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Born A Crime by Trevor Noah Chapter 7 and 8 Q&A
What is the belief about cats amongst black people?
Why did the security guard kill the black cat at a soccer game?
Why did Trevor think his dog was stupid?
Why does Trevor feel betrayed by Fufi?
What is another way that Patricia demonstrates she is a rebel and doesn’t conform to others’ ideas?
What talent does Fufi have that surprises Trevor?
What valuable life lesson does Trevor learn from Fufi?
How does Trevor view his parents and himself?
What was Trevor’s relationship with his father like?
What happened when Trevor was 13 years old? Explain.
At 24 years, why was a day, the weirdest day for Trevor?
What was something Trevor learned about his dad?

draft a news release that can be used in a public relations campaign. Explain in detail how the content style and essentials of your news release will help persuade the public to your point of view. Describe the key elements of writing to consider when responding to a public relations crisis or scandal.
topic: NPR and firing Keillor garrison for sexual harassment

Liberty Medal Acceptance Speech Thurgood Marshall Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States July 4, 1992 independence HallPhiladelphia, PA Complete questions
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Heman Sweart did not pursue liberty alone. Just a few years earlier, a couple named Shelley tried to do what White America had done for years, live in a neighborhood of their choice. But to white homeowners in Missouri, such audacity was too threatening to be tolerated in their view; Whites belonged in one world; Negroes in another, They could not see the similarities that linked them to the Shelley’s, the common desire to earn a living, to raise children, to own and care for a home. They saw only difference, I guess to them, if the United States was indeed a melting pot, then Negroes either didn’t get in the pot or didn’t get melted down. Whatever the reason for their myopic vision, the Shelleys were forced to do what Negroes have had to do for years. Use the only weapon they had – their right to a day in court to gain the rights to which they were constitutionally entitled. Fortunately, for our history, the Shelleys won their suit, but even if they had lost, they would have known more freedom than the Whites who tried to shut them out, would ever know. Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice, No one benefits from racism. As I think back on these courageous people who came before, I wonder what became of the challenge the Sweatts and the Shelleys provided. They worked for liberty. They fought for freedom. They insisted on justice. They were optimistic as I was that racial interaction would breed understanding, and that understanding, in turn, would produce healing and redemption. They were hopeful as I was that over time; America would grow toward justice and expand toward equality. Had I thought in the wake of Smith V. Allwright (ended racial segregation in voting rights) and Shelley V. Kraemer (made racial segregation in real estate illegal) and Brown V. Board of Education (desegregated schools) that I would be giving a talk now on the anniversary of our Nation’s independence, I would have predicted that I would have spoken with much pride and optimism of the enormous progress this Nation has made. Comprehension Question: Marshall says that the Sweatts and Shelleys “were optimistic as I was. ” Is he no longer optimistic? Infer how he feels now. But as I survey the world Heman Sweatt and the Shelleys left behind, I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. I wish I could say that this Nation had traveled far along the road to social justice and that liberty and equality were just around the bend. I wish I could say that America has come to appreciate diversity and to see and accept similarity. But as I look around, I see not a Nation of unity but of division – Afro and White, indigenous and immigrant, rich and poor, educated and illiterate. Even many educated whites and successful Negroes have given up on integration and lost hope on equality. They see nothing in common except the need to flee as fast they can from our inner cities. But there is a price to be paid for division and isolation as recent events in California indicate. Look around. Can’t you see the tension in Watts? Can’t you feel the fear in Scarsdale? Can’t you sense the alienation in Simi Valley? The despair in the South Bronx? The rage in Brooklyn? Comprehension Question: What tension is he talking about? What was happening in the 90s in areas like Los Angeles or the South Bronx? Are similar things still happening today? Is that same racial tension still around?
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Consider the following natural language sentence:
Uli brought wine to the party, but I brought nothing because I forgot.
Which answer is a translation of this natural language sentence into formal logic?
a.)
b.)
c.)
d.)
SUBMIT MY ANSWER
U = Uli brought wine. I = I brought something. F = I forgot. U ? ¬(I ? F)
U = Uli brought wine. I = I brought something. F = I forgot. (U ? ¬I) ? F
U = Uli brought wine. I = I brought something. F = I forgot. U ? (¬I ? F)
U = Uli brought wine. I = I brought something. F = I forgot. U ? ¬I ? F

Answer the following  questions using  textual
evidence from the  memoir chapter  20 I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
https://baileysela.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/3/9/50398803/i_know_why_the_caged_bird_sings.pdf
1.       Describe Joyce.
2.       What is different about Joyce and Bailey’s relationship, compared to his “relationships” with the other girls?
3.       How does Maya feel about Joyce?
4.       Joyce leaves almost as suddenly as she comes into the children’s lives.  Make an inference about why she leaves.  How does this immediately affect Bailey?

