Applied Sciences

3.  The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in history.  In the end, the Northern forces emerged victorious, and the Union was preserved.  Write an essay in which you identify some of the factors behind the Union victory.  How was it that the northern armies were able to overcome the vigorous resistance of the Confederate armies and eventually secure victory in 1865? You may need to do some research to get a better idea on what to write about. I will need a five paragraph essay

write a 2000-word analysis of the benefits, weaknesses, and implementation of volleyball skills to be used in developing an overall fitness program for a healthy lifestyle.  Here are some specific questions that can help you write your essay: What are the benefits and weaknesses of volleyball skills in your development of a healthy lifestyle?  How do you plan to incorporate physical fitness in your life following completion of this course? (You do not have to include volleyball in your response). What aspects of the game of volleyball help promote a heathy lifestyle? (Examples: Positive communication, teamwork, leadership skills, etc).

As completely and as thoroughly as you can, please respond to the following questions/requests. Please note that some of these terms derive from your reading assignment.1. What is meant by the term,“cultivated”music?2. What is meant by the term,“vernacular”music?3. What are the two cultures that have influenced American popular musicthe most?4. Please give an overview of the cultivated tradition in early America in the18th and 19th centuries.5. Please give a summary of the life and music of StephenCollinsFoster.Why is he important to American popular music?6. Please give a summary of the life and music of John Philip Sousa.Whyis he important to American popular music?7. Please provide a summary of minstrelsy of the 19th century.8. Please summarize the Blues and its significance to the American popularmusic culture.9. PleasesummarizeJazzmusicanditssignificancetotheAmericanpopular music culture. Include in your discussion New Orleans Jazz andSweet Jazz, Louis Armstrong and Paul Whitman.10.Please provide a summary of Country music. Please include in yourdiscussion The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers.11.Please provide a summary of Tin Pan Alley.12.Please provide a summary of Big Band/Swing. Please include in yourdiscussion the differences between New Orleans style jazz and BigBand/Swing, as well as the great arrangers of the Big Band era.13.What is Rhythm and Blues? Who is considered to be “The King ofRhythm and Blues?14.What is significant about the song Rocket ‘88’?15.Please discuss the rock band.16.Please summarize and discuss viewing rock, and rock films.17.Please discuss the birth and flowering of rock and roll music. What was itsassociation with Tin Pan Alley? Please explain.18.Please discuss the significance and impact that America’s white youth hadon thepopularity of rhythm and blues/rock and roll music. Also discussthe rise of the youth culture of the 1950s to include youth and rebellion.19.Why is Alan Freed and Cleveland, Ohio significant to the history of rockand roll?20.With regard to this music context (as opposed to our discussions earlierthis semester) what is meant by “crossovers” songs and “cover”songs?21.Please discuss the early crossover artists: Fats Domino, Chuck Berry,and Little Richard.22.Please discuss the significance of Elvis Presley on rock and roll.23.Please summarize rockabilly and the early artist of this genre of music.24.Please summarize The cultural, social and political events of the1960s. How was this decade so different from previous ones?25.Please summarize and discuss the significance of Bob Dylan.26.Please summarize and discuss the significance of Motown.27.Please summarize and discuss the significance of The Beach Boys.28.Please summarize and discuss the significance of Soul Music.29.Please summarize and discuss the significance of Soul Music.30.Please summarize and discuss the significance of Psychedelic music.31.Please SELECT ONE of the following decades, and summarize Thecultural, social, political and music events of the 1970s, or the 1980s,or the 1990s.32.Please summarize the culture and music of Punk Rock and New Wave.Include significant artists in your discussion.33.Please summarize and discuss the significance of MTV. What is a VJ?Who were the first VJs on MTV?34.Please summarize the culture and music of Rap Music. Include significantartists in your discussion.35.As mentioned rap music is now over forty years old, older than rock music was when rap emerged. We are overdue for “the coming thing” in popular music. Can you identify anything that could be viewed as the next great practice of popular music?

Please write about how Drugs and Alcohol effect society and those around us, you must include the theoretical perspectives ( Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism)

Read the material on Globalization. Write a 2 page, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt font, CRITICAL ANALYSIS. Guideline from teacher on how it should be written is also attached. Notes: “The heart of your paper should be an analysis of the author’s ideas. This is a critical engagement with the main ideas and evidence of what you have read. You are not simply restating what they said, nor are you offering an opinion. You are addressing the strength of their ideas, arguments, and evidence. You are analyzing the proposition of the author. If you agree or disagree with the author, you must use facts to explain why. What is the author arguing for or against? How did they construct their argument? Did they support their argument? What kind of evidence do they use? Are their holes in their logic or reasoning? Is the language biased? Did they explain why other ideas or explanations are wrong? What do they want you to understand? It is a novel approach to these ideas? These are just some of the questions that a quality critique could analyze. You can ask anything, so long as its an analysis of the ideas and evidence the author has put forward. In other words, this is about critical thinking. Do not spend the majority of your paper restating or explain the paper. As mentioned, this would be summary. You will, of course, need to mention what parts of the text you are discussing, but you can assume the reader (me) has also read these. So, focus on your analysis and critique. “

