Briefly explain the four dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Explain how cognitive and social-learning theories explain your self-image.

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Collectivism and individualism

  • Briefly explain the four dimensions of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Write 6 different paragrphs
  • Explain how cognitive and social-learning theories explain your self-image. Write 6 different paragrphs
  • Define collectivism and individualism and explain how they may influence an individual’s self-concept. Write 6 different paragrphs

 

What is the purpose of the Johari Window? How can the Johari Window be of benefit to you? Explain how first impressions, stereotyping, and prejudices influence our perception of others.

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Johari Window

  1. What is the purpose of the Johari Window? How can the Johari Window be of benefit to you? Write 5 different paragrphs
  2. Explain how first impressions, stereotyping, and prejudices influence our perception of others. Write 5 different paragrphs
  3. Define emotional attachments and social ties and explain their importance in relationship to loneliness. Write 5 different paragrphs
  1. Do we have a choice in determining who we become? Explain. Write 5 different paragrphs
  2. Discuss the relationship between your life and Erikson’s Stages of Development. Write 5 different paragrphs
  3. Discuss the cultural influences on a person’s development. Write 5 different paragrphs

 

Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the subjective nature of reality.

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The Matrix

Topic: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the subjective nature of reality.

What choices will you make at the sentence and phrase level to create a dynamic experience for your readers? What overall form or structure will your piece take? Will your essay become a series of tweets?

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Fall 2022 English 2110

Requirements:

  • 750 words MAXIMUM
  • Must show creative attention to form
  • Must demonstrate a unique way of thinking/feeling

When we think of “creative nonfiction” we often think of facts and information, but creative nonfiction can take other forms. In many ways, the essay is the most fluid and flexible of any of the written genres of literature. A lyric essay, especially, can do and be many different things, and leaves a lot of room for creative expression. Make creative choices. Try new things. Craft a piece that feels new and different, but that engages directly with the CNF strategies and ideas we’ve been talking about together in class.

Pay attention to smaller and larger moves in your piece. What choices will you make at the sentence and phrase level to create a dynamic experience for your readers? What overall form or structure will your piece take? Will your essay become a series of tweets? A kind of recipe? An annotated play list? A blog post? A conversation? A letter? Something else? How will that form enhance the meaning of your subject? Be creative and innovative with this. There are many right ways to successfully complete this assignment.

Follow your own curiosity and thoughts. Think about creating a moving experience for your reader. Think of this essay as a map of your own thinking. Use the space of the page itself to help relay the ideas you’ll explore. Be concise and pay extra attention not only to what your words say, but how they say it. The idea is to create an essay that moves the way our thoughts and emotions move. Explore a theme. Comment on something in society that bugs you. Write to demand that we think or feel differently. Have fun here. Do not simply tell us something. Show us something. Give us something that makes us think and feel.

Your essay will be graded on based on the following rubric:

shows creative attention to form

00/40 ()

demonstrates a unique way of thinking/feeling

00/40 ()

length/ style and grammar

00/20 ()

 

Total=000/100

Based on your research findings, what did you find most problematic about the issue of opioid addiction? Who is affected by this problem? What is the morbidity, mortality, and demographics?

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Public Health Issue Reflection Paper

Describe the public health issue of opioid addiction. You may focus on the issue from a city, state or national perspective.
Use a mix of sources (Peer-Reviewed articles, organization reports, and briefs) to justify and reference your statements. Do not use information from random non-government websites. Try to answer the following questions and incorporate the answers into your writing (but do not list the questions in the paper).
Based on your research findings, what did you find most problematic about the issue of opioid addiction?
Who is affected by this problem? What is the morbidity, mortality, and demographics?
How does this public health issue compare to others?

Overall how do you feel about what you have learned about the topic of Public Health, and how has learning about this topic helped you better understand public health issues?
Use APA formatting (APA 7th. Edition), Times New Roman font size 12, double-spaced with a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 10 Pages (this page count excludes title and references pages).
It should contain a title, introduction, discussion, conclusion, and references. Review the attachment ” APA Titles” in this folder to help you understand what each section should contain.
Please review the grading rubric for the reflection paper on the syllabus. Use no less than 10 appropriate references, remember to use in-text citations using APA formatting and have all sources cited in the references list.

How is this assignment related to the course learning outcomes? Create an organized, coherent, and concise response to your mentee.

