Best Writer

Choose 3-5 pages of the text readings assigned that week and provide a detailed outline of the material and a personal summary or impression of what was covered. Be sure to include text content that is located in “call out areas” or boxes in the text. Indicate the page numbers you’ve outlined in the subject line of your post. Avoid repeating the work another student has done. Many students use these resulting outlines to help prepare for the exams.

After reviewing the course content and reading Chapter 3 in the textbook, complete the following questions:
Review mean, median, and mode: pages 112-122.
Review Weighted Mean: pages 123.
Also review the section “Properties and Uses of Central Tendency,” on pages 120-121
For homework, calculate the mean, median and mode for the following questions:
Exercises 3-1, pages 118 – 121, Questions 1, 6, 8 and 10.
Also Answer Questions 26, 27, 28, and 33 on page 121.
E- Textbook: https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=24617&dataid=41708&FileName=Blumen_7e.pdf

Differential Association Theory and Anomie Theory
For this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation with slide notes. Your presentation should include the components provided below.
Discuss each of the theories (differential association theory and anomie theory), and share how the current society within the United States reflects a certain level of each theory in terms of biological and psychological behaviors.
Discuss the influence of each theory and the role of social structure in the creation of deviance.
Your presentation should be a minimum of 12 slides in length, not counting the title and reference slide(s). Use a minimum of three resources; you may use as many resources as necessary to fully present your position. Resources selected should be no more than 10 years old.
Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

Discourse Community Research Assignment
DUE April 6
The Prompt
Investigate a literacy-based community of your choice. Study the literacy practices of this community and determine:
Is it a discourse community?
How does it satisfy each of Swales’ requirements? If it does not satisfy each requirement, why not?
How do I do this assignment?
To begin this assignment, think about some of the literacies you are familiar with. Do these literacies have communities associated with them, either on a large scale (political organizations, a career field, a business industry) or on a small scale (your local Boy/Girls Scouts, a restaurant you work at, a club or a team that you meet with regularly)? Choose one of these literacy-based communities to focus on.
Then, do some research on how this group communicates with each other. These are the “literacy practices” you are looking for — does this group publish or post material for their community? Is there an email newsletter? Do they meet regularly? Can you find a peer-reviewed article about their literacy practices? Etc.
Finally, compare your research to Swales’ six required qualities of a discourse community and answer the questions, “Is it a discourse community?” and “How does it satisfy each of Swales’ requirements?”
My Requirements
Use one scholarly, peer-reviewed source related to a literacy or a specific discourse community.
Provide specific evidence of your chosen community’s literacy practices. Don’t just tell me how they communicate with each other – tell me what they actually talk about.
Write at least 1250 words (approx. 5

Describe in detail what is required to lawfully conduct a covert action. Cite the textbook and at least one other source.
Must use this textbook as a source Lowenthal, M.M. (2020). Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 8th ed. CRC Press, plus one other source.

The test has 20 Multiple Choice Questions and questions on:
Events and use cases
ERD
Activity diagrams.
The test will run for 1 hour.

The multiple Choice Questions must be answered on the test document. For Question 21- Question 23, you will need to upload your solutions in the test document.
Questions on ERD and Activity diagram can be hand drawn or you can make use of software. You are required to upload your solutions to the test document.

Album Review Paper
Vinyl albums, compact discs (CDs) and digital albums are a tremendous resource for discovering new music and learning about the artists who perform this music. To this end, you must complete an review paper of 3 – 4 pages on album recorded by an artist or group considered to have had a significant impact on U.S. culture and popular music. The album you choose to review may be from a streaming service such as Apple Music or Spotify, your own collection, borrowed from a friend or checked out from the library. If you are unsure about which album to review consider albums and artists mentioned in your APM text, however, please note that there are several albums which you may not review. Please consult the “Excluded Albums” section of these instructions below for more details. If you are not able to choose an artist/album one can be assigned to you. If you are unsure if an album will qualify, please contact me.

Due Date

Completed album review assignments should be uploaded to Canvas via the “Submit Assignment” Link provided at the top of this page. You may submit this assignment at any time up to the final due date of Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 11:55 p.m. No late papers will be accepted.

Album Review Your review must be written in prose form (introduction, main body, conclusion) using appropriate college-level grammar and punctuation. Avoid colloquialisms – do not write with the same every-day voice/grammar you use when speaking.

