Assignment 1: Project Paper – Comparative Essay Writing Assignment Help

This is an open book assignment that is meant to demonstrate not only your
knowledge of the Italian Renaissance visual culture we’ve covered thus far, but also your ability
to synthesize visual and contextual information, and to present your ideas clearly in writing.

This means that you may consult your textbook, your notes, lectures, and other materials
provided through the course. Everything you need to answer these questions will be available
in the provided course materials. It is not advisable to consult outside sources (either
traditional or electronic), since this essay is meant as an opportunity for you to show off
your mastery of the materials we’ve covered in class through readings, lectures, and
discussions.

In order to earn an A, your answers must directly and completely address your chosen question
as asked. A-level work will develop a main thesis and use relevant comparative examples as
well as descriptive visual analysis and interpretive information related to historical context
and iconography to support this thesis. Grading of these essays will take into account your
demonstrated command of the material (knowledge of specific works of art and architecture
acquired through assigned readings and lectures; use of appropriate terminology acquired
through readings, lectures; general knowledge relating to the cultural background in which these
works of art and architecture were produced). The technical quality (organization, grammar,
spelling, etc.) of the writing will also be taken in to account, although mechanics will not
constitute a large percentage of the grade. For more insight on my grading, please see the Rubric
available in the Midterm Essay assignment page.

Midterm Essay Options (Choose ONE):

Option 1:

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Peace and Jacobello del Fiore’s Enthroned Justice flanked by
Saint Michael the Archangel and the Archangel Gabriel embodied expectations of good
government for the cities of Siena and Venice. Consider how the meanings of these works’
imagery and their style relate to their places of origin, as well as how the techniques used to
create each painting and the buildings that they inhabit are representative of Venetian or Sienese
contexts.

Finally, choose a third artwork or architectural project that represents the ways that viewers in
the Italian Renaissance understood just rule and civic identity. Let the same questions that shape
your consideration of Lorenzetti’s and del Fiore’s works guide your analysis of the work that you
choose, and use this third image to support and expand your main thesis.

Option 2:

While the Sienese painter, Simone Martini’s style is often easily recognizable, he deployed
different stylistic and compositional strategies in The Altarpiece of St. Louis of Toulouse and The
Annunciation. Address the ways that each of these paintings represents Martini’s particular style.
Then, consider how the patrons or cities for which the panels were made shaped the imagery that
appears in them by examining how the works relate to the spaces for which they were made and
the social, political, and civic contexts that they inhabited.

Introduce at least one other comparative artwork from each place (this can be a work in any
medium by any artist) to support your discussion of the ways that Martini’s panel paintings
responded to the desires of patrons and the special identity of each city.

Option 3:

Florentine public sculpture not only served as a means of visual communication through which
the city and its citizens declared their identity, it was also a place where artists could show off
innovations and engaged in dialog with those who had come before. Craft an essay that focuses
on how Lorenzo Ghiberti’s North Baptistery Doors and Donatello’s St. George experimented
with new ways to visualize human bodies, communicate narratives, and respond to the needs and
desires of patrons.

Introduce at least two comparative examples to support your analysis; these examples can either
expand your discussion the new styles deployed by Ghiberti and Donatello or can serve as
contrasting examples of earlier styles of representation from the Italian Renaissance. Your visual
and contextual analysis of each artwork you discuss should situate it within its specific context
by addressing its scale and the architectural space for which it was created.

Materials

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1.Where should firms do most of their quality spending?

		Prevention costs
		Inspection costs
		Internal Failure costs
		External Failure costs

• A car purchased last year is an example of a(n):
• Training is a part of which category of the 4 costs of quality?

		sunk cost
		relevant cost
		differential cost
		avoidable cost

		internal failure costs
		external failure costs
		prevention costs
		inspection costs

4.

Answer the following questions using the information below:

Craft Concept manufactures small tables in its Processing Department. Direct materials are added at the initiation of the production cycle and must be bundled in single kits for each unit. Conversion costs are incurred evenly throughout the production cycle. Before inspection, some units are spoiled due to non-detectible materials defects. Inspection occurs when units are 50% converted. Spoiled units generally constitute 5% of the good units. Data for December 2012 are as follows:

WIP, beginning inventory 12/1/2012 20,000 units

Direct materials (100% complete)

Conversion costs (75% complete)

Started during December 80,000 units

Completed and transferred out 12/31/2012 76,800 units

WIP, ending inventory 12/31/2012 16,000 units

Direct materials (100% complete)

Conversion costs (65% complete)

Costs for December:

WIP, beginning Inventory:

Direct materials $ 100,000

Conversion costs 60,000

Direct materials added 200,000

Conversion costs added 280,000

1) What is the number of total spoiled units?

