Module 8

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Please read Hayes Chapters 22-24  Ezra 1-10, Nehemiah 10, 13, Jonah, Ruth, Daniel 7-12 and watch the video on this website https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VMeWaYIzfx4&feature=emb_logo; questions to answer are listed below…

*Discuss how various books from the period of the restoration (539 BCE) and throughout the Second Temple era reveal various conflicts Israelites, Judaeans (Yehudim), (Jews) faced during this period of time. Illustrate how one book dating from this period can be understood more fully when it is interpreted in light of the historical era in which it was composed.

*Comment upon and illustrate Hayes remarks on pp. 401-02 that the Bible is not the product of theologians or philosophers but the product of Israels struggle to come to terms with the problem of sustaining their convictions about themselves, their Gods relationship to them, to the events of history in the midst of evil and suffering and that this anthology can best be seen as an unresolved polyphony.

*After having viewed the entire PBS documentary, correlate claims made in it with Hayes account of the history of Ancient Israel and the history of the formation of the Bible. Note points of agreement and disagreement. Discuss in detail the relationship between the written evidence of the Bible and the material evidence discovered by archaeology and comment on how the two sorts of data contribute in complex ways to reconstructing Ancient Israel and understanding the Hebrew Bible.

coding assigment

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In this assignment, you will develop a web application that will allow players to receive
cards from a collectible card game and trade those cards amongst their friends. The
card data used for this assignment is taken from the game Hearthstone. This is the
same data used in tutorial #8 a description of the structure of the data is provided at
the end of this document. A database-initializer.js file has been provided that will
create an empty ‘a5’ database in MongoDB and add each card to a ‘cards’ collection.
Note that the initializer will also delete any information in the ‘a5’ database. Each
user that registers for your web application will maintain their own set of cards and their
own set of friends. Friends within the application will be able to view each other’s cards
and propose/accept trades with each other. All data your server uses for this
assignment (cards, user profiles, session data, etc.) must be persistent. Your server
should be able to be restarted at any point and all the data should still be present.

Operating System Services

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The paper should be about Operating Systems Services:
Program execution, I/O operations (can write about I/O structure as well), File System manipulation, Communication, Error Detection, Resource Allocation, Protection, etc.

It’s pretty general. We were not given much instructions sadly though. Just 20% of the paper can be copy/pasted (with quotations) and the format should be as following:
cover page
table of contents
abstract
introduction
…
…
…
conclusion
references

News article paper on Africa

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Each student will write two (2-4 page) papers on a news article. Students should find a recent article and establish a question about information in the article that they want to learn more historical context about.  Based on the question, students should find two peer-reviewed academic sources (not Wikipedia) that discuss the history related to their question. Class sources may be used but the news article and at least one source must come from outside class.  Students must use at least three sources for their paper.

Good sources for news on Africa:

https://allafrica.com/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/africa.html (Links to an external site.)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa (Links to an external site.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa (Links to an external site.)

Most U.S.-based sources of news are fine but tend to have limited stories and from a very U.S. perspective.  Your news article must have been published NO EARLIER THAN January 1, 2017.

Approaching the paper

    Find a news article on a topic about an issue in Africa (and about Africans not Americans in Africa) that interests you.
    Read the article and consider what questions arise for you when reading the article. What issues, ideas, etc in the article do you not understand or would like more information about? Consider why did the people/institutions/govts/etc in the article acted in particular ways?
    Pull out keywords that you can use to conduct searches for more information.
    Go to the LIBRARY website (library.tulane.edu) and use a combination of keywords in the SEARCHALL box, use the pulldown menu on the book to search in articles. Once you have search results, on the left side of the page choose peer-reviewed articles option. This will help narrow down your choices.
    Read two peer-reviewed articles that you find from the library website (in some cases reports from the United Nations and related organizations can count as a scholarly source. Please check with me if you want to use one of these kinds of reports as a source).
    Write an essay that introduces to the reader a topic/issue that is of interest in the present-day but has historical roots. Explain how the history in the region/time of Africa you are considering continues to shape aspects of life/policy/etc for people in that particular region of the continent.