Choose a topic related to health that has meaning to your personal health, interests, and well-being. This may be a disease, such as diabetes, or a healthy fitness activity.

Conduct a database search comparing one of the following database directories with Google Scholar.CINAHL and Google Scholar

PubMed and Google ScholarExplain how you were able to narrow down the number of article hits you had initially, and present within your post a summary of the credible article you chose as your resource. How do you know your article choice is credible? Which database do you prefer and why?

How will using a database search facilitate your

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Part A

Social Darwinism used the idea of “survival of the fittest” to make a case for a laissez-faire approach to business. Social Darwinists thought the government should not regulate business because only the best should last. Write a brief essay explaining some of the government’s actions around the turn of the century that social Darwinists would not have approved of.

Part B

Then think about another philosophy that developed in the late nineteenth century. The Social Gospel taught that it was a person’s duty to help others in need, not just prepare for an afterlife. Write a brief essay describing some of the actions that people took to practice the beliefs of the Social Gospel.

Read the following excerpts from Thomas King’s The Truth about Stories (if you’re pressed for time, focus on the first 10 pages) and Jim Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love” (the first 3 sections are most important). As you read, try and form connections between the two arguments. How are they similar? How are they different? What purpose does each one serve and for what audience are they written?

Last week you responded to Peter Elbow’s freewriting task by attempting to answer the question “Who are you?” This week, think about your identity in terms of the stories/narratives that you tell about yourself and that society tells about you. You might think about how you would answer the question of “Who are you?” as compared to how different people might answer it for you. How would your parents answer it? Your best friend? Your classmates? Stranger on the bus? What stories/narratives inform your answer and what stories/narrative inform theirs? What power do these stories or narratives hold? What responsibilities do they come with?

Post a response here that addresses some of these questions. Your response can take the form of structured paragraphs (around 250 words) or it can be more creative (personal narrative, poetry, comics, music, video, collage, etc). Use whatever genre best makes your point. Be sure to finish your response with a reflection on how contemplating your identity in forms of stories/narratives from a variety of perspectives might lead you to discover a research topic of interest for this class.

Book: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club Be sure to give
strong, defensible support for your answers by using direct quotes from the novel.

1. Why do characters in this novel often choose to communicate through the use of stories
   rather than communicating directly to one another?
2. What is the significance of food in this novel and what foods are most significant?
3. The Joy Luck Club is a novel that is both a bestseller and is popular among critics. What,
   in your opinion, makes this novel so popular?
4. Compare and contrast the Chinese-American culture found in this novel to your own
   culture.

Choose a specific topic based on those listed in the Fashion Topic Menu that you would like to research. Then come up with research questions and a complex thesis statement.

Research questions based on topics that interest you.

A clear, complex thesis statement that includes a specific, debatable claim, and three subtopics which work to support that claim. This thesis statement should be based on a small, specific idea which you will elaborate on in your paper.

Fahion Topic Menu:

Independent Topics:

Attitude

(Morality, Independence, Confidence, Consciousness, Shame, Demeanor)

Cultural Traditions

(Appropriation/ Linage/ Community)

Formal Issues

(Geometric, Architectural, Organic, Body Anatomy, Fabric)

Gender

(Femininity, Masculinity, Non-Gendered)

Identity

(Personal Style/ Values/ Group Identity/ Sense of Self)

Physical Body

(Form, Sexuality, Epidermal Self-Awareness, Feminist Issues of Body Ideals,Medicalization of Body, Fetishism)

Ritual

(Scared/ Religion/ Mythology/ Performance/ Costume)

Social Embodiment

(Social Conduct, Antipathy Toward Fashion, Pop Culture/ Media/ SocialMedia)

Sustainability

(Production Method/ New Technology/ Environment/ Nature/ Urban System/Globalization)

Utility

(Managing Bodies/ Garment Use/ System/ Everyday/ Utopia/ Protection/ Armor)