Begin with a separate cover sheet with the following:

Your Name
Music 106-300/301 (Please look up the correct section number)
Submission Date
Title of the album reviewed
Artist or group performing on the album
For the subsequent page(s) following the cover sheet, please include the following:

Page entitled, “Track Information”
On the Track Information page(s) list:
Names of the primary artists and other musicians for the album along with the instruments they played
If you do not own the physical album, to find this information you may have to research the liner note information for your album using one of the following websites (or similar):
http://albumlinernotes.com/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.allmusic.com/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.discogs.com/ (Links to an external site.)
Titles of all the songs on the album organized by track number
Name of company that released the album (Blue Note, Columbia, Verve, etc.)
Album release date
Begin writing the introduction, main body and conclusion of your review on a new page following the “Track Information” page.

All pages must have:
1 inch margins all around
Double-spacing
12 point font (no more, no less)
Not counting the coversheet, track information and any endnotes, all reviews should be at least 3 pages long but no longer than 5 pages. The main body of your paper should be about 750 – 1,000 words.
All pages except the coversheet must include your last name and a page number in the upper right hand corner.
Excluded Albums
While, indeed, the following are landmark recordings which everyone should take time to explore, due to the APM textbook’s extensive discussion of these albums, and so as to encourage students to complete their own musical exploration and research, the following recordings may not be reviewed for this particular project:

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Led Zeppelin: Zeppelin IV / Zoso (1971)
Michael Jackson: Thriller (1982)
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
Grades will be based on:
Argument – presence of an articulated argument that makes an evidence-based claim and expresses the significance of that claim
Be sure your writing holds considerable focus on the album and the music itself. Do not venture off tangentially to compose a biography on the band/artist performing. Consider that were you assigned to compose an essay about Huckleberry Finn in a Literature course, the focus would be on the story and characters and not biographical information about author Mark Twain. Proceed similarly in this album review essay.
Evidence – presence of specific evidence from various sources, especially the album itself, to support the argument
Reasoning – presence of a convincing connection between evidence and argument that links to the larger argument and its sub-arguments with logic and precision
Contextualization – presence of an accurate portrayal of historical contexts in which this evidence appeared
Style – presence of logical flow of reasoning and grace of prose, including:
an effective introduction that hooks the reader with originality and states a clear argument for the album review along with its significance
clear topic sentences that provide sub-arguments and their significance in relation to the overall argument
effective transitions between paragraphs
a compelling conclusion that restates argument and adds a final point
accurate phrasing and word choice
accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation
Special Instructions for Album Titles and “Song Titles” in Formal Writing Assignments
Within the body of your text, references to album titles are underlined OR italicized (not both) and song titles are in quotation marks. For example, if you were to review the album Abbey Road by the Beatles and were talking about the song, “Here Comes the Sun,” that is how you would format those specific titles. It is identical to how book titles and book chapters are handled in formal writing.

Submission Completed album reviews may only be submitted through the Canvas course-site Submit Assignment link above. Email and/or hardcopy (paper) submissions will not be accepted for any reason. In order to insure that your submitted paper can be properly opened and graded, submitted work must be saved in one of the following approved file formats:

Word (*.doc or *.docx)
Google Docs (*.doc or *.docx)
Adobe PDF (*.pdf)
No other document formats will be accepted. Please note that improper submission of the assignment, including failure to upload correctly to Canvas or submitting a file that does not open correctly will be considered the same as not turning in the assignment at all, thus receiving a zero (0) with no chance for late submission or making up the lost points.

Sources, Documenting and Upholding Academic Integrity
While the Album Review is not meant to a research project, per se, it is very likely you will want to consult additional sources in order to provide effective historical context for your album review arguments. Any ideas which are not your own opinion must be properly attributed with source citations. This includes, but is not limited to, information found online, in magazine/journal articles, the album’s “liner notes,” and etc. In addition to using in-text citations, please include a “Sources Cited” page at the end of your review paper documenting all sources referenced in completing this assignment. Use either the APA or MLA style guidelines (both are available online) for specific instructions on how to appropriately format your Sources Cited page and in-text citations.

