Category: History

Write a 2000 word research essay in size 12 new Romans font using MLA in text citations. Discuss the Nanjing Massacre and if the international community—especially those nations that were responsible for the International Tribunal for the Far East (1946-48) and those countries that signed the 1951Treaty of Peace with Japan—have a responsibility to counter and put a stop to denials of the Nanking Massacre?

Create an infographic with information you gathered from the videos shown in class and  statistical information gathered from this source: 
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4c657a72ae2a4464a4011edc2fcec58f 
Submissions can be either a Word document or link to a free infographic website such as and must include the following:
At least 5 different topics
Data on each topic, charts and graphs that you create (no cut/paste)
One place in your infographic for your thesis

Week 5 assignment
Before beginning work on this assignment,
Read The Balanced Scorecard: Turn Your Data Into a Roadmap to Success Links to an external site..
Read Chapter 5: Gain Insight: More About Key Performance Indicators from Your First CFO: The Accounting Cure for Small Business Owners Links to an external site..
Read Chapters 7, 8, and 9 from Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIsLinks to an external site.
Read How ZYSCO Uses the Balanced Score card Links to an external site..
Read Create KPIs That Reflect Your Strategic Priorities Links to an external site..
Read What Are Your KPIs Measuring? Links to an external site.
Review Investor Overview Links to an external site. and Quarterly Results Links to an external site..
You are playing the role of the divisional manager of the new e-bike division of Fox Factory Holding Corporation. The divisional manager is preparing to request funding to introduce the product and begin sales. Three options have been identified (note that these are fictitious assumptions):
Produce the new e-bike internally,
Outsource manufacturing to another manufacturer, and
License the design to an existing company for royalties on future sales.
Note: Please use the most recent Quarterly Results Links to an external site. (Form 10-Q) published on the Fox Factory Investor Overview website. Please use the earnings announcement for relevant required information, such as “Fox Factory Holding Corp. Announces Third Quarter 20XX Financial Results.”
In your assignment,
Prepare a balanced scorecard with strategic objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) for each of the three options.
Use the Excel sheet OMM622_Balanced Scorecard_Template.xlsx Download OMM622_Balanced Scorecard_Template.xlsxto create the balanced scorecard.
Fill up the template for all three options.
Summarize the information of the Balanced Scorecard in a short memo of 1–2 pages.
Explain the objectives and the KPIs in the memo.
It should be addressed to the CEO, from the student, with the subject “Balanced Scorecard Analysis for e-bike options.”
The summary memo (1-2 pages) of the Balanced Scorecard Template,
must include 1–2 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and must be formatted according to APA Style Links to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word Links to an external site. resource.
See Writing a Business Memo Links to an external site. for additional guidance on writing a business memo.
must include the Excel sheet OMM622_Balanced Scorecard_Template.xlsx with the balanced scorecard.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement indicating the purpose of your assignment.
See Introductions & Conclusions Links to an external site. and Writing a Thesis Statement Links to an external site., for additional guidance.
must include a separate title page with the title of the paper in bold font; names of the student, institution, and instructor; along with the course name, course number, and due date.
must use Academic Voice Links to an external site..
must use at least one credible, preferably scholarly, peer-reviewed source in addition to the course text.
See the Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources Links to an external site. for additional guidance.
If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate or not, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
must include a separate references page formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
See the APA: Formatting Your References List Links to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
https://investor.ridefox.com/investor-relations/default.aspx
https://investor.ridefox.com/financial-information/quarterly-results/default.aspx

Watch the following video on the Scopes Trial, a notable moment in the history of the interaction of religion and science in the United States. In philosophy of science, there are different views on the relationship between religion and science. The Scopes Trial represents the conflict view, where religion and science are at odds with one another and one must win and the other lose (as an aside, the conflict that does exist between religion and science is more often correctly recognized as not a conflict of religion and science, but rather a conflict of the competing philosophical commitments of supernaturalism and naturalism).

Read the following article from Nancy Pearcy:

Scopes in Reverse

Watch the video at the top of this article from Stephen Meyer. In contrast to the conflict view of religion and science, Meyer demonstrates a view that religion and science are compatible and can be integrated in areas of overlap:

Are Religion and Science in Conflict?

