Choose the Multi-Source Literature Review, and write a revision plan which outlines the changes you will make and the reasons why you will make those changes.

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 Revision Plan

Task: Choose the Multi-Source Literature Review, and write a revision plan which outlines the changes you will make and the reasons why you will make those changes.

Using 10 sources should mean that multiple sources are agreeing or disagreeing with each other on the same subtopic in a category.

Also, are you suggesting that cognitive therapy should replace medication for this disease, or augment it?

This document will be finished prior to turning in the final draft.

Incorporate feedback from the instructor and one other reader.

Length: 500 words (2 double-spaced pages)

 

Provide support for your arguments based upon both the required and recommended readings for the course, your research, as well as to incorporate any relevant points culled from the discussion boards.

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Option #1: Research Based on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

The Portfolio Project is designed to require you to expand your understanding of Things Fall Apart by combining knowledge and application of content with your own interpretation and judgment.

For the Portfolio Project, you will write a research paper about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, supplementing your own interpretation with information from three to five other sources.

Your interpretation of this novel should reflect an international perspective. Information about planning your research paper and conducting your research can be found in the lecture material for Module 5. The portfolio project is due in Week 8.

Essay Formatting Requirements:

  • 5-7 pages.
  • Minimum of three sources (excluding the novel) – must be credible, authored sources; anonymous Websites or sites like Wikipedia are not acceptable as one of your three main sources.
  • Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-pt font.

Provide support for your arguments based upon both the required and recommended readings for the course, your research, as well as to incorporate any relevant points culled from the discussion boards.

Finally, you will take the particular research question that you are developing as the argument of your Portfolio Project and contextualize it in such a way as to convey an international or multicultural understanding of the novel.

In other words, any critical perspective from which you frame your argument and overall paper needs to convey a sharper international or multicultural understanding of the novel and should be reflected in your outline and reference list.

 

Give a brief description of the interview – who did you choose and why ? How well did you do on the verbatim recall? What did you learn from the exercise?

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Journal assignment

Your journal assignment for this week has two parts.

Part 1 is another skill-builder: sharpening your listening and attention skills. Part 2 is a reflection/self assessment exercise.

  1. Effective Listening: Effective listening requires you suspend judgment and to focus attention on the speaker’s words such that you can accurately repeat them verbatim. This is actually quite difficult.

To practice:

First: find someone in your life – either at work, family or friend – who will agree to a short conversation. This must be in-person face-to-face so pick someone that you will be comfortable being in the same room with.

Second, find a topic that will allow them to speak for 3 minutes uninterrupted by you.

Third, when their 3 minutes is up, your task is to repeat as much as you can of what you heard the say. Stay as close to verbatim as possible (their words not your interpretation).

As you listen, do not make notes and do not speak during the three minutes. Pretend you are a video or audio recorder and push the replay button when your speaker is finished. Warning: it is hard for most people to talk for 3 minutes uninterrupted – we’re too used to being interrupted or feeling rude. So tell your speaker ahead of time that you need them to keep going for 3 min. If they pause because they run out of things to say – do not help them. Just maintain eye contact so they know you’re listening and allow them time to think of more to say. When 3 minutes is up start your own replay. At the end of this time ask them to give you feedback on how well you did at the replay.

For your journal entry reflect on this experience. Give a brief description of the interview – who did you choose and why ? How well did you do on the verbatim recall? What did you learn from the exercise? do not repeat the conversation here. The point here is the reflection.

Part 2: Write a brief paragraph responding to the the “Stop and Think” exercise contained on page 93 (5th edition) of your text: Belbin’s 9 roles. Which of these roles are you able to play effectively? In addition to the questions contained in the text, think about the following: How can you expand your repertoire of roles that you can play depending on what the team needs? How does the data you gained from the personality and temperament assessments from week 3 relate to the Belbin roles?

 

Analyze how a poem draws on a turning point (or turning points) to encode implicit ideas, claims, or worldviews. What ideas, claims or worldview emerge in the poem before the turning point(s)? How does the poem shift after the turning point(s)? What is the result of this shift?

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This is the poem by Phillis Wheatley

2 ½ – 3 pages, double spaced (not including the Work Cited page)

Analyze how a poem draws on a turning point (or turning points) to encode implicit ideas, claims, or worldviews.  What ideas, claims or worldview emerge in the poem before the turning point(s)?  How does the poem shift after the turning point(s)?  What is the result of this shift?

Your essay must present a thesis that is complex, interesting to you, and significant to understanding the poem as a whole. Through textual analysis, demonstrate how the details of the poem create key effects.  Be sure to include direct quotes to support your analysis.

