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What are the differences and similarities between iraq and syria
Syria from these two video website as points.
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365592857/ (Inside Assad’s Syria)
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365756423/ (The Secret History of ISIS)

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Tracking in our Schools
A curriculum of control, low expectations, and lack of access to high quality teachers and learning experiences is having a deleterious impact on innumerate PreK-12 students. Is the tracking of our students the cause? In this assignment, you will explore the concept of tracking in today’s schools. To complete this assignment, you will draw on the following resources.
• Chapter 3 and 4. (Please see the upload file)
• Tracking in the Public Schools: Meet Jenny and Sally (approx. 3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRFS6tPgR_0
• Ability Grouping, tracking, & grouping alternatives (approx. 5 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItvMjRxL_c
• Read the brief article related to screening of students in the Milwaukee Public Schools. http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/11_01/edit111.shtml
• Read the brief article related to tracking students by ability to produce academic results. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/06/03/are-new-york-citys-gifted-classrooms-useful-or-harmful/tracking-students-by-ability-produces-academic-results
After completing the aforementioned, respond to the following prompts in a maximum of two type-written pages.
What is tracking? Provide a definition in your own words.
Where have you observed and/or experienced tracking?
As a future teacher, are you in favor of tracking or do you believe this is an antiquated practice in our schools? Justify your thinking grounded in the professional literature.

 

You recently explored the education to prison pipeline. What role might tracking play in this pipeline?

 

 

MINI-PAPER 2INSTRUCTIONS
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to apply a working knowledge of the theories, terminology, and concepts covered in this course to conduct independent research in order to perform a cost/benefit analysis on “The Cost of Justice.” Briefly research expenditures on corrections at the state and federal level and apply your findings to the modern American conception of justice.

You will provide an analysis of your research findings that considers the following questions: What is justice? Are we achieving it? And what are the costs of justice (cost/benefit analysis)? Keep in mind, costs can be recognized in multiple denominations—think beyond finances to address larger issues.

The body of your paper must be no more than 3 pages. In addition to the body, your paper mustinclude a title page, abstract, and reference page. Your paper must adhere to current APA format throughout, and your writing must be supported with properly formatted in-text citations. You must include at least 2 sources in addition to the Bible. Sources must be scholarly, reliable and relevant to the topic, and current to within the last 7 years. The intentional and appropriate integration of Scripture must be present, as it relates to the topic.

 

Religious studies
Question 1
Write a 1 page paper that addresses Possamai’s concept that Monotheistic fundamentalism is an outcome of Consumer Culture

Assignment
Question 1
Read: Horsley article and discuss the adaptation of an American Civil Religion.
Question 2:
Discuss the depoliticized Jesus and explain why the socio-cultural context of a religious message cannot be ignored (cite 4 reasons)

 

 

 

Alexander Hamilton’s plan called for commercial industrialization, which many Americans viewed positively. Explain why some Americans opposed Hamilton’s

position. What were some of the alternative plans for development?
Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Volume 1). Seagull 5th Edition. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. ISBN # 978-0-393-60342-2

 

Your assignment is an individual assignment and must cover the following information:
1. What are the ethical questions or concerns that pertain to your research project?
2. Why are they important to address for your project to be successful?
3. How are you planning to obtain consent for collecting data for your project?
4. What are the potential causes of harm involved in your research project?
5. How are you going to overcome these potential sources of harm?
6. How are you going to ensure confidentiality and anonymity in your data collection?
7. What will you do in the event that you cannot collect enough data for your project?
Write your report as you would present it to an ethics committee board to approve your proposed research.
Your certificate of completion of the ethics on-line course needs to be presented by February 15th as well. It is considered a prerequisite for the course and should be done ASAP.
RUBRIC:

Each question, 1 -7 is worth 7 marks.
Your spelling, grammar and organization of work is worth 3 marks
Your citations and references are worth 3 marks.
The total is 55 marks for this assignment.

Your ethics report is an individual assignment that is directly related to your research project.
Every researcher must consider the ethical concerns that could impact the research project. Such elements include but are not limited to the following:
– maintaining anonymity and confidentiality
– obtaining consent to participate in the research
– ensure inclusivity
– socially desirable responses
– cause no harm (harm includes physical, emotional, psychological, financial, and social)
The online module on ethics can help you identify the ethical concerns that can impact your project and strategies to mitigate or eliminate the potential harm that can be created and how to make your project as ethical as possible. It is a good idea to complete the on-line module prior to completing your ethics report.
The seven questions that were provided to you for this assignment were presented as a roadmap to help you address the ethical concerns that impact your research work. A rubric has been created to help you and you can use it as a checklist for your work.
You can use any medium you wish to present your work; for example, a paper, a PowerPoint presentation, a video, a question and answer methodology, or any other medium you wish to consider.

