Craft a research question on the topic media’s influence on body image.  Then locate at least five articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to your question that will be used to write the introduction section of your research proposal.

Submit these five citations in the form of an APA-style reference page. Under each citation, write one paragraph summarizing the main points of the article. As you read your articles, keep the following questions at hand; these will help you generate the information about each article.

• What were the topic/research questions being investigated?

• How was the study conducted (participants, materials, procedure, etc.)?

• What did the results reveal?

• How might these methodological considerations affect the research findings and the conclusions drawn from them?

• How does this article fit in with your paper? How did it influence your own ideas about your paper?

Based on your reading of the literature, what do you expect to find?

Include a hypothesis and a title page for your submission.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that contrasts ethically responsible and irresponsible news reporting.

Answer the following questions:

• What is journalism’s ethical responsibility to society?
• When, if ever, is deception permissible in journalism?
• What ethical obligations do reporters have to their sources?
• Under what conditions is a journalist ethically obligated to maintain privacy?

Illustrate your response to each question with at least two examples: one example of ethically responsible reporting, and another example of ethically irresponsible reporting.

• Consider using contrasting examples of coverage of the same issue to highlight differences between journalistic practices that are ethically responsible and irresponsible. You may use case studies from any of the assigned chapters of Media Ethics, or you may conduct external research using popular news sources, issues, and coverage.

• Remember that this assignment asks you to compare different approaches to news reporting; sources that simply provide opinion or commentary should not be used as examples.

Reference at least two peer-reviewed articles.

5 pages (contents) at least without counting the refrences’ pages.

5 (FIVE) references cited, one of them must be from a hard copy source not found in the intent.

(Introduction, body, conclusion)

This is a chimistray subject

Write about the (The history, present, and the future of aircraft’s metals).

Discuss how metals may have led a civilization to eminence or decline.

This is a chemistry: Metals and civilization.

(The science course is intended to merge the contribuation metals have made to the rise (and fall) and change of civilizations through time.)

Two criteria you may use for evaluating sources are the validity and the relevance of the source to your topic. Read pp. 375-387 the Handbook as well as this link: Valid and Invalid Sources to learn more about what makes a source valid. Find one source in the library database on your book. Cite it and tell us why you would consider it valid. Find a source online. Cite the source accurately, and then tell us why you think this source would or would not be considered valid. To clarify: you should find a source from both a library database and an online source. Post to the dropbox by Sunday night.

Assignment 3: Poetry Analysis Questions

We are preparing for our mid-term exam, which will include a poem to analyze in an in-class essay. In order to practice this analysis, choose a poem from our text (other than one we have already read), and answer the following questions with a well-developed answer for each question giving examples from the text. Submit this assignment to the dropbox by next Wednesday.

1. What is the poem about? Describe the action of the poem.
2. Who is the speaker of the poem? It is not the author necessarily. What can you tell about the speaker from the poem?
3. What is the organization of the poem? Look at lines, stanzas, sentences, and/or rhyme schemes. How does that affect the meaning of the poem?
4. How is language used in this poem? Do you find metaphors, analogies, symbols, alliteration, figures of speech that carry connotations as well as denotations. (Connotations would be the suggested meaning as opposed to denotations which would be the literal meaning—see glossary for literary terms in The Norton.)
5. What do you have problems with or do not quite understand in this poem? Be as specific as possible, and look at what the section might possibly mean. (Hint: use a dictionary if a word isn’t clear; sometimes poets use a word or phrase with a different meaning than the common one.)

Link to Assignment Assessment Rubric

Join Discussion 5: Unpacking meaning in poetry. What is happening? Does the reader’s perception change from the beginning of the poem to the last? What effect do you think the author tried to convey in this poem? Respond for each poem above. Respond to two other students.

