Select one option below for this week’s Discussion.

OPTION A:

Scholars continue to debate the academic nature of Buddhism as to whether it should be identified as a religion or a philosophy. Based upon your studies and research this week, compare and contrast these two positions and then academically defend ONE SIDE of this debate by clearly demonstrating your position as to why you believe the practice of Buddhism is best identified as a religion OR a philosophy.

OPTION B:

The Four Noble Truths serve as the foundational teachings of Buddhism as they seek to address the issues of human suffering in the world. Given the major premise found within the Four Noble Truths, what relationship do you find in Buddhism for offering a response to the practice of gaining self-identity through the practice of Consumerism found in our society today and illustrate the prospect for the growth of Buddhism in America as it relates to your research? In addressing this issue, you will need to identify, define, and apply the Four Noble Truths from which you will academically defend your position.

1. Select one of the versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” you’ve chosen to work with for this unit.
2. Identify this version and, after reviewing “Conventions of Fairy Tales,” explain how the version you chose does or does not fit the fairy tale genre.
3. Based on the materials explored so far in this unit (i.e., all the sources you’ve found for MA 3), what have you found the most interesting or surprising?

10B

1. Share the MLA citations and completed annotations for at least four sources from GA 6, one of which MUST be a peer reviewed journal (see Unit 3 Assignments sheet or the GA 6 dropbox for instructions).
2. Each annotation should appear directly beneath the citation.
3. Please copy and paste your work into the discussion post box so that your peers can easily read your work; don’t upload the document or link to a Google doc.)
4. Then, type a question that you have about the assignment, OR discuss your plans for completing the assignment. You might also discuss how difficult/easy it was to find a journal article related to your source.

Instructions:

you pick one of the poems from the poetry packet

Explication (Short Paper), Poetry Presentations

For this assignment, you will write an explication of a poem from the Poetry Packet. The explication will take the form of a close reading of the poem in (approximately) 2 pages. Your explication should consider the 10 steps listed on the “How to Explicate a Poem” handout  It is worth 10 points. For more information, consult Purdue OWL at https://bit.ly/3azr83B.

For this typed, double-spaced assignment, you need write only 2 pages. For details on formatting, consult my handout on Blackboard entitled “Formatting Your Essays.”

Consider the explication as a line-by-line reading of the poem. You may need to find a way of dividing the poem into logical “thought unites” (such as stanzas or sentences) to do justice to the poem in its entirety.

For this assignment, use appropriate literary terms from the handouts on Blackboard. [However, don’t simply say, “There is a metaphor in this poem” identify it!]

A close reading of the poem will allow you to identify “how” the poem gets its effects.

Progress Check

Use this activity to assess whether you and your peers can: 

Calculate a 90% and a 95% confidence interval.

Relate the interval width of a confidence interval to its margin of error (MOE).

• Compare interval widths of two confidence intervals and draw conclusions.
• Directions
• Use the drop-down menu to learn about the three steps needed to complete this assignment.

Prompt

Harris Interactive® conducted a poll of American adults in August of 2011 to study the use of online medical information. Of the 1,019 randomly chosen adults, 60% had used the Internet within the past month to obtain medical information. 

Use the results of this survey to create an approximate 95% confidence interval estimate for the percentage of all American adults who have used the Internet to obtain medical information in the past month.

Calculate the 90% confidence interval.

Which confidence interval has the smaller margin of error? Why does this make sense? 

Which confidence interval is more likely to contain the true percentage of all American adults who have used the Internet to obtain medical information in the past month? Briefly explain your reasoning.