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Essay 2: Position Essay (100 pts./10%)“Should _____________?In this position essay, you will explore discussions regarding the role of technology in our lives. You will narrow down a topic, state your position on the issue, briefly address opposing arguments, and provide credible, quality outside evidence to support your claims.You have two options for this assignment:1) You may research, explore, and take a position on an issue involving technology in your major/career field.2) You may research, explore, and take a position on an issue involving technology in general.Your title should be in the form of a research question (see above); your thesis will answer that question. Examples of titles/position topics: “Should Students Be Required to Use iPads in the Classroom?”, “Should Police Wear Cameras?”, “Should Musicians Avoid Spotify?”, “Should Bots be Banned from Buying Concert Tickets?”, “Should Self-Check Outs be Eliminated from Grocery Stores?”, “Should Telehealth Appointments Continue to be Used Post-Pandemic?”, etc.Position essays require you to:-explore and evaluate various sides to an argument-choose a position and reflect on why you feel a specific way-narrow a potentially broad topic to connect with your audience-select credible evidence to support your positionYou need to include in-text citations and a Works Cited page. Sources (3-5) are necessary to strengthen and support your position. (*Note: Failure to include in-text citations and a Works Cited page will result in an automatic F for the assignment.)Keep in mind the following while writing your essay:· Argue with yourself—can you recognize flaws in your own argument(s)?· Refrain from writing vague statements—stay focused and on point.· Don’t forget about the UWC!Purpose of the assignment:· To practice evaluating arguments and evidence· To practice staying on topic· To practice research methods· To practice writing thesis statements, topic sentences, and transitionsI will grade your essays based on the following:· Solid thesis statement· Organization· Quality of sources (3-5)· Ability to integrate sources· Grammar and punctuation· Ability to convey personal opinion in a professional manner· Title of essay· Meeting the length requirement (approx. 900-1100 words)· Format and documentation style (MLA)Helpful Hints:-Use MTSU library to discover sources. Prof. W. will show you how to do this easily and efficiently! Try searching useful MTSU library databases such as Opposing Viewpoints, Statista, CQ Researcher, and Academic Search Ultimate.-Cite your sources as you find them.-Keep your audience in mind. In this instance, your instructor and your peers are your audience.-Read the essay numerous times, and be an engaged reader (take notes, annotate, talk to the text, etc.).-To avoid errors, proofread a printed copy of the essay before turning in the final draft.-If you have any questions, ask!Due Dates: See course calendar for official due dates; make certain you are aware of readings, homework, and deadlines. The assignments this semester require more self-discipline and intensive strategies than what you experienced in English 1010.

In Chapter 3, Jones surveys several international border issues (Israeli-Palestine border; India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders; Bangladesh-Myanmar border; Australian border). Explain the situation at one of these borders and include any significant or problematic details, facts, examples, and/or statistics that Jones reveals. Add on to Jones’ explanation of the issue by researching additional information on the same border situation to include any updated facts or evolving events that capture how the issue at this border has evolved from 2016 to today. (Make sure to include page numbers if you quote from Jones, and make sure to use the toolbar to link in the URL to your research; you can also use the toolbar to embed any images or videos that you referenced. See Helpful Canvas Guides below).Reply to Two Posts (50 words for each)

“Sonny’s Blues” is a text with a lot to analyze. We’ve spent a lot of time in class, discussing Sonny, his brother and the issues of race, poverty and control (of life and suffering). We have also closely looked at the role of music in both Sonny and his brother’s lives. The following short answer questions will help you write your second essay. Answer each question thoroughly and completely using full sentences. You answers should be typed and in MLA format.Suffering is a major theme in “Sonny’s Blues”. What internal and external factors contribute to Sonny’s suffering? How does Sonny’s art/music communicate his pain? How does his pain reflect the suffering of his community?2. Illustrate, using textual evidence, how Baldwin uses the themes of light and darknessto reflect the struggles of Sonny and his brother.3. Grace’s death acts as a catalyst for the narrator’s acknowledgement of his pain and the pain around him. How does the narrator’s loss of control in his personal life allow him to understand Sonny as an artist?4. The end of Sonny’s Blues alludes to a mutual understanding and acceptance between brothers. What textual evidence and Biblical symbolism shows the narrator has forgiven Sonny.

