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Address the following question and write a personalized response, using appropriate musical terminology from the readings associated with Module 2: Middle Ages and Renaissance. Your response should have a minimum of 300 words and should be your original work, not the work or discussion published in another source. Then read and reply to two (2) of your classmates’ posts, offering your insight into the works discussed.

In the 16^th century (the 1500s), after-dinner entertainment often consisted of informal (but musically proficient) singing of madrigals by family members and their guests. Even today, singing and dancing by everyone present represents a customary, traditional part of social gatherings, in cultures ranging from rural Africa to the streets of Mexican villages to contemporary urban Japan.

• Why do you think such participatory entertainment has been largely replaced in Western culture by such passive experiences as watching television, attending a concert, or viewing a movie?
• What has been gained and what has been lost by this change?

Assignment 2: LASA 1: False Memories

The US legal system places a lot of importance on eyewitness memory. Most people would report that they can accurately convey what they saw in a particular situation. However, these ideas are not supported by research. Instead, research shows that memory is quite malleable and is affected by many factors. This research repeatedly demonstrates that people do not remember exactly what they experienced. This module’s experiment will show you firsthand how memory for events is not always one hundred percent accurate.

Access the CogLab demonstration False Memory. Follow the instructions to complete the demonstration to familiarize yourself with false memory. Then locate at least one research study from a peer-reviewed journal that examined how eyewitness memory can be affected by false memories.

Based on your research, respond to the following situation:

You are considered to be an expert in false memories, and a local district attorney has therefore requested your expertise on the following case: 

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007, a bank was robbed in Slidell, LA. It was just after opening time, 9:04 a.m., and there were barely any customers, when a car arrived and parked in the side parking lot of the bank. Two men came out of the car and walked to the entrance. Both wore dark clothing. Upon entering the bank, they held out guns and asked for the manager. When the manager identified herself, the smaller of the two robbers ordered her to open the safe. Meanwhile, the other robber, a tall, and burley man, walked around holding his gun in his outstretched arm, and threatening the remaining employees and customers. The manager complied and the smaller robber collected all the money and valuables from the safe. After five minutes, the big robber asked if his companion was ready to go. When he was, the two ran back to their car, and drove away.

The district attorney has asked that you create a presentation about false memory and explain how it might influence this case. He asks that you specifically address the following:

• Describe false memory and false memory experiments. Use the CogLab experiment to illustrate false memory experiments, special distracters, and normal distracters.
• Describe at least one research study from a peer-reviewed journal that investigated how eyewitness memory can be affected by false memories.
• Explain how false memory might influence this particular case. Use specifics from the description of the case, the CogLab experiment, and research to support your answer.
• Using evidence from the case, the CogLab experiment, and outside research, justify why eyewitness testimonies should or should not carry weight in criminal proceedings.
• Discuss any procedures which can increase or reduce the occurrence of false memories when reporting eyewitness events.

Remember, your presentation is designed to help the jury understand false memory and how it might influence the eyewitness testimony of this case. You will have ten minutes to present.

Since this is a legal case, you must include formally written slide notes (proper grammar, proper paragraphs, APA formatting, and academic tone) with research to support your claims. The presentation will be a legal document in this case, so make it worthy of being legally binding!

Develop an 5–6-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.ppt.

By Wednesday, July 2, 2014, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Course Project Grading Criteria and Rubric

100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Student paper down below:

Ethics in the modern-day business can be quite tricky, especially when trying to close a deal. It is for this reason that modern day business leaders must make the effort to educate themselves in the field of ethical decision making and conflict management. According to the course reading, “Ethics is a body of values or ideals of human conduct that govern the behavior of individuals and groups” (Editorial Board, 2015). “The course reading went on to say that ethics originate from human nature itself, making it a natural law from which one’s governing body can institute societal rules” (Editorial Board, 2015). While this explanation may appear to be clear cut, many scenarios such as the one presented during this discussion operate in a gray area and can be considered unethical for numerous reasons.

Bill and Joe/ Conflict of interest?

