LITERARY ANALYSIS
Need a 2 to 3 page - Literary Analysis of the following text.
Fish Cheeks Amy Tan
I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the manger. For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose.
When I found out that my parents had invited the minister's family over for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappoint-ment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food?
On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock cod with bulging eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.
And then they arrived – the minister's family and all my relatives in a clamor of doorbells and rumpled Christmas packages. Robert grunted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence.
Dinner threw me deeper into despair. My relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table, dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food. Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert grimaced. Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. ""Amy, your favorite,"" he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.
At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking. ""It's a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied,"" explained my father to our astonished guests. Robert was looking down at his plate with a reddened face. The minister managed to muster up a quiet burp. I was stunned into silence for the rest of the night.
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, ""You want to be the same as American girls on the outside."" She handed me an early gift. It was a miniskirt in beige tweed. ""But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.""
And even though I didn't agree with her then, I knew that she understood how much I had suffered during the evening's dinner. It wasn't until many years later – long after I had gotten over my crush on Robert – that I was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the true purpose behind our particular menu. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.
Writing assignment 2/ Community Health Evaluation
This paper is due tomorrow by 11:59pm. Attached is the assignment requirements.
Assignment 3
Prompt: After completing the lecture and reading assignments, compose a well-written response paper to the following question: The ratio of physicians to population continues to increase beyond estimated needs. An oversupply of physicians in many urban regions contrasts with continuing problems of access in rural and inner city areas. Discuss why you believe the maldistribution of physicians persists in spite of the number of physicians graduated? What solutions do you as a Christian healthcare administrator recommend to alleviate this imbalance?
Requirements: Do not use the question in the response. Papers must include a substantive elaboration on the topic as well as support from scripture. 750-1000 words, APA format
Textbook: Shi, L. & Singh, D. (2017). Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (7th edition). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
5 part assignment
Part 1: argumentative/persuasive submit a brief MLA-formatted document (yes, include a header and heading) describing not only the general topic that you would like to research but also a brief description of the particular point you are interested in arguing. Reminder: I will not accept papers on the following topics: abortion, capital punishment, gun control, and assisted suicide.
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Benjamin Franklin reportedly said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In other words, taxes will always be with us.
When we think of taxes, we often focus on the largest one, the federal personal income tax. But we also pay other taxes. Some are federal, and some are only in specific geographic areas (cities or states). Paying taxes can have a significant impact on our household budget. However, it’s also important to note the benefits we receive from services that are funded by tax dollars (public education, roads, parks, food assistance, etc.).
Identify one tax (other than federal personal income tax) you pay and one benefit you utilize that is funded by tax dollars. How do both of these impact your life and your family member’s lives?
Also, please respond to the post of at least one classmate.
DISCUSSION 1
Post something you find interesting about the normal distribution and state why you find it interesting.
DISCUSSION 2
Submit the Milestone Two Worksheet attach below, In this milestone, you will address the following:
Indicate sample size (n = ?) and describe what consequence(s) this sample size will have on your analyses and on your reporting of results.
Using the Choose Your Test document attach below, select a statistical procedure appropriate to your scenario/data. Explain why you selected that test, linking features of the scenario/data to information from the Choose Your Test document
4 discussions due in 30 hours
4 discussions due in 30 hours
Discussion - Reader Response
A successful post meets rubric criteria (Content, Organization, Style/Language, and Sentence Structure/Grammar) and follows the discussion prompt. A successful reply to classmates answers their questions, provides additional insight into the topics they have discussed, generates additional questions, or engages in meaningful and substantive dialogue. Completing this forum should enable you to brainstorm a topic, organize an analysis essay, and compose an analysis essay. (MO 1,2,3)
Instructions:
In your post summarize what you have read and learned in the textbooks and online lecture materials this week.
In other modules, you will be continuing the chapters and sections listed under 'Read' in the Module 1 overview. Note your progress as part of your reader response this week.
Include a discussion point or question in your post about something you did not understand.
Include a discussion point or question in your post about something you thought about as you read.
Include a discussion point or question in your post about something you want your peers to think about.
· Discussion - The Perfect Sandwich
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· A successful post meets rubric criteria (Content, Organization, Style/Language, and Sentence Structure/Grammar) and follows the discussion prompt. A successful reply to classmates answers their questions, provides additional insight into the topics they have discussed, generates additional questions, or engages in meaningful and substantive dialogue. Completing this forum should enable you to brainstorm a topic, organize an analysis essay, and compose an analysis essay. (MO 1,2,3)
· Instructions:
· The simplest process essays are basic how-to steps on a craft or a recipe. A sandwich construction can either be incredibly simple or extremely complicated. Cartoonist Chic Young's character Dagwood Bumstead famously created sandwiches of comic proportions, inspiring real-life versions of the same. There are even sandwich debates: is a hot dog a sandwich, and what about a taco? In the subject line of your post put 'Your Name's Perfect Sandwich.' Define what a sandwich is and is not in your simplest terms. The bulk of your post should be your process for constructing what you opine to be the perfect sandwich. If you are not a sandwich eater, you may do this post about a similarly simple food item (i.e. baked potato, salad, ramen, etc.).
