How are the subjects similar and how are they different? How does each reflect their faith tradition? Do both faith traditions treat the subject in the same way? If they vary, why?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Each theme has one book about some aspect of the Christian experience and one book about the parallel Muslim experience. You are then to write a comparative analysis (8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced, size 10 or 12 font, 1-inch margins) of these two books.
This is not a book report in the sense of summarizing what the books were about.
This is an analytical paper in which you are expected to find at least three common themes or methodologies between the two books you discuss through comparison and contrast, explaining why these commonalities or differences exist and what they mean.

1st book
The Virgin Mary: Rita George-Tvrtkovic. Christians, Muslims, and Mary: A History. New York: Paulist Press, 2018. 978-0809153282 AND

2nd book
Mary F. Thurlkill. Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi’ite Islam. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 978-0268042318

Guidelines
Outlines the themes you will address in the body of the paper. This tells the reader what to expect and helps you to stay on topic.

3. Make sure to document citations. You may use Footnotes, Endnotes, or in-text citations – your choice. Just be consistent and make sure to list the page numbers where you found the information or argument.

4. Write analytically. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate your ability to think critically about the 2 books. Some questions you may wish to consider include:

  • How are the subjects similar and how are they different?
  • How does each reflect their faith tradition?
  • Do both faith traditions treat the subject in the same way? If they vary, why?
  • Do you have any critiques of how the books were researched or written?
  • Are the authors convincing in their arguments or are there holes in the logic?
  • What is the relationship between the author(s) and the subject matter and what impact does that have on how the author approached the topic?
  • Why did the author write this book at this particular time?
  • Who is the intended audience and how does that shape the author’s approach?
  • What is the value of reading these 2 books together?

5. Choose at least 3 themes of comparison or contrast between the 2 books. You can choose more, but be certain that you can cover them comprehensively in the space allotted.

6. Remember to observe proper formatting – font size of 10 or 12 point, margins of 1 inch, and include page numbers.

7. This is an academic paper, so should be written in the third person. If you wish to share a personal opinion about the books, the appropriate location to do so is in the conclusion. This is the only place where you may write in the first person.

Write your response in an essay with an introduction, body paragraphs that develop your thesis, and a conclusion. Make use of both paraphrase and direct quotes, giving attribution to the author.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Writing Directions

Write your response in an essay with an introduction, body paragraphs that develop your thesis, and a conclusion. Make use of both paraphrase and direct quotes, giving attribution to the author.

Writing Prompt

In these two articles, Rahm Emanuel and David L. Kirp each discuss strategies for addressing the needs of community college students. Write an argument-driven essay saying which approach you would think is more effective and why.

As you defend your view, evaluate the strategies each author presents, making sure to note how they differ from each other. Use evidence and examples from the article as well as your own reasoning to support your argument.

What do we now know about the topic that guided your research? Does that fit with the literature you read? What do we still need to know? How was your research limited?

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Research Methods

Final Paper

Component six: Conclusion and final paper

Topic of Assignment – How Small Businesses Are Preparing for Economic Hardships

For this assignment, you’ll pull together all of the previous components, revised in accord with the comments I provided.  This will be a short paper, though it should include all of the sections in a formal paper:

  • Your topic, why it’s important, why you were interested in it
  • Your literature review – see attachment and see comments below
  • A summary of each of your three projects (see below) – the questions you posed and what you found.  Was it what you expected?  If not, why not?
    • Observation Presentation – see attachment
    • Content Analysis Presentation- see attachment and see comments below
    • Quantitative Project Presentation – see attachment
  • A conclusion – what do we now know about the topic that guided your research? Does that fit with the literature you read?  What do we still need to know?  How was your research limited?
  • If you had this project to do over, what would you do differently?
  • Include your bibliography at the end of the paper

Discuss Berger’s ideas on the relationship between animals and man. Do you agree with the point he is trying to make? Either way, make sure to use quotes from the reading to discuss your point. Discuss

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Animals discussion

Watch this Tedx talk on the relationship between animals and humans.

Discuss Berger’s ideas on the relationship between animals and man. Do you agree with the point he is trying to make? Either way, make sure to use quotes from the reading to discuss your point. Discuss the ideas of the Video, do they agree with Berger’s theory or not? Make sure to explain your ideas and use quotes to support those ideas. *( I will excuse citation for this assignment only; however, please be aware that if asked you should always cite).

Minimum of 300 words, use quotes and properly cite to argue your point.

