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Issues in Childhood and Adolescence: Select at least two research articles in scholarly journals to reference in their paper.

Write a letter to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation exploring the ethos of gender construction as it is presented in this company’s 2006 movie, Bratz Passion 4 Fashion Diamondz. Focus on the construction of masculinity, femininity or both, and employ ideas of theorists such as Mary Wollstonefraft, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Wolf, Margaret Mead,Claude Levi-strauss, or Germaine Greer.

What if your school decided not to give any more quizzes, test, or grades to students? What could be the reasons for such a decision? What would be the effects?

Pick an infectious disease in which you are interested in, such as Tuberculosis, AIDS, the Bird Flu,Anthrax, or Chickenpox. This infectious disease must be different from your “Disease in the News”
Infectious disease. As part of your investigation, select a population of interest. For example,
A particular race or ethnicity and how they relate to your infectious disease. In a 1,400-1,750
Word paper explore the social and cultural aspects of the disease. Include the following information:
Describe the agent of disease.
Describe the factors that make this particular population vulnerable to the disease.
Describe environmental factors that make the population vulnerable to the disease.
d.What are the modes for disease transmission?
e.What methods are used to control the spread of the disease? Are there alternative methods used by the selected population for treatment? What is the effect of alternate treatments?
What role do social and/or cultural influences play in the disease for a particular population?
What are the effects of the populations’ beliefs and values have on treatment options?

Is America a Village? In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, the inhabitants are seeking a better life for themselves and
their children, seeking freedom from the kind of greed and violence that caused them such harrowing
loss and pain. Have they achieved their goal? Has America?
Assignment: Write an essay in which you construct your own vision of America, engaging the texts we
have read this term to write your response to the implicit question this course asks: What is your
response to the way America has been imagined and how do you imagine America?
Ideas to Consider: This semester we started with a sermon that imagined the Massachusetts Bay Colony
as city upon a hill, a Christian model of charity that fulfilled a covenant with God to create
a new, more pure way of life with a greater commitment to God. We moved onto the ways America has
been imagined since then, the cleavages wrought by the civil war and slavery, and how that has
impacted race relations as they are represented in the film and literature of the twentieth century.
We have reviewed the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War and now, with 2004, the
“war on terror.” We have read some of the most important literature and non-fiction of the century,
including W.E.B. DuBois, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Shirley Jackson.
We have watched some of the more significant films of the century, including Birth of a Nation,
Sullivan’s Travels, The Manchurian Candidate, and now The Village. What is your response to these
representations? Have we become a city upon a hill, a beacon of freedom? Applying Foucault to
these texts, do they suggest that we have become a perverse version of what Winthrop imagined
in 1630 when he said: “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us?”
Have we become subjects of that gaze, divided and fragmented from one another? Or are we instead,
as Pratt suggests, developing methods of questioning the legitimacy of those with power over us,
creating a contact zone in which we “clash and grapple” with one another? Are we neither of these
extreme visions but something in between, something more complicated?
Reminders: Final draft must be at least five pages long, contain an introductory paragraph and a
central thesis or argument. Each paragraph must have a project, a point that the rest of the
paragraph works to support/elucidate through engagement (quotation and analysis or detailed
description) with, preferably, multiple texts (may pick and choose among texts that best support
your idea). Please include a concluding paragraph as well in which you answer: What does
it all mean?,” taking a macro-view of the issues/ideas raised in your paper.

Urban Policy Paper: Write two separate summaries of the articles provided. And one source each, that is relevant to the respective articles and explain how the outside sources are relevant. Site all four sources (two articles and two outside sources) using FOOTNOTES. Finally, write a conclusion explain how smart growth, inner-city development, citizen participation, the failure of economic incentives, and technological advancement like GIS (Geographic information systems) are all important in Urban Planning.

The Semi-sovereign People: The paper is about the book “The semi-sovereign People” by E.E. Schattschneider, specifically chapters 4-8. All quotes must come from chapters 4-8. The paper is in response to the questions:
Why is it necessary to have a “realistic” idea of democracy? Why does Schattschneider think we can’t decide everything?

Political Interest Groups and Healthcare: The Assignment –
is to choose one of the interest groups that are trying to influence health care policies before congress and the president and to analyze their activities in terms of the President, Congress, Public opinion, etc. you may make use of newspaper articles of information from websites in order to find the current information on the interest groups activities and the presidents policy goals but then you must show evidence of your understanding of the issues by including at least six credible, reliable references to scholarly research on the topic. To Clarify : I am looking for a research paper in political science; in other words, using information you find on your particular issue put it into context of the scholarly information written by political scientists and other experts

The relationship between law and social change–Discuss the relationship between law and social change: does law follow or initiate social change? Give examples, use cases such as Eldridge and Suave, provide arguments for and against, link your argument to one of theoretical perspectives (e.g., Marx, critical legal studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, etc.).
Viewpoints
• Valid (scholarly/academic, not personal opinion) support/evidence/research
• Multiple views/opposing arguments
o Appreciation & refutation of…
o Valid support/evidence/research
Cases/Examples
• Almost all topics involve an actual legal case, legislation or legal reference. Your paper can only truly address the issue at hand if you use & properly reference the actual materials in question. Find the actual court case or legislation in question, in its primary state. Do not rely on only others’ interpretations.
o Almost all federal & provincial (and even international) legislation is available online (Acts, Codes, laws, etc.)
o Most court cases are available online; remember many high profile cases have gone through more than one level of court!
• Case studies, legal references, historical references, etc.
• Valid support/evidence/research
• Get the facts right – verify with multiple sources
• If you are using examples, whose version of the ‘facts’ is it? It there an opposing view/version? How do we know what is ‘true’?
Substance
• Thesis – main premise of paper clearly identified in introduction, and maintained throughout paper
• Proposed arguments & support for each
• Issues/questions to be discussed/answered
• Be sure you are answering what you were asked!
Theories/Support
• Valid (scholarly/academic) support/evidence/research
• Explain clearly what the theory entails and how it relates to the issue/topic
• Multiple theories may apply; as well, one theory may often apply in more than one way (be clear about how you are using it)

Evaluate the administrations of Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison in reference to their conceptions of the office and the use of executive power.
What were a few accomplishments of each president?