Category: Humanities

Practical Book Review

January 6, 2020 4 Comments APA, Humanities

PRACTICAL BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS

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This Practical Book Review provides an opportunity for you to reflect on, respond to, and evaluate the ideas, concepts, and techniques in Petersens (2015) Why Dont We Listen Better? based on your own life experiences and ideas from other course texts, and apply these to your interpersonal communication context. Begin the body of your paper with a brief introductory paragraph, then organize your review in 3 sections, using the headings Response, Critique, and Application, following the specific directions provided below. Your review must be well written and organized, free of grammar and other writing errors, and formatted according to current APA style. A title page and a reference page are expected, but an abstract is not needed. Also, you may use the first-person pronoun.

Response
Articulate a personalized response that demonstrates meaningful reflection on the core content. Describe insights you gained about your own communication skills, strengths, weaknesses, and habits. For example, what concepts and principles were especially enlightening to you? Were you reminded of any past conversations? Did you identify with any of the communication traps? Your response should be between 400 and 500 words.

Critique
Evaluate the book from your own point-of-view and based on its intended purpose. What did you identify as its most valuable contributions? Did you find any of the concepts unclear or insufficiently developed? Also, compare and contrast 3 of Petersens ideas with related concepts articulated in Stewarts Bridges Not Walls as well as in France & Weikels Helping Skills for Human Service Workers (and list these texts on the reference page along with the Petersen text). How are the perspectives of the three authors similar and/or different? Briefly analyze and discuss the relative strengths of each. Your critique should be between 700 and 800 words.

Application
Looking forward, apply what you have learned to your own interpersonal arena. Articulate the changes you need to make in light of the information gleaned from the content. Describe the specific strategies and techniques that you will implement in order to enhance your interpersonal communicationboth personally and professionallyand how you plan to do so. Your application should be between 400 and 500 words.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

January 6, 2020 4 Comments Humanities, MLA

1.Critically examine the role played by a) religion and legislation/courts/laws or institutions related to these in both the repression and liberation of enslaved Africans in Brazil. Clearly evaluate the contributions that each of these institutions made to black peoples oppression and struggle for freedom. In addition to referencing scholarly secondary sources, cite concrete examples from readings and films you studied in this course in your responses.
2. Using examples of films and readings you studied during this course, identify what you consider to be FOUR key modes of repression used to oppress African Brazilian people and deny them basic rights and equality in Brazil. Critically examine the efficacy of each of these repressive strategies and the impact, they had or still have on Afro-Brazilian people and communities THEN and NOW.
3. From the required readings and films for this class, identify FOUR revolutionary methods that the enslaved African Brazilian people used to liberate themselves OR to cope with the harsh conditions under slavery. Critically evaluate and outline the effectiveness, strengths, and weaknesses of each of these strategies and modes of rebellion and resistance. Provide your personal opinion on the value, efficacy, and success of each method.
4. The pervasiveness of slavery, the lateness of its abolition, and the fact that nothing was done to turn former slaves into citizens all combined to have a profound impact on Brazilian society. They are reasons for the extreme socioeconomic inequality that still scars the country today Discuss this statement paying specific attention to how these historical processes and events together with the subsequent military dictatorships impacted Afro-Brazilian peoples history, religion, culture, identity and overall experiences to this present day.
5. Paying particular attention to the religions, identities, music and dance forms of the enslaved African Brazilian people critically analyze the processes of acculturation, hybridization, transculturation and creolization that these cultural forms went through
during slavery and the post-emancipation era. In your response cite specific examples from both the films and readings and pay particular attention changes, raptures, and continuities that these forms experienced.

Research Of A Culture: Classical Greece

January 6, 2020 No Comments APA, Humanities

Research Paper Content:
Begin with an introduction with a thesis statement.
Provide a brief history of your culture.
Explain how your chosen culture is represented in the United States.
Discuss whether your culture individualistic or collectivistic. Provide at least one example.
Detail some of the artistic (art, music, architecture, dance) contributions of your culture.
Explain some of the values of your culture. Provide at least three examples.
Discuss your cultures religion(s). Include name and basic belief system of at least one of the major faiths.
Detail some of the sex and gender role differences in your culture (provide at least three examples)
Discuss what we would need to know to acculturate into your culture. (If a past one, what would we need to do for preparing for our time machine to fit in). Provide at least one concrete suggestion.
End with the conclusion.
Specific Paper Requirements:
Length of paper four to six pages in length (Times New Roman; One inch margins; Font 12; Double-spaced)
Must contain in-text citations in current APA Style
Check your spelling and grammar
Include a minimum of three or more credible sources (books, journal articles, magazine/newspaper articles, etc.)
Paper Outline:
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
CULTURAL CONTEXT
Represented in US
Individualistic/Collective
Artistic
Values
Religion
SEX AND GENDER ROLES
ACCULTURATION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

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January 5, 2020 No Comments APA, Humanities

Good morning Dr. this is the guy you help last semester in foreign policy. I need your help again this semester. I start class tomorrow  and I told I would be back. The two books for this class is:                                                                                                                      Robert Keohane (ed). 1986. Neoliberalism and its Critics. Columbia University Press.
Stephen Walt. 2018. The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN-13: 978-1250234810.    As soon as I start tomorrow and find out the papers I will assign them to you. In the mean time I will work on get a PDF of the book. Thank you I will wait for your response.