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What are the critical facts or definitions that you must establish or account for?

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You completed a PRO/PRO assignment that required you to take two different positions on an issue. Now, you can choose one of those positions to argue for, or perhaps a third position that you have discovered or constructed about your topic.
This paper will be one sustained argument in which you forcefully argue your position and propose a solution for it. It will require you to take other positions into account in order to maintain a thoughtful substantiated position of your own. Once you recognize competing or alternative viewpoints, you will either absorb, concede or refute those other arguments.
This is your final opportunity to demonstrate your research are argumentative abilities. Consider the following:
What kinds of exigence can you provide to convince your audience of the seriousness of your issue?
How will you establish ethos for yourself in your essay?
What sorts of emotional appeals would work best for your audience?
What are the critical facts or definitions that you must establish or account for?
What research can you use to support your claims?
What research should you take into consideration with your claims? Which should you concede?
What research or points of view should you expressly refute?
What is the logic of your argument?
What are some warrants for your evidence that you may need to provide?
What is the most effective order for making arguments that flow logically?
What is your proposal for action regarding this issue?
How will you garner and maintain reader interest?
Purpose
To persuade your audience that your point of view is correct, and that your proposal is a reasonable call to action.
Audience
Your hypothetical readers for this paper are those who have NOT read either of your PRO arguments. Conceptualize your audience as a group that needs convincing – neither as a group that agrees with you, or one that vehemently opposed. Your audience should not be inclined to agree with you. Rather, your audience should be one that is inclined perhaps to either disagree or remain neutral on your topic. While your goal is change minds, you will be looking first to establish that a well-reasoned argument for your position exists, and that a reasonable moral person can hold an opposing view.

Your audience should be an interested party somewhere in the middle or with a tendency to hold an opposing (if unexamined) view. Consider possibly some stakeholders or other interests that you could persuade to agree with you. It may be beneficial to imagine the kind of publication you would be writing for. Likewise, your paper could be imagined as a companion piece for an article you’ve read in your research.
Your paper will contain an audience analysis on the title page your final paper. In your analysis, describe the audience you are writing for and why you believe your audience may sway toward your position.
Research
Your final paper must demonstrate competence in using and citing sources properly in ways that support your position and purpose. Think carefully on what should be quoted, what should be paraphrased, and what should be summarized. Select the most persuasive arguments for your paper.
8 sources are required. 2 of those sources may be interviews. 4 must be from peer reviewed academic journals.

Should I buy or sell stock in this company?

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MUALN LEE: TERM PAPER INSTRUCTIONS

This Announcement will be the guidance that you need in order to complete the term paper assignment.

In brief, you need to pull the latest Def 14a report and the latest 10k report from the Edgar database for the company that you have chosen. The Edgar database is compiled by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  The website for Edgar is: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html   The basic thesis of your paper will be:  Should I buy or sell stock in this company?  If you cannot find the above reports, that means that the company is not public ally traded.  You can only do a paper on a public ally traded company.The way you will get to this answer is by doing the following: (1) read the latest def 14a and 10k reports (2)  highlight the reasons why you would buy or not buy this company (this information is found in the two reports and is subjective) (3) highlight the reasons  why you would not buy this company (this information is found in the two reports and is subjective) (4) In your opinion, do the pro’s of buying stock in your company outweigh the con’s, then you answer to the thesis of this paper would be YES and vice versa.

 

It is important that you incorporate concepts from the text when making your argument as to whether you would buy stock in your company.  THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!  Also, you should also incorporate information from other research sources (i.e. analyst ratings on the company, etc..)

 

Basically, the format of the paper is very much like the discussion topics that you have been working on.  There is no right or wrong answer in this assignment.  You will be graded on how well you outline your argument and how well you incorporate the concepts from the text into your argument.  Remember, for every person who buys a share of stock in the company there has to also be a person who sells shares in the company.  Thus, one person might argue the case that stock should be purchased while another person might argue just the opposite.  This is what makes the market for stock securities work in this country.

