopt a genealogical approach, you will need to trace your chosen technology’s “family tree,” making note of its “ancestry” or its “descendants.” A good example of a genealogical analysis is Miller and Shephard’s analysis of the blog as a genre – Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog (UMN Conservancy). (Links to an external site.) In their analysis, Miller and Shephard discuss the blog’s relationship to other forms of communication, such as the log book, the diary, and the commonplace book. If you adopt this approach, you will need to make a well-supported argument that your chosen artifact descended from or gave birth to another method of communication (for instance, you could make the argument that graffiti is a descendent of cave paintings).

If you choose to adopt a historiographic approach, you will need to examine how historians have studied your chosen artifact or others like it. A good example of a more historiographic analysis is the article about the discovery of the Sulawesi cave paintings – A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World (Smithsonian Magazine). (Links to an external site.) The author writes that art historians have sometimes used European cave paintings as evidence of the advanced cultural development of the early humans that inhabited these areas. If you adopt a historiographic approach, you will need to answer questions like: How has this method of communication been written about by other researchers? What arguments have artifacts of this kind been used to support different cultures and time periods in human history? How have the historical records of these artifacts affected the way we understand the cultures from which they originated?

Whichever approach you choose to adopt in the analytical section of your micro-history, you will need to consult sources to support your argument. If you choose a genealogical approach, you will need to consult research on your chosen technology as well as other technologies you think belong in its “family tree.” If you choose a historiographic approach, you will need to analyze the written histories of your chosen technology. You should cite at least three sources in your micro-history.

Select the Assignment 1 Topics section to continue.
Encyclopedias/Dictionaries
Telegraphs
Steam-powered presses
Linotype typesetting machines
Film/moving pictures (e.g., commercial films, home movies, documentary films/local films)
Zoetropes

Central Idea Paper on The Lottery

October 1, 2020 Leave a comment English and Literature, MLA

500 words, 3 paragraphs long. The first paragraph will include the authors name, name of the story, and a brief synopsis of the story in which only the main points are covered. The last sentence of the first paragraph will be the central idea of the story. Paragraph two will use quotations and paraphrasing from the story in order to support your central idea. Paragraph three will provide a conclusion re-emphasizing and confirming your central idea.