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1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, please share your story.
   
   2. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
   
   3. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
   
   4. Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma — anything of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
   
   5. Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
   
   6. Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
   
   choose one of them refrain from writing about sports injury or covid

Choose a particular argument in the first chapter, “Meat Machines”, in Andy Clark’s paper (attaches)
1) Summarize the main argument chosen
2) critique or rebut that argument 
You should be guided by “Rapaport’s rules”, guidelines for charitable argument developed by the game theorist Anatol Rapaport. 
In summary, use Rapaport’s rules to critically respond to the Clark’s paper.

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Write a book review on Thomas Kidd, Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, 2011.
The Book Review must contain 700–800 words and must focus on the author’s argument in support of his or her thesis. Use parenthetical citations when citing material from the book.
Here are some additional tips and suggestions.
1.    Above all, what is the author’s thesis? What is he or she trying to prove? In other words, what is holding the book together?
2.    Identify the key arguments used to support the thesis. The student cannot describe all of them in minute detail, but he/she must provide an overview of all of them.
3.    Always thoroughly read the introduction and conclusion. Often, the author will describe the thesis in the introduction and emphasize how it was proven in the conclusion. Determine what the author considers to be the key chapters offering support for the thesis. Thoroughly read those as well if time allows. There is an “art” to skimming chapters that the student must develop.
4.    Do not get bogged down in the minutia of details. Facts matter, especially when the student relies upon evidence from books and articles to support his/her own research agenda. In other words, the student will use historians' arguments and the distinct facts and evidence to support the thesis statements of his/her own research papers in future classes. But, those facts and minor details are not part of a Book Review. Focus on the larger themes.
5.    Be sure to tell the story or stories that make the book a work of history. Retelling good stories we learn from other historians is an important part of what we do.

Format
Top: Bibliographic citation in current Turabian format. Be certain to use title case, not all caps, and italicize the title. For example:
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. By Joseph D. Witt. (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2016. Pp. 284.)
Paragraph 1:
At the start, provide a succinct statement of what the book is about. Mention the author’s full name and the full title and publisher of the book. Then, explain the author’s thesis.
Paragraph 2:
Explain the main arguments the author uses to support the thesis. Examine how the author lays out the main arguments. Do not provide a synopsis of the book, where the student walks through the book chapter by chapter. That is not the point of a Book Review. 
Paragraph 3:
Evaluate the effectiveness of the arguments and the evidence used. Always provide both positive and critical comments, and encourage ways the argument could be improved or otherwise sharpened.
Paragraph 4:
The student’s concluding paragraph must very briefly restate the importance of the book to the study of the topic, the student’s general assessment of its conclusions, and the effectiveness with which the author defended the thesis.

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with the concept of neuroplasticy, will there ever come a time that given a manmade treatment, the paralyzed will be able to regain neural function that has been lost.

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Meditative Essay: Thinking Like Dillard, Being Like Siddhartha…
Background: It’s November 20, the morning after little Julie’s crash and a chance encounter with a man who
called himself “Gotama.” Lost amidst the horror visited upon Julie, and fully thrown into the chaos of questioning
the nature of goodness and divine connection, you thought a walk would help clear your head. As you sat gazing
at a local river, an old man approached you, offering you a solution, a way beyond the suffering of this world…
Yet you remained skeptical, not necessarily of what Gotama said—that suffering comes from clinging and
desiring—but rather of what it did not say. As with Hesse’s Siddhartha, you recognized implicitly that, without
direct experience, his teachings mean nothing and, more than this, the meaning behind and lessons of Julie’s
accident cannot be answered by simply living in and of the moment. Suffering cannot be escaped, but your
recent experiences have compelled you to search out a way to live that seeks, as its core mission, to prevent
suffering as much as possible.
Adrift, you wander, searching for answers that not only “make sense,” but offer you (and others) a way to move
from a world defined by material worth (a way to escape suffering) to a reality conditioned on care, empathy,
and compassion (solutions to suffering). As with Siddhartha, such recognition ultimately emerges when we
experience the totality of the world, coming to see, like water in a river, how each moment is both unique and
connected to all other moments. This assignment, then, is asking you to reflect on Siddhartha in order to
highlight how a spiritual understanding of the world, in which all is interconnected (the final message of both
Dillard and Hesse), can become an effective process for establishing a mutually sustaining, everyday reality
based on lovingkindness, reciprocal responsibility, and empathic love.
Project: Reflecting on the nature of Siddhartha’s enlightenment as presented by Hesse, this essay asks that you
1) Meditate on the novel in relation to a personal experience in order to
2) Consider the conclusions established by Siddhartha.
NOTE: When I say personal experience, I am asking that you draw from your own experiences and
realities to test out the coherency of Siddhartha’s solution—you do not need to include extensive
personal details, but this assignment asks that you consider how an experience of (see list below) helps
you understand, engage, and complicate Siddhartha’s solution, while also aiding in your own
construction of how we might live more morally and compassionately. By no means is the following a
complete list, but, like Hesse, I am highlighting examples of personal experiences that might help you
arrive at the conditions that lead to and reify suffering, while also pointing to a way out based on love and
responsibility:
Ø Experience of love (with family, friends, significant other)
Ø Experience of loss (personal, physical, and/or financial)
Ø Experience of gain (personal, physical, and/or financial)
Ø Experience of nature (Have you ever sat by a river and heard its sound? Have you ever laid in a
field and felt holy the firm? Or looked into the sky, finding twinkling stars smiling back at you?)
Ø Experience of hate/unkindness (one you experienced or maybe impacted you indirectly)
Ø Experience of compassion/empathy (one you experienced or maybe impacted you indirectly)
Ø Experience of friendship/neighboring/companionship
Ø Experience of rejection/loneliness/aloneness
Again, I want to stress that this assignment does not require you to use personal/exact details (unless you choose
to)—but, it is asking you to consider how direct and personal experiences in relation to the extremes of living
(asceticism and hedonism) and the middle way, the exact conditions highlighted directly within the pages of
Hesse’s Siddhartha, can help lead to a spiritual understanding of the world (e.g., all is dependent and
interconnected) that, in turn, becomes the means to construct a life predicated on empathy, kindness, and
compassion.