Discussion - For Want of a Nail
A successful post meets rubric criteria (Content, Organization, Style/Language, and Sentence Structure/Grammar) and follows the discussion prompt. A successful reply to classmates answers their questions, provides additional insight into the topics they have discussed, generates additional questions, or engages in meaningful and substantive dialogue. Completing this forum should enable you to brainstorm a topic, organize an analysis essay, and compose an analysis essay. (MO 1,2,3)
Instructions:
Think about a time in your life where you needed to obtain a specific item or complete a specific task but were unable to for a specified reason. This can be a stand-alone concern--a causal analysis of a specific situation. Alternatively, this can be something that was required to have been completed in order to essentially domino effect the completion of multiple other tasks--a causal analysis of a failed process completion. The subject line of your post will be your unique title for this mini-essay/paragraph. Have fun with this. You can be as simple or complex and as silly or serious as you wish.
Discussion - Optional Process Playlist
A successful post meets rubric criteria (Content, Organization, Style/Language, and Sentence Structure/Grammar) and follows the discussion prompt. A successful reply to classmates answers their questions, provides additional insight into the topics they have discussed, generates additional questions, or engages in meaningful and substantive dialogue. Completing this forum should enable you to brainstorm a topic, organize an analysis essay, and compose an analysis essay. (MO 1,2,3)
Instructions:
Participation in this discussion is optional. This item will count as 'extra credit' in the gradebook, so it can only count for you, never against you! The total possible points is equivalent to that of a discussion forum (non-participants will see a 0 displayed in the gradebook).
One of the rhetorical modes we are working on this week is process analysis (how-to, how-was, how-did, how-will, etc.).
Choose one of these options to complete before making your initial response.
Option 1
Create a public playlist on YouTube, Spotify, or another site that hosts music that you can link the class to. Name the playlist ""Songs Describing a Process"" and put up to ten songs on the playlist. You are not being asked to take the time to upload original content on these platforms. You are adding other people's posted content to the playlist to make sure the artists get credit for their work.
Option 2
Gather links to up to ten songs describing a process. Using the Kaltura Embed option in the forum text editor or the insert link option in the forum text editor, provide us with links or embedded videos of the songs.
Posting Details
Type up a brief but complete summary of why you chose whichever one of the options, what each song describes the process of, and its significance and post it here. Remember to either link the class to the public playlist you created or link/embed the individual songs into your post. Include any direct quotes from the songs if it seems appropriate to do so. Include citations for all the songs on your playlist.
Module 3: Overview
Module Introduction
In this module, you will be learning about and working on an analysis essay. An analysis essay analyzes--examines, picks apart, discusses in detail--a topic. Analysis can make an argument or persuade a point. This module focuses primarily on process analysis (how-to, how-will, how-did, etc.) and causal analysis (cause & effect). There are other types of analysis. Analysis essays may use 'outside the box' typographical devices such as headers, bullets, numbered lists, and other graphic elements. If you did not create these yourself, you must cite them in MLA format. You may need to access an outside source. You may need to send your reader to an outside source for details. Always cite sources. Only pick a topic that interests you and that you know a lot about! This module will help you learn to be able to break assignments into component pieces, identify the component pieces, establish appropriate deadlines for completion of the task, and compose a written analysis that follows the appropriate rules of grammar and composition. (CLO 1,2,3,4)
Click the video below to watch the introduction from your faculty.
This module does not include a video introduction.
Module Objectives
At the end of this module students will be able to:
brainstorm a topic. (CLO 1,2,3)
organize an analysis essay. (CLO 1,2,3,4)
compose an analysis essay. (CLO 1,2,3,4)
Module Activities
Below is an outline of the items for which you will be responsible throughout the module.
READ
DUE: Early in the week
Read the following early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).
Required Textbook Readings
Continuing Required Textbook Readings from Module 1 – (MO 1,2,3)
The Norton Reader, p. 574-579, ""Rhetorical Modes Index"" [skim & bookmark this] – (MO 1,2,3)
The Norton Reader, Choose one essay listed under 'Explaining a Process' in the RM index. – (MO 1,2,3)
The Norton Reader, Choose one essay listed under 'Analyzing Cause & Effect' in the RM index. – (MO 1,2,3)
The Norton Reader, p. 568-573, ""Genres Index"" [skim & bookmark this] – (MO 1,2,3)
The Norton Reader, Choose one essay listed under 'Cultural Analysis' in the GI index. – (MO 123)
The Norton Reader, Choose one essay listed under 'Textual Analysis' in the GI index. – (MO 123)
READ AND WATCH ONLINE
DUE: Early in the week
Online Lecture Material: Read and listen to the online lecture material on the following topics.
