I’m working on a writing discussion question and need an explanation to help me study.

Speaking isn’t enough; to become a better speaker (always our goal), you’ve got to reflect and think about a direction forward. I want you to do that in this mini paper. In just 2 paragraphs (6-8 sentences each), I want you to:

• Reflect on the role of public speaking, public advocacy or change management in your life. In your future career, how do you think you can use these skills to effectively drive change.
• Reflect on your own public speaking practice. How have you grown in this summer session? Consider how you have applied what you have read in your course texts and supplements materials and also the processes you engaged in to improve your speaking.

Unit 6: Campaign Advertising

This week’s discussion will ask you to reflect on and analyze media strategies in political campaign advertising.

Discussion Prompt

For this week’s discussion, you will select a political ad to analyze media strategies in political campaign advertising. You can find examples on YouTube and other public websites. The Living Room Candidate (????????) is another great resource. 

Link:http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

For the ad you select, make sure to: 

• Comment on the ad’s use of persuasion techniques as outlined in this week’s reading and videos.
• Evaluate the relative effectiveness of the ad based on course materials.
• Speculate about the target audience of this ad based on this week and previous week’s course content.

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

Please write a two-paragraph summary and reflection of Scenes 3 & 4 from “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee William.

1.Why is Amanda especially angry at Tom’s drinking?

2.What’s the point of their conflict over the kind of books Tom reads (D.H. Lawrence)?

3.What is the significance to his story of Malvolio the Magician?

4.What different attitudes toward humanity do Tom and Amanda express when they discuss

things like instinct and spirit? Does the play as a whole suggest that one of them is right?

What are your overall impressions of the play up to Scene Four regarding specific themes, imagery, characters, conflict,etc?

Instructions: Analyze the impact that various sentencing models have had on corrections. As part of your analysis you must discuss at least two (2) different sentencing models.

Each assignment is due Sunday, 11:59 pm EST of the appropriate week. The assignment covers the material from the textbook(s) and the supplemental citations. Each student submission to the assignment needs to be 2-3 pages with APA 7th ed. citations and references. Do not use any other form of referencing. Each student submission MUST be uploaded as a Word Doc attachment. 

All assignments must be written in an academic tone. You are not to write in the first person. Instead you need to use third person. Remember, an academic essay is not to be written like you are having a casual conversation with your friends. Do not include slang or foul language unless you are quoting someone.

Large word-for-word quotes are not permitted as well. Direct quotes, if used need to be only a sentence or two long. Instead, most cited material needs to be paraphrased. For more information on properly citing sources in your assignments please refer to the APA 7th edition manual. While the assignments are to include an examination on current research of a particular problem, they also need include the student’s careful and informed analysis of the problem. 

Remember each assignment must be submitted as a Word Doc attachment. The assignment needs be written in 12 point font, using Times Roman. Margins will also need to be 1’ inch.

Each assignment will need to include the following:

• The original question at the top of the essay (serves as the abstract)
• The body of your answer in several paragraphs
• A titled reference section that has been formatted according to APA 7th ed style.     
• A minimum of two references per assignment. One reference can include the textbook. However, you will need to include other additional academic sources. These sources should consist of scholarly journals that have been peer reviewed and academically based books. Web sources can be used, though they should come from credible sources such as government agencies, academics and private agencies with a strong reputation within the community they serve. If you have a question Examples of peer reviewed scholarly based journals include:

                    Journal of Criminology

                    Crime and Public Opinion

                   Journal of Criminal Justice and Public Policy

                   Justice Quarterly: JQ

Week 5 Discussion Board Post

Watch the video above. The author, in explaining the innovative techniques being used to study Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, describes the notion of aura. What is your interpretation of this concept? What is it about a painting that would make someone want to travel halfway around the world to look at it, verses enjoying a reproduced image? Is there something specific that you want to see or experience in person? It doesn’t necessarily have to be art, but please explain why it is significant to you.

Compare and analyze at least two of these four — Antigone, Creon, Jocasta, Oedipus — as tragic figures. Use “tragic” and “tragedy” in the true literary sense, and specifically, the sense that was used in Greek theater.

This assignment requires MLA format for in-text citations of sources, and of course, a Works Cited page. You must cite the primary sources, of course, and you must use at least one “outside” source. Use any source that is reliable and helpful. Your word count should be 750-1000 words.

Read these for information and guidance:

https://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24c.html
https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Tragedy/

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

What heroic qualities did Homer emphasize through example (heroic) and contrast (not heroic) in characters such as Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, Paris, and Odysseus.  Of those mentioned above, rank each from most heroic to least heroic, and why you think so? 