Second, in no way must you agree with this connection—your essay, then, can push back against Hesse and
Siddhartha. If you take this route, however, please be advised that 1) you must still use course material (in
addition to your personal experience) to construct your argument, and 2) your counter must still include a
discussion of how we can arrive at a similar final position regarding empathy and care. In other words, a counter
argument is not about making a religious claim against Buddhism (e.g., that the God of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam establishes a moral code better than Buddhism), but rather how a personal experience, when thought
through the frames of our course material, helps one arrive at an understanding that human conduct should
begin and end in moments of holy care (think Dillard’s claim that she will be the nun for Julie and Siddhartha’s
statement of love at the end of the novel).
Structure: In constructing your response, you MUST draw directly on material from class. At the very least, in
addition to direct discussion/use of Hesse’s Siddhartha, you must use the ideas presented within THREE of our
additional materials; please note, additional material must come from our course, but can be drawn from
anything covered to date (from PPTs to readings to films), including all the material connected to Dillard (as well
as Dillard herself).
More than responding to and reflecting on Hesse, which is the core of this unit’s Discussion Forum, this project is
asking you to outline a vision of existing in this world with others based on how you and our various authors
approach the following themes: the sacred quest for meaning, identity, value, and connection. As we have
discussed, such themes emerge in relation to discussions regarding faith, personal belief, the nature of the divine,
institutional vs. personal religion, theodicy (presence of evil), etc.; what is most important, then, is that you use
the critical insights presented by our authors to offer a way of being that seeks solutions to evil and suffering
through compassionate responsibility.
Your response can take any form you deem necessary (traditional essay, speech, manifesto, short story, faux
sacred/religious text). Whatever you choose in terms of structure, you must directly engage Hesse and our
material explicitly (meaning, even a speech or short story requires direct and meaningful citations), while making
sure to establish a clear understanding of how we can arrive at a vision of the world predicated on accepting
responsibility for the well-being of all others. As you engage Siddhartha and this prompt, the following additional
questions might help—please note, these are included to help get you thinking and need not be answered nor
made the basis of/for your essay (the most important elements are included in the above description):
v How do people engage religion in their personal quest for wholeness? What do people seek in religion?
What kinds of questions do they ask?
v How does the self understand, communicate with, and engage the divine? What, in turn, does this
provide, specifically when we think of morals and ethics?
v Why do we suffer & why is there evil? How is this problem related to the quest for justice in religion and
society?
v How do people express their faithfulness or their commitment to what is sacred or transcendent, and
how do these practices shape their engagement with others?
v What is the goal of life—considering the personal, communal, and global spheres? How do those goals
(salvation, liberation from suffering, obedience to God—to name a few) shape human life and society?
Again, these questions are included to get you thinking—the main aim of this essay can be found in the section
titled “Project.”
in-text citations & works cited page.

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This order has two short tasks:
first task:
This assignment is different depending how well you think you speak the English language:
For people who do not consider themselves fluent English speakers or near fluent: Pick one or two language barriers that you struggle with the most, and explain why you struggle with these barriers the most.

