Day: March 28, 2021

Mlk

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, Undergraduate

Clear thesis, the side you choose to defend, supported by 3 reasons, with examples.

Choose your sources from eBooks only, and 2 quotes per paragraph for each reason you are writing on.

  Use quotes from 3 different Works Cited / source  from e-books only.

All paragraphs, (minimum 5) should be approximately of equal length, with 2 quotes per body paragraphs. Do not for get to write the name of the author, and put quotation marks, ( “—-” ) on your quotes. AVOID PLAGERIASIM.

Introduction should clearly display your thesis statement, with 3 supporting reasons.

Ad fraud

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Other

What is ad fraud & why is ad fraud so common?
What effects could ad fraud have on companies that rely on online or app-based ads to market their products?

please use the below website to answer the questions

https://www.analyticshour.io/2019/09/10/123-ad-fraud-with-dr-augustine-fou/

Essay about Stereotypes on Islam, Muslims, and Arabs

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Political science

Instruction:
Microsoft Word Document
Size 12
Times New Roman
MLA format
bibliography works cited page
NO PLAGIARISM

Research different stereotypes about Islam, Arabs, and Muslims (Ex: All Muslims are terrorists, Islam oppresses women, etc). Once you found a stereotype on this topic, start researching and guide the essay on that particular stereotype.

Format of essay:
Introduction: Make a good, interesting, and attention grabbing hook. Make a solid thesis.

Point one: State what the stereotype is using research and citing as you write.

Point two: Restate the stereotype and debunk the stereotype (explain why or how it is not true).

Point three: Provide all of the evidence explaining why this stereotype is not true and why it is negative.

Conclusion: Make a solid conclusion to end the essay.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Marketing

Please respond in complete sentences for each question

Topic 1: Data VisualizationThis week you watched  Big Data Visualization (YouTube Video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKxzjKzN3A

and  Information is Beautiful
https://informationisbeautiful.net

where you learned about how good designs are the best way to navigate information overabundance.

Discussion:
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Choose ONE of the graphics to discuss from Information is Beautiful.and then answer the questions below. Be sure to indicate in your response, which of the graphics you have chosen to analyze.
Questions: 
1. Which of the graphics did you choose?
2. What ideas or pieces of information does the author present? List as many as you can.
3. Identify the main conclusion told in the graphic. This should not just be the title, but what conclusion you can make from the information provided.
4. Describe how the author represents data in the graphic. Example, using color to represent two things.
5. What other ways does the author tell the audience about the key message(s)?
6. What do you like/dislike about the graphic?

Topic 2: InfographicsDiscussion:
An infographic is a visual representation of information, data, or knowledge meant to present complex information quickly and clearly. Infographics exist on nearly any topic you can imagine, proliferating in the digital age with social media.
Response #1: 
Locate an infographic which relates to ONE of the topics covered within this course: (no more than two postings related to the same topic will be permitted). Examples of topics covered in this class are: Fake News, Privacy & Security, Digital Divide, etc.
Responses will need to include, but are not limited to:
* Title of Infographic (if not available then subject it relates to)
* URL
* Topic covered in class that the infographic relates to
* Detail how the Infographic relates to the topic 
* Analysis and recommendations for adjustment

Minimum Topic Response: PLEASE RESPOND IN THREE OR MORE SENTENCES PER TOPIC.
NOTE 1: Please make sure you answer EACH item and LABEL each item (#1, #2, #3, etc) so that I can easily check that each item has been answered.

Media and Sexism

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment Social Sciences, Undergraduate

Many marketing efforts perpetuate the gender stereotypes that are steeped in our culture. Two examples at attempts to maintain these stereotypes through advertising are the Bic Critsal For Her and the Easy Bake Oven. These two conceivably innocuous items triggered a flood of articles, petitions, and videos, denouncing their perceived underlying messages.

The first controversy that erupted surrounded the Bic Cristal For Her pen. This pen was created and packaged specifically for women to use. Several groups lashed out at Bic, calling their attempt to target women with “lady pens” sexist and demeaning. Its detractors felt the campaign was degrading and fed into stereotypes by highlighting the thin design and the use of pastel colors. The negative press was overwhelming, although the pens have remained on the market.

