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What is a micro essay

Generally speaking, a micro essay, also known as a flash essay, is a very short work of writing, usually less than 1,000 words. These essays take a variety of shapes––sometimes they are lyrical, sometimes they are cultural critiques, sometimes conceptual humor pieces, etc. The word “essay” connotes nonfiction, and often micro essays are creative nonfiction (meaning artful communication of nonfiction)––though they sometimes exist in the space between fiction and nonfiction.

We will look at some humorous examples of micro essays, including from McSweeney’s https://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency and The New Yorker “Shouts and Murmurs.”

Note in these examples an awareness of form and of the rhetoric used in these forms.

There are droves of satirical essays and web content, including The Onion and Clickhole, that satirize form and culture. There are also many literary micro- essays that deal with more personal subject matter. The examples included in this handout are somewhere between these two: they are not as quick and silly as The Onion, but are less personal than personal narratives and memoir- type essays.

KNEEL BEFORE ME, THE GODDESS OF AUTUMN By Glenn Boozan

The New Yorker

Greetings, my children.

The weather has turned brisk and the leaves have begun their slow forfeiture of chlorophyll. When winter comes, I shall quietly retreat back to my SoulCycle classes and my marketing job at a P.R. company, but for these few months I demand that you kneel before me: the Goddess of Autumn.

Fear me. For I do autumn better than anyone else.

Do you know why I have been anointed, dear disciple? Why it has been heralded to my friends, family, and co-workers that I alone may wear the orange-leafed crown? I am Goddess because, fair neophyte, fall is, like, my favorite season.

You mere mortals understand not the power of the months which lie between August and December. You know nothing of autumnal pleasures, yet I was created in divine image for the explicit purpose of wearing chunky-knit sweaters and those rain boots from L.L. Bean.

However, I am a kind Goddess.

Genuflect to me and I shall bestow upon you a bountiful Instagram harvest: photos of butternut-squash salads, latte-foam art, and me smiling while throwing a bunch of leaves in the air.

I invite you to sip from my chalice the sweet nectar of cinnamon chai tea. My gloves, ever without fingers, shall be perpetually wrapped around a mug. I do not need two hands to carry said mug, yet I will use them.

Bask in the glory of my mustard-colored pants. Marvel at my multitude of layers—my leg warmers, my wrist warmers, and my forehead warmers zhush-ed to perfection, as if by Jenna Lyons herself.

My scarves are plentiful, nay, infinite. Forged in the fires of Anthropologie, I shall don one each day, regardless of whether I’m indoors, or it’s just too hot

for a scarf. Should the urge overtake me, perhaps I shall knit you a scarf myself, for that is the extent of what I can knit. Just a straight piece of cloth.

I shall baptize my followers from a goblet of my “literally famous” mulled wine—whose secret ingredients are writ in the sacred book of AllRecipes.com—and we shall light the ceremonial wood-fire-scented candles of Dyptique.

On the Sabbath, I shall drape PennySavers on my small kitchen table to celebrate the annual carving of the pumpkins. We shall bathe in the sounds of my “Fall Coffeehouse Chill 2” Spotify playlist as I impart divine wisdom upon my flock.

“Oh, Goddess, what shall I be for Halloween?” they will ask. And, because I am merciful, I will provide. I shall come up with a costume idea for each one of them. And it shall be good.

Let the cynics and the non-believers run their tongues raw with blasphemy. You may call me a “basic bitch,” but I will turn the other cheek. Because when the day of reckoning comes and I organize a group of people to go apple picking, you shall not be invited. And you will be sad. Because apple picking is super-fun.

So, in the vernal months, worship freely. But, come fall, you shall bow to me, because I am crisp. I am cozy. And I put cinnamon on fucking everything.

I am . . . the Goddess of Autumn.

