Category: Essays

Descriptions “describe”—they depict the “what is” of a statement. Prescriptions “prescribe”—they express the “what ought to be” of a statement. When approaching controversial or emotionally charged subjects, critical thinkers are mindful of the different roles that facts and values play in people’s judgments and the different roles they play in different kinds of judgments. This assignment will help deepen your understanding of those distinctions.

To see how an issue can be approached using a descriptive or prescriptive argument, review these examples. Descriptive and prescriptive arguments are considered in the lecture pages for Module 3.

Based on your understanding of descriptive and prescriptive arguments, respond to the following:

Identify a topic of interest for which arguments of different perspectives can be created.
Construct one original descriptive argument and one original prescriptive argument for the topic you select.

Support your arguments with scholarly references. Be sure to provide citations for your sources as well as citations for a premise you state to be a fact.

Write your initial response in a total of 200–300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Week 3, Day 3, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Week 3, Day 7, review at least two peers’ responses. Each response should be at least 75 words in length. Critically comment on how they have used evidence in different types of arguments. Be sure to address the following:

Identify the supporting evidence for their arguments.
Offer an assessment of the strength of the evidence provided in support of the argument. Include a rationale for your statements. You may offer a suggestion for improved supporting evidence.

Grading Criteria and Rubric
Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Initial Discussion Response
16
Discussion Participation
16
Writing Craftsmanship and Ethical Scholarship

Essay must consist of at least 700 words (this equals two double-spaced pages in Times New Roman font 12), must be in complete sentences and where necessary, appropriate information must be properly documented in MLA style.

Turnitin is a plagiarism identification service that can also assist students with term paper reference methodology. The Turnitin tool compares your writing against all published sources and also checks against previous classes’ written work(s). Source match cannot be more than 10%.

Essay Question :

What was the impact of the Holocaust on postwar art and culture?

Read Hayden’s volume alongside Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen (1949). Discuss how each author envisions childhood and memory, and how these visions are gendered.

2. The metaphor of Passing accrues several layers of meaning. What are they? How do they relate to each other?

2. Whose story is this? Clare’s or Irene’s?

3. What does this passage mean: “[Irene] was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. Herself. Her race. Race: The thing that bound and suffocated her. Whatever steps she took, or if she took none at all, something would be crushed. A person or the race. Clare, herself, or the race. Or, it might be all three.”

4. It has been suggested that Passing uses race more as a device to sustain suspense than as a compelling social issue. What is the relation of race to subjective experience in the text?

5. What is the significance of narrative endings in Larsen? Why does Passing refuse to specify how Clare is killed and who is responsible

Should be at least350 words, APA format

Question 1

The United States Government is striving to have an open, but secure border. What would be the consequences/impact to the United States if the border was suddenly made less open and more secure?

2) Should the “need to know” be replaced by the “need to share” as stated in the 9/11 Commission Report? Why or why not? Fully explain your position.

3) What is the role of the Department of Defense in border and coastal security? What is the DOD’s relationship with the Department of Homeland Security as it pertains to border security? How does DOD support civil authorities?

Question 2

1) Define pay riding. What is free riding? Over time, can the unilateral solution likely turn into a multilateral one?

2) “Is it cost effective to spend millions and millions of dollars in an effort to stop a hand-full of people” who are bound to terrorize the United States?

3) What is the “Hardened Border Paradox? What is the “Open Border Paradox? How can both be overcome?

What is Ethical Relativism and how does it ultimately contradict itself?

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Read De George, pp. 21-42 (Ethical relativism)

Read De George, pp. 43-60 (Utilitarianism)

Short Writing Assignment #1:

What is Ethical Relativism and how does it ultimately contradict itself?

Please no more than a page to a page and half. Thank you.

I will attach a PowerPoint might help

Assignment 2: Selecting Prospective Police Officers

Various characteristics are associated with fair-minded, effective, and successful police officers. Many police departments make sure that they carefully screen potential police officers on the basis of qualities like personality traits and achievements. These serve as potential predictors for selecting future police officers with integrity and ability. The goal, of course, is to learn up front whether individuals will actually transform into effective and ethical officers before investing time and money into training police officers.

