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Robert E. Lee wanted no memorials to the Confederacy. He went to his grave, in fact, regretting that he had taken arms against his country and believed it was an act of treason. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments (Links to an external site.) https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169189 (Links to an external site.) The Confederate statues were erected not during or immediately after the end of the Civil war, but during the Jim Crow era in the twentieth century when the majority white population in the South passed laws to oppress the black population living in the South. Were they then statues to “honor” those who opposed the union of United States — OR — were they statues to support the principles for which the Southern states fought, which was the social order of white supremacy? https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future (Links to an external site.) Central Question: Should Confederate statues be deemed a “false” representation of U.S. history and be brought down due to the offensive message they convey? Or should Confederate statues be maintained in place in public as a reminder of the past, whether it be the losing Southern principle in the Civil War or the ugliness of the Jim Crow Era? If you think it is unseemly to support the second option directly above, think again. Some people feel strongly that Confederate statues should remain because of the very fact that they are part of our history. Of course, other people oppose this idea on the basis of the societal divisiveness they continue to convey. Important: for this assignment, do not include Christopher Columbus, the sales-owning Fathers of our Country George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc. Your focus must remain solely on the Confederate statues, as slavery was the central issue over which the Civil War was fought. Further, do not mistakenly suggest that the Civil War was a battle over “states’ rights.” The Southern states, largely agrarian, fought over their states’ rights to “own” other human beings to do the hard labor to sustain their economies. And they often used Biblical texts to justify their institution of slavery

Using a provided scenario, address the expectations and roles of women and religion in a 2–3 page company memorandum for an MNC management team. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: SHOW LESS Competency 1: Explain how culture influences human resource practices and employee management. Describe how each country regards women and religion. Competency 2: Analyze global issues that influence human resource practices for multinational corporations (MNCs). Assess how these assumptions impact an organization’s global recruiting and hiring practices. Competency 3: Analyze the impact of cross-cultural communications on employee management in multinational corporations (MNCs). Examine organizational integration and communication impacts for HR in this scenario. Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the human resource profession. Write in a professional style using APA citations and format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. Preparation A country’s culture has a significant impact on its views of women, religion, customs, and children’s human rights; these aspects, in turn, have a significant impact on human resource practices and an organization’s ability to operate globally. This assessment is based on the following scenario: Your organization just acquired an information technology company in the Republic of Kosovo, formerly Yugoslavia. Kosovo has not yet received recognition from enough countries to be considered a sovereign nation. It is an area of Eastern Europe where there are many talented information technology professionals and small entrepreneurs. Before your company and the new firm begin joint operations, you want to communicate to the membership of both organizations the similarities and differences between Kosovo and the United States. As you prepare a business report, keep in mind the differences in the roles of women in each country and the challenges that might be experienced by the members of each organization as they begin to integrate operations and bring both organizations under the same reporting chain. U.S. members will experience a change in their management structure, starting above the CIO position. In American companies, it is not unusual to have a large number of supervisors who are women, and in your company there are some women executives as well. Also, consider the faiths that are practiced in the two countries. Kosovo is primarily Russian Orthodox and Muslim, while the United States contains members of a greater variety of religions. Lastly, the people in the region of Kosovo are easily insulted, so you must be careful to treat them with respect, kindness, and understanding. Requirements Address the expectations and roles of women and religion in a 3–4 page business report for the organization’s management teams in Kosovo and the United States that addresses the following: Describe how each country regards women and religion. Be sure to describe three assumptions about women and religion that influence views in each country. How could these assumptions influence employee management? Assess how these assumptions impact an organization’s global recruiting and hiring practices. For example, could a woman hold a leadership role in your country of interest? How does religion influence your organization and work culture? Examine organizational integration and communication impacts for HR in this scenario. For example, how will onboarding and training activities conducted by human resources be impacted? Additional Requirements Your assessment is considered a professional style document appropriate for the workplace versus an academic paper. It should meet the following requirements in addition to the 3–4 page business report. Include the following: Title page.? ?A basic title page will contain the following information centered, about one-third of the way down the page: Document title. Your name. Date. For the 3–4 page report, set up the document pages with 1-inch margins at the top, bottom, right, and left. Left justify paragraphs, or indent using 5–7 spaces. Use single-spaced paragraphs and double spacing between paragraphs. Use subheadings to divide all documents—particularly those over a page in length—into logical, well-ordered sections. Use ordered or bulleted lists to clarify points within? your document. Put page numbers on each page, including the cover page. You may add additional information, such as the title or your name, to each page as well.

