Best Writer

Pick a film from the list below. For the film you choose, write a clear and concise 1000-word essay addressing the following points: Briefly summarize the most important elements of the plot of the film. How does the film view those aspects of philosophy that we have studied in the class? Relate the film to specific readings that we have done in class. In your analysis, be sure to make use of specific scenes and specific quotes from the film.
One-inch margins, single-spaced, 12-pt font.
· Being John Malkovich (1999)
· Blade Runner (1982)
· Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
· Gattaca (1997)
· Groundhog Day (1993)
· The Matrix (1999)
· Memento (2001)
· The Truman Show (1998)
· Minority Report
· Inception

Film Project Rubric
Earned Possible
Summary of Plot 40 40
Relating of film to politics 40 40
Three quotes from film 20 20
Content Total 100 100
Length Percentage Completed 100%
Project Total (Content * Length) 100

Requirements
1500 words
Save your essay as a .DOCX file
Include three (or more) references to books, articles, websites, or other published sources.
Use Chicago or MLA citations (footnotes or parenthetical)
The work must be a digital work of art (relies on digital technology for its production or distribution).
must provide a link to artwork
How to Structure Your Essay
This might look formulaic, but there are some essential things I want you to write about. We’re practicing a form of art criticism called a formal analysis, where we write about what the artwork means and why it’s interesting, but we base those conclusions on descriptions of the form of the artwork. Do not include section titles like “Description” — just write a cohesive essay.
Introduction (one paragraph)
Introduce us to the work in an engaging hook. This could focus on the appearance or design of the work, or about the conceptual premise, context, or whatever it is that interests you about the work.
Include the title of the work, the artist’s name and the year it was produced. Geographical or site-specifc information may be relevant too.
Description (1-2 paragraphs)
Include a vivid description of the work’s visual appearance or experiential details (use lots of adjectives!). Imagine the reader has not seen the work in question. Your job is to get them up to speed so they can follow your analysis later.
This might overlap with your introduction.
Analysis (the bulk of the essay)
Once you’ve described the work, you can dig into the nuances of what it means, why it’s important, or how it came to be.
What signs can you unpack according to Barthe’s semiotic theory? What does the imagery mean, or why exactly did the artist design it they way they did?
You may reference existing writing about the work or writing from the artist(s) with proper citations, but you should also be providing your interpretation. I want you to speculate about why aesthetic choices were made, and give us your judgment backed up with evidence from your description.
Is the work successful? Problematic? You can write about a work that you don’t like—as long as you have something worthwhile and interesting to say about it.
Comparison (1-2 paragraphs)
This is part of the analysis and can be inserted anywhere, but I’d like you to write about one other artwork or creative design that relates to your analysis (by a different artist or designer). Mention the essential info about this work (artist, title, year) and provide a brief description so we know what you’re talking about, but the goal is to use this second artwork to support your main argument or to highlight a contrast with the primary artwork.
Conclusion (one paragraph)
Summarize the main points of your analysis and your thesis (main takeaway or the essential meaning of the work).
Zoom out and consider the artwork within the larger world, what is interesting for us to think about when we stop reading?

Headings: Single space your headings. Provide your name, the date, and the assignment number (i.e. “Assignment One: Question Six”) but do not restate the assignment question. Give your essay an original title.
2. Introduction/Thesis: The purpose of the introduction is to set up your thesis statement, and in a short essay such as this the introduction must be very short and efficient. The thesis should be clear, complete, and answer the question directly and specifically. When the reader reads your thesis, they should know exactly what you are arguing in response to the question.
3. Body paragraphs: The sole purpose of the body of your paper is to prove your thesis. The body of your paper should be organized into paragraphs, each of which argues some point in support of your thesis. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence. Avoid topic sentences that merely narrate events. The topic sentence should capture the central argument of the paragraph and connect it to the thesis statement. Aside from topic sentences, each body paragraph must contain both cited evidence and analysis of the evidence. Every assertion should be supported by evidence, and all evidence from the text, whether quoted or paraphrased, must be cited. All quotations/evidence must be analyzed to explain their significance to the argument.
4. Conclusion: The essay should bring closure to your argument for the reader, without merely restating the thesis. The conclusion of your paper need not restate your argument directly, but it should help tie your argument together and reflect on the implications of the argument and on the historical process.
5. Formatting: Papers should be titled, typed, double-spaced, and with one-inch margins all around. They should be in black ink and in Times New Roman font. Do not add spaces between paragraphs or between items on the heading. All evidence must be cited. Since the paper is based on only one source, you need only write the page number from which
each piece of evidence is cited in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e. (62)). If you have only a Kindle location number, use that. Since this is such a short paper, avoid long quotations or block quotes, but choose only short and forceful pieces of evidence for your quotations, as the editor does in her introduction.
Question For the essay: the general strike stirred both sympathy and animosity. how did gender, class, ethnicity affect the strikes? describe the complex ways in which the city responded to this unprecedented upheaval.

Consider one of the three theories we have examined so far (Socrates, Descartes, Ryle) on “self-knowledge.” First carefully explain what the theory presented by the author claims regarding self-knowledge. Then discuss one or two objections to the theory and how to reply to them. Tell me what the objections are carefully and how you think we should answer them. The aim is to provide the reader with a nice, focused discussion of the theory and how it fares with respect to some objections to it.

For the first part please write a full page abstract summrizeing what is the paper going to be about and list two resourse you plan on using from the school database.

