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a) instead of using a text from a book, you collect something in the field;

b) instead of being limited to a genre like Märchen, you can use study any form of oral literature or verbal art;

c) instead of a dry analysis of a text abstracted from context, you have the opportunity (and thus the imperative) to find out what the text ‘means’ in context, to the teller, listener, etc.; and

d) instead of following one narrow strip of folkloristic study, you locate your collected text within the larger field of folkloristics through journal/library searches.Like last time, when it is completed, you will hopefully have acquired both an appreciation for some of the methods of folklore scholarship and concerns about the adequacy of these methods for fully discussing a piece of oral narrative.

1. Record a narrative, joke, proverb, anecdote, (etc.) from someone

You should use standard interview procedures (about which you can ask me directly). You should transcribe the narrative, if not the entire interview.

2. In the course of collecting, ask the performer why they tell it, in what context(s), how they understand it, how they imagine their audience(s) to understand it, etc. A ‘biography’ of the teller would be very useful here as well, certainly their role as a ‘tradition bearer’ or ‘performer.’

3. Try to locate it within a particular genre, and try to find analogous versions, types, styles of your narrative. There are standard reference works and/or figures (Brunvand for contemporary legend, Legman for dirty jokes, Meider for proverbs, etc.) to consult.

4. Justify why you think this falls under the rubric “folk narrative” “oral literature” etc.

5. In a short (7-10 pages) essay, summarise your findings

How social media is affecting the sports world

learn more about how database management systems (DBMS) use SQL as the engine doing the work within the database. The focus of this assignment is communicating your increased understanding of how SQL is at the core of DBMS.

Virtually all modern relational databases are built on some version of SQL. By doing some tasks using SQL code, you can begin to see the multiple steps that are executed in SQL to complete one task when you use a DBMS, such as Access.
1.Use the SQL Tutorial Instructions document to review the requirements of this assignment. You will find a link to this document in the Resources area, below.
2.Access the SQL Tutorial Web site to complete lessons 1–8. The lesson pages can be found under the SQL Course Curriculum heading at the bottom of the Web page. In each tutorial, there is a link to the answers. You are welcome to use these, simply adapt your answer as needed. NOTE: Some SQL commands do not display the table when they are completed. This is not an error. To display the updated table contents, use a command learned in a previous tutorial. You may choose to display the table contents at the end of each tutorial rather than after each command.
3.Use the SQL Tutorial Assignment Template to complete your assignment

compare and contrast the approach to Roman art and material culture expressed in two articles given.  Your review must contain: 1. A short summary of the content of each article, in which you state as clearly and concisely as possible what the main points are that the author(s) argue(s). Be brief, stick to the main points and ignore examples, but be comprehensive. This section must show that you have read the whole text, and not just part of it. 2. An analysis in which you first describe each author’s approach to material culture and/or Roman art, and then compare these approaches. In other words, how much does each author use material culture as evidence, and how does each author “translate” inanimate objects into meaningful evidence? That latter question is the most difficult one. Do not try to make this analysis exhaustive. You can limit yourself to a brief general discussion and one typical example for each author. Bear in mind that you are not writing an essay about a specific topic. I am not interested in your views about the topic at hand. I want you to study how the author approaches the problem and what kind of reasoning s/he uses to arrive at his conclusions. 1. Does the author clearly identify the problem s/he is tackling? 2. Does the author clearly identify main sources of information? Does s/he focus on a selection of sources or all relevant? If a selection, selected by which criteria? 3a. Does the author explain how s/he will analyze the sources? Do the sources “speak for themselves”? Do the sources require specific methodological analysis? 3b. In particular: how does s/he use art/material culture? Does the art/material culture speak for itself? Is a specific method required for analysis?