The following is the list of the essay questions, WRITE 1100 WORDS FOR EACH: 1) Explain the economic impacts of Covid-19 in Vietnam. 2) Explain the impacts of Covid-19 on the diplomacy of Vietnam. 3) How do you characterize the responses of the Vietnamese government to cope with Covid-19? 4) What is “diaspora”? Can you find this phenomenon in Vietnam? If so, explain it. If you cannot, explain why? 5) Explain the socio-economic and health status of Vietnamese women and evaluate it. 6) Does Vietnam have “historical disputes”? Explain them and clarify their specificities.

This assignment addresses the role of lighting as a communicative tool in film and digital photography. The essay will be 500 words or more, and will address the prompt points listed below . 1. The History of Photography Pictorialism 1880-1920 2. The History of Photography Modernist 1920-1980 3. Photography and Lighting I have included presentations on the Photography and Lighting page which discuss the use of light as a communicative tool in painting throughout the history of art which sets the stage for the use of lighting in photography.  I would also recommend that you visit my blog at https://reginarowanart.wordpress.com/  (Links to an external site.)  and click on the Art/Photography 150 Summer 2020 page, scroll down to view the information on natural, available lighting.  Essay Prompt Points 1. What is the scientific definition of light? 2. Discuss the four qualities of natural, available lighting: diffused, direct, silhouette, and direct-diffused. Describe the visual appearance of each quality in respect to highlights and shadows. 3. Discuss the role of lighting in Pictorialism. 4. Discuss the role of lighting as a design element in Modernist/Straight photography. 5. Compare and contrast the use of light as a communicative tool and design element in Pictorialism and Modernist/Straight photography. 6. Describe the visual appearance of Rembrandt lighting. Discuss the use of Rembrandt lighting in historical and contemporary photography. Photographers such as Yousuf Karsh, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron, Richard Avedon effectively used Rembrandt lighting in several of their photographic masterpieces to create a sense of drama and emotion.  7. Select one photograph from 1826 to the present and discuss the role of lighting in that particular image. The photograph can be black and white, color, sports photograph, photojournalism, advertising, fine art, historical or a snapshot. Please include the photograph or a link to the photograph in your paper. 9. Natural, available lighting, including direct, diffused, silhouette, and direct-diffused. 10. Definition of light. 11. The use of lighting in Pictorialism. 12. The use of lighting as a design element in Straight/Modernist photography.  13. Compare and contrast the use of lighting in Pictorialist and Modernist photographs. 14. The use of Rembrandt lighting in historical photographs and contemporary applications. 15. Select a photograph from the history of photography and discuss the quality of light in the image.

1.     Discuss the concept of sovereignty, its characteristics and how the concept relates to the historical development of the 13 colonies into the United States? (hint, remember who existed first, what contributed to the separate development) 2.     Discuss why the U.S. first adopted the Articles of Confederation, what were the weaknesses of this confederal form of government and what were the practical, political and cultural limitations faced by the framers of the Constitution in their attempt to propose a new form of government. (hint, while the framers were trying to overcome weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation they were limited in the choices upon which they could agree, why?). 3.     Discuss the growth of Federal power and its limits, based on the Supremacy Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Commerce Clause. (hint, remember the role of the Supremes in this). 4.     Discuss the Freedom of Speech and its limitations. (hint, remember the Bill of Rights requires government action against rights and some speech is not as protected from government action as other types of speech, why?) 5.     Discuss each of the 5 view of how political power is distributed in the U.S. (hint, go back to the first class, first chapter in text).

Part 1 Joseph Conrad — well, check out the biography on-line.  A fascinating man. For our purposes, the most important part of his pre-author life was as a merchant ship captain.  He traveled all over the late-19th-century world — and was profoundly troubled by what he saw. He began writing a few years before Heart of Darkness, which originally appeared in 1898.  And he asked the question — how can you write, how can you speak about the unspeakable?  About things so horrific or insane that language fails you? One of his attempts is Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized trip up the Congo River.  Conrad went on what was essentially a trade mission.  What he discovered was Imperialism at its worst — slavery, mass murder, the destruction of entire peoples, all undertaken under the names of Civilization or Enlightenment or Name-Your-Own-Poison. He puts his thoughts — his observations, his profound questions — into the mouth of a narrator he uses in one short story and three novels, Charlie Marlow, a typical Englishman, clear-thinking, hard-working, and nearly destroyed by what happens in Africa. Conrad tries to capture that horror, that insanity, that corruption, in elusive language.  And also with a profound sense of irony: the profound difference between appearance, or what is said, or how things appear, and reality, how they really are. His characters simply march off the page.  In addition, in an astounding exercise of place-placed fiction, he makes the gloom, the jungle, the darkness a character in the book.  There’s good reason why this is a true classic. Part 2 Well.  No doubt you have finished the novel.  Not only was Conrad horrified by what he saw, and experienced, in Africa (and other places), he felt was it ultimately corrupting for everyone.  Not only the jungle, which has the force here of is own brooding, malevolent character, but the human spirit, which, left to its own devices, turns to horrid, despicable impulses and actions. Mr. Kurtz uses that genius for mass murder — and for human sacrifice offered up to him as a deity.  His scrawled message “Exterminate the brutes!” has eerie consequences in the 20th Century — a time of the greatest mass murders in history (Europe, Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, et al).  His utter corruption has affected our view of character — at least in literature — for a century.  As has Marlow’s inability to tell the tale in a clear, declarative way. In addition, his own change, from someone who abhors a lie into a liar at the end, indicates just how corrupting everything about imperialism can be. In a last note, the line about Kurtz being a great political speaker — “what party?  Any party” — has become one of most quoted lines in literature.  We hear its echoes endlessly in every political season BOOK “https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/heart-of-darkness.pdf”

