Technology and the Future.  Your last written assignment for this class is a 7-page, 1,500-word to 1,800-word research essay on a literary topic of your choice. ( Technology and the Future, or the Literature of Utopia and Dystopia.  )You will use documented source material to support your essay’s thesis. You must use 1 or more of the literary pieces listed on our syllabus as a […]

How you do anything is how you do everything. – T. Harv Eker (from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind) This Course is a mixture of learning a new format (business style) and adapting your English language skills to a different audience. Business communication relies equally on format (how you communicate) and content (what you say). Discuss the Eker quote as it pertains to your professional […]

This activity asks you to identify a theme in a complex modern story of the deep south. Completing this activity gives you the skill necessary to write about theme in other forms of literature such as poetry and drama that you will study over the duration of this course. Begin this activity by reading William Faulkner’s famous short story “Barn Burning”. Use the module notes […]

     IDST 390: The Ends of the World: Final Paper This assignment will serve as both the Colonnade Artifact and Evidence & Argument Artifact addressed in the Connections: Social/Cultural category. This final project will consist of a longer, more detailed essay which addresses an interdisciplinary question regarding The End.  1. The one-page proposal must be approved by the instructor prior to starting the project. This […]

Your presentation should be 8 slides long and include:  1. Title Slide – 5 points  2. Introduction – 10 points  3 – 4. Body Slide (one aspect of the juxtaposition) – 15 points  5 – 6. Body Slide (the other aspect of the juxtaposition) – 15 points  7. Context of Order vs. Chaos – 15 points  8. Conclusion – 10 points  all based on King […]

  Speech Assignment (WE WILL NOT BE SUBMITTING AUDIO) Communication is used to inform, to persuade and to analyze. In this assignment, you will write a speech that provides your audience information about a topic. Your presentation will be submitted in the form of a Power Point presentation.  Your speech should be a minimum of 1000 words long, including the total from the Power Point […]

  Students will read three texts written by various American authors. Along with these texts, students will write personal entries so as to reflect upon the courageousness of the marginalized people in America and around the world. In addition, students will write a persuasive essay explaining whether or not civil disobedience can peacefully solve a social injustice. Assignment: Read Letter to a Young Refugee from […]

                                                   WRITING ASSIGNMENT   Whether you are trying to determine fair use or are attempting to navigate the confusing world of ethics in a foreign culture, it is essential that you take time to educate yourself about ethics if you want to be successful.  Evaluate a pressing ethical issue brought up by modern information systems. It might be privacy, intellectual property, cyber bullying, fake news, or something […]

In this week’s written assignment you will relate the cyberattack on HBGary Federal to some of the terminology introduced in the first two modules.   Like most written assignments, this must be submitted as a PDF file. If you choose to include the questions to your answer sheet, please highlight your answers, that makes it so much easier to grade!   Question 1. (8 points) […]

Hi nyana. I have a British English midterm due 3/22/17 by 11pm. Its two short answers and an essay. You must choose two of the short answer questions. The easiest to choose would probably be Beowulf, Sir Orfeo, and Bisclavret and Yonec. So please choose two out of questions 2 (Sir Orfeo), 3 (Beowulf), and 5 (Bisclavret and Yonec). Thats the first part. The second […]