Choose a specific monument, memorial, or artistic tribute which alludes to a historical event or person, and then write an analysis of the struggle for power that the monument represents.

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Monuments and Memorials

In this essay, students will choose a specific monument, memorial, or artistic tribute which alludes to a historical event or person, and then write an analysis of the struggle for power that the monument represents. In addition to analyzing the statuary itself, and the rhetorical appeals that it makes to viewers, the paper should include a discussion of the problem, or struggle, that is embedded in the statue’s existence. What is being contested here? Who is empowered by it, and who is disempowered? What story is it telling us about history?

What does the world look like from your point of view? Describe where you are and the colors, shapes, and interesting views you can see. Imagine what you would be able to smell, hear, and/or taste and describe those things. How do you relate to the people, creatures, or objects around you?

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Introduction

Imagine yourself as anything other who you are—anything other than a human. You could be an object (your car, your baby’s blanket, the big live oak in your back yard) or you could be an animal (the beloved and spoiled household pet). You can include a photo or image if you would like, but you do not have to do so. Write about your world as you imagine it, and include details about what your life is like.

THEN, once you have posted your reply, respond to TWO classmates’ posts. Tell them what you enjoyed and/or related to in their introductions. Be specific and thoughtful. Your response should be more than “good job.” Use this as an opportunity to get to know each other. IMPORTANT: FINALLY, to receive full credit for the discussion, respond to the classmates who have posted a reply to your post.

What does the world look like from your point of view?
Describe where you are and the colors, shapes, and interesting views you can see. Imagine what you would be able to smell, hear, and/or taste and describe those things.
How do you relate to the people, creatures, or objects around you?
Describe your emotions. What does it feel like to be you?

Read “The Crime of the Mathematics Teacher” by Clarice Lispector and “Gogol” by Jhumpa Lahiri. Both are in Fifty Great Short Stories. Then, in the Reply box below write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing.

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Fifty Great Short Stories

Read “The Crime of the Mathematics Teacher” by Clarice Lispector and “Gogol” by Jhumpa Lahiri. Both are in Fifty Great Short Stories. Then, in the Reply box below write a response essay with at least 500 words of your own writing. Put the word count at the top of your submission. Also respond to a few of your fellow students.

Compare Frost’s “The Road not Taken” and Thomas’ “Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and discuss the extent to which each poet is able to convey thoughts subtler and more profound than an initial reading of his poem might suggest.

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Comparing Frost’s “The Road not Taken” and Thomas’ “Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” poem

Compare Frost’s “The Road not Taken” and Thomas’ “Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and discuss the extent to which each poet is able to convey thoughts subtler and more profound than an initial reading of his poem might suggest.

Write an argumentative essay in which you state and defend a claim about whether it is ethical to target uninformed consumers.

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Ethical to target uninformed consumers

Write an argumentative essay in which you state and defend a claim about whether it is ethical to target uninformed consumers.

Analyze additional examples from our case studies, provide more substantial commentary and discussion of what your analysis shows, and contextualize your analysis and connect it to our basic course concepts.

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Translingual Analysis Paper 2

This assignment asks you to write an essay that analyzes one or more texts using a translingual approach. Your analysis should show how language users adapt and adopt global English for local cultural contexts and purposes; or how they engage in any of several multilingual competencies for writing and communication.

While people use language to get things done for specific purposes, they are also simultaneously creating and exchanging knowledge with each other about language. They use both their awareness of language (i.e., metalinguistic awareness) and their willingness to accommodate unfamiliar language uses (i.e., negotiating meaning) to their advantage. Their open attitude towards language connects them to transnational networks, makes new cultural forms of expression, and changes the character of English in the process, making it more flexible and accommodating as a global lingua franca.

Your task

Develop your Week 7 “Translingual Analysis Paper” into a larger 6-to-8 page analysis. You should aim to analyze additional examples from our case studies, provide more substantial commentary and discussion of what your analysis shows, and contextualize your analysis and connect it to our basic course concepts. You might also tie in a later case study or any insights from the Cal Poly-NCNU language symposium on March 3.

Discuss some sense of the criteria used in the essay to analyze, compare, and organize the sources under review in the synthesis (e.g., theme; trends in research, methodology, history, methods and standards; conclusions reached).

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“Modern Slavery: Child Labor”

Here are the sources you must use: https://canvas.pitt.edu/courses/132468/files/8624722?module_item_id=2873672
https://canvas.pitt.edu/courses/132468/files/8624720?module_item_id=2873671
https://canvas.pitt.edu/courses/132468/files/8624728?module_item_id=2873675
https://canvas.pitt.edu/courses/132468/files/8624730?module_item_id=2873678

1. In your opening paragraph, include these elements (though not necessarily in this order):

  •  A statement of the topic or the central issue that will be the focus of the essay
  • Your one- or two-sentence thesis statement expressing a significant observation or opinion on child labor derived from the overview of this subject provided by the sources that you will discuss (we will discuss in class the kind of thesis statement one should have in a synthesis essay)
    some sense of the criteria used in the essay to analyze, compare, and organize the sources under review in the synthesis (e.g., theme; trends in research, methodology, history, methods and standards; conclusions reached).

