For this informal assignment, I want you to immerse yourself in a rich, but largely under-studied resource: the lost world of the pre-Civil War newspaper. The Library of Congress has begun a massive project entitled Chronicling AmericaLinks to an external site. to make available to the public the text of thousands of local newspapers from across the United States. Many of these newspapers no longer exist except online, as the originals have crumbled or been destroyed. The newspaper business was booming prior to the Civil War. For this project, I want you to choose a topic which we have been studying in the course, and locate, through the Chronicling America site, three or more newspaper pieces that illuminate some aspect of that topic. Then, in a 400-600 word reflection, I want you to summarize and analyze what you have found. You do not need to write a finished, polished essay, but instead you merely need to write a report. For instance, if you were to choose the broad topic of the experience of Native Americans, you could find articles, from one or various newspapers in the Chronicling America site, which either report on or discuss events that relate to that experience. You could (and probably should) narrow your topic as well, to look at, for instance, a specific event such as the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin or the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and only examine articles that cover that particular event. How you approach the assignment is really up to you, and you could make your focus as broad or narrow as you wish. You could look at the same event through three different newspapers from different areas of the country; three articles from the same newspaper (justify why this particular newspaper is important); three different events from the same newspaper — really, however you want to complete the general assignment is up to you.
The main function of the assignment is to encourage you to research and discover, and use (and wrestle with) the Advanced Search function of the Chronicling America site.
Remember that you need to narrow your search to events in U.S. history that occurred prior to 1865. Because few newspapers survive the further back you go, choosing a topic closer to the end of the course than the beginning is probably a good idea.
You will be graded on whether you complete the assignment, and how much effort you put into summarizing and analyzing your findings. You will also be graded on how deeply you interface with the Chronicling America search engineLinks to an external site.. Don’t just plug your topic into the search box. Try to narrow your focus to a particular region, a particular newspaper, a particular date. Use the “Advanced Search” functionLinks to an external site.. Go down the research rabbit hole for a while and be overwhelmed. A large part of this assignment is learning to navigate a relatively complex primary source research engine.
No outside sources are necessary, but they are always appreciated.
Have fun digging and discovering.
Here are the topics from the course: 1. British North America 2. Colliding Cultures
3. The New World
4. Colonial Society
5. The American Revolution
6. The Early Republic
7. Democracy in America
8. The Cotton Revolution
9. The Civil War
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“Exploring the Lost World of Pre-Civil War Newspapers: A Journey through American History”
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“The External Costs of Oil Production: A Mock Interview with Senator Collins” “The Front Fell Off: A Senator’s Perilous Journey in a Void”
Chapter 10 details how externalities distort market outcomes. In this comedy skit, “Senator Collins” attempts to describe an oil spill disaster and the resulting 20,000 tons of crude that spilled into the ocean (This is a fictitious event and would certainly be a disaster if real). The term externalities refers to all costs or benefits of a market activity borne by a third party, that is, by someone other than the immediate producer or consumer. In production, these externalities may occur when a power plant burns high-sulfur coal or an oil tanker spills thousands of tons of oil and therefore damages the surrounding environment. The damage inflicted on the neighboring people, vegetation, and ecosystem is external to the cost calculations of the firm and are not reflected in the price of the products created by the firms. The behaviors of profit maximizers are guided by comparisons of revenues and costs, not by philanthropy, aesthetic concerns, or the welfare of fish. What might be an example of an external cost associated with the oil production (including oil transportation) described in the YouTube mock interview? If a firm’s price of its product did, in fact, include all external costs, how would this change production decisions?
