Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal For your RIP proposal, write 300-500 words describing your intended project. You don’t need to organize your proposal in the order of these questions and concepts, but make sure they are all addressed in your response.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal
Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Message and Purpose: First, what’s your message going to be? What do you want to portray about either your class text or class theme? Think about this specifically and complexly—what are the new insights you can bring to the table?

Genre: What genre do you want your purpose to be conveyed with? The RIP project should involve a text-based genre but is only limited by your imagination. There can be multi-modal components to the project, but there should be a significant amount of text should be the primary component. Research various genres online for what might be most compelling to you—for instance, perhaps you’re interested in a short video, but instead can write a film treatment or script for it. Consider your past RIP exercises as a starting point for your final genre project.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Audience: Once you decide your message, who do you want to target? Why? And what are going to be the expectations of this audience? What might be difficult in addressing them? Think specifically about who they are and what they want. How will that affect your appeals to them?

Context: What’s the historical and cultural context of this project? Is this taking place right now? Where and when? How does that influence the project? See the AGWR 39B chapter for more details about exploring context.

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Rhetoric-In-Practice Prompt

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal Purpose

This project shifts the rhetorical situation from analyzing a message from the position of an audience member (trying to build a deep understanding of the meaning of the text, the context in which the sender created it, and the audiences to which it speaks) to one in which you yourself are a creator, producing a text that is relevant to the rhetoric of freedom and slavery.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

This project imitates what you’ll be asked to do often in both your college career and afterwards—discern what you want to say, who you want to say it to, and how best to do so. The Rhetoric-in-Practice assignment is intended to give you a deeper appreciation of what it means to make specific rhetorical choices to serve your message and an opportunity to reflect on how those choices affect the message you are sending and the audience that you reach with it.

In this way, the RIP is a culmination of the work you’ve done in this class with respect to your understanding of both genre and rhetoric.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal Assignment

The RIP assignment has two parts: project and essay.

Project: You will craft a text having selected a purpose and audience that addresses the class theme—the rhetoric of freedom and slavery—(or responds to The Underground Railroad). You will then select an appropriate genre for this project, and demonstrate your rhetorical know-how by selecting appropriate rhetorical choices for this situation. In other words, your created text will operate within a clear rhetorical framework—with a clear context, belonging to an identifiable genre, and with a clear purpose and audience. The only limitation on the genre is that it is text-based and it cannot be a short story.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Message and Purpose: First, what’s your message going to be? What do you want to portray about either your class text or class theme? Think about this specifically and complexly—what are the new insights you can bring to the table? What are the arguments that you can make?

Audience: Once you decide your message, who do you want to target? Why? And what are going to be the expectations of this audience? What might be difficult in addressing them? Think specifically about who they are and what their expectations will be. How will that affect your appeals to them?

Context: What’s the historical and cultural context of this project? Is this taking place right now?

Where and when? How does that influence the project? See the AGWR 39B chapter for more details about exploring context.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Genre: After you think through all of these possibilities, now you can start to decide on a genre for your project. The RIP project should involve a text-based genre but is only limited by your imagination.

Part of this project’s goal is for you to explore a genre that you’re not familiar with, so you should pick something that can challenge you in terms of making a complex argument in a different format.

There can be multi-modal components to the project, but there should be a significant amount of text should be the primary component. Research various genres online for what might be most compelling to you—for instance, perhaps you’re interested in a short video, but instead can write a film treatment or pitch document for it. Consider your past RIP exercises as a starting point for your final genre project.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal

Your instructor may suggest specific directions that relate to your class readings and/or theme.

Essay: You will also write a rhetorical analysis of your own work that analyzes the rhetorical choices you made. The essay should build on your work in the RA essay and indicate how you’re applying your rhetorical know-how. You’ll include secondary sources that demonstrate, among other things, your understanding of your chosen genre and your understanding of the texts/ideas you’ve studied throughout the quarter.

Rhetoric in Practice Prompt Proposal Requirements

Multiple drafts, peer review and revision are required elements of the assignment. The RIP project’s length depends on the purpose, audience and genre, but it should be equal to your Rhetorical Analysis in complexity.

  • The RIP essay should be between 500-800 words long.
  • A minimum of three (3) sources must be cited in the essay, though the working bibliography with 3-5 annotations may have 10 or more sources that you read in the process.

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets In this Discussion you will use one of the Discussion Board data sets to identify two variables that are correlated and then create the best prediction equation for those variables.

