Select and answer ONE of the following questions. Please number your selection 1. List AND describe FOUR reasons for Martin Luther’s success. 2. Discuss the differences between the cultural expression of the Renaissance in Italy and in Northern Europe. 3. Discuss the political development of Italy during the Renaissance. What new practices in statecraft did […]
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July 29th, 2021 
In chapter 12 we talk about taxation. What do you think is the best / ideal form of taxation? How does the current system in the US measure up to what you think the ideal system should be. Use the concepts from chapter 12 to support your response.
Sports Media
July 29th, 2021 PART 1 OF ORDER:Choose THREE terms from the list below. Each answer should be 200-250 words. For each term:a) Define the termb) Describe how the term is connected to sport mediac) Provide at least one media example to illustrate your answerList of Terms:1. Imagined community2. Natural bodies3. Olympic commodity4. Glocalization5. Activist-athlete6. Settler Colonialism PART 2 […]
HATE:A Reflective Statement
July 29th, 2021 A Reflective Statement about your learning: a 500-word (+/- 10%) statement about what you think you have learnt from the module. This does not need to describe the module itself, but could for example include comments on things that have surprised you or made you think differently or ideas you have for your future […]
primary source analysis
July 29th, 2021 http://web.archive.org/web/20001215223500/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/analects.htm I would like you to engage in a primary source analysis. Historians do such analyses all the time. It is one of their main ways of understanding what strengths and limitations the sources that tell them about the past have and how reliable those sources may be. Focusing on just one of the primary […]
Death
July 29th, 2021 You will do an audiovisual essay that follows the steps of the essay “What to philosophize is to prepare to die” by Montaigne, in which the French philosopher offers a meditation on death from a personal perspective, albeit based on literary and philosophical texts The video essay should, in essence, answer the following question:– In […]
HATE Portfolio
July 29th, 2021 READING News articles:BBC (2019) ‘Brexit “major influence” in racism and hate crime rise’ BBC.co.uk 20 June 2019. Donna Lu (2019) ‘UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes’ New Scientist 28 August 2019. Academic reading: Kathleen Blee (2003-4) Positioning Hate, Journal of Hate Studies, vol.3(1), pp95-105.
HATE
July 29th, 2021 ESSAY QUESTION: Discuss Freuds proposition that: it is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness. READINGThere are two key readings this week, and we expect you to read at least one of them. Watch […]
Social Economics
July 29th, 2021 21pts.Thiccasthieves.Ab outtenyearsago,therewasalotofmentioninthepressthatyourfriendsmakeyoufat,whichyounowknowisap eereect.ButwasthereanythingtoitReadtheblogp ostathttps://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-your-friends-make-you-fat%E2%80%94the-so cial-network-of-weight-201105242666andanswerthefollowingquestions:(a)3pts.Thesurveyfoundthatheavierp eoplehaveheavierfriends.Isthis,byitself,evidenceofendogenousso cialeects?Explainwhyorwhynotin2-3sentences.(b)9pts.Classifyeachofthethreepathwaysconjecturedasanendogenousso cialeect,exogenous(correlated)eectorcontextualeect.Explaineachanswerin2-3sentences.(c)3pts.Supp oseIwavedamagicwandandmadeyourfriends10lbs.heavier.Basedonthisdescriptionofthestudy,wouldyougainweight?Explainin1-2sentences.(d)6pts.Inlightofyouranswertothepreviousquestion(notyourpersonalpriorbeliefs)doyoundtheinterpretationofthisstudytob ecredible?Commendorcriticizeitin5-6sentences.3.47pts.Growingtogether.Ifyoulo okedatmarriedcouples,youmightthinkthattheirweightsarep ositivelycorrelated,i.e.,overweightp eopletendtocouplewithoverweightp eople,andunderweightp eopletendtocouplewithunderweightp eople.1Let’sexplorethisasso ciationabitfurther.Forparts(a)-(c),youcannotuseanexplanation/pathwaythatwaspresentedinthearticlecitedinproblem2.(a)2pts.Giveoneexplanationforwhycouples’weightsarep ositivelycorrelatedthatisanendogenousso cialeect.(b)2pts.Giveoneexplanationforwhycouples’weightsarep ositivelycorrelatedthatisacorrelatedeect.(c)2pts.Giveoneexplanationforwhycouples’weightsarep ositivelycorrelatedthatisacontextualeect.1Yourobservationisb orneoutinsurveydata.Chen,et.al.(2014)ndacorrelationco ecientof0.24forsp ouses’BMI.1Nowsupp osethatyouaremarried.Youandyoursp ouseeachweigh100lbs.ondayt1.Yourweightondayt,t+ 1,t+ 2,…evolvesaccordingtothefollowingequationofmotion:YourWeightt=you1YourWeightt1+you1CaloriesYouEatt+you2Sp ouse’sWeightt1+you2CaloriesSp ouseEatst+(1)youTemp eraturetYoursp ouse’sweightevolvessimilarly,butwithdierentco ecients.(Theirco ecientshavesup erscriptssp ouseinsteadofyou,e.g.,sp ouse1.)(a),3pts.Whichparameter(s)corresp ond(s)toendogenousso cialeects?correlatedeects?contextualeects?(Hint:ParametersaretheGreekco ecients.Notallparameterscor-resp ondtooneofthesetyp esofeects!Someeectsmayormaynotb erepresentedbyaparameter!)(b)Supp oseyou1andsp ouse1areb othequaltozero.Assumeyourdietsandthetemp eratureneverchanges.Youranswersshouldb eintermsofoneormoreoftheparameters.i.4pts.Ifyouweighed101lbs.int1insteadof100lbs.,howmuchmorewouldyouandyoursp ouseweighint,t+ 1andt+ 2?(Hint:Writeouttheexpressionsfortheweightsifyouweighed100lbs.andifyouweighed101lbs.andthentakethedierence.You’llseeapatternthatwillsimplifythisandallfuturecalculations.)ii.3pts.Forwhatparametervalueswouldalittlebumpinyourweightmakeitgotoinnityastgetslarge?iii.3pts.Forwhatparametervalueswouldalittlebumpinyourweightmakeyoursp ouse’sweightgotoinnityastgetslarge?(c)Nowsupp oseyou1andsp ouse1arenotequaltozero.Assumeyourdietsandthetemp eratureneverchanges.Youranswersshouldb […]
Discussion / Post
July 29th, 2021 Instruction: Module 7 ( 1 page of response for each classmate) In Module Six, you created your list of competencies and added a brief rationale for the selection. These competencies were to be added to your adaptive leadership toolkit. However, before finalizing your list, you must have this discussion, which will enable you to rethink […]
