Category: MLA

Philosophy

April 7, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Philosophy

In his article Famine, Affluence, and Morality, (beginning on page 235), Peter Singer spoke about the distinction between duty and charity. He said that in our society, Because giving money is regarded as an act of charity, it is not thought that there is anything wrong with not giving. The charitable man may be praised, but the man who is not charitable is not condemned.
    Singer further explained how people do not feel in any way ashamed or guilty about spending money on new clothes or a new car instead of giving it to famine relief. Singer concluded, This way of looking at the matter cannot be justified. We ought to give the money away, and it is wrong not to do so.

Please answer the following question:
Does Peter Singers above view remain consistent with his main thesis from the article? Fully explain your answer and when doing so, be sure to clearly state Singers main thesis, in your explanation. (100 points)

Interest Groups Research

April 7, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Political science

Explore the Center for Responsive Politics  website. The Center for Responsive Politics tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. The center provides data and analytical reports on a number of topics (presidential elections, super pacs, political parties, 527 groups, etc.)

Research an area that interests you on the site. Submit a minimum one page summary and analysis of your findings on the topic. Include links to the pages you consulted for your assignment.

Each response should be paragraph should be a minimum of one full page written in full sentences  (minimum of 10 sentences)

Western Art History Virtual Art Exhibit

April 7, 2021 Leave a comment Art, MLA

You can keep it simple and use our textbooks for your selected artworks. 35,000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. Paleolithic art through the Early Medieval period will be covered in the course materials, and therefore, your selected art works should be within this time frame. Please do not pick a Renaissance art work or anything contemporary. If you have questions, you can look at all chapters in our syllabus, and select works from those chapters. That is a good, guaranteed approach to finding acceptable images.

You may also mix it up and use some internet researched art images (artists must be fairly well-known so that you can research them more easily). Each week, in our discussions, we will be completing skills that can be applied to your Final Projects. For example, your first impressions and theme, research, and describing art (Elements of Art and Principles of Design).

In order to successfully complete the virtual art exhibit, you should create something (a video in your preferred format, Prezi or GoogleSlides, a virtual guided tour in ArtSteps, a Voicethread collection of images and text, a PDF, etc.) that contains two (2) art works AND a 1 page Exhibit Statement.

Step 1: Write an Exhibition Statement first.
Exhibit Statements discuss the inspiration for the exhibition. Discuss topics that give the viewer information about why you chose these works of art, and why you think they “belong” together. What is your inspiration for this exhibition?

An Exhibition Statement also introduces the works of art to the audience before they enter the exhibition. The Exhibition Statement is a great place to write about your first impressions and the theme or themes that connect to your 2 works of art.

Formatting requirements for your Exhibition Statement:

The Exhibition Statement needs to be one page in length, double-spaced. And it needs to be in 11 or 12 point font. Use paragraphs, please.
Must include any sources used to write paragraphs’ information — add in-text citations. Research them if you haven’t used them before.
A Bibliography should be added also. It is on its own slide, page, or section after the essay or exhibition itself.
The Bibliography should include a total of 3-4 academic resources.
Step 2: Create your presentation and write some awesome descriptions.

Start that slide show or ArtSteps guided tour, for example. Don’t forget to use MLA StyleLinks to an external site. format for your citations and sources listed at the end of presentation.

Please address these basic properties when you write about in paragraphs that you write. Use all terminology that is used below in the list. I am using bullet points in order to clearly format the instructions but this bullet list would not be appropriate for a professional Arts article or essay, for example.

The title of the work of art in MLA Style format. Links to an external site.
The date or general time period (for example, during prehistoric times, there are general time periods, such as Neolithic and Paleolithic
Medium (the materials that are used in order to create the artwork)
Dimensions (size) — is it small-scale? Or is this a large-scale work and about the size of a human being? Is it monumental, which means that it is many times the size of a human being?
What is the subject matter presented in the work of art?
Once you properly introduce a work of art, discuss the work of art in terms of one Element of Art and one Principle of Design.

Step 3: Complete the first impressions and connect them to a theme.

Pick a theme and do research based on this topic. Tell us what you have learned in your exhibition statement that you started earlier.

Examples of Research:

Articles – online magazines, newspapers, art magazines (Juxtapoz)
Podcasts – there’s lots of art podcasts
Our textbook – stick to the chapters that we cover in the syllabus
Online museum events (Asian Art Museum, for example)
YouTube (a lot of museums, universities, and artists have their own channels)
Online search in our library database
Don’t be afraid to Ask a Librarian – they can find sources for you while you work on other stuff!
Step 4: Design an Element of Art and a Principle of Design.

