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Each of you has an opportunity to express your position on the death penalty vs life in prison for violent crimes. What I expect of you is to conduct the research that supports your position (reliable, preferably primary sources) with evidence and at least 3 sources in MLA format. Have an introduction, at least three main body paragraphs and a conclusion.
My position is against the death penalty/support life in prison.

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Write a summary of Why Tech Needs the Humanities. Make sure you follow the guidelines for summary writing. Post your summary as Practice Summary.

THE LINK OF THE TED TALK: https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berridge_why_tech_needs_the_humanities#t-124307

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Write a essay of 3 paragraphs on The Tale of Genji, and address the following questions with one paraphrase for each question: What is the Tale of Genji scroll series about? How is the story in this particular scroll unfolded in a narrative way? What are the main formal characteristics of yamato-e as seen in this scroll?

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Read the 1984 William Gibson novel "Neuromancer"

With reference to the major passages about the characters Wintermute and Case, characterize and evaluate Wintermute's motivation for merging with Neuromancer. In your essay respond to all of the questions below. The essay must be typed and double-spaced with one-inch margins.

Questions
How does Gibson describe Wintermute's reasons for pursuing the merge with Neuromancer? How can we interpret this "marriage" philosophically?
How do you evaluate this fusion from an ethical point of view? Does Wintermute have the "right" to pursue his "marriage" with Neuromancer?

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Some critics believe that The Death of Ivan Ilych is a work of moral friction, that it is designed primarily moral instruction to its audience. And how does this moral instruction serve to address class structures? Discuss this claim and provide evidence from the text to support your opinion.

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Topic: 
Which text will you analyze?  Include the full bibliographic citation for the text.
“Winter Dreams” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thesis:
Include a tentative thesis. I understand that your thesis will change over the course of your work, but I want to see where you are planning to take your analysis. Remember that your thesis should be arguable and analytical rather than a statement of fact.
NOT a thesis: "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James is a psychological story about a failed life.
This is NOT a thesis because it is merely a short synopsis of the story rather than an analysis.
Thesis: In the story "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James, May Bartram is a more tragic character than John Marcher because she lives a failed life with full awareness that she is not fulfilling her soul's desire.
This is a thesis because it makes an arguable point that can be supported with textual evidence. In many critical interpretations, May Bartram is characterized as the one who lived a passionate and successful life in contrast with John Marcher who lead a short-sighted and egotistical life. I disagree with this interpretation and I will explain why in my paper.
Textual Evidence:

List at least three supporting points you will use to support your thesis. These points can come from primary or secondary sources.
Source Material:

The assignment requires you to use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the primary texts. List the bibliographic citation for the sources you might use. Under the citation, write a brief explanation of how each source will help you to support your thesis. You may find other sources as you move through the writing process, so you are not obligated to use the sources you list here. This section is designed to make sure you can find appropriate sources for your essay. 

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3-page essay (MLA format) on connections between the coronavirus pandemic and one of these Shakespeare plays:
1. Merchant of Venice
2. Othello
3. Henry IV, pt. 1 and pt. 2
Some potential common themes between the two might be: paranoia; rumors and misinformation; finance and economics; nationality; xenophobia; and, political leadership.

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The novel Disobedience describes the spiritual journey of several fictitious characters, with special attention to a rabbi’s daughter. Write a 4 page essay  reflecting upon the spiritual experiences and religious worldviews found in the novel Disobedience. 

(You could compare your own experience with one or more of the characters, talking about similarities or differences.) if you choose to do so it has to be from the POV of a muslim woman. 

Note: It is essential that your paper show that you have read or listened to the novel carefully and have engaged it.

Some suggestions:

You may structure this paper however you like, but it needs to have a clear introduction, “flow,” and conclusion. The following are some questions which you may wish to consider. It probably would not be good to tackle all of these. The paper should have a clear introduction, conclusion, and logical flow (not just “stream of consciousness”).


Suggestions:

• Are there certain “sacred texts,” events or religious rituals which have been significant turning

points for you? How have these shaped your worldview? Are there events or religious rituals

that you have found meaningful (or meaningless)?

• What are your current beliefs regarding matters related to religion, ultimate reality, or the divine? How

is your ethics and behavior shaped by this? Do you have an “image” or mental “picture” of God or your

“higher power”?


Citations: It is acceptable simply to provide the citation as in-text parenthetical citations (p. 16) or (16) or (Alderman, 16). For instance: As Ronit said, “I should have seen it coming” (102). For inset block quotes, do as follow. No quotation marks around inset block quotations unless the quotation marks are in the text itself. Put the parenthetical citation after the closing punctuation:

The more powerful a force, the more holy a place, the more truth there is in wisdom, the more these things should be private, deep, accessible only to those who have worked to attain them…. We should not rush to throw open doors, to allow light to shine on quiet places. For those who have seen the secret mysteries tell us not only of the beauty, but also of the pain. And certain things are better left unseen, and certain words unspoken. (72)

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Discussion 3-5 Readings

Read "Writing as Transformation," "Literature at the Crossroads," "How I Wrote my First Novel," "What is African-American Literature?," "The Death of Horatio Alger," "The Fourth of July," "Elethia" and "The Lesson" from the Readings folder.

