Students
will present a research paper written and documented in Turabian style to class at a time
relative to the political thinker on an agreed topic related to a significant thinker or political
issue addressed in our study. Each paper should include several professional sources only,
including primary sources, documented books, and at least four peer-reviewed journal
articles (no webpage or blog sources, no encyclopedias). Each written review/analysis must be
double-spaced, typed in normal type size (similar to this syllabus, Book Antiqua size 11 font
best). This paper must be written in Turabian Bibliographic style, with a Title Page, Footnotes
documenting sources used in each paragraph, and a Works Cited page.
Day: October 30, 2020
**ATTACHMENTS OF READINGS ARE TO BE USED AND REFERENCED FOR THE PAPER**
Purpose: This assignment will require you to develop a position on the ethics of hunting animals for sport. It will help you improve your ability to research, think critically about real-world issues, and ultimately develop a compelling argument. It will allow you another opportunity to translate your (presumably) complex thoughts into clear, concise, and organized writing. By the end of this assignment, you will have developed more tools to approach ethical issues that arise in your future academic and professional careers.
Assignment
You will take a position on whether or not it is moral to hunt animals for sport. Find and appropriately cite scholarly articles (peer-reviewed) to support your stance and the relevant counterarguments. Then you will respond to objections and rebuttals to your position.
Formatting Requirements
Double-spaced
12 pt font, Times New Roman
3-4 pages (no more, no less)
Descriptive title
Last name in header with page numbers
Works Cited (MLA)
Choose 1 question
1. Several authors have argued that negative stereotypes, or controlling images, problematically justify oppressive policies and practices against women of color. What are controlling images? Discuss 3 controlling images, explain their symbolic function, and discuss specific examples of how they have shaped public policy or served to justify discrimination or exploitation in terms of poverty, labor exploitation, sexual harassment, reproductive control, or criminalization and incarceration, etc.
2. Discuss 3 ways that the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), also known as welfare reform, impacts poor and working-class women of color. Define the key aspects of the policy and be specific about how, according to feminist scholars, certain aspects of welfare reform impact the ability of WOC to escape poverty, constrain their reproductive rights, or contribute to their criminalization.
When writing the essay responses to the prompts below do be specific! Name authors, organizations, laws, policies, movements, titles, key terms and concepts, dates and historical periods where relevant. Use quotes from the readings (using parenthetical citations with Author, Page #) where appropriate. Plagiarism is not allowed and results in failing the assignment as well as a mandatory conduct hearing. Do not use the same examples as evidence for multiple questions. Refrain from making arguments that are not supported by the texts, lectures, or other scholarly sources.
Christian Catholic and Korean culture.
1. Page 1: This discussion is devoted to two topics – religion and subcultures. At least one of the postings must be a short overview of your research report.
2. This is the largest assignment. Your task will be to research and report on a culture or subculture. Elements of your submission
– Title – clearly specifies the culture in focus
– Introduction – shortly describe the culture
– Culture overview – describe the lifestyle, beliefs, values, unique characteristics, rules and expectations for members of the subgroups.
– Members as employees – identify how the uniqueness of this group relates to the members’ functioning in the workplace.
– Conclusion – reflect on your learning.
The report should be 3 pages, readable font, clearly formatted with 1-inch margins. Remember that you are expected to write a short overview of your research report in your first page. Then you can start to do your largest assignment with 3 pages.
Locations/Offshoring/Outsourcing
You will focus on location-related decisions taken by the company you have chosen and the company’s strategy to manufacture in-house or outsource the functions of the supply chain. This outsourcing may be tied to a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis and determination of core competencies.
Complete the following tasks:
-Analyze the company’s decisions and strategy regarding site selection, outsourcing, and offshoring operations.
-Evaluate the impacts of offshoring or outsourcing on quality and the supply chain.