In this example, the writer satirizes the idea of the “basic bitch.” This piece creates a fictional character who is a conglomeration of cultural trends. The style and tone of the piece are high, formal, and archaic. Its mimicking of mythology/the style and form of mythology in contrast with the arguably trivial content emphasizes a sort of silliness in these fall pleasures.

5 SIGNS THAT YOUR TINDER DATE IS ACTUALLY A TGI FRIDAY’S BAKED POTATO SKIN.

By Becky Mandelbaum McSweeney’s

His pictures consist of exactly 50% stock images of American Adult Men and 50% blurred images of TGI Fridays Baked Potato Skins.
His interests read: Adult male human activities such as ball sports, sexual intimacy, sour cream, walking on beaches with my two male human adult feet, heteronormativity, bacon bits, cats followed by a list of nutritional facts and a link to the TGI Friday’s online menu.
When you finally gather the nerve to call him, he answers with what you later discover to be audio clips from The Talented Mr. Ripley:

YOU Hey, how’s it going?

“HIM”: That scent you’re wearing. I bought that. For you.

YOU: Sorry, what was that? I don’t think I heard you right.

“HIM”: I don’t know what to believe.

YOU: What are you talking about, Brad? You’re scaring me.

“HIM”: Whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn’t it? In your head? You never meet anybody who thinks they’re a bad person.

YOU: Does this have anything to do with that message you sent me about causing heart disease in children?

“HIM”: Don’t you just take the past and put it in a room in the basement and lock the door and never go in there?

YOU: Okay now you’re just being a dick hole.

“HIM”: That’s what I do…. And then you meet someone special, and all you want to do is toss them the key and say, Open up, step inside. But you can’t. Because it’s dark. And there are demons. And if anybody saw how ugly it is…

YOU: I still have no idea what you’re talking about, but I’m seriously aroused.

He invites you on a date to TGI Fridays and when you get there he’s an order of Baked Potato Skins.

Despite being 99.9% sure that he’s a TGI Friday’s Baked Potato Skin you continue sending messages and the occasional topless photo. Eventually he calls you a bitch and blocks your account after you admit to kind of liking Applebee’s potato twisters.

McSweeney’s often satirizes the listicle form. The situations tend to be absurd, and the signs work to characterize the perceived reader, and more so, the culture which informs listicles. Here, we might interpret a critique of Tinder and its users/internet dating culture. And, I guess, TGI Friday’s!

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Agriculture worldwide Essay Assignment

Agriculture worldwide

– Irrigation has been a major boon to agriculture worldwide. While irrigation can increase crop production in places where water is limiting, as the article suggests, there are downsides. In addition to irrigation, describe 3 additional agricultural “technologies” that have been developed over the centuries of people doing agriculture (which may not necessarily be described in the article) and how they altered the capacity (both positive and negative) to create sustainable agricultural production systems. (25 points)

– What were several drivers of the irrigation development projects described in the story? (5 points)

– What other effects have been already felt due to a warming climate, as evidenced by the article? (10 points)

– The creation of the dam and canals for irrigation had effects that went far beyond the Chavimochic Valley. Describe at least three effects of the projects on the people and two “connections” the water project has affected. (20 points)

– In your opinion, was creation of these dams and associated canals a good idea and why? (5 points)

– Are there other places on Earth where similar projects have been done and where climate change may ultimately affect agricultural production? (10 points)

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Course Reflection Essay Assignment Available

Course Reflection

Course Reflection.What were the most important ideas or concept we reviewed in this course? How will you use what you have learned in this course in your social work practice? Given the theme of the course, focus the majority of your reflection on the practical integration of existing and potential future technologies.

https://www.aswb.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ASWB-Model-Regulatory-Standards-for-Technology-and-Social-Work-Practice.pdf.

