Category: Humanities

During this course, you have learned that the field of philosophy comprises many powerful ideas and beliefs, from what is right and wrong to what is the nature of reality and truth. You also had the opportunity to think about your own beliefs and ideas. This Reflection is an invitation for you to continue to examine your beliefs and to think critically about the world and the big questions covered in this course. It is also an opportunity for you to capture how your learning will enhance positive social change. Walden University defines positive social change as a deliberate process of creating and applying ideas, strategies, and actions to promote the worth, dignity, and development of individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, cultures, and societies. Positive social change results in the improvement of human and social conditions.
To prepare for this Final Reflection:
Review your “What Is Philosophy?” survey from Week 1 and think about how your knowledge has evolved and improved.
Take note of what you have learned in the course.
Take note of the challenging aspects of the course.
Take note of what you can do with what you have learned.
Take note of how your beliefs have changed or have been strengthened as a result of this course.
List areas of your life this learning would impact.
Review Walden’s definition of social change as described above.
Respond to the following questions in a 500-word paper that is no longer than 2 pages in length:
What have you learned about philosophy?
How has your knowledge of the field of philosophy improved?
How do you think what you have learned will change or improve your life?
How do you think what you have learned will help you engage in social change?

Learning Goal: I’m working on a humanities writing question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn
.”In the context of international trade, do you believe that protectionist policies (such as tariffs and import quotas) are more beneficial or harmful to a country’s economy in the long run? Provide specific examples or case studies to support your argument.”

Discussion – HUM110 – Group 2
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabetLinks to an external site.
Assignment Instructions
Choose one of the options below to research and discuss your research results
Option 1: Gather information on the Phoenician alphabet and trace other alphabet systems that descended from it.
Option 2: Create a timeline of what you believe to be the 10 most important events that occurred during the rise of Mesopotamia. Include map(s) to show a few of the key places.
Discussion Response Requirements:
Your post should explain your stance using evidence from the course content. 
Always provide clear and credible evidence to support your responses.

Humanities 135 Final Exam
I used AI to write this paper and I need it rewritten with no AI detection. I also need citation in the text. 
Plagiarism report needed! 
Use book 
The Visual Arts of Africa Gender, Power, & Life Cycle Rituals Judith Perani/ Fred T. Smith, Prentice Hall, 1998   
Log in and make account to view the book 
https://archive.org/details/visualartsofafri0000pera/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater
PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY WITHIN THIS
The exam is eligible for 100 points
Please answer the following questio
Provide a detailed minimum of 350 word answer per essay question*
*Provide the number of the essay selected 
An outline is not an essay
Do not add any images to your Exam
Use only your textbook, Course Pages, and assigned videos for sources 
NO OUTSIDE SOURCES
IF OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE USED A GRADE OF 0 WILL BE GIVEN
AND NO RESUBMISSION ALLOWED 
CITE ALL WORK
*CITATIONS MUST BE MADE IN THE BODY OF THE ESSAY
AS WELL AS A WORKS CITED PAGE
All words must be your own 
NO PLAGIARISM
No Artificial Intelligence
Plagiarized work is considered anything over  15% and will be given an automatic 0 and not eligible for resubmission
Any work suspected of AI will be given an automatic 0 and not eligible for resubmission
USE YOUR OWN WORDS!
Please give a detailed description of ONE of the following cultures from South Africa: Shona of Zimbabwe OR Zulu. Please provide specific examples of the culture, art and architecture to support your answer. 

Required to write a 600 word art anlysis essay on Leonardo. Classroom book is Humanities Across the Arts by Dubuque 2nd edition. I can give you online acess to it.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Prior to completing this assignment, please read the following:
Read the pages of The Four Agreements book available through Google Books.  You will be able to read the Introduction, Chapter on Domestication, and part of the First Agreement chapter:  https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Four_Agreements.html?id=hzVxiw2DiOsC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
Please read the article, “Living the Four Agreements: A life-changing Journey”: https://awaken.com/2021/06/living-the-four-agreements-a-life-changing-journey/
Please read the article, “Agreeing with the Four Agreements”: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201012/agreeing-the-four-agreements?amp
Assignment Prompt
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a Toltec Wisdom Book designed to empower readers into living a more emotionally free life. Ruiz proposes that if we live by the four agreements, we will experience a spiritual awakening that will lead us to personal freedom. Undertaking the principles in this book is akin to taking a spiritual quest — a quest to be a spiritual warrior — a quest to live a more fulfilling life. Adopting the four agreements will lead to freedom from fear and illusion; in essence, we will learn to win the war over the negative and harmful beliefs we harbor in our minds.
The Four Agreements are:
Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.
Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Don’t Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.
For your 1000-word analysis, please choose ONE relationship or issue in your life and apply ONE of the four agreements to that ONE choice. Explain how this relationship or issue has been negatively influencing your life and describe how your life will be positively enhanced by dealing with this issue using one of the four agreements.
Break up your ideas into multiple paragraphs.  Include an introduction (mention the agreement and issue/relationship), several body paragraphs (describing and detailing your situation), and a conclusion (state how applying the agreement has/will change your life).  Late essays and essays that are written as one paragraph will not earn higher than a C.

