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The book (Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin)
Here is our first big jump into analyzing literature and writing about it in a more academic way. We’ve discussed the ways writers and other creators use systems of symbols and structures in order to tell stories, convey emotion, to draw logical connections, and, most importantly, move us readers to think or feel something in response to what we read (or observed).

Basically, we identified and discussed the tenets of a critical theory called Structuralism, and next we’ll apply those tenets to a text. We will practice writing about literature by analyzing the devices and structural decisions an author makes. This is a foundational practice in literature and writing, so we are tackling this for our first major paper as it will help us understand future assignments.
Analyze atleast 3 semiotic or structural elements (symbols, literary devices or structures) that convey optismis or hope in spite of the circumstances laid bare in that text

What we’ll do:
Select one text from below and analyze at least 3 semiotic or structural elements (symbols, devices, or structures) that convey optimism or hope in spite of the circumstances laid bare in that text.
Texts to choose from:
“Why I Write” by Reginald Shepherd
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Preface to And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
“Eidólons” by Walt Whitman
“Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath

We will spend time brainstorming and crafting this essay as a class and then develop our essays on our own. We’ll even work ahead on it with our Minor Paper: Thematic Analysis. There is work in that minor paper that we can use in this Major Paper.
I added my thematic analysis to help guide as stated^

This paper should be a recognizable, academic essay with an intro, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. This is an English 100 basic, so I assume we have practiced organizing such an essay, but there are some resources below that go over my expectations.

The class project will provide students the opportunity to share their research interests and demonstrate their accumulated knowledge of research methods in criminal justice. Specifically, students will submit a project (e.g., Power Point presentation, report, podcast, video, or paper) related to any current concern, issue, policy area, law, or practice of the American criminal justice system. Specifically, students must select an issue in criminal justice and propose at least one research design or methodological approach to examine the topic. Students must be sure to justify their selection and explain why it is the best approach to examine their topic. For example, a student may select a topic such as illegal drug use among college seniors and propose a survey as the methodological approach to investigate illegal drug use among college seniors. Students are encouraged to obtain feedback from the instructor for topic selection or inquiries. Presentations will be graded on originality, thoroughness, critical thinking, and organization. The class project is worth 50 pts.

See additional examples of acceptable topics for the class projects below:

A quasi-experimental design to determine the impact of an after school program on expulsions among Latinx youth
A case study to understand the predictors of gun violence among youth on probation
Interviews to understand barriers to successfully implementing body worn cameras among law enforcement officers

1.(Ch. 1) Compare and contrast conflict theory with structural functionalism. Pay special attention to the way that each theory treats the origin of social change. (5pts)
2.(Ch. 1) Symbolic interactionism focuses on communication and meaning. According to symbolic interactionism, how is a meaningful reality created? (5pts)
3.(Ch. 2) Sociology as a discipline is commonly divided between those who use qualitative methods and those who use quantitative ones. Describe the differences between the two approaches and explain the one goal they always have in common. (5pts)
4.(Ch. 2) Each method of social research comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. This means that there is not necessarily a “right” answer to the question of which method should be used for a project. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of ethnography and survey research. (5pts)

ESSAY #1 REQUIREMENTS
ESSAY #1 REQUIREMENTS
This essay should be 500 to 600 words (NO MORE THAN 800 words).
This essay should be written using MLA style.
You should include a Works Cited page MLA style.
You should include the story as one source.
You should add another source (this could be any of the sources I provided or another
that you find on to your own.)
You should discuss any three of the literary elements: style, tone, plot, characters, point
of view, symbolism…
You may discuss any of the critical thinking ideas: human. Nature, wisdom, truth, justice
, freedom or virtue.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST DRAFT. YOU WILL RECEIVE COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK
FROM ME AND BE ABLE TO SUBMIT A SECOND DRAFT.
Please do not hesitate to ask questions.

The Final Project should include the name of the case, the description of the case and the language-related issue in the case, the legal criteria/standards that define the language crime, the linguistic evidence, your linguistic analysis of a piece(s) of linguistic evidence (e.g., discourse analysis) and identify the subsystem(s) of language relevant to this analysis. Finally, the implications of the linguistic analysis of the linguistic evidence in the case/crime.
USE THE FOLLOWING CASE TO DO THIS PPT
Threats
Amerithrax (2001-2010)
Case Summary can be found at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/anthrax-amerithrax
Background: Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history. The ensuing investigation by the FBI and its partners—code-named “Amerithrax”—has been one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement. In August 2008, Department of Justice and FBI officials announced a breakthrough in the case and released documents and information showing that charges were about to be brought against Dr. Bruce Ivins, who took his own life before those charges could be filed. On February 19, 2010, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service formally concluded the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks and issued an Investigative Summary. The Amerithrax Task Force—which consisted of roughly 25 to 30 full-time investigators from the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and other law enforcement agencies, as well as federal prosecutors from the District of Columbia and the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section—expended hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case. Their efforts involved more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents, the execution of 80 searches, and the recovery of more than 6,000 items of potential evidence during the course of the investigation. The case involved the issuance of more than 5,750 grand jury subpoenas and the collection of 5,730 environmental samples from 60 site locations. In addition, new scientific methods were developed that ultimately led to the break in the case—methods that could have a far-reaching impact on future investigations.
Amerithrax letters can be found at http://www.justice.gov/amerithrax/
You may choose the following: Threats which is added above.
Your analysis should involve a full description of the overall pragmatic information of the case. Consider this to be a summary of the overall circumstances, the participants, the criminal charge(s), the linguistic evidence, etc.
Pick one piece of oral or written linguistic evidence, and if it is a long example or there are multiple pieces of linguistic evidence, then focus on one piece of evidence and/or one portion of it for discourse/topic analysis.
Identify the criteria/standard(s) that define the case as the particular type of language crime.
Identify the subsystems of language connected to your analysis and/or an expert’s analysis, types of speech acts, directness/indirectness/ambiguity, the presence (or lack thereof) of the Cooperative Principle, and the presence of “plausible deniability” (if applicable).
MLA or APA in-text citations are required for your discourse/topic analysis (use our textbook, articles on the class website and/or articles you find) and a list of those resources at the end of your project. Note: Your grade will be lowered if you do not include secondary resources in the final project.
Use the following book as one of the resources: Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society). This is the link of the book https://1lib.us/book/990436/d1be4b You can add the second resource.

