“Hoop dreams” People who have seen this movie

This paper should be a four paragraph argument that you generate from your own viewing of the film “hoop dreams” Your thesis should be a point you want to make about any character or event of the film, as long as that point ties into some larger topic or issue. In other words, I want you to generate your own topic from watching the movie. For example, you could focus on Sheila Agee and think about what we see of her life during the filming of the documentary. Maybe you think that she is the kind of person who was deserving of more help from government-funded social welfare programs; in your view, perhaps you feel that the government let her down. You can get a thesis from that: Over the course of Hoop Dreams, it becomes clear that government assistance programs for the poor are not adequate to really help people escape from poverty. Note: this thesis is NOT about Sheila individually. She’s just an example of the larger point you’re going to explore. To support this proposition, I would research government assistance for the poor, possibly focusing on the 90s, when the movie took place. I can use examples from the film to help support my point too, but I’ll need outside research as well. Since this is a four paragraph paper (introduction, two body paragraphs, conclusion), I’ll need to make two separate points that argue for my thesis. What you want to avoid is coming up with an argument idea that does not lend itself to any research. For example: The main problem with Curtis Gates and his lack of progress in life was his own laziness. That’s an argument topic, but it’s not one that connects to any kind of larger issue. As a result, it can only be supported with film examples and suppositions. You want to come up with something more substantial.

Do you agree or disagree with the author’s perspective?

