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Choose two areas and discuss in 250 – 300 words how those areas impacted your convictions about or understanding

In My America…Or, Honk If You Love Buddha, Renee Tajima-Peña remembers the summer vacations she and her family went on as a child. She characterizes her parent’s desire to go on family vacations as a way to fit in after Japanese Internment and World War II, even though she and her family were painfully aware that they were the only Asian Americans on the road.Summer vacations or the lack of a summer vacation reveal quite a bit about race, class, and gender dynamics. Look back on your own family’s vacations or lack of vacations and find at least two photos you want to analyze. Identify and describe the vacation or summer captured in the photos you selected to analyze. How might your family’s vacation/s or lack of vacations be different than the image of a middle class heterosexual white family on vacation? What might be different about the destinations, preparation, and maneuvering?You will want to answer the above questions in a 1000+ essay. Please format your essay using the Modern Language Association’s (Links to an external site.) formatting guidelines and upload load it to Canvas as a PDF file. Thank you!

Popular music is a window into the racial and gender politics of any era! Make a playlist of 20 songs from the 1950s to the Present filled with songs by Asian American women and girls. Please use Spotify or Soundcloud to construct and organize your playlist and make it sharable and accessible to the public, i.e. me.Like Renee Tajima-Peña, your curated playlist should be a journey with destinations, detours, and surprises. Once your playlist is complete, you will write a 2-3 page reflection (400+ words) about your experience. What kinds of challenges did you experience when searching for music by Asian American women and girls from the 1950s to the Present? (Challenges like defining Asian American? Finding artists and songs from every era?) What reoccurring themes did you find in the music by Asian American women and girls? What kinds of songs made it onto your playlist, which ones did not? Why? What eras are more prominent on your list? Why?Please format your reflection using the Modern Language Association’s (Links to an external site.) formatting guidelines and upload load it to Canvas as a PDF file. You can include a link to your playlist in your reflection.

Write a 4 page movie reflection on “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”.The instructions will be attached in a word document.APA style.

Think about Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia. Does he love her? Does he stop loving her? Did he ever love her? Use evidence from the play and a secondary source to support your point

REVISION OF A POORLY-WRITTEN MEMOIdentify the weaknesses and errors in the following memo and rewrite it to conform to good practices.To: All Big Chief Floor WorkersDate:31 January 2001From: Mr. Mike Sims, Production ManagerRe: New ProceduresThis memo shall open by expressing the author’s exhilaration concerning the tremendous opportunity afforded to him as the new production manager for Big Chief. Employees will find the author’s management style emphasizes the implementation of optimum operationalization which, of course, leads to ultimate productivity and fiscal liquidity! Promotion of an effective working environment, based on the latest principles of Total Quality Management, will help launch the Big Chief name to the top of our industrial milieu.As part of the new TQM strategy, a new, more open worker-manager communication strategy has been implemented, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. Issues or suggestions may now be brought to the management’s attention via two avenues: a cork-product bulletin board in the break room and direct, interactive appointment. Suggestions may be anonymously posted in the break room as the board will be used as an interactive, division-wide interchange, with employees and the manager being offered the chance to interface in a public forum. The procedures for using the appointed board are as follows: Obtain an anonymous suggestions form from the author’s secretary. Scribe the date and subject of the suggestion in the top lines provided on the form. Then legibly print the issue at hand within the parameters of the space thus provided. Commentary which is illegible will be disregarded.Employees who wish to discuss an issue with management directly may also do so via person-to-person appointment. Fifteen minute appointments will be available for assignment each Friday during the production worker lunch hour (12:00-1:00). These should be taken advantage of if any private dilemmas are of concern. Participants should COME PREPARED

Have you ever watched a desktop documentary before? if so, which one (and feel free to share a link in your post)? In the review of Lee’s desktop film, Transformers: The Pre-make, Steven Boone writes “Without voiceover narration, the barbed satire in Lee’s “voice” is all in the choice and timing of his juxtapositions, and a precise use of the desktop environment as frame. However scholarly its origins, this video is pure cinema.” (https://www.rogerebert.com/features/kevin-b-lees-transformers-the-premake). It’s an odd but also interesting assessment. Reflect upon your experience of watching Transformers: The Pre-make (Kevin Lee, 2015). Do you agree that Lee’s film is cinematic? If so, why? If not, why not?

