Tag: MLA

Where did the data come from? (Source)If not, what could be changed so that the presentation of the data is unbiased?

Write a 1-2 page, single spaced paper analyzing a piece of media using the guidelines below. Your paper should also include a references page and follow proper formatting (your choice of MLA or APA).
Asses the statistics:

Where did the data come from? (Source)

Is the data valid? (Did the source follow proper protocol to get a good sample?)

Has the data been manipulated or misrepresented?

Is there another article that presents the same data differently?
Interpret that data:

Who is the target audience?

Is there any bias in how the data is presented?

If so, how can you tell?

Is the data relevant to the target audience?

Is it clear what the data is claiming?

Discuss the article

Overall, does the data give an accurate representation of the general population?

Is the article written in a neutral tone?

If not, what could be changed so that the presentation of the data is unbiased?

Is there a better way to reach the target audience?
For example: an online article may not be the best way to reach those in the 60+ age group. Similarly, a news broadcast may not reach parents who are getting their kids ready for school or bed when the broadcast airs.

Select any death penalty or hate crime related issue or story in the news this week.

CE 5

Select any death penalty or hate crime related issue or story in the news this week. This assignment should be a minimum of one (1) page with a summary of the article or event with a link to the story where the information was obtained, as well as proper MLA / APA (your choice) citations. 12 point font, spelling and grammar will be graded as well.

How would you state the importance of intercultural communication? (Hint: the importance should be best summarized in different points and explained with supportive details.)

M1 presentation

Q1. read the assigned chapter, and summarize and review your reading.  be specific with the key notions and their page numbers.

How would you state the importance of intercultural communication? (Hint: the importance should be best summarized in different points and explained with supportive details.) In other words, your response should prove that you have finished the reading assignment so make sure you provide your reading review with specific page numbers.

In which ways can you relate the importance of intercultural communication to your own personal, social life, and political life? give examples from your own experiences.

Part 2 Importance of Intercultural Communication in Professional setting or Working Life (Chapters 6 or 10, 200 words minimum)

What have you learned from the assigned chapters?  be specific with the key notions and their page numbers in the textbook.

Why do we have to prepare ourselves for a culturally diversified working place? Why do we need to learn how to work as a team with people of different cultures? try to use your firsthand experiences or observation in your own professional or working relationships.

In managing professional or workplace conflicts, how would you differentiate conflicts due to cultural differences from conflicts due to personal differences? If you have your own experiences,  review, analyze and share them. If not,  do some research to read others’ discussion on this issue. If you do research make sure you cite your references in APA (standard communication style manual) or MLA.

Cultural DNA (Chapters 3 & 4, 500 words minimum)
Q1. Chapters 3 & 4 are a must read.  read the chapters, and summarize and review your reading.

In which ways our cultural deep structure (e.g. family and history) and our intercultural encounters interact and influence with each other? In which ways they can impact or even re-shape each other?

give concrete examples from your own experiences of such mutual impacts. Or if you do not have any of your own experiences, you can do some research on the topic. If you do research make sure you cite your references in APA (standard communication style manual) or MLA.

Analyze the musical elements in the song, but that your main focus should be on the song’s lyrics since you are practicing the sort of textual analysis that will help you in our future papers.

To develop a paper that analyzes the lyrics of a song of your choice as a piece of literature.

Your task for this assignment is to develop a paper that analyzes the lyrics of a song of your choice as a piece of literature.

The paper should:

Begin with an introductory paragraph that introduces the song (when it was created, by what artist, if it has been popular). This paragraph should end with a thesis that makes a claim about the song’s meaning.

The rest of the paper should use multiple paragraphs to present an explication that provides an overview of the text’s meaning. To do this, you will need to focus on specific features in the poem to help explain what the song’s meaning. (See the Reading & Writing About Poetry (or Song Lyrics) page for help in this regard).

It will be necessary to focus on specific features in the song.note that you may analyze the musical elements in the song, but that your main focus should be on the song’s lyrics since you are practicing the sort of textual analysis that will help you in our future papers. You should also use specific evidence from the song throughout your paper.

Note: Be sure to choose a song that is appropriately complex. A song with a narrative – that is, a song that tells a story may be useful in this regard. Whatever the case, “Baby Shark” is not going to cut it.

Formatting Requirements:

Papers should be 3-5 pages in length (1000-1500 words).

All work should be typed and double-spaced in size 12 Times New Roman font.

All work should be left aligned.

All work should have one-inch margins.

All headers should include the following on the left side of the page

Name

Date

Class and Meeting Time

Word Count

NOTE: Canvas will automatically upload your paper submission to .

Note: Below is a brief list of requirements for an English 101 paper. Your paper should attempt to follow these requirements to the best of your ability based on your experiences and recollection of English 101 or an equivalent course.

Include an introductory paragraph.

Be guided by a single that makes an arguable claim.

Prove the paper’s to be true through the use of specific evidence.

When necessary, practice proper quotation formatting and in-text citations (according to MLA formatting).

Practice strong paragraph structure including topic sentences.

Be grammatically correct.

Follow MLA formatting.

The Awakening (attached), in large part, is about women’s changing roles in society. In a broad view, we can see that the novel is about human rights. For this assignment, you will create an educational flyer on a human rights issue.

