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Write about 2 pages (typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font) responding to the following questions. Do you consider yourself an artist? Do you consider yourself creative? Explain. How much and what kind of creative writing have you done? Tell me about it. What kinds of artistic, creative work have you done? Tell me about it. Has your past education encouraged or discouraged your creativity? How? Be specific. Do you think our culture and society values artists and creative work? If so, how? If not, how?

Would you be able to create a work report? here below is an example.  Visually checked and are no loose bolts, damages, or deformations on the equipment. Hydraulic piping, hoses, and -clamping was checked and there are no damages or loose parts. No hydraulic leakage detected. Visually checked and there are no obstructions in the work area.  The hydraulic high-pressure filter is still okay due to the fact that the equipment never was used. The sheave was greased. All hydraulic pipes and hoses were checked for damages and no deformations detected. All couplings were checked and found to be tightening. Clamps for hydraulic pipes and hoses are tight and no damage was detected. Visual inspection was carried out to the Control panel and it’s still intact and no damage

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Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) answering the question. Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples. List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.MLA format – https://owl.purdue.edu/. Explain what you have learned about heroism, friendship, and other issues from Irredeemable. Also, consider how reading a comic has changed how you think about reading.

The primary purpose of a profile is to inform readers about a living person, a place visited, or an event attended. For this job, choose a place that you have visited. For example, your profile might describe a local business, restaurant, or landmark; your backyard garden; a foreign country; a recent duty station; a specific airport, train, or bus terminal, your child’s classroom, a museum, a sports arena, or field, etc. Please write about Shanghai China, My Parents are Chinese Citizens and I visit Shanghai every year. Keep it simple and write about downtown Shanghai. To receive full credit, you need to: Write a profile essay of 400 – 450 words in which you describe your selected place. Reminder: an essay should contain an introduction, body, and conclusion. Include a thesis statement at the end of the introduction that focuses on some aspect of the place that the reader will find intriguing or unusual. Rely on showing via sensory impressions (sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile sensations) rather than telling. Hint: use action verbs (i.e., explode, roared, bloomed, ran, etc.) rather than passive verbs of being (i.e., is, was, were, are, etc.) Bring attention to the uniqueness of the place, showing what is remarkable about it. Present a portrait of the place through a specific angle of vision. That is, convey a dominant attitude toward the subject, an attitude (i.e., fascination, disgust, amusement, detachment, joy, etc.) that can be implied through details or stated explicitly.  You will need to conduct library research to gather additional information about the place. You must give credit to your sources. APA-Style Format. You must, name the source of your information in your paper and list the source at the end of your paper. You must also double-space your assignment. If you use your own experiences as support for your thesis, this is fine—and you may use first-person words (I, me, my, mine). This tone is appropriate since I do not want to refer to my self in the third person.

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.

Introduction Lead-in 3pt. Thesis Statement Body (X3) Topic Sentence Proof/Example/Quote Explanation Explanation Proof/Example/Quote Explanation Explanation Explain directly back to the thesis statement, using keywords from the thesis Transition Sentence (mentions what’s coming next) Conclusion “So What?” Provide a Larger Meaning Repackage, don’t Restate Echoing the introduction Explain Implications Example Essay Test==> Essay Test Sample.pdf Actions Paper 4 Essay Test Prompt: You will create a persuasive argument as to whether you should follow your passion, do what you can get paid most for, even if it does not coincide with your passion, or whether you can and/or should combine the two. As a starting point, you will analyze what you’re actually passionate about, which you will do by conducting the Self-Interview (found on the next page of this module). Even if you already think you know what your passion is going through the questions may further solidify it, or for some, may allow you to discover what it is. Your paper should be in the essay test format, and you can use sources to support your argument, but it’s not required…and it may make the assignment more difficult.

