3 page english assignment

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PART ONE:

  1. Black Wall Street – What is it and what happened?
    1. Write out your findings.
  2. Origin of Black Panthers – Why did they form?
    1. Write out your findings.
  3. Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald – Describe their relationship.
    1. Write out your findings.
  4. Frida Kahlo – Why is she such as important artist?
    1. Write out your findings.
  5. SELECT A SINGER/PERFORMER/MUSICIAN/ARTIST you like that you do not hear, or hear about, in our media – Research your subject and describe.
    1. Write out your findings.

PART TWO:

PARAGRAPH 1:

At the end of your research on 1 – 5, write, in one paragraph, how you feel after learning about these people, places, and events.

  1. This paragraph must be well-developed, and at least 10 sentences in length. Use specifics and detailed language.

PARAGRAPH 2:

  1. Discuss whether or not our history and culture should educate and expose us to these people, places, and events.
    1. If you feel we should learn about them, please write about why you feel we should. How do we benefit?
    2. If you feel we do not need to learn about them, please write about why you feel they are not necessary. Why are there no benefits?
  • Follow this template. Write out the labels and questions. For example, you will write out PART ONE, and
    • 1. Black Wall Street – What is it and what happened?
      • Write your findings below this per the instructions.
  • You must write 3-5 pages. You may write up to 7 pages; you will receive 10NC if you write less than 3 full pages.
  • This assignment must be double-spaced, 12 pt. font size, Times New Roman, and follow MLA format for page 1 information, pagination, and the unique centered title.
  • This template complies with MLA format for this assignment. You may substitute you name and create a new title and keep what I’ve written.

THE 100 homework questions

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PART 1

QUESTIONS 1

you need to read Sophocles’ Antigone(URL found in Week Four folder). After reading the play, create a thread in the discussion board and discuss these questions and use quotes from the play to support your opinion: who are the two major characters that are in conflict? what is the source of their conflict? how does this conflict play out? in what place or places did the action take place? what effects did these places have on your experience of the play? Lastly, describe the action, characters, and place of the opening scene.

PART 2

QUESTIONS 1

First, watch the commedia dell’arte workshop video, posted in this week’s folder. Then, go to the commedia dell’arte website linked in this week’s lesson folder. Look around the site to get general information. Click on the masks to view what character each mask represents and read about the physical and other information on the character. Next, select a mask/character that reminds you of a character from a play, movie, or television show of your choice. Copy and paste the image of your character (found in the upper left corner of each mask/character’s description) in your assignment submission. Explain in your assignment submission why you chose this character and how/why you associate this mask/commedia character with the film, play, or television character you chose.


  • COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE WEBSITE


  • Web Link

    COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE WORKSHOP

    This is a video of a commedia training workshop/rehearsal at London’s National Theatre. It illustrates the technique of performing with the mask, or what is called “assuming the mask” that is needed for commedia work. It is a specific acting technique that is highly technical and physically intense. It requires a trained physicality, excellent vocal technique, and an ability to think creatively.

QUESTIONS 2

Create a thread for this discussion board and discuss the different characters in Antigone by placing each character in a category: major character, minor character, or somewhere in-between.

Read and Reflect Discussion

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After reading the article above reflect and write a paragraph (200 words or more) on a time in your classroom when you participated in Process Art. Make sure you address the following questions:

  • A detailed description of your activity including materials you used, how you introduced the activity to your class, and what the children were expected to do
  • A description of what the children did when they completed the activity. Include things you observed that they did, said, and how they reacted to the activity. Explain how you saw the children being creative.
  • An explanation of what skills and learning you saw the children developing during the activity

Remember to reply to at least two of your classmate’s entries with at least 50 words or more .

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Your completion of this assignment will be graded by this criteria rubric

Discussion Board Rubric

Criteria

Unsatisfactory-Beginning

Developing

Accomplished

Exemplary

Total

Ideas, Arguments, & Analysis

Ideas expressed lack an understanding of the discussion topic. Comments are irrelevant, off-topic, and/or confusing to follow. Viewpoint, if given, is not supported with evidence or examples.

