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In this final essay for the class, youll be arguing and researching about an issue related to a particular book, graphic novel, TV show/series, comedian, film, social media, musical group, video game, or pop culture trend or, if you want, you can look at a specific genre. The objective is to not only understand how to argue for something you believe deeply in or at the very least its value, but to research this topic and discover what has been written or said about it.
Additionally, you will learn how to do research, using library research tools such as databases and search engines as well as non-traditional data collectionwebsites, video/audio, images, evaluated sources for their credibility, craft an effective thesis statement, select relevant details to support general conclusions; focus on writing engaging introductions and conclusions; consider questions of voice, audience, and purpose; work with selecting and integrating appropriate strategies of development that may also include visual images/audio/video/websites; and, overall, to move toward a persuasive academic writing style where you take a position.
Depending on your topic, your goal is to argue for its value by showing why people watch it and what viewers gain from watching it. This may cover such aspects such as specific issues taken up in the show, its humor, what effect the show may have on you, why you find it intellectually or emotionally stimulating, its representations of women, relationships, people of color, gay relationships, friendships etc. what values are being perpetrated in the show, how the show relates or doesn’t relate to real life.
Conversely, you may argue that the show has negative connotations or representations of a particular social group whether it is millennials or , it may be sexist or racist, or have negative stereotypes or lack diversity.
The main object of this paper is to get you to take a position as a viewer/consumer amongst many other positions/consumers, using evidence from the show, your own experiences with the show, and outside sources to back up your assertions so that you can persuade your audience of your position.
Writing an argument is not an easy task although it can be very satisfying; therefore, well be spending a lot of time in class going over the various concepts of persuasion such as making a claim, using evidence and warrants, looking at counter arguments, as well as discussing the rhetorical appeals that you can use to make your claim stronger. Please keep up with deadlines as I will be enforcing them and you can lose important points for not turning in preliminary assignments.
Assignment Requirements
1. Choose a topic and develop a research question around it? What value is there in watching reality tv shows?

2. Research the topic to find out what critics and scholars have said about it. /find images or videos that provide information about the problem.
3. Become familiar with citing traditional, Internet, and images in MLA. 4. Draft the essay.
5. Check your citations and how you are using sources effectively.
6. Present your Findings.
Some considerations to keep in mind as you write:
One form your argument may take is to break down misconceptions about a particular pop culture phenomenon. Is there someone or several people that detest something that you love? What are their arguments for disliking it? Are they based on age, gender, or other biased criteria? Defend your cultural artifact against these misconceptions.
Remember that pop culture artifacts are ambiguous texts; they often have conflicting meanings. Thus, whereas some shows may appear feminist on the surface with a bit of digging you can argue that it is extremely male-centered and traditionally heterosexual. Thus, allow for a mixture of good and bad aspects of the show rather than judging it as perfectly horrible or horribly perfect. Even The Apprentice may have some redeeming value to viewers!
Remember to use enough support to back up your claim. Evidence is the most important aspect of your argument. Without evidence, youll never be able to argue and persuade effectively. Its like saying your car was stolen and not having a title or insurance to show that you own it. Therefore, remember to take notes while observing whatever it is you are studying. Think about the messages being sent to the consumer about the issue you are engaging with whether it had to do with positive representations of LGBT persons or overly violent crime shows. Not only the overt messages but more hidden ones can emerge only with some heavy thinking. Problematize your issue: Can Alicia from the Good Wife be a feminist figure and still wear micro-mini skirts to work?
Do not write to an agreeing audience. Because we live in a heterogeneous society, assume that some viewers are partly opposed to your claim. There is nothing worse than writing an argument where you assume the audience agrees with you; its antithetical to argument! Remember: even though you may be a diehard fan of South Park, others may hate it for the same reasons you love it.
Consider other positions/attitudes/ audiences that may not agree with your position. The sign of a good rhetor is that they will make some concessions about their topic yet not yield their position. At the same time, don’t attempt to argue both sides. You want to provide counter arguments but you dont want to completely agree with all sides in
the issue.
A first generation immigrant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzhQThaydk? A white 20-something

feminist? A single parent? A returning college student? Your own “positionalities” won’t necessarily be spelled out in your paper, though you can do so if you think it’s important, but they affect the way you argue your points as well as the language and tone you use.
Your final essay must include:
A well-developed thesis that is arguable (this will be your claim) and organized
paragraphs, examples, appeals.
Counter argumentswhat do your opponents say about your topic? How can you
argue against those arguments?
Background information/Context of pop culture artifact
At least 3 sources that help expand your ideas
Two images that provide important information and are helpful to your argument,
not just illustrations
Paper length: 1000 words minimum.

