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I’m stuck on a Ethnic Studies question and need an explanation.

Assessment Description

As you research, describe two evidence-based teaching strategies that you have identified as best suited for your practicum setting and audience. Explain why you chose these two and include the references.

Theme Analysis Essay

Objective: Write a  3-page theme analysis of (one) of the short stories assigned for this course. 

Goal: 

1. Make a COMPELLING argument by answering one of the provided questions about “The Lesson,” OR “The Ones Who Stay and Fight.” 
2. SUPPORT that argument over the length of your essay. 

Definition: A theme is an abstract concept brought to life and made real through the plot, characters, and other narrative elements of a story. 

A thematic statement is an underlying central idea that a piece of literature communicates about a theme.

A piece of literature can have more than one theme and can offer more than one thematic statement about a theme.

As you read your chosen story, think about the comment the author is making about her subject matter. What revelations about human behavior or the conduct of society, or insight into the human condition is the author conveying? 

Remember that LITERARY ANALYSIS is the focus, not summary.  

Options for Essay

Write an organized 3-page essay that answers ONE of the following questions:

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara

Option 1: In your opinion, how does Sylvia’s experiences as a young girl and as one of Miss Moore’s students highlight the value of active, critical education? Cite specific evidence from the story to support your argument.

Option 2: How do Miss Moore’s teaching strategies and Sylvia and her peers’ reactions to these strategies challenge popular beliefs about the process of learning? Cite specific evidence from the story to support your argument.

“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin

Option 1: In your opinion, what important message(s) about creating a just, inclusive world might be gleaned by reflecting on the societal structure of Um-Helat? Cite specific evidence from the story to support your argument. (You can choose to focus on ONE or SEVERAL messages in your essay. The choice is yours)

Approach: 

1. Read and reread your chosen short story
2. Consider how the author uses characters, events, and literary devices to illustrate the theme? Pull evidence from the text to answer these questions
3. Compose a working thesis statement using your answers to steps 2 and 3
4. Make an outline for your essay
5. Write and revise
6. Submit

Guiding Questions to help you analyze your short story

1. What important idea or themes does this literary work convey?
2. What do characters do that helps illustrate this idea?
3. What do characters say that helps to illustrate this idea?
4. What events take place in the work that help to illustrate this idea?
5. Are there any recurrent images or clusters of images? Do these images support the idea or theme that you find in the work?
6. What does the narrator say that helps to illustrate this idea?

I’m working on a theater discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Compare and contrast subjective and cultural relativism, OR either ONE of those two and emotivism (chapter 2). In other words, you would take 2 of the 3 types of “relativism” described in the chapter, and then compare and contrast those two. You might want to do this by means of 2 paragraphs, one devoted to one type, one devoted to the other. Or you could organize your post in the form of 3 paragraphs, one devoted to the key features of one type, one devoted to the contrasting key features of the other, and a third paragraph devoted to describing what they have in common.

Here are parts of the chapter to look back at:

The section headings

The words and phrases in bold text

The words and phrases in italics

The quotations from various sources (which Vaughn makes to support his points)

The use of syllogisms by Vaughn to establish a point (there is an example on page 34)

Note: The advice I give above can be applied to ALL of the chapters in the textbook, so do the same scan and review each week.

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The article below was written by psychologist Michele Gelfand, of The University of Maryland. In it, she draws upon her research into what she calls “tight” and “loose” societies to discuss the very different response of different nations to the Covid-19 pandemic (available data suggests that “tight societies” have done better than “loose” ones). This article connects to this week’s theme in the following way: Gelfand defines the key difference between “tight” and “loose” societies in terms of different “social norms.” If you want a bit of a challenge this week, you could produce a DB post in which you combine what you have learned about “relativism” from the second chapter of Vaughn’s book with a discussion of how what you have learned sheds light upon, or illustrates, the specific behaviors Gelfand describes in her article (which in turn is based upon her book, cited at the end of the piece). If you recall, Vaughn includes among the 4 elements of ethics what he calls “the dominance of moral norms.”

Is this a situation in which moral norms should take precedence over social or cultural norms? Why or why not? (A caution: You must refer to the two relevant sources in your post, the Vaughn book and the Gelfand article–do not “put words in their mouths”. If you claim one or the other of them says X or Y, then be prepared to quote them saying that in your DB post, or, alternatively, provide a paraphrase of what they say complete with a page number citation.)

I need support with this Ethnic Studies question so I can learn better.

How does the evaluation of assessment data lead to the improvement of instruction and curriculum? Why is this an important part of curriculum design?

Background of Gilgamesh

Please spend some time at the following website The Big Myth. Make sure you watch Babylonian Creation and read Babylonian Culture and Pantheon. Then, answer the following questions within a slideshow or a prezi. Your presentation should utilize google slides or Prezi. Never used Prezi? Check out this informational video.