Ideas expressed in discussion posts show a minimal understanding of the discussion topic. Comments are general in nature and/or occasionally may not be relevant. Rehashes or summarizes ideas with limited analysis, original thought, and/or supported viewpoints.

Ideas expressed in discussion posts are mostly substantive and relevant to topic; some original thought. Demonstrates logical thinking, reasoning, and/or analysis for most part. Viewpoint is supported with evidence and/or examples.

Ideas expressed in discussion posts include original thought, substantial depth, and are relevant to topic. Viewpoint shows strong logical thinking, reasoning, and analysis with evidence and examples. Construction of new meaning and insights are evident.

Connection to Course Materials

5 Points

6 Points

7 Points

8 Points

No connections are made to readings or other course materials (lectures, media, resources, etc.), and/or if made, are not clearly stated and are largely personal opinions.

Minimal direct connections are made to readings and/or other course materials (lectures, media, resources, etc.). Connections are largely inferred and somewhat unclear at times.

Some direct connections are made to readings and/or other course materials (lectures, media, resources, etc.) and are clearly stated for the most part.

Strong, direct connections are made to readings and/or other course materials (lectures, media, resources, etc.) and are clearly stated.

Contribution to Learning Community

6 Points

7 Points

9 Points

9 Points

Negligible contribution to the learning community. Rarely engages with students and generally ignores others’ posts and/or has a negative effect through misrepresenting content in other posts, inappropriate comments made, and/or attempts to dominate the discussion.

Somewhat contributes to the learning community but the focus is generally on own posts. Occasionally interacts with others’ postings but little attempt to involve other students in the discussion. Short statements such as “I agree with…”.

Contributes to the learning community. Often attempts to direct group discussion to present relevant viewpoints and meaningful reflection by others. Interacts respectfully with students.

Effectively contributes to the learning community. Frequently initiates dialogue and motivates group discussion by providing feedback to students’ postings, asking follow-up questions, and through thoughtful, reflective comments. Respectfully encourages a variety of viewpoints and invites contributions from others

What were conditions like in Watts by 1960, history homework help

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At least 400 words.

Discuss one of the following:

What were conditions like in Watts by 1960? Discuss the state of its infrastructure, its housing, its economy, its educational system, and its relations with the rest of Los Angeles, including the police.

or

The California Water Plan has been highly controversial. First discuss why there was a strong clamor to create the California Water Plan. Then discuss what was actually done. Finally, assess the environmental costs of the project.

or

In the 1960s, California implemented many important changes in its constitution and in how the state government operated. Discuss the most important changes to the constitution and state government. Also assess whether or not this improved California government and made California more democratic.

Or

The 1960s and early 1970s saw ethnic groups in California assert their rights to equality in many ways. Address how Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics sought to increase their power and what the significant results were.

Political Science – Assignment – Week 8

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Assignment: Investment Analysis

Imagine that you are an executive with a multinational corporation that wants to open a manufacturing facility in an underdeveloped country. You have been assigned the responsibility of preparing a report on the suitability of a particular country for investment. Your company is concerned with the investment climate in this country, but is equally interested in the country’s political stability and its social and cultural environment since it will be making a substantial financial commitment. Your corporation views this as not only an opportunity to make a profit, but also as a humanitarian effort to help improve the standard of living in a lesser developed country.

For your Portfolio Project, select a country in Africa, Asia, or South America and study that country in depth, applying concepts covered throughout the course. Prepare a detailed report for your Board of Directors that includes the following information:

General information:

  • Population of the country (see 1 below for more information)
  • Important ethnic or racial groups and divisions
  • Per capita gross domestic product (see 2 below for more information)
  • UN Human Development Index rankings (see 2 below for more information)
  • Freedom House scores for political rights and civil liberties (see 3 below for more information)
  • The economic position of your country compared to other countries (wealthy, poor, middle income).