ALL MATERIALS NEEDED ARE UPLOADED IN THE FILES
address the following issues in your response:
1) Make a comment regarding your judgment of the Doctor’s decision. Was it right or wrong? State why you think so.
2) Are “Applied Ethics” (chapter one(Ethics by lewis vaugh) involved in this case? Why or why not? State why you think so.
3) Is IHL (International Humanitarian Law) involved in this case? Why or why not? State why you think so.
4) USING THE INFORMATION FROM THE MATERIALS, think about the two answers you gave above, and then describe your thinking in this case. What does your thinking reflect?

This a power point no speaker notes needed 23slides how to identify homeless LGBT Teens and share available resources and free training programs to get off the streets

WPA American Slave Narratives Assignment – Prompt and Guidelines
In the 1930’s, different historians, folklorists, and others as a part of the Works Progress Administration, made a point to interview the aging population of black Americans who were alive before the Civil War and remembered slavery. They collected more than 2,300 narratives and memoirs called the WPA American Slave Narratives. They are available in their entirety on the Library of Congress’s website. I am providing you with 11 selections of men and women telling their stories about life before the Civil War. These selections can be found on the main Moodle course page titled “WPA Narrative” under this assignment.
Your assignment is to write a 3 page essay examining the narratives I have provided answering this question: in what ways were the roles of African American men significantly different from the roles of African American women before the Civil War?
There are many ways to approach this essay, but my recommendation is to approach the topic thematically. Pick 2-3 themes, like family, work, or health, etc., create an argument and use the sources to support your argument.
Students will be evaluated on their thesis, their ability to use the sources to support their thesis, their overall comprehensive approach to the topic, as well as their clarity of writing.

PDF created by multiple resources within the following link to create this document.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
Copyright GMC Openstax U.S. History – Chapters 12-13
Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 I attached source I know he would be looking for and the chpts

In the Ancient Greek world (the world of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, often regarded as the birthplace of philosophy) a “symposium” was a banquet held after a meal, an “after party” of sorts that usually included drinking, dancing, recitals, and engaging conversations on the topics of the day.
For our purposes in this course, the Symposium discussions will not involve dancing, recitals, or a banquet, but they will provide food for thought on current ethical issues and direct application of the ethical theory discussed in each of these weeks.
It is almost impossible these days to turn on the news or log onto social media without encountering a controversy that cries out for ethical discussion. For these Symposium discussions, your instructor will choose a topic of current ethical interest and a resource associated with it for you to read or watch. Your task is to consider how the ethical theory of the week might be used to examine, understand, or evaluate the issue.
This week, you will consider how utilitarianism applies to a controversy, dilemma, event, or scenario selected by your instructor. It is a chance for you to discuss together the ethical issues and questions that it raises, your own response to those, and whether that aligns with or does not align with a utilitarian approach. The aim is not to simply assert your own view or to denigrate other views, but to identify, evaluate, and discuss the moral reasoning involved in addressing the chosen issue.
Your posts should remain focused on the ethical considerations, and at some point in your contribution you must specifically address the way a utilitarian would approach this issue by explaining and evaluating that approach.
If you have a position, you should strive to provide reasons in defense of that position.
When responding to peers, you should strive to first understand the reasons they are offering before challenging or critiquing those reasons. One good way of doing this is by summarizing their argument before offering a critique or evaluation.
For our first symposium, we’re going to consider hate speech in light of the First Amendment, which ensures that all citizens have the right to free speech. Before you begin work on this assignment, please read the article or watch the TED Talk video on free speech by attorney Lee Rowland, at these links –
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/free-speech-can-be-messy-we-need-it

Address these questions in your posts:
Should we protect the right to public hate speech based on First Amendment or should public hate speech be a crime? Make sure to apply and discuss the theory of utilitarianism, which suggests that an action is morally right or wrong if it achieves the best possible results for all those affected. If we accept utilitarianism as the right explanation of what morality amounts to, should we conclude that the First Amendment should protect public hate speech or that public hate speech should be a crime?

Please read John 3:1-31. What does it mean to be “born again”? How is this relevant for today’s business professional? How might other teachings presented in this passage of scripture be applied to the field of human resource management, specifically? Please explain.