Category: English

2. What effects will loneliness have upon an individual? How can a person overcome the effects of loneliness?
3. How would you explain self-esteem? Why would you want to build it up? Why might you want to lose it?
4. What is the purpose of the Johari Window? How can the Johari Window be of benefit to you?
5. Define emotional attachments and social ties and explain their importance in relationship to loneliness.
6- Explain how first impressions, stereotyping, and prejudices influence our perception of others.
7- Instructions
Heterosexism is the existence of advantages and rewards on heterosexuals solely as a result of their sexual orientation. Many of the things that heterosexuals take for granted may be unavailable to gay or bisexual people. Make a list of the advantages a heterosexual “straight” has. If you are “straight,” what advantages do you enjoy that gay people are less likely to enjoy? Think hard—many of the things that heterosexuals take for granted are not equally available to everyone. Examples include displaying a picture of one’s loved one without fear of retaliation or ridicule; not having to hide parts of one’s life from family, friends, and coworkers; or having the loved one be legally recognized as the next-of-kin. When you have made your list, go to www.yahoo.com or www.google.com and type “heterosexism” into the search box. What items could be added to your list as a result of your search? Why do you think you didn’t see them earlier?

ROUGH DRAFT For Essay 1 (I have attached the outline for Essay 1, which I also got done by studypool last time. I’m attaching the outline so that you have an idea of what info to put for the rough draft. Especially, because you can use the textual evidence used in the outline. Also, for the sources, as it says we need to use “at least 3 of the texts used in class”. So, I have attached 3 sources that you may use. One of them is a tedtalk video, which I put the link to it below. The other 2 are texts. I have attached the pdf of both the texts on my assignment instructions. Thank you.
Essay #1: Who is Responsible for the Nations’ Health?
Directions:
Write the rough draft of your essay.
Your rough draft should be about 2-3 pages and address the prompt above.
It should adhere to MLA format (double-spaced, use 12 font Calibri or Times New Roman) and cite authors accordingly.
The works cited page must be written on a separate page and include all your sources (at least 3 of the texts used in class).
How to Structure Your Essay:
Introduction (1-2 paragraphs)
Your introduction should address the following questions:
What is your stand?
Who do you believe is to blame for the health crisis confronting the United States?
Your answer to these questions will comprise your argument. Mention which author you believe is right and makes the more persuasive argument.
Body (3-4 paragraphs)
Your body paragraphs should do the following:
Discuss your specific claims. Each claim should be discussed in a separate paragraph. What reasons do you have for feeling the way you do? Which text(s) or author(s) are you basing your beliefs on?
What specific evidence do you provide to back your argument and claims? Make sure you provide specific examples from the class readings.
Include your opponents’ counterarguments in one of your body paragraphs.
Conclusion (1-2 paragraphs)
Your conclusion should wrap everything up. In order to do this, consider addressing the following questions:
What do you believe the future holds for the overall health of our nation’s citizens?
What role should our government take in responding to the health crisis?
Should food companies be penalized, and if so, how?
Should consumers simply be allowed to make their own choices?

In a multi-paragraph, double spaced, MLA formatted typed response of at least 250 words, respond to the following prompt by Monday of week Two:

As we saw on the instructions for Unit One – Textual Analysis, you will be asked to select a “big question” for the semester. Chapter 30 of the OER says that “[W]hen you perform research, you are essentially trying to solve a mystery—you want to know how something works or why something happened. In other words, you want to answer a question that you (and other people) have about the world. This is one of the most basic reasons for performing research.”

For this short writing assignment, discuss your ideas about your topic in two parts:

Part One:

Why do you care about this topic?
What are your current concerns, viewpoints, and/or attitudes toward it?
What might you want to express to others about it?
Brainstorm and list keywords you would use to research info on this topic.

Part Two
Then perform an internet search of the topic, keeping track of the following items:
What search engines did you use?
How many hits did you receive?
Skim a few pages of your Internet hits, and estimate how many of these results are relevant, timely, and credible?
Give the biblographic information on one relevant and credible listing, formatted to MLA style.
Topic can be difference views of politics or something related

I have attached instructions. The theme I would like the writer to write about is- the tension between legacy and progress and the character’s struggle to balance their family’s past with the need to secure their future. I have attached my outline and the instructions for the essay. Please ask questions as needed. Thank you.

