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Manifest Destiny and The Career of Thomas Jefferson Essays
$25.00There will be four essays. You will choose TWO and write a complete essay on EACH topic. Each essay is worth 50 pts.
Broad topics to think about for the essays.
- The Roots of Manifest Destiny, Justification, Results. Pro or Con?
- Assess the career of Thomas Jefferson.
- Transformation of U.S. from Revolutionaries to Nationalists
- Transformation of U.S. from Nationalists to Sectionalists
Vocabulary you should know for your essays (this is by no means complete)
List 1
- Thomas Jefferson
- Embargo Act
- Louisiana Purchase
- John Marshall
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- American System
- Transportation Revolution
- James Madison
- War of 1812
- War Hawks
- James Monroe
- Era of Good Feeling
- 2nd Bank of the U.S.
- Panic of 1819
- Missouri Compromise
- Monroe Doctrine
- Marbury vs. Madison
- McCulloch vs. Maryland
- Gibbons vs. Ogden
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Erie Canal
- Manifest Destiny
- Texas Revolution
- William Henry Harrison
List 2
- John Tyler
- James Polk
- 54’ 40 or Fight
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- Oregon Territory
- Mexican War
- Whigs
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- Mexican Cession
- Compromise of 1850
- Franklin Pierce
- Stephen Douglas
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Republican Party
- Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scot
- Lecompton Constitution
- Charles Sumner
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Election of 1860
- Raid on Harper’s Ferry
“The Under Dogs” By Marina Azuela
$7.00READ ALL OF “The Underdogs” by Mariano Azuela (see link below for reading)
http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi508.pdf**in 2-3 pages (times new roman font. double spaced lines). Answer and back:
Source Documents Question Two: What do these documents tell us about women’s status in colonial Mexico?
Use document as source andShould English be the Official Language of the United States?
$25.00Debate Prompt: Census figures indicate that Hispanics, many of whom come from Mexico or are of Mexican ancestry, are the fasting growing population in the United States.This has caused some to argue that “American” culture is in danger, specifically with regard to the English language.Others suggest that multiple languages and a more diverse population would be beneficial to the U.S.This debate centers around several questions, amongst them:
- should Hispanics be required to learn English before being granted work visas?
- Should English be made the official language of the United States?
- Should schools require English-only instruction?
**** My side on the debate: English should not be made the official language of the united states.
Schools should not have English-only instruction.
Give reasons for all debate questions. Census data, future of the united states6-8 pages. MLA format. NO WIKIPEDIA SOURCES!!
Response to “THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN”
$7.00Please read the following article and write a 2 page response (TNR size 12, double spaced, 1 inch margin). Think about the following: What was your reaction to the bombing? What is the argument being made in this article? Do you agree with the argument? Have you ever experienced discrimination similar to what is being discussed in this article?
Don’t worry about making your writing perfect—I want you to focus on your ideas, your arguments, your thoughts, and your opinions. Make sure you print this out before class—I will not accept anything that is printed in class, and anything that I receive after class will receive a late grade.
THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN
POSTED BY AMY DAVIDSON
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.
Why the search, the interrogation, the dogs, the bomb squad, and the injured man’s name tweeted out, attached to the word “suspect”? After the bombs went off, people were running in every direction—so was the young man. Many, like him, were hurt badly; many of them were saved by the unflinching kindness of strangers, who carried them or stopped the bleeding with their own hands and improvised tourniquets. “Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood,” President Obama said. “They helped one another, consoled one another,” Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, said. In the midst of that, according to a CBS News report, a bystander saw the young man running, badly hurt, rushed to him, and then “tackled” him, bringing him down. People thought he looked suspicious.
What made them suspect him? He was running—so was everyone. The police reportedly thought he smelled like explosives; his wounds might have suggested why. He said something about thinking there would be a second bomb—as there was, and often is, to target responders. If that was the reason he gave for running, it was a sensible one. He asked if anyone was dead—a question people were screaming. And he was from Saudi Arabia, which is around where the logic stops. Was it just the way he looked, or did he, in the chaos, maybe call for God with a name that someone found strange?
