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Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.

What is the meaning of “Being a Man? Select a subject from the list below, chose a topic within the subject areas, and write a 6-8 page research paper. You need to select a topic within the subject and form an argument about the topic. The topic must be relevant to contemporary society and debatable/arguable. You need to qualify your argument with real-world examples, and you must support your thesis with research and incorporate the research into the paper. The research you incorporate into the paper cannot exceed 20% of the paper. This means 80% of the paper is your objective analysis of the topic and the argument you present; it is your thinking! The majority of the research used in the paper must come from the Databases provided on the LAVC Library Webpage.

Identify and analyze Marxist themes in Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape (1921) and then examine whether there are parallels between themes in the play and life today. The essay should be 5 to 7 pages in length with at least 3 sources cited in MLA format.

First – What is a research paper? Is it the same as a discussion? Plan on researching this paper, editing it, and properly citing your sources. See the Intro module for resources. The Hidden Curriculum Ah, the hidden curriculum. Do you realize that you have been socialized from the books you read, the TV shows you watched (and continue to watch), the commercials you viewed, and by all of your favourite Disney (or other) movies? Disney movies are never violent, right? Just ask Simba or Mulan. ( this is sarcasm) The media you consumed as a child influenced your ideas on gender, race, and even your thoughts on and sensitivity to viewing violence. How could this be? What are the impacts on our beliefs and our relationships with others based on the media we consumed? I want you to dive deeper and do some research. You will pick a topic — children’s storybooks, children’s movies, children’s TV shows, or children’s toy product commercials (choose one). In your research, you will discuss how you think that form of media influences children’s ideas on one of the following: sexism, racism, or violence. For example, reading fairy tales, such as “Sleeping Beauty” influences boys and girls to think what about gender roles in what ways? Or, what if you are Latino and every TV program you watched only depicted white families and never depicted people or a family that looked like yours — what messages do children learn? Please stick to ONE topic – children’s books, TV shows, movies, or commercials and ONE impact – sexism, racism, or violence. For example storybooks and sexism, or children’s movie and violence, or children’s movies and racism. Use the Pierce College library page to research the topic. MANY researchers have studied your topic already. Be sure to include this research in your paper. Your Research Paper: Your paper should be at least five paragraphs. What form of media did you choose and which topic? Why did you choose this topic? What previous research did you find (completed by someone else)? What did the researchers find? How are children socialized by this form of media? What were your personal experiences with this form of media and topic? In conclusion, give five suggestions for change to media for children and/or suggestions for parents regarding children’s exposure to specific media. Do not plagiarize. Be sure to cite your sources. What did your classmates find that you found interesting and meaningful? Did you learn something new?

Choose an issue about the causes or consequences of a trend, event, or another phenomenon. Write an argument that persuades an audience to accept your explanation of the causes or consequences of your chosen phenomenon. Within your essay, you should examine alternative hypotheses or opposing views and explain your reasons for rejecting them. This should be no less than 500 words.

Magazines, movies, video games, billboards – these are just some aspects of popular culture that replicate and influence social “norms” of being and behavior. Choose one component of popular culture and become a sociologist seeking insights about social norms. This is not merely an opinion paper – each of your conclusions must be supported with textual evidence from your topic of analysis. In a four-page essay, address the ways in which the subject of your analysis demonstrates the existence of social standards and ideas, as well as the way it reinforces and/or alters those standards and ideas. Your declarative statement regarding the social ideology affected by your topic of analysis will serve as your thesis and will be the thread that ties your areas of analysis together. Social Ideology: A norm that is created and maintained by society. For example, commonly accepted and expected ways of dressing or communicating in a particular part of the world. ?Generate and organize your ideas on a specific subject through advanced topic selection and exploration. ?Effectively locate the relationship between visuals/words and the concepts/ideas they represent. ?Locate and evaluate the construction of social information and the impact it may have on society. ?Explore and clarify your thinking on an abstract concept through the writing process. ?Use a tentative thesis and rough outline to guide you in your writing, allowing both to evolve as you write. ?Support your ideas and statements through effective elaboration, explanation, and example. Possible Areas of Analysis: ?Race (stereotypes, representations of certain minorities) ?Ethnicity (language, traditions, cultural practices, stereotypes) ?Class (economic, education, lifestyles) ?Power (who has it, how it is obtained, hierarchies) ?Gender (spectrum, power/control, objectification, traditional roles/stereotypes) ?Sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, androgyny, sex as a commodity) ?Religion and Spirituality (ritual, organized practice, underlying ideology) ?Age ( young, middle, old) ?Disability (physical, mental, developmental) ?Region (accents, dialect, North/South stereotypes) ?Nationality (ethnocentricity, patriotism, “melting pot” issues) Ideas for the Thinking and Writing Processes: Once you have settled on a subject for analysis, brainstorm for ideas and take notes while watching, looking at, or listening to your topic. Think about how each of the categories above is represented by your subject and what that representation demonstrates about the social ideology you are exploring. Also, what “messages” does your subject put forth regarding these categories that reinforce and/or attempt to alter the social ideology? Once you have taken notes on the above categories, begin to group your ideas together. You do not have to address every one of these categories in your paper; instead, use the ideas in your notes to find 3-4 main ideas on which to focus. There may be many ideas you come up with initially that will not be included in the final paper you generate – this is normal. Brainstorm first – then manage information through organization, elimination, and elaboration.