You must include two additional library sources beyond the book and the other articles
from Berkeley/Ryle in this website: https://library.shu.edu/az.php

Conduct a search on the internet and phone app sites for assistive apps,
devices and technology aimed at helping Military/Veterans with coping skills, suicide prevention and or
therapy, or those that assist a therapist or social worker in treatment with this population or their families.
Use search terms such as PTSD, Military Suicide Prevention, CPT, Relaxation, etc. Also, Second Life has a site created by the National Center for PTSD for use in treatment, education & resources. Write a 1 –page paper
about your search, what you found, how you think this might help our target population, if you think it is
helpful or if there are any concerns that you have about the use of these tools in military social work.

The company I chose is Telsa

Game-Winning Moves
Our focus this week is on choosing a strategic direction that will set your organization apart from competitors in a way that enables you to stand out from everyone else. Jack refers to this as “changing the game.” Sherman refers to it as “breaking away from the pack” (Chapter 11).
Using the company you selected for your course project, identify a potential game-changing move that you believe will create a sustainable competitive advantage. This move should derive from one of the seven common moves discussed in this week’s lecture notes.
This potential move should represent a possible new move the company should consider for creating even more competitive differentiation. In other words, it should not be a specific move that the company has or is currently implementing.
Briefly summarize how the move will fundamentally shift the playing field to the company’s advantage and beat the competition.
Explain which of the four positioning categories described by Sherman (Breakaway, Reverse Positioning, Blue Ocean or Disruptive Innovation) best describes the move, and why

Sherman, Chapter 11: Strategies to Break Away From the Pack
Ersek, Keller, & Mullins, Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks (link below)
Lafley et al., A Playbook for Strategy: The Five Essential Questions at the Heart of Any Winning Strategy

After reading James Longenbach’s “Disjunction in Poetry” and watching this week’s lecture:
Find an example of a disjunction in the Lasky, Woolard or Puro poems. Explain its effect on you — analyze the purpose and effect, overall, of the disjunction to the subject matter or construction of the poem.
After reading the Schoonebeek, Dennigan and Clover poems, pick one and analyze the dislocation in the poem. What is strange or weird about the poem? What imaginative element has taken the poem from the mundane to the extraordinary?
Each section should be a paragraph of about 150 words.
1. Poems:
Love Poem by Dorothea Lasky
We Do Not Have Any Openings at This Time by Amy Woolard
Prescription by Nina Puro (plus please read the author’s statement after the poems.
2. Poem for Four Years by Danniel Schoonebeck
In The Bakery by Darcie Dennigan
The Map Room by Joshua Clover

In a minimum of 300 words, What is the role of private -public partnerships and non-government agencies in response to an emergency or disaster? Explain and give an example of an private organization or non-profit agency and its role in a past known emergency or disaster.

Instructors guide
Discussion Board: Sharing an Annotation – #1
Choose an article from the LIRN library that you may potentially use in your paper based on your topic choice and following Purdue’s guidance on creating an APA annotation for an Annotated Bibliography, share a full annotation with your peers. Please share your paper’s topic choice, as well, so that your peers understand the relevance of the chosen article. Please make your annotation, at least, 100 words and follow APA 7th edition formatting: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references.
This annotation may appear in your Annotated Bibliography assignment that is due during Week Nine. Your prompt response and peer response are due by the time the box locks on 2/18, 11:30 p.m. EST.
For your peer response, choose an annotation to analyze and provide your classmate with guidance. Do you see any APA issues you might be able to help with? Does the article seem appropriate for the topic chosen? Does the article seem credible, or was it found on a .com site that might lack credibility in the eyes of the audience? Are you confused by how your classmate might be using the source based on his or her chosen topic?
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/annotated_bibliography_samples.html

This assignment is for a consumer health course.
o Visit http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/ (be sure to scroll all the way
down the page)
o Visit http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/urbanlegends.html and http://www.snopes.com

(You can cut and paste the links into your browser’s or click on the links on our
website. BE SURE TO CLICK ON “NO” when asked about security).
Choose two (2) health related urban legends, hoaxes, or health-related rumors. Once
you have chosen two health related urban legends, hoaxes, or health-related rumors,
please answer the questions below for each of the two health related urban legends,
hoaxes, or health-related rumors. Be sure to properly cite the webpage on which your
choices appear.
1. Describe the rumor, legend, or hoax in your own words (I will not accept cut
and pasted text)
2. Explain how this story was spread (e.g., email, publication word-of-mouth etc.).
3. Refer to the slides posted on our website. What populations might be most
susceptible to paying attention to this story? Explain why these groups might
find the information interesting or important to them. In other words, what
kinds of people or people with which specific concerns may be most
interested in this story?
4. Was the story demonstrated to be true, false, or partially true? How was this
story validated or discounted (according to the authors of the websites you
viewed, how was the story been shown to be true or false? For example, did
anyone launch a formal investigation to determine if the story was true or not?
What steps did they take to make this determination?

5. Refer to the lecture slides (make sure that you have read the notes that
accompany the slides- you can read them in Notes view or go through the
slides as slides not as a slide show). What are some of the reasons someone
might initiate or spread these (i.e., the stories you chose) rumors/hoaxes/urban
legends?

6. If a person believed these legends/hoaxes/rumors how in specific might their
health or other behaviors be affected? Would anyone else be impacted by the
spread of the story? For example, if a rumor stated that the flu vaccine caused
cancer and someone uncritically accepted this information how would he or she
be likely to act on that information? (I think the person would avoid getting a flu
shot. This might lead to that person contracting the flu. If the person had other
illnesses or was elderly this could lead to more serious health problems or death.
It is also possible that this person could spread the flu and contribute to an
epidemic).

7. If you received an email message or someone told you a story that seemed like
it might be an urban legend, hoax or rumor, what are three things you could do
to help you determine how true the story was?