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Title Writing Assignment 2 Essay 2 Week 9
Due May 26, 2012

Instructions:

ESSAY TOPICS: SELECT 1

1. Define the main characteristics of The Jazz Age. Use at least two of Langston Hughes’s poems to demonstrate why he was the leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance. (See poems listed in second essay topic for choices beyond those in your text.)

2. Explore how two of Langston Hughes’s poems highlight his fierce identification with the plight of poor African Americans. You may consider the two poems in our text but also use the following poems as options that highlight racial concerns or the black experience (which can be found online): "Harlem [Dream Deferred]," "Mother to Son," "The Weary Blues," "Ballad of the Landlord," and/or "I, Too." Use specific lines from the poems to support your points.

3. Explain why Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, or Edna St. Vincent Millay is considered a Modernist writer. Use at least two poems to support your points.

4. Examine Frost’s use of irony in "The Road Not Taken"–which is both his most popular poem and his most commonly misinterpreted poem. (Poem can be found online.) Prove with evidence from the poem that the speaker did not actually take a road "less traveled."

5. Consider the imagery in Frost’s nine-line poem "Fire and Ice." (Poem can be found online.) What characteristics of human behavior does Frost’s speaker associate with fire and ice? What theories about the end of the world are alluded to in lines one and two? How does the speaker’s use of understatement and rhyme affect the tone of this poem?

6. Examine the symbolism in Trifles or The Hairy Ape, being sure to relate it to the playwright’s overall social message that he or she was communicating about the time period in which it was written.

7. Read Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story version of Trifles written one year after the play. (You can find it online.) Compare and contrast the story and the play. Which is superior in your opinion?

8. Explore the moral dilemma in Trifles. (To do this successfully, you will want to construct an argument in which you identify whether the women were right to withhold their discovery from the investigators. Identify the different experiences that the women themselves had which made them empathic to Mrs. Wright’s situation and helped them to justify their actions.)

9. Explore the importance of the past as it appears in one of the author’s works we’ve read: Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily," Fitzgerald’s "Babylon Revisited," or Katherine Anne Porter’s "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."

10. Compare the jilted lovers in Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily" and Porter’s "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." How did each deal with the betrayal in their lives?
ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS:

Your essays should be in MLA Style and approximately 2-3 pages (not including the Works Cited page).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

You should use the online APUS library to look for scholarly sources. Be careful that you don’t create a "cut and paste" paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.

For additional assistance writing a literary analysis, please consult the following attached titles:
Attachments

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Additional resources for assignment
File attachment Literature 200-level Rubric.doc (38 KB)
File attachment Proper MLA format.docx (11 KB)
File attachment Using MLA to write Literature Papers.doc (38 KB)
File attachment Literary Analysis.doc (38 KB)
File attachment Writing a Thesis Statement for a Literary Analysis.doc (33 KB)
File attachment Giving Your Paper a Good Title.doc (32 KB)
File attachment Inserting Quotations Gracefully into Papers.doc (37 KB)

At least five source must be journal article.

Purpose:
To examine the mobile phone market and choose a specific phone (e.g.Blackberry) that is in need of re-­‐positioning in the Australian Mobile Phone market. Should you choose a mobile phone brand, you are permitted to modify the chosen phone in line with your marketing plan and re‐positioning strategy.

the basic outline for this marketing plan is the cheap smart mobile device in australian market.

1. brand : sony mobile
-1. stock price history in australian stock market
-2.current market strategy
-3.market proportion in smart phone market in australia.
-4. PEST Analyze

2. segmentation
-demographic
-1. age late 40’s
-2. gender both
-3. family size 2~3
-4. life style working at mining site , farm in rural area.
-5. income 10,000~20,000 (low income)

3. geographic
-1.region : Western Australia or Nothern Territory.

positioning.
this product is

low convinience
basic service + few function.
Cheap price
low Quality
Average innovative

product outlooking is similar to ordinary Bar type non smart phone with life style water proof, shock proof email check function nd tedering function.

