My masterpiece of choice is, the painting “ The 3rd of May 1808 “For this assignment you will either explore the socio/cultural meaning of your masterpiece. Some masterpieces will be easier to understand the socio/cultural meaning and some will require a broader look at what was going on in the world or influences from the style or movement within which your artist was working

DIRECTIONS

You will research and read about your masterpiece and write a 500 word essay that cites at least 2 scholarly sources.

You must include a works cited list in MLA format and have in text citations. In text citations are the author’s last name and page # (if applicable to your source) in parentheses after you use information from that source. A sentence with an in-text citation could look like: Here is my sentence full of really great information from my research (Smith, 6).

Your works cited list is the full citation listed at the end. See the Resources section of this assignment for more help.

Post your word count at the end of your essay.

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

You may not have the answers to all these questions but they apply to many. Remember I want to know what your work means, what does it tell us about the culture and time period it came from? Approach this like a historian, how does it fit in to the time it was created in?

• How does the work reflect the location in which the work was created?
  • does it show agriculture, does it show trade by sea, does it show urban life, is it a scene of leisure?
• Does the work tell us anything about the person/location it was created for?
  • Did a specific person pay to have it created? Was it made for a church? Is it painted on a wall of a building?
• Does it reflect religious or cultural belief systems?
  • how is religion shown?
  • how are women depicted?
  • how are people of color depicted?
  • Is there a moral lesson here?
• What does it tell us about the historical period in which it was created?
  • wartime, famine, kings ruled, poverty, very religious, slavery, women treated poorly etc.

Week 2

Beginning this week, you start submitting materials for your Final Project in this course (Personnel Psychology). Some information you submit this week may change as the quarter progresses as you continue your reading and research and as you incorporate Instructor feedback. You should begin to conduct an empirical review for your literature review in order to identify gaps in that literature. To prepare for your research, you may want to view the media on literature reviews located in the Week 6 Learning Resources.

This week, you begin to identify gaps in the research of personnel psychology and consider a proposed title and topic for your Final Project. This topic must relate to job analysis, competency models, training and development, or selection.

The Assignment (1–2 pages)

• Submit your proposed title and topic. You can change these as you continue your readings throughout the quarter.

Submit your Project Topic/Title by Day 7.

***(looking to collaborate with a tutor, task by task, over the next 10 weeks))

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References to get an idea of class material:

• Berry, J. B., & Cable, D. (2010). The humble position description—Still a valuable resource. Human Resources Magazine, 15(2), 16–17.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Boehm, V. (1980). Research in the “real world” —A conceptual model. Personnel Psychology, 33(3), 495–503.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Campbell, J. P. (1990). An overview of the army selection and classification project (Project A). Personnel Psychology, 43(2), 231–239.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Cronshaw, F. (1998). Job analysis: Changing nature of work. Canadian Psychology, 39(1–2), 5–13.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Dierdorff, E. C., & Morgeson, F. P. (2007). Consensus in work role requirements: The influence of discrete occupational context on role expectations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(5), 1228–1241.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Pearlman, K. (1980). Job families: A review and discussion of their implications for personnel selection. Psychological Bulletin, 87(1), 1–28.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Raymond, M. R. (2001). Job analysis and the specification of content for licensure and certification examinations. Applied Measurement in Education, 14(4), 369–415.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Schneider, B., & Konz, A. M. (1989). Strategic job analysis. Human Resource Management, 28(1), 51–63.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

In the opening sections of the article “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim,” Mahmood Mamdani cautions against affixing the label “terror” only to violence perpetrated by political Islamist movements or more broadly both state and non-state actors whose interests do not align with American or Western ideas about modern warfare. Mamdani introduces us to what he calls “Culture Talk.” In his 2003 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, Mamdani offers arguments put forth by colonial intellectuals, including Frantz Fanon’s assertions about the violence of the colonial system and Hitler’s colonization of Europe, Edward Said’s monumental thesis on the colonial origins of Orientalist representations and ways of thinking (see “Edward Said on Orientalism” under read/watch), and as a counter narrative, the Orientalist writings of Bernard Lewis and Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington whose “Clash of Civilizations” paradigm has informed American foreign policy since at least the late Cold War.

You will develop a formal information paper that addresses the legal basis of current Department of Homeland Security jurisdiction, mission, and responsibilities. You will need to specifically analyze hazards, to include manmade or technological and naturally occurring hazards, and terrorism, domestic and foreign, in the information paper.

You are an action officer in your local jurisdiction’s Office of Homeland Security. This is a recently created office. As a medium-size jurisdiction, the city manager’s office has dual responsibilities in many of the leadership and management positions. This is often referred to as being dual-hatted. The chief of police has been assigned as the director of the Office of Homeland Security for the city. She has no prior experience or knowledge of the requirements involved in homeland security and has asked you to provide a formal report on the topic. The chief intends to share this report with other office managers, city department heads, the city manager, and the elected officials of the city (mayor and city council).

Your report is an information paper and should be formatted as such. The report should address the following items in 2-3 pages:

• The legal basis of current Department of Homeland Security jurisdiction, mission, and responsibilities
• Legal definitions of hazards, to include manmade or technological and naturally occurring hazards
• Legal definitions of terrorism, domestic and foreign
• Review of state law and statutes (using your home or residency state) (Maryland) as it applies to hazards
• Review of state law and statutes (using your home or residency state) (Maryland) as it applies to terrorism
• Summarize your top 5 key points
• Provide any recommendations that you may have to your city’s leadership concerning homeland security issues
• Reference all source material and citations using APA 6th edition