Author: chris

Federalist or Republican?

Introduction: At the time of ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the new American nation of the early nineteenth century found its citizens divided in their political views. Those who favored a strong central government and thus a restriction of the powers possessed by the states belonged to the Federalist Party; those who believed that the Constitution should be interpreted so as to limit the power of the national government, thus giving additional power to the states, joined the Republican Party. The Federalists, therefore, espoused a nationalistic view; the Republicans, though they would not deny the efficacy of a national government, believed that definite rights should be reserved to the states. This activity will help you better understand how ideals embraced at the time of the nation’s founding still effect contemporary American society as well as help you develop skills in critical thinking and organization. Directions: You must write an essay explaining the political philosophy of either the Federalists OR the Republicans and

PLEASE NOTE: The Federalist and the Republican Parties only emerged after George Washington became president; they are not the same thing as the Federalists and the anti-Federalists who debated the ratification of the new Constitution in 1787 and 1788. Moreover, this paper is not about the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, but about how and why national leaders broke into two political factions (or parties) as the Washington and Adams administrations sought to deal with domestic and foreign policy issues. So when addressing the Constitution, you should be thinking about the role the “necessary and proper clause” and the Tenth Amendment played in how these parties viewed the Constitution.
Essay

For your essay, you must read the primary sources listed above and examine them for a Federalist OR a Republican point of view. Then you must write an essay explaining on the political philosophy of ONE of these parties.

Focus Question:

Your essay should address the following questions: What did the party believe about the role of the government and why did they adopt these views?

Format:

Your essay should have an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. The introduction should present your thesis (i.e., your answer to the question listed above) and the conclusion should summarize your findings. In the supporting paragraphs, you should include specific examples (quotations or paraphrases) from the primary sources for this activity.

The Essential Need of Writing

Reading: John Swales “The Concept of a Discourse Community” p. 215
1. Read Swales and summarize his concept of discourse communities. Use this in your paper.
2. Locate a course that you may be taking in the future that requires you to complete a writing project. Explain where you found the writing assignment. This could be a capstone project for your major, or some other important project that you will need to do in the future (a project for a 200, 300 or 400 level class?)
3. Describe the course, and then describe the project.
4. Explain what literacy skills you will need to develop or use to complete the project. Refer to key concepts from Swales article.
5. Please note that you can locate this assignment through a teacher, another student, a textbook, the internet etc., but you must explain how and where you located the assignment.
6. Carefully organize your paper so it makes sense for your audience—me and other students interested in the major. Think of an organizational approach that will make sense to the reader.
7. Length: 2-3 pages, double spaced. MLA format. Be prepared to share a draft next week.
Length: 2-3 pages