Classification and structure of government

  • Liberal democracy, illiberal democracy, authoritarian regime?
  • Philosophers or thinkers who have influenced the political history and development of the system of government
  • Presidential, parliamentary or other system?
  • Who is the head of government?
  • Electoral system: how are legislators selected? How is the executive elected or chosen? How is the bureaucracy staffed?
  • What is the highest level of the judiciary? Does judicial review exist?
  • Is your country a federal or unitary system? How are policies administered in your country?
  • Is there a written constitution? How old is it? Is it considered to be effective? Does it have the support of the people?
  • How much control does government exercise over the economy?

Competition, stability and civil society

  • Number and strength of political parties
  • Major conflicts between parties (liberal, conservative, left-right, ethnicity, etc.)
  • Voting behavior – if your country is a democracy, what is the turnout for elections? Is voting compulsory? (See 4 below for more information.)
  • What are the results of the most recent election? When is the next national election?
  • Are there any recent political changes?
  • Major social movements?

Economic environment

  • Suitability of the country for foreign investment
  • Government policy toward foreign investment
  • Challenges and potential obstacles
  • Advantages to foreign investment in this country.

Other questions

  • What are the most important political, economic, environmental and human rights issues facing your country?
  • Is your country in conflict with its neighbors or other countries?
  • What are its relations with major global powers ‑- the U.S., Europe, China, etc.?

Required Resources:

  1. Data can be accessed through the World Bank website.
  2. Data can be found on the website of the UN Human Development Report
  3. Data available at Freedomhouse.org
  4. Data on election turnout available on the website of the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. To calculate turnout, divide the number of voters by the voting age population.

Additional Requirements:

  • Write a formal eight to ten page essay complete with discussion and citation from at least ten credible academic sources other than required course readings to support your findings. 
  • In addition, provide a reference list, in alphabetical order by last name of author, in APA format, and include a title page at the beginning.
  • Always follow CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements style.
Required Resources URLs:

5 page Project report

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As a project goes through the execution phase, project control is critical to ensure that a project stays within the constraints of time, cost, and scope. A project manager will use different monitoring techniques to help keep the project within these constraints. If a project incurs changes, becomes delayed, or costs become higher, a project manager will execute change control to document and determine how to handle the change.

Once a project is completed, the project team should complete a final project report, which is the administrative record of the completed project, which identifies all its functional and technical components as well as other important project history. It includes all the strengths and weaknesses of the project as it progressed and offers a final assessment of what went right (or wrong) throughout the life of the project. It is essentially a “lessons learned” document of the project.

So, prepare a project report for your project using Microsoft Word, make up a fictitious project of your choice and complete a project close report for that project, make assumptions as needed since your project is fictitious. The goal is to get you to understand how a project close report is created and the type of information that you would included within it. Include the following sections/elements:

1.Project Performance

This should include a candid assessment of the project’s achievements relative to its plan. Did the project achieve the goals you set out to accomplish? It should also include candid criticism as to the project performance. What caused this poor performance? What recommendations do you have to ensure it doesn’t happen in future projects?

2.Lessons Learned

What are come key Lessons Learned that you generated from the project or for the sake of this assignment some key learnings from the course.

3.Administrative Performance

What are the standard administrative practices that occur within an organization that were beneficial to the project? What were some drawbacks that could be improved on?

4.Organizational Structure

How did the organization’s operating structure help or hinder the project team? How could it have been changed to better align the structure with the activities?

5.Team Performance

How effectively did the team perform this project? Were the proper people picked to perform the project? Were they properly trained? How did the project manager perform? Address team-building techniques and training activities that you think would ensure effective team performance of your project if it actually occurred.

6.Techniques of Project Management

What organizational methods are effective for project management? These include software, scheduling, rules, procedures, etc.

7.Benefits to the Organization and the Customer

To what degree did this project provide the benefits and accomplish the goals that it intended? Keep in mind that goals are not always immediate and can occur over time.

Requirements:

•Write the report in essay form, with proper headings as noted above, using bullet points only where appropriate.

