Evaluate the Washington Consensus as a policy prescription for improving prosperity and wellbeing.

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This midterm essay assignment requires you to answer one essay question.

Your essay should be 1200 words long, plus or minus 10% (excluding references list).

Your essay should include illustrative examples and be accurately referenced. You should draw on readings posted on these mycourses pages as appropriate. You may also draw on additional sources.

Please submit your assignment in Microsoft Word format. Please do not submit as a pdf.

ESSAY QUESTION: Evaluate the Washington Consensus (specifically: privatization, deregulation, free trade) as a policy prescription for improving prosperity and wellbeing.

What does it mean to Decolonise Design?

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This is the article they provided with the essay topic ; https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-design/

The bibliography needs to be excluded from the 7 pages but there should a be bibliography.
Academic references should be included.
The essay needs to be in a critical review format.

What is the difference between print awareness and phonological awareness? Provide specific examples of both.

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1.Explain the difference between contextualized and decontextualized language? Provide specific examples of both.
2.What is the difference between print awareness and phonological awareness? Provide specific examples of both.
3.How do preschoolers refine their knowledge of unknown words? Explain.
4.Briefly describe the four hypotheses that characterize the order in which preschoolers learn the names of letters in the alphabet.
5.What is the effect of an expressive reading style when it is used with preschoolers?
6.Why do you think the telephone intervention described in the Theory to Practice section helped develop children’s narrative skills?

How Free should a campus Speech Be?

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Discussion Question:

After reading “Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces” by John Palfrey (pp. 731-738), present your own argument to your classmates in response to the author’s claim that “free expression and diversity are essential components of democracy.” In your response, be sure to pinpoint specific ways Palfrey defines, describes, or characterizes free speech and diversity, and address those specifically. Your goal is to use all the strategies we’ve discussed in class leading up to this point to make a compelling argument. Practice your argumentative skills this week – and challenge your classmates to further develop their own – as a final exercise to help you deliver a strong argument in your final presentation next week.

How will you use pathos in your presentation? Be specific.

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Week 8 – Audience Analysis Assignment

According to Chapter 1, Aristotle identified “three time-tested appeals that speakers and writers can use to reach almost any audience, labeling them pathos, ethos, and logos… Used in the right way and deployed at the right moment emotional, ethical, and logical appeals have enormous power” (Lunsford, 2019, pg. 26).

For the Video Argument Presentation, you have two audiences who will view and review your presentation: your instructor and your classmates.

For your instructor, ask yourself what will it take to convince them that you’ve done a terrific job of presenting an argument? Hint: pay close attention to all the requirements for the assignment and be passionate about your topic.

For your classmates, your informed and intelligent peers, what do you know about these audience members and what will they expect from your presentation?

For this assignment, write up two substantial paragraphs addressing the following:

Paragraph 1 – How will you persuade your instructor that you’ve done a good job on your Video Argument Presentation?

What will your instructor be expecting from you?
Use the rubric and what you know about your instructor to determine these criteria. Sometimes just thinking about the person who grades your work as an audience can help you appeal to them.
Paragraph 2 – Describe how you intend to appeal to your second audience: this term’s classmates.

What do you know about your peers? Really stop and think about them. Remember, each of them introduced themselves to you in week 1 and you’ve been hearing from them each week since.
What are their demographics – age, gender, educational level, etc.?
What do you think will influence or persuade them?
How will you use pathos in your presentation? Be specific.
How will you use ethos? The more you think this out, the better.
How will you use logos? You should use all of these big three!

Indicate where the sequence fits in relation to the film as a whole and identify any aspects of style that you think are significant in relation to the classical, formalist or realist model proposed by Boeck.

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Assignment Task

Select a film from the list below, and access the key frame provided in the Power Point file in the Assessment Folder. The key frame is taken from a sequence of the film indicated in the sub-text box of the relevant Power Point image. Using the key frame as your point of focus, undertake an analysis of the mise-en-scène, employing terms and concepts introduced in the first five lectures of the course.  Note, you are not required to include any screen shots in your assignment. Frames must be described using written words.

