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1) Standardize; 2) Diagram, and 3) explain if the premises are appropriate or inapplicable, and why.
• If a law is so vague that it is difficult to know what counts as a violation of it, and if there is really no distinct and clear harm that this law could prevent, then the law should be abolished. Laws that prohibit loitering have both of these defects. The conclusion to which we are driven is obvious: laws against loitering should be abolished.
• Tennis is a much more demanding game than basketball because it is playe d either singly or in pairs, which means that a person is moving nearly all the time. Basketball is a team sport, and you can sometimes relax and leave things up to the other members. Also, tennis calls for much more arm strength than basketball.
• A turkey is a nerve impulse on legs. A turkey minus its head is marginally ore brain-dead than one in full possession of its noggin. … I remember once coming home to find some of my turkeys standing outside in a deluge of rainwater, too stupid to go back through the open door of a coop that was warm and dry. Another time, I tried a small experiment by using feed to lead some turkeys a short distance from their coop just to see if they could find the way back alone. They couldn’t. Flowers know how to open and close. But turkeys can’t figure out where they live and eat.
• Nobody should undertake college education without at least some idea of what he or she wants to do and where he or she wants to go in life. But out world is so full of change that we cannot predict which fields will provide job openings in the future. Given this, we can’t form any reasonable life plans. So nobody should go to college.

1. Culture – Over the past couple of months, people all over the world have had to undertake ‘social distancing’ which has seen contact even between close family members seriously curtailed, if not prohibited, outside of their homes. This has meant that many of the cultural rituals that have historically punctuated and gave meaning to our lives have had to be delayed, modified or cancelled altogether. This has included birthdays, graduations, weddings and funerals in addition to various religious celebrations that happen daily, weekly, annually or otherwise. How have you had to modify, delay or cancel cultural activities over this time and what, if anything, have you learned about the meaning/significance of these events as a result? How might have ‘social distancing’ practices affected other groups or cultures differently from what you have experienced? To what extent do you feel virtual participation can replace physical presence at cultural events? 2. Political Economy – The Covid-19 pandemic has forced governments around the world, including Canada’s, to make interventions into their economies in ways which may have never seemed possible just a few months ago. This has included paying most of the wages of workers in private enterprises, curtailing the legal rights of landlords to evict or punish their renters, and closing large parts of their economies altogether. This has happened in countries who perceive themselves to be in favour of a limited role of government, such as the United States, and others which are officially socialist, such as China. What have these actions taught you about the differences in the political and economic ideologies of countries? Have your opinions on what the role of the ‘state’ should be in the economies of countries? 3.Trade – The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how interconnected the world is with respect to the trade in goods and the flow of people. While countries, such as Canada, have closed their borders to all but essential travel by people, they have remained open to trade. While people have been required to ‘stay home’ and even ‘shelter in place’, Amazon has had to hire 100,000 workers to keep the flow of goods moving internationally. How has international trade assisted in the international response to the pandemic? Has this strengthened the arguments in favour of international trade? What, if any, weaknesses in the global trading system has the pandemic identified? Essay Assignment ● Intends to build students analytical, research and writing skills ● 3500 words (7 pages long single spaced with 1” margins and 12 point font) ● Students are expected to conduct a significant amount of research – Perhaps 10 or more newspaper stories, or 5 or more academic papers/government reports

Module 4:Assessment
Which THREE (3) of the following five are examples of failures of A) Applicability; R) Relevance; and S/G) Sufficiency/Good reason. Explain why?
• American efforts to build democracies in Germany and Japan after World War II were highly successful; therefore the efforts to build democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan will be successful too.
• “This statement is wholly inadequate to justify the death penalty … There is no evidence whatever that utilization of imprisonment rather than death encourages private feuds or other disorders … It simply defies belief to suggest that the death penalty is necessary in order to stop the American people from taking the law into their own hands.”Justice Thurgood Marshall, in dissent
• We arrived at the gate at 7:30, and the cashier happily took our money for admission, without any word of warning. As soon as we entered the zoo and walked across the bridge, the loudspeaker announced that the zoo was closing at 8. We asked if we could get a pass for the following day, but the answer was no. In summary, it is easy to see that Calgary is anything but a friendly city, but rather out to take the tourist for all that they can get.
• Students in my philosophy class do not work as hard as students in my philosophy class did last year; Therefore students in the university are not working as hard as they did last year.
