In 1,250-1,500 words, answer the following questions about possible research options.

Create a research question in the field of psychology that you are interested in researching. Write questions clearly. Include a brief background of the problem you are proposing and why it is important to the field of psychology.
State the null and alternative hypothesis (in both words and statistical notation) need to address the research question.
Choose which statistical test would be used to conduct the study and support it with research.
Describe the type of data needs to be collected to conduct the study and what techniques are best for collecting data.
Use three to five scholarly resources to support your explanations.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Rhetoric is the study of how writers and speakers use words to influence an audience. A rhetorical analysis is an essay that breaks a work of non-fiction into parts and then explains how the parts work together to create a certain effect.

For your third formal assignment, you will analyze one of the articles assigned for this semester. The article can be one we have read or one we are scheduled to read but have not yet read. You will offer your own analysis of the article you have chosen. Is the article effective, convincing, and/or successful? What is the author’s larger point? Is that argument or point subtle or obvious? Does the writer fulfill his or her purpose? What does the author do well, and where, if anywhere, does the point fall apart?

A rhetorical analysis should explore the writer’s goals, the techniques used, examples of those techniques, and the effectiveness of those techniques. When writing a rhetorical analysis, you are NOT saying whether or not you agree with the author or the topic. Instead, you are discussing how the writer presents his or her point and whether or not the approach used is successful. You may look at any combination of techniques, including: thesis, tone, diction, evidence, logos, pathos, ethos, etc.

Here are some tips for organizing this essay:

• Your introduction should provide a brief summary of the article you have chosen.
• Your thesis statement should set up your analysis by providing a general framework for your essay.
• Your body paragraphs should each be organized around one main point you are making about the article’s strengths, weaknesses, and / or effectiveness.
• Each body paragraph will likely focus on a specific aspect of the essay which adds to the essay’s strength, weakness, and / or effectiveness. For example, in individual body paragraphs, you might focus on the author’s use of statistics or examples, the tone of the essay, the diction, the examples, the audience, or the thesis. Really dig into the essay to reveal what the author does well and / or what the author fails to do well.
• Your conclusion should pull the essay back together without introducing any new information.
• You should include a works cited page which lists only the article you analyzed.

As with any essay you write, you should spend sufficient time revising and editing this essay. Revision focuses on the bigger issues: focus, organization, unity, and content. In most cases, revision is more time consuming and difficult than editing. When you edit, you carefully read your work to identify lackluster sentences, dull word choices, unnecessary repetition, and mechanical errors. Editing is polishing the essay so that your readers delight in reading your thoughtful analysis. If your analysis is not thoughtful, though, editing will not have the impact you want. While you may revise and edit simultaneously, do not make the mistake of thinking revision means simply correcting errors.

All essays in my class fall within the “10% rule.” Under this rule, you may go 10% under or over the required word count, but if your essay falls outside of those boundaries, you will automatically lose 10% of your grade as a penalty. The acceptable word count range for this essay is 675 to 1100 words.

Specific Requirements:

No 1st person (“I” and related pronouns (me, my, mine, etc.)) in this essay
No 2nd person pronouns (you)
No contractions
Avoid slang / colloquialisms
Length: 750 – 1000 words
MLA Format: Typewritten
White Paper
Double Spaced
1” Margins
12 Point Font: Times New Roman or Arial
Last Name and Page Numbers in the Upper Right-hand Corners
Title Centered and Clearly Stated (Be Creative!)
Heading: Upper Left Hand Corner of Page 1 (Double-spaced)

Write a letter to a friend or family member explaining the free press controversy taking place across the country, from the president’s accusations of an American press that prints “fake news” and is “enemy of the people” to the response of the U.S. Senate and more than 350 newspapers on August 16th. The purpose of your letter is to persuade your reader to join the public conversation about the important role of freedom of the press in our democracy. To do this you will have to help your reader understand the issue by providing background information about the controversy and the role of the press in the U. S. democracy. You will also want to provide an example – describe a story you are following in the New York Times and other media, a story that must be exposed in the press, so we can know how to solve the problem or vote for the person who will.

Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication should cause you to reflect deeply on how you use communication in your day to day life, and the ways in which you either give life to others or take it away. Every time that we communicate with others, we can either build deeper understanding, connection, and compassion, or we can create further disconnection and less understanding.

In a three-page double spaced reflection, summarize the communication model Marshall Rosenberg describes in Nonviolent Communication.
1) Provide context as to the pros of using Nonviolent communication and how it relates to leadership skills.
2) Use real world examples in your reflections and provide evidence.
3) Also, consider the connection between Nonviolent communication and the importance of emotional security. Emotional security is part skill. Can you become more emotionally secure by doing certain things differently?

Select a foreign country and analyze its monetary system. Research the country’s monetary system using at least five scholarly sources, including a minimum of three from the Ashford Online Library. Your analysis should be an eight to ten page paper formatted according to APA style guidelines.

Address the following aspects in your paper:

Analyze the evolution of the country’s monetary system, including the impact of any fiscal monetary and trade policies.
Describe the major components of the monetary system, including organizations and financial institutions.
Describe the currency exchange rates and any significant economic impacts on the exchange rates.
Plot the currency exchange rate against the US Dollar:
Go to: Pacific Exchange Rate Service (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website
Select US Dollar as the base currency
Select your countries currency as the target currency
Time horizon should equal one year
Select make chart. Include this chart in your analysis
Analyze the issues around economic exposure, transaction exposure, and translation exposure.
Recommend to investors whether they should buy or sell futures or options in that currency. Be sure to support your recommendation with calculations where necessary.

Writing the Final Paper
The Final Paper:

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Must use at least five scholarly sources.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Read play: In the Blood by Suzan Lori-Parks,
and 3 more files under “additional files.”

Respond to the following (200 word minimum):

Grotowski approaches actor training from the direction of the negative; what he calls the via negativa. Rather than asking the actor to do something, he asks the actor to resign from not doing it. The idea is to give up resistance. For it is resistance, either of the body or of the will, that stands in the way of the direct translation of impulse into action. (Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, p. 157)]

Prompt: What is meant to happen during a “spell”, according to Parks? How might Jerzy Grotowski’s “via negativa” inform this approach? In what ways do the “spells” speak to and about all of us? Examining character, how might they illuminate the specific character(s) reality regarding social, economic, societal, racial, and/or familial challenges and inequity?

It is critical that you actively read and watch the resources this week. Please create a dialogic journal using the instructions below for use in reading This journal will be used to write your Assessment 1.

Dialogic Journals (also called Double Entry Journal)

1.Before reading, answer these questions:
Why are you reading this piece?
What do you hope to learn as you read it ?

Write the title and author of the articlcl at the top of the page.
In the first column, “write down anything from the reading that catches your attention, seems significant, bores you silly, confuses you, or otherwise causes you to take note (or stop taking note).” Make sure to also write down the page number from which you have taken the quote.
In the second column, explain what made you write the quote in the first column and/or respond to, question or critique the quote.
Note: You will ping-pong between the two columns. When you find a quote, you want to write down, you will write that quote in column one and then respond to it in column two. Then you will go back to reading, notice a new quote you want to write down in column one and respond in column two. And so on…

2.For this assignment, I want you to choose at least two quotes per page for the reading from the reading I provided.
So what you have to do
1. Read the chapters I provided
2. Choose two quote per page
3. explain what made you write the quote in the first column and/or respond to, question or critique the quote.

When you have finished reading answer these questions in your dialogic journal:

1.How is this reading useful or not useful for my purpose (in this case, for your inquiry project)?
2.If it is useful, what is useful about it, and what in the reading illustrates that use?