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/06/19/states-leadership-instructs-dps-increase-patrols-b/
1. Introduction: An argument is “a form of discourse in which the writer or speaker tries to persuade an audience to accept, reject,

or think a certain way about a problem that cannot be solved by scientific or mathematical reasoning alone” (White and Billings 3).
#1:Have you driven to Rio Grande City lately? If not, go west and you will notice the pervasive presence of both the United States

Border Patrol and, most recently, the Department of Public Safety State Troopers parked in their black and white patrol units at every corner.

The DPS presence is a response to what has been perceived as the most recent “crisis on the border” as immigrants cross in flight from

conditions in their home countries in search of more livable conditions here.

The questions that you must address are:
1. Should the DPS be involved in border enforcement?
2. What is its role?
3. Is a DPS presence helpful or harmful? Read all the articles, decide where you stand on the issue, and then formulate your argument.

2. Evidence: Your argument must include credible evidence in support of your position. You must include 2-4 sources on the list. You must

use at least two articles listed in the essay folder and also, if necessary, provide additional documentation that informs and supports your

argument. Additional documentation is not mandatory.
3. Structure of the Argument: You must use the classical model of argument: thesis, evidence, the appeals (ethos, pathos, logos),

counterargument and refutation, and conclusion.
4. More Specific Instructions:

• Your essay must be 4-6 pages in length;
• Type your essay in MLA format, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font.
• Document your sources using MLA format and include a Works Cited page

The Classical Model of Argument
(see Aristotle’s Rhetoric)

I. Introduction
A. Lead-in
B. Overview
C. Background

II. Position statement (thesis)

III. Appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) and evidence
A. Appeals to ethics, character, authority (ethos); to emotions (pathos); to reason (logos)
B. Evidence: citing of statistics, results, findings, examples, laws, relevant passages from authoritative texts

IV. Counterargument and Refutation (often presented simultaneously with evidence)

V. Conclusion
A. Highlights of key points presented
B. Recommendations
C. Illuminating restatement of thesis
DPS Goes International

byMelissa del Bosque Published on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 1:50 CST

www.txdps.state.tx.us
Steve McCraw
Ever since Steve McCraw, who was once an FBI agent, became director of the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2009, he’s striven to make the

state’s largest law enforcement agency more like a wing of the Department of Homeland Security. McCraw has invested in armored gunboats, a

surveillance plane and even a helicopter sniper program (since discontinued after two undocumented Guatemalan migrants were killed in 2012).

Now the agency has become the federal government’s newest partner in fighting the global war on drugs.
In late March, McCraw signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

(INL) that allows DPS to send its troopers to other countries to train. DPS can also train foreign police officers in Texas under the new

agreement.
The INL oversees a $1.7 billion annual budget, of which about half a billion is dedicated to “counternarcotic control strategies” such as law

enforcement training, drug crop eradication and foreign programs that support the U.S drug war strategy. INL spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala

says the federal agency has one other partnership in Texas. Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar (whose brother is Democratic Congressman Henry

Cuellar) signed an agreement with the agency in 2011. Last year, Martin Cuellar’s department hosted a three-week study tour in Laredo for eight

narcotics officers from Ecuador.
After signing the agreement with DPS’ McCraw, Ambassador William Brownfield, assistant secretary for the INL, told Texas Public Radio that DPS

has unique expertise in border security, especially in drug- and gang-related crimes. Brownfield cited Central American gangs as one area that

DPS might focus on in the new collaboration. He said he hopes U.S. law enforcement will soon “address issues related to gangs down there that

eventually operate up here.”
McCraw, in a written statement, said he was pleased to have DPS join the U.S. State Department’s global campaign in the war on drugs: “Crime

today is alarmingly transitory, transnational, organized and covert, and it’s not enough for governments to focus solely on protecting public

safety and disrupting crime within their borders—the efforts must be global.”

Write a 5-7 page (double-spaced) paper describing and evaluating a clinical decision support system. choose from the following list. The list of possible decision support programs to research include: MYCIN, OPAL/ONCOCIN, Leeds Abdominal Pain System, DxPlain, Internist-1/Quick Medical Reference (QMR), Iliad, EON/Protege, Isabel, Casnet, Germwatcher, Help, and ATTENDING.

The paper should include the following sections:

Overview. Who or what company designed the system, when was the system used and is it still in use, how much does/did the system cost if it is/was sold? 1 point.

