Do you think that this effect is likely to vary cross-culturally?

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Activity. Psychology of Choices and Decisions

Read carefully the brief description of each study. Then answer the question that follows this description. Make sure you always justify your points. Your answers will be graded based on how solid and clear your points are.

1. CUING CONSUMERISM: SITUATIONAL MATERIALISM UNDERMINES PERSONAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING (Bauer, Wilkie, Kim, & Bodenhausen, 2012, Study 4)

Bauer and colleagues (2012) examined whether being in a consumer mindset would lead to less trust towards others. Participants read about a hypothetical water conservation dilemma in which they were involved.Participants were randomly assigned to either a condition that referred to the participant and others in the scenario as “consumers” or as “individuals.” Participants in the “consumer” condition reported less trust towards others to conserve water compared to the “individual” condition.

Question: Do you think that this effect is likely to vary cross-culturally? In others words, if we were to run a similar study in various cultures, would we find a similar effect or would the effect be stronger in some cultures than in others? Make sure you explain the reason why you think one way or another. [Write a minimum of 4-5 sentences]

2. THE “FALSE CONSENSUS EFFECT”: AN EGOCENTRIC BIAS IN SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND ATTRIBUTION PROCESSES (Ross, Greene & House, 1977, Study 1, Supermarket Scenario)

People perceive a “false consensus” about the commonness of their responses among others. Thus, estimates of the prevalence of a particular belief, opinion or behavior are biased in the direction of the perceiver’s beliefs, opinions and behaviors. Ross and colleagues (1977, Study 1) presented college undergraduates with a hypothetical event that culminated in a clear dichotomous choice of action. Participants first estimated what percentage of peers would choose each option, and then indicated their own choice.Participants who chose the first option believed that a higher percentage of others would also choose that option than participants who chose the second option.

Question: Do you think that this effect is likely to vary cross-culturally? In others words, if we were to run a similar study in various cultures, would we find a similar effect or would the effect be stronger in some cultures than in others? Make sure you explain the reason why you think one way or another. [Write a minimum of 4-5 sentences]

3. THE FRAMING OF DECISIONS AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHOICE (Tversky &Kahneman, 1981, Study 10)

In Tversky and Kahneman (1981), participants considered a scenario in which they were buying two items, one relatively cheap ($15) and one relatively costly ($125). In one condition, the cheap item could be purchased for $5 less by going to a different branch of the store 20 minutes away.In another condition, the costly item could be purchased for $5 less at the other branch. Therefore, the total cost for the two items, and the cost savings for traveling to the other branch, was the same across conditions.Participants were more likely to say that they would go to the other branch when the cheap item was on sale than when the costly item was on sale. This suggests that the decision of whether to travel was influenced by the base cost of the discounted item rather than the total cost.

Question: Do you think that this effect is likely to vary cross-culturally? In others words, if we were to run a similar study in various cultures, would we find a similar effect or would the effect be stronger in some cultures than in others? Make sure you explain the reason why you think one way or another. [Write a minimum of 4-5 sentences]

4. share your thoughts on the extent to which choices in our daily-lives are reflections of our cultural background. Try to describe and discuss examples illustrating that how we go about deciding to do (or not do) something or how we go about taking one course of action over another involves psychological processes that are influenced by culture.

Video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq9-QxvsNU

study guide

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World Music Name__________________________



Study Guide: Latin America


1. What is meant by the term mestizo?



2. Locate Paucartambo, Peru on a map. What is the nearest large city? ____________________ Nearest other country? ___________________________


3. Who are the “heroes” of the Peruvian Fiesta drama? _______________________.

List 4 other characters:



4. Listen to “Chunchos of Paucartambo”. List the instruments you hear:



5. What is Wayno?



6. What instruments might be found in an Orquesta tipica? List European origins and indigenous origins.



7. What are some unifying factors of Iberian colonial influence in Latin America?



8. People in which areas have maintain the greatest distance from Western influence?



9. Where are African influences the strongest? Why?



10. Where is European heritage dominant?


11. List general five (5) features of mestizo musical life:



12. How does the festival of Paucartambo reflect the complex nature of mestizo religious practice?



13. Listen to “Qollas Despedida.” List the instrument you hear:


What type of ensemble is this?