Video link – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8DVvOpQfA
(I have added the transcriipt below)
Senator Collins, thanks for coming in. It’s a great pleasure. Thank you. This ship that was involved in the incident off Western Australia this week, the one the front fell off. Yeah. Yeah. That’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point. Well, how is it untypical? Well, there are a lot of ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankers aren’t safe. Was this tanker safe? Well, I was thinking more about the other ones, the ones that are safe, the ones the front didn’t fall off. Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80000 tonnes of oil on it? I’m not saying it wasn’t safe. It’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones. Why? Well, some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all because in this built. So the front wouldn’t fall. Well, obviously not. How do you know? Well, because the front fell off and 20000 thousand tonnes of crude oil spilled into the sea, caught fire. It’s a bit of a giveaway. I just like to make the point that that is not normal. Well, what sort of standards do these oil tankers built? Oh, very rigorous maritime engineering standards. What sort of thing? Well, the front’s not supposed to fall off for a start. And what other things? Well, there are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of. What materials cardboards out and no cardboard derivatives like paper, no paper, no string, no sellotape rubber, no rubber that they’ve got to have a steering wheel. There’s a minimum crew requirement. What’s the minimum crew? Oh, one, I suppose, to the allegations that they’re just designed to carry as much oil as possible, hold the consequences. I mean, that’s ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. These are very, very strong vessels. So what happened in this case? Well, the front fell off in this case by all means. But it’s very unusual, isn’t it, Collins? Why did the front book fall off? Well, a wave hit it. The wave hit it. A wave hit the ship. Is that unusual? Oh, yeah. At sea chance in a million. So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this? The ship was towed outside the environment into another environment. No, no, no. It’s been towed beyond the environment, not in the environment, but from one environment to another environment. Now it’s beyond the environs, not in an environment, beyond the environment. Well, what’s out there? Nothing’s out there. There must be something. There is nothing out there. All there is is sea and birds and fish and and twenty thousand tonnes of crude oil. And what else? And a fire and anything else. And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But there’s nothing else out there. Senator Collins, thanks for a complete void. If we’re out of the environment’s perfectly safe, we’re out of time. You can you book me a cab? But didn’t you come in a Commonwealth car? Yes, I did. But what happened on the front fell off. -
Title: Case Management in the Criminal Justice System: A Comparison between Community and Correctional Settings
please follow instructions with no use of AI and your paper should be written in your own words
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you identify and describe the differences of case management in the criminal justice system within the community and in a correctional setting.
Include the following in your paper:Differences between community setting and correctional setting case management
How the process will need to be altered for various special populations
Potential clients in need of case management at both settings
Why ethics and confidentiality play an integral role when working with clients
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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“Exploring AD2: Using the Waveforms App for Data Analysis”
Please answer the following 2 questions, when using AD2, pls use the waveforms app on your laptop.
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“Reimagining the Nature vs. Nurture Debate: A Call for a More Holistic Approach”
Overall: Your final assignment in this class will be writing a 3-5 page paper in which you choose a topic from the course to evaluate and make an argument of some stance toward it. This could be how the topic should be viewed differently or studied differently in the future, how its findings are wrong, how it ignores different perspectives, etc. This is a fairly open assignment; there are no right or wrong arguments. You can think of this assignment as a kind of “Editorial” or “Opinion Piece” that must draw on material covered in class. The main component is to form some kind of informed opinion, stance, ‘hot take,’ etc. about something from the course that you want to weigh in on. You must use supporting evidence (see below for examples) from at least 3 sources – one of which must be class material.
While this may seem strange if you have not had an assignment similar to this, do not worry. This is actually a pretty normal idea for Psychology and science in general! Many researchers have surprisingly passionate opinions and will push them on the basis of a study, logical conclusion, literature review, meta-analysis of papers, TedTalk, etc. You deserve to share your thoughts too!
How to write this – There is no required format for this assignment, but a coherent structure will improve your grade. I recommend an intro paragraph, followed by body paragraphs and a conclusion paragraph.
You should make your stance/argument very clear early on in the paper. Introduce the topic clearly and identify an issue you see. Then, make your argument based on the material you believe supports your argument.
Your paper and argument can rely on multiple kinds of supporting evidence. You can use class material, personal experience, real life news/articles, books, and scientific articles. Pretty much anything is acceptable unless you use clearly opinionated sources and cite them as facts. For personal experiences, make sure to be explicit that you are writing about your own experience.
You need to have at least 3 different kinds of sources. That also means you need at least 3 sources total. One of them must be drawing on class material, which should be fairly easy if you are already discussing the topic from a class lecture. Expect an even higher grade if you can tie in other class topics, especially when you discuss ideas of active/passive, nature vs nurture, and continuity vs discontinuity. For the other (at least) 2 sources, they must be different kinds of sources.
