What in your opinion is the biggest challenge facing your city?

MY CASE STUDY IS LAS VEGAS
1. What in your opinion is the biggest challenge facing your city?

2. How did this challenge emerge and develop?

3. Are there things your city is doing to address this challenge? If not, why not? If so, have they been successful? What helps explain their success?

4. What would you propose your city do to address this challenge more effectively?

You could potentially write on one of the following topics, or choose a different topic:
Environmental Concerns Gentrification Ghetto and Racial Segregation

Global Cities Immigration Housing

Inequality and Poverty Neighborhoods Nightlife and Urban Nightscapes

Transportation Planning and Development Homelessness

Urban Violence Elections Mega events

Race and Ethnicity Police Reform Drugs

Describe an experience in which you found yourself changing your views about a significant topic or a significant person in your life. What prompted the change? How do you think that change will affect the teacher you will become?

1. Where have you come from (in terms of geography, expertise, philosophy – – however you choose to interpret this question) and how do you think that influences the teacher you will become? (Please provide a one page response)

2. Describe an experience in which you found yourself changing your views about a significant topic or a significant person in your life. What prompted the change? How do you think that change will affect the teacher you will become? (Please provide a one page response)
3. Why have you chosen to become a teacher, and why do you think master of arts in teaching program is best suited to support that aspiration? (Please provide a one page response)

Discuss the positive and negative aspects of preserving nature and natural resources. What are some of the potential costs and benefits of utilizing natural resources?

Abbey’s “Eco Defense,” Thoreau’s “Solitude,” and Snyder’s “Call of the Wild” all discuss the importance of experiencing nature and preserving natural resources. At the same time, modern society utilizes and depends on natural resources. Discuss the positive and negative aspects of preserving nature and natural resources. What are some of the potential costs and benefits of utilizing natural resources? In developing your response, you must use details from two of the assigned readings from our textbook.

Formatting and Submission Details:

1. Write a 800-950 word essay on one of the approved topics for “Nature” unit.

a. Find topics and directions for this assignment under FILES in CANVAS.

b. Your essay should follow standard academic essay structure: Introduction with Thesis Statement, at least Three Body Paragraphs, and a Conclusion

c. Use MLA formatting;

i. Use 12 point Arial or Times New Roman

ii. Papers without proper citation and MLA formatting will be returned ungraded.

iii. Use parenthetical citations when quoting or paraphrasing material in your essay.

iv. Indent .5 inches for each new paragraph, and put no extra returns between paragraphs.

v. Include a Works Cited page

The influence of the stock market in American economy.

How has the stock market shaped economy. What changed since the stock market. How does a stock market crash effect economy.

INTRODUCTION – 5 sentences stating your hypothesis, why you believe it, and why it matters.
BODY- 5 paragraphs explaining the evidence for your hypothesis. Each paragraph should present a new piece of evidence – statistics, laws or supreme court decisions, eyewitness testimony, examples from history, etc. Tie each paragraph directly back to your hypothesis.
CONCLUSIONS – Re-state your hypothesis and tell me again why it matters. Explain how it relates to the rest of the government/nation/world. Suggest further research in the area.

Review the articles on Practial Argument about whether or not colleges have gone too far in accommodating students with disabilities.

Instructions:

Review the articles on Practial Argument about whether or not colleges have gone too far in accommodating students with disabilities. We will revisit this topic in Unit 3. As you read, pay close attention to argument strategy. Choose three of the articles, and answer the following questions:

What is the thesis of the article? Is it explicit or implicit?
Does the author use primarily inductive or deductive reasoning?
Can you recognize any logical fallacies?