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“Researching in the Online Library,”
$5.00Using the South University Online Library, locate an article that presents an argument on a controversial topic. The SIRS researcher, mentioned in the lecture
“Researching in the Online Library,” is a good resource for current, controversial topics.After you have located your article, examine its rhetorical effectiveness.- What strategies does the author use to persuade the target audience?
- How does the author appeal to logos and pathos?
- How would you characterize the author’s ethos?
Assignment Guidelines:
The rough draft of your essay should contain an introduction, a brief summary of the article you are analyzing, a detailed rhetorical analysis of the article’s argument, and a well-developed conclusion.
- In your introduction, define the context of the argument and explain why the topic is controversial. Be sure to include a thesis statement at the end of your introduction. Your thesis should highlight two or more rhetorical features that are central to the argument’s overall effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
- Next, provide a short summary of the article’s argument to prepare readers for your analysis.
- Your rhetorical analysis of the argument should support the claims you make in your thesis statement. You should present and evaluate the rhetorical strategies used by the author to appeal to his or her target audience.
- Your conclusion should summarize the main points of your analysis and bring the essay to an effective close.
Assignment Requirements:
Your rough draft should be developed to at least 500 words and posted as a file attachment to the Discussion Area below.
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Uncertainty Principle Essay
$3.50Address the following philosophical question. In the Copenhagen play, the characters interact with one another in a way that is meant to illustrate the role of uncertainty. We know that the Uncertainty Principle in physics tells us something about what we can know about the interaction of two particles, but the author seems to be telling us that there is a similar principle that describes what we or anyone can know about the interaction of two people. ( one page , less than 300 words,and double space)
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Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts
$5.00Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts. If you were a judge, what would be your sentencing goals and philosophical rationales? Why? Can you envision any circumstances that might make your guidelines or sentencing goals change? Why? Provide an example of a situation that might be extremely difficult to judge that could put you as a judge in a situation to change your sentencing goals or philosophical rationales. Judges have specific philosophical rationales and sentencing guidelines when providing a judgment over presented facts. If you were a judge, what would be your sentencing goals and philosophical rationales? Why? Can you envision any circumstances that might make your guidelines or sentencing goals change? Why? Provide an example of a situation that might be extremely difficult to judge that could put you as a judge in a situation to change your sentencing goals or philosophical rationales.
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Why Teach Art?
$5.00Why teach art?
You may already have ideas about this…or perhaps some doubts (in which case maybe there is something here to convince you). The following are excerpts from several sources. You may notice they might expand upon and add to the ten rationale in the Emphasis Art Chapter 1 reading. They are intended to provide you with some ways to explore, think about, and start to articulate your own reasons for why the arts are important.
Reminder—
WEEK 1 Assignment: Why teach art? Readings Reflection Paper
(1 page; 400-600 words)
As you read the following excerpts on the benefits of arts education
- Identify 3 reasons for teaching art that “ring true” for you. Summarize these (with source references) along with WHY YOU think they are important for children today.
- Identify 3 barriers you see to providing a quality arts education. These may be systemic and/or based on your own personal experience or concerns.
NOTE: if any of the links seem broken—try cut and pasting into a google search.
CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE
One of the earliest comprehensive research-based reports on the benefits of arts education (1999)
Complete Report found at: http://www.aep-arts.org/PDF%20Files/ChampsReport.pdf (www.aep-arts.org site)
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS GALA
$7.00Journal #6 is based on your participation in an activity, workshop, and other school event outside of class. Information on these activities will be provided in class, posted on campus, and/or on the SNHU website. Please see me with questions regarding the appropriateness of your chosen events. You may choose from a broad variety of events available on campus and are expected to choose activities that are different from each other for this assignment.
For the event you attend, you are required to discuss the following:
- What activity did you attend? When and where was the program? Why did you select this activity?International Student Gala http://www.snhu.edu/8640.asp
- How did you participate in the program? some friend ask me to sing there .
- What did you learn that was new to you? How did this contribute to your understanding of the university general education learning goals or your projected major or minor? (most of the entry should be focused on this question)
Pay close attention to the use of proper spelling and grammar; if I can’t read or understand what you’ve written I cannot comment on it! Journal entries are expected to be approximately 2 pages long, double-spaced, typed using a 12-point standard font (e.g., Times New Roman, Arial), with 1-inch margins on all four sides of the paper.
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Ultimate good for man is happiness
$25.00Aristotle, Aquinas and J. S. Mill, the ultimate good for “man” is happiness
A: PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS: CLASSICS OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (1 page each)
PART B: QUESTIONS (1st AND 2nd TERMS)
- For Aristotle, Aquinas and J. S. Mill, the ultimate good for “man” is A just political association must therefore have this good as its aim. Choosing two of these thinkers, discuss what each would have to say about the other’s conception of happiness, and the means for bringing it about.
- For Plato and Hobbes, the passions and appetites are essentially insatiable and must be controlled by an absolute political authority if chaos is to be avoided. Both, moreover, consider this type of rule to be the most rational option and the most conducive to human happiness. In spite of these similarities, however, each would criticize the premises on which the other has built his political theory. Discuss.