Choose one of the theorists who have made both a historical and current contribution to psychology and learning. Aristotle
Rene Descartes
John Waston
Ivan Pavlov
Clark Hull
Edward Tolman
Albert Bandura
Edward Thorndike
Albert Ellis
Ivar Lovass
Mary Cover Jones
Feel free to choose someone else, if you want, however, reach out to me so I can confirm who they are if they are not on this list.
Be sure to include the following: The history of the theorist is related to his personal and professional life. Be sure that you discuss the theory and work that contributes to psychology and learning.
Discuss any criticism of the theories (include any ethical and multicultural considerations)
Your paper should be in APA 7th edition. You can use resources for APA style such as Your paper should be 5 pages long, including Page #1: Title Page
Pages 2,3,4: Body of Text
Page 5: Reference (minimum 4 references)
Please be sure that you have followed the instructions and when ready, submit to Turnitin “Week 2 Content” Blackboard.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
Best,
Dr. Noble

College student standard essay, No need for highfalutin words.
Length: 1500-2000 words, typed, double-spaced.
Citation: Use MLA format.
Requirements:
Thesis. Your essay must be governed by a thesis that (a) responds directly to the essay topic, (b) is arguable, and (c) is stated at the end of the first paragraph having clearly defined all the central terms.
Textual Support. Your thesis must be supported by major interpretive claims (topic sentences) that are supported by at least one appropriate quote or allusion per body paragraph. Your ability to select, interpret, and apply the appropriate textual evidence is key to doing well with the essay. Additionally, you should illustrate your argument with at least one example drawn from your own life, observations, or engagement with other texts, movies, plays, etc.
Reasoning. You must consistently use and apply logical reasoning in developing your thesis.
Writing.Your essay must be written well. There should be no awkward sentences, rough transitions between paragraphs, incoherent paragraphs, extraneous information/unnecessary sentences, typos, or stylistic errors.
Use of ChatGPT, Grammerly, or other AI software is absolutely prohibited in this class. Use of these tools will result in your receiving a failing grade for the assignment.
Evaluation:
Paper was original, insightful, going beyond ideas discussed in class. You have a clear, complex thesis. Your essay demonstrates your thorough understanding of the material covered by the assignment, texts, and lectures.
· Complex, sophisticated thesis.
· All claims supported by well-chosen quotations that are integrated into the argument of the paper.
· No awkward sentences, no unnecessary sentences, or extraneous information.
Third, I will consider the quality of the writing and the general structure of the paper.
Objectives:
For this assignment, you will need to demonstrate your ability to apply the ideas in Freud, Plato, and Lacan to analyzing themes, ideas, characters, and actions in the “narrative” texts from the second half of the semester (Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, Between the World and Me)
The successful paper will:
• Demonstrate a clear, sophisticated understanding of ideas developed in our analysis of Freud, Lacan, and Plato and be able to appropriately apply those ideas to an analysis of Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and Between the World and Me.
• Will accurately represent the positions/ideas/themes/actions presented in Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and Between the World and Me.
• Will choose appropriate quotes from Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and Between the World and Me and effectively integrate them into the student’s own argument regarding the topic.
• Will state and develop a thesis in response to one of the assigned topics.
Topics: Choose one of the topics below.
1 Desire. What is desire? What role does it play in human experience? How is it different from other experiences (e.g., “pleasure” and possibly “love”)? Develop your own “theory of desire” based on your reading of Freud, Lacan, and/or Plato. You need not agree with Freud, Lacan, and Plato, but your paper MUST REFLECT A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF AT LEAST ONE OF THE THEORIES OF DESIRE in those texts. Using this theory of desire, analyze the role of desire (as you have presented it) in one or more of the following: Antigone, Hamlet, Between the World and Me, Fun Home.
2 Erotic Truth. Bechdel describes “erotic truth” as “a rather sweeping concept.” What does she mean by erotic truth? Using at least two other texts/films assigned for this class, one of which MUST BE FREUD, LACAN, OR PLATO, write an essay in which you explore the possible meanings of this phrase, “erotic truth” (as Bechdel seems to be using it).
3 Race. Explain Coates’ account of race. What does he think it is? Why does it take the shape it does in our culture? Then analyze and evaluate this theory using at least one of the theory texts (Freud, Lacan, Plato).
4 The Political. Use the theoretical works (Freud, Lacan, and/or Plato) to develop a theory of “the political.” In other words, what forces govern our political interactions? What problems emerge? What solutions might we propose? Illustrate the effectiveness of your theory with examples from Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and/or Between the World and Me.
5 For Freud (and Lacan) an internal antagonism is central to the life of “the subject.” Based on your reading of one of the narrative texts for this course (The Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and Between the World and Me) write an essay in which you evaluate the effectiveness of this “antagonism” thesis.
6 Action (and Destruction). Antigone, Hamlet, and Bruce (Fun Home) are all characterized by decisive action (that leads to their destruction). Write a paper in which you analyze and compare the central role of Desire in their action as it leads to their own destruction.
7 This is Love. Compare, analyze, and assess the ways in which love has been described in the texts we have studied during this class, paying special attention to how it is described in Antigone and Hamlet. From this come to some conclusions about what love is, or at least how love is experienced and conceived. Finally, make some kind of claim about the role of love in the production of the (human) subject. (For this topic, you might also consider Freud, Plato, Beginners, and Vertigo.)
8 Crazy Talk. What makes a speech (or speech in general) seem rational? What makes it seem “irrational?” Hamlet, Ophelia, and Antigone all have moments when their speech is interpreted as lacking in sanity and/or rationality. Analyze these moments in both plays and explain what this can tell us about what are the marks of rationality in spoken worlds.