Second task: DIRECTIONS
Understanding our tendencies to prefer one conflict style over another is very beneficial. For this exercise, I would like you to pick three people who you are reasonably close with. It'd be best to pick people who aren't all alike (personality wise) but this is not a requirement.

For each of the three people you pick:

Give a name or identifier (EXAMPLE: Chris, mamma, bestie, etc.)
Write down what you think their main conflict style is (or maybe their top 2 styles) (EXAMPLE: avoidance and accommodation)
Briefly discuss how your conflicts with the person tend to play out, as well as how you think you could handle conflicts with that person (EXAMPLE: I tend to avoid conflict and since mamma is a competes, we tend to.... I think I could handle conflict better if I....)
SUBMIT
Please turn in a write up of all three people. It should looks something like:

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Your conflict style preference(s):



Name of person 1:

Conflict style:

How conflict plays out/how you could handle things better:



Name of person 2:

Conflict style:

How conflict plays out/how you could handle things better:



Name of person 3:

Conflict style:

How conflict plays out/how you could handle things better:

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Encouraging your team mates working from home in these challenging times

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The assigned reading/viewing background materials for Module 1 included such thoughts, words, ideas, and/or concepts as poverty, non-profit, philanthropy, giving, happiness, charity, champion, altruism, and community.

Select two or more of these societal constructs in which you see some sort of connection. For example, how is philanthropy connected to community… happiness connected to giving… or poverty connected to community?

In a well-organized and well-supported essay, discuss where, how, and why that connection exists in our society today. Be sure to provide specific examples to support your point of view, perhaps your own experience in your community, at work, or through your own pursuits. On the other hand, maybe you do not see a connection between many of these concepts, while there should be. In this case, an essay might address ways in which society needs to improve as we consider ways to find connections between these concepts and societal constructs.

Please note that there is no right or wrong response here, just your ability to make a point and support it using details and examples from the readings/viewings as well as your own experience.

A well-organized essay has a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning, or introduction, should include an opening sentence to grab your reader’s attention. Follow the opening sentence with a brief background to introduce the topic. The last sentence of the introduction is the thesis statement. The thesis states the main point of the essay, which in this case, would be the ways in which two or more concepts resonate. For example,

The principle or practice of altruism on a small (or large) scale can conquer poverty, one individual at a time.
The body (middle) of the essay supports the thesis using points, details, and examples; the conclusion typically summarizes the main points of the essay and/or closes with a lasting impression that connects the reader to their world.

Be sure to proofread your essay and edit for proper grammar, punctuation, diction (word choice), and spelling, as errors in sentence skills will lower a final grade. A grade will be determined based on the Module 1 Case expectations and the University General Education rubric for English.
Papers must be double-spaced in Times or Times New Roman font (12 cpi) with standard one-inch margins.

When citing secondary source material within the essay, APA Style citations and a Works Cited page are required.

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Write an essay about a big change in your life and how it affected you.

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This assignment is an MLA style essay. In it, you are expected to create a topic and a thesis related to any four readings in this course that you have not already covered in a previous assignment. Guidance on moving from a general topic to a specific thesis will be provided in the lectures. 

The readings are on the main page (Moodle)

Essay Marking Guideline: 

1. The introduction states the name of the texts properly using MLA citation rules. 

2. The introduction contains 1 – 2 sentences about what the essay will contain and argue. The main linking point you have found between all the sources must be clearly stated in the introduction.  

3. The introduction does not contain general statements about the world beyond the essay and is directly related to the topic. 

4. The body of the essay contains paragraphs with topic sentences related to the thesis. The main linking point you have found between all the sources is clear in the topic sentence.  

5. The proof, or direct quotations from the text are related to the thesis. The main linking point you have found between all the sources is clear in the materials you use to set up quotations.  

6. The essay uses quotations that are cited properly with MLA style and format and contained within sentences and do not stand alone. 

7. The essay uses parts of speech and sentence basics well (see grammar workshops). 

8.The essay avoids, comma splices, fused sentences, fragments (see grammar workshops). 

9. The conclusion makes no generalizations and the main linking point you have found between all the sources is clear in the conclusion.  

10. The essay contains both MLA in-text citations and a works cited. 

article website1:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/covid-economy-changes-1.5618734

article website2: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/06/01/na060120-sweden-will-covid-19-economics-be-different

article website3 :https://hbr.org/2020/03/understanding-the-economic-shock-of-coronavirus

article website4: https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2020/06/27/the-post-covid-world-is-an-opportunity-to-boost-the-green-economy.html