Apply Hall’s encoding/decoding model to a media text widely argued to be controversial. What is the media producers’ preferred meaning?
CHOOSE AN ESSAY PROMPT
Decoding Controversial Media: Apply Hall’s encoding/decoding model to a media text widely argued to be controversial. What is the media producers’ preferred meaning? What is one popular negotiated or oppositional reading? Use mainstream reviews and criticism, news pieces, fan pages, and/or other sources to illustrate the decoding position. Ultimately, what does your research reveal about the balance of power between producers and audiences in determining meaning?
Genre Mutation: Choose a medium-specific genre or subgenre and trace how it has changed. Start off by defining your genre and its traditional codes and conventions before describing how these have mutated over time. What specific changes have influenced these transformations? Focus on two particular case studies from the same genre. How do they represent your argument? Ultimately, what do your examples illustrate about how genre must be understood?
The Adaptation: Analyze a text adapted from one medium to another. What were the economic motivations behind its adaptation, and what challenges did producers face? How specifically did the mediamakers “squeeze” or “stretch” the adaptation, and why? How did fans of the adapted text respond to the adaptation, especially regarding its squeezing or stretching? Ultimately, what does your case study show about the benefits and challenges behind adaptations?
Requirement: Write a five page essay (12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins) responding to one of the prompts below. It will be evaluated on the basis of your argumentation, use of supporting materials, and clarity and organization. Write as if for a general audience. You will be expected to perform research by consulting appropriate sources (trade, popular, academic publications, and/or other applicable material). In addition to these, you should also draw upon readings and lecture. Rely on lecture, however, only for ideas not discussed in the readings. Wikipedia and other general reference sources may be useful as you initially look into the background of your topic, but they are not sufficient resources from which to cite and build your argument.
Think of the essay—complete with an introduction, thesis, and conclusion—as a research project. Include in-text citations and an alphabetized bibliography of all sources you cite (including those from class). Use MLA format.
What does your professor do about smartphones in the “live” classroom? Is there a policy for their use?
Introduction
Smartphones. We can’t live without them. Many college students are taking online courses and the debate of whether or not to text in the classroom is not an issue in that environment. However, most students that take online classes are taking “live” classes at the same time. What does your professor do about smartphones in the “live” classroom? Is there a policy for their use?
The purpose of this assignment is to think about how texting during class lecture might be affecting our listening comprehension and ultimately our grade in that class. Review the 6 steps of the complete listening process as described in the HURIER model (pages 145 to 147 in our text) include hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating and responding.
Instructions
Read the article titled “OMG! Texting in Class = U Fail 🙁 Empirical Evidence That Text Messaging During Class Disrupts Comprehension” written by Amanda C. Gingerich and Tara T. Lineweaver, published in 2014.
Gingerich, A. C., & Lineweaver, T. T. (2014). OMG! Texting in Class = U Fail :( Empirical Evidence That Text Messaging During Class Disrupts Comprehension. Teaching of Psychology, 41(1), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628313514177 (Enlaces a un sitio externo.)
Write a 500-600 word reaction essay in APA paragraph format that answers the following questions:
- What percentage of time do you believe you spend texting in a given class period?
- Which part or parts of the listening process do you think texting during lecture affects the most?
- What do the authors of the article say about “catching up” with what you lost during texting?
- What do the authors recommend that instructors do when the semester begins in terms of talking to the students about texting in class?
- Did this article change your perspective about texting and listening?
TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT:
- APA style papers and Reference pages.
- Look for APA format.
- Don’t forget to use in-text citations.
- You will also have to add a citation from one scholarly article to your essay, not your textbook.
- Add an APA References list that includes the article above and one outside article.
- Submit two files: One for the essay and one for the References list.
Demonstrate a researchable topic or issue—the feasibility of conducting the study is based upon access to information that can be effectively acquired, gathered, interpreted, synthesized, and understood
(A research problem is a definite or clear expression [statement] about an area of concern, a condition to beimproved upon, a difficulty to be eliminated, or a troubling question that exists in scholarly literature, in theory, or within existing practice that points to a need for meaningful understanding and deliberateinvestigation. A research problem does not state how to do something, offer a vague or broad proposition, or present a value claim. In philosophy, the research problem establishes the means by which you interrogate the relevant literature, and drives both your argument and implications for new knowledge and understanding).
A template for the problem identification essay includes:
1. Introducing the reader to the importance of the topic for study, and the uniqueness of your question.
2. Placing the topic into a particular context that defines or identifies the parameters of what would be investigated (if you were to write a full essay).
3. Anchoring the specific research questions, hypotheses, or assumptions that would follow in your study (if you were to write a full essay).
4. Fleshing or parsing out the question in its complexities.
5. Proposing new and better questions as a result of #4.
6. Providing the framework for reporting the results and indicating what is probably necessary to conduct the study and explain how the findings will present this information(if you were to write a full essay).