 

 

The term paper should be approximately 10 pages doubled space.  If you copy any information from the above mentioned reports or your textbook, you will need to cite the source of the information copied.  When submitting your term paper, it should be attached to a Message that you send to me.

 

Term papers are to be sent to me via an attachment to a Message.

 

If you should have any questions regarding this assignment, please Message me at your earliest convenience.  Good luck!

 

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I would just like to go over a couple of points about your term paper so that there is no confusion as to what I am expecting.  The term paper makes up a big portion of your grade.  I would recommend that you spend a lot of time on this assignment.  The term paper is similar to discussion topics except that it is ten pages long.  What I will be looking for with this assignment is as follows:

 

  1. I DO NOT want a book report about the company you are doing your paper on.

 

  1. After reading the appropriate reports, you will need to state what economic principles are effecting your

company.  There probably are multiple principles.

 

  1. Once you identify the economic principles, you will need to define said principles.

 

  1. You will need to do outside research on the economic principles that apply to the company. Charts, graphs, data

is a must for this assignment.  You should have numerous sources of research.

 

  1. Finally, you will need to state whether the economic principles as outlined in your paper are positives or negatives

for the company.  If there are more positive principles then negative ones, you should state that you want to be a

buyer of the stock and vice versa.  Every paper should include a ten year stock price chart for the company you

chose.

 

I hope this is helpful.

How do changes in human material culture (i.e., tools, art, etc.) reflect changes in human cognitive abilities over time?

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Throughout evolution humans have relied on material tools in order to function daily living and survival conditions. Adaptation of technical strategies can be depicted to impact the advancement of neurocognitive development in Homo sapiens. Indeed, it plausible that active cultural and tool engagement has promoted certain psychological mechanisms to evolve towards the continuing present day and age of technology.  Recent research outlines that unique human materials capabilities reflect innate cognitive structures that is not mutually shared among other primates. Overtime, material culture can be seen to influence the human meanings, values, and behavior. This paper will demonstrate that the cultural materialism has reinforced the development of social identity and consciousness. First, it will discuss how social tool-making practices conditioned adaptation of learned behaviors leading to neurological alterations. Second, it will exemplify the symbolic significance of materialism in promoting communication, meaningfulness, and reciprocal relations essential for survival. Lastly, it will emphasize…

According to Jeffares (2010), the constant need to travel due to unstable and patchy environmental conditions has led hominins to construct mental maps and cues of potential resources or threat. In order to survive, hominins show awareness of short-term needs and capabilities along with long-term goals towards their environmental setting. Whilst traveling, the carriage of tools enacts as a cognitive mechanism to elicit attention and awareness to regulate strategies and preparations to external threats (Jeffares, 2010). Indeed, stone tools mediated the interaction between complex environmental demands and cognitive processes by prompting association of the stimuli with certain behavioral responses in specific conditions. The interaction of constant tool usage and carriage can be seen to shape the hominin mind to elevate cognitive functions of working memory (Jeffares, 2010).  [relate to thesis]

Further, archaeological artifacts of hand axe knapping dated 500,000 years old indicate that the evolution of spatial cognition in Homicide erectus (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). It has been suggested that knapping stone tools acquired visual-spatial processing of spatial recognition and spatial relations. This can be seen in the three-dimensional symmetries present with hand axes that associate with high levels of ventro-dorsal processing (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). This differs from earlier tool use, as knapping hand axes acquired allocentric perceptual abilities of encoding objects relative to its constant spatial position. Thus, the evolution of hand axes tools shows to impact the development of visuospatial processing of allocentric perception of objects.

It is likely that allocentric perception derived from knapping of stone tools converged to human wayfinding abilities. Humans differ in comparison to other primates in their abilities to utilize maps and navigate in environment without prior exposure. According to Wynn and Coolidge (2016), allocentric perception enables following symbolic representations on maps when navigating in novel areas. This involves activation of the same neural visuospatial pathways seen in knapping techniques and differs from common surveying of information from prior experience seen with primates. For this reason, humans exemplify an advantage of possessing both survey and allocentric capabilities which may have contributed to the evolution of higher cognitive functions.