What form of data was input into the system (i.e. signs and symptoms, clinical guideline rules, etc)? 1 point.

What type of reasoning model does it use (how does it work – does it use rules, fuzzy logic, neural networks, etc. to go from the raw data to its conclusions)? 2 points.

What made this program novel compared to other programs? 1 point.

What was the level of acceptance and use and/or are there any studies showing the systems effectiveness in improving outcomes or diagnoses or at least comparing the system to a gold standard? If you struggle with this section due to lack of information, provide your own analysis and clearly state that you express your own opinion due to lack of published information. However, you are strongly encouraged to identify at least one source of information that is not your own. 2 points.

What were the core benefits of the decision support program? 1 point.

What were the limitations of the decision support program? 1 point.

Reference list. This is not exactly a research paper, so there is no minimum or maximum number of references to consider, but you need to cite any sources that you do use in the APA format. 1 point.

Your first nonverbal communication essay is designed to increase your understanding of the role
our facial and eye expressions play in expressing emotions. For this assignment, you’ll need to
read Chapters 4 and 5 and watch the following YouTube clips:
1. https://youtu.be/-PFqzYoKkCc
2. https://youtu.be/lISfh-Ip-qA?list=PLkenMycjjjdbaeJj4EW6dqO3LIbPIfGPP
3. https://youtu.be/NweeK_R_qR0
These clips discuss emotions and facial expressions, particularly the work of Paul Ekman. The
videos discuss whether emotions are universal, if emotions are the result of nature vs. nurture,
and how to interpret facial expressions. The videos also discuss how nonverbal communication is
the primary conveyor of our emotions.
To complete this assignment, you should write a 2 – 3 page essay addressing the questions
below. You will be evaluated on your understanding of course material, your reasoning and
synthesis of ideas, and your writing style including grammar and mechanics. All writing
assignments should be double-spaced with 1” margins and 12-point font.
Assignment Requirements:
Using the textbook and videos, answer the following questions thoroughly and thoughtfully:
1. Why is it important to study how we express emotions?
2. What are the seven categories of emotion revealed by our facial expressions? And how are
those seven categories revealed by our facial muscles?
3. What are the four facial management techniques? In what social situations in your own life
would you use each technique (be specific)?
4. What do you think about the conclusion that emotional expressions are universal?
5. How could reading emotional expressions benefit us in our relationships with others?
TURNITIN.COM and Grademark
1. Review the detailed Turnitin instructions on how to submit your assignments and how to
review the Grademark comments (feedback) from your professor.
2. All written assignments must be submitted to Turnitin Dropboxes by the posted deadline.
Assignments submitted by any other means will not be accepted.
3. Turnitin drop boxes will be available within the Assignment Dropbox link off the course
tools menu on the left hand side of the page within Blackboard.
4. Within one week after the assignment’s deadline has passed, you will receive written
feedback on your assignment. The written comments on your assignment are accessible
using the GradeMark function within your assignment submission.
5. Late Submissions must be uploaded in the appropriately labeled “Late Drop Box” by the
posted “Late Assignment Deadline”. Late submissions are only eligible for a maximum of
50% of the assignments original point value.

 

Political Communications
Essay Assignment #1: Comparing Different News Vehicles

The purpose of this assignment is to compare the impact of news coming from different formats. For one particular day, observe the news on at least

three (3) of the following formats: newspaper, radio broadcast, local television broadcast, network news broadcast, or cable news broadcast, social

media feed, or an internet news site.

Things to note:
• Does there appear to be a difference in the types of stories presented by these different formats?
• Do particular formats appear more suited to presenting particular types of stories?
• Do some formats appear more amenable to sticking to the facts and others to spin or infotainment, or is this more a matter of the disposition

of the reporters and editors for the particular agency?

What to write:
1. A general description of the types of stories covered in each format. This should include:
• the range of topics covered
• techniques for directing attention at particular stories
• indications of bias by the writers
• the overall quality of the information provided – was the organization reasonably easy to follow, was the information presented clearly and

provided in-depth or as “infotainment,” and did the reporting appear credible and balanced?
2. Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each news format for covering politics. What did each format of news do well, and what was

problematic?

Paper Requirements
• Minimum 500 words, maximum of 1000 words
• Clarity and organization of writing will be considered in grading. Should have an introduction, body, conclusion, and transitions between them.
• Any sources used should be properly cited using APA style format.

 

 

The purpose of this assignment is to compare the impact of news coming from different formats. For one particular day, observe the news on at least

three (3) of the following formats: newspaper, radio broadcast, local television broadcast, network news broadcast, or cable news broadcast, social

media feed, or an internet news site. Review attached document for additional assignment details.