You can find another information with attached files.

How would you fit the narrative of William Lazonick’s "Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy"? within the larger story about institutions, property rights, transaction costs,rent seeking, public goods, inequality, and growth told by North, Clarks, Olson, Lindert, as well as Sokoloff and Engerman? If the authors were gathered in the same room, how would their conversation develop a climax? What issues would they disagree about or view as irresolvable and what would they generally agree about and consider settled? How would William Lazonick’s entry shed light on older ideas as well as current issues of growth and distribution? Your assignment is to write a literature review presenting William Lazonick’s Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy within the context of the larger narrative about the political economy of growth and distribution as presented by North, Clark, Olson, as well as Sokoloff and Engerman.

Please use these sources:
Lazonick, William. 2009. Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy. W.E. Upjohn Institute. [Available at Franklin Bookstore]

Lindert, Peter H. 2004. Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Centur, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Available at Franklin Bookstore]

North, Douglass. 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. [Available at Franklin Bookstore]

Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven: Yale University Press. [available at Franklin Bookstore]

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. and Stanley L. Engerman. 1997. “Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States” in How Latin America Fell Behind. Stephen Haber, ed., Stanford University Press. [Available on Moodle]

Clark, Gregory. 2007. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Available at Franklin Bookstore].

NO PLAGIARISM
In your answers use all the knowledge you have acquired throughout the semester.

Each question should between at least two-and-a-hal doubled-spaced pages.There are three questions.

Be sure to focus your answer on what is being asked, 2 points for each failure to follow instructions.

Question # 1
1. Recent work in anthropology and cultural studies has been increasingly concerned with the politics of collecting and exhibiting culture at museums. As you’ve read and discussed throughout the semester, the dominant discourse on Puerto Ricanness centers on the highland peasants (jíbaros) and their supposedly Hispanic heritage. As Babín claims “the jíbaro represents that which is most profound, resistant and pure element of the Puerto Rican nationality.” This dominant discourse basically aims to preserve the material culture and traditional practices of an ‘imagined’ Hispanic, Catholic, rural country against the backdrop of U.S. colonialism, industrialization, urbanization, and migration.

With its emphasis on the harmonious integration of groups and cultures the dominant discourse tends to subordinate all heritages—and specially the African—to the Spanish, and to ignore the cultural contributions of other groups that came later (among others Corsicans, Americans, Cubans, Dominicans, Nuyoricans).

In this question you will look at and analyze the public representation of the dominant ideology (i.e., official) of Puerto Rican culture through the Vidal Collection and exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) http://americanhistory.si.edu/vidal/. Carefully examine the web site and familiarize yourself with all its pages. Be sure to look at the photos and at the objects in the collection.

Write an essay where you discuss the presentation/representation of the dominant Hispanicist ideology through the Vidal Collection and exhibit at the NMAH. In the essay discuss the following points:

1. Assess through the exhibit the nationalist project to protect and preserve Puerto Rican folk traditions in the face of increasing Americanization and change. [How is this done in terms of the objects that are presented?]

2. Discuss the meaning of the types of objects that predominate in the representation of jíbaro culture.

3. How does the exhibition perpetuates the founding myth of “The Great Puerto Rican Family” and of the harmonious integration of all sectors of the society—beyond racial and class fissures? [Discuss this by analyzing the objects collected and presented.]

4. How is Puerto Rican culture presented to the American public?

5. How would you make this representation of Puerto Rican culture more inclusive of groups and of epochs.

Question # 2

2. Issues of group identity and representation can be found everywhere. When commercial interests intrude into the discussion of ‘who gets represented’ and ‘how they are represented’ the controversies created can be quite poignant. Such was the case in late 1997 when Mattel introduced to the market a “Puerto Rican Barbie.” The reception that the “Puerto Rican Barbie” received was mixed. While Island Puerto Rican warmly embraced it, Mainland Puerto Rican tended to be more critical of its representativeness.