Prepare to write a reading response. Consider the following questions: What is your opinion about the reading? Do you agree or disagree with the author’s perspective? What are one to two reasons that support your opinion? What is your thesis statement? Using the Reading Response Template below, write a 175- to 250-word response, no more than 2 paragraphs, that includes the following: An introduction of the article, including the author’s name Brief summary of the article Justification of your opinion (this is your thesis). Reviewing the Thesis Writing section in this week’s Learning Activities will help you build your thesis statement. Connection of your topic to life, work/school, or current event APA citations created by using an example in the reading or by using the Reference and Citation generator from the CWE. Article Commentary “Online harassment, not limited to the Marine Corps, is only one of the problems the US military struggles with to make the armed forces a suitable workplace for women.” Hanna Kozlowska is a reporter at Quartz. In the following viewpoint, Kozlowska argues that conditions for women serving in the military will not improve until the number of women serving in the military increases. The author identifies several areas where women face unique challenges because of their gender, including sexual harassment, assault, and pay disparities. A scandal involving online military communities, the author asserts, has drawn the attention of lawmakers and the media to the scope of sexual harassment in the military. Kozlowska contends that this behavior reflects a culture of toxic masculinity in US society more broadly and in the military specifically. To combat this pervasive sexism, the author urges military leaders to learn from foreign militaries that have been more successful at integrating female soldiers into their ranks. As you read, consider the following questions: What is Marines United, and how does the author use it to support her assertion that sexism is a pervasive problem in the US military? According to the author, what necessary military services do women provide? In your opinion, what is an appropriate punishment for a soldier who shares a sexually suggestive photograph of another soldier without the latter soldier’s permission? Explain your answer. The US military is the largest employer in the world, but only about 15% of its nearly 1.3 million active-duty workforce are women (https://www.cna.org/pop-rep/2015/summary/summary.pdf). In the Marine Corps, it’s only about 7%. The small numbers are a very big problem. The latest US military scandal is shocking in its both scale and the level of malice: Hundreds of current and former Marines posted and commented on nude and sexually suggestive photos of female colleagues in a 30,000-member, private Facebook group. Yet, another scandal targeting women emerged as no surprise, with similar incidents in 2013 (https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/05/22/humor-or-harassment-marine-corps-leadership-targets-salty-facebook-sites/) and 2014 (https://taskandpurpose.com/sexist-facebook-movement-marine-corps-cant-stop/). A former Marine who is a reporter uncovered the cache of photos accompanied by lewd and predatory comments—many from men who made no attempt to hide their identities or unit affiliations in the “Marines United” group (https://www.revealnews.org/blog/hundreds-of-marines-investigated-for-sharing-photos-of-naked-colleagues/). The media pounced. The US Senate and House armed services committees demanded appearances from Marine Corps leaders. Top brass bowed their heads and, once more, promised to fix things. “When you say to us ‘It’s got to be different,’ it rings hollow,” said New York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand as she tore into the Marines’ top man, general Robert Neller, on March 14. But perhaps the most telling exchange came later, when South Dakota Republican Mike Rounds nailed a hard truth: “Reality is we can’t go to war without women any more, can we?” “No, sir,” Neller replied. Women now work in all kinds of jobs in the US armed forces, and in 2015, they were finally allowed to participate in all combat roles. The lawmakers questioning Neller expressed concern this latest episode will dissuade women from serving, overshadowing opportunities that include equal pay for equal work. “The irony of all this is that we’re trying to recruit more women,” Neller testified. THERE IS STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY Online harassment, not limited to the Marine Corps, is only one of the problems the US military struggles with to make the armed forces a suitable workplace for women. And while there are a number of critical steps to take toward true integration, the military needs, first and foremost, more women (https://taskandpurpose.com/mistreatment-female-veterans-not-just-womens-issue/). The military is slowly moving to draw them into more combat jobs. The Army also wants to increase the number of female recruiters by 1% per year. Neller’s initiative to recruit more women focuses on high-school athletes. His stated goal is modest—increasing female ranks to 10%. Even that is proving difficult. It’s been twice as hard to find women recruits. Ellen Haring, a retired Army colonel and a senior fellow at the advocacy group Women in International Security, is a proponent of the classic school of the study of diversity called intergroup contact theory, which posits that close proximity between members of different groups leads to increased harmony. “The more you work together, the more you actually get to know each other,” she says. Haring tells Quartz the US Air Force bears this out, with the highest share of female service members and the fewest sexual assaults. (Although it’s definitely not immune, with one of the biggest sex-assault scandals in recent years taking place on an air base.) Norway, a pioneer in military gender integration, found that co-ed barracks actually helped make gender differences less pronounced (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140320111756.htm). More women would also make for a stronger military. In the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, only women can perform certain tasks, says Robert Egnell, an expert on gender in the military and professor at the Swedish Defence University. “You need them to gather intelligence from women in that society, but also for security—to do body searches in vehicle checkpoints, or to do house searches in female parts of compounds.” Egnell points to organizational theory and business research that shows that diversity leads to better results. A 2014 study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and George Washington University showed for instance that shifting from an all-female or all-male office to one with an equal number of workers of both genders could increase revenue by 41% (http://economics.mit.edu/files/8851)(although it would also make employees less happy, since they prefer to work in more homogenous settings). BUT THE MODERN MILITARY REMAINS MACHO Sexual harassment, assault, and misogyny are common in the civilian world, from college campuses to corporate offices. Still, the macho culture of the military makes its environment crucially different. It has to do with how men are shaped into fighting forces. “You train soldiers, you socialize them into what you consider to be the ideal warrior mindset,” Egnell says. The rituals of male bonding are seen as central to creating “unit cohesion,” a sacred military value. “That can be everything from drinking together to going to strip clubs, pornography, etc.—things that young men do to bond, essentially.” An “extreme form of masculinity develops when you are allowed to mix it with violence and an all-male environment,” Egnell said. “There’s no lid on it—in contact with civilian society, or with women who can test or temper this culture.” The men and women who choose military life generally arrive with perspectives that may be destined to clash. The military can attract “men that cleave to traditional values, ‘a woman’s place’ kind of attitude,” Haring says. “Whereas the women who have joined the military are just the opposite—they are the ones who have rejected traditional roles, who have done something very different from what is expected.” It can be an explosive combination, she adds: “Unfortunately for us, women are such a minority that we can’t fight back—our numbers are so low.”That becomes clear when examining the Marine Corps, where harassment and assault are particularly acute. A 2014 RAND Corporation study found that 4.9% of women in the US military reported having experienced sexual assault in the past year (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR870z2-1.html). Among Marines it was 7.9%. Nearly 15% of women overall and more than 19% of Marine women have experienced sexual assault since enlistment. (And men are not safe from sex attacks, often associated with hazing. The latest investigation also includes the publishing of photos of servicemen on gay porn sites.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] “The Marine Corps has the most fixed identity and culture'” Egnell said. “They are the ones who can probably describe themselves the clearest, and who are probably the most reluctant to change.” “Most Marines only stay in four years, this will continue to recreate itself unless we stamp it out,” said congresswoman Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California who has introduced legislation that aims to ensure that the military code of justice outlaws sharing intimate photos without consent. EXACTLY WHERE INTEGRATION MUST START Neller told the senators that the Marines were “looking” at re-evaluating single-gender boot camps—the only training program in the US military in which men and women are segregated. “Men and women should train together from day one,” Haring said. Segregation contributes to creating a “boys club” within the Marines “that women are never allowed into.” Beyond the fear of endangering unit cohesion, one lingering argument against equality for women is the question of physical strength. Egnell has asked officers how often failure in combat is related to weakness. The answer is almost never. “It comes down to poor decision-making at different levels,” Egnell said, “which would suggest that if we were to increase the average intelligence and critical thinking in our soldiers and officers—for example by recruiting women, while at the same time lowering the physical standards—it might still make us a much more effective fighting force.” A STRUGGLE ACROSS THE GLOBE The massive size of the US military makes comparing its culture to that of other militaries difficult. Australia, Canada, and the UK are among those that have endured scandals and reports of widespread abuse. (Neller’s contrite video response (https://www.dvidshub.net/video/512943/commandant-gen-neller-addresses-online-behavior) to Marines United echoed a much-lauded recorded statement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqpoeVgr8U) from an Australian general that addressed an assault scandal in 2013.) Israel, which has the neutral most-gender neutral military in the world, also has had struggles. But US perpetrators of extreme sexism are rarely brought to task (https://www.militarytimes.com/2015/05/13/military-sexual-assault-claims-1-in-20-lead-to-jail-time/). In countries like Sweden, Egnell said, there is no separate military legal system—crimes committed by soldiers go to civilian court. In the US, by contrast, victims usually end up having to report assaults through their chain of command, which often results in an incident stuck within the system, or in retaliation. Sweden, faced with growing fears of Russian aggression, has just introduced gender-neutral conscription. The move mimics Norway, which has the world’s only all-female special operations unit, organized to take on specialized missions. Norway also has demonstrated how requirements can be adapted to promote fairness. Its women may be required to carry lighter-weight loads than their male comrades, but they face similar physical demands in training. And the consequences of combat will place them squarely at the same level of danger.

