Read the short story by Alexander Sergeievich Pushkin’s Queen of Spades and produce the essay on the topic that I provided. The story can be easily found on the Google.
Analyze the answers received during your interview and compare them to the content learned during this course. Write a paper focusing on the analysis of the answers. Address the following in your analysis:
•Include a proposal for changes you would make to the current system and why you would need to change the current structure.
•If you choose to keep a process the same, explain why this was the case.
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Review APA Form and Style.
Here are the questions for the interview:
In this week, you are to interview an athletic compliance officer, administrator, or coach at a college near you. The purpose is to learn more about compliance and how it works at a university. Below are questions that you should include in your interview. You will want to expand upon the questions given to you and add additional ones of your own.
1.If you are a coach, discuss how you report to administration who you are recruiting.
2.How often does this have to occur? What documents do you have to fill out? If you are an administrator, how do you monitor recruiting?
3.Discuss the initial eligibility rules for freshman student-athletes that want to come to your institution.
4.Explain the process that occurs if a student wants to transfer into your institution.
5.Explain your institutions rules if you do not want to release a student to another institution.
6.Explain your institutions rules for monitoring scholarships to student-athletes.
7.What is the process if you want to cancel a scholarship?
8.Discuss the playing and practice seasons of your program (if you are talking to an administrator or compliance officer then pick 1 sport) What are the rules and limits of the sport in relation to this.
9.Does your institution have awards for those that participate in athletics? If so, what limit is set on those awards and how are they monitored?
10.What is the process for reporting an NCAA violation at your institution?
11.How has your institution monitored the amateurism of its student-athletes?
As a compliance officer, when accusations start, you are brought in immediately to have your records examined. Is your paperwork in line? How are you monitoring practices? Are you physically watching practices or just monitoring through the paperwork submitted?
Write a paper and justify how you would monitor the playing and practice logs of your teams. Look at several compliance websites to explore the language and text used by institutions in their compliance documents and explanation of playing and practice seasons.
After reading chapter 3 & 4 on Greek Civilization, including the primary sources, answer the following question in essay form . Be aware that there are several parts to the question. Be sure to make at least one reference to the primary source documents in the chapter readings.
Choose A or B:
A) Discuss the cultural and geographic reasons for the rise of the polis. What were the major differences in the way Athenian and Spartan society was organized? Did such differences make war between these states inevitable? What were the effects of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) on Greek society? Briefly explain how the events of the 4th Century B.C.E. Greek world allow the Kingdom of Makedonia to gain influence and power.
Part 1 Essay:
Answer one of the 4 open-ended essential questions with a concrete example from your life and the play.
Essential Questions:
● How should impulses and reactions affect our decisions?
● How does love influence our decisions?
● How do the concepts of fate and free will contribute to our understanding of the world?
● For whom are we responsible?
Organization:
You need to open and close the essay with a personal connecting point to the novel.
● The first paragraph will illustrate a point of connection. Your experiences will not be identical to the play; they need to be related in a way that you can clearly explain. Begin with your point of connection, then transition into a thesis statement that should highlight your answer to the question and connection with the character or situation that you connected with from the play.
● The body: An analysis of the character/situation, making connections back to your personal experience. Sets the scene and situation. You will include the play’s title, the author, as well as a 2-3 quoted passages embedded throughout the body paragraph(s).
● The conclusion: Here you will demonstrate why this connection matters. What do we learn from or what can we take from these similar situations? Please do not merely restate your introduction; your conclusion should be a thoughtful consideration of the relevance of both your narrative and Romeo and Juliet.
Based on your reading of the XXX Introduction (please notice that the name of university will be available to the assigned writer) and the textbooks, What is the main difference between the modern Western worldview and the postmodern worldview? Which parts, if any, do you identify with? Explain.Cite references from your reading to support your answer.
Instructional Practice
Please think about a lesson you have taught this year and attach artifact(s) which demonstrate the strategic instructional moves that you made to differentiate the lesson (upload artifacts below):
• Referring to that lesson, please think about a specific group of students in your class who share similar learning characteristics and challenges. Considering this group of students’ strengths and challenges, what were the targeted instructional moves that you made during this lesson to engage these students and push their thinking?
• Now think about another group of students in your class. Please highlight the differences in your instructional approach from the previous group of students for this lesson.
Professional Growth
Describe a time when you taught a lesson and it did not produce the student learning outcomes you expected or desired.
• Describe your goals and/or student learning outcomes for this lesson.
• What were some of the obstacles that you faced in achieving these goals?
• What steps did you take to overcome these obstacles?
School Culture and Consensus Building
What is one instructional challenge your school is facing? How are you working with your school leadership and other colleagues to address this challenge?
Use of Data
Please describe how you have worked to identify student learning trends or patterns at your school.
• How have you used school-wide or grade-level data to identify and address these patterns?
• How did you come to identify this pattern/trend?
• As a result of your analysis, what actions were taken and how did you engage colleagues in this work?
• How did you measure and/or determine whether or not these actions were successful?
Study and research the history of hydrocarbon fuel and its development and its impacts on a global scale. The use of wood, peat, coal, crude, natural gas, coal gas etc. of has evolved over time as alternative sources of carbon energy.
Appendices
Appendix 1: M.A. Theses
M.A. theses are expected to contain the following elements:
Abstract: Includes the following components: purpose of the research, methodology,findings, and conclusion. The body of the abstract is limited to 150-200 words.14
Introduction: Identifies student’s specific research question and sets the general context for the study.
This section should include
a statement of the problem or general research question and context leading to a clear statement of the specific research question;
background and contextual material justifying why this case or topic should be studied; and
a purpose statement.
Literature Review: Reviews the literature on a specific research question. The literature review focuses on discussing how other researchers have addressed the same or similar research questions. It introduces the study and places it in larger context that includes a discussion of why it is important to study this case. It provides the current state of accumulated knowledge as it relates to the student’s specific research question.
Summarize the general state of the literature (cumulative knowledge base) on the specific research question:
o Study one: summarize to include researcher’s findings, how those findings were obtained, and evaluation of biases in the findings.
o Study two: summarize to include researcher’s findings, how those findings were obtained, and evaluation of biases in the findings.
o Include a minimum of at least three of the most important studies.
Include a short conclusion and transition to the next section.