What happened next didn’t take long. “Investigators have a suspect—a Saudi Arabian national—in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.” That’s the New York Post, which went on to cite Fox News. The “Saudi suspect”—still faceless—suddenly gave anxieties a form. He was said to be in custody; or maybe his hospital bed was being guarded. The Boston police, who weren’t saying much of anything, disputed the report—sort of. “Honestly, I don’t know where they’re getting their information from, but it didn’t come from us,” a police spokesman told TPM. But were they talking to someone? Maybe. “Person of interest” became a phrase of both avoidance and insinuation. On the Atlas Shrugs Web site, there was a note that his name in Arabic meant “sword.” At an evening press conference, Ed Davis, the police commissioner, said that no suspect was in custody. But that was about when the dogs were in the apartment building in Revere—an inquiry that was seized on by some as, if not an indictment, at least a vindication of their suspicions.
“There must be enough evidence to keep him there,” Andrew Napolitano said on “Fox and Friends”—“there” being the hospital. “They must be learning information which is of a suspicious nature,” Steve Doocy interjected. “If he was clearly innocent, would they have been able to search his house?” Napolitano thought that a judge would take any reason at a moment like this, but there had to be “something”—maybe he appeared “deceitful.” As Mediaite pointed out, Megyn Kelly put a slight break on it (as she has been known to do) by asking if there might have been some “racial profiling,” but then, after a round of speculation about his visa (Napolitano: “Was he a real student, or was that a front?”), she asked, “What’s the story on his ability to lawyer up?”
By Tuesday afternoon, the fever had broken. Report after report said that he was a witness, not a suspect. “He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a “U.S. official” told CNN. (So were a lot of people at the marathon.) Even Fox News reported that he’d been “ruled out.” At a press conference, Governor Deval Patrick spoke, not so obliquely, about being careful not to treat “categories of people in uncharitable ways.”
We don’t know yet who did this. “The range of suspects and motives remains wide open,” Richard Deslauriers of the F.B.I. said early Tuesday evening. In a minute, with a claim of responsibility, our expectations could be scrambled. The bombing could, for all we know, be the work of a Saudi man—or an American or an Icelandic or a person from any nation you can think of. It still won’t mean that this Saudi man can be treated the way he was, or that people who love him might have had to find out that a bomb had hit him when his name popped up on the Web as a suspect in custody. It is at these moments that we need to be most careful, not least.
It might be comforting to think of this as a blip, an aberration, something that will be forgotten tomorrow—if not by this young man. There are people at Guanátanmo who have also been cleared by our own government, and are still there. A new report on the legacy of torture after 9/11, released Tuesday, is a well-timed admonition. The F.B.I. said that they would “go to the ends of the earth” to get the Boston perpetrators. One wants them to be able to go with their heads held high.
“If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil—that’s it. Selflessly. Compassionately. Unafraid,” President Obama said. That was mostly true on Monday; a terrible day, when an eight-year-old boy was killed, his sister maimed, two others dead, and many more in critical condition. And yet, when there was so much to fear that we were so brave about, there was panic about a wounded man barely out of his teens who needed help. We get so close to all that Obama described. What’s missing? Is it humility?
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Facebook given big thumbs up by analysts
$7.00For a variety of reasons, some businesses attempt to “manage” their reported assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, or income. You can search the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Week or other financial/business periodicals for articles on the subject. Do not search scholarly journals, as the articles will typically be unnecessarily lengthy and complex. In a minimum of three and maximum of 5 typed (double spaced, 12 point type) pages summarize what the company did, why they did it, what reported financial numbers were affected, and the dollar amount by which the reported numbers were affected.
