The title of this course is “Giants of the Arts” so please consider the following statement of our textbook authors,  Richard Janaro  and Thelma Altshuler. “The humanities give us stories to inspire our imagination, ideas to stimulate our intellect, musical sounds to excite our passions, and the knowledge that we can respond to the creativity and thoughts of others”  (Janaro and Altshuler 1:1). What was […]

Select a news topic that you find interesting and/or important. Pick at least four media outlets (I would suggest no more than five) and throughout the semester carefully follow how they cover this issue. What patterns are there? What narratives are implicit in the coverage? How does the coverage  coming  out  of  a  non-Western  country  contrast  with  what  we  see  in  Western  media outlets? These […]

You will write 1 short reaction paper on a feature film (not a documentary) that we’ve viewed in class. The film reaction paper must be 400 to 800 words and should incorporate themes from the class, themes from the readings if relevant, and your original thinking. This is a formal writing exercise. DO NOT JUST SUMMARIZE THE FILM! Draw out one or more key themes […]

We looked at three different areas, Individual, Family and Relationship/Marriage, over the course of the semester.  For each area, we reviewed general information (power points), research articles, videos, TedTalks from experts in the field, guest speakers, and general discussion with your peers.  For the final paper, I would like for you to summarize each different area that we discussed.  For the summary, I would like […]

You are a spray applicator for a local co-op. It’s been a wet Spring, work is backed up and farmer-clients are threatening to take their business somewhere else. One of the most vocal clients farms ground around an elementary school.  On the first good day in weeks, the client calls the branch manager and demands that his fields be sprayed that morning. The branch manager […]

  Watching the 2019 documentary film American Factory (available on Netflix), and by writing a response to the questions posed below.  For this assignment, you must: Watch the entire movie American Factory (Directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar).  Provide proof that you acquired and watched the movie by providing me with a screen shot or photo of the movie at 30:00 minutes into the film, […]

Read Chapters 2, 10, 22, and 23 in Exploring Ethics (“Morality and Moral Philosophy”, by William Frankena; “The Nature of Moral Disagreement”, by Charles L. Stevenson; “Famine, Affluence and Morality” by Peter Singer; and “A Reply to Singer”, by Travis Timmerman; pages, 2-5, 71-77, 151-165 in Cahn, fifth edition) . Then write a one page summary of Singer’s article, highlighting his argument (if you can […]

For this assignment, please answer the following questions in a short paper that is no less than two pages in length and is double spaced. Please be sure that any references or citations used are in APA format. In “Love Your Enemy: Sex, Power, and Christian Ethics,” Karen Labacqz calls attention to the fact that places of deep intimacy and places that should be safe […]

Our next set of readings start off creaky. Johnson (1997) still uses the word “microcomputer” when attempting to jumpstart the then-nascent field of usability, and Dobrin’s attempt to define technical writing in 1983 is, as he admits in the introduction, probably a failure. Thralls and Blyer, though, in 1993, do some real heavy lifting. Social constructionism, ideology, paralogic hermeneutics are not concepts that I expect […]

Assignment backgroundOne of the important decisions that businesses need to make in its internationalisation is to choose an appropriate entry mode to foreign markets. Imagine you are working for a Singapore company listed on Singapore Exchange (see below for more details) and have been asked to expand the company’s product/service to Australia. Your task is to choose the most appropriate entry mode for your company […]