Compare and Contrast the two versions of the myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey (EH 298-314) and in the Hellenistic poet Theocritus’ poem (Idyll 11) (ACM 399-401). How does the Roman poet Ovid combine elements from each of these earlier poets’ versions to make his own version of the myth in his poem, the Metamorphoses (OM 374-381)?

 

Length: 2-3 pages (1.5 spacing, typed)

 

EH The Essential Homer (Hackett 2000)

ACM Anthology of Classical Myth (Hackett 2004)

OM Ovid Metamorphoses (Hackett 2010)

ENF

:  When I was learning HTML, I had a hard time understanding a lot of the terminology. I think this article does a good job of explaining web hosting, domain names and file names. http://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/what-is-the-difference-between-domains-vs-hosting-vs-website

 

What’s the relationship between a domain name and a web host?

 

2:

Domains and web hosting are closely connected, but they are two different things. Your domain name is the name of your site or your url. You can’t have a website without a domain, because your domain name is what people will type into their browser to get to your site. In order to use your domain you must register it so that you can use it at a web hosting company.Web Hosting is the service providing space on the Internet for websites. When you make a website and want other people to see it, you will need to publish it with a web hosting service. Web hosting services work by storing your website files in high-powered computers connected to a very fast network. When someone types in your web address the Internet connects to the web server holding your website files and then transfers your website information back to their computer.

 

3:We’ve discussed various hardware and software components during our class.  Many of you have expressed an interest in opening your own business one day.

Let’s imagine that you are an entrepreneur, preparing for the grand opening of your new business, a small ice-cream shop in your local neighborhood. What kind of website do you think you might need in order to support this business? meaning, what features should your business website include?

 

 

 

 

4:Did you know that you can build a website with Photoshop? I think this presents a good summary of how to create a website using Photoshop.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

HISTORY

human service question 19

Since research skills are critical in today’s information age, this discussion will analyze skills needed for utilizing electronic or other types of information sources.

 

Please select a reference-based website that is of interest to you and is able to assist you with your writing skills. Provide a complete APA citation for that website. NOTE: Aim to find a more scholarly-based website than a random website about writing that might be trying to sell services versus a true reference site.

 

Then use the guidelines from the lecture in this module to evaluate the quality of the materials on the site to analyze the site and answer the following questions:

 

• What type of domain does it come from? (educational, nonprofit, commercial, government, etc.)
• Read the URL carefully.
• Is it published by an entity that makes sense? Who “published” the page?
• Equally important, please post websites that you are not sure about their validity, so that we, as a class, can discuss.
• What aspects of this website provide information to assist you in mastering the skills of professional writing

REQUIREMENTS: AT LEAST TWO PARAGRAPHS, ONE CREDIBLE SOURCE AND APA REQUIREMENTS

Abnormal Psychology: Attitudes toward Mental Illness APA Format Only

Unit 1 Learning Activity

 

To complete this Learning Activity, first interview 3 people by asking them the following questions:

1. a) What is mental illness?
2. b) Can people with mental illness be helped?
3. c) Are people with mental illness dangerous to society?
4. d) Can people with mental illness “snap out” of it?

 

Next, in 2 to 3 paragraphs, summarize your findings of their responses.

 

 

 

 

 

Last, referring to the assigned reading, explain in 1 to 2 paragraphs whether you believe that the interviewees’ attitudes represent what the greater society believes about mental illness. Students are to use APA writing style. When completed, submit the Unit 1 Learning Activity Template to the Unit 1 Learning Activity Dropbox.

 

 

Application: Action Plan 5: Advocating for Children and Families in Your Community

As you have learned in this course, societal factors and issues impact young children and their families. Both as a student of child development and in your future role as a professional who works with young children and their families, you have a responsibility to take an advocacy role in addressing these issues with the goal of improving conditions that affect children’s healthy development and learning.

Action Plan Professional Scenario: You have been challenged by a mentor you respect and admire to demonstrate your commitment to young children, their families, and the field of early childhood. Your mentor asks you to think about the many factors and issues that affect children’s healthy development and learning and choose one that you care about personally, examine the issue in your state, and then identify advocacy strategies you can use to champion this cause.

