Category: Essays

Choose one of the following topics, and write a two page essay:

1. In the Introduction to Decameron IV, we read: “Right then and there the father sensed that Nature had more power than his intelligence.” Discuss, including textual citations, how Boccaccio applies this principle in the Decameron.

2. The two love stories of Decameron IV, 1 & 5, have a tragic end, while the love story of Decameron V, 4 has a happy ending – Analyze the factors that lead their opposite endings. (include relevant textual citations)

3. M. Cottino-Jones sees Griselda (X,10) as a Christ figure (pp.295-305 of your textbook). But this tale can also be interpreted differently. Read the story carefully, and state an alternative interpretation.

4. Analyze the following sonnet by Petrarch (your analysis must be based on Petrarch’s poetics, which was discussed in class):

O you who hear within these scattered verses
the sound of sighs with which I fed my heart
in my first errand youthful days when I
in part was not the man I am today;

for all the ways in which I weep and speak
between vain hopes, between vain suffering,
in anyone who knows love through trials,
in them, may I find pity and forgiveness.

For now I see, since I’ve become the talk
for long a time of people all around
(it often makes me full of shame),

that from my vanities comes fruit of shame
and my repentance and the clearest knowledge
that worldly joy is a quick passing dream.

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Imagine that you are employed as an IT project manager by a prestigious coffeemaker organization. This organization operates many coffee shops within the region and would like to promote its brand by creating a mobile application that will provide its customers with the ability to view the nearest coffee shop location within their geographical area.
As a member of the software development team, you estimate a total project cost of $150,000. You have designated control points to measure project progress. At control point 2, the following data is available:
Budget Cost of Work Performed $ 24,000
Actual Cost of Work Performed $ 27,500

There are various stakeholders that are interested in the progress of the project. These stakeholders include the marketing management team (internal customers), software designers, programmers, testers, and upper management. The software development team has attempted to release a mobile application of this magnitude in the past; however, lack of sponsorship, mobile development expertise, and technical infrastructure has limited the team’s success.
Write a four (4) page paper in which you:
1. Identify at least four (4) attributes of the mobile application development project that can be measured and controlled and evaluate how each is a critical factor for the success of the project.
2. Generate a project plan summary of the various project milestones. Develop a WBS that details work packages required to complete project scope.
3. Develop a workflow model that can be used to inspect and detect defects during the acceptance of this mobile product through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
4. Describe how the defects detected during the acceptance of the mobile application should be reported and explain the circumstances in which a defect may not require reporting.
5. Analyze the communication needs of the different project stakeholders. Explain the types of project status reports that would be useful to each.
6. Compute the cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index, schedule performance index, and estimated actual cost using the information presented at control point 2. Interpret the project schedule and budget status from the calculations.
7. Explain how work package, binary tracking, and earned valued reporting can be used effectively during the maintenance phase of the software life cycle if various change requests may be assigned to individuals and processed on an individual basis.
8. Develop a risk register that will document all of the estimated risks. Assign one (1) risk management technique for each risk and explain the basis for your selection.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

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Using the directions for access to the music provided below, you will select a world music album and write a 2-4 page essay reflecting on the ideas of music as “music” but also music as representative of culture. Utilizing the skills and feedback you have acquired with previous writing assignments, seek to ask and answer questions about the music of the album you choose. Talk about characteristics of the musical performance as well. The album you choose may point toward particular questions that you can formulate and answer in your essay, but you may wish to think about the following general questions as well: what kind of representation does the album purport to give of its music/culture? Is it meant to be representative of a large cultural group or trend? Is it meant to be unique to a particular musician? Does it represent itself as entertaining or scholarly, or some combination of the two? Does it include field recordings, studio recordings, or a combination of the two? Does that make a difference in the way you listen to it? Position yourself to make a clear thesis statement about what you have questioned and learned and how you will articulate that in your paper.

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Self, Social Interaction, Relationships, and Influence
(100 points possible)
DUE December 9, 2014 (in class, printed copy)

The objective of this exercise is for you to apply the perspectives and concepts from the course to your own life and life course experiences, and in doing so to show that you have mastered the course material. This is an independent assignment, thus each student’s answers must be unique; “shared” work will result in a shared failing grade. As well as self-reflection, you will need to purchase a newspaper to complete this assignment (you will need to cut out pieces to turn in with your assignment; please tape them to a regular size sheet of paper), and arrange to watch TV. Points are indicated in [brackets], with a total of 100 possible.

Please make your answers concise; extra words will not get you extra points! List the question number, followed by the letter, and then your answer (do not re-type the questions).

1) Self, Identity, and Self-Presentation. [Total = 30]
a) Complete Box 3.1 (page 6 of your textbook). NOTE: you do not need to include the actual list – the primary purpose is to analyze it. Are your descriptors primarily role or dispositional identities? [4] What does this suggest about your identity? [4]
b) Make a list of the ten terms a best friend or family member would use to describe you, and then obtain the ten words that person actually uses. Compare the lists, focusing on the difference between self-perception and reflected appraisals; how do they differ? [4] to what extent are the differences a result of something about you (E.g., differences in the way you behave toward these others), and differences about these people (E.g., their different personalities)? [8]
c) Would a job interview most likely consist of authentic, ideal, or tactical self-presentation; why? [4]
d) Describe how a public restroom is both a front region and a back region of self-presentation. [6]

2) Social Interaction. [Total = 26]
Select a comic strip (must have multiple frames).
a) Briefly describe the place/event/scene, and the participants/roles/relationships [2]. How is the conversation/ communication initiated (or if it is in progress, how do you know?) [2].
b) What non-verbal symbolic vehicles are used – gestures, body language, spacing, physical characteristics and personal effects [2]? How is paralanguage represented [2]?
c) To analyze the verbal communication, consider the type of content, any jargon, the rules of conversation that are followed or not, and the purpose/success of the interaction [2]. Consider the relative “talk time” of each participant, interruptions, topic changes, questions, and requests [2]. Is one participant dominant – how do you now [2]?
d) What social structural differences are evident among the participants (gender, age, SES, ethnicity) [4]? What identities are the participants trying to establish [2]?
e) What impression management techniques does she/he use [4]? Are they successful [2]?

