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Wrtier request: Jennifer L. Jones

I would like your help in writing an application essay:

Using four themes-Accountability, Diversity, Leadership, and Learning-how would you define ?Urban education?? Also, since my current concentration is K-12 Leadership in Urban School Setting with focus on "campus violence", what are the most pressing urban issues and promising opportunities in your concentration of choice? Be sure to synthesize and integrate the issues and problems to which you have been exposed Feel free to use available published evidence to support your assertion and perspectives.

Essay Instructions: PLEASE READ BELOW and write paper accordingly:
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
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The course anlyzses the most pressing urban issues and the ideological positions of people in the urban world, paying close attention to the public discourse and rhetoric. The course also explores worldviews as they relate to human reality and existence, in the urban context. Attention will be given to ideology and its role in shaping worldview within our present culture and society. Students will watch thought provoking films, engage in constructive dialogue and grapple with the socio-cultural issues of urban life.

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OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING GOALS:
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1. Students will be aware of how worldview informs and affects Biblical interpretation (convservative) and application in the urban context.

2. Students will make sense of the culture wars in America and develop the capcity to articulate the positions of the interlocutors.

3. Students will explore the opportunities, challenges, and strategies for the Church (evanglical) and Mission (evangelical) in a multicultural, urban environment and globalizing world.

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS PAPER: Family Urban Theme as mentioned above. Discuss how the above theme has influenced (positively and negatively) today's American society and the evangelical church. Urban context. Please write from the lens of a conservative evangelical Christian perspective. Thank you!

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*****Please Include the following book(s)/resources/quotations*****

PRIMARY SOURCE -
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*IS THERE A CULTURE WAY by James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe.
ISBN: 978-0-8157-9515-5

*RETHINKING WORLDVIEW: Learning to Think, Live and Speak in this World by Mark Bertrand
ISBN: 978-1-58134-934-4


*DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW by Michael Parenti
ISBN: 13: 7449

*CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIOLOGY by Stephen A. Grunlan and Milton Reimer
ISBN: 6270

*WORLDVIEWS IN CONFLICT: CHOOSING CHRISTIANITY IN A WORLD OF IDEAS by Ronald H. Nash
ISBN: 0-310-57771-3

*CHRISTLESS CHRISTIANITY: THE ALTERNATIVE GOSPEL OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH
ISBN: 31988

*NAMING THE ELEPHANT: WORLDVIEW AS A CONCEPT by James W. Sire
ISBN: 0-8308-2779-X

*WHO RULES AMERICA? CHALLENGES TO CORPORATE AND CLASS DOMINANCE. by William G. Domhoff
ISBN: 10: 0

*WORLDVIEW: THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT by David K. Naugle
ISBN: 0-8028-4761-7





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SECONDARY SOURCE:

1. United Nations - Any current statistics from the United Nations that is relevant to topic.

2. FOOD, INC. (2009)
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/6/info
- Please use quotes from this documentary if possible. This was used in the class discussions.

There are faxes for this order.

Essay Instructions: I need to write an application essay covering the following:
1) to define "urban education". I have to use the school's four themes: accountability, diversity, leadership, and learning. My concentration will be in K-12 leadership.
2) Discuss the most pressing urban issues and promising opportunities in the concentration of choice.
Be sure to synthesize and integrate the issues and problems to which you have been exposed.

Essay Instructions: Rock and Roll and Society Project Preview
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This project will unfold over several modules. Please preview the assignment and give close attention to the topics.
Artists of rock music, throughout its history, have used their music to respond to the political and social issues surrounding them. Some have used their music as a means to express their political or philosophical views, while others have used their music to demonstrate a certain event or time in history.
Take for example how The Doors, Donovan and Jimi Hendrix each put their own spin on the psychedelic experience, or how Dylan’s songs The Time’s They Are A-Changin’ and Subterranean Homesick Blues are a call to break with the norms of the past and takes a cynical look at the generation gap. To comment on social and political issues bands like Country Joe and the Fish with their song I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag used their performance at Woodstock to protest the Vietnam war, and the Supreme’s Love Child and the Temptation’s Papa Was A Rolling Stone take a realistic look at urban issues of single parenthood and poverty.
For this project, you will research and create a presentation on the impact a single social or political issue has had on rock and roll music during the years 1955-1966. Your focus may be on one rock and roll band or on rock as a whole.
To help you out, I have provided below a list of political and social issues that occurred during the time period I would like you to focus on. If there is a political or social issue that is not on the list that you would like to research, you may do so. In Module 2, you will submit your topic to me for my review. In Module 5, you will submit 3 sources for your paper. Each source must be carefully documented using APA or MLA style (i.e. the name of the article, book, website or database you retrieved the article from, the author, the date, and the page numbers) and be followed by a one paragraph summary of the article. Focus your summary on the article’s thesis and supporting points. The final project will be due in Module 7.
You may choose to present your topic by either writing a 2 ??" 3 page paper or by creating a 20 slide PowerPoint presentation. The project, whether you choose to write a paper or create a presentation, must include:
• Thesis statement
• An introduction, a body, and conclusion
• A minimum of 3 sources
• Reference to one social issue as indicated above and at one musical group or on rock and roll in general and how the music was impacted by the social issue
• Include presenter notes to each of your PowerPoint slides
• At least 6 images if you choose to create a presentation
• At least 2 links to outside songs or videos
Your project will be assessed according to either the writing rubric or the presentation rubric depending on whether you choose to write a paper or create a PowerPoint presentation.