- A concern shared by many ancient and modern political theorists has been that of the tendency of constitutions, no matter how well organized or just, to break down or degenerate. Hence their theories of governance have as one of their aims the preservation of constitutions. Compare what either Plato or Aristotle has to say about the reasons for and the most viable solutions to the problem of constitutional breakdown with either Machiavelli, Rousseau, or Marx.
PART C: QUESTIONS (MARX AND MILL)
- Like the ancients, Marx felt that human freedom is achieved through the community, rather than it opposition to it. But like Rousseau, he does not advocate “going back” to a “simpler,” “organic” society. Why not? What would Marx think is “missing” from ancient society in regard to true human freedom?
- John Stuart Mill is the first (male) liberal political theorist to call for the freedom and equality of women in civil society. On what grounds does he make his case? What are the strengths and limitations of Mill’s particular approach to this issue? What do you think Marx would say about his diagnosis of, and proposed solution to, the subordination of women?
- Both Marx and J.S Mill are critical of the rights-based doctrine of freedom espoused in (one) tradition of liberal theory, although each sees freedom as essential to the realization of a full human life. Discuss either Mill’s or Marx’s critique of the liberal idea of a “right” to freedom, keeping in mind the place of freedom in their own vision of human flourishing
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Patterns of naming in the UK
$20.003000-WORDs (70%)
5) From a study of the most popular names given to girls and boys since 1900, what trends can be observed in patterns of naming in the UK, and how do these relate to the origins of the names and their historical (or other) uses?
Answer ONE of the following questions.es show clear familiarity with relevant recommended reading and credit will be given for the breadth of knowledge and research evidenced in your work. You should include a full bibliography, and your references should follow either MLA or Harvard style.
1) Investigate the ways in which a study of place-names can inform our understanding of historical cultures in what is now the UK. focus primarily on ONE of the following specific languages: Old English, Old Norse, French or Latin.
2) Discuss, with examples, the ways in which the study of genetics can contribute to research into family names and genealogy.
3) With reference to specific fictional texts (these may be poems, plays, novels, short stories, etc), examine the ways in which the study of invented names may contribute to literary analysis.
4) In grammatical terms, names are often classified as nouns, but some linguists dispute this classification. Which argument(s) for the grammatical classification of names do you find most convincing and why?
6) The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) usually encourages the use of endonyms rather than exonyms. Do you agree with this view? Explain your answer with reference to relevant examples.
7) Acts of naming (and renaming) are often understood as acts of power. Evaluate the ways in which ONE of the following types of names may encode social and political attitudes: personal names, street names or place-names.
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“Ethics Case Study: To Rescue Others at What Risk?”
$5.00Ethics Case Study: To Rescue Others at What Risk?</o:p>
Directions: Read the following case study and answer the questions .
ACME Medical Center has been damaged seriously by a recent hurricane. A helicopter that is trying to rescue people stranded by the hurricane has crashed, hitting the wing of the building where the pediatric unit was located. In the midst of the explosion, fire, and confusion, five people make their way to the roof and wait for rescue. They are Mary, a mother who is carrying her ill infant who was a patient on the unit; Joseph, her husband and the baby’s father; John, a pediatric resident who had been caring for the baby; Margaret, the RN, who was on duty in the pediatric unit; and Peter, a transport employee who was helping to prepare patients for rescue and evacuation.
Mary says to the group, “I think I hear someone crying. Yes, I can hear cries for help. We’ve got to go back down the stairs and help those people!” Dr. John says, “You women stay here. Joseph and I will go back down and see what we can do.” Joseph looks first at his own ill infant and then down the smoke-filled stairs and replies, “I’m not going back down. It’s too risky. The smoke is too thick. We’d never make it through and survive.” Margaret the RN says, “We’ve got to do something; we can’t just let people die. I’d never be able to live with myself. Those are my patients and I need to help them.” Margaret runs down the stairs and disappears. Peter says, “You’re all crazy! In a situation like this it’s every man for himself!”
A. Refer to “Ethics Case Study: To Rescue Others at What Risk?” and answer the following questions:
1. What is the ethical dilemma?
2. What is your value and ethical position related to the case? Include discussion of theory and principles on which your position is based.
3. What are some other alternatives for resolving the problem?
B. Refer to “Ethics Case Study: To Rescue Others at What Risk?” and answer the following questions:
1. What are the possible consequences for those acceptable alternatives?
2. How would you prioritize the acceptable alternatives?
3. What is your plan of action?
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Proposed Research Topic: Effects of Online Gaming on American College Students
$7.50Review the suggestions for writing a research proposal given on the Social Science Research Council Web site:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/art_of_writing_proposals.page
Using the potential research project you identified for Written Assignment 1, consider how you would prepare a proposal to do the research. Be sure to:
- Include the necessary sections of a proposal.
- Describe why the research is important.
- Consider and describe the sampling plan you would use.
- Think about the literature review. What key words would you use to search?
- Discuss how the results would be used.
- Include a bibliography.