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In continuing with the topic of Unit 3, Globalism, we will be looking at the other side of the argument regarding the items we buy and who is making them.  1. Watch Leslie Chang’s Ted Talk “The Voices of China’s Workers  (Links to an external site.) “. 2. Please read Benjamin Powell’s “In Defense of Sweatshops”  Complete Homework Assignment HW3.3, which is to do Annotated Bibliographies for both Chang and Powell. Add them to the two Annotated Bibliographies you’ve already done, so you will submit a document of 4 Annotated Bibliographies. The information listed above is also in the Homework Assignment.

Free write: Explain the influence of macro-level culture on individuals voting in the 2020 election. Integrate the following aspects of culture in your response: history, values orientations, family life process and clothes

What You Are Going to Write in Your Research Paper Topic Proposal             The good news is that you do not have to write a traditional essay with an introduction, a body, and so forth.  However, the main point of this assignment is show me that you have strong understanding of your chosen topic for your research paper.  Essentially, you will only have to write four paragraphs.              For the first paragraph, you must explain what the topic is.  For instance, if you are going to write about big game hunting, you need to explain what it is.  For example, hunting covers a lot of animals and practices.  There probably is a big difference between hunting bighorn sheep and rhinoceros and, say, duck hunting (yes, you can even provide specific examples).  You then must also briefly explain the controversy surrounding the topic (whether or not governments should encourage and regulate big game hunting).  Because you will be doing some preliminary research, you should quote from an outside source (an online article from the database CQ Researcher, for example).  Yes, you will be required to follow MLA citation rules.  I will go over MLA in class before you turn in your proposal.  The second paragraph should the “pro” side of the issue.  Let’s look at the trigger example.  This means that you need to explain how and why certain people believe that trigger warnings will be beneficial to students and faculty and respects those who have suffered from trauma.  Because the second paragraph is all about the “pro” side The third paragraph must explain the “con” side of the topic (e.g. how trigger/ warnings is censorship in disguise and hurts academic freedoms).   The fourth and final paragraph will have to explain your position on this topic (e.g. do you believe that trigger warnings are a necessary evil in order to protect those who are sensitive to any content that might traumatize them?).  What position are you going to argue for and why?  Yes, you can refer to yourself for this assignment.

First page Write a 2 page reading reflection on “Names and Personal Identity.” You should engage in a conversation with the text rather than write a summary of it. Do NOT write a summary. In this reading reflection, you might consider: your thoughts on issues raised, anything that spoke to you personally, what points you found to be true, untrue, surprising, or interesting, and why?  Link: https://www.behindthename.com/articles/3.php   2 page  Write a 2 page reading reflection on “Shape Your Identity or It Will Shape You and “Is There a Real You?” You should engage in a conversation with the text and video rather than write a summary of it. Do NOT write a summary. In this reflection, you might consider: your thoughts on issues raised, anything that spoke to you personally, what points you found to be true, untrue, surprising, or interesting, and why. Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130415055244-1213-shape-your-identity-or-it-will-shape-you https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you?language=en 3 page For this final paper, you will reflect on experiences, instances, or occurrences that you feel had a hand in shaping your identity. This will require you to spend some time considering what your identity is as you see it. You should choose one or two of the most significant of these instances and write an essay that describes the occurrence and discusses how you feel it has shaped your identity.   Your introduction should introduce the topic of identity to your reader and should include a thesis that states what occurrence you feel was a major factor in shaping your own identity. Your body paragraphs should explain to your reader what your identity is and discuss the relationship between the occurrence and your identity. You should conclude this essay with a discussion on the significance of identity and the shaping of identity.   Length:        3 to 4 pages   Genre:          Reflective Personal Writing Format:        Times New Roman, 12-pt. font Audience:     For yourself Purpose:       To reflect on personal identity and how identity is shaped Evaluation: First paragraph introduces the topic of personal identity and clearly states 1-2 experiences that shaped their own personal identity 15 pts.  Body paragraphs effectively describe how the experiences worked to shape their personal identity to show thought and reflection 30 pts. Conclusion paragraph describes the significance (personal significance or overall general significance) of identity and the shaping of identity 15 pts.  Total 3 separate esssay. Frist one is 2 page , secone is 2 page and last one 3 page