A template for the abstract to a researched argument essay should:
1. Convey the study’s importance, benefits, and justification
2. Demonstrate a researchable topic or issue—the feasibility of conducting the study is based upon access to information that can be effectively acquired, gathered, interpreted, synthesized, and understood
3. Identify what would be studied, specifically, while avoiding the use of value-laden words and terms, 4. Identify an overarching question or small set of questions accompanied by key factors or variables 5. Identify key concepts and terms
6. Articulate the study’s conceptual boundaries or parameters or limitations
7. Convey more than the mere gathering of descriptive data, or providing only a snapshot of the issue or phenomenon under investigation
An introduction to a researched argument essay should contain:
1. A lead-in that helps ensure the reader will maintain interest over the study
2. A declaration of originality—how your study adds to the prior literature
3. An indication of the central focus of the study—establishing the issue and boundaries of analysis 4. An explanation of the study’s significance or the benefits to be derived from investigating the research problem
NOTE: An introductory statement describing the research problem of your essay should not be viewed as a thesis statement with which you may be very familiar. Instead, you establish the philosophical problem, present the research, and then offer a very soft claim.
There are four general conceptualizations of a research problem in the social sciences:
1. Casuist Research Problem — this type of problem relaates to the determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing moral dilemmas through the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases.
2. Difference Research Problem — typically asks the question, “Is there a difference between two or more groups or treatments?” This type of problem statement is used when the researcher compares or contrasts two or more phenomena. This a common approach to defining a problem in the clinical social sciences or behavioral sciences.
3. Descriptive Research Problem — typically asks the question, “what is…?” with the underlying purpose to describe the significance of a situation, state, or existence of a specific phenomenon. This problem is often associated with revealing hidden or understudied issues.
4. Relational Research Problem — suggests a relationship of some sort between two or more variables to be investigated. The underlying purpose is to investigate specific qualities or characteristics that may be connected in some way.
Assume our economy right now on the potential output (where SRAS=LRAS), explain what happen to equilibrium price, equilibrium output and SRAS when there is supply shocks (increase cost of production) and what is this called?
- National income
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Assume our economy right now on the potential output (where SRAS=LRAS), explain what happen to equilibrium price, equilibrium output and SRAS when there is supply shocks (increase cost of production) and what is this called? We could go back to the long run (potential output) through two scenarios; what are they
Select a company that interests you and describe the following features regarding the company
Memo # 1
For Memo # 1, please select a company that interests you and describe the following features regarding the company in paragraph format:
1. In no more than one paragraph, please describe which company you have selected and explain whether it is or is not competitive. Please specifically explain what provides it with, or fails to provide it with, a competitive advantage. Please also explain whether the competitive advantage(s) that you identified is based on a form of differentiation, effective customer targeting or price leadership?
2. In no more than one paragraph, please explain what industry or industries your company operates in and who its top three competitors are. Please also explain whether it is gaining or losing market share. (Please cite your source for this information).
3. In no more than one paragraph, please explain whether you anticipate any changes in technology, social trends, regulations, competition or economy that will impact your company.
4. Please provide some data in the form of graphs, table or charts showing the sales growth, stock price changes and/or market share of your company. I encourage you to use data from credible sources such as Euromonitor, reputable publications and public filings. All graphs, tables and charts should have an explanation regarding what they say and how they should be interpreted. (A graph, table or chart by itself is not enough).
To what extent is Professor Bernstein’s role a relevant consideration in excusing or not excusing his deceiving his wife?
Consider the questions asked in the introduction to the video. To what extent is Professor Bernstein’s role a relevant consideration in excusing or not excusing his deceiving his wife? How does this apply in the case of professional caregivers? Broaden the scenario to consider more than just the medical profession – what other professionals might also be in a relationship with Bernstein and his wife? Do the same issues raised by the video apply to them? Why or why not?
14 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpAKe1NizQ
Do you agree or disagree with this perspective?
In the first video, Professor Schweitzer and doctoral student Emma Levine raise a number of considerations about honesty and truth-telling in the professions. At one point, Professor Schweitzer says, “There are really two key ideas that we suggest for implementing some of these findings. One is to change codes of conduct. That is, when we talk about codes of conduct, and we have honesty in there, for the sake of hypocrisy, I would take that out because it’s not what we mean, and it’s not what we do.” Do you agree or disagree with this perspective? Do you think it applies to the professions generally, or is it particularly an issue for one or more professions you can think of? What might a code of ethics provision that embodies Schweizter’s advice look like?
Explain how the Life of Pi is an example of the Hero’s journey?
“life of pi” movie questions
Q1.
Explain how the Life of Pi is an example of the Hero’s journey? What stages does Pi go through in his epic journey? What stages did the pilgrims in El Camino go through in their journey? What stage do you think you are in?
Q2.
How does Pi use stories to come up with new ideas that would keep him alive?
Q3.
Pi was able to accept and practice 3 religions at once, meanwhile the rest of the world today can’t seem to get over the differences, what makes the world so resilient to accepting and loving all 3 religions the same way Pi did?
If given the opportunity, how will you address Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs)
If given the opportunity, how will you address Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs)