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Critical Thinking Assignment (15%)

Due on Blackboard

How is this assignment related to the course learning outcomes?

Through this assignment, you will be assessed on your critical thinking skills and writing skills.

 

Scenario 1

Imagine that someone you are mentoring shares with you something along the lines of:

“My birthday is coming up, and I’m feeling really home sick. I wish I could be with my family and friends, and enjoy food together like we used to.”

Your mentee has reminded you of 2 articles you recently read: Scacchi Koul’s 2016 personal essay for Buzzfeed, “There’s No Recipe for Growing Up,” and Neha Tadepalli’s 2020 article for CBC, “What I Learned by Learning My Family’s Recipes in the Most Trying of Times.”

Create an organized, coherent, and concise response to your mentee. Your response should have a distinct introduction, body, and conclusion. Your response should be between 400-500 words double spaced. In your introduction, you should have a clear and logical thesis/ main message. In your body, you should have relevant supporting points, logical reasoning, and appropriate examples to back up your points and overall main message. Do not forget to cite your sources of information and examples. Use the following 2 quotations (or other quotations from the 2 articles) to support your main message and supporting points:

  • “When you emigrate, you end up the last person to touch a lot of your family history. Somewhere along the line, we’ll forget my mom’s maiden name. We’ll forget what her actual name was before she changed it when she moved. We’ll lose language and the way to make a candle from ghee and a cotton ball. I can’t pull all of this information out of her, and I can’t carry all of it after she’s gone, and I panic when I think about how impossible it feels to one day not need her. But at least I can try to cook.”

— From Scacchi Koul’s 2016 personal essay for Buzzfeed, “There’s No Recipe for Growing Up”

  • “For me, my family’s recipes constitute an oral history, covering their personal journey from southern India to Iraq, Ireland and eventually rural and urban Canada. Our identities are not linked to them specifically, but they are a point of connection to our histories and communities. The importance of this was brought into sharper focus in recent weeks with increasing conversations around the co-opting of BIPOC food and traditions by white chefs, who have been accused of stripping away the history of dishes when presenting them to a white audience. Yet these recipes can’t truly exist apart from culture and history; they are a product of a people, a time and place. This is why the successful recreation of traditional dishes can be a tangible comfort for immigrants, especially in challenging times. Food is a way to transport and preserve our culture — a great stabilizer when it is needed most.”

— From Neha Tadepalli’s 2020 article for CBC, “What I Learned by Learning My Family’s Recipes in the Most Trying of Times”

 

Step-by-Step Instructions:

  • Make sure that you understand what has been said by the person you are going to respond to. In your own words, paraphrase what the person has said.
  • Use critical reading strategies to accurately comprehend the 2 articles you have been reminded of.
  • Use the following “Critical Thinking Brainstorming Questions” to think critically about what the person has shared and what you want to share with them in your response:
Critical Thinking Brainstorming Questions:
o    What are your thoughts and/ or feelings on what the person has shared? Can you relate or empathize with the other person? Are you frustrated, angry, annoyed, or disturbed by what the person has said? Why or why not?
o    What are other points of view that the person you are responding to might not be considering?
o    What would the person you are responding to gain or lose from considering these other points of view? What are the implications for them and our community more generally?
o    How do the articles you read relate to what the person has shared?
o    Why should the person you are responding to consider what these 2 articles (specifically the 2 quotations above) have to say? What are the implications for them and our community more generally?

 

  • Use this outline to organize your ideas into a coherent and logical response.
  • Create a rough draft of your response.
  • Use editing and revision strategies learned in class to polish up your response.
  • Submit the final version of your response on Blackboard as a Word document.

Create a catchy title for your newspaper, and write at least one news story featuring a major historical event based on the document/artifact you found in the American Memory collection. Write at least one fictionalized news story that relates to the time period and to The Great Gatsby.

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 The Great Gatsby

For this assignment, you will create a 5 slide 1920’s newspaper using MS Word, MS Power point or Prezi.

Your newspaper (stories and pictures) should be 5-8 slides in length.

News (first slide)
Create a catchy title for your newspaper, and write at least one news story featuring a major historical event based on the document/artifact you found in the American Memory collection (Library of Congress-the first assignment in this module). Write at least one fictionalized news story that relates to the time period and to The Great Gatsby.

