Prominent Symbol

Creative Essay: Write a Scene from a Story/Fiction Piece
Creative Assignment: This assignment asks you to write an original creative work to get a better idea of the types of creative & stylistic decisions that go into creating a piece of fiction. You will be graded on your effort, your introductory paragraph, and your attention to detail.

Write a story making use of a prominent symbol. In J.M. Coetzee’s short story “The Dog,” a woman is frightened by a watchdog and confronts the owners about her discomfort. Coetzee’s descriptions of the dog are vivid. He also inserts many clues as to how we should interpret the dog, its actions and the woman’s responses. Notice how Coetzee uses the woman’s thoughts about the dog to direct our interpretation of the story. Remember that a symbol signifies or has a range of references beyond itself. Think carefully about the symbol(s) you choose and how you communicate meaning to the reader.

Please include:
A ONE-page introductory paragraph explaining the plot and devices to highlight major themes.
This paragraph is not part of your scene or dialogue. First, mention as briefly as you can who your characters are and what is going on between them. (You do not need to explain anything that your own work makes clear.) Also, identify major themes and/or motifs in the work. How are these themes explored in the piece? How are they significant to the lives of the characters? How are these themes explored with respect to other elements in the story: setting, tone, plot, point of view, conflict, language, etc. How do literary devices function to highlight these themes?
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ALL OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS.
Figurative Language
Use our “Figurative Language” handout to come up with ideas regarding how to use literary devices in inventive and meaningful ways. The more literary devices you use, the stronger your scene will be.
Realistic dialogue
Make your characters speak naturally, the way people you know really talk. For example, real people do not always speak standard grammatical English, and they sometimes use incomplete sentences and clichés. Follow your instincts.
Make sure that it is clear which character is saying which lines. Begin a new paragraph (with indentation) each time you change from one speaker to another. If you use paraphrasing to make clear who is speaking, then you need not repeat the characters’ names each time they speak (“John said,” “Jane said”).
Hint: Often it is good to avoid telling the reader how a line of dialogue is spoken (“Who was on the phone?” Jane said nervously). Instead, try to write the dialogue so that the reader will know how it is said without being told. Or use an action or gesture to show how the line was spoken (“Who was on the phone?” Jane asked, her eyes shifting between John and the floor.)

Length: 3 pages long. Roughly two typed pages (of the story) and one page for the analysis, double-spaced.

How to resolve Environmental racism

Basic instructions:
Topic: How to resolve Environmental racism
Subject: Climate crisis & Environment & Antiracist
Overall – 8 pages, 12pts, one-inch margins, double-spaced
You can decide between research, planning, implementation proposal.
4 pages for literature review
4 pages for proposal
Annotated bibliography
Literature review: (more than three authors in the conversation)
The topic is environmental racism, Please put authors in conversation with each other
By giving examples of environmental racism, show how authors have a different perspective on the same points.
Please give at least two points on different author’s perspectives
I will give you an example as my outline. ( attached file and below)
Proposal:
question or action you wish to take related to the climate crisis
Purpose(Audience): why you wish to conduct your project and how your audience can help you accomplish that goal.
Methodology
Do you want to interview a community about the impacts of water pollution? Do you want to use collected data from a larger project? Do you want to perform a larger literature review? Do you wish to speak to particular individuals to carry out your proposal?
How long would the proposal will take to complete
Annotated bibliography(Should be more than three websites):
Please write the usage of the websites and the author’s purpose of the article
An example is in the attached file
I want you to tell me your outline or bold points and show me the progress by Friday night.
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What I did so far(I have 2 pages of introduction and terminology, you can include them in your writing if you can mix them well)
This is just to show what I am at. You do not have to use this or follow this structure, just need to give clear about action to resolve environmental racism
Literature review
Introduction
Environmental justice
Environmental equity
Causes of environmental racism
Why it is important
Author 1 and 2 have a similar idea on …
Example from author 1,
Example from author 2
Author 2 and 3 have opposite ideas on…
Example from author 2,
Example from author 3,
For example, I thought about
Texas toxic waste drop
Navajo nation
La lead contamination
Rio grande

American Labor Movement Paper

Essay Question:
Dr. Kohler has argued that in many ways, labor struggles in the United States have amounted to
“class warfare.” Using evidence from course materials, write an essay in which you a) detail the
tactics of management to defeat labor and b) detail the tactics of labor to defeat management.
Lastly, and briefly, which employer tactics do you think have been most challenging for labor
and which worker tactics have been most successful for labor and why?