Discussion 3

After reading "Writing as Transformation," "Literature at the Crossroads," "How I Wrote my First Novel," and "What is African-American Literature?" from the Readings folder, respond to each reading in four reflective paragraphs total. Your reflection can include your thoughts while reading, a quote or two that stuck out to you, an interesting concept or idea, any questions you have, or your relation or non-relation to anything that was said. This exercise is to get you thinking about what you are reading and to go beyond a superficial relationship to the words on the page. This will be a helpful habit when you write your essays and need to analyze.

Discussion 4

“The Death of Horatio Alger” speaks in large part for the social construction of race and identity. Because we are inherently a nation of clashing cultures, there is a conflict between race being socially rather than biologically produced. In this story, there is a struggle to find one’s identity in the midst of these warring influences as well as a struggle in debunking or feeding into society’s racism and social expectations for “inferior” races. In order to analyze and to avoid summary, locate literary devices and themes in the work. There are plenty present in these stories. 

Use a combination of quotes and your analysis to comment on how the story displays the conflict between identity and the social construct of race. 

After reading "The Fourth of July" by Audre Lorde, you should notice the author uses irony on a number of levels, including the presentation of what events that happen to her when she was a child and her responses to them. Analyze how Lorde uses irony to comment on American society. What is ironic about the story? The holiday that is being celebrated? Comment on symbols used in the story as well. Your response should be two paragraphs total. Use examples and quotes from the text.

Discussion 5

1. The theme of a concealed past is apparent in Alice Walker’s short story, “Elethia.” Charles Taylor wrote in his essay “The Politics of Recognition” that the misrecognition of others can cause a group of people to “suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a confining or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. Non-recognition or misrecognition can inflict harm, can be a form of oppression, imprisoning someone in a false, distorted, and reduced mode of being” (75). Comment on the theme of the concealed past and misrecognition of others with Walker’s handling of the Uncle Albert image. How is this damaging to the African-American culture?  It might be helpful to connect this to the "sentimental portraits of blackness" that bell hooks dicusses in the video you watched earlier in this module. 

Respond to question 1 in 2 full paragraphs, using examples and quotes from the text. 

2. In “The Lesson,” by Toni Cade Bambara, a group of black school children embark on a field trip to F.A.O Schwartz in Manhattan that creates a contrast between the impoverished children and their environment. Using details and examples from the story, comment on the absurdity of both the presence of economic inequality and the American dream that this story seems to highlight. 

3. In "The Death of Horatio Alger," "Elethia," and "The Lesson," the main characters share a similar struggle. What is it? Analyze this struggle and how it compares and differs from each story.

Respond to questions 2 and 3 in 2 full paragraphs, using examples and quotes from the texts. In order to analyze and to avoid summary, locate literary devices and themes in the work. There are plenty present in these stories. 

Your response should be 4 paragraphs total.

Writing As Transformation: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uwm5457ssrs7zbr/AACXnnFa48oeVa1RkzUSiYoxa?dl=0&preview=Writing+as+Transformation.pdf 

Literature At Crossroads: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uwm5457ssrs7zbr/AACXnnFa48oeVa1RkzUSiYoxa?dl=0&preview=Literature+at+the+Crossroads.pdf

How I Wrote My First Novel: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uwm5457ssrs7zbr/AACXnnFa48oeVa1RkzUSiYoxa?dl=0&preview=How+I+Wrote+My+First+Novel.pdf

What Is African-American Literature: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uwm5457ssrs7zbr/AACXnnFa48oeVa1RkzUSiYoxa?dl=0&preview=What+is+African+American+Literature.pdf 

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Part one:
What is Just Culture?
View link and answer
let's discuss the management behaviors to help to create a climate for change for improved quality:
What strategies have you read about in the text and/or accompanying documents? 
How might you bring an employee along who struggles with change? 
What tools might you see your staff needing to push forward facilitating this new climate for change?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5unUDZ3WHU

Cite and reference 

Part two: 
Ask three questions with content. Meaning question and answer. 

Cite and reference

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In an essay, define and describe the federal-default exchange program and indicate if any of the states  listed in Exhibit 22.1on page 395 have become or anticipate becoming fully self-sustaining by the end of 2015 as dictated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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Part one:
Please respond to ONE of the following writing prompts. Book Giovannis room by James Baldwin

1. How would you describe what David learns from his father and Aunt Ellen about being a man in Part I? How does this relate to his social interaction with the men in Paris (Name characters and give page numbers for examples.).

2. How would you describe the women in Part I. Be sure to include Ellen, Hella, and the caretaker and highlight their differences? 

3. It is significant at this point that both Giovanni and David are foreigners in Paris. Rather than speaking from a national perspective, Giovanni speaks through a "European" Old World lens. What are the defining characteristics of Americans at this point in the novel and according to whom? Be sure to include examples and page numbers.  Be sure to use textual evidence.

Part 2:
In Part II we learn a number of aspects of David's and Giovanni's characters, but remember we see these aspects from David's perspective, not Giovanni's. Please respond to one of the following.

1. David and Giovanni have many discussions about Hella. How would you describe the difference between the two men's stated gender expectations for women, and how would you then describe/ explain David's interaction with Sue? Is David consistent do you think?

2. What does Part II indicate about Hella's and Sue's expectations of the female gender role, and do these expectations differ from Giovanni's and David's descriptions of the female role? 

3. What do you consider the primary stressor in David's and Giovanni's relationship? Do you think it is simply that homosexuality is not accepted in the US and is not fully accepted even in Paris, or do you think there is more?

Be sure to include examples and page numbers.  Be sure to use textual evidence