Before you develop your Action Plan, consider:

• What you need to know to understand the issue you choose
• What ideas and advice from experts will be effective in addressing the issue
• What you can do as an advocate to support young children, their families, and/or the field of early childhood

Follow these steps to create your Action Plan:

1. What You Need to Know: Learning About an Issue of Concern

There are many issues of concern to those who care about the rights and needs of young children and their families. Below are two issues and related articles/Web sites, including sources for finding information specific to your state. Select the issue that is of greater interest to you. Then as you read, take notes to help you summarize the issue and how it impacts children, families, and communities in your state.

As an alternative, you are also free to choose a different issue that you are passionate about and develop your Action Plan around that topic of concern. Include your sources for all information on the issue that you use in creating your plan.

• Issue 1: Providing High-Quality Child Care for All Children
• • Quality Child Care Helps Parents Work and Children Learn (PDF)
  • Child Care Basics (PDF)
  • State Fact Sheets on Early Childhood Development, Children’s Defense Fund

    http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/state-data-repository/children-in-the-states-factsheets.html

    (Click on your state: All data relevant)

• Issue 2: Children Living in Poverty
• • Defining Poverty and Why it Matters for Children. (PDF)
  • Kids Count Data Center: Data by State

    http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Default.aspx

    (Click on your state: View “Economic Well-Being” indicator, and click on “Poverty” indicator)

2. Ideas and Advice: Checking Resources for Advocacy Strategies

Review pages 440-446 in your text and access any or all of the Web site below to identify advocacy strategies. Take notes on ideas that would be effective in addressing your issue of concern and that you personally could carry out.

• Sticking Up for Early Childhood Programs

  http://sparkaction.org/node/332

• Early Childhood Advocacy Toolkit

  http://www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/EC_resources/advocacy/advocacy_toolkit.html

• Organizing Your Advocacy Efforts

  http://www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/docs/Part7REVISED.pdf

• Tools and Resources

  http://www.ounceofprevention.org/advocacy/advocacy-tools.php

3. Taking Action: Advocating for the Issue You Chose

Combine the knowledge you have gained and strategies you have gathered to take action! Complete your Action Plan in three parts:

• Part I: Identify the Issue: Explain in your own words how this issue is affecting children, families, and communities in your state.
• Part II: Identify Your Strategies: List three strategies you believe would be effective in advocating for the issue you chose. For each strategy, include the specifics of how you would carry it out.
• Part III: Identify the Potential Impact: For each strategy, explain its potential impact on young children and families in your community. Set a goal for implementing each strategy.

As you create your plan:

• Choose ideas for which you have the skill and influence to implement now or would have as an early childhood professional.
• Write explanations of issues and strategies in your own words, to create a model that you could use in talking with others about the topic and encouraging others to be advocates, too.

Assignment length: 2–3 pages

 

Submit this assignment by Day 7 of this week.

Application Assignment: Early Care and Education in Your State—Gathering Information

So far this week, you have studied issues of equity related to early care and education in three specific ways: you read and analyzed articles about equity barriers experienced by young children and families; you listened to an early childhood specialist’s account of ways in which inequity of access and availability affects children and families; and you used the insights gained to propose solutions to one inequity dilemma.

Besides reading about policy issues and proposed solutions, it is your responsibility as an early childhood professional to be informed about ways such policy suggestions and proposed solutions are applied in practice. What is already being done? Are there initiatives that focus on making equal access to quality care and education a reality? What specific information exists that could help you better understand the practical realities of equitable care and education at the state level? This assignment offers you the resources to find answers to these questions. You will use information from the website “Child Care & Early Education Research Connections,” which includes a large collection of research, policy papers, and data relevant to early childhood professionals, as well as links to early care and education information for every state.

In preparation for this Application Assignment, follow these steps:

• Access the “Child Care & Early Education Research Connections” state information webpage: http://www.researchconnections.org/childcare/states
• Click on the name of your home state (or the state in which you are most interested).
• Once you have accessed that State-specific page, you will note a button, which lets you sort the resources in different ways. Organize them so that the latest information is on top, by choosing the “Pub Date (newest)” option.
• Review the titles of the listed resources for the past 3 years and note any that address access, availability, affordability, or general equity issues related to early care and education. These may be as varied as a report on a state’s child care assistance policy, or a summary of initiatives to support working parents, or a research report comparing access to nonprofit care versus for-profit care in the state.
• Choose three relevant resources and study the full text of each.

Then write:

• A brief overview of each of the three resources
• What you learned from studying these resources, that is, any new information/insights that deepened your understanding of equity issues regarding early care and education
• A citation in APA format of each of the three sources you used

(Assignment length: approximately 2 pages)

Submit this assignment by Sunday of this week.