Use information on the 2 articles below and an additional 3 resources. Use Chicago style for footnotes and bibliography. *Do not use 1st or 2nd person pronouns or possessive adjectives (example: I, my, you, your, our) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/sunday/end-the-innovation-obsession.html https://hbr.org/2010/08/innovation-is-not-creativity.html

Should we explore in deep ocean? If so, why? If not, why not?   On Page 1: Provide appropriate information, title, and page # at top, followed by three (3) brief paragraphs, each containing a quotation from a different source. Each paragraph may be independent (meaning they do not need to represent a holistic cohesive argument), but each paragraph should be self-contained and clear. In each paragraph centered on the questions above, you must (1) appropriately introduce the quotation, (2) provide the quotation with parenthetical citation, and then (3) discuss the significance of the quotation. Be sure to choose quotations carefully; when directly quoting material, make sure that it serves an important purpose. Remember that discussion of quotes should generally be at least as long as the quotation itself. Each of the three paragraphs must contain one direct quotation and each paragraph will draw upon a difference source.   On Page 2 (or page 3 if your paragraphs extend beyond the first page): This will be your Works Cited page with “Works Cited” top center, followed by a list of six (6) references in appropriate MLA format. Three (3) of these sources will be the three (3) you directly quote on page 1.  The other three (3) may be of any any type, but should have something to do with the Deep Sea. Among these six (6) references in you alphabetical works cited, you must include the following: 1 periodical or article, 1 book, 1 web reference, and 1 multimedia reference (music, photo, piece of art, video, etc). The type for the remaining two sources is up to you.   Remember that as this is a technical assignment,  you will receive a 1 point deduction for each error made on the citations.

4 page Essay on 4 different types of trick or treaters.  NO Sources and must be a 3 person POV paper.   Instructions I chose Choose a particular group/ demographic of people (for example, bosses, salespeople, room mates, sports fans, etc.) and write an essay about the different types of individuals within that broad category. Your tone may be light or serious, but you should reach some conclusions about the types of people you describe. 2. Avoiding the obvious system of classifying according to game shows, detective shows, sitcoms, reality TV shows, come up with your own original division-classification principle. Write an essay in which you categorize popular TV shows–or movies. (Another option would be to classify different types of characters on, say, sitcoms.) Examples: different types of movie heroes, different types of buddy comedies, different types of horror movies. Refer to specific shows/episodes/ movies to support your classification system.

I need to write a research paper answering the following question: How has population growth affected the environment? My professor also stated that it was important to have a clear and strong thesis.

