...Many Chicanx/Latinx students, including myself, never really learned our history in U.S. high schools. Growing up, I never really cared that my people were excluded from textbooks, maybe it was because I was always conditioned to think of U.S. history as the same thing we’ve always been told in every single textbook we looked at. For me, it was good enough to think that Cesar Chavez was included in a small section of my textbooks. It wasn’t until I started college and took my first Ethnic Studies course that I realized Chicanxs and Latinxs were excluded from textbooks and that it was problematic. After I took Survey of Chicana/Chicano History and Culture with Dr. Maes, my eyes were opened and I discovered all this rich history that had never been taught to me before. When I had this moment of joy because I learned so much, I imagined how other Chicanxs students would feel if they learned about our history. Now that I’ve taken several Ethnic Studies courses, when I think about why I was never taught Latinx history, I think about the patriotism in the United States that is embedded in our culture. We’re constantly bombarded with being proud to be an American and that we need to put our hands over our hearts and stand for the National Anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance. I have vivid memories from a young age, of being told every morning to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance; there was time dedicated for this. I was told all this history and I accepted all of it. I was told about...
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...what controversial (has more than one side / answer / opinion / etc) issues exist in your discipline / major and which are most interesting to you and/or relevant in your field today. To help you with that, you may want to move through the brainstorm / freewrite below to see if you can develop some of those ideas. You should use this to help you come up with ideas that you could discuss and develop on the DB. You may even want to post portions of what you came up with here on the DB. Thoughtful interaction could earn you some BONUS in the CE column and allow you to SPIN some ideas and nail down some solid topics. With that in mind, each student’s essay is to be unique with regards to its TOPIC / ISSUE / STANCE / ETC; therefore, the Board is meant to be a place to help shape ideas, not see one and “steal” it for your own essay. Topics will be reserved for those individuals who first bring them up and if similarities exist it will be the responsibility of the students to determine what different aspects of the issue will be explored by each (first poster gets first choice). I will NOT allow the “casual” student (one who is hanging around on the roster but not really submitting assignments and/or participating on the previous Boards) tell me at the last minute that “X” is his/her project when a conscientious student already articulated this on the Board. What you want to do is complicate the issue. Look at the issue from multiple perspectives and see what collaborations and...
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...journal entries (or the sum total, if that helps) and to synthesize some thread of thinking or learning that you find in there. You might build on a single entry or on something bridging multiple entries, but the point is to capture something that you are learning. We expect the paper to have some over-arching, coherent argument so that it is not simply a string of thoughts. A string of thoughts is fine for your journal entries, but here we do want some synthesis. You should not spend time summarizing your activities, unless that is essential for your argument. Grading Criteria The criteria we will use to evaluate the papers are listed below. Note that you do not have to address all of these criteria in one paper. We want you to address all of them over the course of the semester, but any single paper can focus on only one or two of these. Regardless of what you choose to write your reflection synthesis on, your paper must demonstrate clear, coherent argumentation. 1. Expression of Learning 2. Discussion and/or synthesis of course readings 3. Reflection on assumptions and cultural frames of reference 4. Connection to proposal process Word Count The reflection papers, except for the final one, should be at least 500 words, but not a lot longer than that. The final paper should be around 1,500...
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...Gladwell Kamaru Professor Thannickal Synthesis essay 21 June 2015 Family Matters In today’s society, one of the most treasured thing is family relationship. It fascinating because in the United States of America Family is defined differently for each person. However family relations stay the same, for example a family member is person who relationship is genetic or marital status. The following stories display family relationship at its finest. They also show case what holds families together love. In the book of 1corithians 13:7, it says, “love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.” In the following stories, main characters display these characteristics of love towards family members. Love hopes all things and endures all thing. In “sonny blues” by James Baldwin sonny’s older brother keeps his promise to his mother that he will take care of sonny and even though there lives are on different path. When sonny is in rehab his brother, hope is for him great things that he would leave rehab a free man. Not only that, he also give his brother a chance that is compelled by love and his promise to his mother. He does not give up on sonny, he endure through the pain with him until sonny is free from his past. In the story James Baldwin, give sonny an opportunity to prove himself a new man and musician. He does so after he has a heartfelt moment with his brother. Love bears all things. In “Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus, Luke...