Include all of the parts found on the front page of a newspaper including the “flag” (newspaper name), date, headlines, pictures, and captions, etc.

Editorials

Write a one page fictionalized editorial based on details from the 1920’s or about an incident in The Great Gatsby. Refer to specific events that would be of interest to a reader in this time period.

Lifestyles

Write a one page fictionalized lifestyle story based on the 1920’s time period or details from The Great Gatsby. Include all of the parts found on the lifestyle page of a newspaper as well as headlines, captions, and pictures, etc.

Entertainment

Write a one page fictionalized entertainment story based on the time period of the 1920’s or details from The Great Gatsby.

Include a picture.

Obituaries

Write at least one fictionalized obituary (1 page) for a character from The Great Gatsby. Include a picture of the deceased person.

Heres a link to a free text of the Great Gatsby: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/full-text/

Write a satirical narrative. Create the characters, choose the settings and time period. Use the world and characters from Pride and Prejudice if you wish.

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Narrative II

Having read the first 40 chapters of Pride and Prejudice, as well Adam’s Diary and Eve’s Diary, its safe to say that you have had plenty of exposure to satire. So here is your assignment: you will write a satirical narrative. You get to create the characters, choose the settings and time period. You are even allowed to use the world and characters from Pride and Prejudice if you wish. However, your piece must follow the three rules that every satire must follow:

1) It must be funny (appropriately funny)

2) It must be providing a critiscism of something or someone within our society, or perhaps of a specific human behavior.

3) It must provide a moral voice. There must be something within your story that essentially tells us what things should be like as opposed to what they are.

Example from Pride and Prejudice:

1) Funny – the way Mrs. Bennet runs around like a crazy person trying to marry off her daughters

2) Criticism – Marriage is nothing more than a business transaction, as seen in the proposal of Mr. Collins to Elizabeth.

3) Moral Voice – Elizabeth’s belief in what marriage should be: about two people actually falling in love with one another.

Create an understanding of an issue that a single source cannot express and take a stance on that issue.

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Research inquiry on the problem of gambling addiction

For this assignment, you have located scholarly and popular sources that frame an issue differently for different audiences to achieve different purposes. You will now synthesize these sources to create an understanding of an issue that a single source cannot express and take a stance on that issue. Successful essays will avoid binary thinking, generalizations, and absolutes and instead appreciate complexity with relative terms and evaluative language.

This essay’s thesis statement must make an argument about the issue – about a perspective on the issue, the issue’s significance, or plans on how to address the issue – using evaluative language and a subordinating conjunction. Successful research essays will place different sources in conversation with each other at the paragraph level to synthesize larger understandings of the issue (or aspects of it). The introduction and conclusion should complement each other and seem somehow related. The introduction should feature an original hook and avoid clichés. The conclusion should avoid summary and explicitly repeating previous passages.

This essay should use at least four but no more than six sources (at least two of which must be scholarly sources), feature edited, grammatically sound, and error-free prose, and include all the features of the Modern Language Association’s ninth edition guidelines: an original title, the correct information in the correct order of the first four lines, correctly-credited sources, twelve-point Times New Roman font, and appropriate spacing. The final draft of this essay should be between five and six complete pages (not including the work cited page).
In addition to the four to six written sources, you may include two digital sources (such as social media posts or memes) but may only use them as primary sources in your essay. These sources might be useful for writing an introduction, a conclusion, or both.

Discuss a theme that emerged from your reading. Use quotes, dialogues, symbols, or a combination of these to provide evidence and deep explanation and analysis.

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The Catcher in the Rye Essay

Discuss a theme that emerged from your reading.
1. Theme-What theme do you see in the novel and how does Salinger convey it? A theme is an idea, lesson, or message about a topic that emerges because of what happens and what is said in the text. What message do you see about a topic (alienation, maturation, friendship, depression, self-awareness, hypocrisy, language,…)? It is important to discuss the message created in the text, not just the topic in general. Note, you don’t have to agree with the message.

-Popular sites often identify themes as one word but that is insufficient. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, symbols, motifs, or a combination of these elements. Examples of themes (these are not applicable to Salinger’s novel): Evil actions can be punished in unexpected ways. Trust in yourself is just as important as trust in others.

-Use quotes, dialogues, symbols, or a combination of these to provide evidence and deep explanation and analysis.
-100% original, no outside resources.