Specifically, social interactions in humans exhibit greater abstract thinking and acquires adaptation of implicit displays rules and complex skills. Social cognition plays an important role in daily functioning as humans require to comprehend what other’s may be thinking and realize that everyone’s reality is different. This unique social ability in humans has shown to be associated with Theory of Mind (ToM) which shares similar neural functions with allocentric perception (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). It is possible that this cognitive ability was demonstrated by late Pleitocene hominids through imitation and observation of knapping techniques. Imitation of knapping hand axes reflects the understanding that another hold differing thoughts then own. However, the application of imitation with stone tools more importantly demonstrates the evolution of learning and teaching in humans.

Ultimately, the complexity of knapping techniques overtime may have led hominins to emphasize observational learning and semantic labelling methods. Language and visual perception development seem to be linked to pragmatic process of adapting and instructing complex stone knapping techniques. Unlike humans, apes do not show focused observation when training to knap (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). This suggests that tools that humans acquired for survival may have demanded higher executive functions of attention and spatial cognition. In order to attain incoming perceptual information, hominins depended on physical practice and cues to master technical skills and process motor routines into long-term memory (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). As a result, mastery knowledge of toolmaking elicited working-memory and attentional mechanisms of human spatial cognition.

Indeed, humans possess a unique form of verbal communication through semantics. It is likely that verbal capabilities in hominins followed retrieval of knapping procedures that expanded cognitive functions (Wynn and Coolidge, 2016). Phonetical and lexicological constructions of language are likely rooted to attempts to teach others how to master stone tools. Certainly, the progression of prehistoric stone techniques seems to represent the initial distinct human qualities of language and cognitive development.

According to Bar-Yosef (2017), the Paleolithic age represented the discovery of language and social landscapes. It was 0.5 mya that Homo sapiens evolution showed linguistic capablilities that distinguished them from Homicide erectus (Bar-Yousef, 2017). This is linked to the influence Auchelian handaxes produced on working memory and its transgenerational effect on youths. Ultimately, language functioned as a moderator to correct and sufficiently communicate information across group members (Bar-Yousef, 2017). Meanwhile, social landscapes played an important role in facilitating routines, stone tool learning, social connections and group strategizing.

Ultimately, the cognitive significance of tools can be seen to overtime evolve as a social cue for humans. It’s transparency to enact as a cognitive mechanism for task performance may have produced a social consciousness and emotional display rules. For instance, tool usage can reinforce members to act collectively and facilitate enhanced performance in group presence. Likewise, an individual’s competence and status may be defined from their ownership or ability to master tools leading to culturally construed social roles based on group values (Jeffares, 2010). This may have led tools to function as emotional display rules by members consensually establishing certain expressions of fear or content to signify group compliance in specified circumstances of threat or safety. As a result, the progression of tool usage likely promoted complex, yet unique culturally defined rules unique to signal survival and group cohesion.  Ultimately, these social cues associated with tool usage show to attach a cultural meaning and perhaps enhance working memory and mental mechanisms based on increased conditional learning of complex social situations.

Admittedly, materiality may represent a coping mechanism to basic emotions with expression of certain behaviors in early human society (Lutz and White, xxx). The material culture’s association with emotions can be seen to express competence and class in group members based on their level of functioning with their tools. This is evident even in present day, as the human ability to sufficiently utilize technological tools reflects their stability and plausible success to adapt to professional environments. However, improper or lack of usage of technological devices can rooted emotion dysregulated mechanisms related to a psychological disorder. In this case, empathetic remarks by society ensures proper treatments promote individual, social, and occupational functioning. Lutz and White (xxx) describes the notion that culturally ascribed deviant emotions are usually suppressed by individuals in exchange to attain group and material interest. This can be seen in social structures and cultural systems utilizing material forces to control individual emotional deviance and reinforce group interest behavior. For instance, the systematically established emotional aspect of kinship in humans can be seen to show material motivation.