2. In the body of your essay, do NOT organize the discussion by sources; organize it, instead, by important aspects of the subject or the means of obtaining evidence or reaching conclusions. Each of the body paragraphs in the essay should focus on something significant related to the topic that all or some of the sources address. Every paragraph should explicitly mention more than one source, or if only one is directly discussed, the implicit comment on the other sources should be clear (however, focus your discussion on what the sources contain; do not mention what they omit)

3. In your conclusion, restate your thesis and your major supporting points (do not, however, repeat your thesis statement verbatim).

Write an outline for an argumentative essay with the topic: Should abortion be banned? the outline should include what the introduction, the body and the conclusion will entail.

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Critical thinking and academic writing

Write an outline for an argumentative essay with the topic: Should abortion be banned? the outline should include what the introduction, the body and the conclusion will entail.

Write a 300+ word fictional story that addresses the following: You are a hairdresser. Your client of 20+ years is having a bad day and asks you to brighten her mood with a funny story. You decide to tell her the story of your most embarrassing experience. It’s a story few people know.

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Draft of Audience-Centered Story

Write a 300+ word fictional story that addresses the following: You are a hairdresser. Your client of 20+ years is having a bad day and asks you to brighten her mood with a funny story. You decide to tell her the story of your most embarrassing experience. It’s a story few people know.

What enabling technologies were/are required to make this new technology possible? One thing you’re bound to find is that modern scientists “stand on the shoulders of giants”- their work is based on the work of the scientists that came before them. What relevant discoveries were needed to make this new technology possible?

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W5 Assignment 2 – Outline – Solar Panels

Objective:  Organize your thoughts and the main points of your “Solar Panels” research for your final Assignment 3 PowerPoint (11-12 slide) presentation.

Assignment Instructions:  To help you complete Assignment 3: The Presentation, you will first submit an outline to organize your thoughts and main points. Your outline should be formatted a specific way and must contain the following elements as described below.

To prepare for this assignment, do the following:
-Read these directions carefully.
-Review the sample outline provided to you below.
-Read the grading criteria attached. The grading criteria is a detailed evaluation that I will use to assess your performance.  It also will help you understand what is expected of you as you prepare your assignment.

Be sure to add your name and course number to your outline.

The outline format:  Your outline must be formatted as described and exemplified in the example attached.  Note that this format will be assessed in your grade:
-Use an alphanumeric sequence
-Sections should be indented and aligned
-Follow the suggested order of the required elements
-Use brief but detailed and descriptive phrases

The required elements: Your outline should contain the following elements in this order:
I.    The Introduction: this section must contain

A.   The scientific name of your technology.

B.   The common name of your technology.  What do most people know it as?  Are there other names?

C.   What interested you about this particular technology

II.     The Body (Content Sections): this section should contain

A.  Background: include a general physical description of technology. What is it?

B.  A brief history of how the technology was developed (when/where was the research and development done, what was the need that drove people to develop it, timelines and significant people involved in it’s development)

C. The application (commercial/military, what industry/industries use it? how is it used?, etc.) of your technology

D.  A detailed investigation into how the technology works at the most fundamental level. This should include:

a. Does the device transform one type of energy to another (i.e. an automobile engine transforms the chemical energy of fuel into mechanical energy that results in the motion of the car)

b. What sub assemblies and components does the technology contain and how do they work? One approach you can consider taking here is to choose some elemental particle that the technology works with and describe how it is processed by the technology. Using the engine as an example, you could consider describing how a drop of fuel enters the engine, gets mixed with air, results in combustion, whose gases then expand, etc. This should be the most substantial portion of your final presentation.

c. What enabling technologies were/are required to make this new technology possible? One thing you’re bound to find is that modern scientists “stand on the shoulders of giants”- their work is based on the work of the scientists that came before them. What relevant discoveries were needed to make this new technology possible?

d. What is the future of this technology? What advancements are scientists trying to come up with and what will we want them to do?

III.     The Conclusion Section: this section should contain four to six points that sum up the main points from the body of the outline.

1. Start your conclusive section with one sentence summarizing some basic information about your chosen technology.
2. Summarize the way that it works, the history and future of it’s development.
3. Wrap up the conclusive section with a closing note that provides brief information about a unique fact your chosen technology.

IV.     Reference section: This is not just the reference page; rather, referencing should occur throughout the outline as it will in your presentation.  Therefore, your outline should include both a separate reference page containing a minimum of five (5) scholarly references or sources (do NOT use encyclopedias, Wikipedia, Investopedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites) listed in proper APA reference list format AND internal citations throughout the outline where appropriate. Please be sure to see the resources below for assistance regarding in-text citations and reference list formatting.