Project Overview: For this project, you'll choose a food or drink item, a cuisine, an invention, or an idea, and then research how four geographic concepts are related to and affect your topic. Instead of presenting your research as a traditional paper, you'll use PowerPoint to create a narrated presentation. Your presentation will be structured like a paper, including a title, introduction to the topic, main body, summary and conclusions, and references. Creative use of properly cited graphics and photos from the Internet relevant to your topic is required.First, choose a food item, cuisine, invention, or idea that interests you. Some will have more information available about them than others, so it's worth doing some investigation before you settle on one. If you're not sure if your desired topic is appropriate, please feel free to ask!Once you have selected your topic, you will then do research to see how each of the following geographic concepts affects or is related to your topic:

1. Regions
 2. Cultural Landscape
 3. Diffusion
 4. Distance decay. 

The first two concepts are covered in the first chapter of your textbook. Diffusion is covered in Chapter 8, Section 2 (page 484). Distance decay refers to the fact that influence and interaction between locations decreases as the distance between them increases. As such, it has a significant influence on how things change as they diffuse away from their point of origin. Be sure to address these specific geographic terms and concepts in your work. You don't need to address them in this order, but you do need to address all of them. You may use "subsets" of these definitions (e.g. contagious diffusion) if such subsets exist. Be sure to refer to your text and other reliable resources to ensure you completely understand these concepts. You should be detailed in your treatment of these concepts - for instance, you should explain both how and why your choice varies by region, and how and why it has been affected by distance decay. Remember that geography, as an academic discipline, seeks to explain why things vary from place to place, not just describe how they do.
You will complete this project in 3 separate assignments: an annotated bibliography, an outline, and your final presentation. In this assignment, you will complete your outline. Completing the project in separate assignments allows you to work your way up to the final presentation, and provides opportunity for feedback along the way.Assignment Objective: Organize your thoughts and the main points of your research for your final presentation in outline format.Assignment Instructions: To help you complete Assignment 3: The Presentation, you will first submit an outline to organize your thoughts and main points. Your outline should be formatted a specific way and must contain the following elements as described below. To prepare for this assignment, I recommend that you do the following:Read these directions carefully.Read the grading criteria below. The grading criteria is a detailed evaluation that I will use to assess your performance. It also will help you understand what is expected of you as you prepare your assignment.Message me with any questions!Be sure to add your name to your outline.The outline format: Your outline must be formatted as described. Please note that this format will be assessed in your grade:Use an alphanumeric sequence Sections should be indented and alignedFollow the suggested order of the required elementsUse brief and bulleted but detailed and descriptive phrases. The required elements: Your outline should contain the following elements in this order: I. The Introduction: This section previews your topic and the details you will cover in the body of your presentation. It should be very brief, but include: A. The food, cuisine, invention or idea that you are going to discuss. B. Why you chose this topic. C. A preview of the regions where your topic has developed and then diffused to.II. The Body (Content Sections): In the body, you must address how the four geographic concepts mentioned in the presentation instructions (regions, cultural landscapes, diffusion, and distance decay) relate to your topic. A. Regions: Discuss the origin region or regions of your topic, with specific attention to the geographic qualities of the region that influenced the development of your topic. B. Cultural Landscape: Discuss how the landscape in the region(s) described above have been shaped by the culture that gave rise to your topic, and how your topic might be reflected in that landscape. C. Diffusion: Discuss how your topic has diffused from its origin. Where has it diffused to? What factors led to its diffusion there? What kind of diffusion has it experienced? D. Distance Decay: Discuss how your topic has changed as it has diffused away from the region(s) of its origin. Explain these changes with reference to the geographic qualities of the regions it has diffused to.III. The Conclusion Section: this section should contain four to six points that sum up the main points from the body of the outline.Start your conclusion with one sentence summarizing some basic information about your topic.Continue with a brief summary (1-2 sentences) about the important characteristics of its origin region(s).Include a brief note about relevant cultural landscapes.Include a brief summary (1-2 sentences) about the diffusion of your topic and the distance decay it experienced.Wrap up the conclusion section with a closing note that provides brief information about why this topic was of interest to you, and a fact about your topic you found interesting.IV. Reference section: This is not just the reference page; rather, referencing should occur throughout the outline as it will in your presentation. Therefore, your outline should include both a separate reference page containing a minimum of five sources listed in proper APA reference list format AND internal citations throughout the outline where appropriate. Please be sure to see the resources below for assistance regarding in-text citations and reference list formatting, and/or ask me if you have any additional questions.Please make note of the following tips and tricks:I understand that this is a rough draft and, as your research and writing continue over the next few weeks, details may be added or changed. Although you do not have to resubmit it to me, I recommend that you update this outline to help you best complete the Final Presentation.Write your outline so that it has detailed bullets that you can easily then flesh out into sentences for the narration of your Final Presentation.After your outline is complete, I recommend that you next draft your introductory and conclusion sections for your presentation. This will ensure that all the main points of the outline are incorporated in these two framing sections of your final presentation. Please note that less than 10% of your outline or presentation should be direct quotes.All internal citation references should be listed on the reference page, and vice versaThis is the second assignment , I already completed the first which was the annotated bibliography, and had chosen Tacos for a cuisine and that needs to be the cuisine for this assignment as well