The influence of stone tools in the lower Palaolithic era has shown implicate the development of hierarchy and social demands for knapping skills (Bar-Yousef, 2017).  Social identity seemed to emerge based on crafting abilities and contribution to the group. This may indicate the formation of social rules and norms as to stone tool making abilities were mandatory since it was crucial for hunting and survival. Certainly, empathic kinship in human behavior seems to relate to the bestowed value and virtue towards approaching materialistic activities. This may have evolved the cultural transmission of empathy in caregiving from imitation of kinship norms. Compared to chimpanzees, hominins appear to depict greater parental investment that promoted learning in band group settings (Bar-Yousef, 2017). It is plausible that the survival advantages of familial structures may have influenced the evolution of familial and banding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are helicopters the ultimate in overindulgence or do they serve a legitimate purpose in the aviation industry? 

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Question 1:

which manufacturer is better suited for the future of aviation?  Why?

Watch the videos provided below and provide 1-2 pages response with the appropriate citations from the provided material BELOW to support your argument.

 (Please use APA intext Citation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOq5MJr2LM&feature=emb_logo

https://osu.instructure.com/courses/60540/modules/items/2839946

Question 2:

Are helicopters the ultimate in overindulgence or do they serve a legitimate purpose in the aviation industry?  Support your answer. 

Please provide a 1-2 pages response with the appropriate citations from the provided material BELOW  to support your argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysadvsXDVDU&feature=emb_logo

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/private-helicopters/index.html

Question 3:

Where do you see aviation in twenty years?  Are we supersonic once again?  Is there a new more popular mode of transportation (hyperloop)? What is your rationale for your prediction?

Please provide a 1-2 pages response with the appropriate citations from the provided material BELOW to support your argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ql0Op1VcELw&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zFefh5T-8&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43gKMWAPco&feature=emb_logo

 

 

What should you do when your oven is on fire?

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  1. I attend a plan event, ” MONEY SMART SEAWOLVES WORKSHOPS: WHY IS CREDIT SO IMPORTANT. ” It took place in Humanities,1003 on Wednesday, September 11. The lecture was host by one of the staff who was a specialist in credibility. At first, the instructor introduced the basic concept of credit and essential factors of having a good score. Then, she used powerpoint to show us how to improve your credit score and how to remain in a good score. Besides, three things determine your score, payment history, the amount owed, and length of credit. To ensure a suitable credit, always remember to pay your bills on time is essential if you want to bring up your credit. Therefore, only purchase what you can pay off and do not let the desire to manipulate your money.It is helpful if you can open a credit card account to starting build credit. Credit card companies have a lot of options available to college students with a low-interest rate. To keep a good credit score, you will need to pay your bills on time.From the lecture I attended, I had a concept of credit, and I learned that a credit score is a reflection of your financial ability. It helps you to get a loan or a credit card, etc.
  2. At 7 pm, I attend the event “Heat and Heat.” It was base on fire safety education. Oxygen, temperature, and flammable, they are the three things to cause a fire to burn. We had Stony Brook University Fire Department came as host. They showed us how to use a fire extinguisher and how to put down varies fires. Firstly, we started with a cooking fire. Firefighter light it up on a pan. Then, they expand my knowledge of how to deal with a cooking fire. The top priority is to shut down gas, and do not use water to put down cooking fire; it will only help the fire goes out of control. Instead of, the typical way to save the pan, firefighter used the fire extinguisher to put it down. Secondly, students watched a live demonstration of an oven fire. What should you do when your oven is on fire? It was simple. Just close the door of your oven, it will cut off the supply of oxygen. “Heat and Heat” is an exciting event that expands my knowledge of fire and how to deal with it. Everyone is panic when there is a fire burning in front of you. However, with the education of put down fire will keep you claim down when there is a fire dancing in front of you.
  3. September 21st Football At six pm on Saturday, I went to a football game. It was between the Seawolves and the Fordham Rams. At first, Seawolves were leading the competition; we had a good start. The game was fun and interesting.

