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Assignment Content Reflection Paper Using the principles and theory of small group dynamics as given in Chapter 5, write a well-crafted 3-5 paragraph essay describing the experience of working in your group. What was the dynamic of the group? What went well? What could have gone better? What were the causes of this dynamic. What was your role in the group? Could you have done anything differently? What did you learn as a result of this experience? How would you rate your experience with the small group presentation project? Please do not use any specific names of any group member in your paper. Refer to them as “one group member” or something similar. A reflection paper is not about complaining about others. The purpose of this paper is to describe YOUR experience. Be sure to focus on yourself more than the other members of your group. Upload your paper as a MS Word document to this folder. Reflection paper is due no later than Sunday, Dec 13th at 4PM EST Reflective essay outline Reflection o A reflective essay should formally present personal or professional reflection on a topic. It may be preceded by brainstorming, list-making or deep thought. Professionals might refer to past reviews or other documentation of their recent performance. Reflective writing on more personal topics might require you to look over photographs or journal entries. Organization ? The reflective essay should follow the format of introduction, body and conclusion. In contrast to most formal academic essays, instructors encourage describing the past experience or development in question in chronological order. This means the best starting point is a description of the period before the event or period being described. Descriptions of your expectations or perspectives are particularly effective. Transformation ? The body of a reflective essay should describe the transformative experience that is the topic of the essay. It might describe in detail a new setting or frame of mind that appeared during this process. To create continuity with the introduction, this section often compares how an actual experience compared with one’s expectations of it. This section should be balanced, covering the negative and positive aspects, as well as the challenges and joys of an experience. Professional reflective essays focus more strongly on what was learned through an experience. Evaluation ? A conclusion evaluates the experience, often in quantitative terms. It again reflects on the transformation that occurred but this time in more general, sweeping terms to give an aerial perspective of the development or experience. It might also include regrets or surprises confronted along the way. Most important, this section should impart to the reader the feelings, opinions and status of the person who has experienced the events covered in the essay. The writer should emphasize the transformation that occurred and conclude with an affirmation of the new perspective reached through the experience.

The Signature Assignment will be a 3-4 page essay (excluding cover page and references) on one of the two topics listed below (do NOT do both!): Analyze the ideas of culture from five advertisements using the concepts we have discussed in the course. Be sure to include the ads in your paper OR Explain how a candidate for Congress in the US would use concepts we have discussed in the course to put together a campaign for election. You should use a minimum of 5 academic sources in support of your Signature Assignment. Your goal is to make an argument and support it with concepts that we have discussed in the course. Must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins and typed in 12-point Times New Roman. Your Essay should have a Cover Page and Works Cited Page. Essays should be proofread for spelling and grammar mistakes. You must cite all texts used, including page numbers to avoid plagiarism. Your essay must have a thesis statement and a conclusion based upon the sources that you read. Make sure that you find evidence to back it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUTJfFLuJ0&feature=youtu.be you are required to submit a 500-word (double-spaced, standard essay format) response paper outlining how you felt about the work that the artist spoke about (or displayed) and discuss any connections that you see between the work of the artist and your own artistic research.  Here is the lecture to watch

FINAL PAPER CONTENT INSTRUCTIONS This assignment is based on Sidney Lumet’s film, Network (1976). Students are responsible for locating and watching the film. It is in print on DVD and is widely available on video streaming platforms. Essay Format and Length: Essays must be typed and double spaced in MLA format.  5-7 pages (including a required “Works Cited” page). You are to construct your essay based on the following questions and discussion points: Briefly describe and summarize (in your own words) Mr. Jensen’s famous “forces of nature” speech to Howard Beale? Give an example of how the worldwide corporate and financial domination that Mr. Jensen spoke of continues today. Name a specific company or corporation that owns and controls several media outlets. How much control does that particular company have over its media content? Briefly summarize Howard Beale’s “turn off your television set…turn them off…” sermon / speech during his first revised newscast. Did audiences perceive this film as pure satire or fantasy in 1976?  How has this film become less of a satire and more of a “prophesy” about the current state of reality television?  (NOTE:  This question will require you to locate original 1976 newspaper and magazine film reviews as well as other relative material to support your answer). Valid sources for an academic research paper include: Original film reviews (New York Times, Variety Magazine, Cinema Today). Books about specific films or directors (filmographies, biographies, and autobiographies). Interview transcripts (with directors or actors…Ex: Hitchcock / Truffaut). Video and audio interviews (must be cited properly and written transcription-style in your finished essay). Critical essays by notable film historians (Robert Osbourne, Roger Ebert etc…). Sources that are not valid include: Personal blogs, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter Wikipedia or any other facsimile Product reviews from commercial retail sites (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) IMDB (Internet Movie Database) reviews and plot summaries

Although state societies are efficient in organizing people and resources, they also are associated with many disadvantages, such as extreme disparities in wealth, use of force to keep people in line, and harsh laws. Given these difficulties, why do you think the state has survived? Do you think human populations can develop alternative political organizations in the future?(politics) The process of racial formation is different in every society. In the United States, the “one-drop rule” and hypodescent have historically affected the way people with multiracial backgrounds have been racialized. How have ideas about multiracial identity been changing in the past few decades? As the number of people who identify as “multiracial” increases, do you think there will be changes in the way we think about other racial categories? (Race and Ethnicity)

