TaskTask: The school board has requested that several teams develop proposals for new curricula to meet newly established state standards. You and your team must develop the first proposal to provide as a pilot or model for the other teams. You have to first identify a specific curriculum area not currently used in the school district that would greatly benefit the students in the district. Use the Internet or the Strayer Library as well as you...
Purpose of the essayThe purpose of this essay is to develop an argument about an aspect of either Dr. Faustus or A Doll’s House (topics are listed after the discussion of the play in Weeks 11-12). The primary focus of the essay should be your analysis of the topic, but it must also include references to at least two secondary sources—either scholarly essays (from academic journals) or books of literary criticism on th...
Finding Another Essay to Compare and ContrastTask: 1.This is to revise Assignment #2 on the master schedule which is on page 17 of the Syllabus. The due dates are March 2nd for peer review and March 4th for grade submission. This essay will be an explanatory or argumentative synthesis essay, comparing and contrasting Paul Bloom's essay, "The Baby in the Well: The Case Against Empathy," with another essay of your own choosing. (I ha...
What: Short essay (5 paragraphs; approximately 600-700 words) that identifies and explains three critical weaknesses in Mark Hecht’s “Ethnic Diversity Harms a Country’s Social Trust and Economic Well-Being.” You are aiming to explain why the Vancouver Sun’s editors decided to remove Hecht’s article from their website. When: Written during class on July 13. Worth: 15% of your final grade. Nec...
Market and Business AnalysisThe presentation is to be based on the Marketing Plan that you will develop and work on throughout the semester. You will need to present your marketing plan as per elements 1, 2 and 3 of your individual report (see below). You will have 10 minutes to do this, and will be competing against your classmates for the ‘winning pitch’ (Prize TBC). You can be as creative as you want, including, for example, mo...
Topic of the EssayThis is a comparison and contrast essay of no more than that requires you to choose two stories. Below are the two stories : “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood After reading, Choose just one of the following topics: 1)Using two stories, compare and contrast the protagonists’ isolation from the world and the people around them. 2)Using two stories, compare an...
Summary of 'COVID-19’s Ultimate Impact on Online Learning: The Good and the Bad' (1) Summary Paragraph INSTRUCTIONS Please read the following article “COVID-19’s Ultimate Impact on Online Learning: The Good and the Bad” and summarize the article IN ONE PARAGRAPH ONLY USING YOUR OWN WORDS. I have attached the article down below. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2020/04/30/covid19s-ultimate-impact-on-online-learni...
Gloria Mehlmann's 'Pin Cherry Morning'Write a literary analysis essay on one of the topics below: 1. Gloria Mehlmann’s short story, “Pin Cherry Morning,” portrays a narrator’s childhood witnessing of children at play on a First Nation. Discuss the author’s portrayal of the impact of residential school experiences on family and kinship. 2. Herbert Gunn&rsq...
Learning ObjectivesINTRODUCTION Unit 2 gives you the opportunity to get to know other students in English 255 and exchange ideas with them about course readings and public issues. You will participate in a series of THREE online discussion forum sessions in Moodle. You do not have to be online at the same time as your group mates for the discussions to take place. Each discussion group will have three to five student members. Only you, your grou...
Does social media do more harm than good? Use “Logged off” and/or “Containing Health Myths…” to support your point of view. Your essay include an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion.
Subtopic 1 In this assignment, worth 15% of your overall course mark, you will write a rhetorical analysis essay on one of the essays we have read for the class in Unit 2. Because our text gives an example of a rhetorical analysis of “Denaturalizing ‘Natural Disasters,’” you may not choose this essay. As a reminder, here are the essays you can choose from: · "The UnAtomic Age" (page 2...
Arise and Glory Days by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Bruce SpringsteenPick ONE of the following questions and discuss. Answers must be in paragraph form. Pay particular attention to dates the poems were published and make sure your answers are reasonable given the time period. 1. While both of these texts talk about seemingly different subjects, they share a deeper theme. What is each song saying (i.e., paraphrase the texts), and what is the deeper t...
Ella's Struggles with Loneliness and AnxietyTask: A short story "Pilgrim" is about average family of four going to Thanksgiving dinner party at a seemingly unknown family house. The story is told from the perspective of the eldest son, girl named Ella. Ella feels lonely and disappointed in her life. In story, there have some contrasts: adults and children, limited and sufficient time, illness and health, daily life and holidays. In fact, Ella's...
Part I: Close Reading and AnalysisPart I: Close Reading and AnalysisYou must do a close reading and analysis of 2 of the 4 paragraphs below. You should explain key aspects of the quote, cite it directly in your answer, and explain its relationship to the larger topics/themes/ideas/contexts discussed in class. Each question will be marked out of 25 for a total of 50% of the exam grade.1)“That Friday everything went wrong. The underground tr...
1. In chapter 1 of "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" Skinner mentions several "serious" problems that the world faces. He says that the problems have actually become more severe through the application of science and technology, but that behavioural science offers a way out, because it tells us how to change human behaviour by modifying the environment in which behaviour occurs. Skinner said these things about fifty years ago, and the "...