Visual Diary: Visual ElementsFor this assignment, you will be creating one Visual Diary and a supporting summary of what you found.
Your collection of photos must be visual representations of specific formal elements of art.
Your summary must identify the medium for each object/image and the formal element for each object/image. Follow the instructions below for the introduction and step by step instructions.
The goal for this assignment is to carefully view the world around you, and to identify visual elements and mediums, in your personal daily life. I guarantee you, they are everywhere! Once you see it, it will be hard to unsee it!Line, light & value, texture & pattern, shape & volume/form, chance, color, time, movement exist all around us in nature and in the things that humans make and build. Look to your surroundings: from the computer you’re working on, to the leaves on the trees! These are all described as Formal Elements of Art, sometimes called the Visual Elements.
For this assignment, please refer to the Canvas Content pages specifically: Analyzing Art: Different Approaches (Chapter 1 Supplemental Materials)Analyzing Art: Different Approaches (Chapter 1 Supplemental Materials) & Analyzing Art: Formal Elements (Chapter 2 Supplemental Material) and/or Chapters 1 and from our required textbook: Exploring Art A Global Thematic Approach.Before you begin, look to the examples from the module and/or textbook, and as you are reading about analyzing art and the formal elements of art look to your surroundings in your home (this project does not require leaving home).
Are you able to identify examples of as the relate to our collective Visual Culture: (Fine Art, Popular Culture, Craft, and or Specific Disciplines like drawing, photography, or sculpture)? I bet you can: A silkscreened print, a drawing, or a painting?-that’s fine art
School pictures of your kids?- that’s photography.
Action figures?- that’s popular culture.
A mask you made?- that’s sculpture.
A car you’ve been working on restoring?-that’s popular culture and sculpture.
Fabrics, a crocheted clothing item, a pot, a handmade basket, or jewelry?- sounds like craft.
Look to your personal items, manufactured items and handmade items.1. Now that you have analyzed these objects in your life, and identified how they relate to our collective Visual Culture (based on the list above and this module), start taking photos of just one formal element (line, light & value, texture & pattern, shape & volume/form, chance, color, time, movement) of your collection using the principles of design/composition (balance, rhythm, proportion & scale, unity).2. After you have collected 9-12 examples of your selected element, make a visual diary of all you have found. You will be creating a collection of photos (see examples below for format & arrangement only). Follow these steps: (1) You will have to take your own photos, (2) arrange them just as you see below. (note: the arrangement can vary in format, square/rectangle/fancy borders) 3. Explain (in text or video) how your images in the collection are examples of the visual element/sthat you are describing and what parts of our visual culture these images belong to. In other words; if you are showing us images with the visual element of line, make sure to describe how each image/object creates line, etc. Do the same for medias; be very clear and obvious in your descriptions :)Note: each collection does not have to include only only one formal element. Ideally, we do want just one type of formal element; however, what you can do, is create a a collection all the same type of art and different formal elements (line, light & value, texture & pattern, shape & volume/form, chance, color, time, movement), OR create a collection of various types of art (Fine Art, Popular Culture, Craft, and or Specific Disciplines like drawing, photography, or sculpture) and the same formal element. This will provide a “do-able” challenge!
Example: Below is an example with a few photos (collaged as a single file) all showing examples of the visual element: LINE. You may select any visual element, just as long as all of the images are showing the same visual element. A collection with just one element can appear more cohesive and provide a deeper look into the individual characteristics of the one element.
Guidelines for Submitting this ProjectPlease use this numbered format in your summary. Thank you for this :)Your projects (all 3 points below) may exist in a word doc, jpg, or pdf . You have creative freedom of how this is presented. You can upload your visual presentation and description/self analysis as single or separate documents. (See Submitting Individual Project Assignments for more details).Upload your visual diary based on a visual elements. Don’t have a smartphone or an app that will create a instant layout? That’s ok, use this pc/ Mac friendly website: https://www.photocollage.comLinks to an external site.. It’s incredibly easy! From there, you can paste your jpeg image file into a word doc or upload- depending on how you prefer to send in the work.
List which formal element your diaries display (they have to be based on this week’s module and/or textbook content).
A brief and clear description and self-analysis of how the images you are sharing all fit into our visual culture based on that formal element. This may be typed or video/audio recorded.
How do I record a video using the Rich Content Editor?Links to an external site.Thank you! I hope that through this scavenger hunt, you begin to see the formal elements all around you and that you are able to see the many medias we are surrounded by!

Choose the following topic and write a solid, coherent 750 – 1000 word essay following MLA guidelines for in-text citations and a Works Cited entry. Search all of the authors we have covered in this course, collecting as many examples as possible relevant to the topic. From the examples, formulate a thesis which you state clearly in the introduction to the essay. The ideas in this essay should be well supported with examples from appropriate texts. Students should use the primary works we have read and course notes to write this essay.
Essay must contain
Seven direct quotations from works which have been studied in this course
Appropriate MLA format for spacing, Works Cited, and in-text citations (See Sample Paper)

Topic:
American Literature is a humanities course. One of the purposes of humanities courses is to help us discover what it is to be human. In literature courses we get to see reflections of our own experience and get to vicariously experience what it is to be someone other than ourselves. Think back over the semester and choose one to three piece(s) of literature that spoke to you in a special way(s). Perhaps the work(s) reflected your own experience or the experience of someone you know or gave you a new perspective through which to view your own experience. Perhaps the work opened your eyes to the experience of someone other than yourself, causing you to feel compassion for someone else or another group of people. Perhaps the beauty of the author’s language spoke to you and caused a gut-wrenching reaction or brought tears to your eyes. Write an essay discussing the work(s) you chose and why the work(s) had the effect(s) it had on you.