Option 1) Analysis Project! Choose any song or piece (a comparison of two pieces is also acceptable), and provide an analysis essay (1500-2000 words) using the terms we have learned in class. If a score is available, great! If not, that’s ok, provide an audio file or link. Your analysis should include a few quick details at the beginning about the artist and the circumstances of the composition, but the majority of the essay should be focussed on the musical details of the work itself. Some important details you might include could be: what is the key? Does it have a key? What about rhythm, does it have a regular time signature, how many big beats per measure? etc. Is there a regular rhythmic pattern or is it changing? Are there scales and/or chords present? Can you identify them? How often does the harmony change? Do you recognize parts of the harmonic progression? How many voices are there (i.e. melody? bass? other details about instrumentation)? Are there motives? Gestures? Phrases? Can you remark on anything else about the form? Melody? Harmony? Rhythm? And so on! I also encourage you to explore higher level aesthetic questions, What do you find most significant moments in the work, why? Are there moments of tension? or moments of repose? How do the parts of the piece all fit together to tell a story? How does it make you feel? How does it go about expressing whatever it seems to be expressing? If you can connect these questions back to the musical details above, that would be the ultimate goal of analysis.

Asian/American Theatre and Performance Studies Syllabus   Imagine that you are the professor for a new spring course in Asian/American Theatre and Performance Studies at university. What would be the main theme around which you would design the course? Asian/American women playwrights? Yellowface on stage and screen? Asians in operas, operettas, and musicals? What do you hope that students would take away from this course? How would you accomplish these objectives? How would you organize the series of assigned readings and viewings? Will your class include any field trips to see performances or conduct archival research? Will you invite guest scholars or artists? For your final project, you will create your own Asian/American theatre syllabus. The syllabus must include the following:   • a course description o 100-150 words o summarize the exigency, content, and guiding questions for the course • learning goals o use active verbs to list 4-6 objectives that students will achieve by the end of taking this course • week-by-week reading/viewing assignments and activities for 10 weeks o assign at least 10 plays and/or films o assign at least 5 scholarly articles or book chapters ? you may copy only 1/3 of the plays and 1/3 of the scholarly writings that are in Prof. Galella’s syllabus because you are encouraged to seek out additional texts o include, if you want, specific field trips and guest speakers o organize the assignments so that they build upon one another, they are in conversation with one another, and they are grouped into sub-themes • a syllabus rationale  o 400-500 words o justify your chosen course theme o address how your students will meet your learning goals  o elaborate on your selected readings/viewings (not every single one of them but a representative sample) ? demonstrate knowledge of these texts ? rationalize why you are assigning them o explain how you organized the course   You will be assessed based on your demonstration of research and thought, pedagogical skill, cogent organization, written clarity, and following of assignment guidelines.

Bloom Film Festival (Imaginary film festival)  “Bloom” is an imaginary film festival targeted towards the youth. Inspired by urgent calls for racial justice in 2020, your team is dedicating the film festival to themes that speak of diversity and inclusion.  You are working with the Bloom-team to create a grant proposal application, and you’re task is to discuss the merit of the project:  Selected films to be shown:  Dope (2015) – Rick Famuyiwa  The Darkest Minds (2018) – Jennifer Yuh Nelson The Sun Is Also A Star (2019) – Ry Russo-Young Everything, Everything (2017) – Stella Meghie The Hate You Give (2018) – George Tillman Jr.  Your task is to discuss the merit of the project- Minimum 500 words  Explain how your proposed festival is designed to expand the public’s knowledge of and appreciation for diversity and inclusion in Hollywood.  Why is it valuable to shine a greater spotlight on these films/filmmakers/performers? (Do not talk about each director/performers individually, general answers only).  What are the problems in Hollywood today and/or historically that a festival such as this one helps to raise awareness of?  Support your answer with at least two types of sources:  Statistics such as box office earnings or theatrical release windows, as published on BoxOfficeMojo Quantitative and/or qualitative research findings regarding trends in Hollywood employment or on-screen representation (for example from reports such as UCLA’s “Hollywood Diversity Report” or various documentaries) Industry insider perspectives or historical context as reported in sources such as Maryann Erigha’s Hollywood Jim Crow Note: Plagiarism is not acceptable. Plagiarised work = Fail (0 grade)

Do you think our current and continuing global population growth is a big concern? Why, or why not? (50 words min.) Internal Migration We discussed in the unit lesson that most migration is internal, and there are three main reasons why people move internally in their country: age, employment, and a location’s physical environment. Write a two-page essay about the impact of internal migration on your state or a state where you previously resided. * How has the population changed in your state over the past 5 years?  * Is your state gaining or losing residents?  * Where are the residents mainly coming from or going to?  * What are the push-pull factors accounting for the population changes? * What economic and environmental impacts are the population changes having in your state?  * Conclude the essay with a section discussing your own internal migration story. Have you moved within or between states? What were the push and pull factors relating to your move or moves? If you have not moved, please list some of the factors that have kept you from moving. Note: If you reside outside the United States, you can either discuss any U.S. state where you previously lived or discuss your current location.

How has the Motion Picture influenced the state of national and world affairs today? How have you been personally influenced by Motion Pictures? Minimum 750 words.