Personal Statement Essay Questions
Now is your chance to express yourself – let us get to know the real you – we know you’re more than a series of facts and figures! In at least 250 words, please answer one of the following questions.
Jump into the future, ten years from your Rider graduation. You have been selected to receive a local community award and will need to submit a biographical sketch. Highlight your personal and professional accomplishments since graduation.
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Description:
This activity allows students to determine best practices of group communication, and then apply those best practices to communicating in a small group of their own.
Objectives:
Select and narrow public speaking topics.
Explain the principles of citing research, finding supporting material, and creating main points for a speech.
Instructions:
Select a topic for a speech
Narrow down your topic and provide a thesis statement
Write a 1-page summary on this topic.
Include two scholarly articles
Create a reference page and insert in-text citations
Write a research paper that analyzes the poem Alone by Edger Allan Poe. Essay needs to argue the thesis – ” Edgar Allen Poe used his literary works, to alleviate the stresses of reality. In his works he vented his frustrations and own negativity to illuminate the darker side of existence, and often used his own life experiences in his poems. His poem “Alone” does a good job reflecting on his childhood and in the following text I will analyze how portrays the harsh reality of his youth.” **USE THIS AS THESIS**
Must include reference to at least six substantive secondary sources, either books or articles by scholars about your subject.
You need at least one source with biographical information that you can connect to your poet’s work.
You also need at least one source about your poet’s era or movement (ie. Elizabethan, Victorian, Romantic, Modernist, Harlem Renaissance, Beat, confessional, feminist, Transcendentalist, WW I, Civil War, Puritan etc.): you should explore how your poet’s work relates to its historical context.
Write an essay answering one of two questions:
1) Critically evaluate the contribution of TWO research methods in biopsychology to the study of memory OR mental illness.
2) Critically evaluate the evidence for genetic contributions to a chosen behavioural or mental disorder, (such as, addictive behaviour, personality disorders).
Question 1
A passing answer must attempt to:
• Clearly describe the research methods evaluated
• Explain how the use of these methods has contributed to our understanding of the topic area, using relevant research evidence.
In addition, the general requirement for a good answer is to:
• Be well-written, showing evidence of sound argument and critical insight.
• Show reading of relevant recent research and an ability to integrate this research into the answer in a well-structured manner.
Furthermore, an excellent answer will include one or more of the following:
• Critical understanding of the research area
• Detailed critique of the practical and theoretical aspects of the methods selected
• Explanation of how the methods described are integrated with other biological research methods.
Question 2
A passing answer must attempt to:
• Clearly explain the link between the behaviour, brain function and genetics.
• Evaluate the strength of the evidence provided by different studies.
In addition, the general requirement for a good answer is to:
• Be well-written, showing evidence of sound argument and critical insight.
• Show reading of relevant recent research and an ability to integrate this research into the answer in a well-structured manner.
Furthermore, an excellent answer will include one or more of the following:
• Critical understanding of the chosen research area.
• Detailed critique of the methods used by researchers.
• Evaluation of the social and ethical consequences of researching the genetic bases of behavioural or mental disorders.
• Identification of appropriate follow-up research that could shed more light onto the chosen disorder.
Writing a critical review
A review of a single journal article needs to cover the following topics. It shouldn’t be divided into separate headed sections, but does need to address each.
The structure of the review
Rationale
What is the background to the specific study? Does it test a particular theory, or compare predictions from two different theories? There may not be space to describe each theory in detail, but you need to identify them and, if there is more than one, explain how they differ. Do the author’s predictions derive from previous research? Is it intended to address a ‘real world’ problem?
Aims
What is the question or questions the authors set out to ask? What predictions did they make?
Method
What are the key groups or conditions being compared? Identify important aspects of the procedure e.g. was there random allocation to groups, did the design control for potential confounding variables? What are the key dependent variables? How well does the study capture the essence of the topic under investigation?
Findings
Summarise the key findings in prose. You generally shouldn’t include statistics, unless the size of a difference (or correlation, etc.) is important to your evaluation.
Implications
What conclusions do the authors draw from their findings? What implications do the findings have outside the lab?
Evaluation
Are there any possible alternative explanations for the findings? Are there aspects of the design or analysis which would limit the confidence you could place in the conclusions? Don’t just list every criticism you can think of, no matter how trivial. Focus on those which are most serious and consider whether they do actually influence your conclusion.
Approaching the review
Steve Draper at Glasgow University has posted a good guide to critical reviews on the web at http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/resources/crs.html
This covers literature reviews as well as reviews of single articles, but provides a number of good suggestions for ways of being critical.
Explore the impact specific instances of irony have on readers’ perceptions of plot and character development in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Do not merely summarize the plot or list elements of irony
Do some Internet research and find a site that discusses business plans, do not repeat sites. Summarize what information the site gives and evaluate its usefulness to someone who wants to start a new business. How does a business plan differ from other types of business proposals?
Explain how “mere words” seduce Dorian into his fatal bargain, tempt him to explore all sensual experience, and delude him into his attempt to evade the consequences of his hedonistic indulgence. Use at least 3 quotes from the book
Find the attachments:
1. The article. “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, by Milton Friedman”
2. Analysis of the article written by my classmate.
You have to read the article “The The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, by Milton Friedman”
Then, you have to read the article analysis that your classmate wrote.
Then, you have to respond to your classmate’s analysis. The response to classmate’s post should add to or disagree with your classmate’s analysis of the article. (one full page response).
The response will be graded based on the relevance, insightfulness, and thoughtfulness of your posts.
A Review of waste management legislations in the UK (EU)
Write a 1-page essay responding to the prompt below.
After reading the attached article, “Are Museums Selling Out?” – discuss how luxury brands use museum exhibitions as a marketing tactic. What does the museum exhibition do for their visibility? Think about the 8 P’s. How does a museum exhibition help promote the brand as luxury? When a brand helps to sponsor a museum exhibition what does this do to the legitimacy of the cultural exchange? Why do luxury brands want museum exhibitions and what do they use them for? Why do museums want the luxury brand exhibitions? What do they do for the museums? (Use quotations and cite article where appropriate)