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In this course we define culture as the totality of a groups thought, experiences, patterns of behaviour, beliefs, values, attitudes, social hierarchies and roles, religions, notions of time, space and material objects acquired over generations.

Consider the culture of your family and think about your roots. To begin, think of the place where you grew up as a child. This place may or may not be in the country where you currently live.

To nudge your memory, generate a list of names associated with that place, such as street names, geographical features: rivers, meadows, farms, parks. Think about some of the people in your past.

Think about an important time in your life when you were with your family: it might be a celebrationa birthday, a holiday, a holy day, a graduation, a death in the family.

Your Assignment

Part 1: Personal Narrative
Write a personal narrative (300-400 words) about one particular time in your life that reveals something about your culture, your background and your values.

Any specific time will do. This time might be from your childhood or from your adulthood.

Write about this time as an experience that reveals something about you and your culture: it might be an incident that occurred in Canada or in your country of origin that reveals your values and beliefs. It might be a description of the way your family celebrates one particular holiday. It might involve parents, grandparents, siblings.

Part 2: Analysis of Personal Narrative (300-400 words)
After you write your personal narrative, re-read it, and think about it. Answer the following questions with specific examples, using a paragraph for each question.

1.What insights did you gain by looking at this past event?

2. What two aspects of your culture did it reveal?

3. In what two ways has your culture influenced the way you are today?

4.In his essay on Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist and sociologist, wrote that our cultural identities emerged from the retelling of the past. But Hall argues that cultural identity is a matter of becoming as well as being. Our cultural identities belong to the future as much as to the past. They undergo constant transformation. They are subject to the continuous play of history, culture and power. (Hall, 1990) Do you agree or disagree with Halls interpretation of the formation of our cultural identities? Please use your own experience to support your position.

Below are the instructions to my assignment. This is a speech that I will need to record myself performing for my class. I am hoping you can reseach and write at least four paragraphs (about 2 minutes of speaking each) that I can read/memorize for my presentation. I have included the “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Miner for referencing and better understanding.

After reflecting on the depiction of American culture in the reading “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Miner, record a 5-8-minute reflection video about American culture.
Your video should start with 1-2-minute reflection on your reaction to the article and how it depicted American culture.
Then take about 2 minutes to describe a communication pattern, practice, ritual, or event in your culture as it might be seen from an outside observer (not one that is addressed in the article). Explain how this communication pattern, ritual, or event is connected to a U.S. cultural worldview or values.
Next, spend 1-2 minutes describing how this pattern, practice, ritual or event has changed throughout history.
Finally, spend 1-2 minutes, briefly share your evaluation of these changes as beneficial or detrimental to U.S. culture. When evaluating the change as beneficial or detrimental, include at least one verbal citation of a credible or authoritative source that supports your evaluation.
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Memo Assignment
Write a one-page memo to the department head of your major asking him or her to consider changing some aspect or requirement of your major.
Please review your major’s requirements (as outlined online or in the catalog) so that you can be as specific as possible. You want to avoid making generalizations about your majors requirements. For this assignment, identify one aspect of the program that you think needs to be changed. For example, you may choose to write about
A course (s) change
The need for fewer/more elective choices
An expanded major
Fewer required courses, etc.
The bulleted items above are examples; you do not have to choose from this list. However, please keep in mind that this is a persuasive memo being addressed to an HT administrator (your departments chair). Consequently, think about writing a document that is
Properly formatted and organized,
Fully developed (have you convinced your reader to seriously consider your suggestions?),
Rhetorically appealing, and
Well-written.

In this section of Unit 6, rather than reading a lecture, your task is to identify first, what strategies at least one police force is using to attempt to improve their relationships with the Aboriginal community which they serve and second to identify a police training program and identify what training initiatives are in place to incorporate Aboriginal Awareness into the training.

Please type 400 to 500 single spaced word response where you answer the followingresponse
What were the main differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution? What were the most divisive issues the Constitutional Convention faced and what compromises did the delegates reach to solve them?