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets
Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets

Finally, you will use the prediction equation you created to make a prediction for one variable (the Y variable) using a value for the second variable (the X variable). Correlated Variables: Use one of the Discussion Board data sets to identify two variables that are correlated. Use SPSS to document the correlation. For example, you may think that height and weight are correlated. From the Female Health data set there is a correlation of 0.364 between height and weight. Best Prediction equation: Use the Linear Regression procedure to generate the best prediction equation (regression equation) using one variable as the dependent or predicted variable (Y).

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets

Differential SAR interferometry, a popular technique for measuring displacements of the Earth’s surface, is potentially influenced by changes in soil moisture. Different mechanisms for this impact have been proposed, but its magnitude, sign, and even presence remain poorly understood. In this study the dependence of the phase, the coherence magnitude as well as the phase triplets on soil moisture was inferred empirically with regression techniques: this was done for two airborne data sets at L-band.

Effects of Environment Using Discussion Board Data Sets

The phase dependence was significant (at a significance level of 0.05) for more than 70% of the fields at HH polarization, its sign corresponding to an increase in optical path upon wetting, and the magnitude of the associated deformation commonly exceeding 2 cm for a change in soil moisture of 20%. This trend was similar in both campaigns, whereas the prevalence of soil moisture-related decorrelation differs. These results are only consistent with a dielectric origin of the soil moisture effects, and not with soil swelling or the penetration depth hypothesis.

Stakeholders in a Sustainable Business Transformation

Stakeholders in a Sustainable Business Transformation Business ethics Assignment 3: Stakeholders in Sustainable Business Transformation (15%; 100 marks total)

Stakeholders in a Sustainable Business Transformation
Stakeholders in a Sustainable Business Transformation

Word limit Part A should be 600 to 700 words and Part B must be 2500words

  • Part B (Choose Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a topic for Part B.

Reference sheet should be at the end with 5references as well as work should be cited.

Your progress

  • Stakeholders in a Sustainable Business Transformation Introduction

In this module, we explored a number of broad forces that have a significant influence on business, government, and society. In this assignment, you will focus on environmental issues and sustainable development as a growing force in business and society today. Decision makers integrating environmental and social issues and concerns with economic goals can face conflicting costs and benefits among these three elements of sustainable development.

In this assignment, you will examine some of the environmental, health and social costs and benefits associated with an economic development project. You will also examine one business or organization that is implementing sustainable development policies and initiatives.

Part A is a case study on the environmental, health, social, and economic impacts of the adoption of clean cookstoves in the developing world. Part B is a report examining a corporation or other organization that is transforming to more sustainable operations.

Part A

Read Discussion Case: Clean Cooking at the end of Chapter 9, and answer the following two questions.

  • Question 1: Describe the ways in which the widespread adoption of clean cookstoves will address the global environmental issues discussed in Chapter 9. (15 marks)
  • Question 2: Describe the ways in which the widespread adoption of clean cookstoves will address the issues of economic development and poverty discussed in Chapter 9. (15 marks)
  • Part B (Choose Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a topic for Part B.

Examine a corporation or other organization that is transforming to more sustainable operations. Analyze ways the organization is reacting to stakeholder influences and how the policies and initiatives of this organization, as well as technologies that they employ, are affecting stakeholders internally, externally, and globally. You should demonstrate your ability to incorporate and integrate your learning from all aspects of this module. Ensure that you include information from the course material, the readings, your journal, and your own research.

Choose from the following options:

  • Royal Dutch Shell
  • Interface, Inc.
  • Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  • A business or organization of your choice that is implementing sustainable development policies and initiatives. Please review the questions below to ensure the organization or business that you select is appropriate to the assignment deliverables.

Note

If you are not analyzing Shell, Interface, or HP), then, prior to beginning this report, you should email your Open Learning Faculty Member the name of your chosen organization to confirm that your choice is appropriate for this assignment.