This is an essay about my post-study career plan, which I would be submitting for a scholarship application for my master’s study. I am applying for a master’s in media and communication, specialising in digital content design and production (eg. animation, web development, eMarketing, apps development, video production, television narratives, multimedia journalism).There are two requirments needed for the career plan essay:1. Be Clear. This means be specific and logical. Write the specifics of what you inted to do: the time, place, name of the exact project, the envisaged beneficiaries and the quantifiable impacts.2. Classify. Often, 2 broad classes, immediate (early post-studies) and late (long term post-studies) plans suffice.__________________________________________________This is a brief background of myself so that you could better relate it to my career plan later. I have graduated from BA (Hons) in Communication this year July. While studying, I spent two years working part time at an energy products manufacturing company known as Nowori Marketing and Enterprise. I worked as a marketing manager assistant and my role involved directing all phases of marketing initiatives where I created a series of new packaging designs, brochures, website and social media content. After working a year with the company, I was given chances to travel outside the country to Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, China to meet other young entrepreneurs in the country and promote the products.
__________________________________________________Dear Writer,Please find my main ideas for my career aspiration statement as below. These are the rough ideas of what I’d planned to do after studying master’s, however, I need your help in arranging the flow of my ideas and sentences. It is not necessary to follow strictly on the points I’ve written. Instead, I will be very grateful if you could make my point even stronger and more relevant by providing concrete examples that you may find suitable.Main points to be referred:
1st Paragraph: short term career goal (immediate plan after studying masters): 2. Why?- Previous company focuses on building entrepreneurs, in which they always give talks, seminars and gather the entrepreneurs around the world to start their own business by selling the companys products. The company hence gives a lot of freedom to young graduates like me to practice our skills. Thus, I think is a good place for me to exercise what Ive learned about digital design and production into practice. 3. What will I do when I return to the company?- For example, I aim to build an app for the company, re-design a well-constructed website, improve digital marketing of the company (use SEO, email marketing, Google Analytics etc.), suggest new e-commerce channels to market the products, create compelling videos using the animation and coding skills that Ill be learning soon from the masters course. My goal here is to use whatever knowledge Ive learned from the course to bolster the companys profits and increase the companys market presence, finally grow the company globally into a multinational level.4. What is your dream job?-

The Athenian Case” no research involved just a commentary of the text and what light it sheds on athenian political practices, athenian policies, athenian democracy and athenian attitudes to war.

Original post should be from 300 to 500 words . Provide support to your post by using at least two outside sources (use APA format) use 2 References from 2013,2014,2015,..

Book report instructions Your book report needs to contain answers to all the questions (see below), and a final summary of around 200 words. For every question that is left unanswered or that is answered in an unsatisfactory way, you will lose 2 points. Same penalty for a missing summary. Your report needs to be organized, clearly indicating with headlines the chapter number and title, question number (when there is more than one), and answer. And at the end, a heading for the summary. Use the template that you can find in the course home page. At the very beginning, include a page with your name, course name, semester and year. Opportunity for extra credit : Additionally, you can add an image, meme or drawing as a cover to your report. Especially original covers will get 1 extra point . questions Introduction Question: What is the Testosterone Rex view? Ch. 1 Flies of Fancy Question #1 : What was the hypothesis Angus Bateman was testing? Question #2 : Describe at least one of the problems with Batemans study. Ch. 2 One hundred babies? Question : There is a quote by psychologist David Schmitt giving a reason why evolution favors sexual diversity in males, but not in females. In relation to this, he claims that men can produce 100 offspring by indiscriminately mating with 100 women in a given year. What does Fine respond to Schmitt? Ch. 3 A new position on sex Question #1 : What is the evidence Fine reviews against the Testosterone Rex view? Describe at least two examples, and explain why they count as evidence against the T- Rex view. Question #2 : What does the work of Hera Cook illustrate? Ch. 4 Why cant a woman be more like a man? Question #1 : What is the old model of sex determination? And the new, contemporary one? Question #2: What is de Vriess compensation hypothesis? And why is the study on birdsong (explained by Anne Fausto-Sterling) evidence in its support? Ch. 5: Skydiving wallflowers Question : After reviewing several studies on risk taking, what is Fines conclusion about women and mens risk attitudes? Ch. 6: The hormonal essence of the T-Rex? Question #1: In page 131, Fine writes cichlid testes are a social construction. What does she mean there? Question #2: in this chapter Fine reviews a study by van Anders. What does van Anders study suggest? Ch. 7: The myth of the Lehman sisters Question #1 : What is the general idea of this chapter? Question #2:Ch. 8: Vale Rex Question #1 : In pages 179-180, Fine quotes Anne Fausto-Sterling, who says Think developmentally. Remember that living bodies are dynamic systems that develop and change in response to their social and historical contexts. Explain what this means in relation to testosterone and the T-Rex view. Question #2: What are the three assumptions that, according to Paul Griffiths, hide behind the common claim that childrens toy preferences are innate? What does developmental science say about those assumptions? Summary of the book for 200 words after questions have been answered.
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Artificial River Paper