Explain why revision is a necessary process in writing.

Lesson 7: Revising and Editing Seldom is a scholarly piece of work completed in its first round of writing. Revision is a fact of life when writing any worthwhile piece of material. A major part of the revision process is incorporating input, feedback, or critique into your first draft. Seek the assistance of readers who can provide a critical assessment. Before you submit your revised, final draft, it is imperative that you have it proofread. A second set of eyes will pick up errors that you have overlooked, simply because you have worked so intimately with the material. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Objective 1 Explain why revision is a necessary process in writing. Objective 2 Explain why revision is essential to the quality of your research. Objective 3 Use criticism of draft work to improve the final product. Objective 4 Distinguish among revising, editing, and proofreading. Objective 5 Review your own work with a critical ASSIGNMENT 07 HE490 Healthcare Capstone: Research Studies Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be double‐spaced; refer to the “Format Requirementsʺ page for specific format requirements. This section prepares you to complete this assignment successfully. Please follow these instructions to complete and submit the assignment. 1. Create a Word document for your responses and save. 2. Be sure to include a title page that includes your name, student ID number, course code, course name, and submission date. 3. When you are ready to submit the assignment, attach the document to your assignment and submit it to Ashworth College through the Assignments tool located on the left-hand navigation bar. Submit the following: Submit your revised draft of the literature review and annotated bibliography.