Step 1. Read the Profile of Lacy Elementary School, Special Situations Analysis of the School Cafeteria at the bottom of this page.
You will make your observations from the written profile, and compose a paper summarizing the observations and stating your recommendations/action plan for improvement.
Step 2. From the profile, identify those things that help keep the cafeteria calm, orderly, safe, and well managed, along with those things that contribute to different management or behavioral problems.
Categorize your observations in the five areas detailed below, and record your comments about each area in a well-developed paragraph.
Student Characteristics, Issues, and Factors
Who is demonstrating appropriate and inappropriate behavior? Note where this behavior is occurring (e.g., in the line, at the tables, during the clearing process, when exiting). Note how students are responding to others inappropriate behavior, as well as how the on-site staff is responding to different groups of students.

Teacher/Staff Characteristics, Issues, and Factors
Assess what the teachers and staff in the cafeteria are doing, what they are supposed to be doing, and how they are influencing and/or responding to appropriate versus inappropriate student behavior.

Environmental Characteristics, Issues, and FactorsPhysical Plant and Logistics
What are the physical characteristics and conditions of the cafeteria, and how are students and staff are physically/logistically moving in and around the cafeteria (e.g., in the line, through the serving area, when clearing their tables, upon exiting)? Note how these physical and logistical factors are contributing to a safe and orderly environment, or a chaotic, problematic one.

Incentives and Consequences
Assess the incentives and consequences for the students relative to their appropriate and inappropriate behavior, respectively, in the cafeteria. Note who gives these incentives and consequences, and how they contribute to the climate of the setting and the interactions of the students.

Resources
Assess the resources in the cafeteria (e.g., the people, materials, space, technology) and how they are being used. Note how these resources are making the cafeteria experience successful for the students and staff, or how they could improve the success of the experience if they were used more or more effectively.
Step 3. Compose a thorough summary report detailing the strengths, the weaknesses, and your recommendations/action plan for improving the climate, management, safety, and overall experience for students and staff in the cafeteria.

Your final paper will be a 5-6 page double-spaced research paper written in response to one or more of the class readings. This paper will be an argument. This means it will make an arguable claim on a debatable subject. The library guide for this class has readings in every undergraduate major that requires this class, so everyone in the class should be able to find a reading on a subject in their major.
If you don’t know what your major will be or are pursuing general studies, you may choose whichever subject interests you. Your job in this paper is to find a research/argument niche. This means you will be responding to the conversation at hand. As we mentioned in the class, most paper will primarily be responding to one Primary Response Article. This is simply the article you feel you are responding to most directly, but you will likely position your paper in the broader conversation using other articles from the class readings or articles you find in your own research. All the assignments in this class have helped you prepare for the final assignment, so you should have a lot of the work completed already. Now it is time to assemble it all into a coherent whole.
SOURCES:
Academic writing is a conversation. You final paper must use five credible sources that support your argument or add to the conversation around your main point. Two of your sources must be peer reviewed journals. Two of your sources must be sources not listed on the library guide that you found through your own research.
Acceptable credible sources include:
Books/ebooks
Scholarly or Professional Journals
Magazines
Newspapers

Write a 4-5 page APA style paper in which you provide analysis and insight into the current models of abnormality
Identify and explain the strength and weaknesses of one model of abnormality that you, as a student, think best explain abnormal behavior
Choose a different model that you think offers the poorest model of abnormality. Identify and explain the strength and weaknesses of that model.
Compare and contrast the two models you chose and analyze the major differences between the two models. These sections should be as strong as the other sections! in this compare and contrast section
Sources:
3 Scholarly references from high-quality sources and the textbook “Essentials of abnormal psychology” Durand, V.M., Hofmann, S.G. Barlow, D. H

I need an OUTLINE FIRST then the full essay.

I will post the outline example in the files and I will post the material as well as notes on the story.

Instructions for actual essay.
1. The final essay should be a minimum of 500 words; you should have a Works Cited page. You should have a minimum of five (5) quotes throughout the paper.

2. Minimum word length: 500 Words with a minimum of five (5) phrase citations from the story within the paper. Without the citations, you have not completed the assignment of a critical analysis.

3. Paper should be written using MLA. Times Roman, double spaced with in-text parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page. The Works Cited page should follow the example in the announcements. We will work more on citing and the Works Cited with the research paper.

4. Write in third person, PRESENT tense. Do NOT shift at any time to the second person YOU.

5. Paragraphs should include an introduction with a clear, three-point thesis statement, a minimum of 3 body paragraphs that support your points in your thesis statement, a conclusion, and works cited page.

6. A summary (re-telling) of the story is not an acceptable critical essay and will receive a 0 for the assignment. You will need to tell a small bit of the story to discuss it, but do not tell the story from beginning to end. I have read the story. Tie your ideas together to give your essay a point you are making about your literary term.