With the above points in mind, answer the following:

1. Indicate where the sequence fits in relation to the film as a whole and identify any aspects of style that you think are significant in relation to the classical/formalist/realist model proposed by Boeck. (200 words, 5 marks)

2. Undertake a preliminary description of the framing of the mise-en-scène by the key frame as indicated in section 3.2 of the Lecture Notes. Note significant objects and character positioning. (200 words, 5 marks)

3. Identify the work of the camera in framing the mise-en-scène and interacting with it, through any of the following: types of shot used, angles, lighting, colour, tonal contrast, type of lens, mobile framing. Note how shots are articulated, e.g. shot-reverse shot, eye-line matches, graphic matches, shot transitions, parallel editing, flashback, or any other techniques related to editing. Note any camera gestures, e.g. zooms, close-ups, long-shots, long-takes, that you think contribute significantly to the sequence. Identify any aspects of sound that you think contribute to the articulation of elements in the mise-en-scène, e.g. diegetic/non-diegetic sound, bridging sound to link shots. Identify any interesting framing techniques, for instance how characters are either centrally framed or decentred, whether the camera is mobile or static, or any other aspects that you think are significant, drawing on any of the issues raised in Lectures 1-5 of the course. (1100 words, 30 marks)

List of films: (Only select ONE (1) film)

* Some Like it Hot (Wilder 1959)
* Lost in Translation (Cappola S. 2003)
* Far from Heaven (Haynes 2002)
* Citizen Kane (Welles 1939)
* The Birds (Hitchcock 1963)

Discuss the spiral of silence theory.  How does the spiral of silence narrow public discussion?  In what ways does the “spiral of silence” get in the way of us taking social action or engaging in social justice?

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Short essay:

Describe/discuss the spiral of silence theory.  How does the spiral of silence narrow public discussion?  In what ways does the “spiral of silence” get in the way of us taking social action or engaging in social justice?

Your response to the essay question must be at least 300 words (no maximum).

Be sure to support your essay response with at least 3 in-text citations, in APA format- INCLUDE PAGE NUMBERS IN CITATIONS, from the appropriate chapter.

2nd part of the paper:

Discussion:

What is the press’s responsibility to democracy, in your opinion?  How will the Internet continue to change how Americans get their news? Do you believe it will drastically change American political culture… or perhaps, already has?

 

Identify a place, and explore how family firms have shaped and sustained this context through time. How has the place in turn shaped the business and the family?

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Select one of the following essay topics: – OPTION (C) WAS SELECTED AND APPROVED BY THE TEACHER!! I INCLUDE ALL THE OPTIONS JUST BECAUSE THE CONTENT WILL BE SIMILLAR .

a) Identify a suitable family firm, and, making a study of its people, exploring especially the dynamics between family members, as well as stewardship and agency approaches over time within this firm. How have the people in this firm worked together, or come into conflict, across generations, to build (and / or ruin) the family and the business?

b) Identify a place, and explore how family firms have shaped and sustained this context through time. How has the place in turn shaped the business and the family? What are the implications of your analysis for the future of this place, and any family firms currently embedded there? What advice would you give a local policy maker?

You may select any size of place to answer this question, depending on whether you choose to mainly take a micro, meso or macro perspective: a building, a plot of land, a street, a small locale, an island, a region, a city, a nation or a continent are all acceptable.

c) Identify a movie or classic novel in which there is a family business interface. Review its family-business storyline, critique its contents and relate it to readings in this course. Be sure to apply critical theoretical reasoning. For this essay, you need to gain my approval for your choice of work in advance

What similarities do you find among these performance groups? Where’s the next, nearest performance you can find?

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It might seem strange to us, for whom the play is unfamiliar, but Sakuntala is still a work that is performed. Using Google searches, find out everything you can about contemporary performances of Kalidasa’s work. For instance, where is it being performed? Where has it been performed in the recent past? What similarities do you find among these performance groups? Where’s the next, nearest performance you can find? How long does the play run, and what is the cost of ticket? By looking around, what can you discover about the kind of person who might be a typical audience member to see Sakuntala in a performance these days? In short, what is interesting these days about performances of this work?

 

Explain how Paton shows the fear and confusion of Stephen Kumalo in this extract.

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The Essay Question is: Explain how Paton shows the fear and confusion of Stephen Kumalo in this extract.