A) 13,200 units

B) 4,000 units

C) 5,400 units

D) 7,200 units

2) Normal spoilage totals:

A) 3,200 units

B) 4,000 units

C) 3,840 units

D) 5,400 units

3) Abnormal spoilage totals:

A) 3,200 units

B) 4,000 units

C) 3,360 units

D) 3,840 units

4) What is the total cost per equivalent unit using the weighted-average method of process costing?

A) $3.00

B) $3.60

C) $6.60

D) $4.60

5.

Managers usually use the return on investment to evaluate ________.

	1.	the performance of a subdivision
	2.	the accounting principles followed
	3.	the size of the investment
	4.	the balance of working capital

• Costs incurred on defective products before being shipped to customers are ________.
• Which of the following is a financial measure of quality?
• Which balanced scorecard measure relates to employee skills and knowledge?

	1.	prevention costs
	2.	appraisal costs
	3.	internal failure costs
	4.	external failure costs

	1.	operating income growth
	2.	percentage of highly satisfied customers
	3.	number of defective units shipped to customers as a percentage of total units shipped
	4.	interest costs

	1.	Customer
	2.	Financial
	3.	Innovative internal processes
	4.	Learning and Growth

Read the paper “Prediabetes Phenotype Influences Improvements in Glucose Homeostasis with Resistance Training” by JD Eikenberg et. al (2016) from PLOS ( file:///home/chronos/u-97674ace183902d5d64d780aa6e7353e90adbb98/Downloads/prediabetes-resistance-training.PDF ) and answer the questions

1. What is your understanding of “personalized medicine”? Do you think it is a good idea or a bad idea, or somewhere in between and why? [You can google the definition if you don’t know but give me your own opinion about if it’s good or bad.]

2. In a study using human subjects, scientists in the US are required to get “informed consent” from the participants. What does this mean and why is it important? [You can google the definition if you don’t know but give me your own opinion about why it is important.]

3. What population is represented among the study subjects? [Look in the Results section, Participant Characteristics]. What is the appropriate conclusion to draw about the results based on their sample composition? [They did not address this in their discussion!]

4. Look at the data in Table 3 and the last paragraph of the Results section for Glucose Homeostasis. What was the result of the study in terms of whether the exercise program “cured” the patients of their prediabetes condition? [By “cured” I mean if the blood glucose levels reduced to normal amounts, which would be <5.3 mmol/l for fasting glucose and <7.8 mmol/l for glucose tolerance.]

5. Besides whatever changes in blood glucose study participants had, what other benefits did they get from the exercise program? [You can find these in Table 1 and the Results section Strength, Anthropometrics, Body Composition and Blood Pressure.]

6. In the second paragraph of the discussion they talk about the drug metformin that can help people manage prediabetes. Assuming that it works, what are the pros and cons of taking a drug to treat the condition versus making lifestyle changes like diet and exercise?

7. Imagine that you are a doctor treating patients who have been diagnosed with prediabetes that is of the impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) kind. How would you explain the results of this study to them so that they could understand it? [Give me your actual explanation here, not how you would go about explaining it.]

8. What other personal reflections do you have after reading this paper? For example, if you know someone who has Type I or Type II diabetes (or have it yourself) what do these results mean to you? If you love exercise (or hate exercise) what did you think about doing the exercise program yourself and the potential benefits? What other thoughts or questions did the article provoke? What follow-up study would you do if you were working with these authors? [There is no right answer here and you don’t need to answer all of my questions, just let me know something that you thought about!]

Write your answers in complete sentences. I am expecting your answers to be from one to five sentences, depending on the question. (I am not looking for a lot of writing, just to see if you read and understood the paper and to see what your opinion is about some of the issues raised in it.) I will award points based on the correctness and completeness of answers, or if it is your opinion that it makes sense and that you explained your position clearly.

Goal of the essay is to relate a Social Psychology topic to a feature film.

Essay Structure:

1. Introductory Paragraph Where You Cover The Topic, The Movie, and How They Are Related.

2. A Research Summary Section

– You Need to Summarize a Minimum of Four Empirical Papers

Possible Journals Include:

JPSP, PSPB, Psychological Science, PAID

WIKIPEDIA and Other Non-Peer Reviewed Sources will not count

3. Film Summary

– Describe The Movie, And The Relevant Scenes.

4. Relate The Construct And The Movie

– Clearly Explain How The Scene/s Are Reflective of the Social

– Psychology Construct

– Analyze the Scene In Terms of The Construct

5. Conclusion