Educational Flyer

The Awakening (attached), in large part, is about women’s changing roles in society. In a broad view, we can see that the novel is about human rights. For this assignment, you will create an educational flyer on a human rights issue.

You are free to choose a human rights issue that interests you.

Gun rights pro/con or abortion pro/con though cannot be used.

The flyer will be created in Microsoft Word. The first page of your Word document will be the flyer; the flyer is to be one page in length only.

The second page of your Word document will contain your MLA formatted works cited page including your researched information and image sources.

While you will include researched support, the majority (80%) of the flyer’s text content must be in your own original words.

The flyer must include:

At least one data graph or table.

At least 7 sentences of text including a topic sentence identifying and explaining the human rights issue, explanation of the data graph or table, support, and solutions for the problem that the flyer’s readers can enact.

Your paper should not contain more than 20% of quotes from outside sources.

Discuss why the mind-body problem is a problem. A problem for whom? Make sure to discuss the nature of consciousness, intentionality, subjectivity, and mental causation.

The Mind-Body Problem

This assignment tests the student’s understanding of the mind-body problem and its various implications.

Write a thorough explanation of the following: address the mind-body problem. Discuss why the mind-body problem is a problem. A problem for whom? Make sure to discuss the nature of consciousness, intentionality, subjectivity, and mental causation.

Finally, you should dedicate at least a paragraph to indicate the mind-body problem’s social, legal, and moral implications.

Write a minimum of 1000 words (approximately 4-5 double-spaced pages). Upload as word document. Use any style that you prefer, i.e., MLA, APA, Chicago.

Define the concepts of multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism in your opening paragraph.

Here are the plays you can pick from: Fences by August Wilson; Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Simon Stephens; The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl; Laramie Project by Moises Kaufmann and Stop Kiss by Diana Son.

This is a paper in which you compare and contrast the multicultural, intercultural and transcultural aspects of two plays. For this assignment you may also use the musicals “Lion King” and “Hamilton” as one of your plays.

1. Choose two plays that you like and want to discuss

2. Define the concepts of multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism in your opening paragraph.

3. Organize your paper into three main sections: multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism and discuss those concepts with specifics and examples of each of the two plays. Be sure to make comparisons (similarities) and contrasts (differences) between the two plays.

4. Write a concluding paragraph that ties all the information together.

5. Paper must be 7 to 10 pages in length in MLA format.

6. You must use the two plays as Reference Citations plus at least two other outside sources.

will attach an example of a paper.

Summarize/explain the Harlem Renaissance as a movement and 2 slides for each author listed above. suggest having one slide to discuss the author’s bio and one to summarize the author’s work.

The Harlem Renaissance Presentation Assignment

Instructions: After reading and viewing the videos for the following stories: Zora Neale Hurston – “The Gilded Six-Bits”, Langston Hughes – “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “I,Too”, and Jean Toomer – from “Cane”, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes each work in a few concise statements, offers a visual image for each work, and explains how the work represents the Harlem Renaissance.

Also watch:

https://youtu.be/y_M-PfhgMsg And

Your PowerPoint should contain the following:

A title slide that contains a catchy title for the presentation, your name, instruc

tor, class, and date.
10 slides (4 slides that summarize/explain the Harlem Renaissance as a movement and 2 slides for each author listed above. suggest having one slide to discuss the author’s bio and one to summarize the author’s work.) The Works Cited slide does not count as one of your 10 slides.

Each slide should contain:

Five to seven sentences that accurately summarize the events in the literary work. These events should be in chronological order.

An image that sums up or symbolizes how the work connects to or reflects the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.

Images can be found/used from pixabay.com.

These images are free for public use and do not have to be cited. Any image taken/used from other sources will need to be cited in MLA format on a Works Cited slide at the end of the presentation.

Thus, if all images come from pixabay.com, you will not need to provide a Works Cited slide for this PowerPoint.

Note: The image can be used as the background of the slide or as an image inserted on the slide. In either case, make sure the information on the slide is clearly visible and easy to read.

Always have contrasting text (light text on dark backgrounds or dark text on light backgrounds.

Proper grammar and organization.

A Works Cited slide if any sources are cited in this presentation.

LIST ALL SOURCES NO MATTER HOW MANY.

Analyze the style of a work of art and the historical context in which it was created.Evaluate works of art in relation to the context and historical background in which they were created.

An analytical discussion of a work of Western art. chose the piece The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

Examine and appraise works of art for formal elements and content, and demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast stylistic elements that distinguish aesthetic and cultural trends.

Evaluate works of art in relation to the context and historical background in which they were created.

Instruction Details: Analyze the style of a work of art and the historical context in which it was created.

how the artist achieves the final composition by carefully detailing how s/he utilizes the “formal” elements of the work (i.e. color, composition, shapes or forms, line or contour, mass and volume, light, texture, depth, balance, etc.) and how these elements work together to create the final composition as well as to shape the content and meaning.

Integrate this analysis of the style with information from secondary sources.

This information from sources must be:

(1) paraphrased in your own words and (2) properly cited in MLA . No direct quotations from secondary sources should be used unless they are properly introduced and discussed.