Category: Other Homework Help

• Tips for Summary Essay
  For the first major essay, make sure to do the following:
  • Grab your readers’ attention with a strong hook. Ask a provocative question or share an interesting fact about language in your opening sentence.
  • Introduce the author’s credentials with her full name and article title in the introduction. 
  • End the introduction with her thesis. Begin with an attributive tag (Boroditsky argues…).
  • Use tags throughout the article to remind us these ideas came from Boroditksy. Use careful language to show when you summarize the opposing view (Those who don’t believe language affects the way we think argue…). Make sure to use present tense when adding attributive tags. 
  • Begin body paragraph with clear topic sentences. A topic sentence should let your reader know what the main idea of that paragraph will be. 
  • Provide enough information so someone who hasn’t read the original article can understand the author’s argument fully.
  • End body paragraphs by pointing out how the examples support or connect back to the author’s central thesis.
  • Use transitions between paragraphs. Find a great resource on transitions at this site.
  • Avoid second person (you) in academic writing. If you use first person, make sure it’s the plural “we” and only to indicate something all people/humans do. There should be no first person singular (“I”) in your summary. 
  • Do not use direct quotes in this essay! A major part of this assignment is mastering the skill of putting information into your own words. Review earlier lessons on paraphrase and summary as you draft.
  • I will provide the Works Cited page for the first essay. 
  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that I do not deduct points for errors in content or grammar in the rough draft, but you should still attempt to write your draft as clearly and correctly as possible. This is an opportunity for you to make errors and receive feedback so you can improve the final draft. The rough draft is factored into your minor writing assignments grade so it does not weigh as heavily as the final draft of your essay. Make sure to review the grading rubric for the final draft as you revise.

The report must address and discuss one of the albums on this list:

https://www.jazz.org/blog/10-essential-jazz-albums/

• The artists performing on the album. [20 percent of total]
• The importance and impact of the album in jazz history. [20 percent of total]
• One track from the album must be selected for musical analysis 

Title of the Work and Composer [0 points – simply a requirement]

• Meter(s) – Listen and/or observe the leader’s count-off (or conducting pattern) or accents 

if no conductor was present and determine the meter of the main theme or first 

section(following an introduction if an intro was used). The meter will most likely be 2, 

3, or 4 beats to the measure but could be some other number (like 5 in Take Five). [10 

percent of total]

• Genre or Category – Bebop, Swing, Blues, Smooth, etc. [0 points – simply a 

requirement]

• Harmonic Characteristics: In general terms was the harmonic vocabulary primarily

consonant or mostly dissonant? If possible, identify major scale, minor scale, modal,

traditional blues progressions, etc. [10 percent of total]

• Period of Jazz – list the date written, corresponding style period, one sentence on whether 

this piece displays characteristics of the period and list 2 characteristics YOU heard in 

this piece. If the work is a “modernization” or recasts a well-known work in a new or 

different style, be sure to make that observation and address the most interesting aspects 

of the musical transformation. [10 percent of total]

• Composer’s Chief Contributions to Jazz – this information can be taken from class lesson

slides, online research, and your own observations.

I’m working on a other writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Trace the origins of the term, “homeland security” and articulate how that has affected the bureaucratic perspective in defining this term. How are civil defense and emergency management related?

The book is the following however, it does not need to be directly from the book.

Introduction to Homeland Security: Policy, Organization, and Administration
Willard M. Oliver, Nancy E. Marion, Joshua B. Hill, 2015
Jones and Bartlett
ISBN.13: 978-1-284-04583-3

I’m working on a other question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Create your initial thread by summarizing these videos in the links below. Be sure to address the following in your post:

• Aging in place
• The Village concept/model
• In-Home Support Services, palliative and custodial care, respite services
• Care management, affordability, and access
• The ‘national crisis’ in long-term care
• Caring for elderly family members

Include at least one (1) reference citation (may be the course textbook) in your Initial and Reply posts, using proper APA format both in-text and in full citation at the end of your post. Utilize terminology and concepts from this week’s reading and learning activities in your posts.

In at least 300 words

https://youtu.be/5VqgSkN14JE

https://youtu.be/oLKTThGrAxw

Here are some topics to include in my essay. I also attached a copy of an essay I started to write. You can include what I wrote so far.

There is also the personal essay information document that all needs to be addressed in this essay.

I currently work for Department of Social Services as a Caseworker for Child Protective Services for 1 year and a half. I have ensure the safety and well being of children and provided families with community resources. Please include more information on what child protective service caseworker do on a day to day basis, as it will help me complete my masters in social work.

Some family background that will help me with my completion of the Graduate of Social Work Program, is that I have a supportive family. My mother is a Social worker for over 20 years and my sister completed her Master in Elementary Education. Please also explain the reason why I received a GPA under a 3.0 at University of Phoenix. Some of the reasons is that I had a 2 year old who suffered from asthma, and was pregnant with my second child and was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and needed to administer insulin on a daily basis. But now with extra support of my family, my children are older and healthy, the help of my husband, and my daily on the job experience at Child Protective Services will assist me with completing the Masters in Social Work at Adelphi University.

View the video “Housing and Mental Health: Community Solutions” from John Wesley Community Health. In your post, provide an overview of the goals and services of this program, and describe the roles of the staff interviewed. Note in the video the psychotherapist mentions that complete sobriety is not necessarily a requirement for the residents in their housing units. Discuss why that policy may be in place and the ramifications for the immediate and neighboring community.

To correspond with the “Photo Narrative and Sequencing” Assignment, create a Word document in which you will critique your photo narrative and its sequence.

