SALD RAPP program – Out of Our Comfort Zones

Purpose: This assignment is designed to provide you with the opportunity to experience what cultural awareness-expanding opportunities are available here on US’s campus and allow you to push the limits of your own, personal comfort zone! Your Choice: Please describe the experience you selected for yourself? Why did you select this particular one? • I … Read more

Fallacies and “Dirty Tricks” Identification

This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to provide you experience analyzing editorials for fallacies or “dirty tricks” used to win an argument. Reference a daily or Sunday edition of a newspaper, or use the online New York Times, and look for examples of at least 5 fallacies. The editorial section of the paper is a … Read more

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning Analysis

This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to provide you experience analyzing articles for inductive and deductive reasoning. The topic is on climate change and global warming. Write an essay that demonstrates your critical analysis of any article within the last two years from the CSU-Global library about Global Warming and Climate Change. The essay should … Read more

Observation Essay

This is your opportunity to experience art firsthand! (In Denver, CO) Find a museum, gallery, or another place where you can view an original work of art of your choice. Select one work of art to explore, and write a 250-300 word observation. Discuss the following aspects of your experience in the paper: Identify the … Read more

Virtual Museum Tour

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an extensive website featuring artworks from all periods in history. Tour some of the time periods and cultures that we have investigated in class. To go to the Metropolitan Museum of art website: http://www.metmuseum.org Under the “About the Museum” menu, select “Museum Departments”. Then select “Curatorial Departments” Choose a … Read more

Theme and Content

In spite of the wide variety of materials and methods found in art, there are some commonalities of styles and intent that occur in groups of artists often when they are working concurrently and when they influence each other. When such groups occur, they are called “schools of art” (e.g. Impressionism, Cubism, etc.). The National … Read more

Identify and Analyze Rhetorical Devices

This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to provide you with experience in identifying and analyzing rhetorical devices used for persuasion. The topic is overseas outsourcing. While you may cite other rhetorical devices for your paper, the three YouTube presentations on the topic are provided to get you started. Each of the following presentations makes various … Read more

Critical Thinking

This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to provide you with experience in analyzing an issue and writing an argument. Write a 1-1 ½ page essay for each of the following two statements: The exchange of dirty hypodermic needles for clean ones, or the sale of clean ones, is legal in many states. In such states, … Read more

Develop and Identify Premises and Conclusions

This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to evaluate your development and identification of a premise and conclusion of an argument. Write an essay on the topic of legalizing marijuana using following the steps outlined: On one page you will write an argument in favor of legalizing marijuana. On that same page you will highlight in … Read more

Planning Legal Research

Order Instructions: Week 6 Assignment 3 Planning Legal Research and worth 300 points assume you have been tasked to develop a research strategy to be applied to a case of your choice. ** I haven’t chosen a case, feel free to choose any case you’d like to work with. ** Write a three to five … Read more