Essay Organization
Your paper should have four parts: (See the sample paper for the format info.)
1.     Introduction with a statement of topic–thesis that is clear, explicit, limited.
2.   Body: Argument: give and discuss relevant evidence; support or explicate your thesis with textual support from the work itself (primary text).
3.   Conclusion: Arrive at a conclusion—not simply a restatement—a statement resulting from the evidence.
4.   Works Cited Page listing the primary sources. Use alphabetical order per MLA.

You are required to write a paragraph on ONE of the following topics for your first assignment:
2. Describe a place you have visited, are willing, or wish to visit. Focus on the advantages, services, landscape, aura, and attractions of that particular place, such as a city, mall, restaurant, tourist destination, or even a home. If you choose this topic, you must illustrate it.
Whether you choose topic 1 or 2, please abide by the following instructions:
a. Underline the main idea – 1 mark
b. The word range should be between 180 – 200 words – 1 mark
c. The format is a paragraph and not an essay – 1 mark
d. Be precise with your choice of words and sentence construction – 3 marks
e. Be creative in describing a person or a place, the more creativity the higher your mark is – 3 marks
f. Give your paragraph a title if you choose Topic 1 – 1 mark
g. Illustrate if you choose Topic 2 – 1 mark (no title is needed)

Discussion 3: Medical Rights for Minors
Introduction
What age can I…? Most of us know that there are certain ages that act as “rights of passage”. 16 we can obtain a driver’s lesson, 18 we are legally considered adults, 21 we can drink, etc. But did you know that according to federal and California state law there is a designated age for people to restrict their parents from viewing certain medical information? The age for this is 12 years old. Teenagers can also talk with a physician about their health without the presence of a parent. This topic has become more controversial in recent years, particularly in light of medical practices such as prescribing birth control and gender reassignment surgeries.
Your Tasks
Task 1 – Original Post
Please include the following in an original post: (16 points)
Your thoughts regarding this topic. Some ideas include:Whether, in your opinion, the age of medical privacy is appropriate or if it should be adjusted.
What information parents should or should not have access to.
Possible benefits and/or complications that this can present for the child’s health and/or the parent-child relationship.
Your post needs to be at least 250 words. (2 points)
Include at least 1 outside reference, cited in APA format. This reference needs to be cited both in-text and at the end of the post in a reference list. (2 points)
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Assignment 3: The “Hispanic Paradox”
About the Paradox
Please view the below video and read the article “Why Hispanic-Americans live longer: the mystery that has puzzled researchers for decades”Links to an external site.. You may also conduct your own personal research into this topic in order to better grasp the trends of the paradox.
Your Task
For this assignment, you will be answering the following question:
What is the Hispanic Paradox? (3 points)
What are factors contributing to the Hispanic Paradox? (12 points)Describe at least two ways in which the Social Ecologic Model (intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, political spheres) relate to this topic when conducting your answer. (5 points)

Prompt 2: Literary Service Announcement (LSA) Assignment
You have had a relationship with archetypes since a young age—Carl Jung might argue this is true since your conception. In fact, many movies and sitcoms use archetypes as part of their humor (think of the hero in “Spiderman,” or the villainous Joker in “Batman”). Throughout this unit, you have identified common archetypes across ancient and modern texts and visuals.
Choose the ONE archetype you most relate to, recognize, and/or like.
Create a public service announcement that educates your audience on the role of the archetype as well as persuades them that your archetype is one of the greatest—most common, most powerful, most dynamic (changes the most), most unique, etc.
The guidelines for the LSA are below.
I look forward to your LSA! Be as creative as you want!
Guidelines
In your LSA you should…
Educate
inform the reader of the common uses of the archetype.
give examples.
include content that is developed and shows mature thought.
ensure ideas are organized strategically.
ensure grammar and spelling are polished.
Persuade
ensure word choice is purposeful.
ensure rhetoric is used effectively.
ensure presentation is geared towards audience.
ensure excellent use of creativity in some form to sell your archetype.
use creative elements (examples include images, music, modern day connections, performance).
Power points must be 8-10 slides (not including the title and reference slides)–with main points bulleted on each slide, and 25-50 words per slide.

Discussion 1
What types of people are most likely to abuse CNS depressants?
Suggest ways to help these people avoid abusing these drugs.