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| Give a 10-15 minute
oral presentation on media ethics. Your presentation must be based on at
least 5 recent scholarly articles. You will be asked to turn in a bibliography
of the sources you consulted. You must use video, slides, or other graphical
media to illustrate your ideas. |
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| Write a term paper outlining the
opposing ideological positions of the northern and the southern states
that led to the American Civil War. The term paper should be 15-20 double-spaced
pages of text not including endnotes and a bibliography citing a minimum
of 20 sources. At least five of your sources must be primary sources (e.g.
diaries, letters, etc.) |
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Select the primary source from each of the three pairs listed below.
A Diary of an undocumented
immigrant by Ramon "Tianguis" Perez, translated by Dick J. Reavis.
Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1991.
B Reader's guide
to women's studies ed, Eleanor B. Amico. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn,
1998.
A U.S. Bureau of
the Census, Cps: Elementary And High School Educational Attainment Level
By Race-Ethnicity Age 25 And Over: Both Sexes - Values/Percents Table 3.1.
March 1997, (Internet Release date: August 7, 1998) available online: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hispanic/cps97/taMarch 199
B Michael Lavin,Understanding
the Census. Kenmore, NY: Epic Books Inc., 1996
A Moffett, Jennifer
Klaber. "Randomised Controlled Trial of Exercise for Low Back Pain: Clinical
Outcomes, Costs, and Preferences". The Journal of the American Medical
Association, Oct 6, 1999 v282 i13 p1212 b.
B Byron Holmes, "The
lowdown on back pain. (includes information on lower back exercises)"Saturday
Evening Post March-April 1998 v270 n2 p46(4)
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