Category: English

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/monstro       (LINK FOR THE STORY)
https://library.miracosta.edu/az.php
(LINK FOR THE DATABASE)
Please use the appropriate database for the sources and citations.

Purpose:
To share with your readers a meaningful experience in your personal history that relates to learning and/or community, and to use these personal experiences as an entry point into academic writing.
Overview of Your Task:
Anchoring Question: “How have my lived experiences shaped who I am today?” This assignment asks you to write a narrative (i.e., tell a story) that captures a meaningful experience about a learning process, experience, or involvement within a community that has influenced who you are today. Your essay should incorporate both narrative strategies (sequencing, vivid descriiption, dialogue, etc.) and analysis (in other words, you should closely “read” and critically reflect on the experience to help your readers understand the narrative’s significance). To make your essay manageable, you should focus on one key “event” or experience rather than trying to share your life story—the narrower your topic, the more likely you are to be successful. Once you choose an experience to describe, unpack it, dig deeper, think about it critically—tell your readers how you interpret its broader significance.
Formatting and Page Guidelines for this Assignment:
Include your name, date, and course number and section at the top of your paper. Include an original title—not just “Learning Narrative” or “Community Narrative.” You should type your essay using standard, 12-pt. font, 1” page margins, and double-spacing. Include page numbers. Finally, your essay should be about 3-4 pages long, though you can go beyond that if you need more space.
Grading Criteria: I will use the following criteria to evaluate your essay:
Content: Your narrative focuses on one key moment or experience relating to language/literacy and provides a thoughtful, careful consideration of the narrative’s significance. The story includes vivid detail and descriiptions that enable the reader to fully share in this moment/experience.
Organization and Development: Your narrative includes fluid transitions between paragraphs. Paragraphs are organized (each paragraph includes a topic sentence and supporting sentences that relate to the topic sentence). The essay focuses on a main idea and develops that idea throughout. Audience and Purpose: You make choices in your writing that are appropriate for your target audience (Eng. 1110 peers and instructor) and purpose (to inform). In other words, the tone, word choice, descriiptive details of your essay demonstrate an understanding of your writing situation.
Writing Process: You have engaged in stages of the writing process (invention, drafting, revision, etc.). You have made a sincere attempt to revise and improve upon your paper, focusing on global issues (content, organization, and development), but also addressing local concerns (grammar, mechanics).
Grammar and Mechanics: Your sentences have clarity in meaning. Your paper has been closely edited for punctuation and spelling errors.

Assignment Guide: The Argumentative Essay
Assignment PromptFor this assignment, you will be writing an argumentative essay–a piece of writing that requires you to take a position, what rhetoricians call a claim, on a debatable topic (that is, a topic with more than one side). Specifically, you will present a policy claim where you argue for or against a change of some kind. This claim should be supported by reliable, credible evidence (i.e. scholarly sources) backed by research. In addition to presenting your claim, you will also need to acknowledge the other side, which is called the counterargument. Assignment-Specific Requirements:Length: This assignment should be at least 750 words. Supporting Points: Plan to develop at least three strong supporting points to accompany your thesis and at least one counter. Each supporting point should equate to at least one body paragraph. Page Formatting: See Appendix C – Formatting and Submitting Your Work. Please underline your thesis statement.
MLA Requirements: See Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition
Rhetorical ModeWhen we talk about argument writing, we are not talking about an emotional and heated argument, but one that is neutral in tone and uses evidence/facts to convince your readers of a claim. Your argument is your claim, or the point that you want to convince readers of–in this instance, you will be making a claim for or against a policy change. Because everything depends on the strength of this claim (and the supporting points that you use to scaffold it), the organizational structure of an argumentative essay is incredibly important to its success. Every idea, topic sentence, paragraph, and page should always align with your argumentative claim. Be sure that you use scholarly evidence purposefully to support the claim you are making and do not veer too much into exploratory or informative writing, which is trickier than it sounds. You’ll also need to think carefully about how to integrate researched evidence with your own ideas, to build a fully developed and supported stance throughout. Finally, you will want to acknowledge the counterargument in the body paragraphs, even if you cannot refute it entirely. Rhetorical ConsiderationsPurpose:Remember that this is an argumentative essay: that means your goal is to prove your claim for or against a policy change to readers. This piece of writing should be aimed at convincing readers through the inclusion of a strong argumentative thesis, specific supporting points, acknowledgement of the counter, and carefully chosen scholarly evidence. Audience:The argumentative essay is written for someone else–a community of readers that is most impacted by the policy you are proposing to change (or keep the same). In this instance, you are writing to argue for or against a change (and thus convince readers that a change should or should not occur). Keep this audience in mind by angling everything in your essay towards a strong argument that can appeal to a more general population. Form:This is a formal writing project, written in third-person, relying on strong organizational strategies, integrating researched evidence (the academic sources you choose), and following MLA formatting guidelines. Choosing a Topic for Your Argumentative EssaySelecting the right topic is an important step in ensuring your success in writing a Argumentative essay. You’ll want to choose a topic that has the following features:
Of interest to you
Relevant
Current
Debatable Well-researched
Narrow in scope
Academic or “scholarly” in nature
Topics to avoid, as they are either too complex to argue in a single essay, or not considered appropriate for an academic or scholarly essay, are as follows:
The death penalty
Euthanasia or self-assisted death
Abortion The (il)legalization of drugs (e.g. marijuana) Religion or religious readings (e.g. existence of a higher order/being, or life after death)
Gun rights/rules
Global warming Please do not select one of the above 7 topics, as your essay may be returned without grading, and you will be asked to rewrite it. Need assignment ideas? Take a look at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Writing Center for topic ideas and additional resources.
