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Map Research Project
Project description: Produce a map that highlights a specific variable within your community. Whatever you choose to map should involve the collection of data (either primary or secondary) and the plotting of this information on a local map. There are different sources of data that you can use. For example, you can use an existing data set (eg. from the City of Vancouver or from North Vancouver) or you can create your own data set from points that you plot (eg using a GPS app). Your map will be accompanied by spatial analysis — the “what-where-WHY” that describes and offers plausible explanations for the observed patterns.
Base map: There are excellent online map and data base resources for each municipality in Metro, or you can use Google Earth. We will go over the selection and sources maps available to you in class.
Format: Your map project will be in digital format. Make sure to include: title, scale, & legend.
Study area: This depends on the scope of your project. For example, you can focus on a single block in your neighbourhood, or the whole neighbourhood.
Written component: This component is approximately 500-750 words in length & is separated into three parts.
Purpose/Methodology: Outline the focus of your project and how you collected your data.
Findings: Describe what you found out. This may include a table or graph if your data can be quantified.
Analysis: Offer explanations. Find at least one academic study that offers insight into your research. Use APA style to cite any secondary sources of information.
Map themes: Choose something that interests you and fits well with your neighbourhood. The following themes have been suggested before; you can come up with other ideas as well. Check with your instructors to get clearance and advice before you start your project. You may wish to incorporate the element of CHANGE in your map, by comparing the landscape from two different dates (ie today and 10 or more years ago), as this provides more data for analysis.
New businesses
Demographics ie. families, elderly, students
Car inventory makes/models
Car2go
Personal care/fitness establishments
Social housing (low income, eldercare, mental health)
Community spaces
Parks (green space)
Cultural events/venues
Ethnic events/venues
Wildlife
Pets
Street trees
Backyard gardens
Public transportation
Occupancy (empty suites)
Rental vs ownership
Crime stats
Schools
Churches & other religious centers
Grocery stores
Coffee shops
Housing inventory (ie date built, paint colors,,,)
Microclimates
Restaurants
Parking rates
Secondary suites
Clotheslines
other ??

Research and provide explicit details on a renewable energy source and its benefits to our society. If there are any, list the drawbacks to such an energy source as well. Research and generate, (a 5 page, double spaced) paper on this topic. Use APA format with a cover sheet and proper source citations.

Go to this web site: https://biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/Physiogames/endocrine_edhtml5page.html
You will be playing the Endocrine Ed games.
Double Click Start a New Game.

You will proceed through: (you need to double click each)
Hormones and Feedback
Adrenaline and Stress
Melatonin and Sleep
Blood Sugar Hormones
Take the Fun Quiz
And finally, take a screenshot or picture of your score sheet and upload as well as a document with answers to the following questions:

1. Describe Negative Feedback
2. What would happen to hormone levels if there was no negative feedback?
3. How does adrenaline regulate the stress response?
4. How does melatonin work? How might cell phones interfere with melatonin production? Are there any studies on this? How could you find out more?
5. How do insulin and glucagon interact to regulate blood sugar?
6. What could someone do if they find out that their blood sugar levels are high?

Discussion #5 The Dred Scott decision: The worst SCOTUS decision in pre-civil war American history. It set the cause of civil rights back, ruined the many territorial compromises between North and South and invalidated Congressional power to regulate slavery throughout the nation. Agree, disagree or qualify this statement with specific evidence.

NOTE: In order for your answer to be convincing, you must reference the relevant issues present in some or all of the following events:
Kansas-Nebraska Act/ “Bleeding Kansas”, The Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, The Wilmot Proviso, the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and (finally) the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Professional Networks: An opportunity without limits. (An
Indian Context)
In this article I will explore how professional networks through
social media transcend the limits of immediate network and open a world of opportunities
for schools teachers in India.
Explore why teachers should make a personal effort to build
personal network Further
explore why teachers exploit social media for their benefit and for their schools

Readings: (I can provide you readings & Notes on most of the readings)
Direct quotes from course materials ONLY & must draw from at least two different course readings.
Sociological method
Emile Durkheim. 1895. Chapter I: What is a Social Fact? & Chapter II: Rules for the Observation of Social Facts & Chapter III: Ruels for the Distinction of the Normal from the Pathological. The Rules of Sociological Method. Trans. W.D. Halls. New York: Free Press. Pgs. 20-68.

Functionalism: Social Integration & Conflict
mile Durkheim. 1893. On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity. In Peter Kivisto. Social Theory: Roots and Branches. 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pgs. 39-43.
Talcott Parsons. 1951. The Subsystems of Society. In Kivisto. Pgs. 205-10.
Lewis Coser. 1956. The Functions of Social Conflict. In Kivisto. Pgs. 211-14.