Last Hobbit, chapter 29, Immigration Act of 1965. Research this watershed event in immigration history, the passage of the iteration at 1965. >> What exactly was the Immigration Act? >> 1965? >> Excuse me? >> Why does President Johnson motivated the pass such a law? And what impact that this law have. Remember the 19 excuse me, the Immigration Act of 1965 got rid of discriminatory quotas that had been set up in the 19 twenties. >> Say you need to get into a discussion of that if you are going to cover this topic, present a thorough and clear discussion of the topic chosen. Be sure to note that you must use APA/MLA format within your essay. You must use in text citations and provide a reference section. Keep in mind that it is important to continually use in text citations in order to adequately back up your points and properly credit your research materials. Please note that you are not allowed to use Wikipedia as a research resource. Wikipedia is highly unreliable since anyone may go and post within it!!  Within a 600-700 word essay, please present a thorough and clear discussion of the topic chosen. Be sure to note that you must use APA/MLA format within your essay. You must use in text citations and provide a reference section. Keep in mind that it is important to continually use in text citations in order to adequately back up your points and properly credit your research materials. Please note that you are not allowed to use Wikipedia as a research resource. Wikipedia is highly unreliable since anyone may go and post within it!!  Please take note of the statement of the Syllabus which states that you are not allowed to directly take passages from the textbook, websites or other students. This will result in a zero grade. It is not acceptable to take passages from research resources even if you have provided the proper in text citations.  Remember, the point of the assignment is to hear from you!! Also, keep in mind that changing a word or two in a sentence is not proper paraphrasing!! Please take note of the statement of the Syllabus which states that you are not allowed to directly take passages from the textbook, websites or other students. This will result in a zero grade. It is not acceptable to take passages from research resources even if you have provided the proper in text citations.  Remember, the point of the assignment is to hear from you!! Also, keep in mind that changing a word or two in a sentence is not proper paraphrasing!!

As noted in the assignment guidelines, this essay seeks to investigate and report on the interface between the theoretical concepts noted in the Howell and Griffiths (2018) and the material from the accounts of two documented, real-life gangsters. The assignment requires that you include, at minimum, three citations— principally, material from Shakur’s account of gang life in Los Angeles, the narrative of the life of Boxer Enriquez found in The Black Hand, and some of the theoretical tenets noted in chapters four and five in the Howell and Griffiths (2018) text (those found in chapters on maco- and micro-level theories). Essays that incorporate citations related to theoretical explorations of the gang phenomenon which are outside the material found in Howell and Griffiths (2018) will find themselves more likely to be assessed at the upper tier of the content area of assessment (see the rubric on the following page). Your focus should be on examining the interface between real-world phenomenon and the writings found in academia. How can they be used in tandem to supplement the theory-driven explanations of gang life? Include some discussion of how real- world accounts of the gang life can be used to enhance our understanding of the gang phenomenon and what factors make them continue to be an attractive, albeit self-destructive, counterculture. The essay must contain an introduction, a discussion, and a conclusion-one that focuses on tying what you have discussed in the body of the essay with your assessment of the utility of combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The paper requires a minimum of 2500 words with a maximum word cap of 7500 (5-7 pages). This is a 50-point assignment and should reflect the precision of an upper division student in interpreting, analyzing, and synthesizing important information related to the gang and threat group problems in America as described and discussed in the assigned readings. The paper is graded across four dimensions: content, organization, mechanics, and formatting. Citation is also an important part of this assignment. The grading rubric on the next page will serve as a guide when deciphering how you should approach the content of your essay and how your effort will be scored. Please submit your document using the assignment submission tool in Canvas in word (.doc/.docx) or rich text format (.rtf) only

The United States faced major threats to its existence even before it was officially a nation. Identify and describe two such events in U.S. history that occurred prior to September 11, 2001, and explain why this event/threat is similar to a current emerging homeland security event.

After a careful listening of Thomas Paine and his writings about “the cause of America”, construct a topic outline of his thoughts for what you have heard. You may use bullet points OR alphabetical organization. Pretend you are sending this out to a colleague to follow along with the recording. here is the videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCPFzi4SlE