Topic: Severe Winter Weather in Texas Will Impact Many Supply Chains beyond ChipsThe harsh weather in Texas, mainly during winter, has that there is an electrical crisis, and this has exacerbated the supply chain in many industries. It has been a very hit, especially to the auto industry, facing other issues such as semi-conductors shortage. The geographic locations had a lot of intermodal freight, and this passed through Texas, and in most cases, it would impact other sectors as well.Texas storms’ economic impact could reportedly approach $50 billionWinter weather can bring economic impact to go very low. It is therefore essential that there should time to put all those numbers in perspective and making sure that they have covered those impacts, especially which has happened in the entire year of 2020.Essay requirements:Taking a national issue/news topic and write an article that makes it relevant to a local audienceAs with every assignment, the topic you focus on here should be newsworthy and include the following:500-700 wordsA clear angleAn engaging leadDistinct structure (Inverted pyramid; ideas flow logically from one to the next)AP styleAt least 2-3 clearly attributed sources (could be any combo of interviews, legitimate internet/database resources, official documents, studies, etc., but must be AT LEAST one interview)The assignment will be graded based on the criteria above as well as your overall voice, tone and writing style.

Watch the film Into the Wild (2007) then write the following:The Title of the Film and why you chose it.Director, Leading actors/actresses and brief Summary of the plot, if it is a documentary state the person or subject.Who was your favorite actor/actress or your least favorite? Give specific example from the film to support your point of view. If this is a documentary list the subject or subjects of the documentary and how you percieve them just your initial impressions.Favorite/Least favorite Actor:Specific detail from the film that supports your point of viewTalk about what you liked about the movie and what you did not like. Be sure to include specific details and scenes. You a specific example from the film including dialogue if appropriate to support what you liked and did not like. This can include the lighting, the camera angles, the soundtrack. All the things that go into making a film have an impact.What I liked about the filmExample that supports thisWhat I didn’t likeExample that supports thisWhat was the most impactful point of the film for you? Why?

With the elements style, tone, and irony, students are especially used to unconscious recognition, a kind of “know it when I see it” affair. However, the book breaks them down well and shows different ways in which to recognize and analyze these elements. Style is something we are highly attuned to. We all have our own personal clothing style, speaking style, and even academic style – we study differently, think about how classes should be differently, respond to different teaching methods differently, and have different expectations about what a class should be. Trust me, this is something I am well aware of. What we often don’t know is where these expectations and choices come from. It is especially difficult for us to question our own preferences when it comes to style, but it is also difficult to understand other people’s choices. The important thing to have when it comes to style is an open mind. It is helpful to give people the benefit of the doubt and open ourselves up to different styles. We should always be in a conversation with an author. Why has the author chose a specific style? Why has an author left so much out? Sometimes we get unsettled by having to answer questions about a work because they don’t answer them for us. However, if we understand an author’s choices as an aspect of style, we can go ahead and assume there is a plan there. All we are left with is what is there. So we break that down into categories and look for important comparisons and relationships among these component pieces that may give us a clue as to what it is an author had in mind. This will be especially important when we get to poetry. Poetry is in many ways the art of leaving out everything but the absolute essentials. It is meant to bring us out of our comfort zone and force us to have an experience that we may not be comfortable with. We are left on our own to build something and to examine something and especially to question something. This is an important skill in the academic world. It is a process of creation. It is less about achieving some kind of goal and more about having an experience. That can be unsettling for students who often want things to be black and white, right or wrong. However, if we push ourselves into uncertainty and become comfortable with not having a necessarily right or wrong answer but instead a strong analysis, we can work with style. We also have the tools that the book teaches us, the elements. By breaking things down into pieces and categorizing them, we can come to conclusions that were not readily apparent when we began a process of analysis, much like the drafting process. We must begin somewhere and allow the process to take us somewhere new. It is messy. It isn’t neat, but it is an experience that can change you and transform your thinking if you allow it to. What are some ways we can look at style to take it from just a group of preferences by an author to a distinct method that reflects the central idea? One thing we can look at is the diction. Why does the author make the choices with language that they do? Why do they use certain words and not others? The book shows some nice examples of this that you should read carefully. Other aspects of style that the book doesn’t necessarily cover are humor. To what degree does the author mean to be serious as opposed to comic? What exactly is humor? It is another one of those things that we know when we see it. We know when we have a reaction to it. However, humor often comes through to us through tone. Tone is another aspect of style that the book looks at and an element all of its own. It can be difficult to gather tone from words. We are used to hearing it in the sound of someone’s voice. We are stuck with putting it together with context alone when reading texts. This is a problem that we all are familiar with in the time in which we live because of text messages and emails. Sometimes we may drastically misinterpret someone’s tone and end up reacting to something that isn’t there. This can also be made difficult by the fact that people can pretend they weren’t using a particular tone and after they have pushed you into a certain reaction, they can gaslight you by suggesting you misread them. You can be glad that in the case of an author, they likely aren’t trying to trick you. Sometimes, however, authors do play a kind of a trick. They push you to make a conclusion that a lot of people make and then yank away the curtain in order to expose your biases. Sometimes, this trick is played on the characters. As the book points out, the characters in the story “The Story of an Hour” misinterpret the actions and statements of the character Mrs. Mallard because they hold patriarchal views and therefore don’t understand Mrs. Mallard. People have biases and a good way to expose them sometimes is through a switch in tone. This leads us to the final element in the chapter and the most difficult, Irony. Students have a really difficult time with irony, but they have that unconscious recognition of it that makes them comfortable speaking on it. However, many times they end up misreading the irony or finding it where it doesn’t exist. This is why I highly suggest that you take a close look at the categories of irony that the book lays out and to attempt to place any instance of irony that you analyze into the appropriate category. It will always fit into one. That doesn’t mean that it won’t be complex. Like I said, this process isn’t always clean and cut and dry. It may be situational irony from the character’s point of view but dramatic irony from the reader’s point of view or vice versa. Irony usually revolves around something being the opposite of someone’s expectations. Read the categories carefully and apply them to your understanding of irony. I use situational and verbal irony in my example below:In her story “Lust,” Susan Minot weaves irony into irony, creating complex ironies that become dizzying to navigate. Towards the end, the first-person narrator, a young girl, is getting more and more exact about the nature of her sexual experiences. She starts out somewhat light in her descriptions and slowly becomes more and more heavy, which mimics her sexual history and the general feeling that she gets from sex. When describing one of the more heavy moments, she says “you don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up and finally and absolutely with death” (287). The most obvious irony here is the situational irony for the character. She is having these sexual relationships in order to feel close to these boys. However, she ends up feeling alienated from them to the point that she feels alienated from herself and reality, so the action of sex becomes self-defeating. However, a deeper irony is the verbal irony by the author. Her narrator uses the word “death” to explain her emotional alienation. Since sex is literally for creating life, that it creates a kind of death for the character and that the author chooses this diction creates a subtle verbal irony.