There is a 300 word minimum for this analysis.  You may choose any ONE primary source from units 1 through 5.  These include all sources provided in the iCollege Unit folders or you might consider another source discussed in the videos for these units.  Be sure to use the selections provided in iCollege and not other versions of the sources.
You should NOT use any outside sources, including AI software.  The object of this assignment is to demonstrate that you can make an historical argument.  (Please note, this is NOT a summary of the unit.)
Rubric attached.
Purpose (of assignment):
Demonstrate how your chosen piece of evidence explains some of the cultural values or social constructs of the society that produced it.  (This is where you will construct your thesis statement.  See Rubric.)
After completing this assignment you will understand how historians use evidence to construct knowledge about ancient societies.  You will be able to identify the significant context of a primary source and explain this to others.
Task (or what you will do):
Write an essay that includes:
the relevant contextual information (who, what, when, where) in a brief manner (about 75 words).  (See “Context” on the rubric.)
an explanation for why this source is useful to historians who want to understand its society.  It is not necessary to explain all possible uses; you may be selective depending on your source.  (See “Argument” on the rubric.)
Remember to include short quotations from your source.  These should be phrases or a sentence, but not lengthy paragraphs.  (See “Source Use” on the rubric.)
If you choose an artifact, you will not need to quote anything, but you should include careful, detailed descriptions of the artifact.
There is no requirement regarding academic style (MLA, APA, etc.)  Please use a simple heading that provides your name.
Since this is not a research assignment, you should not need to cite any sources.  I am interested in reading YOUR analysis.
TOPIC 
Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
ca. 2000 – 1600 BCE
Composed in Akkadian and consisting of 480 lines distributed over four tablets, this poem is a protest against one man’s undeserved suffering.  The author is tormented but cannot determine the cause, and he feels that the god Marduk is not responding adequately to his lamentation.  Because he has always been faithful to his god and assiduous in his worship, the Sufferer begins to speculate that the gods are not concerned with human pain at all.  Even more, they may engage in this sort of torment for their own benefit.  The figure of the “Righteous Sufferer” is frequently compared to the biblical figure Job.  While this “Babylonian Job” is eventually delivered from his sufferings, perhaps his complaints linger on.
This poem offers insight to the societal structure that existed in Babylon.  The Sufferer mentions his king and peers, and one can understand how significant religious obedience aligned with social status.
My god has forsaken me and disappeared,
My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance.
The benevolent angel who walked beside me has departed,
My protecting spirit has taken to flight, and is seeking someone else.
My strength is gone; my appearance has become gloomy;
My dignity has flown away, my protecting made off….
The king, the flesh of the gods, the sun of his peoples,
His heart is enraged with me, and cannot be appeased.
The courtiers plot hostile action against me,
They assemble themselves and give utterance to impious words….
They combine against me in slander and lies.
My lordly mouth have they held as with reins,
So that I, whose lips used to prate, have become like a mute.
My sonorous shout is reduced to silence,
My lofty head is bowed down to the ground,
Dread has enfeebled my robust heart….
If I walk the street, ears are pricked;
If I enter the palace, eyes blink.
My city frowns on me as an enemy; 
Indeed my land is savage and hostile.
…
My ill luck has increased, and I do not find the right.
I called to my god, but he did not show his face,
I prayed to my goddess, but she did not raise her head.
The diviner with his inspection has not got to the root of the matter,
Nor has the dream priest with his libation elucidated my case.
I sought the favor of the zaqiqu-spirit [god of dreams], but he did not enlighten me;
And the incantation priest with his ritual did not appease the divine wrath against me.
What strange conditions everywhere!
When I look behind, there is persecution, trouble.
…
For myself, I gave attention to supplication and prayer.
To me prayer was discretion, sacrifice my rule.
The day for reverencing the god was a joy to my heart;
The day of the goddess’ procession was profit and gain to me.
The king’s prayer — that was my joy,
And the accompanying music became a delight for me.
I instructed my land to keep the god’s rites,
And provoked my people to value the goddess’ name.
I made praise for the king like a god’s
And taught the populace reverence for the palace.
I wish I knew that these things were pleasing to one’s god!
What is proper to oneself is an offense to one’s god,
What in one’s heart seems despicable is proper to one’s god.
Who knows the will of the gods in heaven?
Who understands the plans of the underworld gods?
Where have mortals learnt the way of a god?
He who was alive yesterday is dead today.
For a minute he was dejected, suddenly he is exuberant.
One moment people are singing in exaltation,
Another they groan like professional mourners.

