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Background Information: Who is the speaker? What is the title of the speech? When was the speech delivered? Where was the speech delivered? (location, event, occasion) Who is the intended audience of the speech? Content/Persuasive Analysis: What does the speech say and How does it persuade?? What is the tone of the speech? What is the purpose/objective of the speech? What is the overall persuasive technique used in the speech? Use evidence from the speech to support your answer. If necessary   Emotional Appeal: These are appeals to the emotions of the audience. What evidence can you find of this persuasive technique in the speech?     Logical Appeal: These are appeals to logic and fact, or to the power of reason. What evidence can you find of this persuasive technique in the speech?   Ethical Appeal: These are appeals based on the credibility and manner of the speaker. What evidence can you find of this persuasive technique in the speech? How effective was this speech as a informative/persuasive speech? Why? GIVE REASONS! The Introduction  Your essay should begin with an introduction that does the following: (1) grabs the reader’s attention.  There are many ways to do this.  You could start with a fascinating quote from the essay or list a relevant statistic.   (2)  STATE YOUR THESIS.  I will want to know up front the position you plan to take in your essay.  (3) Provide background information.  This is always a tricky one.  You should provide enough contextual information so that your intended audience can follow the argument you intend to make.  Assume a typical audience of college students and take a moment to reflect on what they might know about the topic.     Make Your Argument The body of the paper is where you offer your argument. (Defend your topic choice – why is it the best/worst, etc. – clearly define your criteria and how your subject meets or does not meet these criteria)    Use clear topic sentences.  Begin each paragraph with a sentence that introduces the content of the paragraph and connects the paragraph to your thesis.  Be sure to provide specific examples.   Write Your Conclusion Most college professors will expect you to provide a conclusion that (1) restates your thesis and (2) provides closure and ties up loose ends.  The same strategies that work for grabbing a reader’s attention in the introduction also work for a conclusion.

Begin your response to Chapters 4-5 with a brief analysis of the closing exercise passage from each chapter (repeated below): Chapter 4; Passage 3 The government is spending far too much money on healthcare. The government could continue to fund healthcare for those who need it, but should not fund healthcare for people who do not deserve it. Cutting healthcare expenditures would lead to lower taxes and give citizens more spending power. With the current state of the American economy, anything that helps the citizen’s pocketbook would help America in the long run. Chapter 5; Passage 3 Online schooling is starting to become a popular alternative to the traditional classroom. Online schooling certainly has some benefits, but the downsides outweigh the advantages. For example, children who use online schooling miss out on the social interactions with other children that traditional schooling brings. These interactions are just as important to a child’s development as the lessons they receive in school. Students who don’t experience this contact with their peers run the risk of becoming antisocial and isolated. Children enrolled in online schooling also do not experience an interpersonal connection with multiple teachers. When a student has a variety of teachers, students gain from the different viewpoints they encounter while working with those teachers. Traditional schooling provides a variety of teachers who can inspire a love of learning much better than any program on a dim computer screen ever could.   After providing your brief analysis, respond to the chapters generally in about 250 words. Consider the following questions: Why are dictionary definitions of key terms and phrases used in an argument often not sufficiently helpful in determining their meaning? ARQ stresses that not all ambiguous terms or phrases are equally important. How do you determine which ones are the most important to identify? What is the relationship between ambiguity and definitional assumptions? Are there any terms used by the authors of ARQ that are importantly ambiguous? Explain. Why might it be useful for communicators to intentionally use words in an ambiguous fashion How do value and descriptive assumptions differ? If values are such important determinants of our beliefs about social controversies, if we know a person’s value priorities in a social controversy, will we necessarily know her conclusion? Explain. If we know her conclusion, will we necessarily know her value preferences? Explain. What are some questions that you can ask yourself to discover a communicator’s value assumptions? Do you believe most people are aware of what values they are assuming when they argue with you about a social issue? Why? Does it matter? From where do our most important value preferences arise? Are these good sources? Are some of our value preferences more resistant to change than others? Why? Why do so few experts (such as politicians, scientists, professors, and television pundits) make value priorities explicit? Should individuals expressing their opinions on a social controversy make their value priorities explicit? Why? How do value preferences about teaching differ among your teachers? You do not need to address all of these questions in your response, but you should aim to incorporate at least three of them.

Discuss some of the pros and cons regarding the canon of art history.  1. Why has the canon changed so much over the years? Is this a good or bad thing? 2. Discuss how vision and visuality are different? Why do we need both to properly understand art? Give examples. 3. Why is it important to incorporate proper terminology? Discuss some benefits for figural/non-figural, naturalistic/stylistic/idealistic versus more common terms. 4. Explain how formalism helps us to better understand art? Consider how omitting formal analysis can be detrimental to art. 5. Explain how iconography helps us to better understand art? Cite some examples of how using a personal cache of images can be detrimental to an iconographic analysis versus using historical sourcing

Cypress College Student Services Discussion 1 1 unread reply. 1 1 reply. Discussion Prompt:  This week each of you researched three campus resources at Cypress. You should have chosen one resource from three of the four student support categories: financial assistance, academic support, health care and special programs. Post your thoughts on the services provided for Cypress College students. What resource did you find most helpful, and why? What services could be added to improve students’ experiences? Feel free to post a question for your fellow classmates. To get full credit for this assignment, be sure to comment on another student’s post. 🙂 once you finish the assignment i will post it and once its posted it will show other students posts so this needs to be done pretty soon in order to get the students post to respond to due by tomorrow night. thank you!

Question Prompt:  What is the argument that Carlson makes about the utility of a liberal arts education in the job market? How does Carlson’s argument fit in the depiction of the current job market in Cohen’s article? In order to answer the question you need to read Carlson and Cohen.

