You will be required to submit an essay on the film that we watched at the last lecture.
The essays must be submitted before Tuesday noon, a late review will result in lower grades -- but only one day of being late will be allowed, the essays are not accepted afterward.
Other general requirements (from the syllabus) :
These essays will be graded according to the following criteria:
1) insightfulness of thesis,
2) clarity and eloquence of expression,
3) spelling and grammar.
Please proofread your reviews before turning them in. ANY spelling or grammatical errors will result in a lower grade.
General tip: try to develop your thesis statement as clearly and strongly as possible. Do not retell the film -- look at it from a critical perspective (this doesn't mean that you have to focus on what you see as its shortcomings, you may and should also stress its positive qualities).
In a well-written and thoughtfully organized essay, answer the question listed below. You must number your pages and use a proper citation method. Chicago-style footnotes needed. Excellent essays will demonstrate proficiency with all of the reading assignments and draw smart connections between the readings. Establish a clear historical context in your answer. Use what you want to answer one of the following.
1) 2) United States cities, since the 1960s, can be understood in the political economic terms of deindustrialization, globalization, and postmodernity. Giant shifts in the world economy have affected how our cities grow and change. How do you characterize these processes? How do these massive political and economic processes affect the American city? What cities experience this change most drastically? How have urban identities changed?
Turabian citation guidelines.*****author date style
essay
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has resulted in a crazy year for all of us; it appears that we will be dealing with the effects of the virus well into 2021, and possibly longer. We may have been affected in different ways, but the bottom line is that, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, our personal and professional lives have been turned sideways and upside down!
You are currently the Human Resource Management Director for a public sector organization (city or county government) in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. You have a meeting scheduled with your city/county manager to discuss employee/employer issues resulting from the coronavirus. Identify and discuss the pertinent and important areas of consideration for the HRM Director, as well as the possible obstacles and solutions. Identify the areas that organizations, specifically HRM, have to address, including (but not limited to) staffing, work place en
***Turabian (Author-Date) Style
the final essays will require students to conduct research of both web-based and peer reviewed journals to support the essay responses. There are three essay questions
and students will have to use our textbooks as well as other external
sources as part of the assignment. Researching key ideas is helpful for
students to familiarize themselves with web-based sources and peer reviewed
journals that address public service ethics topics.
use articles from scholarly journals and websites to research assigned topics. These resources should supplement course readings and should also be utilized in framing responses to the essay questions.Scholarly articles are published in academic journals and they are peer reviewed. Full citations and references will be given for them, in correct Turabian parenthetic citation and reference list format.
Please write essays on the three topics shown below.
Each essay will:
Be 1-2 s
Read the Essay Proposal Document attached for instructions on the essay
Assignment: Using your research proposal as a guide, research and write an essay that develops and proves an argument. You essay must address the topic that you identified in your essay proposal.
Required sources:
At least 4 peer-reviewed, scholarly articles (published after 1990) from a scholarly journal. These can include the sources you used in the proposal/bibliography assignment. These cannot be course readings. (*** USE THE SOURCES IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPOSAL, THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE THE EXACT REFRENCES ALTHOUGH USE THE SAME BOOKS)
1 relevant course reading
One document from the Early Caribbean Archive. https://ecda.northeastern.edu Click on the archive link. * (use this link: https://ecda.northeastern.edu/item/neu:m04108188/)
The group selected an app and website based company called Robinhood. The company was formed by two students, roommates, and classmates at Stanford University. Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev graduated and moved briefly to New York state to create technology for hedge funds. After witnessing trading companies on Wall Street upcharge day to day people to initiate every trade, the partners returned to California to build their dream. Robinhood was founded in April 2013 in Menlo Park, California. But the company offers job opportunities in more locations. Headquarters are still located in Menlo Park, CA this area is used to employ corporate employees.
Write an essay that approaches a contemporary problem (COVID-19 or also know as Coronavirus) from a historical perspective, drawing from primary and secondary sources to write a thesis-driven essay.
Trace some historical antecedents for the current pandemic in the United States. You may focus on a particular event, theme, or problem relating to the Covid-19 crisis, and approach it from a historical perspective. What larger processes in American history help us understand this current crisis? What past events offer some insights or lessons for today?
Trade routes became important paths for cultural, commercial, and technological exchanges between civilizations. Traders, merchants, missionaries, soldiers, and nomads from Ancient China, India, Persian Empire, and Mediterranean countries used various roads and seaways to move goods, ideas, and information. Travel on land was slow and unpredictable. Caravans were vulnerable to attack and adverse weather conditions.
During the 1st century BCE, trade routes connecting China to Central Asia and areas surrounding the Mediterranean merged into a single route. The Silk Road, originally named for the vast amounts of silk traded along it, was a significant factor in the development of China, Egypt, Persia, Arabia, and Rome. The goods traded were numerous. From Egypt came silk, paper, glass, jewelry, cosmetics, salt, wine and beer. The Middle East offered woolens, asphalt, carpets, perfumes, bleach, and pain relieving drugs. The Han Dynasty provided silk, wine, laquerware, a
Write an essay that approaches a contemporary problem (COVID-19 or also know as Coronavirus) from a historical perspective, drawing from primary and secondary sources to write a thesis-driven essay.
Trace some historical antecedents for the current pandemic in the United States. You may focus on a particular event, theme, or problem relating to the Covid-19 crisis, and approach it from a historical perspective. What larger processes in American history help us understand this current crisis? What past events offer some insights or lessons for today?
As Jared Diamond explains, much of his motivation to write Guns, Germs, and Steel emerged from a question posed to him by Yali, a New Guinean politician. Yali asked Diamond, Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? (Diamond 1997:14). How does Diamond answer this?