Mini-Lesson on ETHOS – PATHOS – LOGOSPlan to use these appeals heavily throughout your Argumentative essay.

Oberon chooses to get involved in the lover’s problems. Was this a good idea? What were the consequences of his actions? What do you think the outcome would have been if Oberon had not interfered?

Discussion Question(s): Based on your understanding of this week’s lecture on the Elements of Style, read the following excerpts — both from the same author, George Orwell, and explain the different stylistic forms he uses in each. REMEMBER to reference some of the terms introduced in this week’s lecture. Excerpt from 1984
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Excerpt from “Shooting an Elephant” In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter.

The Dracula Research Project
The research paper for this class will be centered on an analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and an application of themes and ideas from the text to contemporary issues. As you might have discovered by reading short fiction in this class, we can gain a deeper understanding of issues that continue to be important to us in contemporary society when we read historical works. For instance, reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an interesting study in gender inequality and psychology, both through an historical lens but also as a way of better understanding our current society today, and where it came from.
Here are the main details you need to know about the research paper so that you can start thinking about this assignment:
The Assignment
For this essay, you will conduct individual research to relate a specific topic or idea in Dracula – such as fear of contagion (vampirism), alienation, the threat of otherness, the uncanny, transgression, science and superstition, etc. – to a contemporary issue, such as the pandemic, immigration, or the socioeconomic divide. What can Dracula teach us about our current problem and how we can deal with it?
The Research
This essay will require substantial research, which may include scholarly sources that specifically address themes in Dracula, historical research that puts the book in context, and research on contemporary issues. You must include cited information (quotation and paraphrase) from at least 5 sources + Dracula. Your research will involve both primary and secondary sources.
Primary Sources include original literary texts and works of art (novels, short stories, poetry, films, etc.), as well as any historical documents from the time period in which the work was created (letters, diary entries, news articles, etc.), and contemporary news articles.
Secondary Sources include scholarly books and articles about the literary work, historical information written after the time period in question, and any work that includes researched material in its writing.
Though some of your sources may be primary texts you are analyzing or other outside information, at least 3 of your sources must be scholarly sources accessed through the GCC library.
This essay will be 7-8 full double-spaced pages long.
Take a quick look at what I’ve highlighted above, which I did to help focus your attention and understanding. The key point of the essay is in yellow: you are relating a particular theme or topic in Dracula with a particular contemporary issue. There are lots of examples given around that yellow highlighting; do not try to discuss all of them in your essay! Rather, you’ll want to narrow your focus on just one topic or theme in Dracula and how it relates to one contemporary issue.
The other highlighting lists different kinds of research you’ll want to do as part of this project: scholarly sources that offer literary analysis or literary criticism about Dracula, historical research if you need to explore the historical context of the book to relate it to issues that are still prevalent today, and finally research into the contemporary issue that you are connecting to the book.
Because the Library Databases will be absolutely crucial for your research, let’s go over the basics of using the library resources. I will also guide you to the best databases for this project and how to use them.
PLEASE WRITE ABOUT SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION AND RELATE THAT TOPIC/IDEA TO THE BOOK DRACULA BY BAM STOCKER AND COMPARE IT TO A CONTEMPORARY ISSUE SUCH AS PANDAMIC, IMMAGRATION OR SOCIOECONOMIC DIVIDE. PLEASE WRITE WHAT CAN THE BOOK DRACULA TEACH US ABOUT OUR CURRENT PROBLEM AND HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH IT. PLEASE MAKE IT DETALIED AND USE SOURCES.