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...Kelly Vick Synthesis Essay The Effect that Television has had on The Delivery of News Today our world is dominated by technology. With the use of it people can access the weather and breaking news in a matter of seconds. This information is available to us in the palms of our hands. For the most part people think that this is great, but there are others who are skeptical and believe that technology and the multimedia has a negative effect on society. In Neil Postman's book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death", he describes the consequences of living in a society that is dominated by television and the multimedia. Postman (1985) believes news on television is uninformative and only used for entertainment, however, Matt Quayle and Paul Grabowicz both believe the news on television is informative and is improving greatly. In chapter 6 of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Postman (1985) takes us on a journey through the history of technology. First Postman (1985) makes the distinction between a technology and a medium. A technology is merely a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates. Postman (1985) speaks about the different uses we have for the television, such as a lamp, bookshelf, or even a radio. But in other places or countries the television is not as nearly as important to the people as it is to Americans. Postman (1985) believes that television provides the explanation for a world obsessed with image to the detriment of content. He argues that...
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...Module #1 Synthesis essay #1 – Loyalty in the Workplace There was a time in America where you could reasonably assume that if you were a show up every day and not rock the boat kind of employee, you could have a long, healthy career working for only one company. At the beginning part or the 20th century, with the obvious exceptions of the great wars and the great depression, it was unusual for a working adult in this country to have more than a few entries on their resume. Part of this is due to according to The Center for Disease Control in the “CIA World Fact Book, 2008” in 1900 the average lifespan was 47 years vs. 77 years today. People were very proud of their jobs and extremely loyal to there employers. The trades even more so that other types of employment stemming from traditions of indentured apprenticeships that had their roots in Europe. Today according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics “ Employee Tenure Summary” the average time an employee stays with a company is 4.6 years. In her article “Job Hopping is the “New Normal” for Millennials” Jeanine Meister estimates workers born between 1977 and 1997 will have between 15 and 20 jobs over the course of their career. Employers have become a disposable commodity to the Workforce. As evidenced by the WorkspanTV Organizational Culture Video, organizations are increasingly aware of this dilemma and trying to combat the current trend through indoctrination into a prefabricated value system. Total immersion in a micro...
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...Synthesis Essay Different kinds of websites and books argue on the idea of whether the world is going to end in 2012 or not. All of them give reasons to persuade their readers as much as they could. When I went over some of the articles that talk about 2012, I asked, won’t those articles confuse people? Therefore, I have chosen two articles to see their effect over the readers. The first one is by Dr. Dr. Morrison David who is NAI senior scientist who answers a lot of questions that has been asked to NASA about 2012. The second one is by Dr. Archana who talks about different kinds of reasons why the world will end in 2012. Dr. Archana and Dr. Morrison have different opinions about 2012. Dr. Morrison says there is no evidence which proves the ending of the world is in 2012. According to him, people use this idea to make money out of it by creating different kinds of stories to persuade people (Dr. Morrison 7). In fact, He believes these kinds of concepts are products of Hollywood (Dr. Morrison 3). In the other side, Dr. Archana argues by saying “several experts are predicting that the earth is likely to end by the year 2012. The reason could be a human effect or natural disaster. From Chinese theories to scientific predictions the most likely date is the year 2012.” (Dr. Archana 1) Although Dr. Archana and Dr. Morrison agree in the presence of magnetic field, they give different view of what the earth’s magnetic field might cause. Dr. Morrison argues that there is slow movement...