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You will be asked to provide support and explanation by integrating examples from both readings (“Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan), as well as your observations, experiences, or other sources. Begin with a thoughtful statement about the topic/essay question you are answering or ask a thoughtful question.Briefly summarize Wallace’s position on the topic/essay question (1-2 sentences), and Michael Pollan’s position on the topic/essay question (1-2 sentences). In “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace discusses/shows/states ____. In “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Michael Pollan believes/states/argues ____.Then indicate your thesis: your position. (I believe _____)-Paragraph 2: First reason to support your position.Use an example from “Consider the Lobster” or “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Provide enough summary of the text so that your example makes sense. Include one direct quote. Explain what the quote means (in other words/by this the author means).Respond to the author in some way that shows what you think.-Paragraph 3: Second reason to support your position.Use an example from the text you have not yet discussed. Provide enough summary of the text so that your example makes sense. Include one direct quote. Explain what the quote means (in other words/by this the author means). Respond to the author in some way that shows what you think.-Paragraph 4: Third reason to support your position. (Your third reason should be based on your personal experience or observations, or something that you read or saw in the media.)Use an example in which you tell a detailed story about your experience, or that of someone you know, or something you have seen or read about.End this paragraph by connecting your detailed story to something that either Wallace or Pollan has written. (As Pollan/Wallace believes/states/claims _____. Based on my experience/observations, I have found ______).-Paragraph 5: The Omnivore’s Dilemma(excerpt from “The Anxiety of Eating” & “The Ethics of Eating Animals”)In biology, “atavism” is an ancestral trait that reappears after having been lostMichael PollanAn omnivore is a person or animal thatthat can eat both animals and plants as food“cornucopia” = abundance = abundance​One way to think about America’s national eating disorder is as the return, with an almost atavistic vengeance, of the omnivore’s dilemma. The cornucopia of the American supermarket has thrown us back on a bewildering food landscape where we once again have to worry that some of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. (Perhaps not as quickly as a poisonous mushroom, but just as surely.) Certainly the extraordinary abundance of food in America complicates the whole problem of choice. At the same time, many of the tools with which people historically managed the omnivore’s dilemma have lost their sharpness here — or simplyfailed. As a relatively new nation drawn from many different immigrant populations, each with its own culture of food, Americans have never had a single, strong, stable culinary tradition to guide us.Terms and choices of the supermarket“boon”– something helpful and beneficial​And so we find ourselves where we do, confronting in the supermarket or at the dinner table the dilemmas of omnivorousness, some of them ancient and others never before imagined. The organic apple or the conventional? And if the organic, the local one or the imported? The wild fish or the farmed? The trans fats or the butter or the “not butter”? Shall I be a carnivore or a vegetarian? And if a vegetarian, a lacto-vegetarian or a vegan? Like the hunter-gatherer picking a novel mushroom off the forest floor and consulting his sense memory to determine its edibility, we pick up the package in the supermarket and, no longer so confident of our senses, scrutinize the label, scratching our heads over the meaning of phrases like “heart healthy,” “no trans fats,” “cage-free,” or “range-fed.” What is “natural grill flavor” or TBHQ or xanthan gum? What is all this stuff, anyway, and where in the world did it come from?​[…]​Being an omnivore occupying a cognitive niche in nature is both a boon and a challenge, a source of tremendous power as well as anxiety. Omnivory is what allowed humans to adapt to a great many environments all over the planet, and to survive in them even after our favored foods were driven to extinction, whether by accident or because of our own too-great success in overcoming other species’ defenses. After the mastodon there would be the bison and then the cow; after the sturgeon, the salmon, and then, perhaps, some novel mycoprotein like “quorn.”“neophil” – one who enjoys new things“neophobia” – fear of anything new​Being a generalist offers us deep satisfactions, too, enjoyments that flow equally from the omnivore’s innate neophilia — the pleasure of variety — and neophobia — the comfort of the familiar. What began as a set of simple sensory responses to food (sweet, bitter, disgusting) we’ve elaborated into more complicated canons of taste that afford us aesthetic pleasures undreamed of by the koala or cow. Since “everything that is edible is at the mercy of his vast appetite,” [Jean Anthelme] Brillat-Savarin writes, “the machinery of taste attains a rare perfection in man,” making “man the only gourmand in the whole of nature.” Taste in this more cultivated sense brings people together, not only in small groups at the table but as communities. For a community’s food preferences — the strikingly short list of foods and preparations it regards as good to eat and think — represent one of the strongest social glues we have. Historically, national cuisines have been remarkably stable, and resistant to change, which is why the immigrant’s refrigerator is the very last place to look for signs of assimilation.Some rules have cultural reasons.