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Objective: This assignment, in accordance with undergraduate academic endeavours, provides an opportunity to evaluate assimilation of course topics, and sharpen and evaluate students’ research & critical thinking skills.  Type: This assignment consists of a research-analysis paper of at least four pages in length, double-spaced (This page count does not include a title page, abstract (optional), table of contents (optional), Reference listing page(s), or end-notes page(s) (if used)). The source material should result primarily from self-led research of the required texts and readings from this course. The paper should have approximately four pages of content which are the written results of your research efforts. Topic: Research and analyze two operations that utilized national security or military counterintelligence (either offensive or defensive functions). What were the specific challenges to counterintelligence for each operation? Compare and contrast how counterintelligence measures changed over the particular time periods of the operations. Example time periods may include early American history to WWI, WWI to WWII, WWII, the Cold War, the post-Cold War/pre-9/11 era, post-9/11, etc. Finally, put the operation and the lessons learned within the context of how it may have influenced the development of the current U.S. National Counterintelligence Strategy of 2016.  Format: Your paper requires a Title page, citations, and a References list. Your paper should be in the Chicago style.

I have to write a 500-word Discussion on The meaning of Political.   What is political? Using the course textbook, the film below, any additional sources, and personal experiences we will work together to construct a definition of the term “political”. We hear the term thrown around all the time, but what does it really mean? Have you ever heard of the phrase “the personal is political”? Let’s take this deep dive together to construct a linguistic foundation for our course.  Chapter 1  https://openstax.org/books/american-government-2e/pages/1-1-what-is-government It will be nice if you can bring up the current problem with the BLM movement, women’s rights. Respond directly to the prompt.  Reference the course textbook in the body of your response.  Provide a minimum of 500 words. The prompt https://youtu.be/Zkfg2cdX844

What is speaking skill? Importance of speaking skill? The relation between speaking skill and EFL learners?

Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing the reasons for the two new auditing roles in Oracle 12c. Why did Oracle consider them necessary? What problems do they solve? How do they benefit companies?  Do not copy without providing proper attribution. This paper will be evaluated through SafeAssign.  Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered, or another list format.   Use the five-paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaningful title. Include at least one quote from each of 3 different articles. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google.  Place the words you copied (do not alter or paraphrase the words) in quotation marks and cite in-line (as all work copied from another should be handled). The quotes should be full sentences (no more, less) and should be incorporated in your discussion (they do not replace your discussion) to illustrate or emphasize your ideas. Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations).

This week, you learned about the benefits of a management console for cloud deployment and gained particular insight on AWS’s Management Console, a web interface that allows you to access many AWS services from one place. The click-through activity in Module 3: “Introduction to the AWS Infrastructure” should help throughout this course since you will be using the AWS console frequently in the labs.   Can you imagine what it would be like to work in a cloud environment without such a tool?   Address the following questions in your discussion. You must answer all questions in your initial post and respond to two of your classmates’ posts.  

Mandatory Readings: – E-book – Gonzales (2017) “Traditional Indian Medicine: American Indian Wellness” … (Section 3 – “Healing & Self Governance?”) pages 240-266 Take notes on the readings about the concepts, terms, and information you consider important. – Articles on D2L week 3 – Take Notes i. Walter et.al. (2011) Bodies don’t just tell stories they tell histories… ii. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart et.al. (2011) Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Concepts, Research, and Clinical Considerations iii. Warne & Lajimodiere (2015) American Indian health disparities psychosocial influences View the following videos and post a reflection making a clear connection between the readings and the content presented in all the videos: a) “The Canary Effect” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD7x6jryoS b) “Standing Rock Documentary: Who, What and Why of the DAPL Protests” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8oEi4RkCKE