7. In the introduction, make sure that you give the authors name, the title of the story, and also the definition of the term that you are going to be discussing. Make your introduction interesting.
8.Since we have one story, once you mention the title of the story in the introduction, there is no need to keep repeating the title in other paragraphs unless maybe it is the conclusion.

9. Do not use secondary sources (sources and information from the Internet). The only source that you may use is the story itself. Make sure that you have a mixture of sentence quotes from the story as well as phrase quotes.

Possible topics:
three reasons a setting is perfect

types of irony in the story

good imagery in the story

a character and how that character is dynamic

a character and how that character is static

comparison/contrast of a dynamic and static character

one of your own with teacher approval

“The Cask” –the revenge is perfect

“The Cask” —the revenge is not perfect

WORK CITE
Poe, Edgar Allen. The Cask of the Amontillado. Literature and the Writing Process, edited by Elizabeth

McMahan , 9th ed., Pearson, 2011, pp. 372-379.

COURSE IS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Summary:
Free trade has long been one of the more unifying concepts among economists. In fact, with respect to the title above, unfettered trade is actually believed to more than pay for itself: It is the free lunch that in almost any other context in economics does not exist (Ehrenberg, 2019, para 1).
Trade and globalization have provided undeniable economic benefits for the vast majority of American families, businesses, and workers (Lincicome, 2019, para 2).
What is not always entirely clear is how free trade can better show some of the short-run dislocations that often need to be dealt with en route to the long-term gains. In short, the cheaper DVD players or cars we might get by shifting production from the U.S. to, say, Korea doesn’t look like such a great deal to unemployed U.S. electronics or auto workers (Ehrenberg, 2019, para 2).
Defenders of free trade also have to contend with populist politicians and well-financed opponents who find foreign workers and firms easy scapegoats for domestic economic woes. Worst of all, economists may be fundamentally misunderstanding what most people value in the economy. These are hard problems to solve. Governments should do more to help those hurt by trade, but building the necessary political coalitions to do so is tricky (Blinder, 2019, para 3).
We must always take heed that we buy no more of strangers than we sell them, for so we should impoverish ourselves and enrich them. Those words, written in 1549 and attributed to the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smith, are one of the earliest known expressions of what came to be called mercantilism. Update the language, and they could easily have been tweeted by U.S. President Donald Trump, the most prominent mercantilist of today. Trump believesor at least saysthat the United States loses when it runs trade deficits with other countries. Many Americans seem to agree.
Ehrenberg, R. (2019). Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, Global Edition.
http://wps.pearson.co.uk. Accessed 17 Oct 2019.
Lincicome, s. (2019). Cato Institute. [online] Cato Institute. Available at: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/case-free-trade [Accessed 27 Oct. 2019].
Blinder, A. (2019). The Free-Trade Paradox. [online] Foreign Affairs. Available at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-12-11/free-trade-paradox [Accessed 17 Oct. 2019].
Are we entering a new period of mercantilism? Is it the same as protectionism?
Is China responsible for our current trade policy?
You have just been appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization, what advice would you give President Trump?
It is not sufficient to state your opinions; you must be able to:
demonstrate your understanding of the case study information by accurately explaining the relevant concepts
use the facts listed in the case study and the concepts in the textbook to draw your own conclusions
demonstrate exceptional critical thinking skills
conduct research using the GMC Library
apply the relevant concepts from the textbook chapters to the case study correctly
include facts from the case study to support your own position
Through writing this case study, you will be required to demonstrate a knowledge of how to relate case study data/findings to international business concepts, how to conduct research, and how to properly cite sources using APA formatting guidelines. You will be responsible for using a minimum of 2 scholarly/peer reviewed sources. Textbooks are not considered a scholarly/peer reviewed source; however, they may still be included as a supplemental reference.
Your case study is to be a minimum of 3 complete pages in length. Going over the minimum page length requirement is acceptable; however, I am not looking for a 10+ page case study.

For this course, you will submit the graded activity using Turnitin.
General APA Formatting Guidelines:
The case study should have an APA title page and an APA reference page. The APA title page and APA reference page DO NOT count towards the minimum page requirement! Your body of work needs to be a minimum of 3 complete pages in length. Note that an APA abstract page is NOT required!
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