•Use American Psychological Association (APA) style to format the report, regardless of whether you use additional resources or not. You do NOT need an Abstract.

•Use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.

•The report should be no more than 5 pages in length.

•The cover page for your final Project Report should include the title of your paper, the course, your name, and date.

role of screeners

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To prepare for your discussion, you will need to read the case study in the introduction of Chapter 5 and watch the Observation, Screening, Assessment, and Documentation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video.

Using both the Observation, Screening, Assessment and Documentation video and Chapter 5 of your course text as support, discuss the following:

Using both the Observation, Screening, Assessment and Documentation video and Chapter 5 of your course text as support, discuss the following:

  • Explain the relationship between observations and screeners in the
    assessment of young children. Include at least two specific examples of
    how they are connected. (Write one paragraph)
  • Discuss how the information shared in the video does or does not
    align with the screening process shared in the case study in the
    introduction section of Chapter 5 of the course text. Include at least
    two specific examples to support your thinking.(Write one paragraph)
  • Based on your understanding of the purposes of screeners, how will
    you use screening in your current or future work with young children?
    Make sure to include specific examples that are connected to the
    purposes of assessment shared in the video and the course text. (Write
    at least one paragraph)

Note: I am looking for evidence of learning from the textbook/video.
You indicate learning by citing anand applying relevant Weekly course
content information to support your responses to the questions.

LB management replies

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Please reply to both parts with 150 words a piece.

Part 1

Research
questions provide a map to assist the researcher in the navigation
of thoughts, literature-based foundation, design strategy, and
interpretive lens through which to draw conclusions (Williams,
2007). When taking a quantitative approach, the goal is to conduct
an empirical investigation into reality using numerical measurements
and statistical analyses to emphasize objectivity (Leedy &
Ormrod, 2016; Williams, 2007). As illustrated in Figure 1 below
(also attached as a separate image to this discussion post),
quantitative research questions can be categorized as either
descriptive, comparative, or relationship-based (Onwuegbuzie &
Leech, 2006). The distinction among these categories hinges on the
underlying motivation and whether the objective is to measure a
descriptive response, detect a comparative difference, or uncover a
trend in relationship (Onwuegbuzie & Leech, 2006). The type of
research question also drives the choice of analysis method, as some
techniques are more appropriate for a certain setting (Onwuegbuzie
& Leech, 2006; Williams, 2007). An ordinary least squares (OLS)
regression analysis, for example, is best suited to find trends
among continuous or dichotomous predictors of a continuous response
(Onwuegbuzie & Leech, 2006).


Figure 1
.
Categories of Quantitative Research Questions. (Onwuegbuzie &
Leech, 2006).

For
my own research that is focused on the statistical analysis of
adaptive clinical trials, software efficiency is one aspect on which
I intend to concentrate. A research question tailored to this goal
could be: Is there a difference in efficiency among statistical
software packages? To translate this into a simplified and testable
analysis, I could create a dataset that contains the run-times
(measured in milliseconds) that it takes for each considered package
(SAS and R) to process the same program. Various types of adaptive
programs would be run, and the associated number of probability
dimensions of each program would also be recorded. My null
hypothesis would be that there is no difference in run-time between
the two packages. My alternative hypothesis is that programs with
higher dimensions will take a longer time to run in SAS than in R.
This is a directional, or one-tailed, alternative hypothesis because
it is specifying that not only is there an expected difference, but
that the difference is intended to go in a specific direction
(Pallmann et al., 2018). Tested with an analysis of variance model,
the dependent variable would be run-time, and the independent
variables would be statistical package, program dimension, and the
interaction between package and dimension.

Part 2

Quantitative
research questions and hypotheses go together for researchers using
quantitative research methods. Quantitative research questions focus
a research study on the relationships between independent and
dependent variables being studied by the researcher (Creswell &
Creswell, 2018). There are three categories of quantitative
research: (1) comparing groups on an independent variable to see the
impact on a dependent variable, (2) relating or correlating one or
more independent variables to one or more dependent variables, and
(3) describing responses to the independent, mediating or dependent
variables (Creswell & Creswell, 2018).