After selecting an organization, write a 2,500-word, double-spaced report containing the following:

  • Section 1. External forces or influences: Identify three external factors that you think have influenced the company’s shift to more environmentally and/or socially responsible business management practices. Describe the ways in which these external factors influenced management actions and/or decisions or helped to transform the company. Provide evidence to support your observations. (30 marks)
  • Section 2. Internal forces or influences: Identify two internal factors that have influenced the company’s shift to more environmentally and/or socially responsible business management practices. Describe the ways in which these internal factors influenced management actions and/or decisions or helped to transform the company. Provide evidence to support your observations. (20 marks)
  • Section 3. Global impacts of sustainable development initiatives: Describe one real or potential global impact of the sustainable development initiatives of this company. Indicate the magnitude or significance of this impact in terms of its influence on global business and/or society. (10 marks)
  • Section 4. Harnessing technology for sustainable development: Describe (with examples) how this company is using the Internet and other technologies to assist its efforts to move toward sustainable business and development. (10 marks)

Application Based Writing Parties To Crime

Application Based Writing Parties To Crime Reexamine the “parties to crime” section 12.24. Also, read the three articles provided in the attached files.

Application Based Writing Parties To Crime
Application Based Writing Parties To Crime

Draft a response paper. Should Texas’s rewrite its law of parties’ statutes? If so how? What modifications should be made? If not why not? Support your conclusion with sound logic. In the United States, there are two bodies of law whose purpose is to deter or punish serious wrongdoing or to compensate the victims of such wrongdoing. Criminal law deals with behavior that is or can be construed as an offense against the public, society, or the state—even if the immediate victim is an individual.

Complete the Lopes Write Worksheet

Complete the Lopes Write Worksheet APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Complete the Lopes Write Worksheet
Complete the Lopes Write Worksheet

Turnitin Questions

Write a 100 – 150-word response to each of the questions below.

  1. List and describe two benefits of checking your Turnitin score before submitting your assignment.
  2. A student receives a 35% similarity rate on their Turnitin score. What does this mean and what should that student do before they submit their assignment? Hospitalization, despite its duration, is likely to result in emotional, social, and academic costs to school-age children and adolescents. Developing adequate psychoeducational activities and assuring inpatients’ own class teachers’ collaboration, allows for the enhancement of their personal and emotional competencies and the maintenance of a connection with school and academic life.

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present Write a paper evaluating an essay in the style of an essay called an evaluation.

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present
Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present

For an evaluation essay, you will be evaluating your subject’s quality based on a set of criteria that you decide is the basis for your judgment about your subject. Your claim will be making a judgment about value, such as whether or not a product, idea or text is good or bad (or somewhere in-between). This assignment meets the course learning objective to be able to describe, analyze and write contemporary arguments. You may choose your topic from this list: Critical Essay Topics Preview the document

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present Critical Essay Topics

Health Care Reforms, past or present

Social Media (i.e. How online friendships are made or how they differ than in real life, the effect on marketing or culture, relationship to news, or other options you may check with me about).

Topics about cultural diversity or bilingualism

Racism or other specific forms of discrimination

GMOs or other topics in agriculture

Environmental safety practices (such as oil or mining) or environmental pollution

Evaluate or analyze an art form

A current government policy (besides health care)

How the media influences stereotypes, insecurities or commerce

The reason behind the design of an American monument or another form of meaningful architecture

Physical fitness or wellness

A new technological advancement

An addiction or disease

Gaming

Future trends in careers or employment

Common Debates

You may write on one of these common debates, but the focus should be on finding a unique point of view that is explained in terms of where it fits among other arguments on the same topic. A few examples of common debates are gun control, Roe vs. Wade or climate change.

Your paper should include:

Introduction to your subject (including any relevant background info)

Statement of judgment (consider this in terms of value: good, bad, better than, worse than, of merit, worthless)

Three reasons with evidence in support of the judgment

Statement of the opposing side´s position (opposite – i.e., this is not a good point because…)

Opposing side’s position must be supported by evidence

A counterargument that explains why your evaluative judgment is correct over the opposing side’s position. You should back your counterargument with evidence that refutes the opposing side’s position.

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present Conclusion (in paragraph form-usually 3-5 sentences).

You’ll need to include a Work Cited page following your essay.

You’ll need to cite your sources in MLA style, which is the type of formatting needed for English papers. Please refer to Module 2 to review the information on MLA style citations. You’ll need to cite the essay you evaluated in your Work Cited page, in addition to any other sources you might use. The only required source is an essay that you evaluate if you complete a critique of an essay, or a source on an evaluative claim that you make on a topic.

More info: Essays need to be about 4 or 5 pages long, double-spaced in 12 pt regular font

English 102

Dr. Marylin Brook

October 5,2018

Racism in media

Racism is a form of discrimination and has always existed in society for centuries. It would be expected that with the current technological and social developments in the world, racism would be a thing of the past. However, intolerance, unfairness, and prejudice still remain deeply rooted in our old-fashioned ethnic background masked by narrow-minded values and customs. Today the media has a great influence and dictates many aspects of our lives. It influences the way we behave, the type of foods we eat, the way we dress, etc. The media is therefore very sensitive since it touches on peoples’ lives on a daily basis. However, the media has also been used in enhancing racism through social media, billboards, magazines, movies and television commercials.

