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Write an essay of 1500 words (5 pages) on a topic of your choosing. You can write on any topic that related to any of the course lectures and to any theme that is in one way or another is related to Immigration and Ethnicity in the Canadian context. You can writing about Politics, History, Sports, Fashion, Communities, Regions, Cities, Economy, Art, as long as you relate the topic to the course (within the context of 19th, 20th or 21st centuries). The most important thing is for you to conduct proper academic research on the subject (see below). It is better if you write your essay on a topic that interests you than on me assigning you themes that you might be not as interested. Your essay must rely ONLY on peer-reviewed academic sources. You must have citations in your essay. Otherwise, your essay will not receiving a passing grade. Do not overuse quotes. It is better to use your own words (rather than the authors’) and then cite this information properly Use either APA or MLA style citation. Make sure you have title page and a desсrіptive title (unique title) for your essay. The essay should address the historiography (literature review) of the topic of your choosing. The easiest way to achieve this is to compare and contrast sources. Identify various interpretations, methodologies, and approaches. Highlight debates and disagreements on specific topics or facts/events. Keep in mind that sometimes, the content of a source is just as important as the interpretation being put forward. A historiographical (literature review) exploration will reveal your knowledge of the literature on a topic and your ability to evaluate sources. How do various authors perceive a particular topic? What are the controversial aspects or issues of a topic? Is there agreement among scholars on a particular topic? Keep in mind that a simple chronological narrative will only reveal your ability to summarize. An original essay will attempt to provide an innovative approach to a topic. Assignments must be typed and double spaced. Standard 12 pt font, cursive or non-cursive, double spaced text, standard 2.5 cm margins, 11” X 8 ½” paper. Make sure to have a title page with your name, name of course, essay title, and the instructor’s name. A minimum of five (5) texts (books and/or journal articles) must be used in writing the essay. (The textbook may be used but it does not count towards the five required texts). Make sure that you choose the most appropriate books/journal articles. Internet sources should not be used. Only use the Internet to locate and read scholarly journals. You will find that there are differing interpretations of issues and events, and a good essay will show awareness of these. You may argue whatever you position you like, as long as you can back your arguments with reasonable and credible evidence. Please note that the key to good research is to be as exhaustive and critical as possible. Selecting a few random sources off the shelf will not be productive. Good research requires skill. It will take time and effort to locate and read the best research possible. A good essay is like a courtroom argument—it is based on the presentation of proof conforming with the rules of evidence in an expositive argument. The way hearsay is not admissible in court, Wikipedia for example, is likewise not admissible as evidence in scholarly discourse. Just as court evidence is presented in a disciplined system: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C, etc, in the written historical argument, the Chicago Style footnoted citation is used to lead and guide the reader through the evidence backing the persuasive discourse of the text above it. Essays MUST provide bibliographies of all works consulted, whether or not they have been quoted directly in the citations. An adequate bibliography for this assignment will contain no less than five books or journal articles related to the topic. General books, dictionaries, atlases, textbooks and/or encyclopedias DO NOT count towards this minimum number of sources, and their inclusion in citations will NOT be considered as constituting research.

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Write one article defining giftedness and gifted education. This article should be mainly for an audience of teachers, but should contain some content pertaining to gifted services from the point of view of parents (which, of course, teachers should be familiar with).  In the article, defend the education of the gifted.  Work with the gifted specialist and some teachers for their input on these.  Include social emotional factors and other features of the gifted student.

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Search online for your local news website and locate local a story where you believe an ethical dilemma is going on. Please keep this story local and not national news.

Explain, in a few sentences the story, the ethical dilemma you believe is going on in the story, and how you think it can be resolved.

Please include a link to the story in your original post.

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The two page report is about how teacher’s parents and psychologist can motivate, encourage, and form good child behavior along with success.  Shaping our students to become believers that they will succeed also depends on teachers expectations of themselves and of their students will mold them into successful students.  Like I said, the six PDF’S compliment what I just summarized.  You can please write the three page journal in follow the following format at the middle of this page:  
1.    The PDF’S that are in the folders are for the writer to do in text citations and reference the last page after your done writing my 2 page journal.  Total three pages including the referenced page. 
2.    The word document saved as:  ED PSYC. CITE. REFERENCES are for your in text citations and to be used at the reference page once your are done writing the journal.
3.    The word document saved as:  INSTRUCTIONS. FORMAT.APA. is the format for the entire document.  Follow APA format – that’s what I basically need.
4.    The word document saved as:  WRITTEN JOURNAL.2.HOW CAN WE HELP STUDENTS SUCCEED is my rough draft of the journal that I had began; so, basically it gives you a huge idea on what I am writing about.
Cite reference source in APA Style – (REVIEW APA STYLE) See following Example 

A summary section: One paragraph that summarizes the central argument and the key points the writer uses.  Be accurate, precise and concise; avoid extensive quotation from the readings, instead use your own words to summarize.  

