Task 1- 30 MarksTask 1- 30 Marks Write an essay outlining what you have learned during this unit. Include the following: • How you think EAP (English for Academic Purposes) is different from general English. • Which skills you have improved and how you have improved them. • Which areas of EAP you still feel you need to work on and how you can do this. You should write between 400 and 550 words. Marks will be deducted for a...
Requirements of the Research ProjectThe research project centers on sustained academic analysis of a single image or news article of your choosing. Your job is to analyze an image (a photo, a painting, an advertisement, an Internet meme, literally any single image) or a news article (not just a general story or issue, but a single specific article published by a news organization) created within the last year, using the concepts and readings w...
Definition of CyberbullyingRead the following article and then answer the questions that follow: 1. Cyberbullying is when one person does something nasty to another, a number of times, on purpose, with the intent to upset the other person. Cyberbullying can happen via social media (such as Facebook or Instagram), via an app (like Snapchat), or even via text messaging or emails. Cyberbullying has been a problem for a while, and roughly, one ...
About The Tale of SinuheRead The Tale of Sinuhe, including the introduction and footnotes. (If you don’t read all this material, you might not understand the poem.) After you read the poem, read my notes for class discussion, below. As you read these discussion notes, answer the questions that I would ask you as a class to yourself. In so doing, have your copy of The Tale at hand. It will help you in deciding how to interpret...
What is a summary and why is it useful?Explain what a summary is and why summary skills are usefulDevelop your own summary preparation chart (outline)Create an appropriate first sentence of a summaryAnalyze a sample summary by following criteria in a checklistCompare your summary with a sample summary using specific criteria Have you ever seen the 1997 movie Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet? It’s a 3-hour movie abou...
PurposeWhat is meaningful to you about your growing up in terms of these themes.? Personal Narrative The Meaning(s) of Gender(s) and Culture(s) The purpose of this paper is to write about and explore the meaning(s) of gender and/or culture in your own life experience growing up. The essay will be written in personal narrative form and be based upon your own experience, observations, and analysis. The actual assignment is to write a...
Passage 1: Pyramids of EgyptRead the following 2 passages and choose the best answers: Each correct choice is worth 1 point The Pyramids of Egypt were built during 2700-2500 B.C in Giza on the west bank of the Nile and are the most ancient of the Wonders of the World. The first three of the ten pyramids at Giza are considered to be the most important. The first pyramid is the largest and is known as the Great Pyramid. It was built for Ph...
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...