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Critical Thinking Marketing Assignment Paper

Critical Thinking Marketing

Pretend you own a dress and suit shop and in need of a line of credit for working capital from your bank. The bank requires a profit and loss statement as part of their underwriting criteria. In an Excel document, create a profit-and-loss statement (P&L) that would be typical for your industry. See the table from Chapter 12 in the textbook, Donna’s Gift Shop, as an example. Do not copy that P&L statement. Then, in a Word document, write about the following:

Define and discuss the significance to the retailer of the line items found in the P&L of Net Sales, Cost of Goods, Gross Profit, Operating Expenses, Net Profit, and any other rows in the P&L you wish to include.

How does the information in the P&L apply to, and benefit, the retailer?

How does the P&L relate to the balance sheet? How are they different and how do they inform one another?

Include any sample calculations that you believe are important to inform your response.

The P&L statement must be in an Excel document and written responses in a Word document, which should meet the following requirements:

Be 3 to 4 double-spaced pages, not to include the title page and references,

Cite at least 3 scholarly resources other than the course textbook, and

Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

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Cyber Security Essay Assignment Paper

Cyber Security

Description

Write a 4 page paper discussing how a cyber warrior can use a social networking site to gain information.

Document Format.

MS Word document
One-inch (1”) margins
Times New Roman font
Twelve (12) pitch
Not including your title page, this assignment should be 4-6 pages.
Double space, except for your bibliography’s entries.
Citation Format: The Chicago Manual of Style. As stated in the Academic Integrity Briefings, information taken directly from another source must be placed in quotations and cited following the Chicago format contained in the week one “lessons” folder. You must cite all other information from your sources, even if you do not quote directly. DIRECT QUOTING SHOULD BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM.

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Ancient And Medieval Political Thought

Write an essay of eight double-spaced pages, set in 12-point Times New Roman, addressing one of the following topics. Your essay must contain a clearly identifiable argument that explicitly answers all parts of one of these questions and is supported by plausible interpretation of lots and lots of evidence from the text. The most important part of your argument should be stated concisely and compellingly in the last sentence of your first paragraph. (An eight-page paper ends near the bottom of the 8th page.)

Identify which topic you’re addressing by retyping the question, single-spaced in 10-point font, before the first paragraph of your paper. Be sure to give your paper a meaningful title. I recommend that you avoid starting your essay with a dictionary definition or with a phrase like “Throughout human history” or “Since the dawn of time….”

PROMPTS:

Every account of collective political liberation is told from some point of view. Aristotle’s notion of freedom revolves around an active citizen. The inactive so-called “citizens” and others who refuse to deliberate are the only ones who are ‘justly’ slaves, from Aristotle’s point of view, and therefore they contribute to the polis with their work. Exodus details a long process of liberation told from the point of view of the enslaved, who need to be freed not only from work, but from enslavement to desires that contributed to their enslavement. What crucial insights does each of these perspectives offer on liberation? What does each perspective leave out? What synthesis would you offer as a more complete picture of liberation?
Aristotle’s polis and Cicero’s res publica offer anthro- or human-centric pictures of community, as created by a deliberation over the good or agreement on law and common interests. Five Books of Moses sets aside “the human” as a basis for community, and offers “covenant” in its place. Augustine demotes Civitas Terrena as a site of human fulfillment, offering Civitas Dei as the true alternative. Put two of these accounts into conversation around the question of whether and how “the human” is sufficient or insufficient as a source for a politics of the good life. What dilemmas or problems does such a conversation reveal?

Which account offers the most compelling resolution of the dilemmas or problems, and why?

(Note: you may not pair Aristotle and Cicero to answer this question.)

Consider how Aristotle describes the polis in The Politics, as a means of identifying spaces of deliberation and freedom, alongside Augustine’s picture of the idealized Civitas Dei, as an authoritative means for realizing people’s potential. Each urges his audience to think in new ways about the relation of that freedom and that potential to embodiment. What is each author’s way of thinking about the body, and which of these in your view offers the most potential as a model for a citizen’s relation to his (or even her) own body? (Note: focus your discussion of Aristotle’s theorization of the polis in books I and III.)
Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine implicitly draw upon different conceptions of time (which the lectures have framed as telos, foundings, and æternitas) as they theorize how to ward off political corruption or degeneration. Choosing two of these texts and their respective assumptions about time and theorization of politics, first analyze how different conceptions of time support divergent ways of thinking about degeneration. What’s the most politically attractive way to avoid political degeneration, and what concept of time should we therefore endorse in our theorizing? End your essay by briefly reflecting on what your answer would mean for thinking about political corruption today.