What kind of writing would Orwell identify as “bad”
$7.001. http://www.george-‐orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Language/0.html
Read the Orwell’s article on the link and answer the questions around 200-‐300 words. What kind of writing would Orwell identify as “bad”? How would he characterize good writing? Why does he prefer simple, concrete language to abstract language? What is the difference between Latinate and Anglo Saxon words?2. What is Hitchens’s primary argument in this piece? What sorts of emotional and logical arguments does he use? How effective are they? Answer the questions around 150-‐200 words.
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-‐ZUXyGWvJY and read the article “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?” attached.3. How would you characterize the ethos Goodstein creates in discussing this topic? Why might she do so?
Read this http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/weekinreview/09good.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
Answer the questions around 150-‐200 wordsAdditional Files:
Book Review on Judicial Tyranny the new kings of America by Mark I. Sutherland
$7.00Assignment to analyze the sound
Analyze the sound in one sequence of Pulp Fiction by filling in the following chart. Then look at the questions at the end of the chapter on sound and respond in a brief essay to one of the issues brought up in those questions.
Describe Sound Diegetic /nondiegetic
Internal/ External
On/off screen
Synchronous Asynchronous
Casual Argument Review Answers
$7.00Casual Argument Review: Read the below essay and write a review to respond all of the following questions. Please be specific as possible, and provide details to support the claims you are making. (Write about 2 pages)
Non-Renewable Energy Needs To Be Replaced by Richard Smith
Additional Files:
Casual-Argument-Review.pdfMasculinity and Femininity in Homer’s “The Odyssey”
$7.50The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a 500 or 600–word paper that analyzes how gender—masculinities and femininities—is portrayed in TheOdyssey. One way to approach this assignment is to consider how male characters think and speak about female characters (human and/or divine). How do the males treat female characters? How do the female characters treat the males? What patterns emerge? Based on those patterns, can you identify models of femininities and masculinities in The Odyssey? In other words, are particular behaviors, conditions, or roles associated with men but not women and vice versa? Second, analyze at least two major male characters. What does this reveal? Now carefully consider two female figures (human and/or divine). How are they represented? Using the data that you gathered, describe what the ideal ancient Greek woman and man might have been like. Next, decide if any of the female and male characters violate rules that apply to women’s and men’s behavior and, in so doing, offer the audience negative models of gender. Reflect on The Odyssey’sending—who wins and loses and why? What do the ultimate fates of the female and male characters reveal about ancient Greeks’ ideas about gender?
Do not simply answer all these questions in order to develop your paper. These questions are designed to catalyze critical thinking, and you should use the writing process described in the online lectures to compose your essay.
As you prepare to write this week’s paper make sure you understand how many things you are being asked to do.
Develop a Tentative Thesis
- How is gender portrayed in The Odyssey?
- With regard to gender, what do different elements of The Odyssey (such as genre, epic, myth, or hero) reveal about the culture, era, region, or important philosophies and values?
Prewriting
Choose one of the prewriting techniques discussed in chapter 3c, “Invent and Prewrite,” of The New Century Handbook and begin prewriting.
Rough Draft
Write your rough draft. You are not required to submit it, but you should get in the habit of writing one for every essay you compose in this and other classes.
Revise and Edit
Proofread the rough draft to check if the
- Thesis is clear and well focused and the introduction includes all the necessary information.
- Discussion of evidence includes quotes, paraphrase, or summary and synthesizes this material and your ideas.
- Conclusion is appropriate and reinforces the paper’s main ideas without repeating the introduction word for word.
- Essay is formatted in APA style throughout and it uses appropriate grammar, spelling and mechanics.
- Quoted material does not exceed 25% of the essay
Make any changes necessary to ensure that the essay is polished and persuasive.