This week we are discussing ethical relativism. What are the pros and cons of the belief that ethics ought to be relative, i.e. normative ethical/cultural relativism? In other words, it might be obvious that certain cultures do indeed have different ethical beliefs, but what do we make of the claim that this should/ought to be the case?

ENG 102 Research Paper GuidelinesThe research paper assignment for this course is due at the end of week 7. The reading and writing skills shown in the successful completion of this assignment are the concluding step in the GMC ENG 101/ENG 102 sequence, displaying your skills as a writer,reader,researcher,and criticalthinker.Your research paper should be an argumentative essay that makes a specific claim about one or more of the course readings. The claim should be made by applying specific schools of literary criticism from the “Critical Strategies for Reading” section of our textbook. Support this claim and argument in a well-developed, well-written, and well- organized essay of at least 1500-1800 words of text (not counting the works cited page) and must successfully use at least 5 critical secondary sources (primary sources are not included in the research requirement) accessed through the GMC library.Research Paper DirectionsThe bulleted list below provides general options for paper topics. The entirety of the class reading assignments can be found in the Course Syllabus, under “Course Schedule.” The bulleted list below provides general options for paper topics:• A paper focusing on one of the texts from class (if only writing on one text, it must be a different text than the ones you wrote on for Response Papers 1 and 2).A paper focusing on multiple texts (no more than 3) by the same authorA paper focusing on multiple texts (but no more than two) by different authorsTips and RemindersUse your textbook as a resource. Review Chapters 47, 48, and 49. There are also various examples of student essays in the textbook.Re-read the text(s) you want to base your paper on.Once you have decided on a topic, begin doing preliminary research (you will need to do a lot of research for this assignment anyway). Read what other literary critics have said. This will help you to further narrow down your topic, and evento find some of the sources you will end up using in the paper.you are a literary critic too—this means you should feel free to question and disagree with the interpretations you read.Make sure your thesis is an arguable one, something that readers might actually agree or disagree with. Don’t be afraid to take a leap and put forward a new, creative, and/or unique interpretation. Remember that any argument can be a good one if you properly support it with evidence from the text.Remember thatYour paper must incorporate information from outside sources found through the GMClibrary. Rememberthatyouhavethreemethodsforincorporatingoutsideinformation into any paper: youparaphrase (put the source’s words into your own words), or summarize (boil down information from a source to a 1-2 sentence summary in your own words).sources that may not be appropriate.can quote (use the source’s exact words),Avoid unnecessary plot summary and biographical information. Assume that yourreaderhas alreadyreadtheworkyouarediscussing,andassumethatyour reader knows important information about the author’s life already.Conduct your research through thelibrarylikearealresearcher,ratherthanrelyingon Googletofindopen-webRemember that sources like Wikipedia, Sparknotes, and other open-websources are not appropriate for this paper.MLA formatting for style, in-text citations, and works cited entries is a significant part of this paper. Review the sample essays in our textbook, and review grade feedback on past response papers for help with this.Organize your argument to maximize its effectiveness. Your introduction should include a thesis. Each paragraph of your paper should include a topic sentencethat references your thesis. Each support that paragraph’s topic sentence.sentence in each paragraph should directlyFinally, don’t forget the little things. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be perfect. Edit and revise your work. Manage your time efficiently to allow yourselftheopportunityto readandrereadyourfinalpapermultipletimes.As always, contact your instructor whenever you have questions!The teacher emailed me and said "his is such an interesting idea. However, the research paper needs to focus on at least one of our reading texts (story, play, etc). We just need a bit more focus to get you on the right path! :) Discussing how a piece is made is a great (but broad) idea; narrowed down a bit, however, this type of direction could fall within the Formalist critical reading strategy! This would allow you to analyze a literary piece (or two) from our course, analyzing the formalist elements, such as language, structure and tone (including diction, irony, paradox, metaphor, symbol, plot, etc (1360). You might also pair two texts together that share a common element and make a claim about why/how this common element functions within the texts. Texts that you may use can go all the way back to Week 1 ("The Story of an Hour," A Sorrowful Woman"), any Flannery O'Connor we've discussed...and so forth through Week 8."