Category: Writing

Given the videos you’ve just watched and the reading of Chapter 8, please respond to both the following discussion questions thoughtfully:

• How do demographic factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and race affect intellectual development?
• With a variety of competing intelligence theories, how, if at all, can practitioners meaningfully make use of these theories?
• Provide at least three ways you can apply practices supported by intelligence theories into the early childhood classroom. I would like you to address at least two different theories.

After you complete your response, you are expected to respond to the post of at least three other classmates. These responses should be thoughtful and contribute to the learning community. In other words, more than, “I agree” or “well said.”

This assignment must be submitted in your own words and include references of your sources. If you must use a direct quote, APA format is required. Turnitin will be used for this assignment; plagiarism of any kind is not tolerated.

Try Again is a motivational poem written by William Edward Hickson. The poem teaches us that we should never lose hope if we fail in life. Instead of giving up, we should try again with courage and determination.

The poet explains that failure is a part of life. Sometimes people do not succeed on their first attempt, but this should not discourage them. They should learn from their mistakes and continue working hard. Success usually comes to those who keep trying and never stop making an effort.

The poem encourages readers to be brave and patient. Hard work, strong will, and repeated effort help a person achieve their goals. Those who keep trying despite difficulties eventually become successful.

Moral / Lesson:

The main lesson of the poem is that we should never give up after failure and should always try again until we succeed.

Essay 2: Rhetorical Analysis

In this paper, you are going to consider one of the below articles and will write a rhetorical analysis in which you explore how the author conveys a thesis, theme, or meaning to his/her/their audience.

The focus is not on whether you agree with the author, rather, focus on what strategies the author is using to create a meaningful or effective piece. This does not mean that you have to take everything the author says at face value. If the author seems to over-emphasize emotional appeals, ignore counterarguments, or rely on faulty data, you are free indeed, encouraged to call them out on it.

A couple salient features to really consider when reading:

• Where does the author show audience awareness?
• What sort of stylistic or language tools does the author use to prove their point?
• What are the purposes (notice that there are probably several) of the author?
• What disciplines or discourses does the author draw from?
• How does the author use rhetorical proofs (appeals to emotion, authority, and reason) to prove their point?

Article choices:

• In Defense of Dangerous Ideas. Stephen Pinker. Scholars at Harvard 2007
• Honest academic inquiry should not be punished, even if the questions asked are offensive or make people uncomfortable.
• Im a Cop: I Wont Fight a War on Crime like I Fought the War on Terror. Patrick Skinner
• Better policing may mean removing our reliance on warrior cops
• Is Humiliation an Ethically Appropriate Response to Plagiarism. Loye Young. Engage: Conversations in Philosophy 2008.
• Publicly shaming cheaters should not only be legal, but standard practice.
• (Note: this is a message board, and Youngs essay is currently the second response to the post. It is the one that begins with I am that instructor.)
• Real Change Can Happen.” Matthew McConaughey.
• In the wake of a school shooting, Matthew McConaughey argues for “responsible gun ownership”
• Content Warning: This speech contains graphic descriptions of gun violence and candidly discusses victims’ experiences
• The Case for Censoring Hate Speech. Sam McElwee.
• Online speech that intimidates minorities should be censored by content providers.
• How to Fix Grade Inflation at Harvard. Samuel Goldman. The American Conservative 2013.
• Students should have a second, curved grade in addition to the one that assesses mastery of course concepts.
• The Social Costs of Abandoning the Meaning of Marriage. Ryan Anderson. Heritage Foundation 2013
• Expanding marriage beyond monogamous, permanent, heterosexual relationships harms society as a whole.
• The Singer Solution to World Poverty. Peter Singer. New York Times 1999.
• When we fail to donate money to feed the hungry, we are committing murder.
• From Degrading to De-Grading Alfie Kohn. High School Magazine, 2019
• Schools should do away with grades and use more meaningful forms of assessment.

NOTE: Some of these links may be to online newspapers with a limited number of free article views a month. Once you choose your piece, you should probably print it out immediately.

“NUTS AND BOLTS” CONCERNS:

Whichever essay you choose, please consider the following guidelines:

• Your essay should be about 750 words in MLA format. You must include a works cited page.
• You may quote and paraphrase from the text as well indeed you should quote or paraphrase when doing so will illustrate the point you are making.
• This essay is due at the end of Unit 9

I need help with an explanation and answer for this assignment.

Write importance of tress

For this assignment, you just need to tell me 3 things:

1. What is your topic and what text are you going to focus on?
2. Why did you choose this topic and text? (please write at least 150 words of explanation as to why you want to learn more about this topic/text)
3. What are your expectations for what this text will say about this topic? Why do you think this (previous knowledge of this text, religion, something you’ve heard from others, or just your best guess!) or just your best guess? Also, write about at least 150 words for this question.

You can choose from the following texts:

• The Upanishads
• The Bhagavad Gita
• The Gathas
• The Dhammapada
• The Tanakh/Hebrew Bible
• The Christian Bible
• The Book of Mormon
• The Quran

And here are some ideas for topics, although you can choose any topic that is interesting to you:

Love

Justice

Women

Marriage

Nirvana

Violence

War

Prayer

Sexuality

Treatment of Others

God

The afterlife

What you can expect:

A high quality explanation and answer with in your time limit

Quick responsive communication

Original explanations and answers with any outside resources cited

1 hour ago

Question 1: One of the outcomes of the First Word War (1914-1918) in the Middle East was the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. What was the political significance of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the modern Middle East? For this question, you should think about the role of Great Powers in the region (especially the British and French), the role of nationalism, including Arab nationalism and Zionism, and the Middle East was geographically changed after the war (e.g., look at Turkey, the region of Judea, and the broader Middle East).

Question 2: t the beginning of the 7th Century no one would have predicted that from the lands of Arabia a new empire would emerge. At the time the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires were the two dominant political entities in what we today call the Middle East. What explains the rise of The Islamic Empire in the 7th Century and What was the Prophet Muhammads role in unifying the peoples of Arabia.

Discussion Five: Exploring The Source

Exploring the Source

Submit your post by Monday at 11:59 PM and comment on two other posts by Wednesday at 11:59 PM.

Many diverse art forms and cultures inspired the European and American artists that we have been studying in this course, such as artwork from Japan, China, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East.

In this discussion board you will present a work of art or artifact from a non-Western culture that inspired the development of modern art. Describe its iconography, cultural context, and material and visual form.

Once again, please embed an image in your post and cite at least two sources.

Here are some links that will help you get started (but please note that you have many other options):

• African influences on Modern Art:
• African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde:
• Polynesian and Micronesian art and culture:
• “Japonisme” and 19th century European art:
• Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style:
• “Primitivism”:
• Islamic art and architecture:

Question 1: One of the outcomes of the First Word War (1914-1918) in the Middle East was the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. What was the political significance of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the modern Middle East? For this question, you should think about the role of Great Powers in the region (especially the British and French), the role of nationalism, including Arab nationalism and Zionism, and the Middle East was geographically changed after the war (e.g., look at Turkey, the region of Judea, and the broader Middle East).

Question 2: t the beginning of the 7th Century no one would have predicted that from the lands of Arabia a new empire would emerge. At the time the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires were the two dominant political entities in what we today call the Middle East. What explains the rise of The Islamic Empire in the 7th Century and What was the Prophet Muhammads role in unifying the peoples of Arabia.