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Choose one (1) of the three (3) reading selections from the list of topic choices below. The focus is on brief but important primary source material written by important authors. In each case, the subject relates to the problems of certain people who are oppressed or impoverished. In each topic, a different genre or approach is adopted to help readers see and perhaps address the problem. Read the selections as identified with each topic below. Write a four-to-five (4-5) paragraph essay (350 words minimum) which analyzes the work following the list of four things your paper should cover given just after the topics. Topic Choices Reading selection of Swifts A Modest Proposal. The selection should be read in full at http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/modest.html. It is essential to recognize the genre of this work, as discussed in our class text (pp. 781-3 in chap. 24), which you should consult and cite. The context is the plight of the very poor in Ireland in the early 1700s.
Reading selection from Equianos Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789. This selection can be found in chapter 26 of our class text on pp. 877-8 (with background on pp. 869-872). The context is the process of enslavement and then passage across the Atlantic.
Reading selection of Olympe de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female citizen (written in 1791). The selection should be read in full at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/293/ with background provided on p. 852 of our class text. You should also look at the revolutionary document of 1789 that she is correcting, called Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp ). Olympe de Gouge has the status of women as her main concern. The general context is the French Revolution and the attempts to redefine rights and status once one replaces monarchy. For the reading selection and topic you choose, your paper should cover the following: Briefly introduce the writer and the situation that this reading is about. Identify the genre or nature of the reading.
Using specific examples or lines within the reading, suggest the authors key views and key aims for the reading audience.
Evaluate the authors strategy and what you see as the works likely effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) for the target audience. If there is any known historical result, discuss that.
Evaluate how the reading impacted you. Identify any analogous situations today, and also key lessons you get from the reading that could be relevant to ones professional and personal life. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than others Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. Include a title page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professors name, the course title, and the date of submission. The cover page and the source list are not included in the required assignment length (350 words minimum).
You must the class text and also any source(s) identified (with links) above for the topic you choose, focusing on the main primary source of that author. If you use any additional source (optional), it must be from the universitys online Library and of good academic quality for college work. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.

Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions. Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Introduction to AstronomyTheme: Probing the Big Bang*You have gained access to a sophisticated time-travel vessel that can carry you back to the beginning of our Universe and bring you home again safely. In the comfort of the many rooms in the vessel, you can explore and probe the Bang that became Big and led to us, without being affected in any way by the events outside.**You are to report back to the governments of the world, where there is concern about the future developments of the Universe. Your report should detail what happened in the past and how our world came about from the many changes that happened since the first moment. For their benefit, speculate on the possible future awaiting us all. (Alas, that your time-travel vessel cant go forward past the present.)The Project will be submitted as a pdf. It will be graded on the basis of the clarity of the presentation, on its readability, on the quality of the media used, on the accuracy of the astronomical insights, on the general formatting, which should resemble the standards of the APA.The document produced should consist of a minimum of 1500 words of content text, there should be a minimum of 10 relevant images and/or videos scoured from the Internet. Bibliography should have sources listed for all info and images/videos listed.