14. List three (3) popular music genres performed at social gatherings in Peru:



15. Which of those genres is closest to indigenous roots? Why?


16. What type of ensemble is local to Veracruz, Mexico? __________________________. What are the instruments in this ensemble?


17. What is Mexico’s most important mestizo song-dance genre? _________________.

A famous example of this is Richie Valens’ song _____________________________________.


18. What is a strophic song?



19. What are the instruments of the son huasteco trio?


What part of Mexico is this ensemble from?


20. The two major indigenous groups of Andean highlands are the ___________________________ and the _______________________ speakers. The group around Conima is a __________________ community.


21. The Aymara of Conima emphasize the importance of Collective Community and core values include:



What group from Africa does this remind you of?


22. What determines which instrument Aymara men play?


23. How is music-making in the Aymara community “gendered?”



24. Where does one find the currulao? ________________________________. It is a community __________ where women and men ___________ and form ________________________________.

What instruments are featured in this performance?



25. Listen to “Currulao Bambuco.” What characteristics of sub-Saharan African music can you identify here? Why?



26. What is Brazil’s most famous musical event? ________________________ What is the musical genre most frequently heard here? _____________________________

Complete Narrative Comparison Essay (HAYWOOD) 3 pages

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Narrative Essay (Draft) Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, you will work through the prewriting and drafting stages of your writing process in a narrative essay.

Narrative Essay Prompts

Choose one of the following topics to write your own narrative essay. The topic you decide on should be something you care about, and the narration should be a means of communicating an idea that ties to the essay’s theme. Remember in this essay, the narration is not an end in itself.

Friends

  • Gaining independence
  • A friend’s sacrifice
  • A significant trip with your family
  • A wedding or a funeral
  • A incident from family legend

The World around You

  • A storm, a flood, an earthquake, or another natural event
  • A school event
  • The most important minutes of a sporting event

Lessons of Daily Life

  • A time you confronted authority
  • A time you had to deliver bad news
  • Your biggest social blunder

Firsts

  • Your first day of school
  • The first performance you gave
  • A first date

Writing Your Narrative Essay

Prewriting

To get started writing your essay:

  • Review What is an Essay?
  • Take time to review possible subjects
  • Use prewriting to help you narrow your topic to one experience.

Remember that “story starters” are everywhere. Think about it—status updates on social media websites can be a good place to start. You may have already started a “note”on Facebook, and now is your chance to develop that idea into a full narrative. If you keep a journal or diary, a simple event may unfold into a narrative. Simply said, your stories may be closer than you think!

Drafting

When drafting your essay:

  • Develop an enticing title—but don’t let yourself get stuck on the title! A great title might suggest itself after you’ve begun the prewriting and drafting processes.
  • Use the introduction to establish the situation the essay will address.
  • Avoid addressing the assignment directly. (For example, don’t write “I am going to write about my most significant experience,” because this takes the fun out of reading the work!)
  • Think of things said at the moment this experience started for you—perhaps use a quote, or an interesting part of the experience that will grab the reader.
  • Let the story reflect your own voice. (Is your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)
  • Organize the essay in a way that
    • Establishes the situation [introduction];
    • Introduces the complication(s) [body]; and
    • States the lesson you learned [conclusion]
  • To avoid just telling what happens, make sure your essay takes time to reflect on why this experience is significant.

Assignment Instructions

  • Review the grading rubric as listed on the following.
  • Choose a writing prompt as listed above on this page.
  • Create a prewriting in the style of your choice for the prompt. Review the prewriting videos on the My Writing Process: Prewriting and Draft page if needed.
  • Develop a draft essay according to the following formatting guidelines: (Papers submitted that do not meet these formatting requirements will be returned to you ungraded.)
    • Minimum of 3 typed, double-spaced pages (about 600–750 words), Times New Roman, 12 pt font size
    • MLA formatting (see the MLA Format page as needed)
    • Submitted as either a .Microsoft Word doc, .or rtf file
  • Submit your prewriting and draft as a single file upload with your first and last name in the file name.