​Yet the surfeit of choice that confronts the omnivore brings stresses and anxieties also undreamed of by the cow or the koala, for whom the distinction between The Good Things to Eat and the Bad is second nature. And while our senses can help us draw the first rough distinctions between good and bad foods, we humans have to rely on culture to remember and keep it all straight. So we codify the rules of wise eating in an elaborate structure of taboos, manners, and culinary traditions, covering everything from the proper size of portions to the order in which foods should be consumed to the kinds of animals it is and is not okay to eat. Anthropologists argue over whether all these rules make biological sense — some, like the kosher rules, are probably designed more to enforce group identity than to protect health. But certainly a great many of our food rules do make biological sense, and they keep each of us from having to confront the omnivore’s dilemma every time we visit the supermarket or sit down to eat.Health reasons​The set of rules for preparing food we call a cuisine, for example, specifies combinations of foods and flavors that on examination do a great deal to mediate the omnivore’s dilemma. The dangers of eating raw fish, for example, are minimized by consuming it with wasabi, a potent antimicrobial. Similarly, the strong spices characteristic of many cuisines in the tropics, where food is quick to spoil, have antibacterial properties. The meso- American practice of cooking corn with lime and serving it with beans, like the Asian practice of fermenting soy and serving it with rice, turn out to render these plant species much more nutritious than they otherwise would be. When not fermented, soy contains an antitrypsin factor that blocks the absorption of protein, rendering the bean indigestible; unless corn is cooked with an alkali like lime its niacin is unavailable, leading to the nutritional deficiency called pellagra. Corn and beans each lack an essential amino acid (lysine and methionine, respectively); eat them together and the proper balance is restored.“prodigious” — remarkably great in extent, size, or degree​[….]Eating a steak & reading book by philosopher of animal rights“astounding” = impressive​Guided by no natural instinct, the prodigious and open-ended human appetite is liable to get us into all sorts of trouble well beyond the stomachache. For if nature is silent what’s to stop the human omnivore from eating anything — including, most alarmingly, other human omnivores? A potential for savagery lurks in a creature capable of eating anything. If nature won’t draw a line around human appetite, then human culture must step in, as indeed it has done bringing the omnivore’s eating habits under the government of all the various taboos (foremost the one against cannibalism), customs, rituals, table manners, and culinary conventions found in every culture. There is a short and direct path from the omnivore’s dilemma to the astounding number of ethical rules with which people have sought to regulate eating for as long as they have been living in groups.​[….]​The first time I opened Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation I was dining alone at the Palm, trying to enjoy a rib-eye steak cooked medium rare. . . It had been a long time since this particular omnivore had felt any dilemma about eating meat . . . The meat industry understands that the more people know about what happens on the kill floor, the less meat they’re likely to eat. That’s not because slaughter is necessarily inhumane, but because most of us would simply rather not be reminded of exactly what meat is or what it takes to bring it to our plates. My steak dinner, eaten in the company of the world’s leading philosopher of animal rights, represented my somewhat tortured attempt to mark the occasion, and to try — a bit belatedly, I know — to see if I could defend what I had done already and what I was about to do.For the most part, cultures we grew up told us that animal eating is healthy and good for our consciousnessFamous vegetarians​Eating meat has become morally problematic, at least for people who take the trouble to think about it. Vegetarianism is more popular than it has ever been, and animal rights, the fringiest of fringe movements until just a few years ago, is rapidly finding its way into the cultural mainstream. I’m not completely sure why this should be happening now, given that humans have been eating animals for tens of thousands of years without much ethical heartburn. Certainly there have been dissenters over the years — Ovid, St. Francis, Tolstoy, and Gandhi come to mind. But the general consensus has always been that humans were indeed omnivores and, whatever spiritual or moral dilemmas the killing and eating of animals posed, our various cultural traditions (everything from the rituals governing slaughter to saying grace before the meal) resolved them for us well enough. For the most part, our culture has been telling us for millennia that animals were both good to eat and good to think.Today doctors are saying that eating meat is unhealthy, and philosophers are saying that eating meat is unethical.​In recent years medical researchers have raised questions about the good to eat part, while philosophers like Singer and organizations like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have given us new reasons to doubt meat is good to think — that is, good for our souls or our moral self-regard. Hunting is in particularly bad odor these days, even among people who still eat meat; apparently it’s the fact of killing that these people most object to (as if steak should be gotten any other way), or perhaps it’s the taking pleasure in killing an animal that is the trouble. It may be that as a civilization we’re groping toward a higher plane of consciousness. It may be that our moral enlightenment has advanced to the point where the practice of eating animals — like out former practices of keeping slaves or treating women as inferior beings — can now be seen for the barbarity it is, a relic of an ignorant past that very soon will fill us with shame.As the traditions that allowed us to eat meat are losing their hold on our thinking, we follow the fashion and choose vegetarianism.