In short, yes. A conflict of interest can be observed when a person has a conflicting private or professional interest in the result of a matter. The conflict of interest exists even if no immoral or inappropriate results are due to the conflict (Editorial Board, 2015). The relationship between Joe and Bill is a great example of conflict of interest within a business environment. Would Joe have been able to secure the contract to supply Bill with uniforms? Possibly. However, even the appearance of wrongdoing can be detrimental to a company. The course reading reveals that conflicts of interest create the appearance of fraudulent behavior that in and of itself can be destructive to a party (Editorial Board, 2015). This is especially true with publicly owned organizations where public speculation plays a pivotal factor in the value of the company’s stock.

Are Bill’s gifts a form of bribery?

The term ‘bribery’ may be defined as the giving or receiving of something of value to influence a transaction (Giles, 2015). In the case of Joe and Bill, I would also argue yes. It appears that Bill understands the value of Joe’s ability to provide uniforms at a significantly cheaper price. It also seems a bit suspicious that Bill provides Joe with lavish gifts and provides his hotel to be used for business meeting as a form of reparation for said price.

The Virtue Theory and how it supports this claim.

The ethical theory that supports my stance is virtue theory. Virtue theory or virtue ethics is described as grouping within normative ethics that tries to identify and classify relationships when considering moral character and how it can relate the moral character as a disproportionally high rate. It alters markets, stifles economic growth, destabilizes democracy and the rule of law and creates an unfair advantage in the international manner of business (Giles, 2015). Bill and Joe’s relationship has likely influenced local markets in a negative manner. If Bill allows Joe to undercut other uniform manufacturers, the price for other businesses will have to drop. This could result in other companies having to lay off workers to eliminate overhead and achieve a competitive price.

Conclusion

In conclusion, while relationships like the one we covered are quite common in modern day business practice, there needs to be some importance placed on the training and education of business leaders. While bribery and corruption are not likely going to disappear from the market completely, we can all begin to understand the consequences and eventual outcomes by taking time to learn basic business ethics.

QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT

NOT AN ESSAY.

Each answer should be at least 100 words.

There is a total of 8 questions wich there should be a total of 800 words.
DO NOT COMBINE AN ANSWER.

Native American Literature, Post World War II

• Strong oral traditions exist among Native Americans. What evidence or traces of these traditions do you see in the works written by Native Americans?

• Traditionally, there has been a strong connection between Native American cultures and nature. How do the technological changes of the 20th and 21st centuries challenge this connection?

• Traditionally, literature is defined by a number of qualities. Among these are that a work of literature is especially well-written, and that it produces emotion in the reader. Which of these works are well-written, and which produce emotional responses in readers?

• Why did ethnic literature emerge as a cultural force in the post-World War II period?

  African American Literature, Post-World War II

  • How does the work of African American writers such as Ralph Ellison or Gwendolyn Brooks build on an existing tradition of African American literature? How is it different?
  • What qualities or concerns emerge in African American literature from this period which could not have appeared in earlier African American work?
  • Traditionally, literature is defined by a number of qualities. Among these are that a work of literature is especially well-written, and that it produces emotion in the reader. Which of these works are well-written, and which produce emotional responses in readers?

    Hispanic American Literature, Post-World War II

  • African American literature has a long tradition, but Hispanic American literature is relatively new as a movement. Do these works carry any qualities that mark them as younger or newer in any way?

To explore the concept of complexity, think a little more about the topic you have chosen for your historical analysis essay. Your essay, of course, is relatively brief, so your thesis statement is probably fairly narrow. That is as it should be.

But just for the purposes of this discussion, imagine that you are not writing a brief research paper—instead, you are writing a full-length book. What would you do to produce a fuller, more complex discussion of this event? What different historical lenses might you apply? What causes or consequences of this event would you examine in greater depth? Does your event raise morally complex questions?

Don’t worry—you do not really have to write a book. Just take two or three paragraphs to explain how you might develop a more complex picture of your historical event, if you had the time and the space to do just that.