Read Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (NYC: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011), Chapter 1. PDF can be found in the module section or on “files” on Canvas.Claire Bishop, “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents,” Chapter 1 in Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (London: Verso, 2012). READ ONLY Pages 11-40. On Canvas.Write an overview and reading response and answer the question.What does it mean to yield authorship?about one-page

WRITING PROMPTWrite a brief narrative essay where you discuss the topic you have decided to research and write about. Tell your audience, your fellow classmates and your instructor how you arrived at this topic, some of the other ideas you considered in your brainstorming activities, and the working thesis you have settled on for the start of your project. Also, be sure to let us know about some of the initial library [or other online/credible] research you have found so far.Even though this is a short essay (approx. 750 words), it should be very detailed, show evidence of significant thought and consideration, as also illustrate that you have started your research by including several credible sources you have found. In addition, attention to the feedback you received on essay 2 peer reviews should be obvious with evidence of revision and editing on this essay.*This essay is required to move onto essay 3 (the research essay). Students who change their topics for the research essay after writing this essay must first complete a new working thesis essay based on the new topicrespond 1

Discussion questions1) What is the “hustler’s story” and why does Jay-Z think it’s such an important hip hop narrative? How does this narrative compare with and draw upon other American mythologies, literary or otherwise?2) What are your first impressions of the FORM of this book? Think about the photos, layout and overall composition. How does it reflect and/or support the story that Jay-Z is trying to tell? Go beyond saying you like or don’t like the form of the book. Explain it as if you are talking to someone who has not seen the book. Bring the reader into your vision of the text. We all see things differently, and I’d like you to articulate your viewpoint. If you are reading an electronic version of the book (or an electronic enhanced version), please give us your impressions of that form. Your experience with the text will be different from those who have a hard copy.

Create an ethical code of conduct for those in governance, management, and professional staff for any one of these health care organizations:Þ Behavioral Health CenterIn a 10-to-12-page paper (excluding title and reference pages), discuss the following:Brief background of the facility.Organization structure of the facility and duties/ responsibilities of those in management and professional staff.Two possible ethical dilemmas that may be encountered.Ethical standards for those in governance, management, and professional staff.Ways to implement the ethical code of conduct and ensure compliance.Consequences if there is a violation of the code of ethics.When writing your paper, use 3rd person. Follow APA guidelines. Use at least eight scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the past five years, Writing the Final PaperThe Final Paper:· Must be 10 to 12 double-spaced pages in length· Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.· Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.· Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.· Must use at least eight scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the past five years· Must document all sources in APA style· Must include a separate reference page.