Culture is the unison of customs, rituals, ideas, and beliefs of a particular community of people or society. Culture plays a very important role in shaping the identity of a person. The concept of diversity opines that each individual is unique and people have differences at the individual level. Diversity can be based on religion, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, and so on. Thus, a study on diversity would mean comprehending the characteristics of an individual in difference to the rest of the people.
Four aspects of diversity that have contributed toward shaping my identity are religion, sexual orientation, gender, and ideology. All these factors have worked in unison to create my personal identity.
Gender and sexual orientation are two aspects of diversity that are governed by dress which is one of the observable characteristics of culture. I like dressing up in blue that is considered to be a masculine color. Apart from that I avoid colors like pink that are associated with femininity. I try to look good in any dress I wear so that I can come across as impressive to the opposite sex. Thus, my gender and sexual orientation are two aspects that are expressed by this observable characteristic of culture.
Conversational pattern is one non-observable characteristic of culture that expresses the two mentioned aspects of personal identity. The words used by me are signifiers of my gender as I tend to express my masculinity in the way I converse. I talk about gender roles that comply with the cultural perspective of gender. Moreover, my attraction for the opposite sex is expressed in my words.
Once I met a person from India who was a Hindu. He was not too well conversant in American English. It was difficult for me to understand his pronunciations. However, this man was very fluent in Hindi and Sanskrit. It was difficult to converse with him. Our languages were the markers of our cultural difference. However, I came to realize that he was educated and well-versed with regard to his own cultural identity. His education in Sanskrit and Hindi were the proof of his competence. I learnt to respect the diversity of language after the meeting.
Three aspects of diversity that can play a major role in the school community are race, religion, and ethnicity. Students from a number of races can very well study together and promote the concept of anti-racism. Moreover, students from different religions who study together can work together to promote the ambiance of respect toward other religions. Ethnicity is related to the culture of a student. Students with different ethnic identities reading in the same school can help in the inculcation of cultural aspects from different cultures.
It is highly important for educators to engage in diversity education. This can increase a sense of respect among students acknowledging the fact that the other person can be different. Apart from this, it would mean having a broader perspective about life devoid of bias. Diversity education would focus on holistic development, and no student would be left behind in the process of imparting education.
Part 2
In the present day scenario, the population in the United States is seeing higher diversity ratio among people. The demographics that can be noticed among the school community including teachers, staff, students and families are language, ethnicity and race. According to the article, ‘Asian-Americans Are Fastest-Growing Racial Group,’ “Between 2000 and 2010, Asian populations experienced the most growth.” (p.1) There are many people who are Asians by their race in the school community. According to the article, ‘2010 Census Shows America’s Diversity,’ “The Asian alone population grew faster than any other major race group between 2000 and 2010, increasing by 43 percent.” (p.1) Moreover, the ethnic groups these people belong to are Bengali, Punjabi, and so on. These people are well-conversant in English, but they opt to converse among themselves in Hindi or Punjabi or Bengali- their mother tongue or native language. This trend of demographics is uniform across the nation with so many Asians coming to settle down in the country. As they come here, they bring their cultural richness to the land of America. An increase in the demographic diversity can work in favor of the education and world view of the people. People would come in contact with others having different languages, customs, practices, and race. This would enrich their intercultural experience right from the level of school, and would facilitate them as persons in the world that is getting more and more globalized with each passing day.
Two culturally based communication practices are teaching in the native language of the country in the school. Thus, the students from other cultures have to learn in the dominant language of the cultural community of the country. Apart from this, the Catholic schools talk about religion of the cultural milieu of the country that can be termed as culturally based communication.
Two stereotypes of intercultural communication that can be noticed are about Asians and women. It is believed by many that Asians are not well-conversant in English. Hence, the Americans believe that the communication process would be tough. The women are seen to be more passive and shy. The American have a belief that women from Asia are more conservative and engage in indoor works more that the westerners.
Diverse nonverbal behavior on the part of students is one barrier to intercultural communication. This results in misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the students. Apart from this, this may lead to the misconception that the student is disorganized. Another impediment in intercultural communication in school is diverse verbal communication. Diversity is ignored in the teaching process. Apart from this, insufficient attention is given to student speech.
Two ways to serve the diversity needs of the school are to have a faculty with diverse ethnic or racial identities. This would help in broadening the perspective of the teachings imparted to the students. Apart from this, there should be classes on gender sensitization that would make the perspective of the students regarding gender much better. The school can employ teachers from different cultural identities, and organize for gender sensitization seminars and discussions. These initiatives would work to develop respect for people of other races. Apart from that, there will be lesser influence of patriarchy and bias about gender roles.

In Kawabata Yasumari’s short story “The Izu Dancer”, the narrator, on a hiking tour to escape Tokyo and himself, has change in his attitude towards himself. this develops throughout the story but is very clear by the story’s end. What is his problem with himself? what is the role of the itinerant”Izu dancer” in his transformation? How do her young age and the mariginal situation of her “troupe” Factor into this self-discovery? What are the key turning points for this transformation.

Pick on of the following, You are neither required nor encouraged to do supplemental research for this essay and you must clearly document any secondary source that you consult using MLA style rules for citations. You must use citations from the text in your essay and you must include a works cited page.
1、In Kawabata Yasunari’s short story “The Izu Dancer” the narrator, on a hiking tour to escape Tokyo and himself, has a change in his attitude towards himself. This develops throughout the story but is very clear by the story’s end. What is his problem with himself? What is the role of the itinerant “Izu dancer” in his transformation? How do her young age and the marginal situation of her “troupe” factor into this self-discovery? What are the key turning points for this transformation?

2、In Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s seminal story “In a Bamboo Grove” six people and one ghost recount an event that transpired in the woods. This paper is too short to detail each testimonial but please identify the ways in which each one contradicts the other. What can e conclude by the end of the story? is this story like a puzzle that we can piece together? Can we identify one story as the truth or is the notion of truth itself put into question? Is the testimonial of one character worth more than another’s?

Question 1 (Roses of Teachers): How have you seen the role of teachers change in this and the past few chapters? How does it compare to the current role of teachers in your experience?

Question 2 (Government Involvement in Schools): A theme of this chapter is the increase of government involvement in schools, from teachers to curricula. What is your take on this theme? Has this trend continued?

Question 3 (Value of Degrees): As Master’s students yourselves, what are your thoughts pertaining to the chapter’s discussion on the decline in value of college degrees? Do you feel that this has continued, requiring students to obtain higher degrees for the same level of work?

research paper (research method class)

Hypothesis : In comparison of countries, those having rich oil resources are more likely to be in conflicts than those countries with less oil resources.