Process Analysis Essay – (MO 1,2,3)
Process Analysis – (MO 1,2,3)
Process Essay – (MO 1,2,3)
Structuring The Process Essay – (MO 1,2,3)
Writing a Process Essay – (MO 1,2,3)
Causal Analysis – (MO 1,2,3)
Sample Essays – (MO 1,2,3)
Online Lecture - Process Analysis & Causal Analysis
This lecture consists of a variety of content delivery methods in the broader subject areas of process analysis and causal analysis (not to be confused with casual analysis) which are intended to provide you with a foundation for success in this and future courses and other personal, academic, and professional pursuits. (MO 1,2,3) Be sure to read or view all content here before moving on to other module materials.
An analysis essay analyzes--examines, picks apart, discusses--a topic. Analysis can make an argument or persuade a point. Your next essay can be one of these types of analysis:
process analysis (how-to, how-will, how-did, etc.)
causal analysis (cause & effect)
These are not the only kinds of analysis. The Norton Reader's includes some other kinds of analysis essays.
You may use 'outside the box' typographical devices:
headers
bullets
numbered lists
graphic elements
If you did not create these yourself, you must cite them in MLA format. You may need to access an outside source. You may need to send your reader to an outside source for details. Always cite sources. Only pick a process or a cause/effect that interests you.
Click the video below to watch the online lecture.
Process Analysis Essay
The PowerPoint presentation above by Kristie Weeks summarizes the basics of process analysis essays. The presentation includes some details about a specific assignment which are not relevant to this course but the rest of the presentation is useful and relevant. (MO 1,2,3)
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Develop a plan for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in a hospital setting. How can employees become knowledgeable with the major provisions of SOX? How can top executives comply with the major provisions? How can conflicts of interests in the organization be observed?
due 3/28/21 9pm eastern standard
Essay
Essay #2: Justice (definition essay)
Introduction:
For this module of our class, our texts and discussions have covered a wide array of subjects from the socially constructed notion of gender to racial justice. Each of our texts takes a relatively unique position on the idea of “justice,” generally rooted in each author’s individual, subjective experience.
Your task as a writer is to explore the mechanism by which the idea of justice is constructed. Is “justice” a relative term, or is there a specific, objective way to define it? Using our readings1 from the ""Justice"" module as evidence, respond to the following prompt.
Prompt:
What does “justice” mean? Do people really have fundamentally different views of justice? Is our definition of “justice” itself a purely human/social construct?
Additional requirements:
4 page minimum length (does not include works cited page)
12 pt. Times New Roman font
MLA style throughout, including a complete and correct works cited page
Heavy analysis (no summary)
Must cite both the King and Woolf texts as primary sources for this assignment.
Avoid simplistic “five paragraph” essays
Two stage checks:
Thesis statement
Rough draft
Footnotes:
1 Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and our selection from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, ""Shakespeare's Sister.""
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
http://l-adam-mekler.com/shakespeares-sister.pdf
PSY 4-2
Instructions
In this course, you are asked to complete three journal assignments in which you reflect on “raising” a teen from birth through age 18 years. Earlier in the course, you reflected on your readings and personal experiences to consider the unique challenges of raising a child from birth to 10 years. In this module, you will again reflect on your readings and personal experiences to consider the unique challenges of raising a child from 10 to 14 years (this is the “tween” and early adolescent developmental period).
Raising your child from ages 10 to 14 years is marked by the challenges of adolescence and puberty. What does this period start? Everybody's different—from early bloomers to slow-but-steady growers. In other words, there's a wide range of what's considered normal development. That said, this period is marked by more than the development of adult sexual characteristics, such as breasts and menstrual periods in females and growing facial hair and deepening of the voice in males. There are also dramatic changes in behavior. Kids desire greater independence; they are increasingly aware of how others, especially their peers, see them and “fitting in” is a critical aspect of their psychological development (KidsHealth, 2020). According to KidsHealth (2020), “Kids may start ‘trying on’ different looks and identities, and they become very aware of how they differ from their peers, which can result in episodes of distress and conflict with parents” and peers alike. Their peers often become more important than parents as far as making decisions.
Parents raising children at these ages are often given advice, such as talk to your kids early and often, put yourself in their shoes (be empathetic), pick your battles, set expectations, respect your kids’ privacy while also monitoring their behavior, and look for “warning signs” regarding your child’s mental health. For this journal entry, consider—from your readings and from your own experiences—the challenges of raising a child from ages 10 to 14 years. Specifically, answer the following questions:
Put yourself in in the role of the parent. What strategies do you feel would be successful to raise your own child from ages 10 to 14 years?
How does your parenting perspective relate to your own experiences and the course material?
What specific relevant connections can you make?