Read Mireya Navarro’s “A New Barbie in Puerto Rico Divides Island and Mainland” (New York Times, 12/27/1997, p.1) article on the controversies around the Puerto Rican Barbie. [http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/27/us/a-new-barbie-in-puerto-rico-divides-island-and-mainland.html]

Also study the following WebPages:
—For a close look at the Puerto Rican Barbie:

—On Barbie dolls:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/february98/barbie_2-26.html
—On Barbie ethnic dolls—examples:
http://kattisdolls.net/faces/bethnic.htm
—Barbie dolls in Latin America:
http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata37.htm
—The Puerto Rican Barbie:
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050509_1.htm

Write an essay in the form of a letter to the editor of a newspaper where you take issue (either agreeing or disagreeing) with the depiction of the Puerto Rican Barbie. Center your argument on the discussion of whether commercial interests corrupt a representation of culture. In your argument be sure to clearly enumerate at least three things why you agree or disagree. Also be conciliatory by writing one last paragraph suggesting how could that doll be made more representative of the culture.

Among the required issues to touch upon are:

o Race—how race is idealized and represented;

o How can a specific representation of a group be both inclusive and exclusive of members of the group;

o What could be the different ways to represent an identity;

o The value of different heritages and how they are represented;

o The conundrum of the commercialism of culture and cultural practices—that is, how commercialization can undervalue and/or highlight the representation of a group.

Question #3

3. The system of racial classification and recognition in Puerto Rico, and to a certain extent in the US, allows for manipulation as individuals try to escape the insidious effects of racism and racial prejudice. The manipulation of the system is ultimately based on the notion that while all Puerto Ricans are racially mixed the prefered mixtures are those that tend to bleach (blanquear). The insidious effects of the system of racial classification is such that there is among some a never ending effort to move from one racial classification into another.

Using the essays by Godreau (“Slippery Semantics”) and Duany (“Neither White nor Black”) discuss in an essay:

· how the system of racial classification is structured

· how it emphasizes whitening and denigrates blackness.

With what you’ve learned from Godreau and Duany’s essay in mind discuss the racial reality and manipulation described in the essay by Haslip-Viera “Changed Identities: A Racial Portrait of Two Extended Families, 1909-Present” (inside a special folder in the <Course Readings Area>). Among the themes to discuss are:

· what are the differences between appearance and genetic heritage?

· how was race characterized by this family?

· what efforts were undertaken to change the racial identity?

· What have you learned from this?

I want the writer to write a product customer analysis regarding a new product that I invented and not yet in the market, which is a Personal Calorie Management Device with Music Player and Mini Massager (further details regarding the product can be seen in one of the files that I upload later in the document entitled "Project Proposal"). The customer analysis should cover/fulfill the requirements that my professor asked (The requirements will also be uploaded later along with sample analysis) and should be done in accurate manner and detailed.

1. Review the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which was created in 2002 to address the accounting scandals in the late 90s early 00s (Enron, World Com, etc.). Identify the provisions that you feel made the biggest impact. What other provisions could have been included in the Act to strengthen the Responsible Stewardship and Integrity of the accounting profession? And conversely, what existing provisions in the Act do you believe (if any) are unnecessary or over-regulate the profession?

2. Summarize the events of a recent accounting scandal. Identify how the illegal/unethical act was detected and the punishments that resulted (fines, prison terms, etc.). Consider what could have been done to detect this act earlier and what could have been done to prevent this from happening in the first place. Select a different example than those listed on previous posts.

3. US GAAP follows the Historical Cost Concept in valuing the cost of Long-Term Assets. Explain this principle and how it compares to the standards used in the reporting of Long-Term Assets under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). If there is a convergence of standards, which method do you believe should be used and why?

4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different types of financing:
1. Issuing bonds
2. Borrowing from Bank
3. Equity financing

Please give two sources for each scenario question and differentiate i.e. number them accordingly.