THIS IS FEEDBACK FROM THE PROFFESOR. Let’s take a look at your guiding question. First, we need a bit more clarity on a sentence level since we’re missing a word (“How does the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker use the topic science and superstition to the contemporary issue…”). The question isn’t quite clear yet. Science and superstition is a good starting point, but at the moment the description of your research makes it seem like this will just be an overview of the history of science and superstition. Instead, we need some kind of interesting angle to make this a complex research focus. In the novel, the characters use both science/technology and religion/superstition as a means of fighting the evil of Dracula. What ultimately is successful? Does this relate to what real people turn to as a method of fighting their fears? Do we see a continuing conflict between science and superstition today? If you dig deeper into this subject, you will likely uncover more of these complex questions that can help lend your project a stronger sense of focus.
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please help me with this journal post. 
you can use stuff from my essay attched. 
What are community needs? What’s a needs assessment? How do you find out what a community needs?
This activity will ask you to develop a plan to determine what your community’s needs are. 
Activity:
In your journal entry here, after reading over the steps below from Galaxy Digital, and identify what you can do to collect further information about your community and its needs. You may have already collected much of this information in Essay #2 or Essay #3, so there’s no need to duplicate your efforts. Also, this is too much to do in the time we have. However, from the comprehensive needs assessment below, perhaps extract what you think you can do in a reasonable time as an abbreviated or shortened needs assessment that would add to what you already know.
Then, write a brief journal entry where you describe your research plan.
Below is the advice given from https://www.galaxydigital.com/blog/conduct-community-needs-assessment/Links to an external site..
Assessing Communities’ Needs
Local needs are gaps between what services exist in a community and what should exist. It may be helpful to categorize gaps based on these four types of community needs: perceived needs, expressed needs, absolute needs, and relative needs.
Perceived needs: perceived needs are based on what individuals feel their needs are. The standard may change based on each individual’s point of view. It’s important not to dismiss perceived needs as merely opinion. Taking into account the feelings and concerns of community members should be an essential component of your assessment.
Expressed needs: defined by the number of individuals who sought help. Individuals may have felt a need and acted upon it. Be mindful of the false assumption that all people with needs seek help.
Absolute needs: needs deemed universal, including those for survival (i.e. food, water, safety, and clothing).
Relative needs: needs rendered necessary based on equity. The standard may vary based on population differences.
When you conduct your assessment you will work to identify gaps and make conclusions about the needs that will ultimately help to fill them. Categorizing needs will help you to prioritize your actions.
What is a community needs assessment?
The Child Welfare Information Gateway’sLinks to an external site. community needs assessment definition is as follows: 
“A community needs assessment identifies the strengths and resources available in the community to meet the needs of [community members]. The assessment focuses on the capabilities of the community, including its citizens, agencies, and organizations. It provides a framework for developing and identifying services and solutions and building communities that support and nurture children and families.”
Why conduct a needs assessment?
Before you develop your project, you’ll want to have a firm grasp on the gaps that exist within a community. Programs that address community needs work to fill gaps in resources and services. But why is needs assessment important to your organization? The assessment plays a critical role in guiding decision making and priority-setting for your program while involving community members in the process. By following this method, you’ll build your program around the services that are most vital for your community members.
Who should be involved in the assessment?
First and foremost, those who feel the effects of a gap in services or resources should play a part in your decision making. You’ll have the opportunity to hear a myriad of voices and concerns in your community to better serve them. It’s important to use the expertise of community leaders, like members of a school board, local government officials, human service providers, and experts in the field. Consider gathering a team of stakeholders, including community members, to oversee and carry out the assessment and guide your program planning.
Community Needs Assessment Steps
As you continue to learn how to conduct a community needs assessment follow these steps to help you formulate a more comprehensive plan:
Define your community
Defining your community can give you a sense of why gaps may exist. It will also help you identify the group(s), or sub-communities, that tend to feel the effects most.  
Population: While the lives of those in your community are unique, needs are often felt by groups of individuals. Your goal is to understand the culture and social structure of your community to better target your program. If your program’s aim is to address homelessness rates among veterans, you may want to analyze those who are the most at-risk for homelessness. This will help you delve deeper into the systemic issues that contribute to a need felt by the community. Demographics can be broken down into age, gender, race, income level, ethnicity, and more.