Recognized worldwide, Stonehenge seems an impossible task: how, and why, did prehistoric people build it? Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2550-1600 B.C.E., circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons: 24 feet high (photo: Maedin Tureaud, CC BY-SA 3.0) Stonehenge, on Salisbury plain in England, is one of the most recognizable monuments of the Neolithic world and one of the most popular, with over one million visitors a year. People come to see Stonehenge because it is so impossibly big and so impossibly old; some are searching for a connection with a prehistoric past; some come to witness the workings of a massive astrological observatory. The people living in the fourth millennium B.C.E. who began work on Stonehenge were contemporary with the first dynasties of Ancient Egypt, and their efforts predate the building of the Pyramids. What they created has endured millennia and still intrigues us today. Phase one Aerial view, 2014, Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2550-1600 B.C.E., circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons: 24 feet high (photo: timeyres , CC BY-SA 2.0) In fact, what we see today is the result of at least three phases of construction, although there is still a lot of controversy among archaeologists about exactly how and when these phases occurred. It is generally agreed that the first phase of construction at Stonehenge occurred around 3100 B.C.E., when a great circular ditch about six feet deep was dug with a bank of dirt within it about 360 feet in diameter, with a large entrance to the northeast and a smaller one to the south. This circular ditch and bank together is called a henge.  Within the henge were dug 56 pits, each slightly more than three feet in diameter, called Aubrey holes, after John Aubrey, the 17th century English archaeologist who first found them. These holes, it is thought, were either originally filled with upright bluestones or upright wooden beams. If it was bluestones which filled the Aubrey holes, it involved quite a bit of effort as each weighed between 2 and 4 tons and were mined from the Preseli Hills, about 250 miles away in Wales. Phase two The second phase of work at Stonehenge occurred approximately 100-200 years later and involved the setting up of upright wooden posts (possibly of a roofed structure) in the center of the henge, as well as more upright posts near the northeast and southern entrances. Surprisingly, it is also during this second phase at Stonehenge that it was used for burial. At least 25 of the Aubrey holes were emptied and reused to hold cremation burials and another 30 cremation burial pits were dug into the ditch of the henge and in the eastern portion within the henge enclosure. Phase three The third phase of construction at Stonehenge happened approximately 400-500 years later and likely lasted a long time. In this phase the remaining blue stones or wooden beams which had been placed in the Aubrey holes were pulled and a circle 108 feet in diameter of 30 huge and very hard sarsen stones were erected within the henge; these were quarried from nearby Marlborough Downs. These upright sarsen stones were capped with 30 lintel stones. Interior of the sarsen circle and bluestones in the foreground, Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2550-1600 B.C.E., circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons 24 feet high Each standing stone was around 13 feet high, almost seven feet wide and weighed around 25 tons.  This ring of stones enclosed five sarsen trilithons (a trilithon is a pair of upright stones with a lintel stone spanning their tops) set up in a horseshoe shape 45 feet across. These huge stones, ten uprights and five lintels, weigh up to 50 tons each. Bluestones, either reinstalled or freshly quarried, were erected in a circle, half in the outer sarsen circle and half within the sarsen horseshoe. At the end of the phase there is some rearrangement of the bluestones as well as the construction of a long processional avenue, consisting of parallel banks with exterior ditches approximately 34 meters across, leading from the northeast entrance to Stonehenge, dipping to the south and eventually to the banks of the Avon river. Questions Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2550-1600 B.C.E., circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons: 24 feet high (photo: Stonehenge Stone Circle, CC BY 2.0) All three phases of the construction of Stonehenge pose fascinating questions. The first phase of work required precise planning and a massive amount of labor. Who planned the henge and who organized whom to work together in its construction?  Unfortunately, remains of Neolithic villages, which would provide information about who built Stonehenge, are few, possibly because so many lie underneath later Bronze Age, Roman, Medieval and modern cities. The few villages that have been explored show simple farming hamlets with very little evidence of widely differing social status. If there were leaders or a social class who convinced or forced people to work together to build the first phase of Stonehenge, we haven’t found them. It also probably means the first phase of Stonehenge’s construction was an egalitarian endeavor, highly unusual for the ancient world. Who were the people buried at Stonehenge during its second phase? Recent analysis of these bones has revealed that nearly all the burials were of adult males, aged 25-40 years, in good health and with little sign of hard labor or disease. No doubt, to be interred at Stonehenge was a mark of elite status and these remains may well be those of some of the first political leaders of Great Britain, an island with a ruling tradition extending all the way to the House of Windsor. They also show us that in this era, some means of social distinction must have been desirable. Conclusions The work achieved in the long third phase of Stonehenge’s construction, however, is the one which is most remarkable and enduring. Like the first phase of Stonehenge, except on a much larger scale, the third phase involved tremendous planning and organization of labor.  But, it also entailed an entirely new level of technical sophistication, specifically in the working of very hard stone. For instance, the horizontal lintel stones which topped the exterior ring of sarsen stones were fitted to them using a tongue and groove joint and then fitted to each other using a mortise and tenon joint, methods used in modern woodworking. Each of the upright sarsens were dressed differently on each side, with the inward facing side more smoothly finished than the outer. Moreover, the stones of the outer ring of sarsens were subtly modified to accommodate the way the human eye observes the massive stones against the bright shades of the Salisbury plain: upright stones were gently widened toward the top which makes their mass constant when viewed from the ground. The lintel stones also curve slightly to echo the circular outer henge. The stones in the horseshoe of trilithons are arranged by size; the smallest pair of trilithons are around 20 feet tall, the next pair a little higher and the largest, single trilithon in the south west corner would have been 24 feet tall. This effect creates a kind of pull inward to the monument, and dramatizes the outward Northeast facing of the horseshoe. Although there are many theories, it is still not known how or why these subtle refinements were made to Stonehenge, but their existence is sure proof of a sophisticated society with organized leadership and a lot of free time. A solar and lunar calendar? Of course the most famous aspect of Stonehenge is its relationship with the solar and lunar calendar. This idea was first proposed by scholars in the 18th century, who noted that the sunrise of the midsummer solstice is exactly framed by the end of the horseshoe of trilithons at the interior of the monument, and exactly opposite that point, at the center of the bend of the horseshoe, at the midwinter sunset, the sun is also aligned. These dates, the longest and shortest days of the year, are the turning point of the two great seasonal episodes of the annual calendar. Since this discovery, several other theories about astrological observation have been offered but few stand up to scrutiny together with the physical details of the monument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0J_RnRILJ0