Develop an original answer to your research question in the form of an argument- based essay.

Based on this week’s readings please identify and submit the Background, Rationale, and Significance of your Research Topic supported by related literature. It’s highly advisable to ground your analysis in the relevant literature and research gaps. Make sure that the formatting of your citations and references is always in line with the requirements of the OSCOLA Referencing System. Please note: Written tasks are important as they are intended as a means of providing feedback to help with your summative assessment. This is a good opportunity to receive instructor feedback in the form of commentary. Length: 6000 words This assignment will be marked out of 100%. The word limit for the assignment is 6,000 words. Footnotes and Bibliography will not be included in the word count but should not be abused. Assessment Task You are required to formulate a Law research proposal for a dissertation. Assessment Point The individual assignment of this module is about the comprehension of how formulate a research proposal for a dissertation. Students are called to demonstrate their understanding of how the research proposal has developed and its precise ambit of application. Content and Structure Your Final Research Project is a 6000 words) research paper (plus works cited list). Your assignment is to provide a clear and direct answer to a question that is currently at issue within your chosen topic. Locate and review recent issues of the most important professional publications (i.e. scholarly journals) within your question topic in order to figure out what people in your field are talking about and what they are saying about it. What topics, controversies, theories, and issues are currently shaping the field? Develop an original answer to your research question in the form of an argument- based essay. The style and content of your writing should be based on expectations in your field of study and/or intended profession and the rubric provided in the course syllabus. The paper must feature an original and engaging thesis, smooth transitions, varied sentence structure, fresh diction, strong voice, appropriate tone, and something memorable. The research proposal should evidence depth of reasoning and textured writing that thoughtfully integrates pertinent quotations from the source material. A minimum of ten direct quotes from your source texts are required. Include a final works cited list of at least ten sources. Clarify what scenario it has opened in order to successfully complete the assignment. Finally, it is necessary to provide your critical evaluation of the topic under your research proposal. Consider what to include in the body of your research proposal and demonstrate a sound level of text synthesis. Essential information must be included in the body of the research proposal and will be counted in the word count. Extra illustrative information may be included in the appendices. Students will decide on the appropriate structure and content. However, we expect to see the following elements: 1. Abstract: The abstract is a brief summary of your Research Proposal, and should be no longer than 200 words. It starts by describing in a few words the knowledge domain where your research takes place and the key issues of that domain that offer opportunities for the scientific innovations you intend to explore. Taking those key issues as a background, you then present briefly your research statement, your proposed research approach, the results you expect to achieve, and the anticipated implications of such results on the advancement of the knowledge domain. 2. Introduction: The introduction gives an overview of the research project you propose to carry out. It explains the background of the project, focusing briefly on the major issues of its knowledge domain and clarifying why these issues are worthy of attention. It then proceeds with the concise presentation of the research statement, which can take the form of a hypothesis, a research question, a project statement, or a goal statement. The research statement should capture both the essence of the project and its delimiting boundaries, and should be followed by a clarification of the extent to which you expect its outcomes to represent an advance in the knowledge domain you have described. The introduction should endeavor, from the very beginning, to catch the reader’s interest and should be written in a style that can be understood easily by any reader with a general science background. It should cite all relevant references pertaining to the major issues described, and it should close with a brief description of each one of the chapters that follow. Many authors prefer to postpone writing the Introduction until the rest of the document is finished. This makes a lot of sense, since the act of writing tends to introduces many changes in the plans initially sketched by the writer, so that it is only by the time the whole document is finished that the writer gets a clear view of how to construct an introduction that is, indeed, compelling. 3. State of the Art: The State of the Art, also known as the Literature Review (or Foundations), serves a cluster of very important aims. First of all, it demonstrates that you have built a solid knowledge of the field where the research is taking place, that you are familiar with the main issues at stake, and that you have critically identified and evaluated the key literature. On the other hand, it shows that you have created an innovative and coherent view integrating and synthesizing the main aspects of the field, so that you can now put into perspective the new direction that you propose to explore. The State of the Art must give credit to the authors who laid the groundwork for your research, so that when, in the following chapter, your research objectives are further clarified, the reader is able to recognize beyond doubt that what you are attempting to do has not been done in the past and that your research will likely make a significant contribution to the literature. The State of the Art is usually the more extensive part of a research proposal, so it will expectedly develop over various paragraphs and sub-paragraphs. It should be accompanied by comprehensive references, which you list at the end of the proposal. Ideally, all influential books, book chapters, papers and other texts produced in the knowledge domain you are exploring, which are of importance for your work, should be mentioned here and listed at the end of the proposal. You should follow very strictly the appropriate referencing conventions and make sure that no document you refer to is missing in the final list of references, nor vice versa. The choice of referencing conventions may depend on the specific field where your research is located 3.1. First paragraph 3.1.1. First sub-paragraph of first paragraph As the State of the Art is likely to extend for some pages, it may need to be split into various paragraphs, with appropriate titles, and these paragraphs may need to be broken up further into sub-paragraphs. The paragraphs and sub-paragraphs should comply with the format used here. 3.1.2. Second sub-paragraph of first paragraph This is an example of the second sub-paragraph of the first paragraph of the introduction. 