3) Social Relationships. [Total = 20]
Map the major relationships and groups of which you are a part.
a) For each relational tie, describe the bond profile – primary or secondary; including intimacy, task, social power/influence, and/or self-involvement. [8] Contrast the bond profile of your social relationship with your best friend and with your teaching assistant [2].
b) Returning to the best friend/family member from Question 1 (of this assignment) – make a comic strip of a typical (most usual or most important) interaction between yourself and that significant other. What identities are you trying to establish? [4] What impression management techniques do you use? [4] Are you successful? [2]

4) Social Influence. [Total = 24]
a) Watch TV for a short while and observe the commercials (keep a list with details). Provide examples of all the social influence techniques used [10]. What appeared most effective [4]?
b) Observe a political speech (any media), and briefly describe the speaker’s efforts – who was he/she trying to persuade, and how [6]?
c) Search any media to find an example of when authority was defied. What were the consequences; why did they defy authority [4]?

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I choose two characters, Farmer Ted and Sam’s sister (the one who has wedding), and pick up some scenes that show how they portray feminism in this film. For Farmer Ted at least choose 4 important scenes and for Sam’s sister two scenes are enough. Besides, you should write the essay related at least two readings to support your idea.

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Effective Management of Government Resources under the Priority Based Budgeting Approach

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Liverpool John Moores University – 4000BUSHR Organisational Behaviour

Assignment Two Individual Reflective Commentary.
You are given five topics to relate your topics with to a theorist in each section example Thomas-Kilmann a theorist. Each topic should include a theory the topics are Mental Toughness, Psychological Heath & Stress, Motivation, Power & Conflict and Changing Nature of Work) and produce a reflective account of your learning in class and your personal experiences l Include a clear, concise and critical description of what you have learned. Reflect on the learning through self-questioning and taking into account other’s views. Either demonstrate clearly how you have utilised the learning in practice and/or produce a plan of action including what, when, how and why you will use this learning in the future. Maximum Word Count 2000.?

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Introduction:
In a book The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck tells the story of families giving up or losing their family farms due first to drought and then to the dustbowl and migrating to California to find employment. Drought and water shortage is currently a great concern for agriculture and the communities dependent on it, not only in the United States, but also in other regions of the world.

Your task:
After reading The Grapes of Wrath and discussing the impact of the drought and the dustbowl on the Joad family, the farming communities, and the California communities that the Joad families end up in, research and analyze the impacts of the current drought on some aspect of our agricultural and food production complex, our water and land resources, or on the families and communities suffering the most from this drought. You may choose to focus on local or international regions, social or environmental impacts.

*** Write an essay comparing the current drought impacts to the impacts felt by the Joad family from “The Grapes of Wrath”***

Assignment Requirements
Guidelines:
• About 7 pages
• Incorporate at least 8 credible sources to support your discussion
• Follow MLA format and include a Works Cited page (see Rules for Writers for formatting guidelines)
• Introduction that identifies the region, gives an overview of the issue/s and presents a clear thesis statement.
• Body Paragraphs that start with focused topic sentences that are supported with main ideas, supporting points and analysis.
• A counterargument that addresses the opposing position.
• Properly introduced and integrated quotations.
• A conclusion that does more than just sum up the writer’s analysis.

My essay will be evaluated using the following criteria:
• Does the introduction engage the reader and capture the topic of the assignment?
• Does the thesis make an argument that accurately reflects the main ideas of the essay?
• Are ideas properly supported with clear topic sentences, examples and analysis?
• Are the paragraphs organized and arranged in a logical order? In other words, transitions clearly show how the ideas between paragraphs relate to and build on one another?
• Does the writer use logical subordinating clauses?
• Are the sentences clearly focused? In other words, the sentences have concrete nouns and active verbs whenever possible.
• Is the writer attempting to incorporate more sophisticated sentence combining tactics (NPA, verbal phrases)?
• Does the essay follow MLA format?

How I would like to see the structure of this essay:
-Introduce The Grapes of Wrath issues that you are confusing on.
For example: Like in The Grapes of Wrath…, today the drought has…
-Connect to The Grapes of Wrath as relevant
-Conclusion – come back to connecting to The Grapes of Wrath

Possible thesis to use in the comparison to the book:
• Environmental issues/phycology and connecting it to the book
• Cost and effect and connecting it to the book
• How drought affects us now and connecting it to the book
• Comparing the time of dustbowl, luck of food/money to now and connecting it to the book

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1. please do 1 page of outline and an abstract(or a brief summary, no more than 175 words) instead of 1-page summary
2. 8-10 references (wiki source does not count)
3. I already have 6 references, you may use at least 3 of them
4. the paper may cover: (1)why US should cut military expenditure and what are some unnecessary costs; (2)instead of military expenditure, where should US spend on? (charity? medical care? education?)
5. (not necessary) leave around 3-5 verb tense grammar mistakes and around 3 whatever grammar mistake (no fragment and run-on)

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Kinldy read the handouts (PDF file) of topic 6 carefully. After reading, select a country and a product which you will be marketing in that country. What steps you will take to assess and enter that market. Take the help of internet to provide information about that country.

Make a written individual report of 800-1000 words

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