 

 

What are the strengths of her argument? What are its weaknesses? Be sure to cite evidence from the book to make your case.

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Prompt: In the “Mind Fixers” by Anne Harrington, she argues that not only did the “biological revolution” in 1980s American psychiatry not rest on fundamental new biological understandings of mental illness and fail to deliver on its promises, but it also created a highly distorted view of the history of psychiatry in since the late 19th century. This view of the history of the field posited a successful biological approach to mental illness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that was interrupted by the false allure of Freudian psychiatry. The psychiatrists of the 1980s claimed to be returning to this older research program that had been sidelined by the Freudians.
In an 8 page critical review, discuss how well she makes her case. What are the strengths of her argument? What are its weaknesses? Be sure to cite evidence from the book to make your case.

The only source used should by the book “Mind Fixers” by Anne Harrington (2019)

How do youtube audiences perceive the UAE as a tourist destination through user-generated content ?

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Thesis Topic (working title):
The impact of Youtube’s user-generated videos on the UAE’s perceived tourism image.
Abstract:
The fast-paced technological advances in the field of content creation is taking the world by storm.
More than ever before, technologies used in content creation has become faster, more accessible,
and cheaper. These advancements paved the way for audiences to move to the other side of the
spectrum and become senders of media messages rather than just receivers. This study investigates
how user-generated online videos (UGOV) on youtube shape the image of the UAE as a tourist
destination. Furthermore, it also attempts to provide better insight into technologies that are used by
audiences to create video content related to tourism in the UAE.
Research questions:
The paper will seek to answer the following questions:
1- How do youtube audiences perceive the UAE as a tourist destination through user-generated
content ?
2- Is the UAE image as a tourist destination perceived positively or negatively by audiences ?

The Devolution of Peru’s Sendero Luminoso: From Hybrid Maoists to Narco-Traffickers?

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The Devolution of Peru’s Sendero Luminoso: From Hybrid
Maoists to Narco-Traffickers?
Daniel M. Masterson*
United States Naval Academy
Abstract
This History Compass article examines the ideological transformation of Peru’s Sendero Luminoso
insurgency from its immediate origins in the 1960s in the remote province of Ayacucho to its
devolution to small armed bands of drug traffickers in the nation’s remote central Andean regions.
Originally, Sendero claimed allegiance to the peasant-based Marxism of Jose´ Carlos Maria´tegui, the
founder of Peru’s Socialist Party. In reality, however, much of its ideology and revolutionary strategy
was based on Maoist theory. As, Sendero’s Maoism was largely based on its leader’s experience
in China in the mid-1960s, the party felt compelled to rabidly defend ‘orthodox’ Maoism as
China moved away this ideology in the late 1970s. Maoism with a Peruvian radical stamp,
nevertheless, failed to win over the peasantry in the 1980s. Sendero’s leadership then violated basic
Maoist strategy and began an urban terror campaign which exposed its leadership to eventual
capture in late 1992. Since then, Sendero has survived only as a force fortified by drug revenues
and isolated by rugged mountain terrain. We can only speculate about its future. But an estimated
66,000 deaths caused by its insurgency are stark evidence of its destructive potential.
Before Sendero Luminoso Peru has witnessed many Andean resistance movements from the
Taki Onqoy sect in the 1560s to the Hugo Blanco led hacienda invasions of the early
1960s. But only the Tupac Amaru II uprising in the 1780s can compare in violence and
in scope with the self-styled ‘peoples war’ of Partido Comunista del Peru´ en el Sendero
Luminoso de Jose´ Carlos Maria´tegui (Communist Party of Peru in the Shining Path of Jose´
Carlos Maria´tegui). Referred to commonly as Sendero or SL, this movement had little to
do with the communal Marxist theories of Maria´tegui, who based many of his key ideas
on more than 1000 years of Andean traditions.1 Instead, SL was a hybrid mix of Stalinism,
Maoism, and the thoughts of Gu´zman. This mishmash of ideologies came to be
called by Gu´zman, who adopted the nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo, ‘Gonzalo thought’.
Much like the teachings of Peru’s most prominent political figure, Vı´ctor Raul Haya de
la Torre, SL’s ideology remained an opaque assemblage of revolutionary thought poorly
understood by low-ranking Senderistas, academics, and Peruvian counter-insurgency
forces.2
Sendero’s emergence was made possible by the weakness of the Peruvian Left. The
traditional Moscow-linked Communist Party was driven underground during the early
Cold War as was the nationalist, but increasingly conservative, APRA party. Clearly, the
insurgency was not primarily peasant-based as many earlier commentators believed.
Rather, like in Mao’s China, it was seen as a tool of the revolution to be manipulated,
intimidated, and at time brutalized to conform to ‘Gonzalo Thought’. In the end, the
Peruvian peasantry came to loath Sendero and mobilize effectively against this terrorist
History Compass 8/1 (2010): 51–60, 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00656.x
Journal Compilation ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
No claim to original US government works

