We often make judgments about someone based on their accent, such as how old they are or where in the country theyre from. Its common, too, for people to develop preferences for certain accents. All humans have these sorts of automatic associations and reactions, which are typically described as types of accent bias.

Please watch a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVT9DZGqzL8) created by Amy Walker, an actress, singer, and accent specialist, about bias in general accents. After watching a video, address the following questions:

What was surprising/intriguing in the video?
Do you think you have an accent?
Have you ever felt judged for your accent or voice? If so, share your experience.
Have you ever made assumptions about someone based on their accent or voice?
Do you feel its important to help change the stigmas and assumptions associated with certain accents while honoring their uniqueness? If so, what can you do to help?

Read for class Monday Feb 15:
Urvashi Butalia, An Archive with a Difference:  Partition Letters (208-241), in The Partitions of Memory. Butalia--An Archive with a Difference

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, Gender, Memory, Trauma: Women's Novels on the Partition of India, in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25, 1 (2005): 177-190. Kabir, Gender Memory Traumat

There are a number of Asian American cultural producers who are moving and  shaking the fields of visual art, music, spoken word, film, theater, sports, and performance, but due to years of systemic racism, racialization and marginalization a number of works by Asian Americans just never get reviewed, analyzed, and sometimes even seen, heard or read.

Assignment: You will position yourself as a cultural critic and Asian American studies scholar.  You will critically review and analyze the same object of study that you described. You are first going to review it and tell us what makes this object of whatever something to see, hear, or taste its interventions in the world of fashion or genre of romantic comedies et al.  Are there any shortcomings and limitations of the work that you feel you should note?  Ideally, you are trying to convince us to take the time to check out and see, listen, or taste something.

You are not writing a BIOGRAPHY of a person,

Refer to the lecture notes about quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing.Select two quotes from your first draft (or sources) that are longer than one sentence (otherwise you won't have much to work with), summarize them, and then paraphrase them. Explain why you have selected to quote the two quotations you have selected for this assignment as opposed to summarizing them or paraphrasing them. Do you find it better to paraphrase? 

Follow these guidelines to complete this assignment:
Quote 1: Select a quote from your first draft  (and cite the quotes appropriately according to either MLA or APA style) (10 points)
Summary of quote 1: Summarize the quote    (10 points)
Paraphrase of quote 1: Paraphrase the quote  (10 points)
Explanation: Explain why you have chosen to quote it rather than summarize it or paraphrase it and whether you would change your mind about paraphrasing or summarizing it instead.  Explain your choice in a short para

Dr. Baker in Thinking  Critically and Creatively states that While critical thinking analyzes information and roots out the true nature and facets of problems, it is creative thinking that drives progress forward when it comes to solving these problems (21). Throughout the whole term, you have been engaged in critical and creative thinking. Now that you are working on the final draft of the research paper, discuss how you have used your critical and creative thinking skills in your work on the final draft.   

200 Word Discussion Board Post

There are two parts in this attached file. First part you need to find a cuurent event that occuring within this three months and connect the news with the explanation of first part about aggregate demand. Second part is comparing essay that almost complete, but only need a single paragraph of conclusion.

1. Please find and scan the news outlet about aggregate demand; the outcomes MUST be based entirely on YOUR own CRITICAL THINKING perspectives as derived from the macroeconomy. This is NOT A SUMMARY, so plase ANALYZE the news THOUGHTFULLY. Then make the connection to the explanation of the Aggragate Demand in file attached.
2. Don't forget to write a conclusion at the end of the paper and underline the thesis statement at the end of the 1st paragraph.
3. For this critical thinking, please write atleast 750 words.

4. After that, please help me to write a conclusion paragraph at the end of the analysis paper in the file attached (the one that comparing two articles)

Read Cherokee Women, pp. 671-673 and William Apess, pp. 850-856 and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, pp. 857-858 in the text uploaded below.
Each of the readings for this week were written by Native American people.  Think about what they have in common and what their differences are.  You may discuss those things, but I also want you to talk about the ways that you see the tension between the dominant white culture and the subordinate Native American culture playing out in the texts of this week's writings.  What do these writers and their writings have to say about the way America is developing as a nation?  Do the authors embrace or resist the dominant culture's values?

This are the questions:

1. From a business standpoint, do you think businesses like Home Depot, Walmart, and Amazon help or hurt our economy?  Explain.

2. From a consumers standpoint, are these corporations good for your pocketbook?  Explain.

3. Is a company's implementation of loss leaders a good marketing approach.  Or, is it unethical?

4. Do you feel like the government should intervene when companies like these get too big?

5. As you may have noticed, Amazon continues to expand into many other new business areas such as healthcare, shipping, etc... What is their motivation to expand into some of these other businesses?

"Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement - main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation - https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don't include any new information in the conclusion. It should  restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html"

"Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement - main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation - https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don't include any new information in the conclusion. It should  restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html"