Prepare the deliverables for this week to provide information on the following aspects of the company:
-Locations
-Offshoring
-Outsourcing
you will choose a behavior of yours or someone elses that you would like to change through operant conditioning. Examples include overeating, getting a child to clean up his room, or stopping your dog from chewing up your shoes. Answer the following questions in the form of a 2-3 page paper:
What is the behavior that you are trying to change? Describe the behavior.
How would you apply operant conditioning to change this behavior? Would you use positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment or negative punishment?
Is your goal to increase or decrease the behavior?
What will you use as reinforcers or punishers? Are they primary or secondary reinforcers/punishers?
If you choose to reinforce the behavior- What schedule of reinforcement will you use? What pattern of responding would you expect this schedule of reinforcement to produce? OR
If you choose to punish the behavior- What problems might result from using punishment to change the behavior? What steps would you take to address these problems?
What would you expect to happen to the behavior if the reinforcer/punisher were removed?
Does research support your method of changing the behavior? Discuss the empirically-supported methods of changing your selected behavior. Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles.
TERM PAPER
The idea of this 6 pages (or 1500 words) paper is to practice the Essay format writing. In a nutshell, an essay is a short piece of writing on a particular subject. The Main theme here is, obviously, Latin American music because thats the concentration of this course. So you can choose a music topic from any country between Mexico and Argentina.
What do you want to choose as your subject? It can be a Music Genre or Style, an Artist, a Composer, a performer, a Song, a Band, a Record (like Vinyl or CD), a Dance or form of Dance, a music style that influenced other art forms, a Movie, a Play, etc.
Simple steps that will guide you through the essay writing process: 1. Decide on your topic.
2. Prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas.
3. Write your thesis statement.
4. Write the body. Write the main points. Write the sub points. 5. Write the introduction.
6. Write the conclusion.
7. Add the finishing touches.
In case youre wondering which kind of approach you want to use, these are the four major types of essays according to their purposes:
Narrative Essays: Telling a Story. In a narrative essay, the writer tells a story about a real-life experience.
Descriptive Essays: for example, Painting a Picture, writing a song, performing a concert, conducting an orchestra.
Expository Essays: Just the Facts. But then you add your vision on the matter.
Persuasive Essays: Convince Me.
As you can see, the personal aspect is very important, so you can write in first person, meaning you can be involved as part of the Narrative and say something like In my own experience, My approach to, I was part of a situation in which…
You’re free to choose the formatting you like better. I’m ok with any of them (MLA, APA, Chicago etc). And for Sources/Bibliography use as much as needed. Usually 3 are the minimum. Not all sources have to be from the library: you can use web sites like Youtube, Jstor, Groove as a material source.
The essay prompt is “this 3-page essay will ask you to explore an issue or problem that you are concerned about at the present time or in the future.” It just has to has to be written in MLA format with 2 sources
Essay Requirements
This 3-page paper must have a thesis with a minimum of two academic sources of support.
Research needs to come from an academic database only (no blogs, no informal articles found online, no informal websites, no Wikipedia or any other informal research).
All papers should be fully formatted in MLA (Refer to MLA guidelines below)
Making connections to research (2 page minimum – More is encouraged)
Identify 5 themes that surfaced across your interview to the text and/or research articles
– As a reference, you can review the Detailed Contents at the beginning of the book
– Explain how the theories from the text and/or articles relate to the circumstances
that surfaced from your interview
Describe or connect to the 5 themes, 1-2 paragraphs per theme
Please review the chapter activities in Canvas for a summary of the chapters from the text
How does the information from your articles support or contradict the information that emerged from the interview?
Please use your annotated bibliography as a resource
This does NOT have to follow a 5-paragraph format.
No introduction, conclusion reference page
in-text citation
I provided the book (only use Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 )
Safety Assurance Paper:
– APA format with a title page, 1 pages of content, and a References page if necessary.
– Imagine that you have been contracted to provide an external safety audit for an aviation company. You have the opportunity to send a confidential survey to all staff members working within the aviation department.
– Choose three questions that you would ask to assess the safety program of that company.
– List the three questions that you would use and explain why these three questions are important for assessing safety.
