Cities and their inhabitants face many multifaceted and interconnected challenges from rising poverty to climate change. Urban sustainability offers city planners and managers an approach to sustain economic vitality while ensuring social equity and environmental protection. However, multiplicity of approaches and lack of standardization has prompted many cities to adopt piece-meal or ad-hoc sustainability strategies.  This project aims to build a broader understanding of urban […]

DISCUSSION ESSAY POST: Examine the attached two shots from Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) carefully. Study their elements of design (a) setting, décor, and properties; b) lighting; c) costume, makeup, and hairstyle)  and framing (a) implied proximity to the camera; b) depth; c) camera angle and height; d) scale; e) framing and point of view). Using the very precise technical definitions and language you’ve learned from […]

 The purpose of this assignment is to gain a broader understanding of Dennis Lehane’s novel Mystic River using outside sources. Your assignment for this paper is to write a 6-8 page argument essay analyzing the novel’s characters, themes, or commentary on underlying social issues. You may, but are not required to, write about one of the topics below. – Gender: masculine men, masculine women, feminine […]

 You are asked to find anews article relevant to course topics using digital resources(newspapers, news articles from industryorganizations).Topics of your articles should be related to course topics discussed up toeach due dateas you would need to mention specifically about this in your brief report(any topic prior to due dateis fine).Requirements:Submit a copy of the article in a PDF format along with its synopsisand a brief […]

Listening to music is something everyone does. Some people listen to music constantly, while others listen to it situationally, such as when driving, studying, exercising, or relaxing. Different playlists can be made for these different tasks. But how carefully and deeply does the listening experience go? This assignment requires you to delve deeper into one of your favorite songs to maximize appreciation of it through […]

For this assignment, you are to author 5-7 pages in 12 point Times New Roman font, double spaced, with 1″ margins wherein you shall critique a scholarly article (or scholarly book chapter) within the domain of the philosophy of race. For this, you ought to have at least one citation–namely the article you intend to critique–and all citations are to be presented as Chicago Style […]

Find a mechanism or product around your home and write instructions on how-to install or operate that item. I would like to see at least one graphic in your document. This can be a drawing, a photo, other graphic, or a table. Refer to the picture attached under the name How-To.jpg for guidance. On that picture, the sink repair is a good example of what […]

Good morning. How are you? It’s been great, hasn’t it? I’ve been blown away by the whole thing.In fact, I’m leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes, haven’t there, running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we’ve had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the […]

Instead of attending an art museum, this semester, you may go online to the Louvre. Pick one sculpture or painting to answer the questions.  Everything must be in your own words, without quotes, and written for this class, this semester. Not counting the questions or the works cited, you will need 400-800 words answering the following information. It may take close to 700-800 words to answer everything.  Use […]

Judaism has the most common events as the Christian bible. The Christian bible talks about how God made the earth in 6 days, the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood can be traced back to the Pentateuch. This is the “five books of Moses that appear at the beginning of the Tanakh.”The Jewish people believe this is the true word of God.Their books tell of […]