Current Events Your initial response should be at least 250 words.  This is our second current event discussion. It is my hope that this will be engaging and help any of you who are unsure about a topic. Same as before… It is important for you to act and interact with rhetoric that exists within the academic as well as the public sphere. Everything that has been discussed or written is part of a larger conversation. Each person who decides to enter that conversation explores it through a particular lens. This lens is based on several factors that we will unpack over the next seven weeks. This discussion forum is going to focus on current events (example: climate change, mass shootings, #metoo movement). Your job is to focus on a single current event topic and to find one source that has covered it. The source should be a news article (public discourse) or video (example: NPR, Fox, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post). After you select the source, you will share the link within your initial post to the discussion forum. After the link, you will lead your classmates through a conversation about the topic, which will be based on the source that you selected. Note, your classmates are allowed to and encouraged to make intellectual connections to other things that have been written or spoken about to move the conversation forward and to open new angles. The conversation that you have should bring in rhetorical analysis and evaluation.  Your post should contain the following:  the link to the article or video a summary of the current event topic 2-3 discussion questions based on the article or video (you can select your discussion questions from the “evaluation” and “analysis” questions that are listed below.) Different papers, magazines, and websites treat the news differently, which is why it is important to analyze what you are reading (in additional to evaluating). When you analyze, you look beyond what is readily apparent. You can also provide your interpretation of what is being said. Rhetorical Analysis: explore the use of logos, ethos, and pathos.  Visual Analysis: What is going on in the picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can you find? (examples: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture)  Ask questions to reveal “facts” versus “opinions”: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/skills-practice-distinguishing-between-fact-and-opinion/ The Norton Field Guide to Writing “Decide what you want to analyze (p. 116):  Does the argument interest you?  Does the logic interest you? Does its attempt to create an emotional response interest you? Does its reliance on the writer’s credibility or reputation interest you? What about its use of design to achieve its aims? What about its context? Does the text’s language, imagery, or structure intrigue you?   “Think about the larger context” (p. 116-117) Who else cares about this topic? Ideas? Terms? Citations? “Analyze the argument” (p. 118) What is the claim? What support does the writer offer for the claim? How does the writer appeal to readers? How evenhandedly does the writer present the argument? Does the writer use any logical fallacies? What authorities or other sources of outside information does the writer use?  How does the writer address you as a reader?