What TV shows do you remember shaping your expectations about the world? What shows taught you what “the good life” looked like for an adult? What did they teach you to expect?

In this paper, you will consider how your ideas about the world were formed. Think back to your formative years: your childhood, middle school, high school, or early adulthood. What TV shows do you remember shaping your expectations about the world? What shows taught you what “the good life” looked like for an adult? What did they teach you to expect?

What does the natural world tell us about creation?How can the past help future human flourishing?

In your assigned reading from our textbook Understanding the Times, the concept of worldview was presented as a lens or a filter through which one understands the world. As we begin our study on this topic, it is important for you to understand your starting place and to think through the parameters of your current worldview. In an essay of two to three-pages , give a brief explanation of your views on the “Ten Ways of Looking at the World” . Here are the topics and corresponding questions to answer within your essay with at least four sentences per question . Answer them in the order presented below:

1 Theology: Who is God?

2 Philosophy: What is the love of wisdom?

3 Ethics: What is the good life?

4 Biology: What does the natural world tell us about creation?

5 Psychology: What makes a human being a person?

6 Sociology: How should we live in a community?

7 Law: What constitutes a just law?

8 Politics: In whom should power rest?

9 Economics: How should a society be productive?

10 History: How can the past help future human flourishing?

The essay should be no longer than 4 pages . An introduction paragraph  and a conclusion paragraph should be included.

What do you think Godawa was trying to say with this passage? What parallels do you think there might be between what happens at a temple/church and what happens at a movie theater?

Godawa quotes Geoffrey Hill’s comparison of the modern movie theater to a religious temple . With that in mind, answer the following questions:

What do you think Godawa was trying to say with this passage?

What parallels do you think there might be between what happens at a temple/church and what happens at a movie theater?

In what ways can it be said that they have the same goal?

Do you think it is a positive or a negative that the theater has taken this role? Defend/explain your assertion.

The very nature of moviemaking and moviegoing itself incarnates the sacred transmission of myth, much as occurred for the ancients. As author Geoffrey Hill proposes in his treatise on the mythic power of film, Illuminating Shadows:

As ironic modern worshippers we congregate at the cinematic temple. We pay our votive offerings at the box office. We buy our ritual corn. We hush gins. Throughout the filmic narrative we identify with the hero.

We vilify the antihero. We vicariously exult in the victories of the drama. And we are spiritually inspired by the moral of the story, all while believing we are modern techno-secular people, devoid of religion. Yet the depth and intensity of our participation reveal a religious fervor that is not much different from that of religious zealots.

Write an essay on any one of the following subjects. Make sure you give concrete examples from the readings, and check for grammar and sentence-structure problems.

History of Japan and Its Present

Write an essay on any one of the following subjects. Make sure you give concrete examples from the readings, and check for grammar and sentence-structure problems. You should have 5-6 paragraphs including an introduction, body-paragraphs and a conclusion. Feel free to incorporate photos/images to support your essay.

History of Japan and Its Present – Write an essay about the history of Japan where you consider its ancient samurai past, its history during the Second World War, and its present, especially how technologically advanced Japan is coping with a nuclear disaster after the Tsunami.

Identify factors that influence the intelligence community. Be sure to include the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congressional relationships to the intelligence community.

Intelligence & Analysis class
Factors that Influence the Intelligence Community
up to 200 words

The United States intelligence community has a critically important role in protecting American interests both domestically and abroad. In this week’s discussion, identify factors that influence the intelligence community. Be sure to include the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congressional relationships to the intelligence community, and the budgetary process that impacts the intelligence community. Assess how intelligence is collected and analyzed by intelligence analysts.

Demonstrate critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the results of the collections and investigations.

Iran Hostage crisis. (It’s effect on U.S politics)

Class Research Assignments
NUTS & BOLTS
1. ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER PUTTING THE ISSUE IN CONTEXT
a. Length…you decide, sufficient to address the dimension of the issue presented
*I expect 5 pages maximum
b. APA STYLE
c. 12 PITCH
d. ARIAL FONT
e. DOUBLE SPACED
f. 1 INCH MARGINS
g. PICTURES, GRAPHS, CHARTS CANNOT EXCEED 1/8 OF PAGE
2. You must PRODUCE AND BRIEF a 20-minute PowerPoint to your peers on your assigned date & time.