Double check your final copy for spelling and grammar. Name your document S_W1_A3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. By , May 6, 2013, submit your final draft in a Microsoft Word document to the W1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Wrote a complete introduction that engages your classmates’ interest, explains the topic, provides a detailed thesis that identifies your argument, briefly states the main evidence, and maps the paper for your audience. 10 Used literary terminology, such as genre, epic, myth, and hero in your essay’s discussion of evidence. 10 Used key passages and quotations from the text in your essay’s discussion of evidence, limiting the quoted material to 25% of the essay. 10 Examined in your essay’s discussion of evidence what the text suggests about the culture, era, and region in which it was developed. 10 Considered in your discussion of evidence philosophies and ideologies that influenced the text. 10 Organized the paper effectively with unified paragraphs, each of which has a topic sentence and effective transitions to the next paragraph. 10 Provided an appropriate conclusion that reinforces the paper’s main ideas without repeating the introduction word for word. 10 Met the word requirement. 10 Communicated clearly using your own words for the majority of the paper with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling throughout. 10 Formatted the paper in APA style throughout, including a title page, running head, headings between sections, in-text citations, and a reference list. 10 Total: ASSIGNMENT 3: PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1
$30.00Assignment 5: Persuasive Paper Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals
Due Week 9 and worth 170 points
Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Parts 1 and 2, and add Part 3. Plan to include
visuals to illustrate the advantages of your proposed solution.
Write (1-2) page paper in which you:
Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)
- Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists, using feedback from the professor and
classmates.
Provide Part 2: Revision of Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages)
- Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages, using feedback from
the professor and classmates.
Develop Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals (1-2 pages, for 7-9 total pages)
- Included a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph.
- State, explain, and support the first disadvantage (economic, social, political, environmental,
social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical answer. This should be
one (1) paragraph.
- State, explain, and support the second (and third if desired) disadvantage (economic, social,
political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical
answer. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
- Include one or two (1or 2) relevant visuals that help illustrate an advantage.
- Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
- Provide a concluding paragraph to summarize the proposed solution, its advantages, possible
disadvantages, and answers to the disadvantages. Repeat or paraphrase your thesis statement.
- Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
- Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategy (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain claims.
- Support disadvantages and answers with at least two (2) additional quality relevant references.
Use at least eight (8) total for Parts 1, 2, and 3.
Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions
before submitting your paper to your professor.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
Associate the features of audience, purpose, and text with various genres.
Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation
into essays or presentations.
Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written English.
Analyze visual elements (format, charts, pictures, etc.) for use in persuasive writing
Hector in Iliad
$7.00how does duty come up in relation to Hector in the iliad, and how does this affect the Hector’s role in the story
(500-700 words)
The Fallacy of Legalizing Marijuana
$7.5034-160 (02): Reasoning Skills (Guetter)
Essay #2
1. Begin by choosing any ONE of the following as the centrepiece for your ‘Fact-and-Arguments’-style essay:
B1. an argument involving a ‘straw man’ fallacy and ‘equivocation’; or
B2. a cogent (or sound) argument involving conversion and contradiction; or
B3. a cogent (or sound) argument involving constructive dilemma and disjunctive syllogism; or
B4. a cogent (or sound) argument involving reduction ad absurdum.
2. Next, apply your understanding of B1, B2, B3, or B4 to any ONE of the following statements in 2.1.B, p. 70
(treating those statements as conclusions rather than premises):
3. Marijuana should be legalized; or
6. Society has an obligation to provide housing for the homeless; or
12. Nuclear deterrence is irrational; or
16. a claim of your own invention.
This yields 16 possibilities: B1 applied to 6, B4 applied to 3, etc.
Notes:
1. In addition to information re: course/section, date, and student name/number, the title-page of your essay must include the Letter-Number combination of the logical topic you intend to write on (from #1 above) followed
by a descriptive title of the essay’s contents (from #2 above; if you select 2.16, you will need to come up with your own title). Use the Letter-Number combination together with a one-word indication of your
subject-matter for the complete filename of the file you upload to turnitin, e.g. ‘A4 and Marijuana’, ‘A1 and Society’, ‘A3 and Nuclear’, and so on.
