Write a well-constructed article on one muckraker using the outline you created during your website research. Give specific examples of articles and books that were written. What businesses or government offices were targeted in the exposés?

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Muckrakers Under the Microscope

Muckrakers were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business or government, or examined serious societal issues. Several of the most well-known muckrakers worked for McClure’s Magazine, where they wrote exposés on large companies, meat slaughtering houses, and city governments. These prominent and influential reporters included Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and Ray Stannard Baker.

Now suppose that you, too, are an investigative journalist. Instead of choosing a business or government, you have been asked to write a piece on one of the muckrakers. Which muckraker will you investigate? And how much information will you be able to provide?

(100 points)

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  1. Write a well-constructed article on one muckraker using the outline you created during your website research. Keep the following points in mind as you write your essay:
  • Include important biographical information about the individual’s life.
  • Give specific examples of articles and books that were written. What businesses or government offices were targeted in the exposés?
  • What reforms or changes took place as a result of the individual’s writings?

Write a letter compelling a friend or family member to change either a behavior or a belief with which you disagree.

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PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Assignment Prompt
For this assignment, you will be writing a letter compelling a friend or family member to change either a behavior or a belief with which you disagree. Choose your own topic, but for example, this letter could petition an enthusiastic neighbor to scale down his blinding Christmas decorations, an immature cousin to take a gap year between high school and college, a grandparent to vote to pass the new school district budget, a friend to stop drinking, or a spouse to reconcile with an estranged sibling. Because the letter will be written to an individual of your choosing, you must tailor your language and logic to the person to whom you are writing.

Write a paper looking critically at a song and how it relates to a social, historical or political issue.

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Write a paper looking critically at a song and how it relates to a social, historical or political issue. Analyzing the lyrics and linking it to a social, historical, or political issue to inform audience.

How will you use the source? Does it define or explain the problem or issue? Support or contrast your thesis? Identify the section of your project where you could include your source.

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Reference: Alphabetical reference MLA format; use a hanging indent paragraph structure; pay attention to capitalization, spacing, italics, and punctuation.

Summary Paragraph: Summary paragraph that summarizes the source and the author’s main points and relevance to your research, and the credibility, reliability and timeliness of the source material.

Assessment Paragraph:Your assessment should include a response to the following questions: How will you use the source? Does it define or explain the problem or issue? Support or contrast your thesis? Identify the section of your project where you could include your source. Avoid obvious ideas such as “this article was interesting and will be used in my paper” or “this source will help me prove my ideas.” Instead, be specific about where this source will be used and which ideas it will help to prove.

Explain what you found notable about these two points. How do they illustrate a successful moment in the workshop process?

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Discussion

For this Discussion, read through all the workshop responses (all the workshop responses on all the drafts, not just the responses to your own draft), and find TWO specific examples (from two different writers) of commentary that struck you as especially helpful or observant. And explain what you found notable about these two points. How do they illustrate a successful moment in the workshop process? Again, you need to choose from workshop comments made on others’ papers, not the comments your own paper received, and you need specific examples from two different writers. You should also look back at the rough draft themselves, so you have some context for the comments.
In your post, identify the writer of the draft and the person workshopping it by name.

Write a paper looking critically at a song and how it relates to a social, historical or political issue. Analyzing the lyrics and linking it to a social, historical, or political issue to inform audience.

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Analyze a song

Write a paper looking critically at a song and how it relates to a social, historical or political issue. Analyzing the lyrics and linking it to a social, historical, or political issue to inform audience.

Describe the main argument(s) or claim(s) the author is trying to convey in the reading Describe the data or evidence the author presents to back up their argument/claim

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Article Review

Describe the main argument(s) or claim(s) the author is trying to convey in the reading
Describe the data or evidence the author presents to back up their argument/claim
What about their argument do you agree with or find convincing? Explain
What about their argument do you disagree with or find less convincing? Explain

 

Identify 2 -3 passages where she explains how technology disrupts “connection”. Discuss whether or not this has been your experience of technology as well? If not, how would you form a counterargument to her text?

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The empathy diaries

Review Turkle’s essay.
Identify 2 -3 passages (text areas of the essay that you will use for quotation) where she explains how technology disrupts “connection”. Cite the passages on this forum in MLA format. Then, use them to discuss whether or not this has been your experience of technology as well? If not, how would you form a counterargument to her text?

Now, find a classmate with the same or differing experience(s) and respond to their post. PEER RESPONSE DUE: 1/27 Peer Responses must include 50 words of analysis, following netiquette guidelines from the syllabus, and connect back to the text.

This post cannot be viewed by you, probably because you have not posted in the discussion, the maximum editing time hasn’t passed discussion has not started or the discus expired.

Discuss one element of fiction: for example, character, plot, style, point of view—theme–and reflect on what works better for you-the film or the story?

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In the Bedroom

“In the Bedroom” is a film adaptation of Andre Dubus’ short story “Killings”. The film was very much lauded, receiving Academy Award nominations and The New York Times considering it the best picture of the year. The story was actually republished in a new compilation of Dubus stories and it was entitled “In The Bedroom” with a preface by the film’s director, Todd Field.

Your assignment: Discuss one element of fiction: for example, character, plot, style (use of language-now substituted by use of filming technique, I suppose), point of view—theme–and reflect on what works better for you-the film or the story? The director took a relatively short story and turned it into a 2 hour movie. Perhaps you feel the story and its adaptation stand alone and are both effective and equally compelling. Do not overthink it–this is a reading response.

What qualities must a student have to be college material? To what degree does being a first-generation college student affect whether or not students see themselves as college material? What can first-generation students do to ensure they are college material?

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College material

We are all familiar with the traditional definition of college material (privilege/money, parents went to college, high grades and test scores, etc.) But what if we redefined what college material means? What qualities must a student have to be college material? To what degree does being a first-generation college student affect whether or not students see themselves as college material? What can first-generation students do to ensure they are college material?