Formatting – Double or single spaced, that’s up to you! You can turn in double spaced 3 pages or 5 pages single spaced. You will not be penalized for writing short or long unless it significantly affects the readability of the paper. Anything shorter than 3 pages double or longer than 5 pages single will be penalized. Please submit in a clear font of no larger than size 12 font. No being silly with changing specific characters larger to make it seem longer please. I am aware of all the tricks 😉
I also highly recommend making some kind of outline for paragraphs and points! Please do not turn in a 4 page single paragraph ramble. This class is not intended to be a writing course, so I am being fairly relaxed about guidelines. That being said, the easier it is to read your paper, the higher score you will receive. -
Cash Conundrums: Financial Literacy 1. What is a budget and why is it important? A budget is a financial plan that outlines an individual’s or organization’s expected income and expenses over a certain period of time. It is important
Unit 4 Assignment Answer Form
Cash Conundrums: Financial Literacy
Assignment Instructions For this assignment, you will create a personal budget and compare it to the 50/30/20 budgeting strategy.
1. Answer ALL questions below regarding creating a budget.
2. Show ALL step-by-step calculations, and round all of your final answers correctly to the whole number. All monetary answers should be rounded to the nearest dollar. 3. For full credit, write all explanations in the spaces provided. 4. Enter your answers in the space provided in this document, and submit to the appropriate area. Scanned or handwritten work will not be accepted. -
“Advancing Nursing Practice: Recommendations for Future Research and Implications for Clinical Practice”
Recommendations and Conclusions*** This part of your paper includes the summary of the project, main points and findings, the significance of the project to the advanced practice nursing profession, and recommendations for future research. Address the following: Address your recommendations and implications for clinical practice. Provide a summary of study and discuss any limitations of the study. Suggest directions for future research. Consider changes in theoretical constructs Provide suggestions for public policy and/or changes in practice. Tie the theoretical framework to the overall product. Conclude with an overall wrap-up to the paper. Your paper should be 4–5 pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages. You must reference a minimum of two scholarly sources in your paper. Use current APA format to style your paper and to cite your sources. Review the rubric for more information on how the assignment will be graded.
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Engineering Physics and Mechanics Individual Problem Sheet
CE6103 – Engineering Physics and Mechanics
Problem Sheet -Individual
Total Marks: 50 (50% Weightage of total grade)
Due date: 02-06-2024
Learning Outcomes:
1. Apply the concepts of mass, force, moments, torque and equilibrium conditions in engineering
systems.
2. Apply the concepts of energy, energy conservation, related to mechanical engineering systems
3. Select appropriate beams for engineering applications by calculating stresses, and considering
mechanical and material properties, in standard and nonstandard beam sections
Instructions
1.Answer all the problems and all the questions carry equal marks
2.Steps should be clearly shown with appropriate diagrams
3.The solutions should be handwritten
4.Late rule policy applies for the assessment
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Answer all the questions
Question 1 (LO 1)
(a) Four forces act on an eye bolt. As shown in figure 1. Determine the following:
i. Sum of the forces in X- direction 1 mark
ii. Sum of the forces in Y – Direction 1 mark
iii. The Magnitude of the Resultant force 2 marks
iv. The direction of the Resultant Force 1 mark
figure 1
(b) If 𝐹1 = 600N and Φ=30°, determine the magnitude of the resultant force acting on the eyebolt ( figure
2) and its direction measured clockwise from the positive x axis. 5 marks
figure 2
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Question 2 (LO 1)
(a) A girl is sitting in an old automobile tire which is suspended as shown in figure 3. If the girl and the tire
together have a mass of 60Kg, determine the tension in the ropes CA and CB 5 marks
figure 3
(b) A string ABCDE whose extremity A is fixed has weights W1 and W2 attached to it at B and C as shown
in figure 4, and passes round a smooth peg at D carrying a weight of 730 N at free and E in fig. If in a
state of equilibrium, BC is horizontal and AB and CD makes an angle of 135º and 110º respectively
with BC. Calculate the following
i) the tensions in portions AB, BC, CD.