Submission Details:

n a minimum of 250 words, post to the Discussion Area your response to the following:

Describe what you consider are the most important selection criteria for potential police officers.
How important are the quality and quantity of college education for individuals aspiring to become responsible police officers?
What according to you are some personality characteristics that are important for becoming responsible police officers? Describe these characteristics.
How would you ensure diversity among the ranks—including racial minorities, women, and people from different sections of society? Or how much weight should be given to factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, and gender of candidates during selections?
If you were the hiring official, would you exclude applicants who fall short of your perceptions of an “ideal cop” but who fit the criteria for the job? Why or why not?

Assignment 2: Development of the US Prison System

The purpose and goals of the US prison system have evolved through the gamut of simplistic corporal punishment and incarceration to modern-day alternative approaches, such as diversionary programs, restorative justice programs, and specialized problem-solving courts.

The evolutionary development of the US prison system has coincided with a greater understanding of criminal behavior as well as the criminogenic factors that influence such behavior.

Consequently, the US prison system’s goals on deterrence, punishment, treatment, and rehabilitation have also evolved. From a larger perspective, the system’s predominant philosophies have been influenced by political, legal, and societal factors.

Tasks:

Using the Argosy University online library resources, research the developments of the early prison system. Compare these developments and changes with those of the prisons that exist today.

Submission Details:

n a minimum of 250 words, post to the Discussion Area your responses to the following:

The early US prison system has gone through many changes. Discuss the significant changes and compare them to the modern prison system.
Explain how the purpose and goals of today’s prison system have changed from the earlier system. Discuss the differences that you see in terms of punishment, deterrence, treatment, and rehabilitation in today’s prison system.

Note: Include an APA-formatted reference page that links back to in-text citations and supports your discussions. Remember, you cannot have only in-text citations or references. You must have both

We are reading Romeo and Juliet this week in order to better understand some of its more important themes and how these themes are deployed in the play. Using some of the literary terminology that you have learned this week, identify one of the following themes and write about its development in the play. Romeo and Juliet is about: class conflict; a dysfunctional society; patriarchal oppression of women; generational conflict; the pathology of violence in society; imagination vs. reality; the destructiveness of love; free will vs. fate.

2. SCRIPT TO SCREEN

Choose one of the following film adaptations:

Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), Chicken Rice War (2000), Romeo Must Die (2000), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Romeo and Juliet(1968), Romeo and Juliet (1966), West Side Story (1961), Romeo and Juliet (1954), Romeo and Juliet (1936).

After carefully reading Romeo and Juliet the play, carefully watch one of the adaptations (you will need to rent the film from Amazon, Netflix, etc., if it is not on YouTube); it is better of you watch it twice. Then compose a comparison and contrast of the play and film. In what ways does the film change the play? Remain faithful to it? Bring it to life? Make it relevant for modern society? Offer a cogent thematic interpretation

For teacher Factorised_Facts;Should unions be guaranteed a seat on an organization’s board of directors? Why or why not? Please support your response with references.

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Should unions be guaranteed a seat on an organization’s board of directors? Why or why not? Please support your response with references.

Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 250 words. at minimum 1 reference

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments. Include the following:

Compare and contrast conventional current regulations and oversights that exist in the United States with that of nonconventional medicine.
Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and clarify how these terms are different.
Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in these three terms.
Examine the philosophy of CAM and how it relates to or is different from conventional Western medicine.
Describe how NCCAM classifies Complementary Health Approaches.
Select one CAM treatment therapy (modality) from among the complementary health approaches and describe it.
Using one medical condition, describe how your chosen therapy can be used as an alternative, a complementary, or an integrative therapy for that specific medical condition.
Include the results of scientific studies that show a clinical benefit from the example selected, if available.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Use at least two references besides NCCAM and your textbook