Theme Park and Attractions

The paper will describe 3 ride related incidents that have occurred in the industry that had an impact on the theme park and attractions industry, such that the industry regulations, standards, or other changes were put in place to improve rider safety.  They will also need to discuss the effectiveness of those changes.  One incident will need to be from prior to 1980, one between 1980 2000, and one after 2000.

Counter-terrorism

Critically assess arguments, theories, methodologies and findings as outlined by author
Appreciate strengths and weakness of academic text
Criteria:
Critical engagement with chosen article
Excellent comms skills
Demonstrated capacity to work on discipline specific
Sound consideration of audience expectations
Compliance with above features

Structure:
Title of Reviewed article: What would you do? Everyday conceptions and constructions of counter-terrorism

Arguments
• Here you have to mention what is the main point of this article- what are the authors trying to say?
• The article tries to respond to the question If you were in government, what would you do about terrorism?
• It is an exercise of political imagination which provides an insight on the perception on security
• three aims: first, to identify the diversity of counter-terrorism strategies explored by British publics responding to the question If you were in government, what would you do about terrorism? Second, to consider how such strategies are described, framed, and justified in vernacular discussion; and third, to explore the importance of these for contemporary debate on public understandings of (security) politics more broadly.

Theories

• Using contemporary literature on counter-terrorism: Crelinsten, 2009; Donohue, 2008; English, 2009)

• Attidutinal studies of public opinion (qualitative analysis: (e.g. Huddy et al., 2002, 2005, 2007; Stevens and Vaughan-Williams, 2016), this

• Sociological literatures: Jackson and Hall(2013), / Jarvis and Lister (2013a, 2013b, 2014; also Lister and Jarvis, 2013)

Methodologies

• Focus Group Research organized around ethic identities and geographical residence
• 14 groups in 2010 in London, Birmingham, Oldham, Swanswea, Llanelli and Oxforshire
• 81 people: 48 women and 33 men
• Sampling method: purposive / non representative – through a combination of enumeration, snowballing and organization sampling techniques
• Open-ended questions
• Fire core questions – with follow up questions
• Focus of the focus group research was this question: If you were in government, what would you do about terrorism?

Findings

• Analysis: analysis of findings was achieved through a framework approach to qualitative discourse analysis
• encountered far more discussion of preventive rather than responsive mechanisms for addressing this security challenge and a genuine interest in identifying and addressing terrorism’s ‘root causes’.
• Participants identified strategies reflecting on the need to have ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ approaches
• There were competing conceptions to causes of terrorisim
• Competing understandings of the nature of broader socio-political dynamics

Strengths
• ‘’One strength of the approach of this article is that identifying political dimensions from a demand-side perspective allows us to infer the underlying cleavages that divide our societies from the dimensions we identify.’’
• wider understandings and discourses around social and political life.

Weakness
• Sampling bias?
• Haven’t’ taken into account the utility of education and foreign policy change

Sample Solution

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Gender autobiography

What gender were you assigned at birth? Who decided? Based on what information did they make the decision? How did your parents feel about your sex/gender? What expectations did they have of you and your life based on what sex you were assigned at birth? One thing you could do is talk to (in person or over the phone) the people who were there when you were born and ask them about this.
The gender that I was assigned at birth is female. The person who decided was my doctor and he based that information on my lady part. My parents were happy about my gender because my mother wanted a daughter for a long time. I was the last born out of four. The expectations my parents had of me were to stay in school, marry a man who loves me and to follow my dreams.

How do you think your life would have been different if you had been born a different sex/gender?
If I were born a male, then probably my mother would not be so hard on me. I am the youngest out of four and the only female. My brothers growing up I would say had a lot of freedom as of me my mother had me on curfew and I could not go to parties. Growing up I seen a lot of differences between how my mom treated my brothers and how she treated me. I had to clean the dishes all the time, I had to clean,

What are the things you feel like you have to/must do because of your gender identity? What are you required to do? What are you not allowed to do? What parts of your gender identity do you like? What parts do you dislike and why? Are there things you wish you could do that you can’t/don’t do because of your gender?

Are there ways that you are gender-nonconforming and/or gender stereotypical? How? Why?

How are you treated because of your gender? What aspects of this treatment do you like/dislike?

What roles do you play in your life because of what your gender is?

Whose gender do you admire (this could be someone you know in your life or a famous person or a character — whatever) — why do you admire it?

How is your gender influenced by other aspects of your identity (e.g. your race, sexuality, age, culture, religion, ethnicity, etc)?

Sample Solution

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jonas tv show (2009 – 2010)

pick a favorite movie, a television show, Broadway play, or music album from their childhood and will write an in depth report on the creation, production and distribution of the piece. Paper must be 2500 words. i chose to do it on the disney channel show “jonas” spanning from 2009 to 2010. any amount of sources can be used because this is a research paper. the paper is supposed to be about the show, but it is ok to mention the groups music fame etc. There will be 3 sections to the paper: 1. Who is responsible for producing it, what persons and corporations (or companies) developed, financed and produced it? Was the project successful, if so what else did it spawn, (sight examples) Give as much detail as possible in regards to the production, starts, writers, budget, shooting details, development detail, releasing details, What effect did the project have on the media within which it was made? (55%) 2. What other shows, films, etc. were being produced at the same time, were those other projects similar or different from your choice, and what made your choice special or not to the people who saw it at the time. In addition, discuss via which media you came to the film and if different than originating media, describe topics trajectory (40%) 3. Hopefully each student will have picked a favorite topic of theirs that they want to know more about it. What did you love about it that made you choose it, and what have you learned that changed your perception of your topic. (5-10%)