How has learning about fat and protein affected your motivation to eat a healthier, more balanced diet?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

  1. How has learning about fat and protein affected your motivation to eat a healthier, more balanced diet?
  2. What are two foods that you can swap in order to:
    • reduce saturated and/or trans fat;
    • increase monounsaturated and/or polyunsaturated fat;
    • reduce cholesterol;
    • reduce animal-based sources and/or increase plant-based sources;
    • increase protein intake (if protein intake was too low); or
    • decrease protein intake (if protein intake was too high)?

 

Does technology play a role in making people feel more isolated?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Does technology play a role in making people feel more isolated?

What is the relationship between storytelling and power, and what are the implications of this relationship? Support your argument using evidence from Things Fall Apart as well as one rhetorical text.

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Things Fall Apart

FINAL Essay Document

Prompt: What is the relationship between storytelling and power, and what are the implications of this relationship? Support your argument using evidence from Things Fall Apart as well as one rhetorical text. Your essay must:

  • Make an argument about the relationship between storytelling and power
  • Analyze Achebe’s use of literary devices and effects as a means of defending your argument.
  • Articulate the broader implications of the relationship between storytelling and power.
  • Discuss how your argument relates to one of the rhetorical texts we studied in this unit.

In your response you should do the following:

• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation of the implications of the relationship between storytelling and power.

• Build context for Things Fall Apart by previewing the social and historical context for both the novel.

• Provide evidence to support your line of reasoning.

  • 0 2+ quotes or examples per body paragraph; 1 quote / example should be craft-based.

• Explain how Achebe’s use of craft, technique or structure in the evidence supports your line of reasoning.

• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument

Analyze your own listening effectiveness. Using the textbook to guide you, analyze your strengths and weaknesses in terms of the text’s guidelines for effective informational listening and effective relational listening. Identify two listening skills you would like to improve and describe how you plan to develop greater competence in each.

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Listening

Discussion Prompt #1

Analyze your own listening effectiveness. Using the textbook to guide you, analyze your strengths and weaknesses in terms of the text’s guidelines for effective informational listening and effective relational listening. Identify two listening skills you would like to improve and describe how you plan to develop greater competence in each.

Discussion Prompt #2

Effective listening varies according to listening purposes and people with whom we interact. Explain how we adapt styles and behaviors of listening to diverse situations and individuals. Use the textbook for definitions and supporting material.

 

Provide the item or topic of interest that could be a risk or liability. Include the potential law or code associated with the topic. Provide a brief description of the law or code, including any court decisions that can influence emergency services agencies.

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Ckecklist

As the president of your state fire chiefs association, you are concerned that not all agencies are aware of the numerous laws, national codes, and regulations that can affect a local fire department. You want to provide a simple tool to help them identify their potential legal risks and liabilities. Create a checklist of legal acts, national codes and standards, and implications that place an emergency services agency at risk. Include each of the following items for the topics or issues you choose.

Provide the item or topic of interest that could be a risk or liability.
Include the potential law or code associated with the topic.
Provide a brief description of the law or code, including any court decisions that can influence emergency services agencies.
Include a reference for each item that they could access for further information.

This is a checklist, not a general form of questions or statements. It should be the final format of a checklist with the inclusion of a title page. Include items that we have covered throughout this course. You should include at least 15 topics, and your finished checklist should be at least three pages. Provide the references for your sources in APA style.

Write a MATLAB GUI code that can upload any image and enable the user to apply basic image processing methods.

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 MATLAB GUI code

Write a MATLAB GUI code that can upload any image and enable the user to apply basic image processing methods. The required main methods are:

  1. Convert the image to a gray level.
  2. Convert the image to binary (use one of the thresholding methods).
  3. Enable the user to reset to the original image.
  4. Show the image histogram.
  5. Enable the user to complement the image.
  6. Apply edge detection on the image (use one of the leading edge detection methods).

 

Is any one moment of the novel’s reputation more valid or authentic than the others? Is there a past moment of the novel’s reputation that today’s readers (including yourself) would be most likely to connect with?

