Star Observations

Unit 8 Star Observations

Please submit image of star collaboration from the SkySafariPro app.
Unit 8: Star Observations
During this course, you will move through two seasons, and with this being an online course you will also find that your classmates live in many different areas of the world “north and south of the equator”. One night during each unit you will go outside (use the same specific location for each observation) and look at the night sky and describe the stars that you can see at your zenith. You will prepare a brief discussion post discussing the star groups that you were able to see during your night observations. Also, discuss the challenges you experienced in being able to see the stars. Be sure to provide your “general location” (north, south, east, west within a particular state, country) (NOT YOUR ADDRESS), and the date and time of your observation at the top of your discussion. The link below will help you identify the star groups. Make sure you select the correct star map for your area and season. You can also use SkySafariPro on your cell phones to help identify the star groups. Information on downloading the SkySafariPro is in the Getting Started Module at the top of the Home Page.
Star Maps

Creating A Brief Methodology Section for Research Paper

Read:
Lecture: Methodology and Results [I attach the file below]

For the Paper:
This unit focuses on creating a brief methodology section for your research paper.
You can choose between Qualitative or Quantitative Methods.
Explain why you chose the specific methodology.
Be sure to include your thesis at the top of the page. [I attach my research paper below, it includes the thesis. However, my instructor said that the thesis was not strong enough. Could you please rewrite it if possible?]
If you choose Quantitative,
You will then write a short questionnaire to give to 10 people.
At this point, all you need to hand in are your questions.
You should aim for a list of 5-10 questions that focus on your thesis area.
If you choose Qualitative,
You will write a paragraph describing what and how you want to observe in order to discover more about your thesis.
For example, you can write a proposal for an experiment that includes just observing people at work or school and writing down your observations.
Just remember, it has to be focused on your own research paper thesis.
Please note, for either method you choose, you will have to write a small (2-3 paragraph) results section for the next unit for your research paper, so keep this in mind when you choose your method.
Your instructor will use the following rubric to grade your Learning Journal:
Aspect 1: Did the student clearly pick a methodology?
Aspect 2: How well did the student exhibit the choice of methodology?
Aspect 3: Is this method of research realistic for the student to accomplish? If not, then what advice can you give?
Aspect 4: Is this a work of original thought? Has the student grasped what the direction the research should take in order to explore the thesis?
Aspect 5: How free of spelling and grammar issues is the methodology section? Are there repeating errors that can be pointed out?

Be sure to use in-text citation and provide references for your sources, including textbooks.

African American Literature Essay

Instructions:
For the Final Exam, you must complete one of the following two options:
1) Creative Project: see the attached prompt for requirements/info (if the doc formatting is thrown way off, which is likely will be, please see the pdf)
2) Film Analysis: select one of the following films (see below) and write a response paper based on your reaction to this film. For more detailed instructions on how to write such a paper, please read the following handout: “Writing a Response or Reaction Paper”.
This paper should be:
Page length: 3 – 5 pages
Format: MLA (MLA Formatting Guidelines)
Sources: 1 – 2 (this includes the selected film, which should be included in the “Works Cited Page)

career path

Career path is nursing and why I choose it FINAL
DUE: Friday, 4/29/2022 by 11:59 p.m. Please submit in Canvas in the Week 16 module under “Final Paper Submission.”
***Please note: I cannot accept any late papers!! Any paper turned in after 11:59 on 4/29/2022 will receive a grade of “0.” No exceptions!!
INSTRUCTIONS
Please pick one of the topics listed below and write a 2 to 3 page paper using the questions in each topic as a guide. Please DO NOT write in question and answer form!
Please put the title of the topic that you have picked at the top of your paper.
Please double-space, use one-inch margins, and the Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Be specific and give examples.
This assignment is worth 50 points and is 25% of your grade. The rubric is attached below.
This assignment can make a significant impact on your grade!! Please be sure to proofread and put detail into your content!!
TOPICS (pick one)
1. Interview or Self-Assessment
Please interview a young adult (ages 18-25), or assess yourself as a young adult, using the following questions as a guide:
What has been your greatest challenge during this stage of your life?
What is the extent of your parents’ influence on your decision-making?
Do you live at home with your parents? If so, what are their expectations of you while you live at home? How much do you contribute toward housekeeping chores, cooking, shopping, errands, and the care of younger siblings? In your current living situation, what is expected of you at this age? What advice would you give to an adolescent before they enter young adulthood?
2. Choosing a Career
Please identify and write about the reasons you have chosen a particular career path. Identify the different motivations leading up to your career choice.
To help you identify your motivations, you may want to include different things you remember from your childhood that may have influenced your chosen career path, your parents’ and/or siblings and extended family influence, and/or a specific event that influenced you so much you knew at that moment what you wanted to “be when you grew up.” You might also want to include certain personality or character traits that you possess that may have influenced your decision (e.g., “I am outgoing so I knew I would do well interacting with others on a daily basis as a nurse.”