Consumers also targeted those responsible for marketing the Easy Bake Oven by sending a petition asking its parent company Hasbro to make the ovens in colors other than pink and purple. Thousands of individuals signed the petition asking for alternative oven colors after a teenage girl from New Jersey was angered that her younger brother would have no other option but to use an oven in the colors that are considered stereotypically female. It was argued that the colors supported the stereotypical view that only young girls would want to bake. The signers of the petition felt that young boys who might want to use the toy would be more likely to practice their baking skills if the color of the oven was gender neutral.

Consider these two stories and think about your own reactions to the responses to the advertising and merchandising of these items.

To prepare: View the assigned resources and reflect on your experience with gender.

Submit a 2- to 4- page paper, in which you:

Identify specific messages about gender presented in the mass media.
Discuss messages about gender you have received from your family or cultural group.
Analyze how these messages have influenced your experience with gender.
Explain how you might address issues related to sexism in the mass media and diverse cultural beliefs about gender and gender roles in your social work practice. 

Discussion Post

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

Side PanelExpand side panel
4-1 Discussion: State of the Union(‘s Health)

Choose a U.S. health issue discussed by Steven Woolf in the video presentation IOM Improving Population Health (U.S.) and discuss how the U.S. public health system could better address the issue.

Be sure to specify which agencies would address the problem, how they would address it, and what issues need to be considered when addressing the issue (factors like health disparities, cultural considerations, social determinants of health, etc.).

https://youtu.be/g8H9l37hf58

APA Citations, References Listed (cdc,who, are acceptable references)

This essay should answer “What are the channels through which the Internet could impact international trade?” and be two pages (not including the reference list). It ought to be written in plain English without any equations, symbols, or tables. Use the A

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment Economics, Undergraduate

This essay should answer “What are the channels through which the Internet could impact international trade?” and be two pages (not including the reference list). It ought to be written in plain English without any equations, symbols, or tables.
Use the APA citation style and check that all the papers cited are in the reference list, and all the documents listed are cited in the essay.

History of China Final Paper

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment History, Undergraduate

Past and Present Essay 2

Length: 1,800-2,000 words (6-7 pages)

OBJECTIVE

The goal of this assignment is to create an original piece of writing that analyzes and explains the historical context of Chinas current environmental predicaments. In other words, the essay should relate research on Chinas environmental history to present-day environmental concerns. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY!

RESEARCH

In addition to a least one news article published since 2016, your Past and Present Essay needs to draw upon the lectures, films, and required readings.

You also need to refer to at least two titles from the suggested readings listed in the syllabus that are related to the topic you decide to write about.

Books listed in the suggested readings can be found through the UCSD Library Catalog (https://roger.ucsd.edu/).

Academic journal articles can be found by searching the databases listed in the Articles section of the HIEA 155 Library Guide (https://ucsd.libguides.com/HIEA155). JSTOR and Project Muse will be most useful.

You can also try searching for the readings you are looking for using Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/).

You will need to log on to the UCSD VPN to access most of the suggested books and articles unless you are on campus.

If you have difficulty finding a particular book or article, contact the instructor.

STRUCTURE

Your essay needs to include:

1) A title that captures the topic and main point of your essay. [5 points]

2) An introduction that explains the purpose of the essay and the main issues to be addressed. [10 points]

3) A specific, clear, and argumentative thesis statement in the introduction that explains what you intend to argue in the essay. [10 points]

4) Sections that address the key issues and include accurate, specific evidence, correct citations, and analysis to support your thesis statement. Each section should have its own topic heading.  [15 points]

5) Reference to at least one news article. [10]

6) References to at least two suggested readings. [10]

7) References to relevant lectures, assigned readings, and movies. [10]

8) Clear, grammatical, and accessible writing. [10 points]

9) Cogent and logical organization and structure. [10 points]

10) An effective conclusion that summarizes the reports findings and their significance. [10 points]

[Total: 100 points]

If you are not sure how to approach this essay assignment, you can consult the online Chinese environmental history articles from China Dialogue by Jonathan Schlesinger, David Bello, Mindi Schneider et al, Robert Marks, Ling Zhang, Xiangli Ding, Victor Seow, Peter Lavelle, and Mary Brazelton as examples.

