Category: Creative Writing

How do you think planned obsolescence effects globalization?Do you believe Leavitt’s argument about globalization after you read about planned obsolescence? Why or why not?

For this paper, you need to read “The Globalization of Markets” also due this week. In this essay, the author, Theodore Leavitt argues that globalization will allow businesses to make high quality, low cost goods. But that claim is challeged by a business practice that had been in place for over 50 years before 1983 when “Globalization of Markets” was written: planned obsolesence.

Go to this Wikipedia page to read about planned obsolescence (you can stop at the “law and regulations” section–you don’t need to read that if you don’t want).

Then, for this paper, want you to apply this idea of planned obsolescence to the idea of globalization as Leavitt describes it in “The Globalization of Markets”. You could do this by considering one or both the questions below:

How do you think planned obsolescence effects globalization?

Do you believe Leavitt’s argument about globalization after you read about planned obsolescence? Why or why not?
Make sure to use quotes from both the essay and Wikipedia page to make your argument.

What makes you feel that this is a problem? Why do you want to solve the problem? What do you anticipate to be the reward(s) that you can expect to receive as a result of the change?

Nursing program

The essay should identify a problem that you are facing in your life, i.e., work, health, family, relationship, etc., and follow the character development structure to figure out a possible solution.

What are you experiencing? What kind of problem does it cause you?

What makes you feel that this is a problem? Why do you want to solve the problem?

What are the steps/measures you plan to take/implement to solve the problem? What do you think can/will gradually change/improve the problem?

What do you anticipate to be the reward(s) that you can expect to receive as a result of the change?

As you can see, this is obviously an effort to implement what you learned or should have learned in writing the movie and novel essays in your own life so that this class can be as practical and related to your life as possible.

How is it gendered? What kinds of metaphors are used? How could the report(s) be rewritten as gender-neutral?

Politics, Prison, and the military

Find local news coverage of a recent election on the Internet and analyze the language used to describe the campaigns. Include a link to the site or article. How is it gendered? What kinds of metaphors are used? How could the report(s) be rewritten as gender-neutral?

Engage our course textbook or online materials in your posts.

Your main post should be at least 400 words in length

If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?

Describe your unique drafting process. What exactly do you do? How do you draft, move from draft #1 to draft #2. What are your plans for draft #3?What surprised you about your writing this semester? What disappointed you?

Consider who you were as a write in September and who you are as a writer now in December, three months and many assignments later.

To help you reflect, respond to the following 4 questions in a loose essay form:

1. How well do you think you express your ideas through writing?
What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?

2. What kind of writer are you? What do you think is your writing style?
Have fun. Compare yourself to an animal or a color or the weather or a person or think of another way to describe your writing style.

3. Describe your unique drafting process. What exactly do you do? How do you draft, move from draft #1 to draft #2. What are your plans for draft #3?

4. What surprised you about your writing this semester? What disappointed you?

What sound do your fingers make on the keyboard as you type? What color ink do you use to freewrite or annotate? What sounds occur around you when you try to write–is it a loud kitchen full of bustle and voices, a quiet bedroom with blue flowered wallpaper, or what? Use details and narrative to tell your story as a writer.

Identify the key characteristics of each of the four lenses: social science, natural science, history, and the humanities.

Final

Using the resources from this course, identify the characteristics of each of the four liberal arts lenses, the types of evidence they use, and the similarities and differences among them.

Identify the key characteristics of each of the four lenses: social science, natural science, history, and the humanities.

Be sure to include relevant points that help explain the characteristics.

Identify the types of evidence used when looking through each lens.

Determine similarities and differences among the lenses, based on the characteristics you have identified.
Researching Your Topic

For the topic you selected from the list above, determine what you know, what you want to know, and what you have learned about the topic from the provided resources in the library guide. You will need to use each of the four lenses in your responses.

Know (K): Draw on previous and personal experiences to provide information about what you already know about your topic in relation to each lens.
Want to know (W):

Determine what you want to know about your topic in relation to the lenses.
Be sure to phrase this information in the form of questions.

What keywords would be helpful in exploring your topic?
Learned (L): Answer the questions you posed about your topic using the provided resources in the library guide. If they are not answered by the resources, explain what steps you will take to answer them.

Choose two of the four lenses you applied when researching your topic, and examine the topic in greater detail.

Examine your topic through your first lens.
Be sure to identify the lens you selected.

Write about what you learned in your examination. Use details and examples relevant to that lens from the resources in the library guide and the course.

Examine your topic through your second lens.
Be sure to identify the lens you selected.

Write about what you learned in your examination. Use details and examples relevant to that lens from the resources in the library guide and the course.
Explain the similarities and differences in how the lenses relate to your topic.

Determine the next steps for further exploration of the topic you have chosen.
Determine questions to ask for further exploration of this topic. Would you continue to explore through the lenses you’ve chosen, or take another approach?

Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.Compare Harry to the dead Leopard from the first lines of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. What are each of them symbolically or actually climbing? Does the image of the hyena come into play here?

Discuss the obsessive need for June’s mother to find a way for June to be a prodigy in “Two Kinds” and what that might do to a child’s self-esteem.

Compare Harry to the dead Leopard from the first lines of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. What are each of them symbolically or actually climbing? Does the image of the hyena come into play here?

Think about the life of Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” and consider how her life might not have been as free as she might have imagined it should the ending have been different. If her husband had in-fact died, and she had lived, would she actually be as free as she think she would? Why or why not?