The Letter-Number combination is necessary to tell your TA/GA which specific logical topic you intended to write your essay on. A complete descriptive title for your work is insufficient for this purpose, and a oneword summary of that title is even less so. In short, no Letter-Number combination = nothing to evaluate.
2. A requirement of first-class work is that it shows something (e.g. equivocation) without naming it anywhere in the essay including its title page (e.g. ‘she equivocated’).
3. The required length is approximately 900 words, double-spaced (about three pages, excluding title-page). A set of loose pages, whether held together with dog-ears or a paper clip or in a plastic cover or anything else will be returned to you until it is stapled together (just one, in the upper left corner); a stapler is about $1 at any Dollar Store. Get your own now.Solution for B1 and Marijuana, which means the “facts and arguments involving a “straw man” fallacy and “equivocation” regarding marijuana should be legalized”
ENG 4A03 – Assignment #5: Creative Writing “My Biggest Perspective Change
$10.00Write an approx 800 word article/story/piece reflecting on the most significant perspective change YOU had so far during this course. It may be from the book, lectures, TED Talks, Choice Assignments, or any other experience related to the course. The goal is to make it compelling in some way. How can you best communicate the perspective shift and learning that you’ve had?
Estimated time: writing 10-20 hrs
Some notes to help you out:
- If it was noteworthy to you, it likely is interesting to others too , so try to figure out why you thought it was cool – going deeper is usually more interesting than simple observations.
- Personal stories are often very effective ways of communicating learning;
- Consider discussing the shift’s impact on your life and choices – those are tangible manifestations of the change.
- Remember the goals of the course – perhaps there’s a way to relate it to your personal vision of contribution or the interconnectedness of things.
- Give some thought to the best style to use – it’s not necessarily an essay. Make sure the medium & method suit the message.
- Consider taking your “finished writing” to a writing clinic or coach and getting some feedback on how to improve it. Likely you’ll find that this “finished” draft can be improved a lot.
Evaluation:
Assignment is worth 20% of the final grade, and you’ll receive a writing score and a content score, each out of 10, according to the following rubric:
Reflection on Where are the Children?
$7.502-3 page reflection on the film: Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools.
You are to relate the film to the educational theories that you feel apply to the this situation.
Links to the film are found at the bottom of the page, but you are also welcome to explore the site.
http://www.wherearethechildren.ca/en/exhibit/impacts.htmlCharacter in Short Fiction
$7.00Character in Short Fiction
Part A: Choose a character from one of the short stories that you read this week. Now, consider the character’s ethics by examining her/his reactions to problems or challenges. Draw a table with two columns. In the left-hand column, briefly describe several crises, moral dilemmas, or junctures that require the character to make a decision. In the right column, state the action that the character took at this point in the story.
Challenging Event Character’s Response Part B: Write a few notes evaluating the relative wisdom, effectiveness, and ethical nature of the character’s decisions.
Part C: Repeat these steps using a character from a second short story that you read this week.
Part D: Write at least one-half page (175 words) comparing and contrasting the two characters, focusing on the ethics that they use to respond to crises, solve problems, and make decisions. Be sure to explain each one’s role in the appropriate short story.
Part F: Put together all the materials from Parts A, B, C, and D into one document. Remember that claims in all parts of the assignment should be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources. Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries used in the assignment should be arranged according to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided, also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should never exceed 25% of the document. Post the final document in the
Discussion Area.
THE HAPPY PRINCE
$8.00PowerPoint Digital Book You are working with a person who has a physical disability that will not allow him/her to turn pages of a book. Create a Power Point Digital Book with at least 10 slides and 5 illustrations. Include the text of the story on the slides. You choose the age of the person and the topic covered. This Assignment will be graded on:
Layout and use of text
Content
Use of pictures or illustrations
Attention getting/ Creativity