CITATIONS

All your references should adhere to the American Historical Review (AHR) citation style. The footnote style used by the AHR generally follows conventions recommended by The Chicago Manual of Style. You do not need to include a bibliography.

      Placement of Notes. A footnote number should come at the end of a sentence or at least at the end of a clause wherever possible. Footnote numbers always follow quoted or cited material; they should not be placed after authors’ names or other references preceding the cited matter.
      Citing Books. The first citation of a book should take the following format:
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge, 1994).

Subsequent citations should take the following format: Weinberg, A World at Arms, 132-33.

Note that only the last name of the author is provided in a subsequent reference, along with a shortened version of the title. The publication information is not repeated. The short title should use words in sequence from the main title only.

      Citing Book Chapters/Sections. A book chapter, essay, or book section should take the following format:
John H. Hanson, Islam and African Societies, in Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O’Meara, eds., Africa, 3rd ed. (Bloomington, Ind., 1995), 97-114.

Subsequent citations should take the following format:

Hanson, Islam and African Societies, 98.

      Citing Class Lectures. If you are citing a class lecture, include your professor’s name, title of the lecture in quotation marks, the course number and name and the location and date.
Allen Seager, “Women and the Church in New France,” History 204: The Social History of Canada (class lecture, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, January 2011).

If you have any questions about how to cite specific types of sources, you can find the answer using the following citation guide.

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

FORMATING

Please double-space your written assignment, use a standard 12 point font such as Arial or Times New Roman (i.e. not Comic Sans), and submit it on Canvas as a Word document.

DEADLINE

The written assignment will be due by 11:59pm (San Diego Time) on March 20, 2021.

WEEK 6: RIVERS 2, The Yangzi River

Chris Courtney, Picturing disaster: The 1931 Wuhan flood https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/10811-picturing-disaster-the-1931-wuhan-flood/ (Links to an external site.)

Covell F. Meyskens, Building a Dam for China in the Three Gorges Region, 1919-1971. In Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. Water, Technology and the Nation-State (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 207-222.

Watch the film Up the Yangtze (2007). https://tubitv.com/movies/462776/up-the-yangtze (Links to an external site.)

Suggested readings:

Brian Lander, State Management of River Dikes in Early China: New Sources on the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Region, Toung Pao 100:4-5 (2014), 325-362.

Shiba Yoshinobu, Environment Versus Water Control: The Case of the Southern Hangzhou Bay Area From the Mid-Tang Through the Qing, in Mark Elvin and Tsui-jung Liu, ed. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Lyman Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, Culture, and the River (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1988).

Chris Courtney, The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi Flood (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Chris Courtney, The Dragon King and the 1931 Wuhan Flood: Religious Rumors and Environmental Disasters in Republican China, Twentieth-Century China 40:2 (2015), 83-104.

Chris Courtney, At War with Water: The Maoist state and the 1954 Yangzi floods, Modern Asian Studies 52:6 (2018), 1807-1836.

Dai Qing, et al. The River Dragon Has Come!: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China’s Yangtze River and Its People (London: Routledge, 1998).

WEEK 7: ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM

Micah S. Muscolino, Overfishing fuels Chinas maritime disputes https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/2016/10/20/the-most-prized-fish-in-asia-drives-chinese-overfishing/ (Links to an external site.)

Sakura Christmas, An imperial sheep chase https://www.chinadialogue.net/culture/9743-An-imperial-sheep-chase/ (Links to an external site.)

Suggested readings:

Sakura Christmas, Japanese Imperialism and Environmental Disease on a Soy Frontier, 18901940, Journal of Asian Studies 78:4 (2019): 809-836

Micah S. Muscolino, Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2009).

Micah Muscolino, Fisheries Build Up the Nation: Maritime Environmental Encounters between Japan and China, in Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker, ed. Japan at Natures Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013), 56-70.

Micah Muscolino, The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, Environmental History 13:2 (2008), 306-324.

Norman Smith, Hibernate No More: Winter, Health and the Great Outdoors, in Norman Smith, ed. Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017), 130-151.