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...Analyzing and Re-analyzing: Synthesizing Rhetorical Analyses Rhetorical analysis is the breakdown of a certain piece of work to explain the overall effect that the piece creates. Remember that a rhetorical analysis is not summarizing but taking a position on whether the overall piece is sufficient. The process of this analysis may be difficult depending on what type of piece is being analyzed, e.g. visual or written. Many little details should be paid attention to when writing an analysis; it can be easy getting involved in the piece and not paying attention to the important aspects. Even though there are plenty parts to take into consideration, the three main parts that play a huge role in determining the adequacy of a piece are the author, audience, and purpose. The author is one of the main parts in understanding a piece of work. There are always two types of authors, the “actual author” and the “implied author.” Both are important; however, do not focus too much on the actual author, focus on the way the author presents themselves throughout their work. As described in Source C, Miller states that the implied author, the author the reader imagines, and actual author, the person(s) who wrote the text, are two different things. She even suggests that it would be much easier to make assertions about the implied author because to make assertions about the actual author, you need historical information on them. This is significant because gathering information on...
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...Raven Rodriguez Summary-Composition I Sandy Rankin-11:50 class September 22, 2014 Summary of Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” In Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, King attempts to convince the reader that humans are all somewhat mentally unstable by laying out specific situations where we enjoy being frightened, and witness others doing the same. Throughout the essay, King analyzes the reasons why we are so attracted to horrifying events, and states that we have to metaphorically “lift up a trap door in the civilized forebrain and throw a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators swimming around in that subterranean river beneath” preventing the chance of those demons getting out. As the essay progresses, King explains how watching horror movies entertains the demons or feeds the “alligators” within us which causes us to believe that we aren’t awful, or at least as awful as the actual lynchers in the movies. Horror movies “provide psychic relief”, as King says, that allow our emotions to be expressed like the fear that we try to overcome by proving our normality as we are able to watch as many nauseating scenes as we desire. He says that there is a “potential lyncher” living within each and every one of us that has to be set free from time to time through more actions that seem normal like telling sick jokes. The universal popularity of horrific entertainment portrays how several people share the same curiosity, obsession, and interest in this...
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...Changing College for Millennials: A Brief Look at the 21st Century Higher Education System University of Maryland University College Changing College for Millennials: A Brief Look at the 21st Century Higher Education System Campus life has surely changed in the United States. Gone are images of large groups of sweater-vested coeds pouring through books in an open quad, or individuals in a library, hunched over a microfiche machine looking for a key article to support their research. Laptops and iPads have replaced notebooks, three-ringed binders, and miniature tape recorders as the preferred instrument for taking notes in the classroom. Even the very way lectures are delivered has changed; distance education and web-based courses have taken the place of traditional brick and mortar classrooms. The student body has changed too; millennials now represent the largest generational group on campuses, and this number will continue to rise for the next few years. This presents new challenges to educators as this generation is fundamentally different in many ways from its predecessor: they have lived highly structured lives; are comfortable working in social groups; have high expectations; and are savvy in the realm of technology (Stapleton, Wen, Starrett, & Kilburn, 2007, p. 101). The dilemma faced by university faculty and administrators around the country is who should change, the students or the entire adult education system? Many may resist change on the institutional...
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...When being ask a question in today’s society, the automatic answer or reaction in order find a solution would be through the use of technology. We as the people have grown dependent on the world of the Internet, the accessibility of our phones and uses of clocks. A thought that we find hard to comprehend is that just about thirty years ago some of these tools did not exist. How has technology affected our minds and the way we think or even process information? Can we say we have turned our brains into a living computer, or are so dependent on outside answers that we have stopped thinking for ourselves? Now and days we have entered a state of obliviousness on how little knowledge and wisdom we truly have. It is very interesting to think about on how technology especially the television could affect our attention span and the information that is being given to us. In Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” he states a precise point “the average length of a shot on network television is only 3.5 seconds, so that the eye never rests, always has something to see” (86). This statement alone shows and proves on how peoples attention span is constantly shifting and changing focus to see what else is there is to see or what is next to come. As the Internet becoming more useful to people, written stories or narratives are becoming more extinct. In the article “The Transition to Digital Journalism” the author Paul Grabowicz’s stated, “Younger people in particular are said...
