What was the root cause of this conflict? Who were the players? How many factions were there? and finally how did the various sides view what was happening?

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An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States

Write 300 word discussion about Indian Wars” as viewed through Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’ An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, imagine that you are describing this conflict to another person who is not a member of this class and using Dunbar-Ortiz’s text explain to them the answers to the following questions:

  • What was the root cause of this conflict?
  • Who were the players? How many factions were there? and finally how did the various sides view what was happening?

 

Select and cut one muffin from each variation in half vertically. Label and photograph, include it below. Record the height of each muffin in the table below. Describe the appearance (both external and internal) and texture of each muffin.

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Lab 2 Measuring and Mixing

Answer Sheet

 

Activity 1, Muffins, effects of amount of mixing (manipulation)

  1. Select and cut one muffin from each variation in half vertically. Label and photograph, include it below.
  2. Record the height of each muffin in the table below. Describe the appearance (both external and internal) and texture of each muffin.
  3. Rate the overall acceptability on a scale from 1 to 10. 1 – not acceptable, 10 -extremely acceptable.

 

  Characteristics
Criteria 8 stirs 16 stirs 32-40 stirs
Height      
Appearance – External*      
Appearance – internal**      
Texture      
Overall acceptability      
  • *Note if the muffin is domed, peeked, or somewhere in between, the color, outside texture, and if there are any white spots.
  • **Describe the crumb on the inside of the muffin being sure to point out any unevenness, the size of the air holes, tunneling, etc.

 

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Activity 2, Biscuits, effects of amount of mixing (manipulation)

  1. Select and cut one biscuit from each variation in half vertically. Label and photograph, include it below.
  2. Record the height of each biscuit in the table below. Describe the appearance (both external and internal) and texture of each biscuit.
  3. Rate the overall acceptability on a scale from 1 to 10. 1 – not acceptable, 10 -extremely acceptable.

 

  Characteristics
Criteria 5-6 Kneads 10-12 Kneads 15-18 Kneads
Height      
Appearance – External*      
Appearance – internal**      
Texture      
Overall acceptability      
  • *Note if the biscuit is domed, peeked, or somewhere in between, the color, outside texture, and if there are any white spots.
  • **Describe the crumb on the inside of the biscuit being sure to point out any unevenness, the size of the air holes, tunneling, etc.

 

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What is the relation of the sound to the image in specific scenes or sequences? How might the answer to that question be refined to reveal the aims, achievements, or even failures of sound in the movie?

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Sound

What is the relation of the sound to the image in specific scenes or sequences? How might the answer to that question be refined to reveal the aims, achievements, or even failures of sound in the movie?

  • Is the sound used to link images, or does the sound have the conventional role of beginning and terminating with the image?
  • Does sound ever become more important than the image, and what is the reason for this unusual strategy?
  • Do the musical numbers in a musical have any special relation to the narrative structure (for instance, do they occur when the characters need to escape into fantasy)?
  • Why does the dialogue of the characters overlap or seem mumbled in some recent movies so that it is difficult to understand the characters? Does the dialogue serve some other purpose than to help tell the story?
  • What role does silence play in this movie?
  • Are there sound motifs that identify the characters or actions?

 

Using your active reading notes from the previous rhetorical reading activity, write a 75 to 100 word summary that demonstrates a comprehensive, concise, fair, and accurate understanding of the editorial you have chosen to use for Writings 1 and 2.

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Writing summary

First, reread “Reading Strategies: Getting to Know the Text” p. 32 and 33 and “Reading Activity: Locating Rhetorical Moves in an Essay in Order to Summarize” bottom p. 33 and p. 34.

Using your active reading notes from the previous rhetorical reading activity, write a 75 to 100 word summary that demonstrates a comprehensive, concise, fair, and accurate understanding of the editorial you have chosen to use for Writings 1 and 2. For example summaries, see paragraph two of “From Practice Stems Success” on p. 57 and paragraph 2 of “Rhetorical Evaluation of ‘Hey Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities” bottom p. 60 and top p. 61.

Some believe that the federal government should have final say in legislation, while others believe that state should have final say. Using legalization of marijuana as an example, what reasons might someone who supports states’ power offer to support their belief? Are there reasons to believe otherwise? What are they?

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Legislation

Discussion 1: Some believe that the federal government should have final say in legislation, while others believe that state should have final say. Using legalization of marijuana as an example, what reasons might someone who supports states’ power offer to support their belief? Are there reasons to believe otherwise? What are they?