Scholars are expected to be aware of the major academic articles in their respective fields so that they are exposed to new interpretations and arguments. Historians who study the United States under the Constitution are no different. This assignment invites you to choose one of the two essays written below, and use it as the basis of a well-written analytical essay.
In a minimum limit of three full pages of text, craft a well-written review of one of the following articles listed below. There are no maximum limits of words or pages.
*THE TEXTBOOK IS ATTACHED*
*THE ARTCICLE LINK I CHOSE IS ALSO ATTACHED< LOUIS HARTZ< "THE COMING OF AGE IN AMERICA" Articles (choose one): Louis Hartz, "The Coming of Age of America" Actions Richard Hofstadter, "Turner and the Frontier Myth" Actions Frederick Jackson Turner, "Geographic Sectionalism in American History" Actions William Appleman Williams, "The Frontier Thesis and American Foreign Policy" Actions Your essay must include well-written responses to the following topics: Introduction. All good pieces of academic writing should have an introduction. Open with a general description of the topic and/or problem addressed by the work in question. Think, if possible, of a hook to draw your readers in. Summary of argument. Your review should, as concisely as possible, summarize the article's argument.  What, ultimately, is this article's raison d’être (argument or thesis)? If there is an identifiable thesis statement, you may consider quoting it directly. Be mindful that the author likely wrote the article in a different era than you yourself live in, so be careful to not let your own standards of morality prejudice your interpretations. Summary of contents. A reasonably thorough indication of the research methods used (if applicable) and of the range of substantive material covered in the article should be included. Provide supporting evidence from the article. Strength. Identify one particular area in which you think the article does well and explain why with specific evidence from the article. This should, ideally, be its single greatest strength as an academic work. Weakness. Identify one particular area in which you think the article could be improved and explain why with evidence from the article. While this weakness might be related to something you actually believe to be incorrect, it is more likely to be something that the author omitted, or neglected to address in sufficient detail. Conclusion. End your review with a concluding statement summarizing your analysis of the article. The analysis of the article may be favorable, unfavorable, or qualified. It should be fair and balanced, regardless how you personally might agree or disagree with the author's own conclusions. Required format:  Font – Use either Times New Roman (12pt), Calibri (11pt), or Arial (11pt). Margins – 1 inch margins all around Page numbers at the bottom and centered on each page after the cover sheet. Double-space, do not include extra spacing between paragraphs. The cover sheet and works cited do not count towards the minimum length. Cover Sheet - Name, assignment title with the chosen prompts, course number and section, and date should be single spaced, center aligned, and placed in middle of the cover sheet. Example: Student name Secondary Source essay [with article title] Course number and section Due date The essay should be organized into multiple paragraphs including an introduction, body paragraphs, and a concluding analysis. All citations, including the works cited page, should be in footnotes in accordance with the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). MLA, APA, or any other format is not acceptable. Treat the article that you read as a periodical for the purposes of documentation. See also this guideLinks to an external site. from the Purdue University Writing Center. Sources: All uncommon information, such as direct quotes or any reference to anything people say, think, feel, or do requires documentation. Papers submitted without documentation will receive a grade of zero. A list of sources at the end of the document without corresponding citations is not sufficient documentation. All citations should be in footnotes in accordance with the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). MLA, APA, or any other format is not acceptable. Treat the document that you read as a periodical for the purposes of documentation. See also this guide from the Purdue University Writing Center. To make footnotes in GoogleDocs, see this guideLinks to an external site.. To make footnotes in Microsoft Word, see this guideLinks to an external site.. All outside sources, save for the specific ones linked in these instructions, are prohibited for this assignment.