Discussion Topic: Plato Platos Argument for the Existence of the Human Soul Here is a version of Plato’s argument for both the existence of, and the immortality of, the human soul (the psyche). If you have some sort of bias as to whether the soul can or not be proven, drop this now! Don’t approach philosophical questions with dogma, prejudice and unsafe assumptions. Instead, approach his argument directly, by honestly, but critically, responding to the question: Did Plato prove it? Keep in mind what we learned in Chapter One regarding how we proceed, when thinking critically about arguments. Basically, we must ask two questions: Approach Platos argument with these two questions. Have fun with this one. Premise One: The essence of a thing is the characteristic(s) which is unique to the thing. In other words, what makes something essential is that it be an attribute or quality that must be there for a thing to be the thing that it is. A horse that cannot run, a knife that cannot cut things, fire that cannot burn, food that has no nutritional valueall these things have lost their essence. In reality, they are not what they appear to be. Premise Two: Human beings are the only things which think in a complex way. Although other animals may have brain activity, and may be able to communicate in primitive ways, only humans can do math and physics, debate politics, write poetry, or contemplate philosophical issues. Premise Three: In addition, only humans clearly possess character attributes such as courage or cowardliness, justice or injustice, generosity or stinginess, lazy or industriousness, etcall characteristics which go beyond mere expressions of biological instinct and socialization. Outside of cartoons, other animals do not clearly possess character at this level of sophistication. Premise Four: Any thing that is completely devoid of the ability to think or to have character, cannot be reasonably identified as a human beingno matter how much it may look human on its surface. For example, a stature or photograph of a human being is not a human, no matter how human it may look. And, if an individual, because of some very serious accident, were to lose his arms, his legs and become radically disfigured, as long as thinking and character were still present within this person, he would still rightly be considered human. Appearance is not reality. Premise Five: Matter is nothing more than complex combinations of chemicals. The human body, for example, is nothing more than a very complex configuration of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, mixed with smaller amounts of a few other chemicals. A mere configuration of chemicals is not capable of thinking or character development. The only possible exception might be the “thinking” which is done by computers.* However, it is debatable whether computers “think,” or, whether they simply follow the commands of programs and programmers. And even if they do think, it is clear that they cannot have character. Outside of fantasy stories, computers are neither lazy nor hard working, clever nor dull, moral nor immoral. It would be silly to assign these character traits to computers or any other material thing, precisely because computers are just material machines–not the sorts of things that can have these traits. Conclusion One: The possession of thinking and the ability to form character is the essence of what it is to be human. Conclusion Two: This essence must be a non-material reality. Lets use the word psyche or soul to name this thing. Conclusion Three: Since it is non-material, it cannot die with the material body. It must continue on in some manner. *Clearly, Socrates and Plato had nothing to say about computers. But the argument they make anticipates the present debate over whether or not computers can really think.) The Materialist View of the Mind and Self A philosophical materialist, such as Paul Churchland, argues that it makes no sense to talk about the “mind” and the self as realities that are distinct from the brain, the central nervous system and the sense organs. In order to successfully make an argument such as this, he must show that he can explain all of our thinking, beliefs, desires sensations, etc., without recourse to talk about non-material entities such as a non-material mind, self or soul. To this end, materialists propose theories such as the identity thesis and/or eliminative materialism. Basically, the materialist view is similar to the scientific and common sense view I hear many people express today; namely, that thinking is merely a mechanical process that machines, such as computers, can do. The practical upshot of this is as follows: If the materials are right, then when we die, we rot. And all that is the self ceases to be, once the machines that produces it (the brain and body) cease to function. Just as digestion does not occur after the stomach is dead; thought and consciousness does not occur, once the brain and central nervous systems are dead. What do you guys think? Does the Self have an Essence? Humes view of the self and personal identity is considered very radical, because he claims although we “believe” that we are the same people from moment to moment, it is unlikely that this is true. Hume says that all we have is an immediate sense of who we are right now, and the “memory” of who we were 5 minutes ago, 5 days ago, 5 years ago, and so on. Without our power of memory, we would be trapped in the here and now, and unable to maintain any stable sense of self. And if all our memories were erased, we would be erased as well. Since our memories are always changing, we are always changing. At each moment the changes are so slight we do not notice them. But if we compare ourselves to how we see our selves in the here and now, to how we saw ourselves 5, 10 and 15 years ago, the changes are much more dramatic. Do you think Hume is right? Is the belief that we persist, from moment to moment, as the same person, merely a myth?
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1) Define GDP/capita, and PPP/capita.
(2) Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/index.html and
use the dropdown menu (under economy) to find, FOR EACH OF THE COUNTRIES
LISTED BELOW plus TWO ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES OF YOUR CHOICE, the
A. GDP/capita in PPP AND
B. income distribution, or the percentage of wealth owned by the richest and poorest
10% of the countrys population. (This information is listed as Household income or
consumption by percentage share, just below the poverty rate for each country on the
World Fact book page.)
United States
France
Canada
Mexico
South Africa
China
Democratic Republic of Congo
Russia
El Salvador
Israel
West Bank
Sudan
Iraq
Brazil
Afghanistan
YOU SHOULD HAVE 17 TOTAL COUNTRIES
You may present this as a table or in list format.
DO NOT include GDP.
What were your expectations and why? What is your assessment or evaluation of
why this distribution looks the way that it does?

2. If the company continues with its present strategies and objectives, where will it be in five years? 3. If you were the CEO of the company, what strategies would you recommend, and why? 4. Describe the competitive strategies used by the company’s main competitors. Which of these strategies are the most effective? How can your company combat these strategies? Support your answer.

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Research paper must meet these two conditions. (1) it must be a research project and (2) it must be clearly relevant to interpersonal relations or conflict resolution Also, in the attachment you will see the annotated bibliography that you will use to write the research paper and as well the 10 reference to be use in the research paper.

How does capital budgeting promote the financial health of an organization? How will you use the financial techniques you have learned this week to promote the financial health of your organization?

Which do you think is better? Why? Provide examples and evidence from three articles from ProQuest to support your position.

Why do Liberal Democracies ie America/the Coalition wage war/impose themselves on Non-Liberal/Illiberal Democracies (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, etc? – Toppling governments? – Regime change? * Same format and word count as previous paper (copied and pasted for your convenience): – The paper itself should be between 4000-4200 words before referencing (strictly no more than 5000 words with references); – Use around 40 references (academic sources) – you’re more than welcome to use any of the references included in the ‘Essay Guidelines’ Word document; – BrE; -12 Font, double spaced * Other than the ‘Essay Guidelines’ document, the ’03Risse’ PDF should be useful for this essay (maybe some of the others as well).