Approx. 500 words

Consider: Homeric “Heroic Qualities”

The hero’s social responsibility was essential to maintain his status, but the only way to establish his status was through his performance as a hero in combat on the battlefield. Furthermore, he had to show respect for and respond to social situations and mores; he had to respect his superiors and show loyalty to his friends, and he could in no way disgrace himself, his family, or his community. The hero’s duty was to fight, and the only way he had of gaining glory and immortality was through heroic action on the battlefield; thus, he continually prepared his life for the life-and-death risks of battle.

• A sense of personal honor and duty–he felt that he had to protect his reputation — even unto death.
• A sense of communal honor and duty to their community–His position as a hero depended upon understanding his place in society and performing in accordance with society’s expectations.
• Follows strict social and cultural norms that guide his life at home and on the battlefield.

Link (Links to an external site.) Summary of Homer’s Iliad

Link (Links to an external site.)—Summary of Homer’s Odyssey

Link (Links to an external site.)–Background on Homer

We are at a point in history when work in artificial intelligence and “surveillance capitalism” (see Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism) are intrinsically linked. In the past several decades, artificial intelligence has entered into routine research and economic workflows in order to analyze the glut of computational data being collected in all sectors of society.

Artificial intelligence itself requires large amounts of data, from which it can “learn” to identify patterns and make assessments, among a range of other tasks. In Harun Farocki’s Eye/Machine I-III (Week 6) , for example, we saw the way machines equipped with optical sensory devices can identify objects, or assess the integrity of machine parts. Other common AI tasks– emerging directly out from surveillance practices in social media and law enforcement– include facial recognition.

Many researchers have been critical of facial recognition software, not only for privacy concerns, but also because these AI programs routinely reflect the bias of their programmers and the data sets they use and create, which can have permanent and devastating effects in the real world. Mistaken identity has lead to false arrests and false imprisonment.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facial-recognition-60…

Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford recently explored the implications of

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ImageNet

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https://excavating.ai , one of the most valuable AI image training sets on earth based on its sheer size. Labels have been applied to images in this repository, which categorize people into types, harkening back to what were once obsolete nineteenth-century criminology practices

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https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/g… (if you are interested for more on this, see Allan Sekula’s “The Body and the Archive”

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/778312?origin=crossre… ). However, as they point out, companies and researchers routinely use this biased and questionable repository of images at ImageNet (as well as others) in a variety of AI applications.

Despite calls for greater transparency and reflection on these computing techniques, Google touts its work in AI as being beneficial to “everyone

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https://ai.google

” while squashing dissent and whistle blowers within its own ranks. In the past year, the company significantly undermined its own credibility

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https://www.cnet.com/news/google-ai-chief-says-rep…

by forcing the resignation of talented programmers, like Timnit Gebru, who was originally hired to explore the ethics of AI

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/.

These ethics are at the center this week’s Lecture and Reading Response.

Our Week 8 Group Presentations focus on the work of Forensic Architecture

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https://forensic-architecture.org/about/agency

, an investigative agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, which seeks to apply forensic research and crowd sourcing of information, data, smartphone documentation to uncover some of the most unethical acts of violence across the globe. These investigations, which are presented online, in popular news outlets, and in art exhibitions, suggest the ways in which artists, media practitioners, architects, and designers can critically intervene within or subvert this computational horizon.

Please review these presentations, watch this interview with Trevor Paglen

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and Timnit Gebru’s TED Talk

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and tell us what you think of these debates on surveillance and AI. Zuboff points out that this new “surveillance capital” and the “commodification of behavior” “pivots us towards a societal future in which market power is protected by moats of secrecy, indecipherability, and expertise.” (Zuboff, 100)


Can this work ever escape cultural bias? And can it ever, according to Google, truly “benefit everyone”?

What does it mean to live in a control society, and how does it relate to historic forms of vision and discipline?

In your response please refer to the assigned reading, lectures, group presentations, media, or past week’s themes.

The reference can only use in the pdf file.

Unit 2: What Could Amazon have learned from UPS

Your Task: Apply key concepts of issues management to crises at UPS and Amazon.

Initial Post

Incorporate what you learned from the UPS strike and issues management to answer the following question:

• What key concepts about issues management could have been implemented in order to prevent damage to Amazon caused by The New York Times story in 2015?

Then, imagine you were leading the communications for Amazon, provide three suggestions you would have implemented that could have prevented the strikes from occurring. Your suggestions should reflect concepts from your readings.

The attachment is readings.