Requirements

Be sure to:

  • Decide on something you care about so that the narration is a means of communicating an idea.
  • Include characters, conflict, sensory details.
  • Create a sequence of events in a plot.
  • Develop an enticing title.
  • Use the introduction to pull the reader into your singular experience.
  • Avoid addressing the assignment directly. (don’t write “I am going to write about…”—this takes the fun out of reading the work!)
  • Let the essay reflect your own voice (Is your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)
  • Avoid telling just what happens by making sure your essay reflects on why this experience is significant.

If you developed your prewriting by hand on paper, scan or take a picture of your prewriting, load the image onto your computer, and then insert the image on a separate page after your draft.

National Period Review for Exam II

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National Period Review for Exam II

National Period Review

Essay Question:

Discuss the shift between Puritanism and the Age of Reason exemplified by comparison of Edwards and Franklin. Give the beliefs of the Age of Enlightenment in this discussion.

Review Questions for short answers:

1. Jonathan Edwards wanted to call his parishioners back to the orthodoxy of the faith,
but the whole of his message was to present God as holy yet merciful. What
metaphor does he use to show that man deserves to die, but that God’s mercy
keeps him from falling?

2. What journey did Sarah Kemble Knight go on when she stayed at taverns along the
way?

3. Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac or Way to Wealth celebrates what virtues?

4. In his plan for moral perfection, what question did Franklin ask himself in the
morning? What did ask himself at the end of the day?

5. Philip Freneau wrote romantic poems such as “To A Wild Honeysuckle” but is known
for his exposure of the cruelty of slavery in what poem?

6. John Woolman was a _______who believed in an inner light that came to man
through an opening, enabling him to believe in humanitarianism and equalitarianism.

7. What principle of Quakerism encouraged the Society of Friends to be instrumental in
the emancipation of slaves?

8. Samuel Occom, a Mohegan-Pequot who became an Indian preacher, thought what
skill was very important to teach his students.

9. What appeal to common sense did Thomas Paine used to call the colonists to
separate from the mother country? What did he mean by summer soldiers and
sunshine patriots?

10. What causes us to value things more dearly?

11, Valuing his roles as signer of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of the
University of Virginia, and his establishment of religious freedom, Thomas Jefferson
advocated that all men are _________.

12. Royal Tyler’s play The Contrast, written to exalt the patriots and to denounce
Britain, emphasized the themes of _____________and __________.

13. What perspective do you have about William Byrd from reading his diary? How did his predispositions come across in The History of the Dividing Line?

General Questions:

1. What did Edwards call God’s appeal to the heart of man (in his psychology of a
spiritual experience)? (the title of the essay)
2. What are the two faculties of the human mind and the role of each, according to
Jonathan Edwards?
3. What did Deists believe?
4. In what ways did Benjamin Franklin represent his age and what were his values?
(see next question)
5. Describe Franklin’s plan for moral perfection including some of his virtues and their
meanings.
6. Characterize John Woolman’s actions based on his belief system giving specific
examples.
7. What were the basic doctrines of Quakerism?
8. What pedagogy (teaching techniques) does Occom use according to his writings?
How does he contribute to American Literature?
9. What is an American, according to Crevecoeur?
10. How does religious indifference come about, according to Crevecoeur?
11. Describe the rhetorical techniques used by Paine in his pamphlets.
12. What theory of government is set forth in The Federalist Papers?
13. Who wrote the Federalist Papers? What was the main purpose?
14. Describe the argument of the Declaration of Independence.
15. What assumptions underpin the Declaration of Independence?
16. Describe Freneau’s picture of slavery in “Sir Toby.”
17. What poignant question did the personae in the poem ask Sir Toby?
18. Who was Phillis Wheatley and what was her contribution to American Literature?
19. What was Philip Freneau’s view of the British?
20. What does Freneau say about life in his poem “The Wild Honey-Suckle”?
How is this a Romantic poem?
21. Discuss the two themes in Tyler’s “The Contrast.”
22. Characterize the American Yankee figure citing examples in literature.
23. What is a comedy of manners?

