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You’ll need to answer 4 questions: One question is required, and 3 are your choice. We realize that not all questions apply to all applicants, so be sure to select the 3 questions that you believe give us the best information about you. All 8 questions are given equal consideration in the application review process. Responses to each question should be between 250-350 words.   Required Question: Please describe how you have prepared for your intended major, including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university. (Political Science B.A.)   Please answer any 3 questions below: Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.  Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.  What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time?  Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.  Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?  What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?  Beyond what has already been shared in your application, what do you believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for admissions to the University of California?

Question:  Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more? So basically I’m doing this about running. What it means to me, how it feels to run, the benefits I can receive, etc.  Try to incorporate these into the essay:  – I run pretty much everyday – It is just a hobby as we don’t have a track team – I love the feeling of pushing through the pain of running, pushing past my limits

Locate and identify a place or structure that you feel is quintessentially iconic of New York.   In other words, if I were from another planet, what is the one place/thing that you would show me that would reveal the essential qualities of New York?   You will, of course, need to explain what you feel are the essential qualities of New York.  You may use references from any of the class discussions we have had, or from any of the events in the City and Humanities Program as tools to help you develop your papers.  Write a 4-6 page paper in which you will uncover the unique qualities of your selection.  Your paper will address the following:  -historical information about the item – purpose of the item -perceptions of the item (how is it viewed by others) -Your reasons for the selection (Explain why you consider this item iconic of New York City) -Does your selection challenges or uphold any of Elizabeth Currid’s ideas in your textbook book, The Warhol Economy: how Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City? The paper must be written using the MLA format for writing research papers

Please watch the following videos and provide a short summary and analysis for each.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp554tcdWO8

Please submit your creative cover page (complete with: your name, a title for your project, and at least three symbols from the play. For each symbol, there should be a caption explaining its significance to the play. Each caption should be no more than 75 words) AND all four of your journal entries together. Remember to choose one entry from each act act to respond to in the form of a journal. Each entry should be a minimum of a half of page-one full page (maximum) typed, and standard formatting guidelines apply (i.e. Times New Roman, size 12 font, double-spaced). You must also make a connection to the specific assigned act of The Crucible in each entry.

Essay 2: The Cultural Artifact* Context: This essay asks that you explore a culture through the things they value.  How do their cultural artifacts evince cultural values? An obvious example of a cultural artifact might be a sports trophy, which represents the value of victory. It is also connected to teamwork, determination, physical fitness, and endurance. Athletes, perhaps unconsciously, accept these values, which connect them with the community of their teammates and other athletes. However, through analysis of a cultural artifact, we can come to better understand some of these unconscious values. You will engage in a similar analysis as you choose a cultural artifact and analyze its significance to your chosen cultural group. Essays we read, films we view, and places you will be encouraged to visit will explore cultural artifacts in personal, conceptual, and critical contexts, so that you have models to apply to your own writing.  Assignment: Choose one or two cultural artifacts from the culture that you are exploring and analyze the values that the artifact or artifacts convey. What hopes, preferences, or ideas do these artifacts communicate? What do these values (and thus these artifacts) reveal about your community? About society as a whole? Next, critically consider whether or not mainstream American cultures agrees with the values conveyed by your artifact or artifacts, and why. Explore where these considerations place your chosen culture in relationship to mainstream American culture. Also, use the concepts presented in Clash!. How does your culture fit into Clash’s discussion of independence and interdependence?  Does the artifact you have chose to explore reflect greater independence or interdependence? Further, how does the culture cycle, as discussed in Clash!, help us understand how this artifact reflects the values of this culture? For example, if you were to look at the automobile as an artifact of the culture of Southern California, you might explore how, at each stage of the cycle, cultural values are transmitted to initiates into this culture, from parents and friends to state traffic laws. How does your cultural artifact’s values get expressed and communicated via I’s, interactions, institutions, and idea?  Length and Formatting:  6-7 pages. Follow MLA conventions for academic writing: In general, 1-inch margins all around, 12-point MLA-approved font (Times New Roman if uncertain), double-spaced, page number and last name in upper right-hand header (.5” from the top). Sources: You will use 3 additional sources in the essay.  The sources should be applicable to your analysis, and you should consider articles, books, and dependable web sources. Only one of your sources can come from in-class material, and no more than one source should be a website. Organization: The format for this paper is similar to our basic 5-paragraph essay in that your essay will have an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion; however, your essay will also include two additional paragraphs: a process analysis paragraph and a division and classification paragraph. Process Analysis — in a process analysis paragraph or essay, you describe how to do something, or how a particular event or phenomenon occurred, or how something works. In brief, process analysis is a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains systematically how something is done or how to do something. Process analysis can take one of two forms: 1 Informative –information about how something works , or 2 Directive– an explanation of how to do something  In your essay, you will use the process analysis paragraph to discuss the preparation, presentation, and/or engagement with the cultural artifact you are discussing. You may use either the informative of directive method, but keep in mind that your explanation of the process should demonstrate the larger point you are making about your culture. For example, if you were discussing the importance of arrangement and presentation in Japanese culture, your discussion of how to prepare a meal or a particular dish should illustrate the importance of presentation. Or, if your essay were exploring the importance of family in Mexican-American culture and you chose to explain the process for making tamales, your explanation of that process should, in addition to your explanation of the process, exemplify the importance of family.  Division and classification —  In a division and classification paragraph or essay, you gather items, ideas, or information into types, kinds, or categories. Division and classification will likely prove useful for your essay about your cultural artifact. In American culture, we tend to use very broad systems of classification for various cultures — for example, Asian food, African art, or European art. These systems of classification are so general that they tell us very little. For instance, China is a nation of over one billion people, over fifty ethnic groups, nearly three hundred languages, and dozens and dozens of distinct food traditions. “Chinese food” does little to describe this complexity. In your essay, I ask that you move beyond this kind of generality by devoting one separate paragraph to dividing and classifying your subject into a more meaningful category, one that helps the reader better understand your subject.

