What are the strengths of the current laws? What are the weakness of the current laws? Should a country know who is immigrating, why or why not? Do the current laws need to change to meet the current state of the world?

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“Today’s Legal Immigrant’s”

Paper Requirements:
1) Introduction: A brief introduction (not more than two paragraphs):
2) Background Information: What laws are in place to encourage legal immigration? What laws are in place to discourage or make legal immigration difficult? What are the different types of visas available for legal immigrants? What is the process for legal immigration? Are there differences in the immigration process for immigrants from different countries or for different circumstances (for example work vs. asylum)? What are some of today’s legal immigrants’ experiences like?
3) Analysis: Be objective. Your analysis is not about your feelings or sympathy, but legal facts and lawful procedures. What are the strengths of the current laws? What are the weakness of the current laws? Should a country know who is immigrating, why or why not? Do the current laws need to change to meet the current state of the world? Give examples to support your analysis.
4) Your conclusions and opinion: Do you think the laws are sufficient as they are now, or should they be changed? Explain your reasons. What is your opinion on the immigration system? Express your opinion and give meaningful examples to support your opinion and articulate your conclusions.
5) Is the Research Paper 850 – 1000 words, plus a works cited page and the cover sheet? REMEMBER: The text on the cover paged and the text in the works cited page DO NOT COUNT TOWARD THE 850 -1000 words.
6) Is the research paper in CMS style?
7) There will be a minimum of three sources cited in the research paper. The sources can be a combination of Internet (NOT INCLUDING WIKIPEDIA); books (not including provided course materials), magazines (not including provided course materials), or journals (not including provided course materials).
1st Source: ___ 2nd Source: ___ 3rd Source: ___ 4th Source and more: ___

How did women’s roles in the West (and on the journey westward for migrants) compared to men?

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Assignment instructions HIS326j discussion (Casey):

The definitions of gender and family were sharply contested in the nineteenth century. In the West, newly arrived Anglo-Americans encountered very different understandings of gender among the Mexicans and Native Americans already inhabiting the area. For this activity, you will examine the competing views of gender in the opening West. Provide response to classmates reply.

Question: How did women’s roles in the West (and on the journey westward for migrants) compared to men?

How did De Graffenried and Felton’s perspectives on mill workers in the New South reveal the influence of class, race, and region in postbellum gender politics? 

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Assignment instructions HIS326k discussion (Tracy):

The definitions of gender and family were sharply contested in nineteenth century postbellum America. The lives of women varied greatly, as the gap widened between the factory girls of the working class and the college-educated New Woman of the middle and upper classes, in both the North and South.
In this activity, you will discuss some of the differences between women divided by class and region, and the ways reformers and politicians used sex and gender as tools to shape their visions of social order in the wake of the Civil War. Provide response to classmates reply.

Question: How did De Graffenried and Felton’s perspectives on mill workers in the New South reveal the influence of class, race, and region in postbellum gender politics?

Do not delete any sentences related to the technical areas. Kindly go through every single word and phrase, and determine whether the choices of words and phrases are appropriate in this context.

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Statement of Purpose

Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
School: MIT

Messages to Writer:
1. Try to modify it to fit in 3-page limits without changing the meaning of each paragraph.
2. Do not delete any sentences related to the technical areas.
3. Kindly go through every single word and phrase, and determine whether the choices of words and phrases are appropriate in this context.
4. Kindly to go through every sentence and check if the professional academic reader can read the sentences fluently and smoothly.
5. Make sure the transition between each sentence and paragraph is smooth.
6. [Optional] Could you try to use 1.5 line spacing?

Has the reading, lecture, or experience changed your way of thinking? Did it conflict with beliefs you held previously, and what evidence did it provide you with that changed your mind?

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Reflection Paper

Identify main themes of the week (what topic are we studying?)
Review notes, lecture slides and readings for specific material that interests you, or stands out as important. This could be a quote, a concept, a case study discussed in class, or something that your classmates mentioned during discussion.
Consider the following questions:
Does the reading, lecture, or experience challenge you socially, culturally, or intellectually? If so, how? What elements bothered you or caught your attention?
Has the reading, lecture, or experience changed your way of thinking? Did it conflict with beliefs you held previously, and what evidence did it provide you with that changed your mind?
Does the reading, lecture, or experience leave you with any questions? Were these questions ones you had previously or ones you recently developed?
Are there any important issues or concerns that were overlooked? Could a certain fact or idea have dramatically changed your conclusions about the topic?
How do the issues or ideas brought up during the week align with past experiences or readings? Do the ideas contradict or support each other?