Discussion 2: In the previous discussions you have described how you might study a topic that is of interest to you. Suppose you were to conduct a study on this topic,

Topic: Will the legalization of Cannabis directly affect the crime rate in major cities?

What are some of the ethical concerns of which you would be mindful? For this discussion, select two different ethical standards from the following four:

  • Doing no harm
  • Obtaining informed consent

For each of the two ethical standards, write a short, separate paragraph describing why each of the two ethical standards that you selected could come into play. Everything should be original and written in your own words.

 

Identify family characteristics, i.e., type of family structure, type of marriage/parental union, length of the relationship, type of family, and authority pattern (who has the power).

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Comprehensive Genogram Draft

This is a scaffolding assignment to help students understand how a genogram is created and how to use the various symbols to denote family relationships, marital status, family issues, family patterns of mental illness, and substance abuse.

Develop a genogram illustration that addresses the following criteria:

  1. Choose a family (for this assignment this can be your own family) (MY FAMILY ARE MOM, DAD, 2KIDS (BOY and GIRL))
  2. Draw three generations of genealogy, legal family, pets, and others who have played an integral role in the family, if applicable.
  3. Use only standardized genogram symbols.
  4. Show structure of family members: siblings, aunts/uncles, grandparents, remarriages, blended families (step-members and half siblings), divorces, pets, close family friends, and god families.
  5. List dates birth/death, dates of marriage, and divorce. Include the race, ethnicity, culture, place of birth, residency, cause of death, mental health, and substance abuse issues.
  6. Identify family characteristics, i.e., type of family structure, type of marriage/parental union, length of the relationship, type of family, and authority pattern (who has the power).
  7. Identify emotional patterns i.e., close, conflicted, cut off, distant, unknown, passive-aggressive (or fused & conflicted).
  8. Identify family or generational values and issues and patterns: occupation, education, hobbies, military duty, work ethic, family business, religion, addiction/recovery, incarceration, homicide, suicide, reunions, parenting style, mental illness, emigration from the country of birth, marriage within or outside the culture, sexuality, cancer, longevity, foster care, adoption, and child abuse. Every generation manifests its values and issues differently.
  9. Identify social patterns i.e., neighborhoods, communities, places of worship, places of work and education, social clubs.
  10. The submission in this module is a rough draft.
  11. Review the draft submission critique and submit the final Comprehensive Genogram in Module 4.

 

Rather than just fixing the infrastructure of the dam, how can we take advantage of the moment and try to reduce the impact on the environment while maintaining a valuable water source needed by Bay Area residents? Or, should it be closed completely?

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DISCUSSION 1 — ANDERSON DAM

The Federal Government recently ordered Anderson Dam drained and closed due to instability in the structure that could cause the dam to break and flood a good portion of the South Bay. The dam has not been without controversy regarding its environmental impact. Rather than just fixing the infrastructure of the dam, how can we take advantage of the moment and try to reduce the impact on the environment while maintaining a valuable water source needed by Bay Area residents? Or, should it be closed completely? Discussion about this matter.

Write a personal essay, which can also be referred to as a personal narrative. The essay that you produce must be based solely on your first-hand personal experience(s), told from the first-person point of view, and meet the given length requirement of 750 to 2,500 words.

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Personal narrative

For your writing assignment, you’ll write a personal essay, which can also be referred to as a personal narrative. The essay that you produce must be based solely on your first-hand personal experience(s), told from the first-person point of view, and meet the given length requirement of 750 to 2,500 words. This assignment provides information to help you effectively write from a first-person point of view. In short, this will be an essay about you.

The essay that you write should tell a story that represents who you are to your audience—that is, people who don’t know you personally. It should be completely original and shouldn’t contain any type of research; your story should be told entirely from thoughts and memories. Instead of relying on research to construct your essay, you’ll rely on your own memory and awareness of people and surroundings. This will ensure that your writing is credible, ethical, and authentic.A personal narrative is an essay about the author. In a very basic sense, all essays are personal, in that it’s impossible to avoid a personal opinion, even in the most objective (that is, impersonal and fact-based) writing. However, the personal narrative makes no effort to hide the author’s personal connection to the text. It’s openly accepted and celebrated that the author is the subject. The personal narrative not only accepts but demands the thoughts, feelings, ideas, and personal input of the author.The author of a personal narrative is telling a true story from his or her life. The author isn’t making up the story or writing fiction.our Own Words and Ideas
Remember that using others’ opinions or ideas in your own words is unethical, even if you agree with them or feel that they best explain your own thoughts and feelings. If you choose to include some information obtained from research, you should carefully choose only one or two items that support your opinion or viewpoint, making certain that your opinion or viewpoint (not the researched information) is the main focus. The vast majority of your essay must come from your direct knowledge and experience.