3.2. Second paragraph 3.1.3. First sub-paragraph of second paragraph This is an example of the first sub-paragraph of the second paragraph of the introduction. 3.1.4. Second sub-paragraph of second paragraph This is an example of the second sub-paragraph of the second paragraph of the introduction. 4. Research Objectives and Approach The chapter Research Objectives and Approach clarifies the research objectives of your project, taking as its background your description of the state of the art, and describes the methodological approaches you have in mind to face the key research challenges of your project. The clarification of the research objectives should build solidly on the State of the Art and relate your research to the work carried out by others. It should elucidate the measure to which your work develops from their work and the extent to which it diverges from theirs to open up new and yet unexplored avenues. In essence, the chapter Research Objectives and Approach explains what you plan to do to tackle your research problem, why you plan to do it that way, and how you are going to do it. The “how to” component of the proposal is called the Research Methods, or Methodology, component. It should be detailed enough to let the reader decide whether the methods you intend to use are adequate for the research at hand. It should go beyond the mere listing of research tasks, by asserting why you assume that the methods or methodologies you have chosen represent the best available approaches for your project. This means that you should include a discussion of possible alternatives and credible explanations of why your approach is the most valid. 5. Current Work and Preliminary Results This chapter of the research proposal gives a concise outline of the work you have carried out so far and of the progress, you have made toward the aims of the project. You should concentrate on the parts that contribute specifically to the goals of the proposal, avoiding detailed descriptions of digressions you may have attempted in the earlier, more exploratory, phases of your work. If you have already obtained preliminary results, this is the chapter where you should provide them, in a structured manner that helps supporting the rest of the proposal. 6. Work Plan and Implications Not all research proposals lend themselves easily to the creation of detailed work plans. In some cases, namely when the work fits the broader plans of a research group that is progressing steadily, it is possible do build a detailed description of what the researcher plans to do (literature to explore in depth, principles or theorems to formulate and prove, experiments to carry out, sub-systems to build, systems integrations to perform, tests to accomplish). In these cases, it is possible, and desirable, to establish specific milestones and timelines and a Gantt diagram. The plan should anticipate the problems likely to be found along the way and describe the approaches to be followed in solving them. It should also anticipate the conferences and journals to which the work in progress is expected to be submitted along the way, and schedule it in a Goals for Publication section of the work plan. In other cases, when the topic to be researched is exploratory and elusive, or when the research approach establishes that each step should build on the, still unanticipated, results of previous steps, it may be impossible to work out a detailed plan. Even in these cases, however, it is advisable to establish a section on Goals for Publications that gives a rough schedule of the publications to be produced (submission to the doctoral consortium of a top conference, submission to a national conference, publication in a secondary journal, submission to a reputable international conference, submission to the top conference or top journal in the field). In spite of its contingency, this list may work marvels in keeping the researcher focused, motivated and beneficially under pressure. Whatever its nature, comprehensive or sketchy, your work plan should be able to put in perspective the implications of the successive steps of your work, reinforcing, in the mind of the reader, the conviction that your approach is solidly oriented toward results, that the topic is timely and relevant, and that the outcomes of the project will contribute significantly to the enhancement of the field. 7. Conclusions The Conclusions briefly restate the objectives of your research project, recap the research approach you plan to follow, and clarify in a few words what you expect to find out, why it is scientifically valuable to find it out, and on what basis you expect to evaluate the validity of your results. 8. References In this section, you should list all the references you have made throughout the research proposal, making sure that you comply with the referencing conventions or citation styles that have been established for your specific field. The following points should be noted for this part of the assessment: ● This is an individual assessment, not a group task. ● Your research proposal should be submitted on the due date by 11.00 p.m. (23.00 hours) VLE (UTC) time at the latest. To submit your assignment, please use the submission link titled “Assessment Point ” that is located on Week 8 on the VLE page of your module. ● Literature should be sourced from a range of journal articles and textbooks. A limited range of readings will be made available. ● The word count is 6000 words +/- 10%. This does not include the reference list and any appendices the assignment may include. ● Accurate referencing of sources is crucial in this coursework. The referencing system used in this module is the OSCOLA Reference system. Please make sure you are familiar with this. Marks will be deducted for inaccurate referencing. ● The assessment must be submitted electronically via “Turnitin”

