Involuntary Manslaughter

1. Develop a written research paper comparing and contrasting various elements related to Murder, Voluntary and Involuntary Manslaughter.
2. Distinguish the general elements of each offense by providing a contemporary case example of each.
3. Produce an eight-page APA style formatted research paper, not including the required Title, Abstract Page and Reference Page(s).
4. Explain specific laws related to the prohibition and authorization of uses of force, including those observed in “Stand your ground” deadly force cases.
5. Include an assessment of police and prosecution-qualified immunity.
6. Provide detail on how the issues may and or have affected community trust and faith in the criminal justice system.

Late Middle Ages Essay

THE REQUIRED TEXTBOOK FOR THIS ESSAY IS: Cole & Symes’ Western Civilizations, Volume 1 (published by Norton); please make sure you are using the 20th edition
MUST BE THE 20TH AND ONLY 20TH EDITION

Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Tuchman wrote a book in 1978 entitled “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”. In it she recounts how the 14th and the first half of the 15th centuries give us back two contradictory images. An “Indian summer” of the Middle Ages–a still glittering time of castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear, famine, and the Plague. The title is referencing how the catastrophes of that transitional time and the contemporary world of the 20th century (or in our case the 21st century) shows disturbing similarities. Here are several revealing excerpts from her work:

“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”

“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.”

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-nazis, and rapists. [today we could add economic woes, political divisions, prevalence of poverty in much of the world, fears of terrorism, cyberattacks]. The fact is that one can come home in the evening–on a lucky day–without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman’s Law, as follows: The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold (or any figure the reader would care to supply).”

While using the above statements as a launching point for your essay engage in a discussion of the crisis thesis of the late Middle Ages. Write an essay explaining the significance of the various crisis—political, social, economic, and religious–facing Western Civilization in the 14th and 15th centuries. Be sure to cite details the textbook while giving arguments to support your answer.

The essay should be 1,200-2,000 word essay. In the body of your work, try to answer at least THREE of the following questions with references from the textbook while demonstrating historical analysis. This list is meant to serve as a sort of outline and guide for the essay.

1. Describe the benefits and costs of the Mongol Empire.
2. How does living in and experiencing the Age of COVID inform our understanding of the 14th century Black Death–socially, economically, biologically, etc.
3. Revolts in Europe (Jacquerie, English Peasants, Ciompi Rebellion).
4. Why is it correct to consider this time an era of exploration and globalization?
5. What caused the rise of national monarchies in England and France in terms of the Hundred Years War? or discuss the emergence of Russia?
6. What was the condition and role of religion and the Church during the period under consideration (think about Avignon papacy, the rise of piety, heresies, spiritual crisis, etc.)?
7. What are the implications of the emergence of vernacular literature and culture in the Late Middle Ages? Think Chaucer and Dante, among others.

Environmental factors

The growth, development,
and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct
effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research
an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants
and develop a health promotion that can be presented to caregivers.
Create a 10-12 slide
PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan.
For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a
video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an
additional slide for references at the end.
In developing your
PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your
target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient
(socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic
of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.
Include the following in
your presentation:
Describe
the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor
you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
Create a
health promotion plan that can be presented to caregivers to address the
environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of
infants.
Offer
recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate
to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
Offer
examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At
least three scholarly resources are required. Two of the three resources
must be peer-reviewed and no more than 6 years old.
Provide
readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based
resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each
resource.
You are required to cite a
minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources
must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment
criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.

How Does Perelandra compare to Milton’s Paradise Lost?

Interact with the ideas of the scholars incorporating their writings with your own insightful ideas.

Please choose one of the following topics and writing essay of at least 4 to 5 typed doublespaced pages.
Assume your audience has recently read the works you are discussing but do you use examples from the text to support the points you make, giving page references for quotations which can be included in the body of your paper rather than in the notes. You are required to use at least 4 to 5 sources in your essay. You must give credit in your paper to the source or sources that you use even if you put some other writers ideas entirely in your own words. Follow MLA format for all citations.