 

Simply, deceptively simple, what can we learn from the history presented by LePore? Given the arc of that history, and where we are now (Wylie and O’Neil), where do you see the use of Big Data and algorithms leading us in business management?

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Quantitative Methods

Begin reading If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Lepore, 2020).
Read the letters to The New Yorker editor Download letters to The New Yorker editor: Lepore’s book. (attached)
Prepare for our book club next week, pondering these questions.
1.) Simply, deceptively simple, what can we learn from the history presented by LePore?

2.) Given the arc of that history, and where we are now (Wylie and O’Neil), where do you see the use of Big Data and algorithms leading us in business management?

3.) As a society? See PDF attachments for resources

How are models used in business and what statistics are used as a model? Think about college rankings and getting credit: what factors would you include in an algorithm to avoid it being a WMD?

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Weapons of Math Destruction – Book Club Seminar

Begin reading Weapons of Math Destruction (O’Neil, 2016) and prepare for our book club next week, pondering these questions. (These questions are guides for in-depth thinking.)
1.) How are models used in business and what statistics are used as a model?
2.)Think about college rankings and getting credit: what factors would you include in an algorithm to avoid it being a WMD?
3.) Why does the author state that more data is not always better data or that it does not make the algorithm better?
4.) Chapter 6 introduces the idea of using WMD for good instead of being them to discriminate against certain populations by using them to identify areas of need and offer help to those populations. Think about the various WMDs discussed in the book so far. How would you transform them into an effort for good?
5.) What is Simpson’s Paradox? In what other areas of life might we see Simpson’s Paradox? (Hint: p. 136)
6.) Can mathematical models be objective? How would we know?

What did you think? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions do you have? What did you learn?

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Module 5 Reflection and Evidence of Critical Thinking

Link to Module 5 How do I decide? (file:///C:/Users/latanya.clark/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_HOW%20DO%20I%20DECIDE.html.zip/HOW%20DO%20I%20DECIDE.html)

Reflection: Includes your thoughts! What did you think? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions do you have? What did you learn?

Critical Thinking Evidence: Tell me a question or problem you have with the video. Then find some more evidence to help answer your question or support your problem, or solve your problem. Make sure you provide information to me about your evidence. Where did you find it? Was it an article? If so, what publication? Who is the author? How do you know that they are reliable and valid? What work did you do to check that out? If it is a video or blog then again, what is the source? Who published/produced it? Who is the speaker? Are all of these valid and reliable sources?

What did you think? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions do you have? What did you learn?

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Module 6 Reflection and Evidence of Critical Thinking

Link to Why do I need you? (file:///C:/Users/latanya.clark/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_Why%20do%20I%20need%20you.html%20(1).zip/Why%20do%20I%20need%20you.html)

Reflection: Includes your thoughts! What did you think? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions do you have? What did you learn?

Critical Thinking Evidence: Tell me a question or problem you have with the video. Then find some more evidence to help answer your question or support your problem, or solve your problem. Make sure you provide information to me about your evidence. Where did you find it? Was it an article? If so, what publication? Who is the author? How do you know that they are reliable and valid? What work did you do to check that out? If it is a video or blog then again, what is the source? Who published/produced it? Who is the speaker? Are all of these valid and reliable sources?

Where did you find it? Was it an article? If so, what publication? Who is the author? How do you know that they are reliable and valid? What work did you do to check that out? If it is a video or blog then again, what is the source? Who published/produced it?

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Module 4 Reflection and Evidence of Critical Thinking

Link to WHO IS IN CONTROL (file:///C:/Users/latanya.clark/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_WHO%20IS%20IN%20CONTROL.html.zip/WHO%20IS%20IN%20CONTROL.html)

Reflection: Includes your thoughts! What did you think? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions do you have? What did you learn?

Critical Thinking Evidence: Tell me a question or problem you have with the video. Then find some more evidence to help answer your question or support your problem, or solve your problem. Make sure you provide information to me about your evidence. Where did you find it? Was it an article? If so, what publication? Who is the author? How do you know that they are reliable and valid? What work did you do to check that out? If it is a video or blog then again, what is the source? Who published/produced it? Who is the speaker? Are all of these valid and reliable sources?