A Impression section: One paragraph that allows you to express your personal reactions to the article.  You may react to the argument of an article, the evidence used, the unspoken assumptions the author makes, or even the writing style the author uses. Respectfully articulate what you like and don't like about the article. 

A critical engagement section: One or two paragraphs that analyze and critically engage with the reading.  Evaluate both the strengths and potential weaknesses of the argument being presented.  If the reading is a primary source, you should also reflect on the social context of the reading.  Compare and contrast points expressed on related issues; explain the relationship between the ideas in the articles.  Again, use your own words to paraphrase ideas from the reading.  Avoid simply summarizing or stating personal judgments in this section (you already have a place for these things in paragraphs 1 and 2) and focus on critical analysis and thoughtful engagement with the readings.  This section will be the most useful for you to use for preparing for writing your paper. 

1.    Note: include your references, in text citations, and page #3 will be your reference page.
2.    Note: Please follow the word document saved as: INSTRUCTIONS. FORMAT.APA. required by my professor.  

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Self-determination and intrinsic motivation are important factors in helping patients to recover speedily after major surgery.

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Read
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/social-enterprise-making-the-choice-between-for-profit-and-nonprofit/
Social Enterprise: Making the Choice Between For-Profit and Nonprofit

Discuss the following question:

Compare and contrast the social entrepreneurship with a nonprofit

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Topic : the development of algebra in Europe
Abstract must be 200 words

Sources: Make sure that you have a variety of both primary and secondary sources.  Primary sources include books and articles from the original scientists and mathematicians.  Secondary sources are books and articles that summarize information and provide historical analysis.  

Annotated Bibliography:  Your essay must contain an annotated bibliography.  An annotated bibliography is a list of sources each of which is followed by a brief summary describing its contents.

Thesis Statement and Abstract: Your paper should be summarized in an abstract which contains a clear thesis statement.  The purpose of an abstract is to help the reader understand the content of the paper as well as its conclusion.  Your abstract should be almost exactly 200 words.  The abstract should be a kind a blueprint of your paper and explain why your paper is worth reading.  What will the reader learn or understand after reading your paper?  Why is your paper worth reading?  You should start by writing your abstract but keep in mind that you will be updating and revising your abstract right up until you turn in your paper

Title:  Give your paper a title that reflects its content and your thesis.  It’s okay if the reader can’t figure out the exact content and thesis of your paper from the title but the title should make sense to them and be illuminating after they have read the paper.

Plagiarism: Be sure to properly cite all ideas and text which is not your own.  DO NOT PLAGARIZE. Make sure that any ideas or phrases that you get from secondary sources are cited correctly. Do not over use your source(s). A significant portion of your paper should be your own analysis of the argument that you choose. If you have questions about how to cite something, ask me.  

Topics: Any topic in the history of mathematics and science will work for this assignment.  I suggest that you choose a topic from one of your lesson plans.  Pick an event in which you are genuinely interested and you have something interesting and significant to say.  
 
Grammar: Your paper should be free of grammatical mistakes.  Sentences should show good structure and variety.  You should avoid the passive voice.  Paragraphs should be well structured and focused.  The “claim, support, conclusion” paragraph model words well for philosophy papers.  Your paragraphs should fit together into a coherent progression leading to your conclusion.