1. A famous American philosopher, Richard Rorty, once argued that, in politics and in daily
talk, religion can be a “conversation stopper,” meaning that religions often promote to
others beliefs that their religious members are not encouraged to doubt or examine
critically, even if others ask for evidence to support those beliefs (thus shutting down
conversational inquiry). What does Ibn Tufayl seem to promote in Hayy Ibn Yaqzan as a
response to the problem of dealing with such “conversation stopping,” both between
religious groups and also between religious and non-religious groups? Use textual and
historical evidence to explain your answer.
2. In what ways is the story of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan an attempt to argue that scientific curiosity
can lead to religious experience? Does Ibn Tufayl’s explanation of religious experience
have any connection to what people most commonly, in the history of Islam and in your
own experience of religions, mean by “God”? Use textual and historical evidence to
explain your answer.
3. Ibn Tufayl, via the story of Hayy, attempts to offer some kind of approach for reconciling
science and orthodox Islamic religion. What is most distinctive of this approach? What
are some aspects of Ibn Tufayl’s message that would be most at odds with the general
historical nature of Islam? In your opinion, does Ibn Tufayl also offer useful advice for
reconciling some of today’s common tensions between science and religion?
4. What are some of the main ways that Hayy Ibn Yaqzan utilizes a theme of artificial
human innocence as a basis for its central “thought experiment”? In what ways might this
experiment actually represent a challenge to traditional forms of Islamic political power?
Use textual and historical evidence to explain your answer.
5. Ibn Tufayl frequently uses themes from Islamic Sufism. Explain some major Sufi themes
that are central in Hayy Ibn Yaqzan. How might these themes represent a way to avoid
punishment for non-orthodoxy under traditional Islamic law? Could it be that for Ibn
Tufayl Sufism even represents a way to redistribute power in the Islam of his time?

For this assignment, imagine that you are an external OB consultant who is hired to study two organizations—at the end of the project you will provide a short and succinct presentation to a very busy executive team.
Note that for this assignment, the Instructor will be the only person to view it. You will not present to a group and you will send the presentation electronically to the instructor.
You will need to apply three of the five OB topics below to TWO organizations:
1. Power and politics
2. Conflict and negotiation
3. Organizational culture
4. Organizational structure
5. Decision making, creativity and ethics
Topics chosen other than these topics require written permission from the instructor. Topics and presentations associated with other courses (HR, marketing, etc.) are not allowed. Presentations “recycled” from other courses will result in a zero grade.
Questions to be answered by the paper
Please use headings and answer each of the four questions in order.
1. Describe each organization and discuss the three OB practices and two organizations that you are analyzing.
2. How were the three OB practices demonstrated in each organization. What is the impact on the individuals, groups, an d structure? How do  their uses and effectiveness compare and contrast with each
organization?
3. Based on your analysis, what is done effectively and why? What alternatives do you recommend for improvement with respect to the three practices when compared to each organization?
4. What can be learned from the two organizations that you analyzed?

One of the central themes of this course has been heroism or the heroic life.  If we have learned anything in the course, it is heroism can take many different forms – that of the medieval knight, the Dark Ages warrior, the philosopher Socrates, the Spartan or the prophet among others.  Compare the different kinds of heroism displayed by these figure or types.  Which do you find the most appealing and why?

Analyze segregation and desegregation in the United States from the late-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.
1. Segregation.
a. How extensive was racial segregation in the United States?
b. What legal arguments was segregation founded on?
c. What amendments to the Constitution of the United States were considered?
2.  Desegregation
a. When did efforts to end segregation begin? How long did these efforts go on?
b. What legal arguments was the desegregation movement based on?
c. What amendments to the Constitution of the United States were considered?

Shakespeare play Macbeth and the topic of Corruption of Power and Ambition.

Consider how an individual’s circumstance has been reflected through the character(s) developed in the novel you have chosen to read. Discuss the effects of such circumstances upon the development of man’s character related to the choices he makes.

In your planning and writing, consider the following instructions:

Carefully consider your controlling idea or thesis or how you will create a strong unifying effect in your response.
As you develop your ideas, support them with appropriate, relevant, and meaningful examples from your novel.