Identify the relationship between your topic idea and either one of the core readings or the theme of the core readings selected by your instructor

Submitting the Annotated Bibliography. When done, submit the Annotated Bibliography in the assignment page provided in Module 6. Assessment Specifics • Observation of the conventions of Standard English • Includes the Research Rationale and List of Source Citations and Annotations Research Rationale Describe the issue, problem, or controversy you are researching • Identify the relationship between your topic idea and either one of the core readings or the theme of the core readings selected by your instructor • Explain the significance or relevance of your research question(s) to you and to others • Describe what you hope to discover in your research

Send a modern person (or group of people) to Dante’s Inferno. Explain the sin for which they are being punished and how their punishment fits the sin

Send a modern person (or group of people) to Dante’s Inferno. You will need to explain the sin for which they are being punished and how their punishment fits the sin The topic is Dante’s Inferno. The rubric is: Should be 1.5-2 pages in length and written in narrative form. Should contain an original idea and include details and sensory descriptions in line with creative writing. Character writing: Should focus on a modern person or group of people. Should explain the sin they are being punished for and how their punishment fits the sin. They should be in an already existing Circle made by Dante. Circle Writing: Should describe an original Circle of Hell as invented by the student. Include a description of WHO is sent to this circle and WHAT sins they have committed and HOW they are punished. Writing displays a clear understanding of “Contrapasso” as seen in Dante’s writing.

Write an essay on should cities or counties be allowed to regulate guns or is gun control a subject best left to states to regulate?

Is the Second Amendment more of a civil right or civil liberty? Why? Regardless of “Dillons Rule,” should cities or counties be allowed to regulate guns or is gun control a subject best left to states to regulate? Hopefully by now, you are getting the idea that the courts are constantly called upon to determine whether or not the national government can impose its will on the states, or whether both levels of governments can share the authority to regulate in a given field. Taking things a step further, is the subject of the use, transportation, sale, etc. of firearms best left to individual states to regulate or should this be a subject of exclusive federal regulation (pre-emption)? Explain.

What is a good theory of development? How is good development related to ethics?

Canada today is a wealthy, stable, pluralist and democratic country, but things were not always so. A century or two ago, Canadians were a lot poorer and lived much shorter lives than they do today; our government was a lot less democratic, and the threat of political violence was common. Our social and political values were very different back then, and governments often imposed the religious beliefs and practices of the dominant groups on other members of society. Yet Canada evolved, some would say developed, into the country we know today. That process of social, economic and political change was not smooth or linear. It was highly disruptive, often contested and sometimes violent. Along the way, there were winners and losers. If Canada can rise from being a marginal collection of colonies on the fringes of two empires, a place torn by social, religious, political and ethnic tensions, a country whose relations with its neighbour were for decades tense and even violent, to being a stable, prosperous and democratic country living in peace with its neighbour, can other countries not do the same? You are expected to answer theoretically whether other countries are able to do the same, applying the problems of a theory, different perspectives, and main assumptions. You may combine more than one theory together if you feel this will best help you answer the question. You can pick a case study to focus on to assist you in answering the question. Question two: (Canada’s position towards fragile states) By 2010, the lackluster results of interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were leading the U.S. and other Western governments to rethink their approach, particularly given the fiscal constraints generated by the global economic recession. FCAS governments were also questioning prevailing priorities and calling for new approaches. Their calls were informed by surveys, coordinated by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, on the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the Principles for International Engagement in the Fragile States. Those surveys showed that Western donors were not meeting their commitments on issues like donor alignment on national priorities, or on linking rapid action with long-term engagement, despite significant advances in some FCAS (OECD 2010). Using democratization, good governance, or human security, or any combination of the three, what are Canada`s approaches to dealing with fragile states? To what degree do you think that they are effective? Question three: (On the conception and meaning of development) The 1970s literature on ethics and development shows an interest in reflecting on the question of development in a way that was fundamentally different from the mainstream. This position was particularly expressed by a group of scholars that in spite of being surprisingly liberal in their theoretical tenets, viewed development from an ethical perspective. Although development ethicists essentially do not represent a unified perspective, they shared a unified question that is directly related to the conception of good development. What is a good theory of development? How is good development related to ethics? Provide a good description of the conception from one theoretical perspective of your choice.

The genre of war: How is the aesthetic or style of “realism” conveyed in the text (film, memoir, etc)? Does the text realistically capture war and combat experience?

For your final writing assignment, write a 10-12 page paper on the literature of war analyzing any kind of text — from traditional literary works to graphic novels, TV, videogames, anything —that has relevance to our coursework this semester. You may choose to continue working with our common course materials or select a literary/cultural text(s) that you think is worth examining more closely. You may write on a single text or, in keeping with the mid-term paper assignment, compare and contrast how one war or era has been represented with that of another war or era. Rather than trying to cover all the various genres associated with the literature of war, you should draw your comparisons against similar forms or modes of representation (that is, focusing on novels of each war, memoir/first-person accounts, fiction films, etc.). Continuing along the same lines as our discussion board work, you might consider addressing one of the following topic areas: The genre of war: How is the aesthetic or style of “realism” conveyed in the text (film, memoir, etc)? Does the text realistically capture war and combat experience? How would you describe the “tone” of the writing or the film? The epistemology of war: How does the text lay claim to knowing the “truth” of war? Does the text acknowledge the ways in which even combat experience is mediated and shaped by prior representations of war? The gender of war: How are gender roles represented in the text? How are men and women (or their absence) depicted, and how might those depictions contribute to certain fictions (ideological messages) of masculinity and femininity? The rhetoric of war: To what extent could the text be considered a work of propaganda (promoting a one-sided, intentional and unequivocal message)? Is the text invested in such national-cultural myths of America as the City on a Hill (moral superiority), altruistic idealism (social and political superiority) or technological invincibility (military superiority)? Does the text provide some kind of reasoning or rationale for going to war? Is the suffering and sacrifice given justification? Why indeed do we fight? In order to ground your discussion and analysis in scholarship, your paper should incorporate at least three of our course readings (or five sources total if you would like to use class discussions as a source to be cited).