Introduction and Background/contextual information• Choose ONE of the following ethnographic articles, and conduct a case study analysis using at least TWO other academic sources. Only ONE of these sources may come from assigned course materials (including the textbook, and other assigned articles). o Bourgois, Philippe. 1998. “Just another night in a shooting gallery.” Theory, Culture, & Society 15(2): 37-66. o Sche...
Question 1: Make Your Summary ComprehensiveA good summary should be comprehensive, concise, coherent, and independent. These qualities are explained below: A summary must be comprehensive. You should isolate all the important points in the original passage and note them down in a list. Review all the ideas on your list and include in your summary all the ones that are indispensable to the author's development of his/her thesis or main idea. ...
This TMA is allotted 35 marks of your continuous assessment Students are required to attempt both questions (A & B) You can refer to your course books as mentioned in the questions You must provide references are where appropriate AOU’s Plagiarism policy will be applied if a student is identified as using unfair means to complete the assignment The submission date (on LMS) of this assignment is ………&helli...
Statistics Canada Reports Over 3 Million Job Losses Since COVID-19 Economic Shutdown in Mid-MarchIt's a tough time to be sure, but here's where two experts think you should start According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, more than 3 million Canadians have lost their jobs since the COVID-19 economic shutdown started in mid-March, and Canada's unemployment rate is now 13 per cent. [1] Job searching during this recession&nb...
FormatFor this project, you will create a shortened “syllabus” for an introductory literature course focused on one theme. I put “syllabus” in quotation marks because this sort of proposal is typically more for faculty as they plan a course than for students, as the justification for text selections rarely show up in the documents students receive (though maybe they should appear more often). You will need to explicitly ...
The focus of feminist criticism on women's oppression and patriarchyFeminist criticism is concerned with "...the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson). This school of theory looks at how aspects of our culture are inherently patriarchal (male dominated) and "...this critique strives to expose the explicit and implicit miso...
Superintendent's ChallengesIn every community, there are many external influences that have strong affects on the local school system. These influences can come from parents, political and legal patterns, and demographic characteristics, to name just a few (Hoy & Miskel, 2001). Because of these changing demographics, the growing diversity of communities, and other external influences, the role of the superintendent is faced with even greate...
Assignment DetailsThe purpose of the Compare and Contrast Assignment is to take two topics of your own choice and write a 2 full-page Compare and Contrast Essay using the organization techniques (Topic-by-Topic or Item-by-Item) presented in Unit 4. Here are the details: 1. Choose two topics of your choice to compare and contrast. You are not required to do any research for this essay, so this assignment encourages you to pick topics you...
Part 4.1 - Questions about various short storiesAssignment 4 -Total marks for Assignment 4 (100 marks) Note: All of your answers and compositions in Assignment 4 will be evaluated according to the quality of your writing. Your short answers should be well written and your longer compositions well organized, developed, supported, structured, and written. Assignment Part 4.1 Marks for Part 4.1 (15 marks) (3 marks each, except for #3, which ...
Comparing the Short Story and Journal ArticleFor this course in which we explore how anthropologists differently represent and understand various human cultures, we have begun with a unit centered around Margery Wolf’s A Thrice Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism and Ethnographic Responsibility, a highly reflexive consideration of her research on and writing about rural Taiwan. In A Thrice Told Tale, Wolf juxtaposes a short story, an a...
BodyFor this assignment you are asked to complete a literature review on an educational topic (qualitative research) of your choice or select from a list of topics below. You are asked to locate at least 5-7 educational journal articles on your topic and write an approximately 7 pages literature review on the articles you've selected. Each paper also needs to include a number of sections between the Introduction and Research Problem Formulati...
Assignment Content Collaborate with a teacher to identify an EL, student with disability, or struggling reader which you can work with to provide additional support. Identify a piece of text in an upcoming lesson. Research reading strategies and choose three total one that incorporates pre-reading strategies, one that uses guided reading strategies (during reading), and one that includes post-reading strategies. Write a 275- to 350-word ...
TasksDetails:Your task is to summarize one of the following presentations:1) “A Better Way To Talk About Love” by Mandy Len Catron2) “How To Build Community When You Feel Isolated” by Chitra Aiyar3) “The Power of Vulnerability” by Brené Brown I have posted all three presentations to our eLearn website under Week 3. In your summary, you will represent the main points of your chosen presentation in a c...
TaskMulticultural Britain: learning to live together The country needs political project to get people to bridge their differences not just bond over their similarities It is depressing to discover that four in 10 adults in this country agreed with the statement that “having a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures has undermined British culture”. After all, such mainstays of British culture as curry, the Notting Hill carnival ...
Strengthening Your MarriageMack, Wayne. 1999. Strengthening your marriage. 2nd ed. Phillipsburg: P and R Publishing Company. ISBN: 0875523854. 1. The book aims to strengthen marriage with biblical techniques and guidance, the author addresses the important role of husband and wife so that marriage can be strengthened according to God's will. 2. The strength of the text lies in the approach made on the importance of communication so that the co...