Place: Communities and sub-communities tend to center around place: where people live, play, work, and gather. Places can include schools, senior centers, shelters, parks, religious establishments, and other infrastructure. Consider the physical places and attributes that matter to members. How will your program address and respect the places that are important? What infrastructure exists? Is there an attribute of the place that should be addressed or improved?
Attitudes and Values: This is really about what drives your community. What do the people you serve care about? What beliefs are important to consider and respect? What are the local attitudes toward certain issues? What biases may some hold?
Defining the places and values that are important to the populations that make up your community is an imperative first step in the assessment process. You’ll form a context around the needs that exist; you’ll increase awareness of the driving forces behind your community; and you’ll be able to approach community members with sensitivity and respect for their needs.
Decide on scope
Community needs are often interconnected and complicated (i.e. homelessness has many underlying causes and effects). The types of community needs you choose to address will ultimately depend on your organization’s expertise. Does your organization address gaps in community health? In education? You may want to address homelessness and its many causes, or you may focus your resources on a smaller group who are disproportionately affected by a gap in services. 
It can be tempting to want to assess and address all needs in your community. But by identifying community needs based on your available expertise and resources, and narrowing your scope accordingly, you’ll ensure you’re concentrating your efforts to achieve the most impact. That’s why it’s important to define the intended reach of your program from the outset. 
Your scope should largely depend on the resources available in your community (more available resources tend to allow for a wider scope). While it is helpful to set big goals, it’s also important to set achievable goals and seek growth as your program becomes more established.
Identify assets
Identify the assets, also referred to as resources, that are necessary for your program’s success. Assets can include organizations, people (volunteers, community members, and experts), funding, and policies. Start by identifying those resources that are readily available to you; this may include community organizations and individuals who already provide services or financial support to assess needs and address them. Nonprofits that are developing new programs will often look to other communities with similar demographics that have successfully addressed similar needs. Look at the resources that drove their progress and consider taking a similar approach.
Make connections
Some of your greatest assets are people, from students to governors. Gather your contacts and reach out to community leaders. Let’s say your organization is looking to develop programming for veterans. Visit the gathering places of your community’s veterans, contact the congressional affairs office, and get in touch with a VA health center. Use your connections to help you to both assess needs, and then address them. It’s important to have resources, support, and expertise available to you before implementing a program.
Collect data
Your data will include statistics, but also the thoughts and knowledge of community members. Considering qualitative data in conjunction with quantitative data will give you a broader sense of the types of gaps in the community. You’ll be able to better identify whether needs are perceived or relative, for example, and therefore shape your program more effectively.  
Methods of gathering data
The main takeaway from your assessment should be a clear understanding of the impact, intensity, and distribution of services. Collect qualitative and quantitative data that will inform your decision making. Here are the types of information you’ll want to collect:
Interviews, focus groups, and surveys: Speak to those at ground level, experts, and community leaders about what they observe and experience in the way of needs.
Listening sessions and public forums: Listening and participating in community gatherings like town meetings are a great way to learn about perspectives on local issues.
Direct or participatory observation: Visit your community’s spaces, like senior centers, shelters, and schools to observe, speak with those at the ground level, and participate in programs that already exist.  
Using existing quantitative data
Gathering quantitative data can be especially time-consuming. Luckily, there are plenty of community-based data available to you already. You may look for statistics regarding demographics, as well as incident rates, prevalence rates, and growth over time specific to the needs that emerge. The following resources are great places to start:
U.S. CensusLinks to an external site.
Public health dataLinks to an external site.
School district records
Many local libraries house a wealth of information specific to your community. Whether you’re looking to address graduation rates or community health, quantitative data can support qualitative findings and validate anecdotal evidence.
Analyze your findings
Gather notes from your interviews, surveys, and observations and look for patterns and trends. Separate your key findings into the following groups to help plan your program:
Strengths
Example: Robust community partnerships serving low-income youth. Graduation rate increased 22% over 5 years.
Gaps
Example: Youth programs tend to halt after graduation; there is a lack of follow-up support for low-income women above school age.
Challenges
Example: Time constraints for working individuals leads to disinterest in public programming.
Opportunities
Example: Programs directed toward low-income women in similar communities experienced an increase in funding last year.