Throughout the film, Erin Brockovich exhibits the characteristics of a charismatic leader. Understanding these characteristics will assist you in evaluating charismatic leadership. First, read “What Exactly Is Charisma?” This article outlines the traits of a charismatic leader. https://login.excelsior.edu/cas/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.excelsior.edu%2Fsimplesaml%2Fmodule.php%2Fcas%2Flinkback.php%3FstateID%3D_28f4f0267ba8e101e6a7b7020398e8c8d22a027c35%253Ahttps%253A%252F%252Flogin.excelsior.edu%252Fsimplesaml%252Fsaml2%252Fidp%252FSSOService.php%253Fspentityid%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fexcelsior.idm.oclc.org%25252Fshibboleth%2526RelayState%253Dezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly9lZHMuYi5lYnNjb2hvc3QuY29tL2Vkcy9kZXRhaWwvZGV0YWlsP3ZpZD0wJnNpZD0xZTk0NDZmMC03Mzc0LTRmMjUtYjU0NS0yMWQ3ZDk3Y2IxYzklNDBwZGMtdi1zZXNzbWdyMDEmYmRhdGE9Sm5OcGRHVTlaV1J6TFd4cGRtVW1jMk52Y0dVOWMybDBaUSUzZCUzZA–%2526cookieTime%253D1613859739#AN=9601027611&db=bth (login Shawnvee97 password: Blessed11

it is based off the “why we crave horror movies” by Stephen king thesis: While Horror movies may relieve that adrenaline rush one may have, everyone doesn’t necessarily have a dark side because Not everyone is mentally ill, not everyone is violent, and how do we know it comforts one’s malicious thoughts. I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better, after all. We’ve all known people who talk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch their faces into horrible grimaces when they believe no one is watching, people who have some hysterical fear – of snakes, the dark, the tight place, the long drop . . . and, of course, those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently underground. When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at the tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. This is not to say that a really good horror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may scream when the roller coaster twists through a complete 360 or plows through a lake at the bottom of the drop. And horror movies, like roller coasters, have always been the special province of the young; by the time one turns 40 or 50, one’s appetite for double twists or 360-degree loops may be considerably depleted. We also go to reestablish our feelings of essential normality; the horror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary. Freda Jackson as the horrible melting woman in Die, Monster, Die! confirms for us that no matter how far we may be removed from the beauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light-years from true ugliness. And we go to have fun. Ah, but this is where the ground starts to slope away, isn’t it? Because this is a very peculiar sort of fun, indeed. The fun comes from seeing others menaced – sometimes killed. One critic has suggested that if pro football has become the voyeur’s version of combat, then the horror film has become the modern version of the public lynching. It is true that the mythic “fairy-tale” horror film intends to take away the shades of grey . . . . It urges us to put away our more civilized and adult penchant for analysis and to become children again, seeing things in pure blacks and whites. It may be that horror movies provide psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality, and even outright madness is extended so rarely. We are told we may allow our emotions a free rein . . . or no rein at all. If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you’re under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business . . . though it is doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties. The potential lyncher is in almost all of us (excluding saints, past and present; but then, most saints have been crazy in their own ways), and every now and then, he has to be let loose to scream and roll around in the grass. Our emotions and our fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone. Certain of these emotional muscles are accepted – even exalted – in a civilized society; they are, of course, the emotions that tend to maintain the status quo of civilization itself. Love, friendship, loyalty, kindness — these are all the emotions that we applaud, emotions that have been immortalized in the couplets of Hallmark cards and in the verses (I don’t dare call it poetry) of Leonard Nimoy. When we exhibit these emotions, society showers us with positive reinforcement; we learn this even before we get out of diapers. When, as children, we hug our rotten little puke of a sister and give her a kiss, all the aunts and uncles smile and twit and cry, “Isn’t he the sweetest little thing?” Such coveted treats as chocolate-covered graham crackers often follow. But if we deliberately slam the rotten little puke of a sister’s fingers in the door, sanctions follow – angry remonstrance from parents, aunts, and uncles; instead of a chocolate-covered graham cracker, a spanking. But anticivilization emotions don’t go away, and they demand periodic exercise. We have such “sick” jokes as, “What’s the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and a truckload of dead babies?” (You can’t unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitchfork . . . a joke, by the way, that I heard originally from a ten-year-old.) Such a joke may surprise a laugh or a grin out of us even as we recoil, a possibility that confirms the thesis: If we share a brotherhood of man, then we also share an insanity of man. None of which is intended as a defense of either the sick joke or insanity but merely as an explanation of why the best horror films, like the best fairy tales, manage to be reactionary, anarchistic, and revolutionary all at the same time. The mythic horror movie, like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us. It is morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest fantasies realized . . . and it all happens, fittingly enough, in the dark. For those reasons, good liberals often shy away from horror films. For myself, I like to see the most aggressive of them – Dawn of the Dead, for instance – as lifting a trap door in the civilized forebrain and throwing a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators swimming around in that subterranean river beneath. Why bother? Because it keeps them from getting out, man. It keeps them down there and me up here. It was Lennon and McCartney who said that all you need is love, and I would agree with that. As long as you keep the gators fed.