​That at least is the animal philosophers’ wager. But it could also be that the cultural norms and rituals that used to allow people to eat meat without agonizing about it have broken down for other reasons. Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they’re more easily buffeted by the force of a strong idea or the breeze of fashion. Buffeted = beaten down“schizoid” – contradictoryScientists are proving that animals are more capable of thinking and displaying emotions than we ever thought.​Whatever the cause, the effect is an unusual amount of cultural confusion on the subject of animals. For at the same time as many of us seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to other species, in our factory farms we’re inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. One by one science is dismantling out claims to uniqueness as a species, discovering that such things as culture, tool making, language, and even possibly self-consciousness are not, as we used to think, the exclusive properties of Homo sapiens. And yet, most of the animals we eat lead lives organized very much in the spirit of Descartes, who famously claimed that animals were mere machines, incapable of thought or feeling. There’s a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals today in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig — an animal easily as intelligent as a dog — that becomes the Christmas ham.​We tolerate this schizophrenia because the life of the pig has moved out of view; when’s the last time you saw a pig in person? Meat comes from the grocery store, where it is cut and packaged to look as little like parts of animals as possible. (When was the last time you saw a butcher at work?) The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there’s no reality check on the sentiment or the brutality; it is a space in which the Peter Singers and the Frank Perdues of the world fare equally well.Meaning of this last paragraph: years ago when we were a farming society, people were directly involved with breeding, raising, and slaughtering the animals they ate. This is no longer the case for most people.​A few years ago the English writer John Berger wrote an essay called “Why Look at Animals?” In which he suggested that the loss of everyday contact between ourselves and animals — and specifically the loss of eye contact — has left us deeply confused about the terms of our relationship to other species. That eye contact, always slightly uncanny, had brought the vivid daily reminder that animals were both crucially like and unlike us; in their eyes we glimpsed something unmistakably familiar (pain, fear, courage) but also something irretrievably other (?!). Upon this paradox people built a relationship in which they felt they could both honor and eat animals without looking away. But that accommodation has pretty much broken down; nowadays it seems we either look away or become vegetarians. For my own part, neither option seemed especially appetizing; certainly looking away was not completely off the table. Which might explain how it was I found myself attempting to read Peter Singer in a steakhouse.Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma (an excerpt). The Penguin Press. New York. 2006.​295-98 & 304-07.​1 of 4

Final Exam 2020Part One- Design a flyer to “spread the word” and advertise the importance of everyone participating in the 2020 US Census. The US Census is taking every ten years to assess every American household. It is an important task in community organizing because it ensures federal accountability for every community. It is a legal responsibility to complete the census, you can be fined if you don’t complete the census, similar to serving jury duty. You do not have to be a US Citizen to complete the Census. The flyer does not have to be a “work of art”, I only need the basics. Please find attached some terrific examples provided by Joya and Breanna W, who both submitted their work to me and did a beyond terrific job. Best Wishes!!! Due no later than May 22nd-the final day I can accept it.Part Two- Write at least one paragraph about why it is important to participate in the US Census.

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Unit IV Scholarly Activity For this scholarly activity, you will do further research on one of the four projects discussed in your textbook and in the Unit Lesson. Please select one of the following: Chicago Area Project, · Mobilization for Youth, War on Poverty, or Chicago Human Development Project. Within your essay, include responses to the following points: Explain the theory, from the chapters, influencing this project. If there is more than one, you may explain them all. Explain the particular policy upon which the program is based and the effect it has had on society. Was it effective in fighting crime or preventing crime or both? What could make this more effective from your perspective? What were the disadvantages to this particular project? How did criminology research lead to the development of this policy? Your scholarly activity must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting a title and reference page. You are required to use at least two outside sources; one must be from the Waldorf Online Library. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited in the text and included on the reference page. Be sure they are academic sources. Information about accessing the grading rubric for this assignment is provided below

Choose a student in your class or who you know, preferably with ASD. Conduct a functional assessment interview (potential forms included on the Blackboard site) with at least 2 caregivers or professionals working with the individual. Submit a summary of the information from the interviews, synthesizing the information and drawing reasonable conclusions and outlining what type of observation and data you plan to collect based on the information reported. Develop objective, measurable definitions of the target behaviors for reduction.

Discuss Gender in communication.