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FlexPath Action Plan

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FlexPath Action Plan

Earlier in this orientation, you learned how FlexPath works and what’s expected of you as a FlexPath learner. For this assessment, you will create a personal FlexPath Action Plan. Creating this plan will give you the opportunity to reflect on what you’ve learned, consider your strengths and anticipated challenges, and develop a plan to put your decisions into action.

Remember that this plan is for you. Creating it will help you:

Recognize the knowledge, skills, and strengths you bring to your FlexPath experience.

Gain clarity about expectations and habits you may need to change to succeed in FlexPath.

Create a realistic plan for fitting FlexPath course work into your life.

Prepare for your first meeting with your FlexPath coach.

Begin your first academic course feeling empowered and ready to deal with challenges.

For each of the categories below, reflect on the topic and questions, and consider what you have learned so far during this orientation. When you complete this document, return to the courseroom and follow the assessment directions to submit it for evaluation.

Unpack Your Expectations

In the blank space below, write a 1−2 paragraph summary of your responses to the following questions. Be specific about your strategies: the skills you will use and changes you plan to make in order to succeed in FlexPath.

Think back over your years learning at home, school, and work.

What were those experiences like for you?

What assumptions about education and learning have you developed as a result of those experiences?

How can you use skills you have gained in the workplace to help you as an independent learner?

Now think about what you just learned about FlexPath.

What expectations did you start with, and how did those change? What most appeals to you? What surprised you?

Is there anything about the FlexPath model that might be a challenge for you?

What changes do you plan to make in how you approach learning and education in order to succeed in FlexPath?

Picture Yourself Working on Courses

In the space below, write a 1−2 paragraph summary of your responses to the following questions. Describe any adjustments you plan to make to carve out the time and space you’ll need for course work.

Most learners already have a full life before they start FlexPath. Think about what will be going on in your life during the weeks you plan to devote to your first academic course. Then picture yourself in the settings where you actually plan to do your course work.

How will you make room for this additional commitment in your life? What could interfere with your plans?

What type of environment do you expect to do your work in? Will your workspace or spaces help or hinder your ability to concentrate?

When do you plan to work on your course? Will you work in daily increments or in one or two longer sessions each week?

Create Strategies for Success

Knowing yourself—what you’re good at and what might be tough for you—is a source of great power. So is knowing when and where to ask for help. Creating strategies for success involves drawing on your existing strengths, developing new ones, and reaching out for support when you need it.

In the space below, write a 1−2 paragraph summary of your responses to the following questions. Be as specific as possible about the strategies you plan to use.

Take a minute to review what you wrote in the previous topics.

What strengths will you bring to the table that will help you succeed? How will you leverage those?

In what areas do you anticipate challenges or the need to develop some additional skills? How will you do that?

Who can you enlist to help support your efforts? In what ways do you think they will be helpful?

Review the FlexPath Resources available on Campus. Which ones do you think might be most helpful to you, and why?

Week 2 Discussion – Color and Design Principles (Must include citations!)

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Week 2 Discussion – Color and Design Principles

Learning Objectives Covered

  1. Discuss the role color plays in the big four design principles (contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity)

Background

PosterOnWall.jpgEvery visual composition involves a foreground-background relationship. The relationship between the foreground, or subject, and the area that surrounds it is extraordinarily important. Contrast, one of the four big principles of design, dictates whether the foreground/background relationship is working well or failing. If there is enough contrast between the color of typography and the background it is placed upon, we can read it. If they are too similar in shade or hue, reading can be difficult. Too much contrast, ie: complementary colors, can also create issues. For example, red type on a green background tends to vibrate, making the text difficult to read.

Contrast can be defined in many ways, but primarily means change or difference. As described above, it can create the relationship between foreground and background. Color contrast is also one of the primary ways graphic designers create focal points. Too much color contrast (ie: too many different colors within a layout) leads to confusion, while too few color contrasts create a flat design with no focal points.

In order to create color contrasts, a second design principle, repetition, must be in place. Repetition in color ensures unity within a design – but can be boring. Pairing repetitive use of color with a few color contrasts is the key to creating a successful layout.