Here are some angles of analysis to help you get started:

  • Consider how the poem explores, reveals, or shapes key ideas or themes around the turning point (or turning points). Does a central tension get resolved by the end of the poem—or not? What are the implications? For example:
  • What do the turning points in Wheatley’s poem “To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works” suggest about artistic inspiration and its relation to spiritual life?  What does the reflection on the art of painting suggest about the art of poetry?
  • How does Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” explore the aftermath of a house fire? What do the turning points tell you about the speaker’s process? What are the implications of this traumatic event for the speaker–and maybe for readers of the poem as well?
  • Consider how key patterns in the poem (such as repetition, imagery, or rhythm and rhyme) can develop an implicit claim. How do such patterns guide tone, emphasis, or relationships between ideas in the poem?  Do such patterns shift or take on new meaning in relation to the turning point(s)? How so?

o   For example, what is the effect of images about the sun and stars in Bradstreet’s “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment”? How do such comparisons convey the relationship between the speaker and her husband?

o   What is the effect of the various words related to color in Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America”? What does this pattern reveal for the poem as a whole?

TIPS:

  • Identify the author’s full name and the full title of the work at the outset of your discussion
  • Build on the skills in textual analysis from the first major writing assignment: rather than focusing extensively on the poet’s life in the body of your essay, build your analysis around the language and form of the poem
  • Ground your analysis in specific textual evidence: quote directly!  Also, aim for quotes of varying lengths rather than just long quotes (multiple lines from the poem)
  • You are welcome to use the power writing system to balance key claims, relevant textual evidence, and thorough explanation of the textual evidence, but color coding is not required for this assignment
  • Don’t try to cover everything!  Instead, focus your analysis to address key points for understanding the poem as a whole
  • Remember that in MLA format, quote line numbers rather than page numbers for poetry

 

What kinds of cross-cultural experiences have you had? How would you describe your level of comfort, knowledge, or understanding when interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds than your own? What are some challenges you have experienced when interacting across cultural boundaries?

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CQ Journal The power of story

Your journal entry should meet the following requirements.

Length: 400-800 words

Your journal entry should be written in paragraph form with proper grammar and spelling. Thoughts should be well-organized and cohesive.

Your journal entry should be submitted on the template provided.

For this first journal, we will discuss our framework for intercultural communication: God’s story, our personal story, and the global story. Your journal should include an answer to each of the bolded sections/headings of this prompt. The bullet points under each heading are suggestions for topics to consider.

Share a bit of your personal story:

  • Where is your family from? Where did you grow up? Where do you live now?
  • Describe your home culture: (Religion, Ethnicity, Language, Family, History, Etc.)
  • Describe any significant experiences that have shaped you or given you perspective.
  • How have you seen your story intersect with God’s story?

Share a bit of your faith journey (beliefs, understanding of God, salvation experience, significant spiritual markers, etc.).

  • What would you want someone from another culture to know about your faith?
  • Why is it important to understand the whole story of God (the Grand Narrative)?
  • How have you interacted with or engaged in the global story?
  • What kinds of cross-cultural experiences have you had?
  • How would you describe your level of comfort, knowledge, or understanding when interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds than your own?
  • What are some challenges you have experienced when interacting across cultural boundaries?
  • Why is it important to understand God’s story, your own story, and the global story to effectively cross cultures with the gospel?

 

As you read Wordsworth’s poetry, look for messages of both hope and despair, and post a thread here with your comments on his work. Post a comment here on specific passages and images you see in his work that you find significant.

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British Literature

As one of the most influential poets of the Romantic Period, Wordsworth’s work deals with many of the themes of Romantic literature, including the importance of the natural world as a source of spiritual and social renewal, the primacy of emotion as a means of understanding the world, and the role of art and poetry in enriching our lives. But underlying this hopeful message is a concern with social ills.

As you read Wordsworth’s poetry, look for messages of both hope and despair, and post a thread here with your comments on his work.

Like Wordsworth, Tennyson served as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and in many respects Tennyson is the face of Victorian literature. As you read his poetry, note how themes of both individual and social loss–from death to the passing of a mythic past to the longing for an idealized sense of national identity–pervade his work.

Post a comment here on specific passages and images you see in his work that you find significant.

Split the word count between Wordsworth and Tennyson

 

Write about how the texts relate, or not, to your own experiences, or family, or personal interests. Write about how the texts bring to mind things happening in the world.

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Take some time looking through the journals linked on this webpage. These assignments will be much easier for you if you explore the various journals, and then zero in on those that interest you. If you don’t do this and simply look at an arbitrary journal chosen at random, it might be full of material you don’t like, and writing a response is going to be more difficult.

