CCCS EssayCCCS Module Essay Primary Reading:· Ginia Bellafonte's "Community College Students Face a Long Road to Graduation" Secondary Readings:·George Bogg’s “Democracy’s Colleges”· Nate Johnson’s “Three Policies to Reduce Time to Degree”Overview: Community colleges have come under increased national scrutiny in recent years. While nearly half of the nation’s college freshmen now attend community college, graduation rates at two-year institutions are often lower than at four-year colleges. Despite this, college students are choosing community colleges in high rates and often plan to transfer to four-year institutions after finishing their coursework at a two-year school.Essential Questions Why did you decide to attend a community college? Where would you like to transfer after you complete your work at CCBC? Do you agree with any of the points made in the Bellafonte's essay? Why or why not? Your essay should touch on each of these issues, ultimately creating a thesis (typically found in the first paragraph of your essay) that states why you are attending CCBC and how the reading for this unit has influenced your opinion of community colleges. Prompt: Ginia Bellafonte's New York Times article discusses the difficulties of one community college student, Vladimir de Jesus, and his experience at a two-year college in New York. Your essay should include discussion of why students (like de Jesus, yourself, and other community college students) select community colleges, the experiences students have at the community college, and some of the difficulties students face in transferring to four-year institutions from community colleges. This essay should include an argumentative thesis in your first paragraph. Your thesis statement should discuss your decision to attend CCBC and your response to the Bellafonte reading.Audience: Write for an audience that is not familiar with the experiences and challenges of community college studentsLength: 3-4 pages (750-1000) wordsRequirements: Use the Essay Structure resource, along with the strategies from the LUMEN Resource modules to guide your essay structure and organization. Include an original title (not "Unit One Essay" or Bellafonte Essay") Use MLA Style to format your essay (see “MLA Format” in LUMEN Resource) Compose a thesis statement that expresses your opinion about community college as a student and in response to your research and the assigned reading Use the Bellafonte reading as evidence to support your opinions Summarize de Jesus's experience Discuss your own experience at CCBC Incorporate additional resources (Boggs, Johnson, research from discussion posts, etc.) Cite all sources using MLA style in-text citations Include an MLA Style Works Cited page (in addition to 3-4 pages of text)

Topic 1 ALL DIRECTIONS ATTACHEDCreate a list of both inner and outer conventions for the cop show and the medical drama. Each list should have a minimum of 10 conventions.Return to your list of conventions for cop shows and medical dramas and using the LEGO and salad metaphors, please envision 4 different versions of each genre that still use the same conventions, but play with syntax, scale and emphasis.Topic 2Select a reality TV subgenere (other than competition/gameshow, e.g. cooking reality TV, domestic life reality TV [Real Housewives, Little Women of...], entrepreneurial [Shark Tank, The Profit] ) and then select 3 current series that fall under that subgenere. Screen an episode from each. Then compile a list of conventions that they share in common (minimum 5). Finally, explain how similar conventions are used differently in each show.In what ways in An American Family similar to and different from contemporary reality TV shows?Screen an episode of Top Chef (available on Netflix) and compose a response that identifies how the episode both normalizes self-governance and offers viewers schadenfreude. Are these two ideas interconnected?Topic 3Are media franchises like Law & Order like McDonalds franchises? How are they similar? How are they different?

One of the more important measures in regard to international economics is the balance of payments. Think of it as a national accounting measure that looks at the flow of goods and services into and out of an economy in a given period of time. It also shows capital flows into and out of a country. Until 1980, the United States tended to run a positive-to-neutral balance of payments position and was a creditor nation. In the course of the past 30 years, the United States has moved to a negative balance of payments and to being a debtor nation. Review and discuss the following:Discuss the importance of the balance of payments as an accounting measure. Discuss the current account and its components and the capital and financial accounts and their components. How important is the U.S. deficit in traded goods in regard to the balance of payments?Here are some relevant articles to help you with this assignment:The Changing Nature of the U.S. Balance of PaymentsBalance of PaymentsPlease submit your assignment.For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.ReferencesHellerstein, R., & Tille, C. (2008, June). The changing nature of the U.S. balance of payments. Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 14(4). Retrieved from https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/rese... Stein, H. (2008). Balance of payments. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Retrieved from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/BalanceofPaymen...