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 A History of Passing

Clark Barwick writes in his article, “A History of Passing,” that “each successive generation [of readers] has actively and even literally projected its own needs, desires, and anxieties” on the novel, such that the “record of publication and reading provides us with critical insight not just into the shifting interpretation of an important novel but also into how America has understood—and continues to understand, and will continue to understand—race, gender, sexuality, and ultimately, those who do not easily fit into its prescriptive categories” (24–25).

Write a 3- to 5-page paper about the changing reception of Passing based on your reading of Barwick’s article. Your essay should include a brief summary (two paragraphs or less) of Barwick’s article but should devote most of its length to a discussion of two main questions:

Is any one moment of the novel’s reputation more valid or authentic than the others?
Is there a past moment of the novel’s reputation that today’s readers (including yourself) would be most likely to connect with?
When answering each question, make sure to develop your reasoning clearly and with explicit reference to both Larsen’s text and Barwick’s article.

What meaningful and significant action should your audience take based on your argument? What practical steps have you provided for your audience to act upon? How will taking these steps benefit your audience and the larger community?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

OVERVIEW

This argument essay requires that you not only inform, but persuade a reasonable audience to agree with a specific claim that you are making about your issue and to motivate action.  You are making an argument in this paper, but beyond that you are seeking to persuade an audience to act on the argument you make.  This paper will be more challenging because, it requires that you “state your position unequivocally and make it appear reasonable – which requires that you offer evidence and defend against logical objections” (Behrens and Rosen 82).

GUIDELINES

Develop a comprehensive and detailed Argument that appeals to a reasonable audience and motivates action. Support your discussion by synthesizing evidence from different sources. Write a paper of 2-3 (double-spaced) pages. In addition to the essay, you will need to include a Works Cited page that indicates the sources you have used to complete your assignment. As you integrate direct textual evidence, your analysis should solely represent your own analytical thinking.

Consider the following questions when developing your Argument:

  • Purpose: How can you establish a need for taking action? What is significant and current about this issue?
  • Angle: Where can you add to this conversation? How can you best appeal to ethos, logos and pathos to motivate your audience to act?
  • Tone: What attitude about the issue should be clear in your writing? What words will convey this tone?
  • Evidence: What specific evidence from the texts should be provided to support your claim? What evidence will effectively to develop appeals as you articulate your reasons, your counterargument(s), and your call to action?
  • Contribution: What have you said that goes beyond the current conversation? How is your argument different from the ones that you researched on your topic?
  • Style: How clear is the language/style/expression in your argument?
  • Conclusion: What meaningful and significant action should your audience take based on your argument? What practical steps have you provided for your audience to act upon? How will taking these steps benefit your audience and the larger community?

Write a thesis-driven interpretation of the rhetoric an assigned text, guided by an analysis of key genre conventions and complemented by secondary sources.

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Genre Analysis

This assignment asks you to write a thesis-driven interpretation of the rhetoric an assigned text, guided by an analysis of key genre conventions and complemented by secondary sources.
Your argument should define your assigned text as an example of a specific genre and/or sub-genres according to one or more key conventions present in this text, and analyze how the text employs, reinterprets, or subverts those conventions in order to elicit a certain response, or set of responses, from a specific audience. Your argument should also explore why the text does this. In other words, what does the text want from the audience?
For our course, your analysis should focus on the use of horror genre (or sub-genre) conventions and rhetorical choices within that genre, and your argument should focus on how the text uses these conventions and rhetorical choices to impact the audience and explore concepts/themes related to the family.
Because form and content are inextricable, your analysis should focus on the text’s language and stylistic choices, as well as its ideas or narrative (this will be true for both the stories and the films). Secondary sources (provided by me, listed below) should be used to present context and background information, and to engage with other people’s arguments about a text or the genre.

Explain why you chose these ideas, you’re also welcome to use your own ideas if you like. Support your reflection with at least 2 different sources.

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Social security

The following 2 articles propose different ways to save social security, choose 2 proposed ideas from either of these articles and reflect on why you think these 2 ideas will have a positive or negative effect on the longevity of social security. Moreover, explain why you chose these ideas, you’re also welcome to use your own ideas if you like. Support your reflection with at least 2 different sources (you are welcome to cite these articles, if you like).