Finally, it’s very important to demonstrate that you understand how to identify at least one Element of Art in the work of art. Describe it in your own words, and then do the same for at least one Principle of Design.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

April 7, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Other

Consider a real negotiation, which result wasnt good for you i.e., you perceive that you could have had a better outcome … maybe far better. The negotiation may have been a deal with colleagues, relatives, parents, room mates, the organization of a party at school or any other situation which will allow a deep and broad analysis, as described below. Ideally, you should choose a multiparty situation the more complex was the case, the better it will be as a basis for the analysis.

Ideally, you should choose a multiparty situation the more complex was the case (several parties, interests not so clear or maybe even not explicit), the better it tends to be as a raw material. Furthermore, the higher the perception that the result was below the desirable, the higher the potential for a good final text.

IN SHORT: your text must have 3 sections, more or less the same size each:

PART 1 – WHAT HAPPENED
Report the situation in details. Identify the main players/deciders and their interests. Remember that a negotiation may have:
– Material/objective issues: money, goods, services etc.;
– Subjective issues: good/bad feelings, emotions/sensations about what happened; and
– Some collateral questions about the process itself: respect, empathy etc.
Much likely, the bad feeling about the case comes from a combination of these aspects.

PART 2 – WHY IT HAPPENED
Once you identified and depicted the scenario, make an introspection, self-assessment about how did you behave regarding all the mentioned aspects. Focus your analysis on what happened. Try to figure out how did YOU contribute either by acting or by the lack of action when needed and the possible reasons that led to the poor result.

PART 3 – WHAT CAN BE LEARNED
Be really sincere with yourself. Look for possible improvements in your attitudes and judgment that may help you to do better in future similar situations. Dont point your finger to the others: focus on YOU and YOUR attitudes. Even if someone misbehaved, instead of blaming that person, try to understand what was your contribution for that.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

April 6, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Other

Peer review:

For this part of the assignment, imagine as you wish, that you will be the potential approver for the submitted project, thus it depends on you to make sure the proposal is worth it. You will be required to read a paper of one of your fellow students ( *I’m going to send you by SMS the paper that was assigned to me.), and will have the ability to grade the paper presented under the rubrics cube provided for the assignment. More importantly you will be required to write a minimum 3 paragraph review on the quality of the material presented. Under the following guidelines:

1-Is the issue at hand fully understandable? Or are you lost on what exactly needs fixing?

2-Did the paper encompass all affected stakeholders or do you consider there to be more? If you feel that it is sufficient, explain how you agree this would be correct.

3-Do you understand the solution presented? Or would you recommend any alternative steps to address the issue.

*please , answer the 3 questions

Any topic (writer’s choice)

April 6, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Other

Peer review:

For this part of the assignment, imagine as you wish, that you will be the potential approver for the submitted project, thus it depends on you to make sure the proposal is worth it. You will be required to read a paper of one of your fellow students ( *I’m going to send you by SMS the paper that was assigned to me.), and will have the ability to grade the paper presented under the rubrics cube provided for the assignment. More importantly you will be required to write a minimum 3 paragraph review on the quality of the material presented. Under the following guidelines:

1-Is the issue at hand fully understandable? Or are you lost on what exactly needs fixing?

2-Did the paper encompass all affected stakeholders or do you consider there to be more? If you feel that it is sufficient, explain how you agree this would be correct.

3-Do you understand the solution presented? Or would you recommend any alternative steps to address the issue.

*please , answer the 3 questions

Write about a novel

April 6, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, MLA

Read the first 4 chapters of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and make notes on the important emerging themes. Begin an original discussion post of two paragraphs in response to the topic above.

Specifically,  how do the characters so far experience alienation? Give specific examples by quoting or paraphrasing from the first 4 chapters. This part can be done in one paragraph. See below for second paragraph.

Paragraph 2 – Have you ever experienced alienation – that feeling of being strange or different, or just not seeming to fit in, whether it’s in a foreign country, or new school/college? club? group? family? How do you deal with it? If you have not experienced alienation, how do you think you would deal with it? Are the characters in your opinion doing their best to overcome alienation?