A three-page paper on Sheriffs Artificial River is due in recitation section on April 1. The paper should be double-spaced, using 12-point type, with one-inch margins all around. You do not need a bibliography. Please see the syllabus for instructions on handing in your paper to your t.a.

If you quote from Sheriff, you can indicate the page number in parentheses in the text. But all of you should see my posted handout on quotations and plagiarism to understand why using lots of long quotations is bad writing, why you need to use your own words to make your argument.

Your paper should have an introduction that does not just get the paper going; it should preview the papers major argument and provide a skeleton outline. Getting the intro right is key. Following the intro, your paper should make points methodically, with each paragraph making a clearly discernible point. Your conclusion recaps your argument.

Finally, use simple, straightforward language. Simple does not mean simple-minded. It brings clarity and even elegance to your writing.

Drawing on material from the entire book, not just a particular chapter, address one of the following:

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(2) We argue about the governments proper role in the economy today, whether the subject is international trade agreements or tax incentives for new businesses in Buffalo. What was controversial about the governments role in the Erie Canal, and how did the different sides line up? What broader views of the role of government in the economy did these views represent?

Design an individualized, patient-centered concept map, based upon the best available evidence for treating a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs.
Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.
Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the outcomes of a patient-centered concept map.
Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
Justify the value and relevance of evidence used as the basis of a patient-centered concept map.
Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Reference
Godshall, M. (2015). Fast facts for evidence-based practice in nursing: Implementing EBP in a nutshell (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.Recall an experience you have hador one that you might have observed in your care settingin which you individualized care for a patient.In your approach to individualized care, did you:
Address any health concerns other than those for which the patient was seeking care?
Consider the patient’s economic and daily environmental circumstances?
Consider any ethical issues inherent in working with the patient?
What might you have done differently, if you could revisit that patient’s case?
What evidence supported your original course of action?
What evidence would you present to support an alternative course of action, if you could revisit that patient’s case?ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Preparation
You have been presented with a number of patient case files in the Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Care media piece. You reviewed each case, selected one case for further research, and created draft evidence-based concept map to illustrate an approach to individualized care for the patient. In this assessment, you will build upon and refine your draft concept map and develop a supporting narrative.Create your concept map and narrative as separate documents. Be sure to note the areas where you need to include your evidence-based support and where you need to make clear your strategies for communicating information to the patient and the patient’s family.Note: Many organizations use the spider style of concept maps (see the Taylor & Littleton-Kearney article for an example). Also, if a specific style of concept map is used in your current care setting, you may use it in this assessment.Create your concept map and narrative as separate documents. Be sure to note the areas where you need to include your evidence-based support and where you need to make clear your strategies for communicating information to the patient and the patient’s family.RequirementsNote: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. In addition, you may want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.Supporting Evidence and APA Style
Integrate relevant evidence from 35 current scholarly or professional sources to support your assertions.Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
Attach a reference list to your narrative.
Concept Map
Develop a concept map for the individual patient, based upon the best available evidence for treating your patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs.
Narrative
Develop a narrative (24 pages) for your concept map.Analyze the needs of your patient and their family, and determine how those needs will influence a patient-centered concept map.
Consider how your patient’s economic situation and relevant environmental factors may have contributed to your patient’s current condition or affect their future health.
Consider how your patient’s culture or family should influence your concept map.
Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis of your concept map.
Explain why your evidence is valuable and relevant to your patient’s case.
Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate for both the health issue you are trying to correct and for the unique situation of your patient and their family.
Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the degree to which the desired outcomes of your concept map were achieved.
Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
Explain how you will communicate specific aspects of the concept map to your patient and their family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way. Ensure that your strategies:
Promote honest communications.
Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.
Are mindful of your patient’s culture.
Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and their family, regardless of language, disabilities, or level of education.
Additional Requirements
Be sure to include both documents when you submit your assessment.REQUIRED RESOURCES
The following resources are required to complete the assessment.Evidence-Based Practice Transcript:SCENARIO TO USE
Keith Rogers; he is a young man with a recent HIV diagnosis. He has described his living situation as unstable, and he has not begun treatment for HIV.
Reason for Referral: Keith is an 18yearold African American man, and a recent high school graduate. He has HIV but has not been in treatment.
Situation: Although he has known his HIV status for some time, Keith is here today seeking treatment for the first time. He came alone on a city bus, and he doesn’t have a stateissued ID or insurance information, although he says he does have health insurance.
Interview:
How long have you known you were HIVpositive?
Since this summer. They had one of those trucks outside GG’s where you can get tested for free. GG’s, that’s our club. So me and Nick, we go get the test and it was positive.
They gave us these pamphlets after, but I can’t leave stuff like that around the house. My folks didn’t know about me and Nick. So I trashed those pamphlets on the way home. That was…like six months back I guess. Since you haven’t been in treatment, have you been doing other things to protect your health?
Yeah. So here’s the thing about that. Nick says he read on the Internet that meth is supposed to help. Like methamphetamines. And you don’t have to do very much and it slows it down so you don’t get sick as fast, but doctors can’t prescribe it because it’s illegal. So we tried that. Nick thinks it’s working, but I don’t know, man. It makes my heart beat real fast and that freaks me out.
He’d be mad if he knew I told you that, like maybe someone’s gonna show up at the house and bust us. I guess I don’t care anymore. At intake you described your living situation as unstable. Can you tell me more about that?
I’m at Nick’s right now. Mom threw me out of the house. I was…like, trying to find a way where I could get a test that wasn’t in front of a gay club, right, cuz…my folks just ain’t ready for that much truth, you know? So we’re at the clinic, and I get the test, and they call Moms in because technically I’m still a minor at that time, and we’re talking with the nurse or whoever and it just kinda comes out. How I got it. She hit the roof.
I don’t think that’s why she threw me out, though, even though at church they say it’s a sin. She’s scared. Everyone is scared. I got little sisters at home, Alexa and Marnie, and we only got one bathroom. It’s like…maybe I’m allowed to go ruin my life and they still love me and pray for me, but if I gave it to the girls…that they could never forgive.
So I’m sleeping on the couch at Nick’s place. His folks don’t want us sharing a bed, but they feed me and stuff. I don’t even know if Nick told them what’s up, so I just keep my mouth shut. If we break up over this, I’m in so much trouble.
What do you feel is the most important thing we can do to help you right now?
Well. I have like five hundred dollars in the bank that I got for my birthday, but HIV drugs have gotta cost more than that. I’m under Dad’s insurance still, until I’m 25 I think. But I remember when my sisters were born it was so expensive anyway, and I’m scared that if the insurance company finds out, like…I have a terminal illness…that’ll just bankrupt the whole family. I can’t do that to them.
So I guess the first thing is, like, can you help me figure out how to do this without hurting anybody?Checkin
Well, it sounds like this is a more complex case than we thought at first. I’m going to need you to put together a concept map for your patient’s care plan.
I need a brief description of your patient, and then up to five diagnoses (there may not be that many). Go in order of urgency, and make sure you list the professional or scholarly evidence you used to formulate the diagnosis. Just use intext citations, please; we want to keep this short and sweet.
Thanks for taking this on!QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:1. Patient Info:
2. Most Urgent Nursing Diagnosis:
A. Urgent:
o Treatment Urgent:
Outcomes Urgent:
o Other Urgent:
3. Nursing Diagnosis 2:
o 2:
Treatment 2:
Outcomes 2:
Other 2:
4. Nursing Diagnosis 3:
o 3:
Treatment 3:
Outcomes 3:
Other 3: Suggested Resources
The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6011 Evidence-Based Practice for Patient-Centered Care and Population Health Library Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.
Evidence-Based Practice
Godshall, M. (2015). Fast facts for evidence-based practice in nursing: Implementing EBP in a nutshell (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
o Read Chapter 7.
Blix, A. (2014). Personalized medicine, genomics, and pharmacogenomics: A primer for nurses. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 18(4), 437441.
Baker, J. D. (2017). Nursing Research, Quality Improvement, And Evidence-Based Practice: The Key To Perioperative Nursing Practice: Editorial. Association of Operating Room Nurses, 105(1), 3.
Hain D. J., & Kear, T. M. (2015). Using evidence-based practice to move beyond doing things the way we have always done them. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 42(1), 1120.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Health Sciences: Review Levels of Evidence.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Health Sciences.
Evidence-Based Practice: What It Is and What It Is Not | Transcript.