TIP: Squint at the poster design you chose. Low-contrast palette has the same tonal range when you squint at it, while a high contrast palette will range from very dark to very light. Squinting allows you to look at tonal aspects of a design without seeing the design elements themselves and is a useful tool for discerning when contrast is needed or overdone. For example, if you squint at the photo at the top of the page you will find it is predominantly low contrast and monochromatic. The eye is drawn to the framed type on the page by the stark contrast of pure black on white as compared to the grey surrounding. There is a contrast in the texture of the bricks to the smoothness of the framed type as well. Repetition is used in the brick shape, creating a background for the picture. The tonal range of the other elements of the photo are also very similar, which is repetition at work. The photographer is using the red cup as a secondary focal point by creating a contrast in color.

Prompt

Visit the site http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/excellent-posters-from-the-design-world-59-examples/ (Links to an external site.). Be sure to scroll down – there are 60 wonderful examples here.

For your initial post:

  • CHOOSE ONE poster design from the site.
  • Take a screenshot of it and embed it into your initial discussion post.
  • Describe how color contrast and repetition was or was not used to create impact. What mood was created by the color choices? How would different choices have affected the overall design?

For your citation, you might use articles that describe the big four design principles; contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity, related to colors or the emotions generated from specific color schemes.

When looking at your fellow student’s discussion posts, you might discuss how all four design principles were implemented to create a successful design. In addition to contrast and repetition, consider where you see alignment and proximity used. What was their impact on the overall success or failure of the design? If you were to change the design in any way, what would you change and why? Support your answer with the design principle that it relates to.

Your initial and reply posts should work to develop a group understanding of this topic. Challenge each other. Build on each other. Always be respectful but discuss this and figure it out together.

Developing a Research Topic hypotheses, intro, and preliminary measures.

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Need help formulating an introduction and hypotheses for the research topics below. Please attach some research studies/articles relative to my topic that may be used as a good starting point must be peer reviewed articles.also attach some potential references list.

Develop a preliminary list of measures, including appropriate references and copies of the measures.

Select a final measures and begin to develop data collection and data analysis plans

Topics:

What percentage of persons with green card prefer to keep their green card versus naturalizing?

What are the the barriers to naturlizations for green card holders.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND

What population of subjects am i going to be investigating?

how many participants do i want to have?

how am i going to indicate where i am getting these numbers from? is it going to be region, virgin islands

*bigger is not always the best*

effect size, power, power analyses, ex. group, correlation, that is the best way to determine participants.

participant section, age range need to have an age range

ethnicity, English as a primary language, education background, highest level of education, socioeconomic status, parents education, parents income, demographic,

explain why i am excluding some participants if i am excluding any.

recruitment: where, how

need to have a script and stick to it.

consent form needed procedures, thank you, payments. (coercion) (give pen)

privacy agreement

possible issues, cost of naturalizing, esl, education, benefits,

piloting(?)

consent form. make sure the language is the same. be consistent, measures and in everything.

  • Purpose: Describe the objectives and hypotheses of the study and what you expect to learn or demonstrate:
  • Background: Describe the theory or data supporting the objectives of the study and include a bibliography of key references as applicable.
  • Subject Population: Describe the characteristics of the participant population including the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the number of participants you plan to recruit:
  • Recruitment Procedure: Describe your recruitment strategies including how the potential participants will be approached and precautions that will be taken to minimize the possibility of undue influence or coercion. Include copies of the recruitment letters, leaflets, etc. in your submission.
  • Consenting Procedure: Describe the consenting procedure, whether participation is completely voluntary, whether the participants can withdraw at any time without penalty, the procedures for withdrawing, and whether an incentive (describe it) will be offered for participation. If a vulnerable population is recruited, describe the measures that will be taken to obtain consent (e.g., cognitively impaired participants, prisoners, pregnant women, HIV/AID participants) or assent from minors and permission from parents of minors.
  • Study Procedures: Provide a chronological description of the procedures, tests, and interventions that will be implemented during the course of the study. Indicate the number of visits, length of each visit, and the time it would take to undergo the various tests, procedures, and interventions. If blood or tissue is to be collected, indicate exactly how much in simple terms. Flow diagrams may be used to clarify complex projects.
  • Data Analysis: Describe how you will analyze your data to answer the study question.
  • Potential Risks and Precautions to Reduce Risk: Indicate any physical, psychological, social, or privacy risk which the subject may incur. Risk(s) must be specified. Also describe what measures have been or will be taken to prevent and minimize each of the risks identified.
  • Procedures to Maintain Confidentiality: Describe how the data will be collected, de-identified, stored, used, and disposed to protect confidentiality. If protected health information is to be re-identified at a later date, describe the procedure for doing so. All signed consents and hard data at the end of your research project must be handed over to your faculty advisor or program coordinator to be stored for a minimum of 3 years in a locked filing cabinet (and locked room) in your advisors/program coordinator’s office or lab.
  • Potential Benefits: Describe the potential benefits of the research to the participants, to others with similar problems, and to society.