Does the city with higher level biking usage have less people diagnosed with physical health problems?

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You are also required to write a 5-7 page (double-spaced) research essay to demonstrate how you apply the analytical methods that you learn from this course to real-world inquiries. You will make use of data that I will provide to you in order to conduct descriptive statistics and inferential techniques in your essay. I would suggest you organize your writing in a professional way by answering the following questions successively in your essay:

1) What are your research questions? What are your analysis units (observations)?

2) What are your hypotheses, including the dependent variable and independent variables, in your inferential analyses?

3) Describe the data set you are using: where did you get the data or how were the data collected? How big is the sample size?

4) How is each of the variables in your study measured? What are the measurement unit and measurement level? If you recoded any variable or generated any new variable, how did you do that?

5) Please use frequency distribution or central tendency statistics to summarize the variables. You may use tables and charts to present the data distribution.

6) Which inferential techniques do you use to examine the relationships between variables? And the reasons you use those techniques?

7) Report the results of your inferential analysis; and discuss whether your hypotheses are supported by the data evidence.

8) Provide implications of your research.

Considering the workload in final weeks, I will pose the data in a few weeks early this semester, so that you can start thinking about these questions and playing with the data.

What is the optimal way of structuring the law of homicide?

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The essay should exhibit great understanding of the text highlighted below and should be primarily based on them. The essay should carefully understand and answer the question and should avoid deviations. Use of extra material other than the ones mentioned below is highly encouraged.
A Ashworth and B Mitchell, ‘Introduction’ in A Ashworth and B Mitchell (eds),
Rethinking English Homicide Law (2000)
• JR Spencer, ‘Intentional Killings in French Law’, and
• A Pedain, ‘Intentional Killings: the German Law’, comparative studies for the
English Law Commission (2005); available online ( http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/app/uploads/2015/03/Murder__Manslaughter_and_Infanticide_comparative_studies.pdf )
Further reading:
• A Ashworth and B Mitchell (eds), Rethinking English Homicide Law (2000)
chs 2, 5 and 6
• CMV Clarkson and S Cunningham (eds), Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive
Death (2008)
• GP Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law, new edn. (2000) chs 4 and 5
• J Horder (ed), Homicide Law in Comparative Perspective (2007)
• J Horder, Homicide and the Politics of Law Reform (2012) especially chs 2, 3,
5 and 8
• G Maher, ‘“The Most Heinous of All Crimes”: Reflections on the Structure of
Homicide in Scots Law’ in J Chalmers et al (eds.), Essays in Criminal Law in
Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (2010)
• B Mitchell, ‘Public Perceptions of Homicide and Criminal Justice’ (1998) 38
British Journal of Criminology 453