Read:  Fad Diets-Lifestyle promises and health challenges.pdf   Select any two of the diets in Figure 1 and present an overview of each of the diets. What makes them unique? Discuss whether either of the diets you chose are particularly beneficial or harmful and explain why. Have you ever followed such a diet? Would you? Why or why not?  Do not include the prompt. Do include your references. (in correct APA format) Do include more than 100 words (excluding references and any quoted materials) Do not include more than one direct quote. Do include your own experiences. Do include content learned from the textbook. Do research the topic and include no less than 1 scholarly source.  (scholarly means a journal article, textbook, or research article.  Scholarly does not mean WebMD, Wikipedia, Allure Magazine, MayoClinic.org, Nancy’s Blog.com, etc)

1. What are the differences in nutritional recommendations between those for pregnant women and those for lactating women? Give reasons for the differences.      2. What benefits does breastfeeding offer to the baby? What benefits does breastfeeding offer to the mother? What are some advantages and challenges of breast feeding?     3. Why is optimal nutrition extremely important during the babies’ first year of life? What are the infants nutrient needs, their (a) energy recommendation, (b) macronutrient and (c) micronutrient recommendations?

Should governments have the power to censor journalists and news reporters? Why? When? Narrow this one. You might choose to focus on the possibility of censorship in the United States, or in a single other country, or focus on censorship only under specific circumstances. You also may look at historic information, at examples of censorship in history.  This essay should be 1500-2000 words, double-spaced, using MLA format for citations and Works Cited page. You should use at least three sources.

You will be expected to independently select two photographs not discussed in this course. You will have to make a contextual connection between the two works. Choose two works focussing on the same subject. For example, you can choose the representation of the female body, cityscape, landscape, still-life, nature. How are they different in style? How is the representation of the female body different in the two examples? What does one tell us about a landscape that the other contradicts? Why? In choosing your two works of art make sure to focus on a subject that is central to your current interest in your practice The Final Paper must be structured in the following way: 1) Introduction 2) Part one: formal analysis 3) Part two: contextual analysis Part 1:  Systematically and exhaustively analyze your chosen works of art considering the following (4 pages): Composition Colors Lines Perspective/Flatness Technique Materiality   Part 2:  Compare the two works you have chosen from a contextual perspective (4 pages): What do these works say about the subject they represent? How do they say what they say in different ways? Do they complement each other? Does one add to what the other says? ESSAY STRUCTURE First of all, take some time to think about a subject that interests you and that you want to know more about. Then choose two works not discussed in this course. It is important that the two photographs share something. Ideally, they should share the same topic and look very different or be from different movements but share some similarities. Be smart in your choice–this carries more points! Think about your selection carefully, so that the comparison is interesting! The overall length of this assignment is 8 pages excluding the bibliography, your name and title, and images. Please write the paper first and then add the images to make sure you don’t get the total page number mixed up. Marks are detracted if you submit a paper shorter than 8 or exceeding 10 pages. The essay must be spaced at 1.5pt, the font must 12pts, ‘Arial’. INTRODUCTION The introduction should not take more than one page. Keep bio info to a minimum, 4 lines for both artists, and focus on explaining why you have chosen these works of art–what do they share, how are they similar? MAIN BODY This is where you have to showcase your analytical skills–overall length 3/4 pages. This is your analysis. Make it interesting and relevant. You have two options:  1) Analyze all the points listed above one by one in one work of art and then separately do the same for the other. 2) Use each point to analyze both works of art at the same time: ex: analyze the composition in both, then move on to colors in both and so on. This is more difficult than option 1 and will carry more points. 3) Contextual analysis  CONCLUSION Wrap up your essay with some smart considerations about the two photographs you have analyzed. Which is the one you find more interesting and why? How do the formal quality of the artwork impact or convey meaning?  The overall length of the conclusion should not be more than 1page.  Your essay must comply with generic academic prescriptions such as footnoting, referencing, and bibliography. You should not use more than 2 Internet sources and should include at least a minimum of 5 different sources. Images must be included and labeled accordingly, specifying the artist’s name, the title of work, materials, and year of execution. The bibliography must be alphabetically ordered by surname. You are expected to use referencing correctly. Every time you read information somewhere in order to write your work it is important to reference the source–otherwise, you’ll be committing plagiarism.

The language and rhetoric used in the reporting of terrorist events, whether from official sources or from media outlets, can be used to influence public opinion and behavior. How does government communication about crises influence the messaging that the terrorists were intending to deliver? Are there ethical issues associated with how government officials and media outlets report on terrorism and terrorist activities? Assignment: For this assignment, you will analyze the effects and impacts of the reporting of a terrorist event. Choose a recent terrorist event (within the past five years), but a different one than you analyzed in Week One. Conduct library research to report on how the event was understood and interpreted by the public. Focus on reports from both government sources and media outlets. Did you observe differences in the ways the event was interpreted by different segments of the public? For example, was the event uniformly seen as “terrorism” by the public? Or did different groups interpret the event differently? Provide specific examples from your research, and discuss some of the ethical issues faced by those reporting on the event. Your thesis and conclusion should address how you think terrorist event reporting can be managed to best serve the public. Also make sure to address the general public’s role in interpreting and disseminating perspectives on terrorist events. All submissions must include the following technical components: Labeled topical headings (e.g., Introduction, Literature Review, Discussion, Conclusion, Recommendations, etc.) Length: The report must contain a body of text, between 1,000-1,250 words (about 4-5 pages double-spaced, 12-point font). A reference page containing a minimum of five course-external resources used and cited in the report. References cited at the end of the report must be cited in text to illustrate how they were used..