Best Writer

Submit the final draft of your essay (at least 750 words) and your reflection letter (at least 250 words) in documents by the last day of the module.

To earn credit for this assignment, you must make revisions to your rough draft. Remember, you can also visit the Virtual Communication Lab for feedback and help revising your essay.
In addition to your revised essay, you will need to submit a reflection letter (at least 250 words) based on the process outlined in the reading for this module.
In your reflection, you should include the following:
Tell us who you think your target audience is and what you intend the essay to do for them. Describe the essay’s purpose(s) and the effect(s) you want it to have on your readers.
Describe your process of working on the essay. How did you narrow the assigned topic? What kind of planning did you do? What steps did you go through? What revisions did you make after completing your rough draft, and why?
How did comments from your instructor help you? How did any class readings or activities help you?
What aspects of the essay are you still most concerned about? What aspects are you most proud of?

***no feedback was provided on the rough draft from the instructor***

Explain How the Chinese Workers Were Discriminated Against During the Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway?

You might select a well-known contemporary photo (such as the “Taking a Stand” image of Ieshia Evans in Baton Rouge from July 2016), a famous historic photo (such as the “Tank Man” photo from Tiananmen Square in 1989), or a lesser-known photo, but whatever image you select, you should describe it in detail and explain why you chose it—why you find it notable or moving or shocking. Do some research to learn about the context and content of the photo. What were the events leading up to and following the moment that this photo was taken? Who took it, and where was it first published or posted? What was the public and media reaction to the image? Be sure to include different reactions and points of view about the photo.Application:
Choose an image that was published in a news publication of some kind and write an analysis of it. You might select a well-known contemporary photo (such as the “Taking a Stand” image of Ieshia Evans in Baton Rouge from July 2016), a famous historic photo (such as the “Tank Man” photo from Tiananmen Square in 1989), or a lesser-known photo, but whatever image you select, you should describe it in detail and explain why you chose it—why you find it notable or moving or shocking. Do some research to learn about the context and content of the photo. What were the events leading up to and following the moment that this photo was taken? Who took it, and where was it first published or posted? What was the public and media reaction to the image? Be sure to include different reactions and points of view about the photo.

Q. Identify the ways in which broadcasters, cable, satellite, and over-the-top television companies produce, distribute, and exhibit programming.

Explain the differences between Floor Wardens and a Fire Brigade?

What is McBrayer’s view of how we should think of facts and opinions? Take the time to use the definitions he offers in the discussions. Explain his argument for thinking of the terms in the manner that he thinks is correct. Then, explain how he thinks that this distinction is relevant to the moral relativism debate. How does he think that a proper understanding of facts and opinions (or beliefs) will help us think about the relativism debate?

Cite all the texts you employ. This is at 4 to 5 page paper, though
you may certainly write more. In offering your own judgment and
defense, use course concepts.

2. What is William Clifford’s primary argument to show that we are not entitled to hold beliefs under certain conditions? What if I live alone in the wilderness and I form a belief via one of the fallacious arguments that we studied in Module 2? Would Clifford still hold that I am not entitled to my belief? Justify your judgment. Explain what the relevant fallacies are as you consider what Clifford would say about them.

Cite all the texts you employ. This is a 4 to 5 page paper, though you
may certainly write more. In offering your own judgment and defense,
use course concepts.

3. We only briefly encountered subjectivism in here. What does that term mean as it applies to moral theory? What might the term mean if we were to treat it as a theory of truth? Now, suppose that I say the following: I know that you disagree with Bob. But truth is subjective. Thus, Bob is not wrong. In fact, he’s right. If you agree with him, you will think that he is right, after all. So, Bob is right!

There are two arguments in the previous paragraph. What are they? Neither argument is one that a professional philosopher would employ. What are the various problems with the arguments offered in the previous paragraph? There are quite a few. Use our course concepts to identify them.

Cite all the texts you employ. This is a 4 to 5 page paper, though you
may certainly write more. In offering your own judgment and defense,
use course concepts.

Grading Rubric 1. Does this paper identify have a clear thesis? (5%)
2. Does this paper contain only relevant information? Are the
citations completed properly? (5%) 3. Does the paper attribute the
correct view to the philosophers in question? (10%) 4. Is/are the
philosopher’s view presented with the appropriate level of detail?
(For example, does the author explain concepts and arguments in a
tight manner, or are the arguments and concepts merely sketched?)
(25%) 5. Does the author present a clear argument in his/her
discussion? (15%) 6. Does the paper cohere? Or, is the paper a
hodgepodge of disparate ideas? (10%) 7. Does the conclusion tie
together the different phases of the paper? Or, is the conclusion a
non-sequitur? (5%) 8. Are the spelling, grammar and syntax on the
college level? (5%) 9. Does the author make appropriate and accurate
use of course concepts in constructing his or her discussion? (20%)
Intangibles: Is the paper on the assigned topic? Is it the author’s
own work?

Discuss the term “clinical death,” especially with respect to when not to initiate CPR. Discuss what is meant by a “peaceful death” and a “good death,” including goals for End-Of-Life care. How would you feel if you knew your patients did not want CPR but the family insisted on it?

Explain how children today can be like them/do similar actions or have similar ideals to the change leader.

1. Explain the grounded-theory approach. (1 paragraph)
2. Briefly describe the three types of coding used in grounded theory research. (1 paragraph)

Prompt for Essay 2
HMS 201A Professor Kramer Spring 2023
For Essay 2, you will be writing about Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” and two other texts that we’ve read (or watched) together during this second part of the course. For this essay, you will be exploring the ways in which desire and power dynamics are portrayed in the narratives you’ve chosen to write about. Your theoretical framework should be informed by Mulvey’s essay, and you are welcome to (but not required) to include additional theoretical texts to support your readings.
In her essay, Laura Mulvey argues that “the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form” (833). Mulvey further claims that:
[t]he magic of the Hollywood style at its best (and of all the cinema which fell within its sphere of influence) arose, not exclusively, but in one important aspect, from its skilled and satisfying manipulation of visual pleasure. Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order (834-5).
Writing about literary texts (and possibly also the film, Life Lessons), you will explore whether you see the language of the dominant patriarchal order in your two narratives. Does the phallocentric gaze permeate the narrative, or do the narratives provide readers/viewers with tools with which to critique and question the dominant patriarchal order? Is there a power imbalance in the narrative, and if so, how is this conveyed? Mulvey argues that cinema provides the ultimate conditions for coding “the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order” in part, because of “its skilled and satisfying manipulation of visual pleasure” (834-5). In your essay, consider whether you agree with Mulvey, and if so, whether literature provides more possibilities for critiquing the objectification of women. Or, if you disagree with Mulvey, explore how the narratives you are writing about might show different power dynamics at play. Is the gaze as present in the literary texts (and possibly the film) you are writing about as it is in Hollywood film? Do you think that literature might be equally capable of presenting a perspective that is complicit with objectification of women, or do the texts you are writing about challenge the objectifying gaze?