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Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.  Consider all of the writing you have done in the last eight weeks of this course. Think about the concerns and apprehensions you may have had at the beginning of class about writing essays. You can even take a moment and read your post for the first week’s discussion! Are you more comfortable with the writing process? Has your attitude about writing changed during this class? What is the most important take-away from this course? What do you feel you still need to learn or improve? Think about the future of your writing. How do you think what you have learned and accomplished in this class help you throughout the rest of your degree program and/or your professional (even personal) life?

Compare and contrast from last weeks capstone using 3 different angles… Logically, nationally, globally. compare and contrast your topic and how it was portrayed logically, nationally, and global standpoint.

Thesis: Nature is the ever present narrative device in a Akira Kurosawa film. What I will demonstrate: -the narrative and cinematic techniques that Kurosawa uses to depict this relationship between character and nature, as well as this subsequent and gradual unveiling of the message; and -what this equation (character + nature = message) reflects regarding Kurosawa’s philosophy/outlook about how people can arrive at greater insights about their condition – look at the role of “conveying emotion” as a method of commenting on the theme/message (either by implicitly stating that theme/message, or by shaping the tone through which that theme/message is conveyed). -The inevitable/inescapable quality of nature that you refer to is a good one, and in writing about this, again look at how Kurosawa uses this quality to comment on the human condition. -What is the usefulness of pitting human qualities of mortality/transience — as well as strength/perseverance — in relation to this aspect of nature?

Michael Meyer argued that the play’s theme is not women’s rights, but rather “the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.”[4] In a speech given to the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he “must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women’s rights movement,” since he wrote “without any conscious thought of making propaganda,” his task having been “the description of humanity.”[5] This is a meaty prompt! We will discuss it together. Now, drawing from the play, elaborate on the quotes above. Use specifics from the play to support your ideas. Be sure to think about all the characters, not only Nora. What limits—either self-imposed or external—prevent the personal growth? What do the characters do to overcome their limitations? You can also disagree with the statements, explaining once again using specifics whey Meyer and Ibsen are off the mark. In other words, you can say this is a play about women’s rights—even if the author says it’s not!

You have 6 Journal entries to make.  You can write about a lot of different topics (more info/examples below). But you want a couple journal prompts: Prompt 1 – Media overload can happy very easy today. Have you experienced any media overload? Prompt 2 – Are we too reactive about little things that we see or hear about on social media?  Prompt 3 – Social media is great for connecting. What would you do if a local politician asked you for your opinion through social media? (I mean actually just you, not a blanket ask everyone.) Prompt 4 – How do you see politics and the next elections, coming up in 2018 changing because of social media? Prompt 5 – Have you seen any fake news in your social feeds? Prompt 6 – There has been a polarizing of politics in social media. How do you respond? Do you make your voice heard, try to understand what others think, block/remove those that are extreme? Or some combination?   READ THIS: Below is information about the journals. Some relevant topics to write about include a personal experience, film/song/art, something you read about in the news or something that is happening in pop culture. You may also write specifically about a class concept, reading or discussion. If you are referencing a website/article/video/book/etc, you should use APA citations. Word makes this very easy to do. Your journal entry needs to be at least two paragraphs long, be dated, and reflect a rigorous and critical engagement with the material. Example of an idea for a journal entry: You saw a news clip about women and plastic surgery and want to journal about your struggle with body image. Better example of an idea for a journal entry: You saw a news clip about women and plastic surgery and use our in-class discussions on the concept of symbolic interactionism to discuss the social impact of images like these.

Evaluate/judge the effectiveness of the current national or international approach to the problem of RACISM. In short, do you think the U.S. or the world is doing a good job in trying to solve this problem? Why or why not?  Not evaluating the problem itself or arguing for a solution; rather, you are making a judgment about how our country or the world is handling the problem and then defending the evaluation to readers.