Answer all questions based on material in the reading by Roy Armes from page 1-49

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Roy Armes. 1987. Third World Film Making and the West. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Questions

  • How long did it take for film to reach the major cities of Asia, Latin America and North Africa after the first film showings in Paris, London and New York?
  • Why is the history of film production and film exhibition in the West almost the same as in the Third World?
  • With which conference of nations, held in which year, is the term “Third World” usually traced back to?
  • What problems of categorization do we encounter when we use the term “Third World” to identify films produced in places such as Mali, Brazil, India or Ouagadougou?
  • State 5 factors that have defined Third World film making over the years.
  • By which year did European nations reach the height of their power?
  • What percentage of the world did European powers dominate at the height of their power?
  • Under what historical circumstances did “Third World” as a notion come into being?
  • In which decade did the notion of “Third World” gain momentum and currency?
  • According to Pierre Jalee, what do the countries and economies of Africa have in comparison with those of the countries and economies of the First World?
  • According to Roy Armes in Third World Film Making and the West, how is the legitimacy of the colonizer ensured in the colony that the colonizer has taken over?
  • State 4 factors on which the identity of the colonized depends.
  • After undermining the languages of the colonized through the education system, what language does the colonizer impose on the colonized?
  • Besides commerce and law, name another area on which the language of the colonizer is imposed?
  • According to Albert Memmi as quoted on page 11 in Roy Armes’ book Third World Film Making and the West that we are reading in this class, why is the language of the colonized people important to them?
  • According to Renato Constantino as quoted by Roy Armes on page 12 of Third World Film Making and the West, what does education administered by colonial powers do to the colonized school children perception of their national history?
  • According to Renato Constantino as quoted by Roy Armes on page 12 of Third World Film Making and the West, how did colonial education affect Filipinos in terms of how they perceived themselves in relation to the colonizers?
  • According to Renato Constantino as quoted by Roy Armes on page 12 of Third World Film Making and the West, what is the term that describes the feelings that overwhelm colonized people who feel that they are less compared to the colonizer?
  • State two factors which, according to Roy Armes in Third World Film Making and the West, are responsible for the persistence of problems of language, culture and identity manufactured by colonialism.
  • What processes did taxation under colonialism trigger in the colonized countries?
  • According to Roy Armes, “the persistence in post-independence societies of the problems of language, culture and identity produced by colonialism derives from factors relating to both economic relations and the nature of the colonial state.” State 2 aspects of the colonial state apparatus established during colonial rule that distinguish it from all other forms of social organization and make it central in the perpetuation of colonial of colonialist ideals.
  • List the 3 ways in which tribal chiefs in the Third World were cut off from the mass of the population and made to be dependent on the colonial state in the Third World.
  • What did the colonial French policy of Assimilation involve or entail in French colonies?
  • What did Leopold Senghor and the leaders of other nationalist movements in West Africa do when they were asked to choose between total independence and continued association with France?

1.8 NACLA Report on the Americas Review #1 (ASSIGNMENT)

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For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit 3 short reviews during the semester. Please submit one review per due date. Each review is to be at least 3-4 pages and each due date corresponds to a regional topic in Latin America. I’ll explain further later in these instructions. The due dates for these reports are September 20, October 25 and November 27. Here are the regional topics corresponding to each due date:

  • September 20: Mexico, Canada or Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, or Panama).