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...Synthesis Essay: Archetypes As a person progresses in age, or experiences traumatic situations, it is common that the innocence once possessed as a child can dissipate. Innocence can be easily viewed as temporal due to its tendency to falter in a myriad amount of people. Loss of innocence is a prevalent archetypal theme in Star Wars, Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, and Swing Kids. Although all novels display this archetypal theme well, the character Tom in Grapes of Wrath suffers the greatest loss of innocence due to the tragic effects of the Great Depression and the crime he participates in. In Star Wars, a young man, Luke Skywalker, who has lost his parents, lives with his aunt and uncle and is brought into a world of violence on his mission to become a Jedi. He encounters the ultimate archetypal devil figure, Darth Vader. Darth represents the darkness humanity possesses. Although Luke’s encounters with supernatural beings and death are frequent in the film Star Wars, this sharply contrasts with the isolation Tom Joad faces in Grapes of Wrath. While Luke’s loss of innocence is accepted as a way of life in Star Wars, including killing clones and destroying an entire planet, Tom’s inability to tolerate injustice, resulting in violence, is a crime in the world of his character. Essentially, Luke’s loss of innocence brings him closer to the people in the world he is surrounded by; his destroying of the Death Star is an act of bravery. Tom kills men who...
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...Synthesis Essay Picture yourself in a world where problems like distracted driving and depressed lonely people can be solved by self driving cars and conversational interfaces. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well if it does, just know that this apparent far fetched point in time is not that far off. In early 2018 there was a chip developed by researchers at MIT that works in a similar fashion to the human brain. This technological breakthrough has been under discussion for years, projections predicted this occasion to happen right around this time of 2018-2019. It’s been said that once computers obtain the ability to operate like the human brain is when all the hypothetical situations people have and perhaps should be worried about will be put under...
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...SYNTHESIS AND RELEVANCE OF THE REVIEW A general synthetic route to two DOTA-linked N-Fmoc amino acids (DOTA-F and DOTA-K) is described that allows insertion of DOTA at any endo-position within a peptide sequence. Three model pentapeptides were prepared to test the general utility of these derivatives in solid-phase peptide synthesis. Both DOTA derivatives reacted smoothly by means of standard HBTU activation chemistry to the point of insertion of the DOTA amino acid, but extension of the peptide chain beyond the DOTA-amino acid insertion required the use of pre-activated C-pentafluorophenyl ester N-alpha-Fmoc amino acids. Three Gal-80 binding peptides (12-mers) were then prepared by using this methodology with DOTA positioned either at the N terminus or at one of two different internal positions;the binding of the resulting GdDOTA-12-mers to Gal-80 were compared. The methodology described here allows versatile, controlled introduction of DOTA into any location within a peptide sequence. This provides a potential method for the screening of libraries of DOTA-linked peptides for optimal targeting properties This report describes the synthesis and structural characterization of the indium complex of 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid mono(p-aminoanilide) (DOTA-AA), a model compound for 111In-labeled DOTA-biomolecule conjugates. In(DOTA-AA) was prepared by reacting DOTA-AA with 1 equiv of InCl3 in 0.5 M ammonium acetate buffer (pH ∼ 6). It was characterized...
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...Mahatma Gandhi one defined happiness as “when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Barring any better definition of happiness from either positive psychologists, self-help gurus, or any other academic source, I tend to think this is a great summation of the definition of happiness. Gandhi doesn’t say anything about how these things make you feel, rather looks at it from a point of view of harmony between thoughts, expressions, and actions. Since one single accepted definition of happiness doesn’t seem to exist, and happiness is different for everyone, this begs the question; how can you increase your own personal level of happiness? Since WW II psychologist have been studying our brains as they pertain to our mental health. Approximately 30% of people in the USA suffer from some sort of mental disorder (Seligman, Parks, and Steen 418). After we figured out how to treat these 30% of people, psychologists then turned to the remaining 70% of the population with the thinking that “although these people may not be experiencing severe pathology, there is good evidence to indicate the absence of maladies does not constitute happiness” (Seligman, Parks, and Steen 418). The conclusion these psychologists came to was that “…we believe “happiness” is a condition over and above the absence of unhappiness… A review [of the literature] led us to identify three constituents of happiness: (i) pleasure (or positive emotion); (ii) engagement; and (iii) meaning”...
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