Reflections are required to include: (1) a summary of your perspective on the topic (2) synthesis to course content and/ or theor (3) how you might apply the knowledge in your role as an ECE professional. Please keep information concise and no more than two (2) pages in length.**If you choose to include supportive evidence from other resources/textbooks. Remember to accurately cite your sources following the APA guidelines- 6th or 7thedition.
Day: February 14, 2021
Instruction and Prompt are attached.
Required Reading List:
Week 7: Who is the other?
Mon 2/15 – NO CLASS (UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY)
Wed 2/17
Enriquez, L.E. (2019). Border-hopping Mexicans, Law-abiding Asians, and Racialized Illegality. Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice.
Fri 2/19
Hing, J. (2014). Race, Disability, School-to-Prison Pipeline. Colorlines.
Garland-Thompson. R. (2016). Becoming disabled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/sunday/becoming-disabled.html
In addition to the instruction given above, for this particular pre-drafting journal. We are also given the write-up below:
this paper is to apply two ethical theories to a social justice question and determine which one best defends its conclusion. Be sure that you argue equally strongly on each side of the issue before you decide which approach is best. This a sort of practice run for your final project.
You can choose a topic question of your own, or select one from the final project topic suggestions.
Gender and Sex Issues
What is an appropriate ethical response to the global problem of violence against women?
Was it just for the US to legalize same-sex marriage?
Is pornography unethical?
Does the #MeToo movement handle the issue of sexual harassment and predation ethically?
Your paper should take the form of a standard essay, including an intro paragraph with a clear thesis and brief roadmap, a series of body paragraphs that begin with clear topic sentences, and a concluding paragraph that simply reviews the main points of your paper. Aim for 3-4 pages in length, not including title and reference pages, in APA or MLA format.
Articles to use:
https://theconversation.com/an-ethical-case-for-marriage-equality-in-australia-39698
Title: The Road Not Taken
Poet: Robert Frost
1. Provide a brief summary of the poem.
2. Who is the speaker? Does their point of view affect the characterization in any way or are they an impartial participant?
3. Does the poem progress in chronological order, or is it cyclical? Does the poem include foreshadow?
4. What is the setting (time and place) of the poem? Is the setting symbolic in any way? Does the setting impact the action of the speaker in any way?
5. Who is the protagonist? Describe some of their character traits. Do these traits remain throughout the poem or does the speaker change? If they change, what are some of the new character traits?
6. Is there an antagonist? If so, describe some of their character traits. In what way do these traits contrast to the protagonist?
7. What is the central conflict (internal and external)? What are the opposing forces (internal and external)? Are there any significant minor conflicts?
8. What is the tone of the poem? Does the tone remain the same throughout the poem or does it change? If it changes, how so?
9. Does the poet use symbolism? If so, what symbols are used and what are their meanings?
10. What is the climax of the poem? What is the resolution of the conflict?
11. What is the main theme of the poem? Are there any minor themes?
Moral Decision Making Paper This paper is one you create from your own life or hypothetically. You are to create three scenarios involving moral decisions that need to be made. Step 1 is to write the scenario. Step 2 is to list all of the legal, ethical, moral and spiritual issues involved in each scenario. Step three is to state how you would resolve the situation and what criteria you used to make your decision
First, summarize the case in ONE paragraph
Then, answer the following questions:
What are the other alternatives that LastMile could look at that would create a working relationship between Midwest Technologies and LastMile?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives?
What are the objectives that LastMile would like to accomplish out of such a partnership?
What counter-proposal(s) would you recommend?
double-spaced
plagiarism free
2-4 pages in length not counting the title page (see below)
The front title page should contain your name and the title of the assignment.
If you have citations in your essay, you must include a reference page to the end of the essay following the APA standard.
Prior to the beginning of one class each week (e.g. prior to the Tuesday class or prior to the Thursday class), students are required to write a short summary of one of the required readings for that class and upload the summary to the course website. This summary should be between 300 and 500 words (approximately one page).
The summaries are posted under the assignments tab on canvas or can be found under each module. You have the option to upload either a PDF or a word document. The summaries are due by 1:00 am the day before the class and cannot be uploaded after that time.