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In order to complete this assignment, you should make a specific argument (conclusion or thesis and premises or reasons for believing your thesis) about one of the events in the history of science or mathematics. Your paper should begin by summarizing an event or dispute in the history of science or mathematics in as much detail as you can.  You should then draw the reader’s attention to some central idea or original observation about the historical event and its significance.  There should be no doubts in your reader’s mind about the central idea of your paper. This idea – the argument or main point that you wish your paper to make – is called the thesis.  The thesis should be expressed in a thesis statement, usually a few sentences near the beginning of your paper and clearly articulated in your abstract 

A philosophy paper must have a discussible/ arguable thesis, one that calls for extensive development and argument, one that poses some problem or question to which the answer is not immediately obvious.  As Aristotle says “we do not argue about that which is not uncertain.” Your paper should be normative and not just descriptive; in other words don’t just recount an event in the history of mathematics and science.  Rather you should make some interesting and controversial claim about that event.  At the same time, don’t neglect to begin by summarizing the event and what others have said about the event.

Your thesis should be narrow, clear, precise, and arguable. It should not be trivial but also should not be so grandiose that you cannot possibly hope to prove it. A successful thesis addresses not only WHAT the paper will argue, but also WHY the issue matters to you and to your reader. Imagine that you tell me the topic of your paper and I ask you “So what? Why should anybody care about whether what you claim is true?” Be sure that you can answer this question.

Your thesis might change as you work through your ideas and that’s O.K. Sometimes you will discover your thesis in your conclusion, and you will have to move it to the front of your essay and begin again. THIS KIND OF REVISION AND REWORKING OF A PAPER PRODUCES THE BEST PAPERS. DO NOT EXPECT OR TRY TO WRITE YOUR PAPER FROM START TO FINISH IN ONE DRAFT.  WRITING YOUR PAPER IN ONE OR TWO DAYS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN DISASATER.

Whenever you discover the thesis, the most successful thesis is one that shows a lot of hard, critical thinking. I would rather see a complex thesis that is difficult to handle than an obvious, bland, and uninteresting one that is easily proven.

Introduction: Your paper should contain a clear introduction.  This introduction should be an extension of your abstract in the sense that it identifies an event in the history of science or mathematics and sets up the thesis and argument which is to follow.  Tell the reader what your paper is about why you wrote it.  Do not waste space or try your reader’s patience by opening with grand generalizations about the history of philosophy or mankind, how long people have asked a particular question, the human condition, etc. Do not provide extensive biographies of the historical figures unless their biography is relevant to your thesis 

Conclusions: Your conclusion should not merely summarize what readers have already encountered in the paper. If by the time readers get to the end of the paper they don’t know what your thesis is or why it is significant, then the paper has not done its job.  Think of your conclusion as a place to bring your ideas to closure, not by summarizing them but by exploring how they are significant and meaningful. The conclusion is the place to discuss why the issue you have been addressing is important. This is the ONLY time in your paper when you might make some connection between what the text has taught you and more general ideals or opinions.

Your Audience:  Your audience for this essay will be people in the academic community who, for the main part, have not focused on and analyzed the particular issue you address as closely as you are going to. Since your audience is an academic one, this means that you must meet certain academic expectations. You should also keep in mind that an academic paper should make sense to readers outside of our small class. This means that you might need to add more explanation than if you were just writing for our class.

The Writing Process: Drafting: If you are stuck try free writing about your topic generally. Then take your free-writing and focus in on one or two particularly interesting or striking ideas. Then draft a plan or outline. If you don’t have a clear outline your paper is likely to be confusing and repetitive.  Remember that your goal is to develop an argument. This should be difficult. If you are finding it easy to write 15 pages of complicated philosophy, the chances are, you are not focusing on a single idea or analyzing anything in detail.  It is easy to write generally and superficially about lots of ideas.

Organizing: Decide how you are going to organize your ideas and information. What information and examples support each idea?  There is no single correct way to organize a paper since your organization will largely depend on how you approach the paper.  However, you should give your readers “road signs” that articulate the main ideas that you are presenting. A clear focus statement (thesis) and transitions between paragraphs (topic sentences) and between sentences are very helpful to readers.

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Discuss how the endocrine system and nervous system work together

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Research The New york stake state behavior analysis licensure requirements.  How do they align or differ from the Behavior analysis certification board (BACB) certification requirements.  Describe the process and what you will need to do to obtain licensure.

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You are seeing Thomas Smith, a 9-year-old boy for the first time. He was brought in by his mother who is appalled by the family doctor’s referral to a psychiatrist who diagnosed Thomas with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). 

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Complete the questionnaire “What is Your Educational Philosophy?”. Write a paragraph in your journal about the results; then, write a paragraph that provides a brief reflection (surprises?; examples of your philosophy in the classroom?; etc.).

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The importance of emotions