Purpose of the Study

Discussion: Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study—what the researchers wanted to explore or test—provides important context for the rest of the study’s information. This makes it a good place to start when crafting a research article summary. While it’s tempting to directly quote the study’s purpose, as a graduate-level writer you’ll need to use your own words to report on the literature from your field.
For this Discussion, you identify the purpose of a sample research study and use paraphrasing strategies to convey that purpose in your own words.
To prepare for this Discussion:
First, review the materials on reading a research article and on paraphrasing.
Next, access the research article found in the Learning Resources.
By Day 4
Post your initial 2 paragraph response that addresses the following:
What was the purpose of the study the authors conducted? Write that purpose in your own words.
Additionally, reflect on the process of paraphrasing the purpose. Pose any questions and/or explain challenges that came up during the process.
In paragraph 1, be sure to:
Explain what you feel is the purpose of the study
In paragraph 2, be sure to:
Discuss how you located the purpose of the study

Pro/Con Consideration for the Recreational Use of Marijuana.

The conversation regarding the legalization of marijuana has been an ongoing one in society for many years. In this week’s discussion post, we will have a mini-debate regarding the legalization of recreational marijuana. Please refrain from considerations of medical use, so that everyone can be on the same page. It is really helpful to have students find arguments on both sides of this issue, please consider arguing against the side, as typically lots of people argue pro-legalization. The subject line of your post should read either PRO or AGAINST depending on which side of the debate your will be arguing. This allows everyone to easily identify to whom they should respond.

Come up with a list of 3-5 reasons you support your position. Find a few sources to back your claims. For this assignment, these do not need to come from academic journals but must use reputable websites, books, or other news sources. Again, these need to be reputable sites; quoting a TikTok from someone who “swears smoking daily is good for you” is not a reputable source. Aim for 3-5 sources and cite at the bottom of your post.
Write a short summary of your position. Bring all of your supporting reasons together to construct a solid argument that supports or opposes the legalization of recreational marijuana use.

Citizenship, band membership, status

Your research paper must be in APA format and must be 4-5 pages in length double spaced, size 12
font, 1000-1250 words,
plus a title page and reference list. You are required to use a minimum of
five sources for your paper.

**This subject is about First Nations in Canada.**

fallacies

Read the Module 4 Key Point
Your professor will post about fallacies.
By the due date indicated, write a 200-300 word response (no more than one page) to your professor’s post.
Read the following first:
The Module 4 Key Points document
Then read the overview (the first part under the heading Fallacies) and introduction on this page https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/
(Links to an external site.)
Be sure to check out the complete list of fallacies on this page too https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#H6
(Links to an external site.)
Then answer the following questions:
Think back to a moment in your own life, either in person or on the internet, when someone used fallacious reasoning. Please describe the scenario and what happened and then identify the fallacy that was used, finally explain what would have made a better argument, or how the argument could have been made without fallacious reasoning.
The internet is filled with many fantastic resources when it comes to fallacies, from websites to youtube. Please provide a link to at least one good resource on logical fallacies, and then in your own words explain why you think that this source is particularly helpful.
Use one of the following argument forms: affirming the consequent, or denying the antecedent, and come up with your own original example of a deductive argument in one of these invalid forms. Try your best to make an example that is RIDICULOUS where it is quite obvious that the argument is invalid because conclusion in NO way follows from the premises. Finally, be sure to explain why this argument is invalid.

compare a historical topic or event that occurred from the Pre-Columbian Native American civilizations to 1876 to a topic or an event in our contemporary society.

Assignment: In one paper, compare a historical topic or event that occurred from the Pre-Columbian Native American civilizations to 1876 to a topic or an event in our contemporary society. The topic or event you choose should include the following: economics, diplomacy, politics, cultural and social. This should be a well developed paper also including the similarities and differences of each topic.
Example: Compare the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 to the Donald Trump impeachment in 2020.
Requirements and Instructions: Your paper must be at least 800 words written in the MLA style or the Chicago style with at least four sources, excluding the textbook and Wikipedia, and a bibliography.

Cost of Living

For this paper, you need to read the play Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok. You can find this play through the school bookstore, or purchase the Kindle edition (or other e-reader), or you can access the play on Scribd.com
Chapter Four of your book (Appreciation of Theatre) describes how actors think about character motivations in order to develop a stage performance. For this paper, I want you to apply that to the four characters in Cost of Living. For each character, I want you to answer these questions:
–What is this character’s background? (Think: class, race, gender, education level, etc.)
–What is this character’s relationship with the other character[s] they interact with in this play?
–What does this character want from the other character[s] they interact with in the play?
–What motivates this character ethically? You may draw on any of the content in our ethics modules to back up your analysis. You may want to focus on virtues the character exhibits, the character’s sense of duty to a certain princilpe, the character’s desired outcomes, the character’s stage of ethical development, or how the character exhibits the ethics of care for another character.
You should organize your response as a paper of at least 1000 words. Your paper should include an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement. You should not use any materials outside of the play and the theatre textbook.
You may organize your paper however you think will be most effective, but I suggest one of the two following outlines: a.) An introduction followed by a paragraph each for the four main characters, or b.) an introduction followed by a paragraph each for the “pairs” of characters that appear in scenes together.