Racism can be defined as discrimination based on skin color, eyes and hair texture (Feagin 4). It leads to a conviction that certain skin color, eyes and hair texture is superior to another. This conviction normally leads to prejudice and discrimination directed towards people believed to be inferior. These perceptions make it hard for one to trust another from a different race and at some point, one may fail to give the other the benefit of doubt simply because of their skin, eyes and hair texture differences. With racism tucked under our skins, the question is, is the human race really advanced? Through widespread investigations and examinations, it is clear and evident that racism exists in today’s society. Racist actions normally target people of a different skin colour, hair texture or shape of the eye yet no one has control over since races are genetically marked. The media to a large extent manipulate the way diverse races interact, in fact, newspapers, radio, internet, movies, and television are at times used to give deceptive and ambiguous information with the purpose to mislead or be unjust.

Results from surveys done indicate that racism in media is a common existing thing and that people who are not white are not represented equally as whites in advertisements placed either in the internet, magazines and newspapers, television or radio commercials. Based on the census conducted in the U.S., 35% of Americans are people of color but only 7% of advertisements feature blacks while the other minority races are less represented. This has led to what is described as “Beauty whitewash”, a condition where people change their skin color or hair texture either digitally or by use of toxic chemicals so as to conform to the white race. People sop up so much information from advertisements and that is why the mass still has some rigid opinions hence advertisements should not contain any manner of prejudice based on race, sex, traditions, belief or any other factors. Dove’s and H&M’s advertisements are examples of racist advertisements posted on media. In October of 2017, Dove dropped an advertisement on Facebook, a three-minute GIF which showed a black person cleansed and undressed herself to turn into a white person. ”Dove’s ad was not an isolated case by one company, but the latest in a long line of tone-deaf ads by many companies “, Astor. Earlier in this year, 2018, H&M clothing brand had launched a controversial advertisement which a colored skin child wearing a hoodie with the slogan: “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” . The Internet went viral. H&M then took the advertisement down and the product was not being sold in the US.

Nearly everyone likes Disney movies yet some characters are portrayed in a racial bias.  It is evident that whites are positive characters while the negative characters are people of color. Taking into considerations that these movies target children as the main audience, such clandestine racism may influence the way children treat people from different races. For instance, in the movie, Jungle Book, the gorillas speak in black vernacular, they sound a lot more like white guys adopting the black culture, rather than appropriating it. In addition,  Mowgli is one of the very few non-white heroes in all of these movies and he’s definitely the only Indian so far. “The Lady and the Tramp”, takes place in an early twentieth century American neighborhood populated by dogs of varying class from Scotland, England, the American south and Russia. And there are people from Italy, Germany and Ireland. Siamese cats, Si and Am, are drawn with slanted eyes and they speak with an Asian accent, and also portrayed as villainous and sneaky. There is also a Chihuahua who speaks in an exaggerated Mexican tone. The movie “Peter Pan”  Native Americans were represented as gamblers who can barely speak English. None of the Native American actually speak to Peter and his gang. Instead, the chief of the tribe speaks inbroken jargon, stereotypical to the way native Americans are mocked.

However, the level of racism in media has significantly decreased in modern days. In fact, less racist advertisements are being used with more appearances in the advertisements being from colored people. Asians and colored people have increasingly been used in advertisements that it was in the past. It is noted that in the movie industry, non-white characters have been given more roles to play and speak fluent English. In the music industry, people accept or indulge freely in other race music. On July 15, 2017, a Korean song, “ Gangnam Style” went viral all over the world, within the US,  the song was downloaded 301,000 times alone, according to Business Insider. The world phenomenon, a Korean boy band, BTS is touring around the world, their concerts sold out in minutes. They were the first Asian singers who get to speak at the UN.

In conclusion, it is vital to remember that unfairness in the media is a mirror image of the permanent marks left on humanity from past ordeal. Still there exist nuanced introductions to today’s social climate that explains centuries of political, social and cultural engagements, of which some are still continuing. Everyone has their own exclusive know-how and incremental influences that continuously affect how one identifies their own and others’ racial setting. As much as those in the production of media engage in racial practices, but also some who are not in the production at times enhance racism in their own small ways. The media is a driving force in that it influences our belief and values to a huge extent. It induces how people associate with each other. The information presented by the media in regard to a particular group of people is in actual sense the way that the public will understand the behaviors and expectations of that group of people.

