Your Cultural History (Mexican American) Origins, Cultural Identity, History, and Current State

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Identify and describe your cultural identity.  You will explore one culture that you identify with in this assignment, examining the origin, identity, history, and current state of the culture.  Your description should include:

Your culture may come from a region of the world (spatial), a place in time (temporal), a spiritual or belief orientation, or a profession.  As you can see by the definitions at the top of the assignment sheet, culture is defined in many ways.  Part of understanding the culture is knowing where and/or when it comes from.
Cultural Identity. Describe your culture, including nativity, race/ethnicity, language(s), gender and generational status, spirituality, social systems, occupations, and other elements that are key to understanding your cultural identity.
Identify and describe key historical and current moments and movements for your culture, focusing on those associated with social justice and human rights. This should include experience with other cultural groups and places, and the outcome of those experiences on your culture and its members.
Your culture today. In this final section you should describe your cultures successes or challenges today relating to social justice, equity, and/or health  In other words, whats going on now that affects your culture, positively or negatively?

adaptation assignment

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Adaptation Assignment
Context

The nature-versus-nurture question is central to developmental psychology. A good understanding of development requires an understanding of how genetics and experience interact to prepare us to live in the worlds we live in: how they help us to adapt to our particular circumstances.

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the systems by which we adapt to our environments. This includes understanding why humans all have certain characteristics in common and also why there are differences among us.

Directions

A good answer will talk about each of the two systems that we use to adapt. It will also explain why both systems are necessary and explain which system gives us which kinds of adaptation. You should include examples. Also, talk about the relative contributions of each. How much does each system contribute, typically, to differences among persons?

Your work should be entirely in your own words. Do not use quotes. You can mention outside sources as support for your claims, but put those claims into your own words.

Organize your work into paragraphs and, possibly, into separate sections with headings.
Use complete sentences and correct grammar (word usage, punctuation, capitalization, etc.).
Use examples to illustrate your points.
Resources

Here is a list of the main sources for this work. These articles should give you the information you need to complete this assignment.

Evolution
The Contributions of Genetics and Learning
Language Development
Criteria

Your work will be judged on these criteria, and you will get feedback on how well you did:

Identify the two main systems by which we adapt.
All acceptable work will correctly identify these two systems.
Explain how those systems complement each other.
The best work will talk about why we need two systems. Students who write exceptional papers will refer to the fact that one of the systems works only across generations, and so can only help us to adapt to elements of our environment that are stable across long periods of time. They will identify that system and briefly explain how it works. Then, they will point out that the environment changes more quickly than that and, so, we need another system for adaptation that enables us to adapt to changes that happen during our own lifetimes. Finally, they will identify that system, and briefly describe how it works, as well.
Any acceptable work on this assignment will identify the two systems and briefly explain how each of them works.
Summarize what we know about the relative contributions of each system.
The best work will identify some characteristics that we all have in common and attribute them correctly to one of the two systems. It will point out that both of these systems contribute to most of our characteristics and that when people differ from each other it is typically the result of both of these systems. A student who does strong work will include a rough estimate of the percentage contribution of each of the two systems.
Any acceptable work will point out that both systems contribute to differences among people.

Gender and identity in A dolls house

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Choose ONE of the following topics/themes and write an essay that is in MLA format. These themes/topics are found in the play A Dolls House  (I chose GENDER and IDENTITY) this essay you will have the freedom to write about whatever you want about the theme or topic that you choose from this list (GENDER AND IDENTITY). This essay will not be in response to a specific prompt. Think about how you addressed these themes in your scripts. This essay is not about ADH. These themes are simply found in the play. Your essay will be about the themes/topics themselves. As this is MLA format, you must have:
-A thesis
-5 paragraphs; each correctly formatted with the topic sentence, evidence explanation etc. (follow the PEEL format)
-Three pieces of evidence from the text
-in-text citation that are formatted correctly
-Works Cited Page
-Times Roman, 12 point font

PPD 245: The Urban Context for Policy and Planning

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Discuss how one of the big drivers of future change may alter the urban structures and processes that we have discussed in class. Questions to consider could include: how will this phenomenon shape future urban policy, planning, and/or development? Who are the key actors shaping the future in regards to this topic, and are there clear winners and losers? What policy recommendations should policy makers and planners follow to ensure a successful urban future?

Topics to consider include: peak oil; global warming; solar technology; the internet and digital revolution; the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and aftermath; transportation technology; the baby boom tsunami; the millennial generation; the Great Recession; or another approved topic of your choice. Please note that you should feel free to fold other course topics like housing or gender into one of these other general topics. Other than that, if you choose a topic not listed here, you must get it approved. (The 8 topics listed are a lot of options already.)

Papers should reflect class readings and/or discussions and incorporate outside sources about your topic. You should cite the course readings and/or discussions about your topic as well as at least five outside sources. These sources can be journal articles, books, newspaper/magazine articles, interviews, and reputable websites. Wikipedia and similar websites will not be accepted as one of your four outside sources.

Your response should include text and at least five exhibits. The written portion is expected to be approximately 8 – 9 pages (double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font and 1 inch margins, do NOT exceed 10npages in total). Exhibits may include charts, graphs, diagrams, simulations, illustrations, or other graphics. At least two of these exhibits should be of your own creation. You must provide a bibliography for quotations and ideas in your text and cite exhibit sources even if they are your own creation (e.g., Source: Author).

This assignment represents 20% of your final grade. A total of 200 points are possible.

The written portion of the assignment is worth approximately 140 points, which will be assigned according to the following criteria:
Does the paper offer a well-reasoned response to the questions raised?
Does the paper refer to class readings and/or lectures and include at least 4 outside sources?
Is it well written? Does it make sense overall? Are there spelling mistakes and typos?
Does the paper present critical thinking regarding the topic and themes of the course?

The exhibits are worth approximately 60 points total. Points are assigned according to the following criteria:
Do the exhibits help to illustrate and support concepts raised in the text? Do they help to illuminate an argument being made in the paper as a whole?

Are they thoughtfully produced? Again, as with the first assignment, thoughtfully produced does not necessarily mean pretty or artfully done. We’re looking for interesting ideas portrayed graphically in interesting ways this could mean a bar chart, a photomontage, or a collage the specific method is up to you. Also refer to the exhibits handout presented in class, and available on Blackboard.

If you include exhibits from other sources, is it clear why? Are outside exhibits cited properly?

A caution about plagiarism: As emphasized in class, it is important that all of your paper be of your own creation. You may borrow text and exhibits from other sources, BUT ONLY IF you explicitly cite those sources in each place where you have borrowed an item. Exact quotes must have quotation marks, and any text that is paraphrased must still cite the original source, e.g. … as reported by Williams (1998), or… adapted from Williams (1998), or simply (Williams, 1998). If you are unsure how to properly cite, see the Online Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)