There are 10 weeks of class. You need to complete 10 reading summaries; your lowest score may be dropped. If you make a reasonable effort and write something thoughtful, you will receive full credit. I expect that everyone should regularly be receiving full credit.
The summary should cover the following: (i) Why is the paper important (or why not)? (ii) An overview of the core contributions of the paper. (iii) What you liked or did not like about the paper. (iv) How the paper is connected to other studies in the course. (Organize the paper structure in lines with the questions given)
Required Reading List:
February 18, 2021: Ethnicity
Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. (2007). Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? American Political Science Review, 101(4): 709-725.
Hjort, Jonas. (2014). Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4): 1899-1946.
Please complete the attached grid.
Would it be possible to make this project into newsletter format?
I can add the slides. I just need the other sections completed according to the template.
My research question is: What are the constitutional powers of citizens?
In 2010, the UK created its Behavioral Insights Team (Links to an external site.)and the Danes formed the Danish iNudgeyou (Links to an external site.) unit. The European Nudging Network (TEN) (Links to an external site.) was launched in June 2014. Not to be left too far behind, on September 15, 2015, President Obama, through executive order, established the White House (WH) Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (Links to an external site.) (SBST) as a part of the pre-existing White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP was established by law in 1976.
Then everything changed. One of President Trump’s initial actions on January 20, 2017, was to disband the OSTP leadership and effectively discontinue this portion of federal government science and technology support. The WH SBST and its associated website remain frozen awaiting to see if President Biden revives it. The applied behavioral sciences program, however, still continues in Europe and in most Social and Behavioral Sciences Divisions within universities across the US and Europe. To get an idea of where this is headed, the most recent nudging ideas being discussed by the Global Nudging Community can be found pinned on the home page’s geographical map of TEN’s website, (Links to an external site.)
One example of nudging is to apply our understanding of Behavioral Economics to entice people to make rational decisions when they otherwise might not.
What do you think of this plan and the global nudging movement in general?
Do you feel these efforts to nudge individuals (with bounded rationality to make choices that, at least from the outside, appear to be truer to consumer optimum) are of value? What behavioral obstacles did Thaler and Benartzi identify that apparently were causing people not to make choices in their best interests? Do you ever find the second obstacle applying to you (like, in getting around to doing this discussion, lol)? Is nudging something the government should financially support? Do you agree with President Trump that this movement, as well as most other policy issues related to science, should not be encouraged by the White House? Have you started saving for retirement yet?
PETERSON’S POLITICAL ECONOMIC STRUCTURALISM AND STONE’S URBAN REGIME ANALYSIS
Summarize the main features of both theories. What does each look at (independent variables) to explain urban policy decisionmaking (dependent variables)? What else does each theory say is important for understanding urban politics?
Features and flaws in both theories. What does the theory illustrate about urban life well? What does it miss? You may wish to think of this as what do you think of the utility of each theory: how useful is it for understanding, explaining, and predicting real world events?
For your critique you should review the authors readings where they have presenting their ideas (of course). But also review the readings from Week 3 which provide additional perspectives on these theories from other sources. You shouldn’t need any outside resources for this paper – just the 7 readings assigned thus far, so you won’t need a Works Cited page for this paper, but you should still use APA or MLA citations in the paper when you are quoting, paraphrasing, or drawing on a reading and presenting ideas which are not your own.
ONLY USE THE SOURCES LISTED BELOW
Paul E. Peterson, 1981. “The interests of the limited city.” excerpt from City Limits. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
(Optional: Charles Tiebout, 1956. “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures.” The Journal of Political Economy, Vol 64. No. 5, pp. 416-424.)
Regime theory approach
Clarence Stone, 2006. “Power and Governance in American Cities.” chapter from City, Politics and Policy, edited by John Pelissaro.
John Mollenkopf, 1994. “How to Study Urban Power.” from A Phoenix in the Ashes. This excerpt taken from The Urban Politics Reader.
Browning, Marshall, and Tabb, 2003. “Introduction – Can people of color achieve equality in city government?” from Racial Politics in American Cities, 3rd Edition, edited by Browning Marshall and Tabb. Longman: New York.
Mollenkopf, 2003. “New York: Still the Great Anomaly.” chapter from Racial Politics in American Cities, 3rd Edition.
