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Analyzing 25 Years of AIDS

November 14, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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The documentary ’25 Years of AIDS’ has 15 separate video installments that provide the viewer with an overview of the political, social, public health, and medical dimensions of the pandemic, both within the United States and globally. Clicking on the timeline: 25 years of AIDS provides a repository of documents, maps, and interviews with key informants that help in providing context to the video presentations.  What the documentary in the following links.

Video link: Part 1 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/aids/
Part 2 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/aids/#video-2
Documents link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/

Answer the following as completely as you can, citing examples from the film to support your answers: Continue reading

Obesity in College Students

November 13, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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What are some local issues students face and how do they affect their lifestyles?  Consider factors such as food (availability, cost, location), cost (housing, tuition, transportation), time (to a degree, take classes, travel). These ideas are merely that: ideas! You’ll create a topic proposal, choose a topic later. Employ all three types of appeals. Do not rely entirely on logic or emotion when making your argument.  Continue reading

The Most Abused Substance in America

November 1, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Which substance do you think is the most serious threat to the nation’s health and why? Be sure to clarify between drug use, misuse, and abuse. How does the substance you selected impact the health of local communities and states, or specifically vulnerable populations? Why do you think some advocate to consider addiction as a public health issue rather than merely a criminal justice issue? Continue reading

A Linguistics Biography

November 1, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Find an informant with whom you can learn much about their life history and language history. You will want to develop at least ten questions to dig deep into their language history. What is their experience with language? Multilingualism, language socialization, focal vocabularies, prejudice, etc. You might explore second, third or fourth language learning of this individual. Heritage languages? Continue reading

A Survey Questionnaire

November 1, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Design  a basic survey questionnaire. Survey questions will be used to answer a research question you would like to ask the entire class. Your sample frame is all students in the class. Create a research question.  What do you want to know about UCB students? Consider which broader population you wish to generalize your results. Continue reading

Analyzing a TED Speaker’s Speech

November 1, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Many TED speakers are published researchers, and many of them base their TED talks on their research: before you look for other sources. Choose a TED speaker that  has published on human trafficking  and write a literature  review on it. Use only published, peer-reviewed articles for your references. Although you are building up to your own argument and documenting your research process, try to avoid a personal tone. Statements like “I believe” or “I could not find…” put the focus more on you than on your topic and make you seem less credible. You usually don’t need to talk about yourself unless you have a really good reason e.g. personal experience–used sparingly–or primary research–interviews, surveys, etc. that you have personally written and conducted. Continue reading

Expanding the View of Civil Rights

October 24, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Civil Rights regulate the way in which the government interacts and treats citizens. There is a long history of gaps in civil rights with regards to race and gender. Specifically, with the history of African Americans, provide 3 stories of how the national government had to expand their view of civil rights in order to include them; from slavery, to citizens, to equal status in America. Continue reading

How to Improve Your Writing Skills

October 15, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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To improve your writing skills, start by brushing up on the basics. Your grammar and spelling must be perfect. You can achieve this by using resources that will introduce you to the correct use of grammar and widen your vocabulary. There is no known shortcut to becoming a proficient writer. Even the best writers had to learn this craft over a period of time after years of practice. That’s why writing as often as you can is recommended. Set apart thirty minutes every day to write about any topic that comes to mind. This will work to reduce the fear of a blank page. Continue reading

Self Management

October 9, 2018 / / 0 Comments

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Read about Self Management from any book and write a reflective essay about this subject. The essay should detail your thoughts and feelings about the material you have read. Give a description of what you have learned from the book and how you might apply it in your life. Additionally, express how you feel about the content. Did it enlighten you? Was it not very helpful? Was it interesting? Continue reading

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