Health Care Reforms in the Past or Present Work cited

Feagin, Joe. Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge publishers. 2009, p. 4-6.

https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/h-m-issues-apology-review-internal-routines-accusations-racist-ad/311865/

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb12-243.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/family/article/2017/04/21/comment-i-watched-some-casually-racist-sexist-disney-movies-my-6-year-old-sonLinks to an external site.

http://time.com/5405422/bts-k-pop-united-nations-address/Links to an external site.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-psy-went-from-k-pop-sensation-to-international-infatuation-2012-9

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied Research Readings for Assignment 1 Basic Versus Applied Research [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLztx5VwIxc (3:01)

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied
A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied

Saini, A. (2016). Basic vs Applied Research. Retrieved from https://www.slideshare.net/anupamasaini23/basic-vs-applied-research-61715786 (Please read through all 19 Slides)

Medin, D. L. (2012).  A dangerous dichotomy: Basic and applied research. Observer, 25. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2012/march-12/a-dangerous-dichotomy-basic-and-applied-research.html

Medin, D. L. (2012).  A dangerous dichotomy: Basic and applied research. Observer, 25. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2012/march-12/a-dangerous-dichotomy-basic-and-applied-research.html

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied Questions

2a. Based on the background material and external research, compare and contrast Basic versus Applied Research

2b. Discuss how applied research can help improve your organization or professional area of specialization (e.g., Education, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Health Sciences Administration, Media Psychology, For-Profit or Non-For-Profit organizations etc.).

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied Assignment 2

Reading for Assignment 2

McCall, R.B. and Groark, C. J. (n.d.). Challenges and issues in designing applied research. Retrieved from http://www.ocd.pitt.edu/Files/Publications/Challenges%20and%20Issues%20in%20Designing%20Applied%20Research.pdf

A Dangerous Dichotomy in Basic and Applied Questions

1.

Discuss at least 2 key challenges in conducting applied research.

2a. Based on the 2 key challenges selected in TD1, which one(s) do you believe will be a challenge in conducting an applied research study in your professional area of specialization.

2b. Please provide at least 2 references that illustrate how to address the challenges in 2a above.

Modern Conflict Theory on Ideas of Mills and Berger

Modern Conflict Theory on Ideas of Mills and Berger In this assignment, write an essay (500-750 words) analyzing the ideas of Mills and Berger.

Modern Conflict Theory on Ideas of Mills and Berger
Modern Conflict Theory on Ideas of Mills and Berger

Cite two to four sources and address the following in your essay:

  1. Explain the modern conflict theory perspectives of Mills and Berger in regards to Alcoholism.
  2. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas of Mills and Berger as they apply to Alcoholism.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, An abstract is not required. New York, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
An invitation to understand society in a disciplined way for people who are naturally interested in the events that engage people’s ultimate beliefs, their moments of tragedy and grandeur and ecstasy, but who are also fascinated by the commonplace, the everyday.

Effects of Exposure to Violence in Media

Effects of Exposure to Violence in Media

Analyze info you find and highlight any patterns

Effects of Exposure to Violence in Media
Effects of Exposure to Violence in Media

What needs further research?

Use references (Harvard) (1 per paragraph)

Use concepts

Develop your argument; keep linking to your point in your intro. With recent worry about mass shootings and gun violence in the United States, one of the questions that always comes up is whether violent media promotes violent or aggressive behavior. This is something that is especially important to think about for parents, as violent content is common on television and in movies, on the internet, and in some of the most popular children’s video games.

Philosophy Socrates on Unexamined Life not Worth Living

Philosophy Socrates on Unexamined Life not Worth Living Philosophy Socrates on Unexamined Life, not Worth Living Topic Explain, what Socrates might have meant when he said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Do you agree with this position? Why or why not?

Philosophy Socrates on Unexamined Life not Worth Living
Philosophy Socrates on Unexamined Life not Worth Living

The point of this paper will be to focus on one particular argument or theory. The goal is not to do research but to focus your thoughts on one argument or one position and dig deep. Keep in mind that this is not a research paper.

Grammar is important, the command of the material and the “depth” of your explanations is also very important. Which side of the issue you are on is completely irrelevant, what matters is how well you state your case.