ii) Values of weights W1 and W2 5 marks
figure 4
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Question 3 (LO1)
Four forces act on a bracket as shown in figure5. Calculate the resultant of all the four forces and find the
position along the x axis about O. You need to carry out the following task:
(i) Draw the free body diagram showing all the components of forces
(ii) Find the resultant of the forces
(iii) Find the point of application of the resultant with direction on the x axis about O
10 marks
figure 5
Question 4 (LO2)
(a) A child of mass m is released from rest at the top of a water slide, at height ‘h’
, 8.5 m
above the bottom of the slide as shown in figure 6 . Assuming that the slide is frictionless
because of the water on it, find the child’s speed at the bottom of the slide. 5 marks
figure 6
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(b) A 36 kg child slides down a slide that is 2.5m high as shown in figure 7. At the bottom
of the slide she is moving at 3.0m/s. How much energy was lost as she slid down the
slide? 5 marks
figure 7
Question 5 (LO3)
(a) The figure below ( figure 8) shows a non concurrent system of forces acting on a beam. Consider the
equilibrium conditions and calculate the reactions at support. Take the values of P and Q as 8 KN and
4KN respectively. 5 marks
figure 8
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(b) The figure below ( figure 9) shows a non concurrent system of forces acting on a beam. Consider the
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“Exploring the Divine and the Mundane: Uncovering Themes and Influences in ‘Gods of Jade and Shadow’ through Literary Scholarship”
As you have, hopefully, come to learn this semester, good literary scholarship is about reading a text and then asking questions (of the text, the author, yourself) that lead you to a deeper understanding. Understanding of what? Good question! It can be of the text as a literary artifact, of the characters, of the themes within the text, of the author’s process, of the time in which the text was written, of the commentary the author is making about their world – there is so much that can be connected to literature!
For this research paper, you are going to dive deeper into an aspect of the novel that you find interesting. It could be an investigation into responses to the literary text (the work of other scholars), the application of a literary theory (archetypal, postcolonial), or a deeper understanding of the era (early 20th century), the location (Prohibition era Mexico, the Yucatán), the dominant topics (mythology, religion) or its characters, or its author. What’s most important is that you pick a topic that inspires your curiosity, requires investigation, and invites debate.
Last semester you learned about developing a Research Question. A good Research Question does not pose a “Yes” or “No” question. It asks the researcher to delve into some form of further discovery that will eventually lead to the development of an opinionated analysis (a.k.a. the thesis). The first assignment in the build up to the final product is to develop your Research Question. This is due Monday, May 13. After that you may not change your topic. Because of this I suggest that you develop a first draft of your question and then begin your research to make sure that it is a question you’ll be able to find sources for. When you feel confident, then you can submit the assignment.
Sample Research Questions:
What is the influence of the poet Francisco Quevedo on the novel? (This question will require researching Quevedo and his poetry and then finding shared ideas or themes between them and the novel.)
How did Prohibition in the United States impact Mexico’s economic and cultural development? (On its surface, this is a purely political and social question, but the information learned through research could then be applied to a discussion of the novel.)
Once you have developed your question, you will spend next week researching. I recommend using the GCC Library resources. Depending on your topic, the library has a large range of databases that should be helpful. You are, of course, also welcome to use actual books if you are able to go to the library in person. You may not use study guides such as SparkNotes, Cliff Notes, Shmoop, or any similar guide that tells you how to read the book. You aren’t writing a book report. Rather, you are writing an analysis that will allow you and your reader to understand the novel more deeply and/or differently.
This essay must incorporate a minimum of 4 secondary sources (the novel is your primary source). These must be reliable sources that provide information about your topic in a sophisticated and challenging form. Ideally you’ll look at peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, or books published by reputable publishing houses.
You will have a rough draft due Tuesday, May 21. We will do some peer review, and we will spend the final week of class writing and troubleshooting. Please keep in mind that this assignment cannot be revised. So you want to use your time in class very effectively to make sure you are doing the best writing you can. about gods of jade and shadow -
“The Black Experience in America Before the Revolution: A Summary of PBS’ The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and Beyond the Middle Passage”
2 pages each summary
Objective: Students will learn about the Black experience in America before the American Revolution.
Guiding Questions:
How does DNA and science support African heritage, history, and identity?
How did slavery and resistance to slavery develop in America?
After viewing the documentaries PBS The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross With Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Beyond the Middle Passage students will write a summary of each film.
The Black Atlantic (1500-1800): The African Americans—Many Rivers to Cross (Found on Films on Demand, ECSU Library Database)
Click, https://fod-infobase-com.ecsu1891.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=58757&tScript=0,
African American Lives: Beyond the Middle Passage
Click, https://fod-infobase-com.ecsu1891.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=44047&tScript=0