For your second major essay assignment, your primary source will be the film The Girl With all the Gifts. Your first essay focused on using a conceptual frame–the “category crisis”–to better understand the role of the zombie in early zombie films. The focus of this assignment will be different. This will be a “definition” essay, in which you use your primary source to better understand and define the concept of utopia/dystopia. For the sake of convenience, I am going to use the terms “utopia/dystopia” interchangeably here, although it is entirely up to you where you want to place the emphasis: you can write your paper addressed to the definition of utopia, the definition of dystopia, or to making sense of both terms–it’s up to you. Your assignment is to use your analysis of the film, The Girl With all the Gifts to rethink one or both of these concepts. At this point, you’ve gotten pretty familiar with both the terms, “utopia” and “dystopia” through the readings that you’ve done. You’ve also watched the film and written about it a little, so you’re in a good position to put all this thinking together.  You’ll use this essay to explore the meaning of utopia/dystopia, and show how a zombie film contributes to your understanding of that meaning. Alternately, you can use the essay to explore how the film alters or changes that meaning in some way.  The first paragraph, aka the introduction and the thesis. For your introduction to this essay, you might want to spend some time focusing on the connected ideas of utopia and dystopia

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For your second major essay assignment, your primary source will be the film The Girl With all the Gifts. Your first essay focused on using a conceptual frame–the “category crisis”–to better understand the role of the zombie in early zombie films. The focus of this assignment will be different. This will be a “definition” essay, in which you use your primary source to better understand and define the concept of utopia/dystopia. For the sake of convenience, I am going to use the terms “utopia/dystopia” interchangeably here, although it is entirely up to you where you want to place the emphasis: you can write your paper addressed to the definition of utopia, the definition of dystopia, or to making sense of both terms–it’s up to you. Your assignment is to use your analysis of the film, The Girl With all the Gifts to rethink one or both of these concepts. At this point, you’ve gotten pretty familiar with both the terms, “utopia” and “dystopia” through the readings that you’ve done. You’ve also watched the film and written about it a little, so you’re in a good position to put all this thinking together.  You’ll use this essay to explore the meaning of utopia/dystopia, and show how a zombie film contributes to your understanding of that meaning. Alternately, you can use the essay to explore how the film alters or changes that meaning in some way.

The first paragraph, aka the introduction and the thesis.

For your introduction to this essay, you might want to spend some time focusing on the connected ideas of utopia and dystopia. You can do this through anecdote, or simply by addressing these ideas directly. What’s their value in our culture? Why are so many narratives and ideas concerned with one or both of these future possibilities? Why are we so obsessed with the possibilities of utopia/dystopia in this culture? Once you’ve established a basic sense of the value (and importance) of these terms in contemporary culture, you should turn to a discussion of the film. The thesis, which should appear at the bottom of the first paragraph, should seek to explain specifically how The Girl With all the Gifts clarifies or modifies some aspect of one (or both) of these terms. If you’re interested in showing how The Girl With all the Gifts, clarifies something about the ideas of utopia/dystopia, you should state specifically what it clarifies in your thesis, AND why it’s important. On the other hand, you may want to argue that the film challenges conventional ideas about utopias/dystopias. If this is the case, you’ll want to say in your thesis what the film challenges about these ideas, and, again, explain WHY it’s important.

Paragraph two (and maybe three)

This essay is fundamentally a definition essay, which means that you will need to take some time to really dive in to your understanding of the term you’re discussing. In this case, that term is either utopia or dystopia, or maybe even a combination of the two. Ideally you’ll discuss the definition of the term early in the essay, before you begin analyzing the film in support of your thesis. This means that you should probably have at least one full paragraph that just delves in to definition of the term you’re working with. Typically in a definition essay, this paragraph, will be the second paragraph in the essay, just after the thesis. You write the thesis, then you spend some time making sense of the key term, “utopia,” or “dystopia” and then you can move on to film analysis later in the paper.

It is worth noting here that this second paragraph is a great place to include a lot of research. This essay requires a lot of research–more than last time. Looking up what other sources have to say about the meaning of utopia/dystopia is A). a great way to show that you’re knowledgeable of your topic and B). an opportunity to clarify what your term (utopia/dystopia) means and has meant over time. You can do a history of the term, or you can focus on more contemporary approaches to the term. You can also use this space to connect the term to the zombie. The association between the zombie and especially dystopia is very strong and there is plenty of material out there that discusses it.

One final note. While I suggest that you use just your second paragraph for definition of the term, you can use more paragraphs for this purpose if necessary. If you get to the end of the second paragraph and feel like there is more to define, you can use your third paragraph as well.

Later Body Paragraphs

Once you’ve gotten your definition down, it’s time to turn to film analysis. The purpose of this paper is to use your analysis of the film, The Girl With all the Gifts to explore the theme of utopia/dystopia. More specifically, you should be supporting an argument about how this film clarifies the meaning of utopia/dystopia, or about how it challenges or pushes back against the way utopia/dystopia is understood. In either case, you’ll need to do some film analysis and that should come here, in the later body paragraphs. Remember that each paragraph should start with a topic sentence that clarifies what the paragraph will be doing, and ideally, how it will be supporting your thesis. Also, don’t forget that you can incorporate research here as well. This paper requires more research than the last one so again, this is a great time to consider bringing in secondary research. This research can be related to the topic of utopia/dystopia, but also to zombie films, disaster films, and you can even discuss broader contemporary issues like environmental concerns, social justice concerns and so on. There’s a lot to discuss in this film–you can draw out a lot of research topics as well.