Here is the prompt for the upcoming ePortfolio project: Final ePortfolio Prompt F19.pdf In my experience, students tend to be pretty confused about what exactly this assignment is looking for.  While I can sketch it in general terms (as I’m going to below), I often get the sense that I don’t really get to see where students’ ideas about the ePortfolio run into problems until the drafts actually come in.  I think the way I’m going to do this is to have this assignment in two parts – one this week to get you thinking about the upcoming assignment beforehand and ask clarifying questions right now, and another part next week once you actually start making said ePortfolio. For this week’s assignment, and definitely after you read the prompt linked above as well as the description of what I’m looking for below, ask one to two questions that you’d like answered about the ePortfolio project.  They can be simple technical questions or more complicated questions about what I’m looking for or mean by something, but I want to try to address your concerns a bit early on, since we have less face-to-face time to iron out difficulties with an assignment that, if I’m being honest, a lot of students tend to have trouble understanding. A description of the project, the ePortfolio, which we’ll be working on for the last two weeks of class (note: you do not need to submit the ePortfolio itself in response to this assignment.  This is preliminary work): first off, the ePortfolio works through Canvas’ ePortfolio system.  My expectation is that it will have four properly labelled subsections and each of which will contain one major document.  Three of those documents you will already have completed: you will have a section for your completed CP paper, a section for your completed AP paper, and a section for your Week 1 Self-Assessment.  You do not have to modify those papers from whatever versions you submitted for a final grade, you just have to upload a readable version to each properly labelled section.  Readable in the case means, at a bare minimum, that it’s a .doc/.docx/.pdf version.  No google docs or other file formats will be allowed.  You are also permitted, though making sure the formatting for those papers is correct would be a pain, to submit it as the webpage of your ePortfolio itself.  Not a requirement, but you can.  You are also permitted to spend extra time making your ePortfolio ‘pretty,’ though this isn’t something that in my opinion tends to affect how I grade your project particularly much.  Still, I will explain its contribution in a bit. The main part of the ePortfolio assignment, and the primary contributor to your grade, is the Reflective Introduction aspect of the ePortolio assignment.  This essay, the most important section of your ePortfolio, I do want to be on the ePortfolio page itself rather than as a separate downloadable document, since its formatting isn’t so important this time but its readability definitely is.  In that essay, you will essentially engage in another research project, except the subject matter of this research project is your own past work from this course.  Essentially, you are looking through your past work and considering skills you’ve worked on (and maybe improved?), issues you’ve had, things you’ve learned, etc.  This isn’t intended to be some sort of ‘inspirational’ story about how ‘I was such a bad writer and now I’m a brilliant writer thank you Prof. Carter please give me an A.’  Rather, it’s intended to be a reflection on your work, things you’ve learned, difficulties you’ve had, etc.  But instead of just telling me a story, you’re demonstrating this story to me via evidence and analysis of that evidence.  And that evidence is through citations from your previous writings! Note that in citing for this project, I’m not requiring footnotes or a formal bibliography, because I already have access to the specific papers in question and it’s fairly easy to explain which assignment.  If you’re quoting from draft 2 of your CP, for instance, you can just write something like, “This is from page 4 of my second CP draft, where I write that, ‘…..blah blah blah.'”  That’s good enough for me.  One thing I’m especially (but not only) looking to see is an analysis of changes between drafts.  This can include a relevant comment from a peer or me if there is one.  But essentially, one thing that looks good is to quote from two similar paragraphs or sections of two different drafts of an essay, and talk about a change or several changes you made to (hopefully) improve your work. The above, citing multiple versions of a draft to show changes, is for the “Revision” section of your AP paper.  What I consider the most important part of the essay, even if just by a slight margin.  But there are three other parts of the essay you also have to cover, and you definitely cannot skip any.  For me, the second most important section is the ‘Process’ section.  Essentially, this is where you cover coming from the idea stage up through the completion of your first draft of your paper.  People often just want to tell a story here without citing anything, which I consider to be a mistake.  Instead, successful papers often show me notes from their research process, or outlines, bullet-pointed notes to themselves, mind maps, etc.  You can tell me a bit of a story here too, especially if it’s likely novel and not something that just applies to everyone.  And yes, if there’s something coronavirus specific or online-education-specific you want to address, here’s the place to do it.  It’s possible that also affected the revision section, but I’m suspicious process it a better section for it. The last two sections, and these I emphasize a little less but again definitely need to be there, are Multi-modality and Transfer.  Multi-modality is essentially you reviewing how all those citations and inputting of images into your essays went.  Students often view this section as a ‘slam dunk,’ where they can write how images helped them clarify ideas that were easier to demonstrate and explain in pictures/charts/graphs than in words, and how it helped something their writing, and that’s cool.  I’ve also seen it dozens of times.  This should perhaps be one, maybe two paragraphs.  I don’t want to see multiple pages, or even the bulk of your essay, about multi-modality.  It’s just not necessary to do that much with it. The last section is the Transfer.  It’s not the least important section for me, but it’s perhaps the part students have the most trouble with: this is where you try, for example, to figure out in what other contexts you’ve used/will use the skills you’ve worked on in this course, and demonstrate to me in some meaningful way that fact and why you think what you’ve learned in this class will stay with you.  Probably the easiest way to do this, if you have such an example, is to take another essay/assignment from another class where you used skills from this class (researching, or example) to complete said assignment.  If such an assignment doesn’t exist, you may need to think a bit harder about how these skills might be useful to you in the near or further future.  For further help on this topic, consult the prompt’s relative extension of guiding questions on the Transfer section.  Again, please make sure you’ve fully read the prompt before asking for the clarification! As far as grading the ePortfolio project is concerned, the bulk of your grade comes from your Reflective Introduction essay (the essay I was just talking about).  I should note that, while I try to grade generously and fairly, you have to do your part of at least making a good faith effort on all sections for that to happen.  If you skip a section, don’t actually cite anything from your previous papers, or just very shallowly consider anything you’ve done in the class and never think more deeply about the choices you’ve made in your writing or why you made them, then that will unavoidably be reflected in your grade.  The rest of your ePortfolio doesn’t tend to contribute much to your paper unless it’s missing something major.  If its sections are improperly labelled or I can’t access the necessary information, that may affect your grade.  A beautiful, masterfully made ePortolio might improve your grade by a ‘+’ over your essay grade, but I tend to suggest that that effort could have been better spent just improving your essay. A note on citations (by the way, you can take screenshots of your previous writing, especially if you want to preserve formatting or just the general ‘look’ of your past essays.  I think it looks neat!  But please limit those screenshots to just the relevant words/sentences/paragraphs.  Whole-page screenshots are usually a waste except in very specific circumstances, and your essay should not include entire other multi-page assignments!) – It’s not enough to tell me, especially in the Revision section, that a change you made to your paper makes your paper ‘better.’  Better doesn’t tell me anything.  Consider, rather, why you made the change.  Why does your change make the paper better?  For example, how does it alter your reader’s perception of your paper?  How does it help support the structure of your argument?  What makes one phrasing of an idea clearer than another?  You can use ideas like having better grammar or formatting, but explain what the change meant and why you did it.  This is the kind of explanation that makes a more shallow paper into a more thoughtful one, and thoughtful at the end of the day (with proper references and citations!) is what we’re looking for.