WEEK 8: FOSSIL FUELS

Peter Lavelle, The historical roots of Chinas industrial revolution https://www.chinadialogue.net/culture/9918-The-historical-roots-of-China-s-industrial-revolution/ (Links to an external site.)

Victor Seow, Carbons footprint in Chinese modernity https://www.chinadialogue.net/culture/10332-Carbon-s-footprint-in-Chinese-modernity/ (Links to an external site.)

Judd C. Kinzley, How oil has shaped Xinjiang https://www.chinadialogue.net/culture/11031-How-oil-has-shaped-Xinjiang/en (Links to an external site.)

Watch the film Behemoth (2016). https://roger.ucsd.edu:443/record=b10585196~S9Links to an external site.

Suggested readings:
Judd C. Kinzley, Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China’s Borderlands (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), Part 2.

Shellen Wu, Empires of Coal: Fueling Chinas Entry into the Modern World Order (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015).

Micah S. Muscolino, “Energy and Enterprise in Liu Hongsheng’s Cement and Coal-Briquette Businesses, 19201937,” Twentieth-Century China 41:2 (2016), 159-179.

Victor Seow, Sites of Extraction: Perspectives from a Japanese Coal Mine in Northeast China. Environmental History 24:3 (2019): 504-513.

WEEK 9: INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Mary A. Brazelton, Preventing epidemics in 20th-century China, https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/preventing-epidemics-in-20th-century-china-2/ (Links to an external site.)

Sujit Sivasundaram, The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of COVID-19, Past & Present 249:1 (2020): 295-316

Suggested readings:
Carol Benedict, Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China, Modern China 14:2 (1988), 107-155.
Mary A. Brazelton, Danger in the Air: Tuberculosis Control and BCG Vaccination in the Republic of China, 19301949, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 8:1 (2019), 139-164.

Ruth Rogaski, Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria, in Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, ed. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 132-159.

Shuk-Wah Poon, Cholera, Public Health, and the Politics of Water in Republican Guangzhou, Modern Asian Studies 47:2 (2013), 436-466.

Kerrie L. MacPherson, Cholera in China, 1820-1930: An Aspect of the Internationalization of Infectious Disease, in Mark Elvin and Tsui-jung Liu, ed. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Zhang Yixia and Mark Elvin, Environment and Tuberculosis in Modern China, in Mark Elvin and Tsui-jung Liu, ed. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

WEEK 10: CLIMATE CRISIS
Iza Ding, Can China Lead the Fight on Climate Change, The Diplomat, December 1, 2019. https://5ee6a0fb-6ab8-4562-9b57-07406608310f.filesusr.com/ugd/8001f2_5b9c5747948a46b1b3cbb5122fbbd4ef.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Watch the film Under the Dome (2015).
Under the Dome (English subtitle,Complete) by Chai Jing: Air pollution in China (Links to an external site.)
Under the Dome (English subtitle,Complete) by Chai Jing: Air pollution in China
Suggested readings:
Daniel K. Gardner, Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Judith Shapiro, Chinas Environmental Challenges (New York: Polity, 2nd edition, 2016).
Sam Geall, China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (London: Zed Books, 2013).
Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (New York: Polity, 2020).

Any topic (writer’s choice)

March 28, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Consider who was, or will eventually be hurt.  Some customers were now paying fees on their new accounts, many without knowing they had a new account.  The employees were getting additional pay so they could provide for themselves and their families.  The bank was looking like it had more customers on the books.

Here are some of the discussion points you may write about:

Is repayment to customers who paid a fee and the apology by e-mail enough?

Is a penalty appropriate?  ($185 million)

Why did Wells Fargo decide to pay incentive fees for opening accounts without putting into place safeguards to assure cheating wouldnt happen?

Would you, if you had been a Wells Fargo employee, been tempted to open bogus accounts to get more pay?  If so, would you have succumbed to the temptation?

What could Wells Fargo have done to incentivize employees to get new accounts yet minimizing the possibility that the employees would cheat in such a fashion those clients would be hurt?

Do all of us monitor our bank and credit card statements so carefully that we would know if this had happened to us?  Speculate as to whether the employees looked for clients who would be least likely to carefully monitor statements.