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This week’s reading and film (River Blue) focused on the manufacture of one of the most ubiquitous, if resource-consuming, garments in production today: Blue jeans.

After completing the reading in its entirety and watching the film, I want you to do the following:

1. Transcribe one quote or passage you found interesting, surprising, shocking or appalling, and explain why you find it to be so in a response that is about a paragraph long.
2. Discuss one scene or part of the movie that you found equally interesting or unsettling and explain why. (Again, your response should be about a paragraph.)
2. Then, I would like for you to come up with a discussion question for class based on your chosen quote or film scene. A good discussion question goes beyond just soliciting someone’s opinion. It will encourage discussion, debate and reflection. Here, for instance, you might ask your classmates to respond to or challenge an issue raised in the quote or the part of the movie you discussed.
Alternately, you may use the quote as a jumping off point for folks to reflect on their own experience with the reading or with their own fashion consumption.

please read article Does Abortion Lower the Crime Rate?
Write a 3-paragraph review of the article along with
the title “Does Abortion Lower the Crime Rate?” Grading criteria can be found
in the attached Article Review Grading Rubric.
Please attachements

Readings for Pragmatism:
PRAGMATISM: DEFINITION AND PHILOSOPHERS.” Philosophy and Philosophers, www.the-philosophy.com/pragmatism.
Cline, Austin. (2017, October 5). What Is Pragmatism? Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-pragmatism-250583
Reading for Positivism:
Mellone, S.H. (1897). Some of the Leading Ideas of Comte’s Positivism. International Journal of Ethics, 8(1), 73-86.
Reading for Realism:
Lebow, R. N. (June 9, 2008). The Ancient Greeks and Modern Realism: Ethics, Persuasion, and Power. In Bell, D. (Ed.), Political Thought and International Relations (26-40). Verlag: Oxford University Press.
Video Resources:
Anadale, C. (2017, November 28). Comte’s Law of Three Stages [Video]. YouTube.

For the paper,
Reflect on an area covered that surprised you most about:
Pragmatism
Positivism
Realism
Be sure to use in-text citation and provide references for your sources, including textbooks.

Miscue
Analysis: EMMA and RMA
For this assignment, please read the
articles by Kim and Goodman on RMA and EMMA. Write a typed 2-5 page paper
on miscue analysis. Explain what it is and what the difference is between RMA
and EMMA. Explain the premise behind using miscue analysis to teach reading and
to detect reading difficulties.
Do some basic research on the reading
assessment, Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS).
Explain briefly what this assessment is and what it attempts to measure.

Then write an analysis of DIBELS as seen
through the miscue analysis research. Does the miscue analysis research support
the DIBELS assessment process? Yes, or no? Explain why or why not.
What have we learned about how children
learn to read from the miscue analysis research?

Description: For this essay you are required to make an argument for why a specific book,
film, video game, or album is your favourite. The basic requirements for this assignment are
that you need to make an argument and logically support it with adequate, appropriate evidence in a well-organized essay (aim for one with a standard 5-paragraph spread: an intro, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion). The objective of this essay is to make an argument based on your own perceptions and opinions, so no secondary sources may be used for this assignment; all arguments must therefore be based on the content and form of the text (i.e. the book/film/video game/album) you are discussing, and no specific knowledge gained from other sources may be used.

This essay will be graded using the following rubric:
• Organization (20pts): this metric reflects how well the essay is structured, but also
encompasses length and formatting. For an essay to get an 90% or higher in
organization (18/20 or more), it needs to have a clearly articulated thesis statement,
and be well-structured, appropriately spatialized (no long blocks of text or too many
choppy paragraphs), correctly formatted (MLA), and not too long or too short.
• Mechanics (15pts): Mechanics refers to the quality of the writing in terms of grammar
and punctuation. For an essay to get an 90% or higher in mechanics (14/15 or more),
there must be minimal/no obvious mistakes at the sentence and word levels. This most
notably includes spelling, word choice, comma issues (too many, too few,
inappropriately placed – this falls under punctuation, but it’s so common that it
deserves special mention), awkward phrasing, run-on sentences, improper punctuation
(colons, semicolons, apostrophes, etc).
• Evidence and Analysis (15pts): Evidence and Analysis (Ev/An) refers to the
sophistication of the examples and reasoning provided to make the ca se and prove the
thesis. For an Essay to receive an 90% or higher in Ev/An (14/15), it must use
effective and relevant examples to support its points, and must demonstrate sound
logic in its analyses.