For your Final Project, you will need to write, format, and submit 3 individual papers. These papers will be slightly shorter, (350-450 words each) but will still need to be clearly organized and bring the audience along on a journey.  You must choose a product or service that you have not previously covered, and it might benefit you to pick one in an industry you’re personally interested in. If you do, you’ll be able to present yourself as knowledgeable should interesting work ever appear.  Using the 6 resources you identified last week, please write the following papers: Paper 1: Identify the features and benefits of the product or service. Sound familiar? This should be an absolutely straightforward exercise by now.  Paper 2: Identify the target market for this product or service. You must explain why with source materials.  Paper 3: Identify potential directions for the future of this product or service. Think about the demands of the audience now, and how they will change over the next five years. Remember to clearly introduce and conclude each paper. Each should stand alone and be readable by someone without context.    Paper directions: These papers must fall between 350 and 450 words, and begin with your name, the word count, and the title of your piece. Please double-space your submission. Name: Word Count: Title: All papers must include citations whenever you are taking details from an article, and should appear like this: (Author’s Last Name, Publication Year) Your paper must end with a Resources section, using the APA format to cite the sources for your writing.  Last name, First name. (Publication Date) Publication. Article Title. Retrieved from http://www.LINK.com

Specific topic: Using Heart of Darkness and Achebe’s above entitled article, and  three additional sources (more is okay but not required), write a synthesized paper on racism in Heart of Darkness.  You will most likely want to introduce Achebe’s essay and argument in the introduction as a lead-in to your thesis.  Your synthesis can be either explanatory or an argument (you get to choose) – If you don’t know the difference, go back and review the PowerPoint.  You will need to narrow your thesis to a specific point about racism. Move beyond, Conrad is/is not racist.   Choose from the texts below for your three additional sources:   Carl Phillips’ “Was Joseph Conrad a Really a Racist?” p200 (Achebe) Hunt Hawkins’ “Heart of Darkness and Racism” p332 (Conrad) Urmila Seshagiri’s “ Race and Modernist Form” p 424 (Conrad) Ewa Kujawska-Lis’ “Turning Heart of Darkness into a Racist Text: A Comparison of Two Polish Translations” – (handout) Nineteenth-Century Attitudes toward Race (various authors) p 193-209 (Conrad) Gene Moore’s “Slavery and Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Eastern World” Richard Rankin Russell’s “Dante’s Bilacqua n Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . .. “

original assignment: You are to argue the question in the prompt below.  You are to use Rogerian Argument structure: logical claims required.  All evidence should come from Primary or Secondary sources. Use class texts both required and suggested as well as other research from good authority. MLA citations in-text and a Works Cited page are required.  Note:  If more research is done in doing this paper but not cited include a Bibliography.     Prompt :     Question:  In The Future of Humanity, Kaku looks at the changes humanity may need to make or will make in the future. Kelly in his work Inevitable argues that future trends and technology are inevitable. And, Ross offers a peek into The Industries of the Future.  All authors are optimistic, but they, too, present possible problems all this technology may bring about. Does it matter how we set up the future for fifty or one hundred years from now—or should we worry about the problems of our lifetime?  Take a side:  We need to start designing our future/ or/ we need to worry about today’s needs instead.        Paper:  100 pts.   Length of 5-6 pages.  The essay will be largely graded on use of the structure as given in the class.  Professor comments/Rewrite instruction: The low score was caused from: No thesis written as Warrant, Refutes to your Essay Claim Go back and look at the structure needed for your thesis in PAGES with writing a Rogerian Structure Also Ken, there is no specific audience for your paper. Define your audience: Audience: US Congress Topic: We need to plan for the future when it comes to the subject of __________________ more than worry about today’s needs. Opposition : Those who state we need to worry about today’s needs when it comes to ________________ Offer Three Position: Your position against those three….planning for the future when it comes to__________. Your positions will be opposite those of the opposition. Reference material: https://youtu.be/vHzxhqquq7M Most importantly, please switch this to Rogerian Structure. Thanks

Drown_ Short Story Dissection Discussion #6 No unread replies. No replies. For this Class Discussion, choose one short story to focus on from pages 1-65 and critically annotate and dissect.  Why did this short story stand out to you? While you could connect (maybe you would have to since the stories are seemingly interconnected), remember your main focus is the short story you have chosen.  What stands out to you? Especially in the context of this first half of the collection of short stories? Things you could focus on: Characters Setting Identify Fallacies Form (different from other stories up to this point) Be as specific as possible and remember, this is only a reflection and critical exploration in a story of your choosing. Make sure to use textual evidence to support your claim.  To receive full credit, you must  respond (a critical engagement – not just “that’s good!) to at least one other classmates’ post. Junot Diaz’s collection of short stories titled Drown.