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discussions about 100 words reading notes is about 400 words (200 on each assigned chapter) Discussion 1 : https://www.businessroundtable.org/ https://www.cfr.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiAg8OBBhA8EiwAlKw3kjOLXLK8v-xrEMjzJy1QsyUYh_NRObIhVsUeuLQ8308iMSsYXXQEtho https://sloan.org/ https://www.brookings.edu/ Discussion 2: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/29/15886936/political-lobbying-lobbyist-big-money-politics https://ssir.org/articles/entry/lobbying_for_good Discussion 3: https://politico-dispatch.simplecast.com/episodes/lets-talk-about-the-capitols-diversity-problem https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/28/racial-ethnic-diversity-increases-yet-again-with-the-117th-congress/ https://www.statista.com/chart/18905/us-congress-by-race-ethnicity/ https://jointcenter.org/racial-diversity-among-top-staff-in-senate-personal-offices/ Reading notes: each reading notes assignment has 400

  Discuss each question in 1-2 paragraphs. Answer the questions in answer and question format, that is, when you are posting, include both the questions and your answers. Be sure to reply to at least one students post. What are some challenges

OPTION A (“CONTRADICTIONS”): Nick Carraway is a thoughtful narrator, one with a Yale education and literary ambitions. Hes also a walking contradiction. Consider some examples. He writes of his scorn for Gatsby while also being fascinated by him. He claims not

Write an annotated bibliography for the scholarly readings assigned on participatory culture or cultural imperialism (Taylor).  Be sure to start with a full citation of the reading and use bold for this header to distinguish the text from your annotation. 

ASSIGNMENT: Read Into the Wild, and by Thursday 4/15 write a 750-1000 word essay on the book. As always, you are encouraged to provide your own original insights, but you may consider some of these thematic questions: How does the

Answer all five the questions below.  For simplicity, you may type your work directly onto this document. Limit each of your answers (e.g. 1a etc.) to approximately four or five sentences.  Before you begin, a note on citing poetry references

What kinds of logical inferences about romance and religion can we draw from Victor Frankensteins obsession with creating life? The monster compares himself to Adam, the first man and to Satan, the fallen angel. There are lots of examples of

  Objectives: * Apply the critical analysis skills outlined in our reading(s)* Refine your ability to write quickly and fluently* Respond to others’ ideas using 1 or more of They say, I say’s stra-tegies for responding Are you familiar with

 What is Shelby Steele’s perspective about affirmative action?  Do you agree or disagree with him?  About that article   

Write an essay analyzing August Wilsons Fences that discusses why and how dialogue, plot, setting (time/place), and/or specific characters are used to depict one or two of the themes from Unit 1 in a particular way. For the play itself,