Lunch with Warren Buffett

Your write-up should be 2 pages in
length (11 points font time new roman, 1.5 spacing).
You are given a lunch date with billionaire investor Warren Buffett at San Francisco Seafood Restaurant.
What are two questions to ask if you have $1 million to spare? and why? Please elaborate your reasoning.
Your question must be related to new, small and family business. Feel free to ask questions that relate to
course contents or/and bringing your own unique perspectives and experiences. Please be prepared to ask
intelligent and creative question.

Applying Mabbott’s Legal Retributivism

This discussion is for after you have read the following:
Mabbott, “Punishment”
Mabbott, “Professor Flew on Punishment” (excerpt)
Tierney, “An Overview of Mabbott’s System” (handout)
Smart, “An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics” (excerpt)
Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism” (excerpt)
Tierney, “Using Smart and Williams to Critique Mabbott” (handout)
In the handout entitled “Using Smart and Williams to Critique Mabbott,” in the context of an example I provided, I claim the following.
“If the judge (and the public) knew that the institutions of criminal justice, its legal structure, and particular criminal laws were created on utilitarian grounds, she would be more likely to deviate from the impartial application of the law as written in cases like Jones’, i.e., case where strict application of the law would produce a significantly counter-utilitarian result. More precisely, I suggest that she would be more likely to deviate from a strict application of the law in a real-world criminal justice system where Mabbott’s theory had been implemented than she would be in a somewhat mixed or jumbled system like our own or in one where the legal institutions and criminal laws were known to have been founded on some principle of retributivism (perhaps the version that is based on the idea that those who violated the criminal law morally deserve to be punished for their wrongdoing).”
As I say in that handout, these claims are empirical conjecture “about what judges would do given human psychology.” In this regard, “I have said nothing … about what judges shouldideally do. I have merely suggested what they would, as a matter of fact, be likely to do.” From there, I develop a criticism of Mabbott’s theory based on the assumption that these empirical claims are plausible enough to be worth assuming for the sake of examining their implications.
For this discussion, my question to you is the following. Do the empirical claims that I make in the italicized quotation above seem plausible or even likely to be true, or do you think the contrary? Again, for this question, you are not saying what judges should do, just what (based on your understanding of human psychology) judges would actually be likely to do. Please explain the basis of your answer.
I am not looking for a “correct” answer. I am looking for intelligent, careful reflection and clarity and care in expressing yourself.

What do we mean when we speak of Christ’s atonement for us? Is the saving efficacy of Christ’s death particular or general in nature?

An excellent (“A”) paper will interact with and cite important sources (Scripture – every answer, historic catechisms confessions, i.e., Heidelberg,Westminster, etc. and/or various systematic texts listed in bibliography). Doctrinal position catechism instructions:Notice in the example below (from the Heidelberg Catechism) that the answer section is
complete (it answers the questions without leaving out vital aspects of the doctrine in question) and yet still succinct (usually not more than 3 sentences); it also provides solid scriptural support for the main points put forward. It is clear and instructive without being verbose. Writing a good answer requires that you think out how you will write it to include what is necessary in a brief, informative manner. Your task is to write out answers to the following 30 questions. This task ought to reflect what you have learned in class (lectures, notes, reading assignments). Indeed, these ought to be sources that help you articulate your answers. You will be graded on the basis of whether your answers are complete, succinct and well-supported.
Answer all the question
Q.15: What do we mean when we speak of Christ’s atonement for us? Is the saving efficacy of Christ’s death particular or general in nature?
Q.16: Is the election of God’s people in Jesus Christ a choosing that is unconditional or conditional?

Q.17: What is the relationship between salvation and union with Christ? What benefits accrue to us from this union?

Q.18: Describe the benefit of justification; in what does it consist? How does it come about?

Q.19: Describe the benefit of sanctification; in what does it consist? How does it come about?