  • https://www.ancienthistorylists.com/pre-history/top-10-oldest-art-ever-discovered/.
  • https://youtu.be/-wkdH_wluhw

Write a persuasive research essay. Research and describe a problem currently facing us and our environment. Analyze the solutions and discuss which they see as the best and most practical.

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Humanity v. Nature

For this assignment students will write a persuasive research essay. The essay should explore an environmental topic in a problem/solution format. Students should research and describe a problem currently facing us and our environment. Students should also research and report on solutions to that problem offered by experts. Students should analyze the solutions and discuss which they see as the best and most practical. Each student thesis should make a claim about what they see as the best solution to the problem.

Drawing upon 2 primary works, Moby Dick and the Blithedale Romance, discuss how they engage with the ancient Western wisdom tradition found in the either the Book of Job or Ecclesiastes.

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 Ancient Western wisdom tradition

Drawing upon 2 primary works, Moby Dick and the Blithedale Romance, discuss how they engage with the ancient Western wisdom tradition found in the either the Book of Job or Ecclesiastes. In the course of your paper, you should engage the contradictions those wisdom books pose to dominant narratives in American culture (i.e., that hard work or playing by rules leads to prosperity).

What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in? What is a typical day, week, month, year? What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?

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Career Research Paper

Directions and Format

Format: 3 pages, double-spaced, typed, #12 font Content:

For the Career Research Paper, choose a career that interests you or one suggested by the career assessments done in this class. Answer the following questions in the written paper.

Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? Why are you interested in this career?

Are certain personality types and skills desired and/or required? How does your personality type match this career or not? Go back to your Assessments in College  Scope to help you answer this.

What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in?

What is a typical day, week, month, year?

What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?

What is the job outlook? Is there a demand or not in this field? How difficult or not difficult is it to gain employment in this career?

What are the educational requirements you need to complete to get into this field? Licenses? Experience?

What are related majors or majors needed for this career?

What are related occupations for this career? Research other occupations similar that may be of interest.

What are the growth opportunities?

What interesting facts did you discover?

Extra: Find a job advertisement on this career and copy/paste it into your paper. Go to College Central

To research your career, use at least 4 sources of information listed in the bullets below.

Websites, Texts, E-books, Articles

Informational Interview: It is encouraged you use an interview with a person in your career of interest. Go back to the Informational Interview Assignment in Week 3.

 

Drawing upon 2 primary works, Moby Dick and the Blithedale Romance, discuss how they engage with the ancient Western wisdom tradition found in the either the Book of Job or Ecclesiastes.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Drawing upon 2 primary works, Moby Dick and the Blithedale Romance, discuss how they engage with the ancient Western wisdom tradition found in the either the Book of Job or Ecclesiastes. In the course of your paper, you should engage the contradictions those wisdom books pose to dominant narratives in American culture (i.e., that hard work or playing by rules leads to prosperity).

Use the spreadsheet to calculate your correlation coefficient and to construct a scatterplot diagram. What can you say about the correlation coefficient r and the scatterplot in relation to your hypothesis?

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Quantitative Project Presentation

Secondary data analysis hypothesis, analysis, and findings

You will create a PowerPoint slide deck presentation with your quantitative analysis.

  • Think about your overall research topic and consider an indicator related to your topic that is available in the World Values Survey database (https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jspLinks to an external site.).  More information on using this database is provided in the lecture for week12.
  • Use the WVS online portal to download this indicator for the U.S. using the most recent wave of the survey, and for the option “Cross by”, choose the variable of greatest interest to you that is relevant to your overall topic (e.g. age, sex, religion, income, sector of employment).
  • Download the data as an excel spreadsheet (or enter it manually into a spreadsheet if that is easier for you).
  • Formulate a hypothesis that can be investigated using these two variables. State the hypothesis in a clear way.
  • Present your frequency distribution and discuss whether or not it supports your hypothesis.
  • Going back to the WVS database, choose 10 countries (including the U.S.) that are at different stages of development, choose 2 indicators related to your topic that you believe are related to each each other, and find the mean value for both indicators for each of the 10 countries.
  • Download the data as an excel spreadsheet.
  • Formulate a hypothesis that can be investigated using these two variables and state the hypothesis in a clear way.
  • Use the spreadsheet to calculate your correlation coefficient and to construct a scatterplot diagram.  What can you say about the correlation coefficient r and the scatterplot in relation to your hypothesis?