There are a total of three articles to read in order to properly answer the questions. Article one is a link I have presented below. Article two is also linked below however I have presented a summary of the article and clicking the link is unnecessary for this one. Lastly, Article three has been uploaded to this site.  *Please write the answers in paragraph/essay form. Quotes would be nice but aren’t necessary. The point of this assignment is to show writing and critical thinking skills.   Prompt: According to the author of “Aesop’s Fables,” there are at least two ways the ancient story of the Wolf and the Lamb could have been interpreted by the Greeks of Aristotle’s day. 1) What are these two interpretations? 2) What is Edward Clayton’s central argument about these interpretations? 3) What rhetorical appeals–ethos, pathos, logos–does Clayton use most effectively to present his case? 4) And finally, if you were to tell the story of the Wolf and the Lamb today to explain a current social problem facing college students how would you interpret the different roles of Wolf and Lamb?  Article #1 A General Summary of  Article #2: The goal of argumentative writing is to persuade your audience that your ideas are valid, or more valid than someone else’s. The Greek philosopher Aristotle divided the means of persuasion, appeals, into three categories–Ethos, Pathos, Logos. Ethos (Credibility), or ethical appeal, means to convince by the character of the author. We tend to believe people whom we respect. One of the central problems of argumentation is to project an impression to the reader that you are someone worth listening to, in other words making yourself as author into an authority on the subject of the paper, as well as someone who is likable and worthy of respect. Pathos (Emotional) means persuading by appealing to the reader’s emotions. We can look at texts ranging from classic essays to contemporary advertisements to see how pathos, emotional appeals are used to persuade. Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can effectively be used to enhance an argument. Logos (Logical) means persuading by the use of reasoning. This will be the most important technique we will study and Aristotle’s favorite. We’ll look at deductive and inductive reasoning, and discuss what makes an effective, persuasive reason to back up your claims. Giving reasons is the heart of argumentation, and cannot be emphasized enough. We’ll study the types of support you can use to substantiate your thesis and look at some of the common logical fallacies, in order to avoid them in your writing. Or The Shorthand Version: Ethos: the source’s credibility, the speaker’s/author’s authority Logos: the logic used to support a claim; can also be the facts and statistics used to help support the argument. Pathos: the emotional or motivational appeals; vivid language, emotional language, and numerous sensory details. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Logos (Greek for ‘word’) refer to the internal consistency of the message–the clarity of the claim, the logic of its reasons, and the effectiveness of its supporting evidence. The impact of logos on an audience is sometimes called the argument’s logical appeal. Ethos (Greek for ‘character’) refers to the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer or speaker. Ethos is often conveyed through tone and style of the message and through the way the writer or speaker refers to differing views. It can also be affected by the writer’s reputation, as it exists independently from the message–his or her expertise in the field, his or her previous record or integrity, and so forth. The impact of ethos is often called the argument’s ‘ethical appeal’ or the ‘appeal from credibility.’ [P]athos (Greek for ‘suffering’ or ‘experience’) is often associated with emotional appeal. But a better equivalent might be ‘appeal to the audience’s sympathies and imagination.’ An appeal to pathos causes an audience not just to respond emotionally but also to identify with the writer’s point of view–to feel what the writer feels. In this sense, pathos evokes a meaning implicit in the verb ‘to suffer’–to feel pain imaginatively… Perhaps the most common way of conveying a pathetic appeal is through narrative or story, which can turn the abstractions of logic into something palpable and present. The values, beliefs, and understandings of the writer are implicit in the story and conveyed imaginatively to the reader. Pathos thus refers to both the emotional and the imaginative impact of the message on an audience, the power with which the writer’s message moves the audience to decision or action. [The above text from Ramage, John D., and John C. Bean. Writing Arguments. 4th Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998, 81-82.]  (Links to an external site.)

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

Consider an organization you work for, have worked for or would like to work for.  Then, identify a country in which they do business or might do business outside of the United States. You also may select a company in contemporary business news that conducts business globally. (the company I work for is Mcdonalds) Discuss the key differences in cultural variables between the United States and the country that are important when conducting business in the selected country. What are the implications of these differences in the practice of business? Consider the political, economic, legal, educational, and social systems of the selected country. Include a response to the following questions in your discussion writing at least one paragraph for each bullet point: Describe globalization and its benefits to business operations. What kind of management orientation style would you use to be most effective given the cultural attributes of the country (choose one other than the United States)? How would you overcome the anticipated barriers to communication? Provide specific examples.