Instructions: The objective of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to experience a live musical performance of music from one of the cultures studied (African, Indigenous, Asian, etc.). Due to Covid-19 there are no bay area live performances that would normally be a part of this assignment. However, you will be required to view a performance (with real musicians/singers) via Youtube (May not be a “music video”). You will identify a world Ethnic music performance that is NOT from your own cultural background. The goal is to have you venture outside of your “comfort zone” so to speak and experience a musical performance that you might not otherwise listen to/view.
Requirements: Attend 1 live music performance (at least 1-2 full songs of a recorded live musical performance and submit a 2-3 page critical reflection along with a LINK to the performance. Your written reflection will be based on your analysis of the musical performance. Your Essay will need to address the following:
Timbre, Pitch, Rhythm, Dynamics, (refer to Chapter 2)(6 points)
Types of Instruments (Sachs-Hornbostel system, see Chapter 2) (6 points)
Melodic contour of music performed (Chapter 2) (6 points)
Phonic Structure (Chapter 2) (6 points)
Cultural Context including Etic vs. Emic (See Chapter 3) (6points)
Evaluation: Your written reflection will be graded based on how thoroughly you’ve integrated our key concepts and your ability to apply these concepts appropriately to your written analysis.
Criteria Checklist:
The following is a checklist that can help you make sure you have all required elements:
My paper is/has:
A cover page with my name, class/section, assignment, professor names, and date
List the performance event by including a working LINK to the performance.
Formatted with 1” margins all around
Double­‐spaced
Typed in 12­‐point Times New Roman
Numbered on all pages
Spell­‐checked
Carefully edited and proof­‐read
A clear thesis, supporting evidence from readings/lecture
A clear introduction, body and conclusion and clear paragraph structure.
Coherent and follows a clear structure that addresses all 5 requirements.
Self-Evaluation typed at the end of your essay.
SUBMIT THE STATEMENT BELOW AT THE END OF YOUR ESSAY:
Based on all of the above, I believe I deserve the following grade and here is my reason:

This Research Short should focus on Leonardo Da Vinci and his influence in regard to Art History.
The paper should should have:
– a minimum of 450 words
– footnote Chicago Bibliography-Note citation,
– a thesis statement
– coverage of your research topic to date, and
– a bibliography with a minimum of two credible source and one scholarly article that are the basis for the information in the paper.

Assignment Today’s challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write an analysis of one Socratic-style back-and-forth interaction between two characters, commonly called “stichomythia” in literary circles, from Oedipus the King. Specifically, I want you to analyze what the two central positions are in the debate, and how each character is developing their rhetorical position through ethos, pathos, and logos. As always, we’re aiming for about a page here.
Objectives
Students will be able to identify a variety of genres, forms, and literary elements.
Students will be able to analyze literary texts and articulate their findings orally and in writing.
Expectations/Grading Criteria
Journals that recieve full credit will write at the definitional level: they should identify the moment from the play being analyzed, identify lines spoken by each character that demonstrate each rhetorical element, and explain how those moments develop rhetoric.

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What is Prophecy…. The assignment requires students to do research on the meaning of prophecy in the Old Testament and the ancient Near East.

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Process and language in understanding of globalization. Please choose a photo by Lu Guang for closer analysis and discussion (link below).
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lu-guang?all/all/all/all/0
– How is the image an example of globalization? In what way is it a manifestation of globalization as a process ( or, as something that, objectively speaking, does take place in the world) and as a discourse (or, how “facts” about globalization are, subjectively speaking, talked about)? Consider the relationship between the two (process and discourse).
– What is the role of media technologies and external reality in this image/text?
– How is the relationship between addressor and addressee established in the image/text? To what effect?
– Please find a contrasting image/text of your choice for comparison, discussion, and conclusions.