Topic- Emergency Trauma Interventions. Develop the sustainability and collaboration sections of your proposal. Include any specific guidelines from your funder regarding both sections in your final submission. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the reader and the purpose of the Sustainability and Collaboration Plan. The plans clearly and succinctly address the goals and objectives and any other elements necessary for a complete program design. Uses compelling content that is appropriate and relevant; supported with current data (when applicable). Demonstrates detailed attention to- and successful execution of- a wide range of proposal procedures particular to this specific discipline and genre.

In approximately 500 words, describe your area of interest (e.g. advanced clinical practice, administration, education, etc.), a potential clinical problem that you plan to focus on as your identified topic in the DNP program, why you are interested in this clinical problem, why it is relevant for the current society, why it potentially warrants evidenced-based practice change, how it is relevant to the role of the DNP-prepared nurse and the implementation of evidence-based practice. The topic/ problem you address in the essay is subject to faculty review and approval once enrolled in the DNP program

Essay #2 – Conversations About Technology Gutfield uses the occasion of Time magazine’s decision to name “You” (that is, Web 2.0 users) as its Person of the Year to attack both Time and the uses to which the Internet has been put.  Focusing on the trivial nature of Web content, Greg Gutfield, in his satiric essay “Mad About You,” does not hold back in his attack on those who create content for the Web and those who use the Web for entertainment.  You must examine and analyze Greg Gutfield’s essay “Mad About You.”   Essay Prompt:       Greg Gutfield believes there are several negative effects that result from Internet use, including internet users demeaning each other while hiding behind a computer, alienating themselves from relationships and being obsessed with trivial information.  Do you agree or disagree with Gutfield’s ideas?  Why or why not?  Write a 5 to 6-page analysis of Gutfield’s essay that demonstrates your opinion.  You must include ideas from at least two other sources (Nicholas Carr, the Pew Research Center, Moises Naim, Trent Batson, Katherine Allen, “Generation Like” or Marco della Cava) to support your claims about Gutfield.    Guidelines: Before you begin writing this paper, please read pages 56 – 71 of your Rules for Writers book which discusses “Reading and Writing Critically.”  Pay particular attention to pages 66 – 71 which discuss how to write an Analytical Essay.  You should follow the process here to create your essay, paying particular attention to the sample essay on page 67-69.  This is a short sample of an Analysis essay.  You will be doing a longer one, which includes other sources used as support.  To support your claims, you must refer to ideas and examples from Gutfield and at least two other sources we have read (or watched) about the internet and technology for our class.  Use quotations and/or cited paraphrases or summaries from the readings to enhance your discussion but be careful not to overuse quotes.  Use at least 2-3 quotations per body paragraph.  Also, keep in mind that a direct quotation and a paraphrase or summary are not the same things.  Remember that the majority of the essay should be in your own words.  Keep in mind that when you summarize and paraphrase specific ideas from your sources, you need to include a parenthetical citation as well.  Make sure to cite your sources correctly using MLA guidelines and make sure to include a Works Cited page.  Please refer to your handbook Rules for Writers, p. 397-429 to learn how to cite in the text of your essay appropriately.  Read p. 429-463 to learn the guidelines for the Works Cited page.  It is important that you read these pages closely and more than once to understand MLA guidelines. In addition, your essay should follow MLA format.  This includes one-inch margins on all-sides, 12 point font in Arial or Times New Roman, name, class name, professor’s name, and date in upper left-hand corner, last name and page number in upper right-hand corner, a centered title, and double spacing throughout the document. (see p. 464 in Rules for Writers for an example)  Your essay should have an original title. Your essay should have a clear thesis statement at the end of the introduction. Your essay should have organized paragraphs.  Your essay should have no more than 5-6 body paragraphs, including the introduction and conclusion. Your essay should be a minimum of 5-6 well-developed pages. Your essay should have a works cited page. Anyone caught plagiarizing will receive an immediate and permanent “F.”  You will not be able to revise your work.   Pointers for Essay #2: Do not use “I” or “you” in the essay.  