For this assignment, you will need to demonstrate your ability to apply the ideas in Freud, Plato, and Lacan to analyzing themes, ideas, characters, and actions in the “narrative” texts from the second half of the semester (Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, Between the World and Me)
The successful paper will:
Demonstrate a clear, sophisticated understanding of ideas developed in our analysis of Freud, Lacan, and Plato and be able to appropriately apply those ideas to an analysis of Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Between the World and Me.
Will accurately represent the positions/ideas/themes/actions presented in Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Betweenthe World and Me.
Will choose appropriate quotes from Antigone, Hamlet, Fun Home, and  Betweenthe World and Me and effectively integrate them into the student’s own argument regarding the topic.
Will state and develop a thesis in response to one of the assigned topics.
Topic:
Crazy Talk. What makes a speech (or speech in general) seem rational? What makes it seem “irrational?” Hamlet, Ophelia, and Antigone all have moments when their speech is interpreted as lacking in sanity and/or rationality. Analyze these moments in both plays and explain what this can tell us about what are the marks of rationality in spoken worlds.

CITE YOUR SOURCES. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. DO NOT TRUST AI. Plagiarism and AI will result in a zero. Citations can be in MLA or APA format. They do not count toward your word count for each essay.
Essay 1: Compare and contrast two major world religions. Use the word giraffe. Cover origins, basic beliefs, and myths. (Remember: a myth is a story that a group generally accepts as true). You may not choose two religions from the same region of the world. For example: Islam and Judaism are too close to compare, but Islam and Buddhism or Judaism and Aztec or Yoruba religion would be fine.  (150+ words) 30 points
Essay 2: Choose one general idea that you find fascinating and use it to trace and describe the development of man and culture as you see it, ranging from the Neolithic peoples to the 16th century. Use the word giraffe. (This idea might be law, religion, geology, water, painting, sculpture, or something even less specific such as power, protection, family, community, conquest, etc.).  What was important to man throughout the centuries when it came to your chosen idea? How do you know? How has it changed and how has it stayed the same?  Give at least 3 specific examples to prove your point. (200+ words) 40 points
Example: If I were to trace agriculture, I might break down my essay into different time periods and developments ranging from hunter/gathering, to the development of domestic animals and cultivation of plants, to the development of different forms of irrigation. I could talk about how much agriculture and religion became intertwined in such societies as ancient Egypt, Mesoamerica, and Japan, citing specific examples. I would definitely talk about the different records we have of people trading agricultural items (on the Silk Road, throughout the Nile River Valley, etc.), and I would discuss how society as a whole changed due to food surpluses (shifts to specialized jobs, artisan work, merchant classes, etc). I would make sure to explain how this shows that man valued agriculture first as a food source, then society builder, then a means of gaining wealth. I wouldn’t forget to cite my sources for specific information, especially related to the different cultures, locations, and religions I had discussed.
Essay 3: What do art and literature provide for us as students of the humanities? What does it teach us about the people that created it? Use the word giraffe. Provide at least 3 specific examples from different places/cultures. (100+ words) 20 points