Prezi video

Your presentation should contain the answers to the following questions:

1. Look at a map of the world. Where is Mesopotamia? What different names has this region had in history? What is it known as today? (4 points)
2. What are the codes of Hammurabi? Select a few to describe. (5 points)
3. What gods are mentioned in the creation myth? How are they related to one another? (5 points)
4. Describe the war between the gods. Who belonged to what side? What was the cause of the war? (5 points)
5. In some versions of this myth, it is noted that Ea and the birth-goddess Nintu created humans. This differs from what you read. Why is that? (2 points)
6. Make a list of Marduk’s deeds. (3 points)
7. Why did Marduk create people? (1 point)
8. What similarities do you see between the Babylonian creation myth and others that you have studied or know? (2 points)

I’m working on a social science writing question and need an explanation to help me understand better.

Please watch the video on attitude.  Then answer the following questions that are on the word/pdf document, there are several pages. Please put answers ont he word document and save 

5 Goals (Links to an external site.) 

Writing Assignment: Successful completion of this assignment will demonstrate your concentrated knowledge of a civilization, the time-period of focus, key words associated with it, art that represents the time period and the inclusion of a primary source from the civilization. It will also familiarize you with primary sources, key words, and art representative of the civilization.

Two pages include the following:

1.Write a paragraph (5 sentences) where you summarize a topic of choice. The topic must relate to the time-period we are studying the week the homework is due. You must do your own research using the textbook and one other source. Do not clip and paste. 

2.Key terms: Write the Who, What, When, Where Why and historical relevance for each key term

3. Include one piece of art representative of the civilization you are writing about. Identify the artist, date created, where it is located (originally and today).

4.include one primary source related to the topic you chose.

Primary source resource list

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/

https://www.wdl.org/en/

I’m working on a humanities writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

After viewing the “How You See Me” short film series, discuss the intersection of culture and interpersonal communication. More specifically, how does culture impact the way you communicate with individuals from diverse communities. What is the biggest contributing factor in your perception of cultural groups which are different from yours (family, upbringing, media)? What steps can be taken to communicate more effectively and personally with these groups?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GkSHBVHzc&feature=youtu.be

This assessment method is designed to help you see how logic is used (or misused) in everyday life, and thereby appreciate the importance of good reasoning. You are asked to do some fieldwork related to logic. In particular, you are asked to document an argument “in the wild,” that is, an argument someone makes during a debate, a dispute, or a disagreement as you witness it in everyday life. The argument cannot be taken from a book or an article. You may use various mediums to document this “argument in the wild,” such as text, image, audio, or video. Then you should analyze the argument using the logical tools we learn throughout this course. For the third Argument in the Wild, you should write the argument in canonical form and then evaluate it, that is, determine whether the argument is valid or invalid, using a truth table. If the argument is valid, determine whether it is sound or unsound.

Here is an example of what an “Arguments in the Wild 3” submission should look like:

https://youtu.be/2z-OLG0KyR4

In this video, Ray Comfort (the person holding the banana) makes the following argument: “…the whole of creation testifies to the genius of God…”

Comfort’s argument in this video can be reconstructed in canonical form as follows:

P1: If nature exhibits design, then it must have been designed by an intelligent being.

P2: Nature exhibits design (e.g., bananas are designed for humans to eat them).

Therefore,

C: Nature must have been designed by an intelligent being (AKA God).

Reconstructed in this way, Comfort’s argument is valid; that is, if P1 and P2 are true, then C would have to be true as well. In particular, it has the following logical form:

D?I

D

?I

Where D stands for the sentence “Nature exhibits design,” and I stands for the sentence “Nature must have been designed by an intelligent being.”

This logical form is known as modus ponens, which is valid as the following truth table demonstrates:

P1P2CDID –> IDITTTTTTFFTFFTTFTFFTFF

Since there are doubts about whether the premises are true, although Comfort’s argument can be reconstructed as a valid argument, it cannot be said to be sound.Since the argument is valid, the question is whether the premises are in fact true. Is the argument sound? If Comfort studied a well-made coconut, as opposed to a well-made banana, he would have concluded that the coconut is not perfectly designed for human consumption. The coconut is difficult to open, hard to chew, and hard to digest. In fact, coconuts even kill people (Links to an external site.). The point, then, is that some things in nature appear to be designed for us and some are not. If we look at the former, we might conclude that there is a God. If we look at the latter, we might conclude that there is no God (or perhaps that there is an evil God who is trying to mess with us).

This, then, is how your third “Arguments in the Wild” assignment should look like. That is, you should use the tools of Sentential Logic (in particular, truth tables) to analyze one argument in the wild. You should determine whether the argument is valid or invalid by means of a truth table. If valid, you should determine whether the argument is sound or unsound.