Read about the Final Project, “Inclusive Voices,” InstructionsPurpose:to show how a not-so-well-known person or movements’ emergent truth pushes back against dominant cultures’ non-inclusive or discriminatory narrative through using their voice and actions to disrupt, and create positive change.Method:1. Conduct research and write an APA formatted Research Essay using 3-5 sources2. Then from the content of the Research Essay create your Final Presentation. Your Final Presentation, “Inclusive Voices,” will teach your reader/viewer what you discovered from conducting your research through a recorded poster presentation, video presentation, or voice-narrated PowerPoint presentation.3. Create a Script that you will use to present your Final PresentationUltimately, you will use the questions below to write your paper and drive the content and organization of your presentation. Completing your research should be organized in the following way and answer the following questions about your person/movement:The introduction should briefly introduce and state the issue to be examined. It should start with creative, attention-getting hook then state why you chose the person/movement, show how you will critically evaluate the person or movement you chose, and provide a clear thesis statement.The body of your paper contains information that explains who the person/movement is, what they did, and then provides a status update. The sub-headers used in APA formatting provide your divisions.(Sub-header:) Who are/were they?This sections answers the question who are they? This defines them and their power and limitations in the culture of the time. This section provides any historical information that is relevant about them personally.(Sub-header:) What was happening in culture of the time?Here you will give some perspective about events and attitudes of the time and what happened that allowed a space for their voice. What was going on in dominant culture at the time that allowed for their entry point into the cultural narrative?(Sub-header:) What did they do?This section should specifically explain what was their action that disrupted dominant culture.(Sub-header:) Where are they now?Here you will explain what happened as a result of their action or voice. What is the trajectory or lasting effects?; provide a status update about them or their movement.(Sub-header:) ConclusionThe conclusion of the paper should cover the three major parts.· Answer: the thesis statement, revisited.· Summary: main points and highlights from the body paragraphs.· Significance: the relevance and implications of the essay’s findings and what further actions could still be taken.More details of Requirements and Execution1. Your essay should be typed and double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5″ x 11″), with 1″ margins on all sides.2. Title Page is required. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author’s name, and the institutional affiliation including course name, professor’s name, and date. (centered)3. NO ABSTRACT REQUIRED4. Page number on each page5. Acceptable fonts are 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, and 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode as well as serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia6. For citation information take a look at this particular page of the Perdue OWL site. (Links to an external site.)

1. Ethnic culture“The Hispanic Culture”An unspoken rule in the Hispanic culture is that you put your family first, you offer food to guests and you make a fresh new pot of beans every week to keep in the fridge throughout the week!2. Social group“Nursing Culture”An unspoken rule in the nursing culture is that you cannot take care of patients without taking care of yourself first.3. Recreational group“Gym culture”An unspoken rule in the gym culture is that you “just do it”. There may be days where you don’t want to be active, but you keep pushing and never give up.Who socialized you into each culture you listed?My mother is Hispanic; therefore, I have practiced this culture my entire life.I would say that my aunt socialized me into this culture. She got me interested in becoming a nurse.A good friend of mine socialized me into this cultureWhat culture/s have you been a part of, and are not now? (Name at least one, and more if you can.)A social group I would like to someday be a part of is a reading group. I never

Identify the author’s main points, important or compelling evidence, and integration of different perspectives in Chapter 5. Share some of your work, identifying one of each of the following:Share one of the more compelling or significant points the author made in this chapterShare important or compelling evidence (one for each type):Personal ExperienceOutside AuthoritiesStatisticsFactual References and ExamplesShare the different perspectives the author draws on to illustrate the issue discussed(Always cite your sources by indicating page numbers for any quotes you may have used from the book and linking in URLs to any research conducted. See helpful Canvas Guides below).Reply to two posts (50 words for each)In your replies, review the examples provided by your peers, evaluating their work and offering additional examples. Are Jones’ ideas accurately conveyed? Are the examples of evidence provided accurately categorized according to types of evidence? Are there any other examples of evidence worth sharing? Are there additional perspectives that Jones includes? Offer your commentary and offer additional information that draws from Chapter 5 of Violent Borders or any follow-up research you may have conducted. (Use the toolbar to link in the URL to any source you use; you can also use the toolbar to embed any images or videos that you referenced. See Helpful Canvas Guides below).