Again, you should be able to express your opinion without always using “I”  Also, refrain from putting in your opinion about what you personally think of Gutfield or any other author—-that is not the point of the essay.  This is an academic essay where you are analyzing the texts. Remember that you must cite not only direct quotations but also when you summarize or paraphrase an author’s ideas in your own words.  Your introduction should provide some brief background on Gutfield and his ideas as well as his credentials.  When you mention an author for the first time, you need to mention him or her by full name and explain his or her expertise, as well as name the article or essay.  (Once you mention the author by full name, you can refer to him or her by the last name).  The introduction should also provide the reader with a summary of Gutfield’s main ideas in the introduction.  You should then end with your thesis which should be no more than 1 – 2 sentences at the end of the introduction.  Your thesis is the argument you are making—it is your opinion regarding the question being posed in the prompt—do you agree with Gutfield’s assessment about internet use?  When you state your thesis, avoid using “I.” Titles of essays should go in quotation marks, not italics.  Book, newspaper and magazine titles are italicized. Also, your introduction should be at least 1/2 of a page but no longer than one page.  If it is longer than a page, you are probably saying too much. Your body paragraphs are where you should present your points to defend your thesis; do not just summarize the author’s essay.  For example, your first body paragraph should discuss one negative effect, according to Gutfield, that results from internet use.  The topic sentence should clearly state your first point, and this should tell the reader what the negative effect is and whether, or not, you agree with Gutfield.  Once you develop your ideas, look through Gutfield’s essay and cite effective quotations to defend your analysis.  Please avoid citing quotations that are 5 sentences or longer.  In addition, you may want to discuss and cite from one of the other authors (Nicholas Carr, the Pew Research Center, Moises Naim, Trent Batson, Katherine Allen, “Generation Like” or Marco Della Cava) to bolster the point further.  This should be done within the same paragraph and not a separate one; in addition, another source has to be used at least twice in the essay.  Again, when you mention an author for the first time, you need to mention him or her by full name and explain his or her expertise, as well as name the article or essay you are quoting from.  The following example is taken from Essay #1, but the model of how to introduce an author still applies.  For example, I might state something like this:  Kathleen Anderson was a teacher for two years in primary school and studied the work of John Taylor Gatto, Ken Robinson and John Holt.  In her essay, “Reflections in Education: Considering the Impact of Schooling on the Learner,” she argues that “We grade everything students do throughout the day from socializing and participating to their attendance and the work they produce.  They are constantly being evaluated” (67).  Once you mention the author by full name and the article by full name, you do not have to state it again.  Also, notice that Anderson’s name is not in the parenthetical citation because her last name was used in the signal phrase.  When the author’s name is in the signal phrase, only the page number is needed in the citation—without the “p.” You should have at least 3 to 4 points to defend your thesis.  This means that you need to have at least 3 to 4 body paragraphs that repeat the method you followed in body paragraph #1, just with a new point.  You then need to conclude and sum up your ideas. For the works cited page, you need to consult your Rules for Writers book.  Your works cited should look like the one on pages 475-476 of your Hacker book.  Works cited pages should be double-spaced and in alphabetical order by last name.  If a name is not available for your source, then use the next item in the citation.  The following pages in Hacker should be used for your sources: ·         p. 448, #29 or #30 – to cite essays from the anthology Conversations, this includes Gutfield, Naim, Batson, Pew Research Center and Allen.  A sample is on the Canvas site under “Files.” ·         p. 441, #13b – to cite Carr’s essay from The Atlantic ·         p. 455, #42 – to cite Generation Like – Frontline (author) PBS (website) ·         p. 451, #36 – to cite Marco Della Cava’s essay (cite the Canvas website)   9.      For essays from our anthology, Carr and for Della Cava, you cite page numbers since we have PDFs.  However, there are no page numbers to cite for Generation Like.  To understand how to cite sources in the text of your essay, read ALL lectures on citing and the pages assigned in Hacker.