TASK 2

Rewrite the answers and add to them and MAKE THEM DEEP answer question 3 and 4

1.What are the stories of childhood as shared in the film
Different culture rise children in different ways
Regardless of the environment children still learn and develop still , still show emotion reach milestones.
2. Write about the image of the child that is represented in the film. There could be more than one image of the child shared.
That the child is capable
Children learn through play
Children learn easily
Children still learn regardless of their socio economic
3. Thinking about childhood, how can the image of the child as capable influence how childhood is defined and acted? How can the image of the child as incapable inform how childhood is defined and acted?
4. how might you define childhood.

For this assignment you are not expected to conduct an actual research. You are required to prepare a proper plan for conducting the research i.e. a research proposal. The research project should identify well defined sections such as the topic/problem/objective with a clearly defined hypothesis, literature review, research methods and techniques, unit of analysis, discussion of how data will be obtained and analyzed, “possible results and conclusions”.

Students must support all information with academically qualified references; however, emphasis should also be placed on original thought. Students should make an effort to minimize direct quotations by restating such researched information in their own words, but must be sure to cite others’ ideas properly to avoid even the appearance of plagiarism.

A minimum of four sources should be researched and reviewed for this paper. Proper in-text and reference page citations are expected and should follow the APA style.

Papers are evaluated on process and substance, including the students’ ability to synthesize the material and provide an impressive proposal. The paper should reflect college-level work in content, appearance, organization, grammar and effort.

P.S. The research paper proposal must be 6 – 10 pages in length but may be as long as necessary to achieve the objectives.

Your research paper proposal must follow APA citation style and include the following sections:

Title page
Abstract page
Table of contents
Introduction
Literature review
Research design and methodology
“Possible results section”
Reference page
Appendices (if necessary)

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please read all the required readings and the Instructor Guidance, as well as view all required multimedia. It is suggested that you also review the recommended resources for this week as a number of them may assist you in creating this written assignment with links to applicable articles.
Too often, when we learn about memory development, we forget that this has a direct relationship to effectively learning. Knowledge is essentially a memory and how well we process information affects our performance at many levels. For this paper, you will be explaining some of the cognitive-based ideologies that explain how memory development works, how it is affected by outside variables, and strategies for improving one’s own information processing effectively. You will demonstrate an understanding of psychological research methods and skeptical inquiry by correctly utilizing support resources within your writing.
Discuss the following in your paper:
• What is memory development and how does it relate to acquiring new knowledge?
• Why is it important to successfully move information from working (short-term) memory to long-term memory (effective information processing)?
• What strategies can be utilized to move knowledge from working memory to long-term memory more effectively? (List a minimum of three strategies.)
• How much does attention and perception play a role in successful development of schema?
• How do the types of memories (knowledge) affect how we effectively process information?
o Consider the following:
 Semantic memories
 Episodic memories
 Autobiographical memories
• How does false memory development affect how we learn effectively? Is anyone immune?
Suggested template.
The Knowledge Acquisition and Memory Development paper
• Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted
• Must use headings and sub-headings. See example. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Must use appropriate research methods (e.g. use of the Ashford library) to support the content inclusions.
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. [Explain the topic of this paper and succinctly summarize the elements you will discuss.]
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. For assistance with the critical thinking portion of the written assignment, please see the information included on the Critical Thinking Community website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must end with a conclusion that summarizes your topic and findings.
• Must use at least one scholarly source from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the required e-book.
• Must not use quoted material.
o Please synthesize the information you have read. For tips on how to do this please click here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. If you are unsure how to create an APA style reference page, please visit the Citation and Reference page on the Ashford Writing Center website.
• Submit this paper to the Grammarly tool within the course prior to submission. See resources tab on the left.

