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Your task for this essay is to complete a ‘nexus analysis’ and report on your fi

Your task for this essay is to complete a ‘nexus analysis’ and report on your findings. You will need to go through the following steps. 1. Choose a nexus of practice that you believe is important. This nexus of practice will provide the focus for your nexus analysis. It could be a practice that happens in a physical place or it could be one that happens online. You might like to choose a practice that you are very familiar with and somehow involved in and you can consider public practices (like advertising or health communication for example) or more private practices. 2. In this nexus of practice identify a site of engagement (i.e. a context of situation at a particular moment in time), consisting of discourses in place, an interaction order, historical bodies. You could include an image of the nexus of practice in your essay. 3. For this site of engagement, you should answer the questions: ‘What action is going on here?’ and ‘How does discourse play a role in that action?’ Remember that discourse does not only have to be limited to the words people use but can include other modes as well. 4. Collect ‘data’ about what is going on, including especially discursive tools (see below). This can include: field notes of observations that you make, online texts and interactions with transcriptions if appropriate, news reports, commentaries, discussions from online forums (e.g., Facebook groups) where people talk about this nexus of practice. 5. Analyze your data and present your findings in the form of an analytical essay that pays attention to the following issues in order to answer the key questions ‘what action is going on here?’ and ‘how does discourse play a role in that action?’: a. Explain why you have chosen this particular nexus of practice and site of engagement; b. Describe the site in terms of discourses in place, interaction order and historical bodies; c. What are the kinds of social actions that are going on in this site of engagement? d. What role does discourse play in those actions? What role is played by other tools? e. Select a discursive tool (e.g. video speech, brochure, social media post) and analyze the discourse used. What kind of language is used? Why? What other kinds of semiotic modes are used? Why? What kinds of social actions are achieved with this discursive tool? What kinds of Discourses does this discursive tool connect to (e.g. legal, medical, commercial, cultural)? f. What does your analysis say about communication? What does it say about power relations? Your analytical essay should combine evidence from data sources with your descriptions and analysis. Where you comment on data, the data should be presented as figures in the text. For more details, please refer to the files I uploaded

Essay topic is: Rhetorical Analysis of Stanley Fish’s “What Should Colleges Teac

Essay topic is: Rhetorical Analysis of Stanley Fish’s “What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3” and Vershawn Ashanti Young’s “Should Writers Use They Own English?”
MLA page layout (Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, 1” margins, headings and page numbers) and parenthetical citations to show readers where outside information comes from. Include a works cited page that can guide readers to your sources

Your paper must: clearly respond to one of the prompts above include an informat

Your paper must: clearly respond to one of the prompts above include an informative title include an introduction with a hook, brief overview of the topic, and argumentative thesis stating your position have coherent body paragraphs with topic sentences and concrete evidence from your sources. Body paragraphs should focus on one supporting point each. include quotations and paraphrases from at least three reliable sources. At least one source must be from the MDC library databases The other sources may be from the web, as long as they are from a reputable news organization or a website ending in .edu, .gov, or .org. include an MLA-style in-text citation after each quotation or paraphrase from a source contain your own insight and analysis (i.e. introduce each source in your own words, and follow each quotation or paraphrase with your own analysis) avoid personal examples and over-generalization end with a conclusion discussing the significance of your topic include an MLA Works Cited page listing at least three reliable sources use college-level vocabulary and correct spelling, grammar, and sentence structure be 3-5 double-spaced pages long (not including the Works Cited) At the end, add a Work Cited page

2. What effects will loneliness have upon an individual? How can a person overco

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?

Visual Diary: Visual ElementsFor this assignment, you will be creating one Visu

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!

“The Story of an Hour” 8th edition – p. 555-557 9th edition – starting on p. 54

“The Story of an Hour”
8th edition – p. 555-557
9th edition – starting on p. 542
Discussion Board: Chopin Response
INSTRUCTIONS: Please answer the following prompt in a 2 -3 paragraph discussion board response.
PROMPT: Write a short analytical response to the text. Think about the following questions as you write:
How does “The Story of an Hour” display feminist critiques of the institution of marriage?
What do you think Chopin is saying about larger social structures or the relationship between the genders through this text?
Why is the ending considered dramatic irony?
*This will be graded for thoughtful completion.