Nuts and Bolts: 

1500 words; MLA style, including works cited page; At least three citations of the primary source, The Girl With all the Gifts; Direct citation of at least three secondary sources from the HCC library or other academic library system.

 

prepare and submit a term paper on The Impact Facebook Rituals Can have on a Romantic Relationship.

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You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Impact Facebook Rituals Can have on a Romantic Relationship. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. People, especially the youth, have taken to social networks not only to communicate with their friends but to make new ones. Many love relationships have also been formed and flourished online on these social networks. indeed, there are those who join Facebook with the sole intention of dating and finding love. While many of these relationships become successful, there are many more which end up in heartbreak and sometimes even tragically because even criminals and stalkers use the internet to lure their victims. Therefore, it is imperative that we consider several questions, such as if Facebook poses a threat to the security of already existing relationships. What motivates people to look for love on Facebook? Can Facebook be considered a realistic and practical way of starting and building relationships? This essay will focus on the last question. it shall discuss, argue, and contest the appropriateness of Facebook as a facilitator for relationships by examining the issues that surround Facebook relationships.

There are several issues that make Facebook a shaky setting for developing and growing relationships, one of these is the effect Facebook has on pre-existing relationships. Consider that two people are in a relationship and both happen to be friends on Facebook. One of them may join a group or make friends with a member of the opposite sex who might send suggestive messages or gifts to them. Bearing in mind that the line between innocent flirting and cheating might mean different things to different partners, a post on someone’s timeline may cause friction and result in the termination of a relationship (Ilana 878). In another situation, when couples that are friends on Facebook have a falling out or disagreement, one of them may update something about it on their page, and this can cause their partner to feel humiliated.

Moreover, youths often use media and technology to promote sexual behavior through highly sexually suggestive messages and sometimes picture in what has been dubbed sexting (Pascoe 6). Facebook easily offers an avenue for this: when people are online, they are able to hide their shyness and will be bolder.

Write 3 pages thesis on the topic health service administration.

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Write 3 pages thesis on the topic health service administration. Trends in the hospital sector can be inclusive of both positive and negative trends, where the positive ones relate to demographics and the negative to compensations. These trends have their benefits and disadvantages thus influencing performance. One of the trends relates to technological advancements where most hospitals are yet to be equipped with the current technology (Duggan, 2000). This is due to the expense of the tools and the craftsmanship.

Besides this the global reach and the personalized care. The treatment to disease has expanded to most regions in the world and yet most chronic diseases are still a major concern. Individuals in most countries are not able to access proper medical care and others seek personalized services based on the social status. Thirdly, the aging population, chronic diseases, obesity and diabetes epidemics are trends in the hospital sector. This are put in place to measure and control the diseases as well as to give a proper analysis to the sector.

One of the most important roles of hospitals includes training. They are actively involved in the teaching and instruction to medical and nursing staff. This ensures that there is active provision of medical facilities, health and welfare (Kessler & McClellan, 2002). The nursing homes provide exercise facilities to the nurses on the discharge of their knowledge and skills acquired. On the ground, the hospitals provide care to those who cannot access it and also participate in educating the society.

Write 5 pages thesis on the topic the major query of globalization in a specific country.

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Write 5 pages thesis on the topic the major query of globalization in a specific country. The word “Globalization” has been used by economists since 1981. However, its idea did not be worthy of well-likeness until the latter half of the 1980s and 1990s. Globalization affected the whole world and nearly leaves the same influences everywhere irrespective of any specified boundary (GPO, 2009). The United States of America also affected a lot due to globalization. Now, either these effects are pleasant for the United States and its people or pernicious, will be discussed briefly in the rest of the paper.

The expression “globalization,” like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings. Literal meaning and a technical sense used for the doctrinal purpose. In its verbatim sense, “globalization” means international integration. In the U.S the strongest supporters since its origins have worker movements and the left. Globalization changes not only the concepts of people but also their whole minds are changed. Like in every country, people of the U.S know about the rights given to the people of their neighbor country, or what facilities the other people of the world are enjoyed. Similarly, the laborers or workers of an organization knows the skills and knows the designs which are world widely accepted as a model. Therefore there is a sort of competition developed between the workers, management and so surely between the organizations and factories as a result (Ejournal, 2006). This is a positive aspect of globalization. it urges the inner sense of the humans, to be first in their respective profession.

Foreign competition and the need to trade more effectively beyond or across the sea, have forced most industries and government to become increasingly culturally sensitive and globally supervised. Rapid technological changes have transmuted the time dimension of competition. Speed and quality in speaking the requirements of worldwide customers greatly impel who the next winning businesses are going to be.&nbsp.