For this assignment you will analyse a news article using concepts from Human Geography. You may
choose any news media article (eg. a news item in a newspaper rather than a blog, editorial or
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An example of an “A-” response is posted on D2L. Use that sample to get an idea of what is expected.
Do not assume that everything in the sample is perfect – for example, the fact that the sample is less
than the required word length does not mean you should make yours too short as well!
Possible sources for news articles (not an exhaustive list):
The Globe & Mail
CBC
The National Post
Winnipeg Free Press
BBC
The Independent
Al Jazeera
The Guardian
The Tyee
Calgary Herald
The New York Times
La Presse
Toronto Star
The Washington Post
Vancouver Sun
The Times of India
China Daily
Wall Street Journal
ORIGINALITY & AUTHENTICITY
You must submit an original work. An original work is one that has been written by you, that has not
(and will not be) submitted as part of the requirements for any other course, and does not copy
directly from other sources. Any submission of work that is not your own is plagiarism.
In order to assist you in understanding expectations for academic honesty and to provide practice in
summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources appropriately, I will be using Turnitin.
Turnitin is a text-matching software that screens assignments for potential plagiarism and verifies
the accurate citation of all sources used in the assignment.
You may submit your assignment to Turnitin in advance to check your work before final submission.
I will not review early submissions. I will only read and mark the final submission. More details will
be provided in class.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Anytime you use another person’s ideas, expressions, information, line of thinking or argument
without acknowledging them you are committing plagiarism! You must acknowledge all sources of
information, data, and ideas (not only direct quotations) and provide in-text references or
footnotes. All sources must be listed under the heading of “Works Cited” or “References” at the end
of the paper. Yes, that’s right – you need to include both in-text references AND a bibliography.
You must cite your sources correctly using MLA, APA or other recognized style.
You must cite lecture notes. Use the following example as a guide:
Francis, J. 2017. Cartographies. Geography 1110: Introduction to Human Geography. 15 Sept 2017.
Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada.
FAILURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL YOUR SOURCES CONSTITUTES PLAGIARISM. PROVIDING
INCOMPLETE REFERENCES WILL RESULT IN A GRADE PENALTY.
Although you are not required to use any scholarly sources for this assignment, doing so will almost
certainly deepen your analysis. If you’d like to use scholarly sources, use the Langara Library website
to access online data bases such as Academic Search Premier or JSTOR to find suitable journal
articles.
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Do not cite Wikipedia! You may read it for background information but it is not an acceptable source
for an academic paper.
SUSPECTED PLAGIARISM
All cases of suspected plagiarism will be reported to the Dean of Student Services. To guard against
plagiarism, I reserve the right to inspect notes and drafts and to examine students orally on the final
version of their papers. Therefore, keep your notes and drafts! You may also be asked to answer
some written questions on your paper.
Please become familiar with Langara’s Code of Academic Conduct. You are responsible for making
yourself aware of plagiarism guidelines. Plagiarism may lead to a failing grade on the assignment or
on the entire course, or suspension or expulsion from Langara College. If in doubt, cite!
SUBMITTING YOUR PAPER
Papers are due by 11:59pm on Oct 9. Submit your assignment to the Media Assignment folder in
D2L. When you upload your paper to Brightspace, it will automatically be submitted to Turnitin.
Late Policy
Papers that are submitted on time will receive extensive comments and a grade. Papers submitted
within 7 days of the due date will receive a grade but no comments. Papers submitted more than 7
days after the due date will be penalized 3% per day and will receive a grade but no comments.
Example:
Your assignment is due on November 6 at 11:59pm. If you submit your paper on or before
November 6 at 11:59pm, you will receive extensive comments and a grade. If you submit your paper
between November 7 at 12am and November 13 at 11:59pm, you will receive a grade without any
comments. If you submit your paper on November 14, you will be penalized 3% and you will receive
a grade with no comments. If you submit your paper on November 16, you will be penalized 9% and
you will receive a grade with no comments, and so on. Extensions will only be granted under
exceptional circumstances and documentation will be required.
TIPS
 Begin with something interesting to engage the reader’s attention; do not begin with “This
article…” as that would be boring and grammatically incorrect.
 Pay attention to grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation; proofread
carefully.
 It’s fine to use “I” but do not use “we” or “our” (just say specifically who you mean).
 Use active rather than passive voice.
 Write as if for a general audience, rather than drawing attention to the fact that this paper is
written for a class assignment.
 When you have a nearly final draft, read your paper out loud to yourself