Play review on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BeimDyvbo

Indent each new paragraph just like this one. Your essay should be typed, double-spaced and use 12 point Times New Roman font just like the example you’re reading right now. Number your pages just I have. The production review should between five sides long. Use spell check and good grammar throughout. Your essay needs emailed to the instructor’s email address in either PDF or a Word doc. ONLY.
In the first paragraph briefly outline what you saw, when, and who directed it.
Briefly outline the plot in a couple of sentences. For example, if I wanted to summarize Romeo and Juliet I could say: ‘Set in the Italian city of Verona it tells of a long-running hatred between two families, which results in the tragic death of the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet.’
The strange thing is that although it’s called a ‘play review’ you should be reviewing a production of a play not the play itself, so don’t fall into the trap of explaining what happens in the story by exploring the plot, themes, or language of the drama. Those things are fixed and never change. Write instead about what the production did with the play. Talk about the acting, lighting, costume, set, music and any other element of the production and explain if they did a good or bad job. Feel free to share your opinion and make bold statements about what you’ve seen. For example, I could that ‘I thought the Romeo actor was terrible,’ BUT because a critical essay is about demonstrating your ability to build a strong argument, YOU NEED TO SUPPORT YOUR STATEMENT with a clear and well-argued explanation. For example, explain how and why the Romeo actor was so terrible and if you have any suggestions about how to fix this problem. For example, ‘I thought the Romeo actor was terrible because the character of Romeo is supposed to be torn apart by love. We didn’t see that in actor’s physicality because the Romeo actor in this production was too relaxed to make his performance believable. An example was in the scene where Romeo is banished and must leave the city forever. The character talks about wanting to commit suicide and he’s furious he’ll never see Juliet again, but the Romeo actor delivered the lines in a such a relaxed way that Romeo didn’t appear to care about his predicament. Also, the actor didn’t speak clearly or loudly enough and I missed much of what he was saying. A simple solution to this would have been to mic the actors or for the director to simply tell the actors to speak louder.’
Talking about specific moments like that will improve your essay and demonstrate that you engaged critically with the production. But don’t just make one point and spend the entire essay talking about it. Aim for ten clear points about the acting and other production elements. Consider how design and lighting helped or hindered the production. Did the costumes and set work well or not? How did all the separate parts of the production fit together? Did some parts work better than others?
When writing your essay tell us what you thought AND always back it up with a strong argument then move on to the next point. Do this again and again throughout your essay and you’ll maximize your grade. You might want to focus on the two or three most successful aspects of the production and then counter this with what you thought were the worst parts.
What is the main theme or idea of the play and did the production put that across well? You should also write about how the play is relevant to audiences today. Is the play relevant to your life? Explain why or why not.
Include some of the key terms from our book such as suspension of disbelief, fourth wall, climactic, episodic, Realism etc. That will also improve your grade.
Finish your essay by summing up your overall response to the production and remember, your essay needs to be 4 sides long. If your page count is slightly short or long (no more than half a page) your grade won’t be affected but 4 sides is your target so that is what you should aim to hand in. If your essay is more than half a page short or long, points will be deducted.

consumer behaviour

You will choose to focus on one of the following essay topics:
a) This topic relates to market segmentation, digital marketing and social influence. What are the benefits of using traditional media, versus social media in communicating with consumers? Discuss.
b) This topic relates to needs/motivations, personality, perception. What is a “self-brand connection” and how important is it in shaping brand loyalty (behavioural and identity loyalty)? Discuss.
c) This topic relates to decision-making. Are consumers rational or emotional buyers? Discuss.

write a short summary or review over a tedtalk film

In your review please include your opinionated comments over the film.

overview- Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research — and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.

here is the link to the ted talk.

In the context of this paper, how does the distinction between a dialect and a language come to play a role in the American legal system?

Read the attached article: `Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond’ [by John Rickford & Sharese King, Language, 2016] and write a summary and response [1000 words total].

A. Provide a short summary of this article. The summary should lay out the big claims made by this article and introduce the reader to the data that the paper uses to make its points.
In your response, you should also address the following questions:
In the context of this paper, how does the distinction between a dialect and a language come to play a role in the American legal system?
How do listener attitudes influence speech perception and evaluation?
B. In addition, discuss *one* of the following three questions:
What can we do – as individuals who have access to scientific information about dialects and language – to combat dialect prejudice?
What were some factors that made Rachel Jeantel less understandable to the jurors?
In the context of this paper, what are some interventions the educational establishment could undertake to improve educational outcomes among speakers of non-standard Englishes?
Keep in mind that the article is long and 1000 words is not a lot. So your first task is to identify what you think the important ideas are in this article and then decide how to incorporate them into your summary and response. Note that the goal of the project is to summarize — so you’ll largely be reporting the views of the authors. But in the second part where you choose one of three questions to address, you can give your personal take of the discussion as long as you make it clear that this is your viewpoint.
The writing assignment has three parts: (i) the first draft (ii) peer review and (iii) the revised version. For this round (i.e. the first draft), we will grade you on content and the structure of your essay. We will give you feedback on the style and grammar of your writing but will not deduct points for it.
Note that while you are summarizing someone else’s ideas, you still have to do it in your words. You cannot directly take chunks of text from the article. That would count as plagiarism. We will be watching, argus-eyed, for any instance of plagiarism. Plagiarism will earn you a zero grade and a referral to the Academic Dishonesty Office.
To get some tips on how to write well, you could read the first two chapters of Steven Pinker’s book “The Sense of Style”. They are attached below. Also please use spell checkers and avoid spelling mistakes.
Format: the essay should be typed in 12 point font and it should be double-spaced. Use the Times New Roman font. We don’t expect citations but if you are citing something other than the Rickford & King paper, use the citation as given in the paper. Display the citation as a footnote.