Each photo selected for that assignment will be placed in order on individual pages with an explanation of the thought process and intention in taking the photograph and your observations about the strength of compositional structure.

The paper does NOT have to be in APA format.

1. Page 1 is the cover page. Include your name, date, course, term, and section, and title your series, e.g. The Storm. Then, below that, write a paragraph stating the overall sequencing intention and your thought process when taking the photographs and their order. What is this series about? How did you approach taking them? Why did you order them in this way? Note: You will critique each individual image in the following pages.
2. For the next 7 or 8 pages (depending upon how many images are in your sequence), place the image at the top of the page, leaving room enough for a paragraph or two of text at the bottom, where you will explain why you chose this image for your sequence and how you approached the composition and other design considerations. (See Steps 3 and 4) If your images are high-resolution, please REDUCE the size of your images before inserting them into Word. Camera-phone images can be 3-4MB in size and between 72ppi and 300ppi. Make sure to save your original images, but resize and Export As… a copy to no more than 1500px in the widest dimension at 72ppi. (It should be under 1MB). When you have completed your Word document, check that the document is smaller than 20MB. If it is not, ZIP it. If it still is over 20MB, you’ll need to resize the image smaller. Do NOT scale your images in Word, they will be small, but will still be large file sizes.
3. Below the image, first, explain the image as if it were an extended caption. For example, “Backed by a record storm surge, seawater carried this sailboat over the seawall and three blocks inland.”
4. Then, explain how you approached taking the photograph. Why did you shoot it from that point of view? What do you think the strengths of the image are? What are its weaknesses? Then, below that, evaluate the technical and creative attributes of the image (you may say positive things about the image, but also think how it might have been stronger; could you have cropped it differently? Did you perform any other corrections to color or contrast? Is it as strong as the other images in telling the narrative? Why did you place it in this order in the sequence? [Especially important for first and last image])
5. Finally, at the bottom of the page paste in a thumbnail (roughly 400px 500-600px) of at least one other image (preferably two) that you took of that same part of the sequence, to prove that you were “working the shot.” For example, you might have shot the sailboat from a different angle or from closer or further away. Again, do NOT resize these images inside Word. Use Photoshop.

No matter how small you scale your image in Photoshop, Word will try to blow it up to fit full-width on the page. If you reduced the image size in Photoshop, you may drag the corner of the thumbnail down to about 2″ wide on the page.Word isn’t increasing the resolution (and physical size in Kb), it’s just trying to expand the image on the page, so make sure you reduce the thumbnails in Photoshop first.

Save as a Word document and submit to the dropbox. Make sure the Word document is under 20MB. Ideally, it should be under 6MB.

Create a series of related images using compositional elements, lighting, placement of subject for emphasis, background elements, and point of view, in creating a visual narrative through the capture of a series of 7 to 8 photographs that explore any single idea, object, place or narrative. Creativity in your narrative is also a factor.

Photographs are to be sequenced so the eye is led through the series using compositional and sequencing techniques. Each individual photograph is required to be properly exposed and composed.

• Sequencing implies order, but that order does not need to be chronological. If one photograph can capture an emotion, then a series of related images, in a logical order, can build upon that emotion.

The subject matter is entirely at the discretion of the photographer. The main point is that sequence of the photos should tell a story.

For example, capturing the process of making and plating an omelet or documenting the point A – B of a daily commute.

A chronological narrative

1. Shoot as many images as needed to capture the best image in that part of the narrative. Crop each image as necessary to the same size, aspect ratio, and resolution. Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, and color as required.
2. The narrative does NOT need to be something that happens in order; it can be a series of related images about a place, a person, or an event (but NOT a wedding). Together, though, the sequencing of the images begins with a strong image, and one image flows into the next until the strong ending image.
3. Resize the images to 1000px in the largest dimension.
4. Export the images (File > Export > Export As…) as JPGs (at 60%). Number them in the order of the sequence (e.g., breakfast01, breakfast02, and so on.)
5. Place the sequence in a folder with your name, underscore, the name of the assignment (e.g., Jstudent_PhotoSequencing), underscore, and the date, and ZIP the folder.

For this assignment, you will create a photographic narrative by selecting 4 of the provided images to be placed in the provided Photoshop magazine layout. The 4 photographs will be selected from the collection provided and should be placed into the PSD file where indicated.

• Crop or scale (proportionally!) the photos where necessary.

Scenario:

You work as a layout designer for RUNSUPERFAST MAGIZINE, you are working on a tight deadline for the November issue, and the feature article is called The Big Race. This article will cover the day’s events of a major Italian road marathon. Your boss, the Editor, asks you to choose the appropriate 4 photos for the layout, including the cover photo. The Writer is still writing and will barely get the copy done in time. However, so that you choose the right photos for the layout, the Writer has given you their rough outline notes so that you can match the photos to the sequence of their story. The Writer’s notes are as follows:

• The main topic of the story is going to discuss the massive turnout this year.
• The story will open with describing how serious it was at the starting line.
• It was incredibly hot out at the race this year, but the heat was broken by a brief rain shower.
• The artist who designed the award metals studied alongside artist John Baldisseri.

The Project:

Download the ZIP file containing the layout and photographs of the race here.

PGY1300C_Mod05_MarathonPhoto.zip

Open the PSD file and choose a cover photo and three other images to support the text. Replace the black placeholders (or cover the placeholders with a new layer).

• The layout is 150ppi. Cover image is 1238px wide x 1650 high. Page 2 image is 597px wide x 630 px high; Page 3 images are 567px wide x 670px high and 917px wide x 544px high. Choose an image for the cover that you do not have to scale up (losing resolution).

Export (File > Export > Export As…) the PSD with the new images as a JPG (at 60%).