Create a 7-10 slide digital presentation for a staff development session for elementary school teachers on the use of technology in the mathematics classroom.

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Digital presentation

As education advances in the 21st century, educators must be prepared to use technology to engage students in learning, enhance instruction, and support students with exceptionalities.

Create a 7-10 slide digital presentation for a staff development session for elementary school teachers on the use of technology in the mathematics classroom.

Your presentation should include:

Three technologies that can be used in the mathematics classroom to enhance instruction. Technology incorporated could include apps, computer programs, videos, websites, etc. Your choices should represent varied technologies. For each technology, include the following:

A detailed description of the technology including the features of the technology, how it works, and the elementary grade levels where it is developmentally appropriate.

Benefits of using the technology in a mathematics classroom and how it fosters students’ engagement, communication, and confidence in using technology.

A mathematics classroom example of the use of the technology. Explain how teachers and students would interact with the technology for a specific math lesson.

 

Why is Washington, DC such a popular tourist destination? Are people really that interested in the history of our government? What types of experiences did people have when they traveled to Washington, DC?

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Invention Exercise 1

Curiosity and Inquiry
Pick a topic that interests you or one that you want to know more about.
For example, at the initial stages of research, you might choose a general topic like music, snowboarding, or tourism—or something more specific, like pharmaceutical advertising/marketing or life in 19th-century Washington DC. Without searching for any information on your subject, first brainstorm and write down what you know about your subject.
Some people like to make lists of the things they know about a topic, while others draw mindmaps or use clustering to help them think about the topic in relationship to other terms. You can also ask questions about a specific event or action. You might know, for example, that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is a relatively recent phenomenon or that tourism is really important to certain cities, towns, and communities. You might be able to list examples of pharmaceutical advertisements and the specific language used, or you may be able to make a list of communities or places that attract tourists. If you don’t have very much to say, that’s okay.
You’re just getting started. The idea is to start general and begin narrowing your topic down to a more specific one.

Generate a list of questions related to your topic.
See how many questions you can write. One way to elicit questions is to combine Burke’s pentad questions
with your own interests. Here’s an example of questions generated about tourism, specifically pertaining to Washington, DC. Can you come up with at least this many questions about your topic?

Questions about Washington, DC:

  • Why is Washington, DC such a popular tourist destination?
  • Are people really that interested in the history of our government?
  • What types of experiences did people have when they traveled to Washington, DC?
  • Are there things to do besides going to museums and seeing old buildings?
  • Who traveled to Washington, DC at different time periods?
  • Do people flock there because so many things have free admission?
  • What if the museums did charge an admissions fee; what affect would this have?
  • When did people start planning trips to the nation’s capital?
  • How did people get there in past centuries?
  • What were the external factors that contributed to such a movement?
  • What influence do tourists have on the economy of the community?
  • When did Washington, DC become the nation’s capital? Why was it chosen?
  • Who chose the monuments that would be displayed, for example, the Lincoln Memorial, Roosevelt Memorial?

Divide your list of questions into two categories:
Questions that can be answered through a series of activities like observation; artifact description, analysis, and interpretation; or interviews. (primary research)
Questions that can be answered by reading and reflecting on what answers others have said about your questions. (secondary research)

The first category of questions will involve primary investigation, and the second category is traditionally referred to as secondary research. Many of the questions in point 3 above fall within the second category and could probably be answered by consulting a reference book or personal accounts of the city. Some of the answers could be found fairly quickly online, but there are a couple of questions that could lead you to an archive, such as pictures of people visiting Washington, DC. You might also be able to find letters from a traveler who wrote back home about visiting the nation’s capitol or a president’s diary about the city. Taking a look at these artifacts (letters, diaries, commonplace books, etc.) constitutes primary research. However, remember that these two types of inquiry often come together at some point in learning about a topic or investigating an answer, especially when you cast and contextualize your findings for a specific audience.

Look back at your list, pick one of the questions from the first category and write down some ways you might answer this question. Where would you start? What materials would you need to investigate? Are there artifacts related to the topic that you can access?
Write a brief statement about your research question and how you plan to answer it.