Category: Humanities

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Please match the type of reinforcement/punishment with each statement.

–A.B.C.D. You receive a $100 incentive bonus from your boss for completing a project early. –A.B.C.D. Maria was fighting with his sister. Her mother says she can’t watch TV tonight. –A.B.C.D. You are assigned 10 hours of trash pick-up after being caught smoking in the campus library restroom. –A.B.C.D. You always put on your seatbelt so that the annoying buzzer will stop.

A. Positive reinforcement B. Negative punishment C. Positive punishment D. Negative reinforcement

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2,000 word minimum 7+ credible sources (2 peer reviewed)

In Essay 3, you will prove a claim about biodiversity in one specific area (health, environment, hunger, etc.). Your essay will have to be a rigorous analysis of the scientific support for and proofs against your position, and you must justify your position in light of both, especially through your counterargument. You will also have to analyze the validity of the studies you use to support your position and those that impeach your opposition. Consider flaws in reasoning, bias, exclusion of perspectives or data, poorly constructed experiments, etc. You must prove your thesis through well-reasoned, well-researched, well-organized argument.

You can pick any topic, hobby, activity, or interest that appeal to you and see how it might intersect with biodiversity.

Possible essay topics include, but are not limited to:

• How a particular ecosystem’s biodiversity affects climate change
• The effects of tourism OR urban development on a particular ecosystem’s biodiversity
• Biodiversity’s connection to medical/pharmacological developments
• The effects of monocropping in agriculture
• Pollinator biodiversity and its effects on agriculture

REMEMBER, this essay is an argument, not a report. You have to prove your claim.

You have a reason why your claim is true, and your essay needs to prove it through evidence and strong arguments.

Requirements:

• 2,000 words minimum
• 1”margins
• Last Name & Page Numbers in the upper-right corner of the Header
• Heading in the upper-left corner of the 1st page that includes

Your Full Name

Course

Professor Name

Date

• A clear, relevant, interesting title
• Double-spaced (no extra space between paragraphs)
• A correct MLA Works Cited page of all sources
• Correct MLA Citations throughout the text of your essay for all material referenced
  • SEE MLA INFO AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE

• NO sentence-level errors
• A coherent structure—the ideas in your essay should flow (OUTLINES SAVE LIVES!)
• NO irrelevant points or wordiness
• On-time submission on Canvas for both rough and final drafts

IMPORTANT NOTE: Any draft that does not reach the minimum word count (even by 1 word), can receive no more than a 60%. Be sure that if you use Google Docs or other online word processing apps (which count differently), that you aren’t under the minimum.

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PART A:

Data decision-making is a detailed process that requires teachers to observe and analyze student learning over time. Showcasing how you work with others to provide literacy intervention support to students is important when demonstrating your skills as a reading/literacy specialist.

Create a 12-15 slide digital presentation to showcase your Literacy Work Sample. You will present this to your mentor and mentee in Topic 6.

The presentation should address the following:

• Effective collaboration strategies that occurred with the mentor during decision-making to assess and align instructional practices and interventions within and across classrooms.
• Effective collaboration strategies that occurred with the mentor during decision-making to design and align instructional practices and interventions within and across classrooms.
• How instructional approaches and practices were differentiated to meet the diverse literacy needs of individuals and groups of students.
• Effective collaboration strategies that occurred with the mentee to develop, implement, and evaluate literacy instructional practices and curriculum.
• How tracking was used to increase student engagement and self-efficacy.
• The process you used to reflect on your personal practice as a reading/literacy specialist in light of current research, policy, and practice.
• Title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.

Support your presentation with 2-3 scholarly resources.

PART B:

Collecting and analyzing student data does not need to be a hassle. Using the right data tracking tools, teachers can efficiently gather and use student data to guide instruction and assessment decisions. Additionally, providing students with the opportunity to track their own progress can lead to increased motivation and achievement.

