Do you socialize mostly with members of your own ethnic, racial, or gender group? Why?

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Do you socialize mostly with members of your own ethnic, racial, or gender group? Why?

Write an essay that explores, in detail, the advantages of a more diverse social life and the ways that you could go about making this change happen.

What are the most important qualities of a committed relationship? What factors keep such a relationship positive and alive? Would it be shared interests, trust, humor, or nurturing each other’s growth? Your audience is anyone who wants a devoted relationship.

Then write an essay that explains three key qualities of committed partnership. Support your points with details and examples.

What will it include and what position does it take?

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ABSTRACT DRAFT
This is the one paragraph summary of your research paper. Though you have not written your full first draft, you have an idea of what your paper will look like and how it will read.

Write a paragraph summarizing what your paper will be about. What will it include and what position does it take?

What have the writer or director, actors, and creative team done that has made the adaptation either a success or a failure (or something in between)?

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MLA citation

Each assignment must be 2-3 pages long, double spaced, and adhere to MLA citation and formatting standards. You must also use direct quotations from the original and/or adaptation that you view to support the arguments being put forth.
You should write the review as if you were writing for a newspaper and provide a judgment about the adaptation (successful/unsuccessful? accurate/inaccurate? etc.). As such, you should think about the adaptation you watch or read in two ways:

1) How successful the adaptation is overall. What have the writer or director, actors, and creative team done that has made the adaptation either a success or a failure (or something in between)?

2) The adaptation’s relationship to the original. How is it an accurate/inaccurate portrayal of the original? (if known) Were any interesting choices made that affected your understanding of either the original or the adaptation? For instance, was the story modernized?

For instance, did you watch a version of Twelfth Night that was set in the 19th century instead of Shakespeare’s late 16th/early 17th? If so, did this enhance or detract from your understanding in any way? Or did a minor character become a major character in the adaptation? What was the effect?

 

Discuss the ways that conflict affects community (in whatever way you understand that term) in chinua achebe’s, ‘things fall apart’

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How does conflict affect community in chinua achebe’s, things fall apart

Discuss the ways that conflict affects community (in whatever way you understand that term) in chinua achebe’s, ‘things fall apart’

Discuss, how conflict cements and undo social ties within community, closely use the text to support your arguments using a variety of different quotes and analyze a variety of different literary techniques; simile metaphor, imagery, symbolism, foreshadowing, juxtaposition, etc to support your argument also use sources on the wider context of post-colonialism and achebes life if and when that is possible to also support your arguments.

How has misinformation/disinformation affected you? How might filter bubbles have influenced the situation? How did the article/podcast/video you chose add to your understanding?

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Online Information Landscape

Answer the questions below in essay form. 

Whenever you include someone else’s ideas or information, you must cite the source of those ideas, whether you quote directly, summarize, or paraphrase from the source.

For this discussion, you should include both an in-text citation and a full citation at the end of your essay. Hanging indents (indenting all the lines in the citation except the first line) are difficult to format in Canvas and are not required in discussion posts.

Questions
How has misinformation/disinformation affected you? How might filter bubbles have influenced the situation? How did the article/podcast/video you chose add to your understanding?

How do you get your information about the world? Do you have any concerns about the quality of the information you are exposed to? Why or why not?

What strategies have you learned this week that will help you avoid misinformation and/or find better information in the future?

What type(s) of persuasive appeals did the speaker use? (Logos is based on logic or reason.

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What words were repeated or emphasized?
Rate of speaking: Was it fast, medium, or slow? Did the speaker switch from one speed to another?
Volume: Did the speaker speak softly, loudly, or did it vary?
Did the speaker use a positive or negative tone?
What non-verbal gestures did the speaker use? (eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, pauses)

What type(s) of persuasive appeals did the speaker use? (Logos is based on logic or reason.
– Copy two quotes from the speech to give an example of this type of argument.
Do you think the speech was successful? (tell why or why not)

Discuss how racism still exists and discrimination. It still be big conflict in today world and explain why.

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Racial conflict

This class is an argumentative, we need to prove our point of view.  Discuss how racism still exists and discrimination. It still be big conflict in today world and explain why. we need to answer about Jefferson predictions on racial conflict.

How well are you coping with current life challenges?

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Reflection essay

How well are you coping with current life challenges?

What logical solutions have been proposed in the past? How did these work out? Successes/failures.

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Problem Solution Proposal
a. Attention getter: An apt quotation, a striking example, or a brief anecdote may serve to capture your reader’s interest and focus it on the point you plan to make.

b. Background information: Historical background of the problem and its development. Most of the problems we will be researching did not occur overnight. There will be a history of events that led to the current situation. When and how did it start? Who is suffering? How many?
 Causes of the problem:
a. Discussion of contributing and significant causes of this problem. hour research should provide data which may include case histories, examples, statistical evidence or authoritative quotations. Who is causing the suffering? Why?

b. Who is benefiting from the situation?

Solutions to the problem (this section will be longer than any other):
a. What logical solutions have been proposed in the past? How did these work out?
Successes/failures.

b. What are solutions proposed for the future?

c. It would be acceptable for you to make assumptions and offer an opinion or recommend a course of action in addition to those offered by authoritative sources. you may also analyze, evaluate, and explain the most favorable course of action.

a. Deductions: What deductions can you logically draw from your research?

b. The conclusion that will serve you best is one that briefly pulls together the main points of your essay and reinforces your controlling idea (thesis).

c. The conclusion of a problem-solution essay should include a restatement of the problem and the benefits of the proposed solution.

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Summary, Without Quotations: In the summary of the essay you disagree with, or find less persuasive, do not use quotes, or cite any other sources beyond what is considered common knowledge. Instead, use only summary.

You must give the name of the author, but then restate the main points in your own words. To do this, read a part of the essay (at least a paragraph) until you have a good understanding of the content, and then write your summary of that passage without looking back at the text. This is the best way to avoid using the original wording of the essay and thereby committing the “sin” of plagiarism!

Your summary should include:

1.  What does the way the claim is stated tell you about the strategy of the argument, and the audience?

2. The major reasons given which support the claim. Do the reasons appeal mostly to logic, values, or emotion?

3. A general indication of the type of supporting evidence given. The underlined words in blue are links to additional evidence. Is it “hard,” objective evidence, or relatively “soft” and subjective? Why do you think the author chose that kind of evidence?

4. Overall, do you think the argument is effective or not? Why?

Analysis, With Quotations: In the analysis of the essay you tend to agree with more, or find most effective, use summary again, but also short quotations from the essay integrated with your writing to support your claims.

Do not quote from any other sources besides the essay you are analyzing.  Identify, analyze, and evaluate the evidence presented, as well as the writer’s purpose and use of rhetorical strategies, as described in the Rhetorical Analysis lecture notes in the module. There should be some summary of the content (what is said), but most of the emphasis should be on analysis (how it is said) and why the argument is effective (not just because you agree with it).

Answer the following questions about the article to help write your analysis:

1. Who is the source? Assess the credibility and qualifications of the author.

2. What is the major claim in the article? Where is it most clearly stated or implied? What is the author’s purpose?

3. How effective is the evidence presented, according to the STAR criteria? Explain. Does anything stand out as a strength in the evidence?

4. What are the predominant rhetorical strategies or appeals you see in the article? What they reveal about the intended audience – is the author trying to persuade a sympathetic audience or a more skeptical one?