The paper must contain:

I-Introduction
II-Literature Review which is in (conflict )
III- data and methods contains:
-Variables
-measurements
-sample
-data sets

IV- Findings
V- conclusion

Assignments:
1. Explain the process of a bill becoming a law. Identify one Bill in Congress/either house/-write summary of bill including its sponsor-where it is in the legislative process (in committee, on floor, etc.) what the bill is about and its prospects of passing. Describe how a bill is corrupted from its introduction, the committee system and debate on the floor. Discuss a bill that went through Congress and identify any challenges it faced, i.e. Patriot Act, Federal Sentencing Guidelines or any other bill. Extra Credit—find a connection between
the Sponsor of the Bill and any lobbyists or private interest in bill
2. Watch Adam Clayton Powell video and give examples of the following: junket; Seniority system; committee system; hearing and right of Congress to expel members through Ethics committee.
3. From Parenti, “Congress: The Pocketing of Power”, answer the following in
a minimum of three paragraphs. Theoretically, Congress represents the interests of their constituents. Describe how the background of Congress, lobbyists, special interests and corporations influence congressional decisions.

-The course is (Research in Literary studies).

-The book is (The Scarlet Letter Edited by Susan S. Williams.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter Edited by Susan S. Williams. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2007. Print.

Discuss the importance of the scaffold as a symbol in The Scarlet Letter?

-This is example of the outline:
1. Reference works are useful when beginning research on a topic for a paper. Some reference works such as indexes and bibliographies lead you to further information elsewhere. Find the name of a specific index. What is the specialized bibliography for languages and literature?

2. Some reference works do not lead you to other places but instead give you basic information, such as is found in dictionaries and encyclopedias. Give the title of an authoritative general dictionary appropriate for a student writer. What is the authoritative dictionary that gives the etymology (history) of the word? Give a specialized encyclopedia. In reference works that give biographical sources, give one work for living persons and one work for persons no longer living.

3. What are the types of search available in the electronic MLA International Bibliography(MLA I B), the most important serial bibliography for literature students?

4. If you are accessing the MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB) through UWA’s EBSCO, locate two articles on Chopin’s The Awakening; in your search box, write Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. In limiting your search, choose linked full text and peer-reviewed. If you are using another electronic version of the MLA I B (from another school, for example) which does not give you those choices, simply locate the citations for two articles. Write them out, translating them into the format found in the MLA Handbook (the format that you will use for the Works Cited in your research paper).

5. What is meant by “peer-reviewed”? Why are Internet resources a particular challenge in evaluation? While none of them may automatically be reliable or unreliable, which of the domain names is especially suspect in academic research? (see the Handbook 1.6.1 if you don’t understand what “domain” refers to)

6. In determining how reliable sources may be, what should one look for?

7. What are the two systems of library classification? What is used in the library you frequent?

8. The UWA A to Z Title List is a database that gives you a nifty way to locate a full-text article that you have seen in a bibliography or in a footnote/endnote in another article. Practice on the following citation:

GIANTS Links
Greek Theatre
Epidaurus @ 4:30 minutes

Tragic Trilogy-The Oresteia
Aeschylus- Aegamemnon 10:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtd63H_o1kI
Sophocles- Oedipus the King (with Vegetables) 8:33

Euripides-Trojan Woman

Aristophanes- Lysistrata 3:54

Elizabethan Theatre (Shakespeare – The Globe)
Bio- Shakespeare

Shatner on Shakespeare

Globe Theatre History

Interactive Globe Website
http://www.athenalearning.com/programs/playing-shakespeare/interactive-globe-theatre
“Modern” Theatre
60 Minutes- Tyler Perry

Madea Goes To Jail- Stage Play (Madea gives relationship advice)
Embedded in Website- under picture of Madea and Dr. Phil
http://breakyourshackles.com/videos/madea-relationship-advice/
Madea’s Family Reunion- “Bus Stop”

Madea’s Family Reunion- “Grit Ball”

Write an argumentative essay in which you defend a controversial, challenged, or banned book.

1. Find a children’s or young adult book to defend. I recommend reviewing the ALA’s Banned Books for lists of recently banned and challenged books.
2. Write an argumentative essay in which you defend the book.
3. Be sure to include your rationale for the book’s benefits to the reader or to the educational process.
4. Document all primary source quotes or information.
5. Secondary sources are not required, but be sure to document any outside sources with both in- text citations and a works cited page.
6. Essay needs to be between 750 to 1000 words.
7. Use MLA formatting for the essay, in-text citations and Works Cited page.