Join Discussion 6: Library Research. Access the library databases and find one source on your selected book. Give the citation for that source (see pp. 445-477 in the Handbook.) Summarize the source and its content. Report on your experiences so we can learn from one another. What search strategies and databases provided you the best results? How do you track and organize the articles you find?

(Note: Discussion 6 requires library research. The Library Resources guide, located in the Research Resources Content module, will assist you in locating appropriate article databases. It is highly recommended that you view the Academic Search Premier video which provides a good introduction to using the databases.)

Thus far in this course, many different theories have been used to address widely varied health problems. Climate change is one example of a global environmental issue that can affect human health in a surprising variety of ways: aiding in the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria, creating conditions that lead to potentially fatal malnutrition and diarrhea in large populations, and increasing the likelihood of heat waves and floods. Think about the myriad ways behavior change theories have been used to try to ameliorate the damage done to Earth’s environment. If you have switched to reusable shopping bags, stopped buying bottled water, or started using energy-saving light bulbs, there is a behavior change theory that could be applied to the process by which you changed your practice.

For this Assignment, you choose a theory presented in the course and apply it to a global environmental or occupational health problem.

The Assignment (6-7 pages):

• Provide an overview of the problem and region you selected.
• Summarize pertinent data about the problem and the affected population (e.g., incidence and prevalence rates, fatality rates, demographics of population[s] at highest risk, risk factors).
• Select and briefly summarize a theory to apply to this problem.
• Provide a rationale for your choice of this theory for this problem.
• Apply constructs of the theory to the problem then explain how you would use these constructs to select an intervention.

• Explain the strengths and limitations of the theory as it relates to the problem you selected.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation.

You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this

Read the attached article and summarize in 300-400 words. Given the content of the article and our discussions, what steps are you going to take to ensure that you adhere to the highest possible standards of scientific integrity?

This Week: Submit Draft of an Abbreviated Qualitative Research Plan

You will apply qualitative research methods this week when you develop a qualitative research plan that seeks to answer your research problem and research question.

To prepare for this Application, first focus on the following instructions:

• Review Chapter 9 in the course text, Research Design, the “Trustworthiness” handout, and “Qualitative Methods: Examples” from the Course DVD Research Theory, Design, and Methods.
• Consult Table 9.1 (p. 174) in the course text, Research Methods to guide you in polishing your abbreviated qualitative research plan.
• Draft an introduction for your abbreviated research plan.

Next, ask yourself the following questions:

• What are your research questions? To what extent can you test them? How would you justify the viability of your questions?
• Why would this design be the most appropriate for answering the research questions? Conversely, why would quantitative and mixed methods not be appropriate?
• What approach would you select for this study (ethnography, grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, narrative)? Why is that approach the most appropriate one for answering the research questions?
• What theoretical framework or perspective would you use?
• What would be your role as the researcher?
• What is your target population? How would you identify and recruit participants? What factors would contribute to determining appropriate sample size? You will not need to calculate sample size for this assignment.
• If appropriate for your plan, what instruments might you need?
• What data collection procedures might you use? Why would those be the most appropriate methods to use? How would that data help to answer your research question(s)?
• How would you ensure quality and reliability of data?
• What are threats to validity? How might you mitigate them?
• How might you analyze the data?
• What are the ethical considerations related to the plan?

The assignment:

• Craft a 2- to 3-page paper in which you
• • Provide an introduction.
  • Provide a purpose statement.
  • Provide viable research questions.
  • Generate a written research plan that addresses the above questions.

1. Choose a strategy for dealing with a particular facet of terrorism and argue why it is an appropriate strategy. Support your argument.

2. Predict future trends in homeland security and terrorist activity based on the current threat landscape and what you have learned. Support your rationale.

3. Compare and contrast the potential root causes of terrorism. MAke a case for what you percieve to be the most significant source of terrorism in the past, present, and future.

4. Assume the role of a leader in a major terrorist organization and explain how one of your four State Sponsors of Terrorism identified by the UNited States could be used to your advantage.