Allocate at least 12.5 hours in the field to support this field experience. It is the discretion of the candidate to determine how to appropriately utilize the 12.5 practicum hours to balance assignment requirements working with both a mentor and a mentee. It could vary from one topic to another in order to complete all components of assignment expectations.

Using the data from the formative assessment implemented in Topic 4, collaborate with your mentor to adjust the final intervention from your Topic 3 literacy intervention plan. If the small group of students have met the literacy standard, develop an activity that enriches students’ knowledge of the standard. Implement the final intervention or activity and make any necessary adjustments to the tracking process you developed for your small group of students.

Work with your mentor to develop a summative assessment based on the intervention data. The assessment should be aligned to the literacy standard and include multiple choices for students to demonstrate learning. Implement the assessment with your small group of students and provide feedback for student tracking.

Discuss with your mentor the following:

• Is your tracking a simple, time efficient process?
• Does your tracking fit your style of teaching?
• Does the tracking process relate to the students and have they used it consistently?
• Have students met the literacy goal?
• Did the assessment properly measure student learning? Were students more successful when provided choice to demonstrate learning.
• What are the next steps in solidifying or enriching students’ knowledge of the literacy standard?

In the “Mentor Tracking Summary” section of the LWS, explain how you collaborated with your mentor to develop, implement, and evaluate literacy instructional practices, curriculum, tracking methods, and assessments.

Part 2: Mentoring

Discuss with the mentee the results of the formative assessment implemented with the small group of students. Apply the knowledge you learned from your tracking process to assist your mentee in tracking and providing feedback to their students. Collaborate with your mentee to determine additional student needs and next steps in their intervention process. Complete the “Mentee Discussion Summary.”

Spend any remaining field experience hours providing literacy instruction and support.

In the “Reflection” section of the LWS, write 250-500 words reflecting on your personal practice as a reading/literacy specialist related to decision-making in light of current research, policy, and practice.

Support your reflection with 2-3 scholarly resources.

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This week, you will consider how deontology applies to a controversy, dilemma, event, or scenario selected by your instructor. It is a chance for you to discuss together the ethical issues and questions that it raises, your own response to those, and whether that aligns with or does not align with a deontological approach. The aim is not to simply assert your own view or to denigrate other views, but to identify, evaluate, and discuss the moral reasoning involved in addressing the chosen issue.

Your posts should remain focused on the ethical considerations, and at some point in your contribution you must specifically address the way someone with a deontological view would approach this issue by explaining and evaluating that approach.

If you have a position, you should strive to provide reasons in defense of that position.

The topic to be discussed in this symposium is speciesism. Speciesism is the view that human animals (human beings) have more moral value than (that is, are more important than) non-human animals. Using deontology, and following the symposium instructions above, evaluate speciesism. That is, evaluate the ethical responsibilities human animals have to non-human animals. For example, do human animals have a duty not to eat the flesh of non-human animals? From the perspective of speciesism, the answer is no. From the perspective of speciesism, humans can eat the flesh of non-human animals because humans have more moral value than (are more important than) non-human animals. How would deontology come out on this subject? Be sure to provide reasons (rooted in Kant’s actual theories as found in the textbook and in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals) for any position or point of view you post here and for any response to your peers or to myself. Remember: this prompt is not asking for your opinion on the topic. It is asking how deontology would process this question.

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Essential Questions:

• How can we ensure equality for all?
• What were the causes, main events, and effects of the civil rights movement?
• How did the policies of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson affect the nation?

Section 1: The Civil Rights Movement Strengthens

• Describe efforts to end segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
• Explain the importance of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education.
• Describe the controversy over school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Discus the Montgomery bus boycott and its impact.

Section 2: The Movement Surges Forward

• Describe the sit-ins, freedom ride, and the actions of James Meredith in the early 1960s.
• Explain how the protests at Birmingham and the March on Washington were linked to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Describe how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed minority rights in the United States.