Critical Essay

April 6, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, MLA

Assignment Description:  In this essay, you will select a specific text from our content and argue how the text teaches the reader about the time, place, and culture of its creation. The thesis of your essay, in other words, will argue that one of our specific stories can help modern scholars better understand the time from which it came.

Possible themes to explore include (but are not limited to) the following:

Love and Marriage
War and Responsibilities of a Soldier
Social Views of Death
Conflicting Ideas of Morality
Family Dynamics
Social Punishment
Mental Illness and its Treatment
Racial Tension
Gender Struggle
Fear of/Fascination with the Unfamiliar
Importance of Tradition
Causes/Effects of Violence

Here is an example thesis (Please note: students may not use this thesis for their own essays.):
In the story A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother illustrates moral hypocrisy demonstrated in the 1950s American south.

Advice: Please follow these suggestions as well as those listed in the Advice for Writing about Literature worksheet.

You will need at least two main points to support your stance.  For example, I can support my above thesis in these ways:

-The grandmother secretively manipulates her son Bailey, allowing his authority as Man to overshadow her authority as Mother.  This reinforces the strict gender roles of the 1950s.
-The grandmother sees herself as morally righteous yet still demonstrates racist thought and behavior.  This fits with the apathy of the Christian south when faced with Jim Crow Laws of the 1950s.
-The grandmother wears her Christian beliefs as a costume, able to disrobe them when threatened.  This shows the fallout from World War 2 in which the American South began to question the nature of Good.

You will need textual support from the primary story you select as well as support from secondary sources. The secondary sources should justify that what the primary text suggests about the time/place/culture is valid. Here are some examples of secondary sources I can use for my thesis:

-A newspaper article/editorial from the 1950s criticizing women in the workforce
-Martin Luther Kings Letter from a Birmingham Jail in which he criticizes the apathy shown by white church leaders concerning racial struggle
-A biographical excerpt about the formation of the Hells Angels being motivated by disillusioned WW2 veterans

So, your secondary sources set up a specific component of the time/place/culture of the story, while the primary source shows us what the story teaches us about that component.

The essay must be at least four FULL pages long using these formatting guidelines (submissions can be longer than four pages):

Times new roman font
12 point size
1 inch margins
Double spaced lines
No extra space between paragraphs
Include MLA formatted parenthetical citations and a works cited page. https://youtu.be/bjbMfL92b7g

Please choose from the following:
“My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun”
“To His Coy Mistress”
“The Flea”
“My Last Dutchess”
“Charge of the Light Brigade”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
“The Things They Carried”
“Godfather Death”
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
“Out, Out”
“The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
“The Black Cat”
“On Her Own Work”
“The Child by Tiger”
“Tale of the Three Brothers”
“A Red, Red Rose”

Any topic (writer’s choice)

April 5, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, MLA

Bring a rough draft of the following on March 16:  Microsoft Word, Times New Roman or Arial Font.
(The final draft will be 2.5-four pages double-spaced due on March 23.)

Critical Media Literacy Project:  The purpose of Critical Media Literacy is to understand all forms of media and the institutions of power that shape and inform media and its various representations. By analyzing, exploring, examining, and questioning (1) the construction of media, (2) the purpose of the media, and (3) the consumption of media, one has the ability to comprehend the complexities and power dynamics associated with newspapers, billboards, books, magazines, radio, podcasts, social media, products and packaging, etc.

Also, Critical Media Literacy provides strategies for becoming an informed consumer of media and its representations. Through questioning and challenging power, one has agency in the tradition of social justice with the goal to improve our society. And as a teacher, you will continue in this tradition by sharing knowledge with your students about Critical Media Literacy, as well as enhancing their comprehension skills.

Next Steps: Please read the attached Critical Media Literacy handout on Blackboard. Your responsibility for this assignment is to (1) read, (2) analyze, and (3) apply the six questions below from Critical Media Literacy to a childrens picture book of your choice (e.g. a book from your personal collection or a virtual reading from YouTube). To help you with your selection and to provide insights into the diversity of childrens picture books, please review the booklists from Social Justice Books: https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists.

Critical Media Literacy Questions from the Handout
1. Who created this childrens picture book?
2. How was this childrens picture book constructed, delivered, and accessed?
3. How can this book be understood differently?
4. What values, points of view, and ideologies are represented or missing from this book or influenced by the medium?
5. Why was this childrens picture book created and/or shared?
6. Whom does this book advantage and/or disadvantage?

CHILDRENS BOOK IS : HAIR LOVE by Matthew Cherry