Describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person. Include how you got through the experience, how you handled the uncertainty or stress, and what you learned about yourself as a result.

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Describe a significant personal challenge you have faced

Describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person. Include how you got through the experience, how you handled the uncertainty or stress, and what you learned about yourself as a result.

Limit your response to 1 page (about 3,500 characters), and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

 

Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry.

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Scientific and Mathematical/Analytical Perspectives

Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.)

  • Address your general topic by forming and answering two levels of research questions for each inquiry.
  • Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper.
  • Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing.
  • State your research questions in the introduction of your paper.

Answer each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research) to form the body of your paper.  In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights.

 

 

Identify the core reading by title and the author by his/her full name the first time you write it within your paper. State what the story was about. Point to significant details of the text that support this interpretation.

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Writing Project 1: Summary and Analysis of “A Brothers Murder”

Overview of this assignment:

For this assignment, you will summarize and respond to one of the following:

the short story handed out in class

OR

A Netflix movie or series

OR

a particular YouTube video or Ted Talk that you like very well.

The body of your paper will describe, summarize, and respond to what you are referring to by title and other description.

Description requires that you identify the core reading (or movie, etc.) by title and the author by his/her full name the first time you write it within your paper. After that you may refer to the author by last name only. That way, if you are referring to a character within the book, movie, etc. that person’s first name could be used but not the author’s first name. You will also briefly identify the genre or purpose of the core reading (that is, identify whether it is an essay, a short story, a poem, a report, an editorial, biography/memoir, instructions, persuasion, movie, podcast, etc.).

Your summary should state what the story [or theme, thesis, etc.] was about. Point to significant details of the text that support this interpretation. For many essays the interpretation goes into the “Response” section of the paper, but that depends upon how you are shaping the paper. I will expect details such as when it was made, written, etc.

It could be that after you have described the piece, your response section should expand on your understanding of the core reading and the surrounding issues, and may incorporate your own ideas and experiences as they relate to the reading. In this part you can also expand into the rhetorical analysis if you already know about this author, time period, etc.

Your thesis statement should indicate your overall response to the core reading—whether it is your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with key ideas, or your insights interpreting and reflecting on the meaning of key ideas. Your ideas should be supported with evidence from the reading and possibly from your outside reading or experience. Cite specific quotes from the core reading to back-up your interpretations or use as touchstones for your responses. Your overall objective is to contribute to the conversation about this core reading (watching, listening, etc.) and to engage your readers in your ideas—ideally, helping them to understand some aspect of the reading more fully. To do this effectively, you’ll need to consider your readers/audience carefully as part of the collecting and shaping phase. [See the section on Audience Analysis below, and think about what they may or may not already know about this subject. If we have talked about it in class or in discussion boards comes into play here]

 

How do you combat writing blocks? How do we get started and how does a person become a writer? What are the beliefs we have about writing? Do you still take risks when you write?

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Response to the Readings and Interviews Concerning Writing and Language Diversity

Paper details:

  • How do you combat writing blocks?
  • How do we get started and how does a person become a writer?
  • What are the beliefs we have about writing?
  • Do you still take risks when you write?

Read “Process and Voice” and write a two-page response, telling me what your reaction is to the ideas presented on the writing process and the issue of language difference.

Discuss areas where you agree and disagree and what you do to overcome the infamous writing block.

 

Place your narrator somewhere, where they can notice aspects of human behaviour that they then describe creatively, comment on and develop opinions about the amusement park.

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Why amusement parks are the best place to get away to

A situated narrator task – try placing your narrator somewhere, where they can notice aspects of human behaviour that they then describe creatively, comment on and develop opinions about the amusement park.

Write a paragraph that objectively summarizes Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and explains his purpose.

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A Modest Proposal

Write a paragraph that objectively summarizes Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and explains his purpose.

Review Swift‘s “A Modest Proposal”

Explain the occupancy hazards; explain why an automatic sprinkler system is required; explain the benefits of installing automatic sprinkler systems; and specifically for residential occupancies, provide data from at least one community that has benefited from adopting residential sprinkler codes.

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Codes and Occupancies

Your city council is planning to adopt the newest version of the building code. They have asked you to provide them with an explanation of what occupancies are required to have an automatic sprinkler system installed, and they are specifically interested in residential occupancies.

In addition to Residential occupancies, pick two other occupancies from the supplied building codes, provide an explanation as to why an automatic sprinkler system is required, and discuss how these systems provide for occupant and firefighter safety.

Prepare a two-page essay for your city council that addresses the items listed below for each of the occupancies:
explain the occupancy hazards;
explain why an automatic sprinkler system is required;
explain the benefits of installing automatic sprinkler systems; and
specifically for residential occupancies, provide data from at least one community that has benefited from adopting residential sprinkler codes.

The IBC Chapter 9 Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems code information will be helpful in completing this assignment.
Support your assignment with at least two sources. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Pick one metamorphosis and explain how it highlights the story? Comment on the ironic tension between the drama of the tale and its amusing improbability, dramatic implausibility of an event.

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Read The OVID

Select one of the following questions to write your response:

1.Pick one metamorphosis and explain how it highlights the story?

2. Comment on the ironic tension between the drama of the tale and its amusing improbability, dramatic implausibility of an event.

Analyze a comic situation.
Your response must be more than one, but no more than two double-spaced pages, (not a paragraph).

Your response must demonstrate knowledge of the material and thoughtful analysis adequately supported with evidence from the literary text.

Conduct research on the history of plagiarism. Present your findings in a one-page paper. Use MLA formatting and documentation. Explore the issue of self-plagiarism.

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Conduct research on the history of plagiarism

Conduct research on the history of plagiarism.

Present your findings in a one-page paper. Use MLA formatting and documentation.

Possible areas of research could include the earliest case of plagiarism, origins of the word, origins of documentation, types of documentation, and why different types of documentation are used in different disciplines.

Explore the issue of self-plagiarism. Use at least two sources and documechont the sources with MLA.

 

In one paragraph, explain: How does, “The Navajo Origin Legend” differ from “Earth on Turtle’s Back” and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright?” Use two pieces of direct evidence from the texts to support your position.

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In one paragraph, explain:  How does, “The Navajo Origin Legend” differ from “Earth on Turtle’s Back” and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright?”  Use two pieces of direct evidence from the texts to support your position.