Give ways of operating a golf course.

reflection as a golf course owner and operator. What you need to know about the day to day expenses and what the general public does not know about what goes into running a golf course. From maintain the course to servicing the customers.Basically how the general public does not understand that it is not just collecting green fees and going to the bank.

Discuss Ideals of democracy.

Evaluate the following statement: “From the end of World War II to the late 1960s, the United States government honored the ideals of democracy at home and abroad.” You need to think about what ‘the ideals of democracy’ are. A democratic government is one characterized by self-government; in other words, one in which the people choose their own representatives through free and fair elections. But also think about ‘the ideals of democracy’ within the context of U.S. history. Democracy here has also meant a respect for the separation of powers in the federal government. And America’s founding documents—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—emphasize things like the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as well as a belief in justice and equality. This question, then, is asking you to evaluate the ideals vs. the reality both within the U.S. and in other countries where the U.S. played a role.

Describe Juvenile delinquency prevention.

I already have a thesis written. The assignment instructions are below ; The academic essay Assignment in this unit will be a written, cohesive argument for the change in your community that you have been writing about throughout the course. The Assignment should take the form of a persuasive academic essay, in which you will provide reliable evidence from at least four sources to support the argument for change that you are advocating. You will also need to address counter-arguments or misconceptions about your topic within the essay, as the ability to do so is a key component of a strong argument. Essentially, the essay will reflect what you have learned about writing effectively, using research, and creating a logical argument to influence an audience. In accordance with the Plagiarism Policy, students must not self-plagiarize by submitting an Assignment for two different grades; therefore, you must not submit a paper for this Assignment that has been graded in whole or in part for another class, whether at this University or another institution. For further insights on self-plagiarism, please review the Writing Center resource “Self-Plagiarism”.