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Components of integrated and modular systems

I need u to explain each one . Please must be in your own words

1-Specimen Identification

2-Specimen Preparation

3-Specimen Delivery

4-Specimen Loading and Aspiration

5-Specimen Processing,

Sample Introduction and Internal Transport.

7-Reagent Handling and Storage

8-Reagent Delivery

9-Chemical Reaction Phase

10-Measurement Approaches

11-Signal Processing,

Data Loading,

13-Process Control

Use at least three (3) quality references Note: Wikipedia and other related websites do not qualify as academic resources.

View Turntin for grading system to avoid penalization and loosing.

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History Heritage Essay Assignment Paper

History Heritage

1.Visit the UIW Heritage Center on campus: https://www.ccviheritage.org/ Upload a one page reflection on how UIW history relates to this course. Include a selfie in front of your favorite exhibit.

By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.

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Diversity in America Research Assignment

Diversity in America

Diversity in America has undermined the sense of national purpose strengthened the society as a whole explained the demise of American power allowed radical political philosophies to thrive 4 points

QUESTION 3

James Blight, co-author of Wilson’s Ghost, believes the United States has a special role in the twenty-first century because America can create the most good or the most harm will fulfill God’s mission to spread Christianity can dominate the global economy for the next one hundred years will make the world safe for democracy (4 points)

QUESTION 5

The Americans with Disabilities Act (1991) led to a significant tax increase required that private businesses be accessible to people with disabilities had to be revised five times before President Bush would sign it was lauded as President Bush’s greatest accomplishment. (4 points)

QUESTION 6

A major issue dividing supporters and opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement was the impact of NAFTA on U.S. jobs tariffs and trade barriers. the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade U.S. tax policy. (4 points)

QUESTION 9

The process of globalization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries differed from that of earlier eras in respect to its scale and speed trade among different cultures exchange of disease higher cost for services (4 points)

QUESTION 12

James Blight, co-author of Wilson’s Ghost, believes that in the twenty-first century it is imperative that the American people support nuclear superiority over other nations learn more about people in other countries realize that soft power means little in the modern world appreciate the wisdom of their elected leaders (4 points)

QUESTION 13

The Iraq War represented a departure from the post-1945 American foreign policy of multilateralism isolationism unilateralism militarism (4 points)

QUESTION 14

Affirmative action is a policy that pays attention to race and gender in decision-making reverses the gains of the civil rights laws of the 1960s guarantees jobs for unqualified applicants explains why white men have lost status in America (4 points)

QUESTION 18

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was so hard to resolve because attempts to mediate were insincere major powers had no stake in the struggle both sides were right on key issues Jews and Muslims prefer terrorism over peace (4 points)

QUESTION 20

Among the initial consequences of the Iraq War was resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict greater polarization at home and hostility abroad lessening of terrorism in Iraq removal of authoritarian rule in Saudi Arabia (4 points)

QUESTION 23

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 validated the containment policy applied by the United States since the 1940s removed communism from the world arena assured prosperity for the Russian people illustrated the futility of American “soft” power (4 points)

QUESTION 24

Economic and social inequalities in contemporary America are a result of lack of effort by the poor legacies of the past failures of the progressive income tax bankruptcy of the welfare system (4 points0

QUESTION 25

Immigration from Central and South America since 1977 has resulted in diminishing levels of educational opportunities in most cities better working conditions for migrant workers a blending of Latino cultures extension of the bracero program

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