Argumentative essay on “Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?” 1.  Essay Outline in MLA format with 5 sources – showing two sources supporting opponents and 3 sources supporting proponents with citation page using Galileo Database – Pro /Con My choice is to write in support of  wearing school uniform.

Answer the following discussion questions.  Discussion Question 1: Why do you think teens believe they have a personal fable? Can you think of a time in which you felt like you had one? Share the example. Discussion Question 2: Your textbook explains that there are many types of intelligence.  What factors do you believe are the most important in deciding how intelligent a pDiscussion Question 1: Why do you think teens believe they have a personal fable? Can you think of a time in which you felt like you had one? Share the example. Discussion Question 2: Your textbook explains that there are many types of intelligence.  What factors do you believe are the most important in deciding how intelligent a person is? Discussion Question 3: How do you explain cognitive differences among children from different cultures?erson is? Discussion Question 3: How do you explain cognitive differences among children from different cultures?

Communications The text describes (6) tendencies that we have that influence our perception. Provide an example for each behavior and explain how it impacted you. (Do not use the same examples as in the text.) 1. Stereotyping 2. Primary Effect- Making a good first impression 3.recency Effect- The tendency to emphasize the most recent impression over earlier impressions when forming a perception. 4. Perceptual set-a predisposition to perceive only what we want or expect to perceive 5. Egocentric- unable to take another person’s perspective 6. Positivity and Negative Bias- Negative bias- the tendency to think negative thoughts about oneself Positive bias- thinking positive thoughts about oneself. Describe how you have made each of the (3) common attribution errors (do not use the same examples provided in the text). Self-serving bias-we attribute our successes to internal causes and our failures to external causes Fundamental attribution error-we attribute other people’s behaviors to internal causes more often Over attribution- we focus on one characteristic of a person and attribute a wide variety of behavior to that characteristic Note: Writing should be clear, concise, and grammatically correct. Proofread! I am more concerned with your thoughtful consideration of the questions and application of concepts from the text, than length. I imagine it will take most of you 1-3 pages, double spaced, to adequately respond.

If you visited or visit a local restaurant, cafe, or other food service facility and follow the following principles in this article https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/restaurant_guide.html  (Links to an external site.)do the following. 1. Analyze whether or not the facility is abiding by the principles in the above article 2. Include pictures or diagrams of possible errors or examples of how they are abiding correctly. Do not disclose the location or take pictures of anything that would name the company.