The purpose of this assignment is to successfully communicate to readers through a persuasive essay utilizing the skills of abstracting and persuasive expression, avoiding the traps of each in producing the essay. This assignment supports or fulfills the following module objectives: Explain the skill of abstracting and demonstrate its use. Demonstrate the skill of persuasive expression in discussions and essays. Recognize and avoid the traps inherent in abstracting and persuasive expression. The Assignment Write an aesthetic abstract of no less than 200 and no more than 250 words on a television show or movie you have seen recently. This abstract should describe the movie or show’s aesthetic quality, telling the reader what happened in the story and/or who the characters were in the background; in the foreground of the abstract should be your appraisal of the aesthetic quality. Write an umbrella sentence or lead to present your strongest aesthetic judgment- what was the best or worst aesthetic element (writing, acting, directing, special effects, etc). Budget your remaining words to explain the essence of the quality. For example, if you thought the script was particularly strong, then you need to talk about what happened in the plot, but don’t present a synopsis of the plot; instead, show why it was such a high-quality story. Submit your work in MLA format, using size 12 font, double spaced. Grading Criteria Content (the accuracy of what you say in the essay and how much you say) 80% Format (must be in MLA format to include having works cited page) 10% Grammar (spelling, punctuation, word usage, sentence structure, etc.) 10% See the attached rubric for this assignment for more specific information on the grading criteria. Resources Textbook: Becoming a Strategic Thinker: Developing Skills for Success by W. James Potter. To Submit Assignment Click on the title of this assignment. A new window will open. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen to the Assignment Submission area. Click on the Browse My Computer button and browse to the location you have saved your work. Select the appropriate file and click on the Open button. Click on the “I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database” block. Click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page. Your work has now been submitted.

Trifles take the form of a classic murder mystery. The characters, to varying degrees, try to solve the murder of Mr. Wright although they focus on different things and use different techniques. By the end of the play, it’s clear that the women–with their focus on trifles– solve the murder while the men are still left clueless. In this essay, you’re going to analyze the characters’ use of logic (or misuse of logic when you identify logical fallacies) to explain why the women were able to solve the murder Requirements: ? At least 1750 words ? Argumentative thesis statement in the last position of first paragraph ? Analysis of logic, which may include premises, syllogisms, and logical fallacies ? Quotations with parenthetical citations using MLA style ? Header with name, date, class and final word count Your essay will be graded on (1) the strength of argument, (2) the specificity of your thesis, and (3) your use of textual evidence (this includes your selection of quotes and your analysis of them). In addition to writing your essay, you are required to include a self-reflection. suggested key terms to use 1. Assumption: Unexamined beliefs 2. Premise: Stated assumptions used as reasons in argument 3. Syllogism: The conclusion produced by the joining of two premises–statements taken to be true 4. Sound argument: An argument is sound if all premises are true and the syllogism is valid. 5. Deduction: The mental process of moving from one statement through another to yet a further statement. To put it another way, deduction takes beliefs and assumptions and extracts their hidden consequences. The deduction does NOT give any new information. 6. Induction: Uses information about observed cases to reach a conclusion about unobserved cases (often using inferences and generalizations). An example of how Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters use logic to solve the case Syllogism #2: Premise #1: The birdcage was damaged (Glaspell 971). Premise #2: Mr. Wright was a “hard man” (Glaspell 972). Premise #3: The bird’s neck was snapped. Syllogism: Mr. Wright was capable of being abusive (he was a “hard man”) and he killed the bird. This syllogism is valid because the assumptions seem to be true based on the information that we have in the play. This syllogism is important because it reveals Mrs. Wright’s motive for killing Mr. Wright. (You could create an entirely new syllogism that explains why the bird was so important to Mrs. Wright in the first place–according to the reasoning of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters.)