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Jeffery Dahmer is a well known serial killer from Milwaukee, acrroding to Mulroy (2023) 
Drinking affected Jreffrey Dahmer’s schoolwork and work, and the reason he couldn’t finish school or find a job was that he was drinking a lot of alcohol, which made him drink, and he started getting poor grades, which made the Ohio State University expel him, according to Leo (2023). When Jeffrey Dahmer got expelled and fell short of finishing college, he decided to join the Army, and “he was trained to become a combat medic at Fort Sam Houston”, Texas. After he finished training, “he was deployed in Baumholder”, West Germany, “and only lasted two years because of his alcoholism”, according to Leo (2023). 
Being gay affected Jreffrey Dahmer’s with him loving being around boys and had a boyfriend, like when prom was coming up. Jeffrey Dahmer had a prom named Bridget Geiger, who was a girl, but he left her to meet his boyfriend and returned 3 hours later after the event happened and offered her a ride when he was slightly drunk, but she got home safe, according to Leo (2023). After high school was over, he wasn’t talking to Bridget Geiger anymore and moved on with his life, which took him to his first murder case, which was a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks. He murdered him by hitting a dumbbell in the back of his head, according to Leo (2023). 
Jeffrey Dahmer’s parents getting divorced affected his working jobs and school. After high school,  Jeffrey Dahmer worked a lot of odd jobs. After serving in the army, he worked at Delicateseen in Miami, Florida. His subsequent work was at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center, according to Polkes (2019). Jeffrey Damer needed to drink alcohol before killing because he didn’t want to kill them, and the families of Dahmer’s victims tried to sue Budweiser; they claimed the company that led Jeffrey to start his crimes played a vital role in Dahmer’s alcoholism, according to Polkes (2019).

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Your Assignment
This requires a reflection and analysis of the video Babies Outdoors. It will examine developmental dynamics as well as cultural and personal factors influencing development, including reading reflection. It will be 3-4 typed pages. (SLO I, II) 
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Respond to each observation in objective ways and reflect on what you observed as well as how you will support learning through your observation discoveries.
Based on the video, please talk about the a child’s overall development if they are a member of a non-dominant group (Child of Color, Physical/Mental Ability, Immigrant, LGBTQ, Poverty etc.).
How might this out-group membership impact their physical, social and cognitive development, learning, self-monitoring behaviors and/or social engagement?
Identify two ways a human developmentalist might say that the overall development of a child in a non-dominant group might impact them as an adult.
Guidelines for Critical Reflection Papers 
Purpose
Critical Reflection Papers have a three-part purpose. First, they are intended to demonstrate your analysis of the course readings, news reports, or other media pertaining to human development. They can help you keep track of important ideas that you will need to review again in preparing your signature assignment, and can also provide possible topics for your MA Thesis. Most importantly, they are intended for you to give your critical reflection of the course materials.
Format
Papers must be double-spaced. It must have a title page that includes your name, page numbering, and consistent use of APA style, including references. Make sure that your paper is in the form of an essay with an introduction, body and conclusion. Use Undergraduate APA 7 Template. for this assignment.

In this assignment, you will be writing a Problem Solution/Research Essay. The purpose of this research proposal is to identify a problem related to our discussions or readings in class and propose a practical solution to address it. The problem can be local, school or city-related, or on a larger scale such as state or national. Your task is to convince your audience of the importance of the problem and the effectiveness of your proposed solution. 
My comment: SO, THAT BEING SAID, I want this MLA research proposal to be about something to do with immigration. I was originally thinking about economic problems or family problems.  
THE proposal should cover the following ground.
A discussion of the topic
An indication of your specific focus
An explanation of why you’re interested in the topic–remember to demonstrate how your topic was inspired by our reading(s). 
A research plan
A schedule
A discussion of the topic: Explain what your topic is, how it was inspired by the readings in the class, and give any necessary background information. Give some sense of any issues or controversies you want to investigate. Finally, say why the topic matters—so what, and who cares?
An indication of your specific focus: As much as you can at this point, say what your research focus will be, including the research question you plan to pursue and tentative thesis.
An explanation of why you’re interested in the topic. Briefly explain what you already know about your topic and why you’ve chosen to pursue this line of inquiry about it. You might describe any course work, reading, or work you’ve done that contributes to your knowledge and interest. Also note what you don’t yet know but intend to find out through your research.
A research plan: Explain how you plan to investigate your research question: what type of source you’ll need and what your research methods will be. Will you conduct library and internet research? If you plan to do field research*, what do you have in mind?
A schedule: Break your project into tasks and sketch out a schedule, taking into account the writing you’ll need to do. Include any specific tasks required, such as in rough drafts or an annotated bibliography.