PURPOSE

1. The purpose of this assignment is to get you into the library, to help you become proficient in using research methodologies and technologies, and to help you become comfortable working with research librarians. These skills and relationships will greatly increase your academic performance and provide a concrete foundation for your research abilities.

The BIG Picture
1. This assignment maps directly to these four (4) course learning outcomes:
a. Demonstrate critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the results of the collections and investigations.
b. Discuss situations that present legal, ethical, and social sustainability issues and develop solutions based on your understanding of Strategic Intelligence.
c. Apply effective communication techniques through discussions, writings, and
demonstrations.
d. Demonstrate appropriate research methodologies by presenting case studies within identified crisis / culturally defining events.

 

Describe the religious and political movements that helped inspire this particular form of exceptionalism, and the particular eschatological beliefs that informed its political theology?

Support for a Jewish Presence

From the colonial period on, many American Christians believed in the Providential importance of the Middle East as a place where Jews would soon be restored to their ancestral homeland. Many of these beliefs emerged from American ideas about their own ‘exceptionalism’ as a democratic and Christian people building a new Zion in America, a people likewise destined to assist Providence in restoring the Jews to the Holy Land.

Describe the religious and political movements that helped inspire this particular form of exceptionalism, and the particular eschatological beliefs that informed its political theology?

Finally, in terms of US foreign policy, what positive consequences resulted from these movements? Were there any negative consequences for the future?

What did the US government learn about Power at this time? Did Faith play any role in its lessons, either Christian faith or Muslim faith as learned from their meeting with leaders like Abd-a-Rahman?

Turabian format – chpaters 1-4 Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393330304. uploaded

Ambassador Michael Oren writes: “Few events in the post-independence period of American History had a more transformational impact on America than the Barbary Wars."

Using Oren’s own title template of Power, Faith, and Fantasy, how would you use these terms to describe some aspect of what the US government learned from its Barbary experience?

What did the US government learn about Power at this time?
Did Faith play any role in its lessons, either Christian faith or Muslim faith as learned from their meeting with leaders like Abd-a-Rahman?
In terms of Fantasy broadly understood, did Americans come away with any wrong ideas about their experience?
Finally, students often conclude that after Barbary, Americans no longer compromised their core principles by paying tribute to foreign governments in the Middle East . Are there other ways in the future that we would learn to compromise American principles or pay tribute to leaders in the Middle East? What might a contemporary version of US tribute look like today?

Who is likely to be in support? Opposed? Why?What are the financial considerations and/or impact?What are the alternatives?

FINAL PROJECT POLICY BRIEF GUIDELINES
Public Affairs 114-Winter 2022

As part of their final project, students are expected to write a policy brief. Remember, you will select a topic that is directly related to issues addressed in class through lecture, readings, media, site visits and guest speakers. As stated earlier, you are encouraged to work with other students, in groups of up to four.

Your Policy Brief should include the following sections:
• Executive summary
• Context and importance of the problem
Problem definition
Scope of the problem
Population of interest: age, gender, group
Setting: community, organization, system
Root causes and Significance of the problem
• Critique/Analysis
Examine how the current system addresses the stated problems, what are the current solutions and where are the gaps in services
Focus on where gap(s) may be located: federal, state, county, city, etc.
• Recommendations
Focus on a recommendation targeting the problem you identified
What is your proposed solution – whether it is policy, research or practice
A new approach? Modification of existing approach?
You don’t have to answer all of these questions but you might consider:
Who is likely to be in support? Opposed? Why?
What are the financial considerations and/or impact?
What are the alternatives?

Does any character in O Brother fall under the Heroic Archetype? If any, who? Why or why not? Discuss the film as a parody of Homer’s The Odyssey. Is it valuable for modern readers to compare the two pieces? Why or why not?

Your post will be two (2) well-developed paragraphs.
Your classmate replies must be at least one (1) well-developed paragraph.
Edit/revise for grammar, usage, and mechanics; 3rd person POV required
Direct quotes and parenthetical documentation required
b. Discussion Prompt Choices :

Does any character in O Brother fall under the Heroic Archetype? If any, who? Why or why not?
Discuss the film as a parody of Homer’s The Odyssey. Is it valuable for modern readers to compare the two pieces? Why or why not?