When seeking additional information about your artist and album, consult only quality, credible sources in your research. As a rule, you should always avoid blogs, consultant sites, online encyclopedias (e.g. Wikipedia) and general online dictionaries (Quora). Furthermore, in college-level work you should avoid using the course textbook as a primary source. That said, quite often a textbook’s bibliography is helpful in identifying quality sources for your research. If you have a question about what constitutes an acceptable source for academic writing and research, please do not hesitate to ask your instructor or “Ask a Librarian” through the Moraine Valley Library: https://lib.morainevalley.edu/Main/AskLibrarian.htmlLinks to an external site..

Don’t forget! Be sure to cite the album as one of your sources! You are required to include the album itself as a citation on your “Sources Cited” page as you will have garnered a significant amount of information from this integral non-textual source in the process of completing your essay.

Collaboration with anyone else – classmates or otherwise – in the process of writing the concert reports without proper attribution is strictly forbidden. Please refer to the “Statement on Academic Integrity” listed in the course syllabus for more details on the academic penalties associated with such inappropriate collaborations and use of undocumented sources.

Moraine Valley Speaking & Writing Center
If you have questions about appropriate collegiate-level writing style, properly documenting sources, or would like help with becoming a more effective writer, I recommend contacting the Speaking & Writing CenterLinks to an external site. online.

However, you should always feel free to email me or see me during my office hours if you need any additional help with this assignment.

PLEASE FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS. READ THOROUGHLY AND SUBMIT THE 4 ANSWERS AS DESCRIBED BELOW FOR COMPLETION. THERE ARE 4 STEPS, SO 4 PARTS MUST BE INCLUDED TO COMPLETE. (2 SCREENSHOTS AND THE 2 FILES WITH COMPLETED COMMANDS.) ALL MATERIALS REQUIRED WILL BE INCLUDED BELOW.
***MUST HAVE WIRESHARK TO COMPLETE****

ASSIGNMENT:
1. Run Wireshark on the winpractice file (included via attachment) and filter on ICMP. Take a screen shot and submit. (see https://wiki.wireshark.org/DisplayFilters (Links to an external site.) for some help on display filters)
2. Show the Wireshark screen where you would enable IP name resolution (hint: preferences). Take a screen shot and submit.
3. Run WinDump on the winpractice file and filter on ICMP. Redirect the output to a text file (append > output1.txt to the WinDump command). Submit the file and the full WinDump command you used.
4. Run the same filter again but this time without name resolution (check the help file or WinDump documentation for the flag to use). Save as output2.txt and submit the file and command you used.

NOTE: You may find that the two output files are the same, but this is acceptable as long as you have used the correct options. Winpractice.txt was created on the CSN campus. You are probably not going to get any name resolution if you run the exercise somewhere else unless that network uses the same IP addresses.

Your job is to examine two authors/texts and discern what significant meaning is generated by a meaningful difference. In choosing your texts, you must identify a significant similarity that allows the difference to highlight a meaningful idea.
our comparison must establish why you are comparing the two chosen texts and focus on ONE meaningful difference between the texts.

Specifications:
Your paper must…
 be 2,600 words long (NOT COUNTING WORKS CITED PAGE) (approx. 8 pages)
 quote, summarize, and/or paraphrase from the following sources:
o the two primary sources—(the literary text or texts you are analyzing)
o Walter Wink’s essay “The Myth of Redemptive Violence”
o at least 2 books/ebooks (secondary sources)
o at least 5 peer-reviewed articles from scholarly literary journals found in library databases
(only one article from The Explicator is allowed). Book reviews do not count. No websites are permitted. (secondary sources)
 have a descriptive title
 provide a reason for comparing the two texts in the introduction
 contain a clear interpretive thesis statement that summarizes your conclusions
o remember that your thesis claim should be specific and significant
 explain and support its main points with specific examples and/or quotations from the texts
 use the alternating format for compare/contrast papers rather than the block format (see below)  contain unified, coherent, well-developed paragraphs with strong topic sentences
 cite the literary texts in proper MLA documentation format
 be formatted according to the MLA guidelines
Use The Norton Anthropology of World Literature for the primary source

3 complete pages in length, plus a references cited/bibliography page; use and citation of 5 sources

1. Illegal immigration is a significant issue in Texas. Do illegal immigrants add to, or drain, the Texas economy? (Note: use facts and data to support your viewpoint.) What public policies have been considered to address this issue, and what policies have been enacted? Have they been successful?