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Attacks on Christianity: Prior to beginning this assignment, complete Watch: Tim Goeglein – Part 1 and Watch: Tim Goeglein – Part 2. Goeglien discusses the attacks on Christianity during a live presentation at Liberty in 2013. The threats he addresses have not only become a reality but intensified. Goeglein highlights several constitutional principles which have been violated and have led to a decline in moral and virtuous behavior. As noted in Module 1 Week 1, for liberty to survive, we nee...

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Directions: Choose one question to answer. Remember that a successful response will quote and analyze key passages from Their Eyes Were Watching God. A. Analyze Their Eyes Were Watching God as a coming-of-age story with the theme of romantic love. How do Janie’s various relationships in the novel define her identity? B. To what extent is Their Eyes Were Watching God a feminist novel? To answer this question, you could focus on Janie's search for an authenti...

When Politics Trumps Policy: or 2 years, you have been the director of a prison system for adults in a medium-sized state. As a result of revenue shortfalls for several years, it has been a constant struggle to keep a full labor force in your state’s 10 prisons and to lure professional staff members to work and live in the more rural areas where they are located. During the past 6 months, however, you have managed to assemble a fine staff of wardens and other subordinates in the prisons and ha...

Boethius: In this assignment, students will compose a research-based, argumentative essay to persuade a fellow audience member of their interpretive stance on any work(s) read/watched in the course (e.g., Consolation of Philosophy, Pilgrim's Progress, The House of the Dead, "Ballad of Reading Gaol," Prisons and Prisoners, Soledad Brother, Bronson, Bo Burnham: Inside, and so on). In order to write the essay, you should reflect on the work(s), perform research on relevant aspects of the work(s)...

Network Hardware and Media: People are heavily dependent on computer networks in the technology era. You may not think about the dependency on the network. In general, this is because reliability is not an issue. Think of how frustrated you were the last time you had network connectivity issues. There are many types of networks and components in making them work. Imagine you are a network engineer and are charged with assessing the reliability of your company’s various networks. Some of the ne...

The Impact of the Guthrie Text on the Racial Zeitgeist in America: This assignment builds on previous assignments on this issue and requires that you expand and elaborate on the points you made in prior assignments. Information from previous Perusall assignments, the Guthrie textbook (Even the Rat was White), the APA timeline, and Discussion Board posts should be synthesized for this assignment. Your responses should indicate clearly that you read and understand the required readings. You M...

Democracy: Question 1: In the "Causes and Effects" section of this chapter, we considered the causes of state formation. Since the map of the world is now covered with states, do you think these theories are of purely historical interests? Or do they still matter today? Think in particular of countries recently in the news-such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, or Syria- where commentators and policy- makers still talk about a need for "state-building." Do th eories of state format...

Business Dispute (Law and Ethics): The purpose of this mini essay is to examine a recent business dispute resolved using one of the methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) by identifying the parties to the dispute, the ADR process utilized, the outcome of the resolution, and your opinion regarding the effectiveness of this method of dispute resolution. This mini essay aligns with the following module outcomes: Identify the various parties and legal components of a current business law ca...

Christian Worldview on Statistical Data Validity: “In May 2017, The Economist published an article titled, “The World’s Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, But Data.” Whether or not data is, in fact, the world’s most valuable resource, there is no doubt that data plays an ever-increasing, important role in society. As a result, no matter your career path or walk of life, having an understanding of the basic concepts of statistics, data, and sampling is not only beneficial but also...

Career and Professional Development: After completing the reading for this session, address TWO of the following: 1. In the beginning of the chapter, the research of Dr. Robert Cooper was highlighted in order to demonstrate the importance of pursuing passions. How does Dr. Cooper’s research demonstrate that pursuing passions is an important aspect of finding a meaningful career? Is it more important to be passionate about your career or about your pursuit of financial stability? Do you agree...