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Purpose:
How many times have we heard someone complaining about something happening in our communities--but offering no solutions for the problem?  This assignment is designed to develop your problem-solving skills and engage you in a substantive conversation concerning a current local issue.  This assignment will also encourage you to begin seriously considering your audience as a writer.  When you are writing a letter such as this, you'll want to consider who will be reading it, particularly in terms of what words, examples, facts, or appeals might best convince this particular group.

The Assignment:
Write a letter to the editor, proposing a solution to a current local problem.  List the newspaper to which you would be sending this to at the top of your paper.  Begin the letter with:  "Dear Editor,"  Throughout the paper, be as specific as you possibly can in terms of:

1.) Defining/describing the problem and who it affects

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Purpose:
How many times have we heard someone complaining about something happening in our communities--but offering no solutions for the problem?  This assignment is designed to develop your problem-solving skills and engage you in a substantive conversation concerning a current local issue.  This assignment will also encourage you to begin seriously considering your audience as a writer.  When you are writing a letter such as this, you'll want to consider who will be reading it, particularly in terms of what words, examples, facts, or appeals might best convince this particular group.

The Assignment:
Write a letter to the editor, proposing a solution to a current local problem.  List the newspaper to which you would be sending this to at the top of your paper.  Begin the letter with:  "Dear Editor,"  Throughout the paper, be as specific as you possibly can in terms of:

1.) Defining/describing the problem and who it affects

Any topic (writer’s choice)

Purpose:
How many times have we heard someone complaining about something happening in our communities--but offering no solutions for the problem?  This assignment is designed to develop your problem-solving skills and engage you in a substantive conversation concerning a current local issue.  This assignment will also encourage you to begin seriously considering your audience as a writer.  When you are writing a letter such as this, you'll want to consider who will be reading it, particularly in terms of what words, examples, facts, or appeals might best convince this particular group.

The Assignment:
Write a letter to the editor, proposing a solution to a current local problem.  List the newspaper to which you would be sending this to at the top of your paper.  Begin the letter with:  "Dear Editor,"  Throughout the paper, be as specific as you possibly can in terms of:

1.) Defining/describing the problem and who it affects

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How is Western Christianity manipulated in American Supernatural Thrillers like It Follows to produce a social map of judgment and condemnation? Are these types of films extensions of religion? Why can't young people have sex outside of marriage? How is all this emotional maelstrom regarding sex ultimately linked to the Counterculture of the 1960s? Use my documentary link below on the 1978 American Horror film Halloween as an example that connects sex, the counterculture, and sin.

I've restated the information above as a numbered list to constitute the basic assignment rubric:

How is Western Christianity manipulated in American Supernatural Thrillers like It Follows to produce a social map of judgment and condemnation?
Are these types of films extensions of religion?
Why can't young people have sex outside of marriage?
How is all this emotional maelstrom regarding sex ultimately linked to the Counterculture of the 1960s?
Use my documentary link below on the 19

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How do mass media and morality function combine to connect horror, mass media, adultery,  and punishment in the film The Ring? Follow the link below to my documentary "Wrath of Samara" and use it to help guide your analytical outline. Try and include references to Marshall McLuhan, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung and the manner in which I use their ideas to critically engage The Ring. First, describe in brief their big ideas and then describe how I apply those concepts to film analysis of The Ring.

I've re-arranged the information above into a numbered list to form the assignment matrix:

How do mass media and morality function combine to connect horror, mass media, adultery,  and punishment in the film The Ring?
Follow the link below to my documentary "Wrath of Samara" and use it to help guide your analytical outline.
Try and include references to Marshall McLuhan, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung and the manner in which I use their ideas to critically engage The

FAO1

How does mass media and morality function combine to connect horror, mass media, adultery,  and punishment  in the film The Ring? Follow the link below to my documentary "Wrath of Samara" and use it to help guide your analytical outline. Try and include references to Marshall McLuhan, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung and the manner in which I use their ideas to critically engage The Ring. First, describe in brief their big ideas and then describe how I apply those concepts to a film analysis of The Ring.

I've re-arranged the information above into numbered list to form the assignment matrix:

How does mass media and morality function combine to connect horror, mass media, adultery,  and punishment  in the film The Ring?
Follow the link below to my documentary "Wrath of Samara" and use it to help guide your analytical outline.
Try and include references to Marshall McLuhan, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung and the manner in which I use their ideas to criti

Humanities Ancient

I am introducing this assignment a bit earlier than I planned to give you more time to work on it, and I decided to give you only one option:  to write a short essay of three to four pages on the following topic:
The introduction of writing has allowed us to understand ancient cultures with greater precision than Prehistoric cultures. Discuss at least three examples whereby we can understand an ancient work of art more fully by looking at the writing and/or literature of the society that produced it, and analyze at least three examples by which we can gain a more complete view of a cultures literature by considering its art.  This will be a minimum of six examples total.  In support of your answer, choose examples of art and literature from at least two of the following cultures:  1) The Ancient Near East, 2) Ancient Egypt, 3) Ancient Greece, and 4) Ancient Rome.  Describe your examples clearly and explain how they support your essay's main points.  The

Reflective Writing:What are the words or images that come into your mind when you think of conflict. Should conflict be welcomed or avoided? How did your family handle conflicts? Do you handle conflict in the same way? What are some characteristics of

What are the words or images that come into your mind when you think of conflict.  Should conflict be welcomed or avoided? How did your family handle conflicts? Do you handle conflict in the same way? What are some characteristics of intercultural conflict? How could the advice from the video of William Ury in this module be useful in how you will handle intercultural conflicts?

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The Hypothetical
    The Republic of Amistan has brought an action in the International Court of Justice [ICJ] against Malevoland, for violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Both are parties to the convention. There is ample proof in expert reports and the media that Malevoland has targeted a religious minority group by: 1) Confining and, in some cases, executing the groups religious and political leaders who have resisted Malevolands assimilation policies, and 2) Removing children from the group to place them in camps where the children are forbidden from speaking the language of their group or engaging in other cultural practices. At this point it is unclear whether Malevoland intends to return the children. The ICJs jurisdiction in this matter, under article IX of the Genocide Convention, hinges on whether Malevolands actions amount to genocide under article II of the convention. You will conduct an interpretation

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The Hypothetical
    The Republic of Amistan has brought an action in the International Court of Justice [ICJ] against Malevoland, for violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Both are parties to the convention. There is ample proof in expert reports and the media that Malevoland has targeted a religious minority group by: 1) Confining and, in some cases, executing the groups religious and political leaders who have resisted Malevolands assimilation policies, and 2) Removing children from the group to place them in camps where the children are forbidden from speaking the language of their group or engaging in other cultural practices. At this point it is unclear whether Malevoland intends to return the children. The ICJs jurisdiction in this matter, under article IX of the Genocide Convention, hinges on whether Malevolands actions amount to genocide under article II of the convention. You will conduct an interpretation