Functionalism: Weberian Antipositivism and Rational Authority
Max Weber. 1904. Objectivity in Social Science. From The Methodology of the Social Sciences. In Craig Calhoun et al., eds. Classical Sociological Theory. 3rd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Pgs. 273-79.
Max Weber. 1922. Bureaucracy. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. In Calhoun, 328-38.

Weberian Authority II: The Regulatory Impacts of Culture, the Origins of Capital, and Underclass Theory
Max Weber. 1905. The Spirit of Capitalism. In Calhoun, 291-309

Marx I: Dialectical Materialism and the Other Origin of Capital
Karl Marx. 1859. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy. The German Ideology. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Pgs. 1-23.
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. 1845. The German Ideology. In Calhoun, Pgs. 142-45.
Karl Marx. 1867. Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation and Chapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land. Capital Vol. 1. Pgs. 873-895.
Karl Marx. 1867. The General Formula for Capital. In Peter Kivisto. Pgs. 33-37.

Marx II: The State – A Marxist Critique of Weber
Antonio Gramsci. 1947/1971. State and Civil Society. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Quintin Hoare & Geoggrey Nowell Smith, trans. New York: International Publishers. Pgs. Tbd.

Marx II: The State – A Marxist Critique of Positivism/ An Existentialist Critique of Marxism
Theodor Adorno. 1968. Lectures 6-9. Introduction to Sociology. Edmund Jephcott, trans. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pgs. 44-79.
Simone de Beauvoir. 1947. Ambiguity and Freedom. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Bernard Frechtman, trans. New York: Open Road Media. Pgs. 5-37.

Imperialism: Repeating the Original Sin of Capitalism
Hannah Arendt. 1948. The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Inc. Pgs. 123-57.
Aim Csaire. 1955. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press. Pgs. 31-53.

Imperialism: A Critical Race Perspective on Functionalism
Frantz Fanon. 1963. On Violence. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press. Pgs. tbd.
W.E.B. Du Bois. 1903. Of Our Spiritual Strivings & Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others. The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pgs. 7-14 & 32-44.

Rubric:
Things to pay attention to in your writing:
The introductory paragraph should identify what you will be analysing, why it is important, and must have a clear thesis (what you will argue) rather than just a topic.
Each paragraph should clarify a single idea sufficiently, with evidence drawn from the text to support your claims (you are encouraged to use direct citations).
The overall structure of your essay should be coherent, with an integrated discussion leading from one paragraph to the next. You can do a compare and contrast style of essay, if interested, but beware of tangents as you likely do not have space for them.
The overall significance of the works you are examining should be clearly articulated.
That is, what is important about the work you are analysing in terms of your chosen field of theoretical study?

Formatting Requirements:
Use CMS citation style, with either in text or footnote citations. Endnotes are a product of the devil and should never be used, and APA is just the worst.
Include a bibliography at the end of your essay.
Include your name, student #, the date, & course number on the top left of the 1 st page.
Do not centre or justify your text.
Include a title for your essay.
Double space your work.
Insert a header or footer with your name and the page number.
Use default font (Times New Roman), font size (12), and standard margins.
Use of subheaders to organize your essay is recommended. A subheader (Google it if necessary) should unify a minimum of 2-3 pages of work (hint: do not put a subheader for a paragraph).

Who was Dred Scott and why was this case brought to the Supreme Court?
What were the three legal issues that this case addressed?
For each of these three issues, describe the reasoning behind Dred Scott’s claim.
What was the ruling of the Court? What reasons did the majority of the Court give for Scott not being allowed to sue in a court of law?
What was the majority opinion concerning Scott’s claim to freedom, which was based on the fact that he had been first to Illinois and then Wisconsin?
Why did the Court rule that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?

Which two of the following statements explain the Court’s ruling in the case?
(A) Under the Constitution slaves could not be citizens.
(B) Slavery was to be prohibited in all new territories.
(C)The 13th Amendment ending slavery was unconstitutional.
(D) Congress had no constitutional authority to ban slavery in territories like Wisconsin.

Which of the following amendments eventually overturned the Dred Scott decision?
(A) the 10th
(B) the 13th
(C) the 14th
(D)the 17th

essay must be 1500 words with double spacing. including 2 quotes from sources used which support the essay topic. Includes
thesis statement, introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion and list of references.

Each student
will look for and contact any person who do not have a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ and apply person to
person evangelism approach to the person. Thereafter the student will write
a 5 page-single spaced report.
The report
will include:

A description of the person,

Method/approach used,

How the person was contacted,

Weakness and effectiveness of the method/approach
used,

The persons response challenges encountered, and how
you would do it differently if you were to repeat it.

PART 1.
Assignment Expectations
Length: 1500 words in length
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format.
Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use the appropriate 7TH ED APA style in-text
citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A
minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Part
2.
No
conclusion or introduction needed, and it will be about 250 words essay. It
will require at least two (2) scholarly
sources to support the claims