Your review should have two goals: first, to inform the reader about the content of the book, and second, to provide an evaluation that gives your judgment of the books quality.Your introduction should include an overview of the book that both incorporate an encapsulated summary and a sense of your general judgment. This is the equivalent to a thesis statement.Do NOT spend more than one-third or so of the paper summarizing the book. The summary should consist of a discussion and highlights of the major arguments, features, trends, concepts, themes, ideas, and characteristics of the book. While you may use direct quotes from the book (make sure you always give the page number), such quotes should never be the bulk of the summary. Much of your grade will depend on how well you describe and explain the material IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You might want to take the major organizing themes of the book and use them to organize your own discussion. This does NOT mean, however, that I want a chapter-by-chapter summary. Your goal is a unified essay.So what do I want, if not just a summary? Throughout your summary, I want you to provide a critique of the book. (Hence the title: A Critical Book Review.) A critique consists of thoughts, responses, and reactions. It is not necessarily negative. Nor do you need to know as much about the subject as the author (because you hardly ever will). The skills you need are an ability to follow an argument and test a hypothesis. Regardless of how negative or positive your critique is, you need to be able to justify and support your position.Here are a number of questions that you can address as part of your critique. You need not answer them all, but questions one and two are essential to any book review, so those must be included. And these are ABSOLUTELY NOT to be answered one after another (seriatim). Dont have one paragraph that answers one, and then the next paragraph that answers the next, etc. The answers should be part of a carefully constructed essay, complete with topic sentences and transitions.1. What is your overall opinion of the book? On what basis has this opinion been formulated? That is, tell the reader what you think and how you arrived at this judgment. What did you expect to learn when you picked up the book? To what extent and how effectively were your expectations met? Did you nod in agreement (or off to sleep)? Did you wish you could talk back to the author? Amplify upon and explain your reactions.2. Identify the authors thesis and explain it in your own words. How clearly and in what context is it stated and, subsequently, developed? To what extent and how effectively (i.e., with what kind of evidence) is this thesis proven? Use examples to amplify your responses. If arguments or perspectives were missing, why do you think this might be?3. What are the authors aims? How well have they been achieved, especially with regard to the way the book is organized? Are these aims supported or justified? (You might look back at the introduction to the book for help). How closely does the organization follow the authors aims?4. How are the authors main points presented, explained, and supported? What assumptions lie behind these points? What would be the most effective way for you to compress and/or reorder the authors scheme of presentation and argument?5. How effectively does the author draw claims from the material being presented? Here you should definitely use examples to support your evaluation.6. What conclusions does the author reach and how clearly are they stated? Do these conclusions follow from the thesis and aims and from the ways in which they were developed? In other words, how effectively does the book come together?7. Identify the assumptions made by the author in both the approach to and the writing of the book. For example, what prior knowledge does the author expect readers to possess? How effectively are those assumptions worked into the overall presentation? What assumptions do you think should not have been made? Why?8. Are you able to detect any underlying philosophy of history held by the author (e.g., progress, decline, cyclical, linear, and random)? If so, how does this philosophy affect the presentation of the argument?9. How does the author see history as being motivated: primarily by the forces of individuals, economics, politics, social factors, nationalism, class, race, gender, something else? What kind of impact does this view of historical motivation have upon the way in which the author develops the book?10. Does the authors presentation seem fair and accurate? Is the interpretation biased? Can you detect any distortion, exaggeration, or diminishing of material? If so, for what purpose might this have been done, and what effect does hit have on the overall presentation?These questions are derived from Robert Blackey, “Words to the Whys: Crafting Critical Book Reviews,” The History Teacher, 27.2 (Feb. 1994): 159-66.S. Zabin, 2-6-03

The turbulent 1960s saw numerous attempts to identify the root problems within American
society and the role of citizens in resolving them. In examining Document 7, Document 8, and
Document 9, what common problems are identified within American society?

A one paragraph proposal describing topic and the research and research questions you are planning to engagge with. Include in this paragraph working thesis and working title.
Choose 4 critical sources (article,books) each entry include the bibliographic citation.(APA)