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AmericanGovernmentW6

Interest Group Consultant Simulation In this activity you will be pretending to be a consultant for an interest group. You will be charged with helping that interest group better achieve its goals. Have fun and be creative in this activity! Your paper should be at least 500 words long. 1.    First, select an interest group […]

Bind the Learning

  Bind the Learning Critically reflect on your personal educational goals and describe three substantial reasons why reaching your goals is important to you.  Explain how your emotions either help or hinder you in reaching your educational goals.   Little info below about me, that will help with the work about.   You already know […]

The “Secret” Sayings of Jesus

  Discussion Forum Instructions and Guidelines Instructions for writing your post 1.  Review all of the resources that have been posted for the section.  2.  Post your writing by the deadline.       Word count:  Minimum of 350 for original post 3.  Post your response to TWO classmates by the deadline.       Word count:  […]

Energy Resources

Assignment Details Power’s on, Power’s Off! How convenient is it to have electricity come right to your home? We use electricity for so many things: lighting, heating, cooling, entertainment, cleaning, food storage and preparation, and even for taking this class! Generating electricity from any source creates varying levels of environmental damage, including ecosystem disruption, water […]

Response on other question

 post a short (5-7 rich sentences) response to someone else’s message about the OTHER question, the one you did not answer.    Oceans in Common. In what ways were the ancient civilizations of the Americas and Oceania (the ones mentioned in Chapter 6) similar to the societies covered in earlier chapters (Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, etc.)? What, […]

REPLY TO CLASSMATE’S POST NEED IN 15 HOURS

Discussion Question #1: What was Thomas Jefferson’s most significant accomplishment and why? Discussion Question #2: Was the War of 1812 justified? What were the major weaknesses and strengths of the United States during the war? PLEASE EXPLAIN WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH MY CLASSMATE RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND WHY? (A MININUM OF 150 WORDS) […]

Discussion # 3

Torture Early in the War on Terror initiated by the Bush administration after the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush signed documents prepared by his legal advisors authorizing aggressive measures in prisoner interrogations, including practices that some consider to be torture, such as “waterboarding.” If you don’t know what waterboarding is, or have never […]

Movie Attractions

   Movie Attractions. Select one movie that you enjoy. Write specifically what elements of that movie you liked 1) intellectual challenge, 2) emotional involvement 3) simple entertainment. Be sure to use detail from the film in your explanation, such as in the following example: One of my favorite movies is Superbad. There isn’t really any […]

human discussion

  Watch Flight of Faith:  The Jesus Story    (This 48-minute video will give you an overview of the landscape in which Jesus lived – and how it looks today.  The narrator tells the traditional story of Jesus’ life, but as we go through the semester, we will see that there are many other ways of […]

case study-2

 Writing cultural criticism or the “think piece” – worth up to 75 points, repeatable 2x  • A think piece is an article meant to be thought-provoking/to initiate conversation • It aggregates research from multiple sources • It analyzes/discusses a cultural concept, usually via pop culture • It often uses personal narrative or takes a more […]