These responses are not supposed to be written like “book reports”, or “English papers”, however those genres might have been expected of you in the past. Nor are these supposed to be summaries. Think of them as informal letters where you give yourself time to think about what you’re reading. Raise questions, express your immediate reactions, be honest about what you’re thinking. But also give yourself some time to reflect upon what you read. Read some of the selections more than once, and pay attention to how your thinking evolves and changes as a result.

You might think about responding in one of these three ways: text to text, text to self, text to the world. Here’s what’s meant by that:

Text-to-text: Write about how the texts you’re reading compare or contrast or relate to other texts you’re familiar with (literature, film, television, art, music, etc–we’ll refer to all of these things as “texts”).

Text-to-self: Write about how the texts relate, or not, to your own experiences, or family, or personal interests.

Text-to-world: Write about how the texts bring to mind things happening in the world (past or present, or even possible future scenarios.)

You don’t have to choose one of these and adhere to it throughout the response; these are just prompts to get you thinking. A good response might include all of these; then again, it could focus on just one area.

Push yourself to read as much as possible in each journal, and to respond to as much of it as possible.

Briefly compare the relationship between Genji and Murasaki in the written work and in the anime more generally. How well do you think the character of Genji as depicted in the anime corresponds to your impression of him from reading the original tale? Provide an example. Do you prefer one over the other?

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Murasaki’s relationship with Genji

In 150-200words, after read the given link, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji_(1987_film)

Respond below:

Identify one element of the story of the anime that departs from the story as it.

Is told in the original written work. What effect(s) do you think the departure that you have identified might have on interpretation of the story?

Briefly describe how Murasaki’s feelings toward Genji are depicted in theanime. Pay special attention to the beginning of Murasaki’s relationship with Genji. Also briefly compare the relationship between Genji and Murasaki in the written work and in the anime more generally. How well do you think the character of Genji as depicted in the anime corresponds to your impression of him from reading the original tale? Provide an example. Do you prefer one over the other?

What prompted the patient’s admission to the hospital? What were his chief complaints? What were three signs the patient presented with? Describe the patient’s cardiac function upon admission to the hospital.

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Case Report

After reading the above Case Report by Cowie & Cowie (2021), complete a case study analysis by answering all the questions below in 2-3 pages using APA formatting. Simple “Yes” or “No” and one-word answers are not acceptable.

Include cover page, a running head in the top left corner (CASE STUDY), and page numbers for this assignment (top right-hand corner).

Case Questions:

  1. What prompted the patient’s admission to the hospital?
  2. What were his chief complaints?
  3. What were three signs the patient presented with?
  1. Describe the patient’s cardiac function upon admission to the hospital.
  2. List three diagnostic procedures that were performed on the patient and the findings/results of these three procedures.
  3. Define the term CRP and state what CRP is an indicator of (what type of marker is it).
  4. What was the patient’s initial serum CRP level? What did this level increase to?
  5. As it pertains to the patient’s condition, what may this elevation of CRP indicate is going on with the patient?
  6. What is the significance of an elevated troponin level?
  7. While reading this case and analyzing the various findings, in your view, what is the significance of the following CT finding as it pertains to his final diagnosis: “a complex mass in the sartorius muscle measuring 2.4×1.0x1.4 cm with ill-defined margins and increased vascularity was noted” (Cowie & Cowie, 2021).
  8. List three treatments/therapeutic interventions that were provided to the patient during his hospitalization.
  9. Were the treatments you listed in question 11 successful, why, or why not?
  10. What was the patient’s cause of death?
  11. The patient also had a second diagnosis, one that did not contribute to his death, what was this second diagnosis?
  12. What is the etiology (how it develops…what does it develop from) of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL)?

 

What was most striking to you about Mickey Mouse Monopoly? How do you think this documentary might change if it came out more recently? Remember that documentaries are making an argument/taking a stance on a topic, just like any academic work. How does this stance further critical thinking about Disney?

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Feeling Disney, Buying Disney, Being Disney

In their chapter, “Feeling Disney, Buying Disney, Being Disney,” Sandlin & Garlen discuss their own relationships to Disney and assert their position that “viewer-consumers [are] active participants in the meaning-making process who derive pleasure from and engage critically with the cultural texts and artifacts produced by The Walt Disney Company” (2). What is your own relationship to Disney as a viewer-consumer? Did you engage with Disney films or theme parks in your childhood and/or more recently? How did the readings from this week expand your knowledge about Disney as corporate entity or cultural power?

What was most striking to you about Mickey Mouse Monopoly? How do you think this documentary might change if it came out more recently? Remember that documentaries are making an argument/taking a stance on a topic, just like any academic work. How does this stance further critical thinking about Disney?