  • October 25: The Caribbean region (any of the islands, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti; or Venezuela or Colombia)

  • November 27: The rest of South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, or the Guianas)

To select the articles, click on any of the NACLA tags to see a page of various articles that you can access. For the first due date of September 20, select any article from the following pages: Mexico (Links to an external site.), Canada (Links to an external site.), Guatemala (Links to an external site.), Honduras (Links to an external site.), El Salvador, (Links to an external site.) Nicaragua (Links to an external site.), Panama (Links to an external site.), Costa Rica (Links to an external site.), and Belize (Links to an external site.).

Please submit your reports through Canvas in either of the following formats: doc, docx or PDF (if you are using Apple Pages to compose your review, please be sure to convert your paper to docx or PDF before submitting it). Late papers will be accepted for each submission, but only for one week after the assigned due dates and will be assessed a full grade deduction. Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). These 3 reports will count as a combined 15% toward your final grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:

Nidia Bautista, “Justice for Lesvy: Indifference and Outrage in Response to Gender Violence in Mexico City,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (July 31, 2017).

In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. Enrique Peña Nieto, Nicolás Maduro, Maurcio Macri, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? In other words, please try to be as objective as possible during this portion of the assignment.

And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America or the Americas in general? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article?

Spiritual but not Religious essay

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Question Description

Article to use for the assignment. Zinnbauer, Brian, et al. “Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the Fuzzy.” Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 36, no. 4, 1997, pp. 549-564.

Other instructions on how the work should be done or is expected.

SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS” ESSAY FRAME AND CLASS SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS

Here is your template for your first essay, due Monday 9/16.


Please look through it now, and paste it into a word program to use for your paper. Yes, you will need to retain the headings! (but erase directions for final paper).This is the most updated version, so please use it over anything else posted.

Please use the frame/headings and keep them in bold. Heading are:

Intro and Thesis:

My Experience:

Analysis:

Conclusion:

Bibliography:

Just copy off the form and direction details below and go through them one step at a time as you write your paper (and of course erase the directions for the final paper – but keep the headings!)

SECTION SPECIFICS

Introduction and Thesis: Offer 2-3 sentences of introduction in a personal voice, then end with the thesis.

The thesis is best placed at the END of an introduction of a few sentences. A thesis follow the formula “I think…….., because……”

You need to share a personal opinion here, so don’t quote anyone at this point. Make a strong statement based on your view of the subject. Note that this type of thesis must have 2 parts: The first part share what you think, and then you add a comma to add the next part saying why you think this way.(Many students forget the “because” part, or don’t add the comma, but you need the comma and the second part of the thesis statement).

My experience: Here, share some of your personal background that has shaped your view of religion and spirituality. Include little stories from childhood, school, work, or anything other that makes sense to include that discusses the topic. Some may talk about growing up in a church, or learning yoga and meditation. Whatever you do, pick one or two stories and detail them rather than offering a listing. (Length should be at least 1-2 paragraphs). This is an essay so don’t hesitate to use the word I as you share some about your life story.

Analysis: You will need 2-3 paragraphs of Analysis. The usual order for Analysis per paragraph is:

  • Claim- use a personal tone as this is an essay, not a report. Yes – use the word I for the claim; this is a mini-thesis.
  • Evidence – quotes Zinnbauer and class materials, and include in-text citation
  • Reasoning and Grounded Examples – just like you do in discussions. Share your idea about the quote, why it makes sense/doesn’t, etc, and then offer a a life example

[note – the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning should not be labeled; they are paragraph writing directions, not headings.]

Conclusion: In your own voice, summarize what you discussed in detail in the essay, and then re-state your thesis in view of what you discussed. (1 paragraph). Some students have used phrasing like “I proved that…” This is not a science paper, so the idea is not to prove anything, but share your view. So simply summarize your view.

Bibliography: List all sources contacted for writing this paper, using correct formatting.

This is all in Writing Specifics, with a little update and editing. You can check sample papers through this link.

The main tip I think helps many is to remember to use the word “I”. An essay is about your perspective, so share it. You still have to look at quotes in analysis, but the idea is to relate life and learning. While in discussion we focus first on class materials, in the papers you first outline your view and perspective, and then dig into outside materials.