The topic for this discussion will be “Teaching Twain” and the discussion can be linked to content in Chapter 4. The purpose of this discussion is to develop a greater understanding of the powerful nature of words. This is one of the more challenging discussion forums to partake in because we juggle many different values as we attempt to decide in what context, if any, the inclusion of the “N-word” is acceptable. Read Chapters 3 and 4. Review the excerpt shared below. Address the following questions: What meaning does the N-word carry for you? Does it seem appropriate to use it in a scholarly discussion? How do you feel about it being printed (or not printed) in this textbook? Does avoiding printing or saying the word give it more or less power? If an instructor chose to use the word in class, how might he or she do so in a way that would be sensitive to students? Can students investigate the word’s meaning and history without using it? What is your opinion on the new edition? Are the editorial changes sensitive and helpful, or do they sanitize history? Remember…  The initial post must be 500 words for full credit, and each reply must be 150 words and include a question for the discussion post author. You must incorporate two textbook concepts in the initial post, using APA formatted in-text citations. You must cite at least one outside scholarly source–ebook, journal article, film, etc. and cite in APA format. At the bottom of your post, add complete written citations for the textbook and outside source at the bottom of your post.

Goal:  Robert Mapplethorpe  – specific with color flowers. 1. Research an inspiration of color photography 2. Creating and presenting a concise and engaging public presentation.  3. Inspiring your peers. Description   You will researching a color photographer is to study other photographer images.  1/ Why you choose this Photographer. What you find inspiring about their work. What relationship do their photographs have to your own images?  2/ A couples of interesting facts about this photographer. When and Where they were born is only interesting if you relate to their images. Take the time to find articles about them or interviews with them to get some deeper insight into their background and approach to photography. 3/ Any technical, conceptual, contextual aspects of your photographer’s “Signature Style”. 4/ Include 5 images as example of your chosen photographer.  PLEASE each this 5 images include some highlights or bullet points to discuss Each images individually as a way to give more insight into your photographer and to tie in the previous questions.  Really important to Be Specific in your discussion of each this 5 images about their Technical and Aesthetic choices – Important about do they take bold, high contrast images or subtle, softer, lower contrast images? Do they use shallow or great depth of field to organize their frame? Do they use line, shape, texture or repetition to organize and move the eye around the photo? How do these choices support their content, narrative and mood? What are their photos about ? Are they personal, political or commercial? What mood do they evoke – funny, happy, melancholy, introspective , fantasy?

As you do the readings and watch the videos, think about what challenges and opportunities arise from the transformation in news gathering and reporting made possible by the internet and in the proliferation of easy access to information.  After doing the readings and watching the videos, write a post about these transformations.  You must reference at least 3 of the articles. Some thoughts to get you started:  Do you and your friends and family fit the models of news consumption described in the Pew articles? You may want to refer to some of the charts and graphs and cite some statistics from the articles to make your case. Can limiting your reading to what is posted by like-minded friends on social media make you narrow-minded?  How? You may need to cite specific articles and passages to make your case. What have you learned about the uses of Wikipedia and its credibility as a source?  [If you viewed the optional video on the “Metal Umlaut,” you can discuss that in your answer, too.] Think about everyday access to an important newspaper like the Washington Post.  Would you pay for it, or do you think all news should be free?  Consider this: who is going to do the long-term research and investigative reporting that roots out corruption if all news is free and not done by professional journalists? [Hint: read the optional reading on investigative journalism for more about this topic.] Please find all required reading material in the attached document.

You will write a response to two or three images from a body of work of one of the following artists: 1. Sally Mann 6. Margaret Bourke-White 2. Cindy Sherman 7. Henri Cartier-Bresson 3. Nan Goldin 8. Richard Avedon  4. Phillip Lorca-diCorcia  9. Annie Leibovitz 5. Edward Burtynsky 10. Dorothea Lange Be sure to do your research on the artist and their work and tell me what you believe has motivated the pieces you’ve selected in addition your personal thoughts and feelings on them. Consider addressing some of the following questions about each piece you’ve selected for your response:  What is the image “About”? What is the genre?  Is there an obvious objective? i.e.. propaganda etc.… What design elements are being used to create dynamism? What is the Emphasis of the image? Where is my eye going and why is it going there? What was the intended Emphasis? What are the technical considerations? Does the technique help or detract from the intended message or concept? What is the photo’s emotional or psychological impact?

Choose one of the following prompts. Write a detailed, focused , engaged critical/analytical essay. Be very specific. Support your assertions textually. Narrow your focus to small sections or a chapter. Describe, explain, detail and connect your ideas for your reader. Show your reader these ideas in action through textual example.    Hersey stated that he had decided “to write about what happened not to buildings but to human beings”. Hiroshima is a kind of seminal book in what is now often referred to as long form narrative non-fiction. What are the elements that have been borrowed from fiction? What is the impact on the reader with this vs. a more traditional non-fiction approach? How  does Hersey arrange his chapters to create the narrative drive. Choose one chapter. Think about how that particular chapter functions in the book as a whole. How does it build on what came before it?  how does it anticipate what comes after? Does it build connections between characters? Does it contribute to the reader’s understanding of characters? What is revealed? What is withheld?  Anatomy of a scene. Choose a place/scene/situation in the book that particularly strikes you. Deconstruct it. How does Hersey create it? Look at language and syntax, imagery,metaphor, simile, arrangement, punctuation. What makes this piece work? With journalism, Hersey once said, the reader is always conscious of “the person who’s writing it and explaining to you what’s taken place.” He said he wanted to have “the reader directly confronted by the characters,” so he tried to write the piece in such a way that, as he put it, “my mediation would, ideally, disappear.” Do you find this to be true? If so, how does he accomplish this disappearing act? Where do you see the writer? In other words,where do you see the invisible hand that controls the narrative?