Research
Question: How does using emerging technologies for cross-project
knowledge transfer enable project managers to assimilate
cross-project knowledge and use that knowledge for problem solving
on their project?

The
purpose of my proposed quantitative study is to analyze how using
new and emerging technologies for project knowledge transfer enables
project managers to assimilate knowledge and use the knowledge to
solve problems on their projects. The research study looks at
technology factors enabling the transfer and assimilation of project
knowledge across projects in the same organization. The two types of
cross-project knowledge transfer methods to be studied are
technology-formal and technology-informal (Landaeta, 2003; 2008).
The study participants should be current, practicing project
managers across all disciplines.

Null
Research Hypothesis: There is no relationship between the use of
emerging technologies for project knowledge transfer and the project
manager’s ability to assimilate the cross-project knowledge
and use the knowledge to solve problems.

Quantitative
hypotheses predict the outcomes of the relationships between the
variables being studied (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). The study
hypothesis as constructed is nondirectional and does not make a
directional prediction about the study’s outcome (Creswell
& Creswell, 2018). The variables in my research study are
emerging technologies for cross-project knowledge transfer
(independent variable) cross-project knowledge assimilation by the
project manager (dependent or independent variable depending on
whether or not the study manipulates two independent variables
versus one relative to the outcome) and the project manager’s
use of assimilated knowledge for decision making and problem solving
(dependent variable). Identifying dependent and independent
variables does not guarantee your research data will support a cause
and effect relationship (Leedy and Ormrod, 2016).

Group Dynamics

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Vignette: You are a leader of a team of writers and artists at an animation studio. This is a great group of highly talented and creative people but not an easy team to lead. Team members are individualistic, idiosyncratic, and temperamental, to mention just a few of their personality traits. You have been able to organize them into a project team and facilitate their interpersonal issues, and the team has succeeded in producing a successful short film.

You feel lucky that your team was successful in the last project. It is now time to start over with a newly composed team. Whether you organize a new team or use the previous team, it is difficult to get a team to work together creatively. What you really want to do is to set up a mechanism to encourage continuous creativity. It is more than just hiring creative people – you want to use teamwork as a way to make creative projects a regular occurrence in the organization.

Answer the following questions:

1) What are the benefits and problems with using a team approach to creative work?

2) How can teamwork be used to encourage creative work?

3) How can you (a team leader) use teams to ensure creative projects keep flowing from organization?

500 Word Sociology Task

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Sociological Imagination

Watch the video Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy.

After watching the TED video and reading the section about the Sociological Imagination, take the viewpoint of an outside observer to examine your life.

First, pick one personal experience that was meaningful to you.

Second, pick a viewpoint different from your own. It can be another gender, race, nationality, or maybe someone from a different subculture. Finally, write about the three points listed below.

Write a 500 or more word paper discussing each assignment point listed below.

1.Describe the personal experience as an outsider might describe it. (hint: depending on what you choose and the perspective you choose, this may require a little research)

2.Describe how that experience was influenced by society structures (e.g. historical events, religion, or traditions)

3.Finally review the four main perspectives and theorists related to those perspectives. What theory most applies to the personal experience you described and why do you think this theory applies?

Your paper must include a title sheet and at least 2 outside references. You may use one reference from the internet but the 2nd reference must be from the Grantham University online library. Only the body of the paper will count in your word requirement.

To help you begin your first paper, I have given you an example of a personal experience, the structure that helped to shape this event, and the theory that I would apply to it. Although what is listed below is an outline, I would like you to write in paragraph form.

Example:

Personal experience: wedding

Viewpoint: perspective of a person from the subcontinent India

1.Description: Wedding itself was short, crowd was small, took place outside of hometown, and the bride wore white

2.Social Structure: institution of marriage, marriage laws, and religious traditions

3.What theory: functionalism

a.Why this theory: functionalism supports social structure that is functional for society and marriage is functional for families and households