Q.20: Does God preserve those included in Christ until the end (growing them to maturity in Christ), or are the redeemed able to fall away from salvation?

Q.21: Why do we together confess that the church is ‘One’ and ‘Holy’?

Q.22: Why do we together confess that the church is ‘Catholic’ and ‘Apostolic’?

Q.23: What is a proper view of baptism? Is it a sacrament? Why should we practice baptism?

Q.24: What is a proper view of the Lord’s Supper? Is it a sacrament? Why should we participate?

Q.25: What is the most appropriate form of church government? Why?

Q.26: What church offices ought a church to have? Are these open to women?

Q.27: What saving benefits accrue to us because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

Q.28: What is your view of the millennial state?

Q.20: Does God preserve those included in Christ until the end (growing them to maturity in

Christ), or are the redeemed able to fall away from salvation?

Q.21: Why do we together confess that the church is ‘One’ and ‘Holy’?

Q.22: Why do we together confess that the church is ‘Catholic’ and ‘Apostolic’?

Q.23: What is a proper view of baptism? Is it a sacrament? Why should we practice baptism?

Q.24: What is a proper view of the Lord’s Supper? Is it a sacrament? Why should we participate?

Q.25: What is the most appropriate form of church government? Why?

How does the habit Win-Win, along with the concepts of inclusivity and diversity, help to grow an organization and help you to increase your growth mindset?

Please reflect on the following in your journal. Stephen Covey’s habit Win-Win is a frame of mind that seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. It encourages us to have consideration and consider other people’s wins as well as our own. We are conditioned to put people in categories. If we can break ourselves of that habit, we can open ourselves up to the possibilities of mutual benefit through a balance of empathy and courage.
Please answer the following journal question supporting your work with evidence from the provided resources.
How does the habit Win-Win, along with the concepts of inclusivity and diversity, help to grow an organization and help you to increase your growth mindset?

Vietnam Folk and Popular Culture PowerPoint WITH SPEAKER NOTES – Human Geography

Use the notes section beneath the slide to explain your ideas. Conduct more research on Vietnam and apply the concepts of Folk Culture and Popular Culture to that
country. You will also explain how these concepts fit into the Five
Themes of Geography. The themes of Place, Movement and Regions goes
nicely with the concepts of Folk and Popular Culture.
You will need to do some
outside research to complete this activity. To find information, Google
the country and the topic of the questions below. Please note that
sometimes elements/remnants of folk culture can be found by using the words
“traditions, traditional culture, local culture, etc.” You’ll have to
decide if what you find reflects folk culture in one way or another.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source.
Answer the following
questions. Do not just copy information to answer the question. Put
things in your own words and write in complete sentences. This needs to
be in a PowerPoint presentation of at least 6 slides. Use the notes
section beneath the slide to explain your ideas.
Part 1: Folk and
Popular Culture
·
What folk cultures or elements/remnants of folk cultures exist
in the country you have selected? Why is it a folk culture or element of
a folk culture?
·
How has the folk culture or the elements/remnants helped define
the Place of an area in the country?
·
How has the folk culture or the elements/remnants helped define
at least one formal Region in the country? What is the region? What
makes this a formal region?
·
What impact has popular culture and globalization had on the
country? Why is this important?
·
What spatial relationships can you identify that pertain to folk
culture as it is reflected in the country you have chosen to research?
Part 2: Language
·
What language(s) are spoken in the country you have chosen to
research?
·
If possible, find a map that reflects the location of the
languages and/or accents in your country.
·
How does language reflect the theme of Place in your country?
·
How does language reflect the theme of Regions in your country?
·
Include a bibliography for your research and for the
illustrations. You can include the illustration urls with the
illustrations.
Logistics:
1. You need to have at
least 6 PowerPoint slides. The last slide is a bibliography.
2. Everything needs to be
written in your own words.
3. Use the notes section
beneath the slide to explain the information. To get to the notes
section, click the view tab in PPT and then notes page. Then put your
cursor in the textbox and type.
4. You need to use
details from the information in this learning outcome and from your own
research to help you explain your ideas.
5. You need to explain
everything as if you are explaining it to someone who knows nothing about the
topic.
6. You need to use
proper grammar and spelling.

Leadership Development Plan Part II

: In this paper, you will evaluate your leadership performance on the team project, report on your progress in developing your chosen leadership skill and reflect on what you have learned in the class this semester through defining your personal leadership philosophy.