Section 3: Success and Setbacks

• Explain the significance of Freedom Summer, the march on Selma, and why violence erupted in some American cities in the 1960s.
• Compare and contrast the goals and approaches taken by African American leaders to expand political rights and economic opportunities.
• Describe the social and economic situation of African Americans by 1975.

Section 4: Kennedy’s Reforms

• Discuss the election of 1960.
• Evaluate Kennedy’s domestic policies.
• Assess the impact of Kennedy’s assassination.

Section 5: Reform under Johnson

• Evaluate Johnson’s policies up to his victory in the 1964 election.
• Analyze Johnson’s goals and actions as seen in his Great Society programs.
• Assess the achievements of the Great Society in creating economic opportunities for citizens.
• Analyze the effects of US Supreme Court decisions.

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2. A written reflection that requires you to think deeply on the various strategies and learning styles presented in the module for this unit, and provide specific discussion of how you incorporated a college success skills strategy in another one of your classes. The reflection should include:

• a description of the uploaded evidence
• how this helped improve your preparation for an upcoming exam, assignment, etc. in another course
• a discussion of the results from (a) the learning styles assessment and (b) the study skills inventory, and how they helped shape the implemented strategy

3. The reflection should be a minimum of 350 words and formatted according to MLA style and submitted inside a MS Word or PDF document. There should a minimum of 2 uploads.

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Please answer the questions in this document and be ready to discuss in class on Wednesday.

Capstone Exit Interview.docx

Be honest, I will not hold anything against you. Remember, I have only offered the Capstone as a full course one other time, so your input will be very helpful.

If there is something that is not asked that you would like to talk about, please feel free to add that as well. Tell me what you think and help me make this and the degree better.

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write a 3-5 page essay.

You are required to answer only one essay prompt. Organize your thoughts carefully since you need to express yourself concisely.

Essays should be double-spaced using Times New Roman 12-pt font with one-inch page margins

Ethical Culture at Stetson University

Ethical culture in organizations is created and maintained through both formal and informal systems.In this essay, you will analyze the ethical culture at Stetson by comparing its formal values as stated on the Stetson website at https://www.stetson.edu/other/about/mission-and-values.php with the informal values that you have observed as a Stetson student.Is Stetson in need of any cultural change?If yes, discuss why and recommend how the school’s leaders might create this change.

PROFESSIONALS ONLY PLEASE.

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You to post reactions to and interpretations of the film Midnight Cowboy.

you are required to submit at least two separate original posts about the film. One post should focus on narrative (aspects of the plot, characters, setting, etc.) and one should focus on film technique (lighting, costume, camera angles, mise-en-scene, music, etc.).

Each of the two posts should be at least a substantial paragraph long with specific, concrete examples from the film. make connections to the readings in your original posts.

Your interpretation and reaction should be done in conjunction with the material I gave you.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/mar/13/the-film-that-makes-me-cry-midnight-cowboy-jon-voigt-dustin-hoffman

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/20/midnight-cowboy-favorite-best-picture-oscar-winner

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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper describing your own cultural heritage and traditions and exploring possible origins of your values, worldviews, and behaviors.

Address the following in your paper:

• Describe your family’s race and ethnicity, sex and gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, disability, age, religion and spirituality.
• Reflect and write on the messages you have received about people from culturally diverse backgrounds
• What are you most proud of about your cultural heritage and why?
• Compare and contrast your family values, worldviews, and practices with those of some of the families whose ethnicities differ from yours, and provide your reflection. You may use examples form the text for examples of ethnicities different from yours.
• How might media coverage affect the public’s perception of your culture? Does it encourage or discourage prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping?
• If you were a manager, what inclusion strategies from this week’s reading might you implement to moderate the media’s effect on your employees and to promote inclusion in the workplace?

Include at least two academic references in your research.

Format your paper according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.

My informaton

Ethnicity – Hispanic

Originally from El Salvador

Age 24

Catholic

Female