Essay I (Fiction Essay) Instructions
In this first essay, you will be analyzing the short story “Little Girls in Bone Museums” by Sadie Bruce (see link below).  The thesis, or main point, for the essay will be based on your careful analysis of the story. In other words, you’re going to make a claim about some part of the story’s meaning on a deeper level.  For example, your claim could be what you think the theme (the author’s main point) of the story is or how the author addresses an important idea in the work. In order to support your claim, you can discuss how the author uses literary devices (such as characterization, setting, symbolism, or irony) in order to express the theme or an important idea in the work. 
Link to short story and information for your Work Cited page if you quote the story in your essay:
Bruce, Sadie. “Little Girls in Bone Museums.” Fantasy & Science Fiction. March 2015. Pp 156-165.
https://sadiekie.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/11-bruce-girls-3-15.pdf
Formatting requirements: 
Use standard MLA document formatting requirements: double-spaced, 12-pt font.  See link below for more specifics or Google “OWL Purdue MLA documentation style” and click on the first link on left (MLA General Format)  for a sample and detailed information.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_general_format.html
Length: 800 to 1,000 words, not including the Works Cited page
Due Date:  End of Week Six (see syllabus for exact date).
Submission Directives: An electronic copy of your paper must be submitted through Blackboard in the Fiction Essay Drop Box (found in LU 6) before 11:55 pm on the paper’s due date. 
Assignment Objectives:  Your goal is to analyze or apply a critical strategy to a work and to develop and support a specific thesis.  Your essay should be unified, developed, organized, and coherent, and should use sophisticated sentence style while meeting the demands of standard English.  In other words, your objective is to support a thesis about the meaning of the work; therefore, you should NOT merely re-tell the entire plot (what happens in the story) or express your thoughts and feelings about the subject matter.   For instance, when writing about Sadie Bruce’s story “Little Girls in Bone Museums,” you want to identify an important topic (such as beauty, societal expectations, recognition, or identity ) or theme (what point you think Bruce is making about a particular topic) and then analyze how Bruce uses literary devices such as setting, symbolism, characterization, or irony to address that topic or theme.  If you spend too much time in your paper talking about how a topic relates to current issues in society or how you feel about the topic, you’ve moved away from literary analysis and the point of the paper: to analyze the work itself. 
Grading Guidelines: Be sure to read the designated rubric carefully so that you have a clear idea of what criteria I will be using as I grade your essay.
Must Haves:  In any good paper, you must have a clearly identifiable claim or thesis (usually found at the end of the first paragraph) and provide concrete, specific examples in the form of textual evidence as support.  A good thesis statement is composed of the following elements:
TOPIC + CLAIM + POINTS OF SUPPORT
The topic would be the short story, the claim is whatever specific conclusion you’ve come to about what the author is trying to communication within the story, and the points of support are what you’ll discuss to support your claim.  For example, if you’re using the formalist approach, the points of support would be the literary devices used by the author that you will analyze and discuss.  You can also think of it this way:   TOPIC + 2-3 LITERARY ELEMENTS + ANALYSIS. You could also focus on how one literary element is developed in different ways to support a particular thesis.
Example:  In his work “Letters from an American Farmer,” Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur uses characterization, setting, and symbolism to express how a nurturing environment is essential to becoming a successful American.
The topic would be the author’s work, the literary elements are the devices you’ve chosen to discuss in order to support your claim, and the claim is whatever specific conclusion—based on careful analysis—that you’ve come to about the work.   In order to support your claim, you’ll have to discuss how the author uses these literary devices, pulling directly from the work for textual support.  In an essay with the thesis above, I would have to have three body paragraphs (the first about the use of characterization, the second about setting, and the third about symbolism) that all support my claim (or analysis) that Crevecoeur is expressing that the key component to becoming a successful American is a nurturing environment.
For this first essay, you should NOT use outside sources, only a quote or two from the shorty story, and your ideas and writing should be your own.  You may want to submit your essay to one of the UPSWING online tutors (See the Student Page on the Savannah Teach website for link).  For additional help, you can also use the writing help on the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.  (For the Purdue site, type “OWL,” “Purdue,” and “Writing about Literature” into Google).  Again, be sure to follow all of the guidelines and suggestions discussed in your texts about writing a good, college-level essay.
Finally, your essay should have a title that is creative or includes your essay’s focus.  For example, one might use a title like Feminism and Exploitation in John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums.”  Your paper should have a clear introduction and thesis statement, body paragraphs supporting your thesis, detailed evidence and argument supporting each topic sentence, and a conclusion.  Your paper should also have a Works Cited page if you incorporated any quotes into your paper.  Use the MLA style (specifically, a selection from an anthology or selection from a collection of works).  Remember that you need to put quotation marks around any exact words that you use from the text as evidence to support your claims.  
*Important Note Regarding Acts of Academic Dishonesty and/or Plagiarism:  The drop box where you submit your essays runs all papers submitted through plagiarism software.  This means it will highlight any phrases and/or sentences taken directly from another source and give me access to that original source.  This includes papers created by online services.  I will also be using software that detects whether or not a piece of writing has been created by AI (Artificial Intelligence or Chatbot). Using AI-written passages and turning them in as your own, just like buying a paper or copying text from another source without citing it, is a clear example of academic dishonesty.

For this discussion, watch the video for this week and write a 250-word post covering the following question:

What stood out to you as the biggest challenge that people faced during the Great Depression, and why?

In 1929, Edwin Hubble provided strong evidence that the universe is expanding, namely, light from other galaxies is shifted toward the red end of the color spectrum, indicating that the source of the light is moving away. Further, if galaxies are moving away from one another, generally, then as you go back into the past, they get closer to each other, until they are together at singular point. 

This was a remarkable find, and it quickly became a serious philosophical matter. It had been common for most to believe that the universe was static–that it always existed. If the universe has always existed, then you need no explanation for the universe–it’s just always been there, that’s what it’s like to be a universe. Now that there is strong evidence that the universe has not always been around, but rather suddenly appeared, the universe needs an explanation. And now, God seems to be the best candidate.
Watch this video to see how the finite nature of the universe is evidence of God.

Read through the first chapter of the book of Genesis. Write a 250-word response regarding whether or not you think the evidence of our universe coming into existence in the finite past reflects the creation account in Genesis 1. Keep in mind that this has to do with the origin of the universe, not the origin and development of life in the universe.

These are three different small writing assignments, so there needs to be three different 
documents. If it’s easier to use one document, title each section so I can tell them apart. 
No research is required. Your only task is to read the Word doc and answer each 
document’s exercise question at the bottom that corresponds with the reading.
There is no word count or page requirement. My advise is using as many words as needed to fully answer the prompt. You will most likely use one page max per 
question, if I had to guess. 
Please do not use any AI because my university will find out.