Reaction Paper Assignment

• Paper to be no longer than 5 pages total, including the Title page and the Reference page (each on their own page), so the main body of the paper should not exceed 3 pages.
• APA formatting (as best you can), Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, double spaced
• Section Titles need to be included in your paper: centered and bold, use the titles below
  • Greg Gage “How to control someone else’s arm with your brain”
  • David Eagleman “Can we create new senses for humans?”
  • Hugh Herr “The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance”
  • Caleb Harper “This computer will grow your food in the future”
  • Joseph DeSimone “What if 3D printing was 100x faster?”
  • Nina Tandon “Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?”
  • Martine Rothblatt “My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality”
  • Miguel Nicolelis “Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it”
  • Lucy McRae “How technology can transform the human body?”
  • Tal Danino “Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)”

Visit this TED Talk link. Playlist (10 talks listed below): Talks that prove you already live in the future: https://www.ted.com/playlists/257/talks_that_prove_you_already_l

Step One– Select one of these videos/topics to research and write about.

Step Two– Research- use only credible resources (no Wikipedia or Wiki sources of any kind).

• Research the technology topic (or choose one topic if there are multiples) in the video further- when was it developed, where was it developed, how was it developed, who developed it, why it was developed
• Research the manufacture of the technology topic- what country/countries make the technology/parts of the technology, if it is not manufactured in the US, why not?
• Research the consumer profile- what consumer is the technology targeted towards, whois the current consumer and who might be the future consumer
• Research how the technology is used now and may be used in the future- by the consumer, by society as a whole
• How is the technology marketed to consumers- what marketing tools are used to promote the technology to the consumer, and what might future marketing look like
• Global application of the technology- what other countries use the technology, what countries could benefit from this technology in the future and why
• Where do you see the future of this technology going- research to support your views
• Do you see any threats or downsides to this technology? How can these be minimized?

Step Three– Create an essay that incudes these aspects of the topic

• Overview: include topic choice and why you are writing about this topic
• Technology History: when/where/how/who
• Technology Manufacturing: where/why
• Consumer Profile: who is the consumer/how do they use the product
• Technology Marketing: how is the technology marketed to the consumer
• Global Applications: of the technology/ what other countries use the technology and why
• Conclusion- Future of Technology: your predictions of future innovations of this technology/ research to back up your predictions, discuss any threats of this technology here and share any of your thoughts for solutions to manage any threats
• References: include references in your paper. Be sure to review proper APA referencing instructions.

Be sure to proof read your work for continuity, content, grammar, punctuation and spelling.

• Do you understand the main idea and supporting details of each article you cited?
• Did you take notes on each source to ensure that you used the sources fairly and accurately?
• Why is it important to document the sources of research you use to support your argument?
• How might poorly or inaccurately cited sources affect the impact of your argument paper?
• A reference page is a list of all the sources used in the paper, and the in-text citations are the guides that direct your reader to those sources. Why might your reader want to locate the source you used?
• Finally, what are the biggest challenges you are having with integrating your research and using APA formatting
• What tools and resources have you found that are helpful?

Reflecting on your readings for this week, consider the dilemma of a supervisor that hires the “right person for the bus” whose performance begins to deteriorate. Using the information from your texts and case studies, describe a real or hypothetical scenario of an employee whose performance started to diminish and how successful supervision and management turned the performance around.

Introduction to Life Sciences – Week 5 Assignment

Transitional Fossils

Critics of evolution point to an absence of “missing links” or evidence for the evolutionary pathway. However, many transitional fossils do exist and serve to provide a basis for discussions on evolutionary theory. Pick a transitional fossil and describe what information this fossil provides about different lineages.

Your assignment should be 500 words in length.

Exam #4– From “The Bottom Billion”

Due: April 26 @11:59 PM. Late work will be accepted but a penalty of 5 points will be assessed for each date late. No exam will be accepted after December 14, 2018 @11:59 PM, the end of class. No email exams will be accepted.

Total (10 points each—100 total—each answer should be paragraph of at least 5-7 sentences with APA citation)

• “Traps and the Countries Caught in Them” identifies four “traps” in addition to the “development trap” and “the health trap.” What does the author identify these traps to be? Define what each “trap” would be.

• Has the gap between the bottom billion and the rest of the developing world always been there, or has it come about because the bottom billion has been trapped?

• What is the definition of a “civil war?” What is the link between a civil war and the bottom billion? What makes a country prone to a civil war?

• Why do Civil Wars last so long? What are the costs of War for these countries?

• What does the author say is the curse of natural resources?

• How has “landlocked with bad neighbors” affected Uganda?

• What strategies can a landlocked, resource-scare country attempt in order to improve their economies and standard of life?

• What are the costs of neglect for the G8 counties?

• How does the author think that aid can actually make things in the developing world worse?

• Is Regional Integration the answer to the problems of the “Bottom Billion?”