“Zion Williamson is about to get paid,” read the headline in an article on April 1, 2019, on the ESPN website. Zion Williamson averaged 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and made 68 percent of his field goals in his one year of American college basketball, playing for coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke University during the 2018-2019 season. Williamson is 6’7″ and 285 pounds (2.01 meters and 129 kg), had the best player efficiency rating (PER) in college basketball in at least a decade (42.55), and was the top pick in the NBA draft in 2019. Before even being drafted to play in the National Basketball Association’s league, it was well-known that, behind-the-scenes, Williamson had received several $100 million offers to sign a sneaker contract with Adidas, Anta, New Balance, Nike, Puma, or Under Armour.
And who can blame these companies for going after what is perhaps the best player to be drafted into the NBA since Shaquille O’Neal went to the Orlando Magic out of Louisiana State University in 1992 or since Kobe Bryant made the leap from Lower Merion High School in 1996 to the Los Angeles Lakers? Williamson is expected to have a once-in-a-generation NBA career. Because he entered the NBA at 18 years of age (his season started October 2019) and will likely play until his mid-30s, NBA and sneaker-company executives are drooling over the sales prospects. At the same time, Michael Jordan—arguably the best basketball player ever—retired from the NBA in 2003 and yet is still helping Nike sell some $3 billion in sneakers annually. The Jordan brand, a subsidiary of Nike since 1997, has been a Nike property since 1984 (when Jordan left the University of North Carolina after three seasons to play NBA basketball).
It is clear that the sneaker competition is fierce in the international marketplace. The Zion Williamson and Michael Jordan stories—albeit incredible—are only part of the global landscape of athlete-driven sales. In tennis, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, and Novak Djokovic, to mention only a few players, make millions in endorsements. So do Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Neymar in the global sport of football (soccer), as well as Tiger Woods and Phil Michelson, among many others, in golf. There are many more examples, say, with Usain Bolt in track, or even Mahendra Singh Dhoni in cricket—although not having a widespread fanbase in the United States (unlike NBA basketball), cricket is still an international game, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the highest-paid batsman in the sport and a social media juggernaut, serving as brand ambassador for PepsiCo, for example.
In this unique international marketplace populated by sports superstars, it is fascinating to see companies like Adidas, Anta, New Balance, Nike, Puma, and Under Armour compete for players, particularly when it comes to the sneaker sector of the industry. It clearly goes way beyond Zion Williamson, Michael Jordan, and the NBA. And given that the world of sports and the different types of sneakers used are so different around the world and are dependent on which sport is being played or followed, these companies have strategic decisions to make each year regarding every sport they engage in worldwide—such as which superstars to use for their brands, how many, and in what way.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name and image do not sell many shoes in the United States, but they clearly do in the cricket-playing world. When it comes to Michael Jordan, he helps sell shoes everywhere, and that is the hope regarding Zion Williamson. Football (or soccer, as it’s known in the United States) is the world’s largest sport, with 4 billion fans. But can a soccer mega-star like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi carry a brand as successfully as Michael Jordan? Serena Williams clearly helps sell sports items in the United States, but what about Novak Djokovic? Roger Federer may be the most famous tennis player in recent memory and is quite a valuable commodity, but how do international tennis stars like Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) and Maria Sharapova (Russia) stack up next to him when it comes to selling power? They may not have his star wattage, but they too have won Grand Slam tournaments.
Multinational corporations use a mix of marketing research and business analytics to evaluate the potential impact of players like Zion Williamson. Research has shown that there is a positive payoff on signing athletic stars to endorsement deals to brand a company’s products. The right endorsement increases sales in general, as well as relative to a product’s competitors. If the athlete then also achieves success, in addition to that athlete’s fame, the brand benefits immediately. However, returns will diminish over time if the athlete’s success lessens. Very few athletes transcend the success of their time in the sport. Michael Jordan is clearly one such basketball player, as is Shaquille O’Neal, but on a more limited scale. Other retired athletes, such as Jack Nicklaus (golf), David Beckham (football/soccer), and Wayne Gretzky (hockey), carry brands as well. Can Zion Williamson follow in their footsteps while active, and once retired?
Why do superstar athletes have so much brand selling power?

Using the DCCCD Library Catalog (http://richlandcollege.edu/library), find and create MLA citations for the following:
1. A book about
The Simpsons
, published by Palgrave in 2012.
2. A book about water, written by Steven Solomon.
3. A co-edited collection of essays about zombies published by McFarland in 2011.
4. An essay called “The Press the Founders Knew,” which is one of several in an edited collection of essays dealing with the First Amendment and edited by Timothy Cook. The essay, written by Craig M. Freeman, appears on pages 35 – 49 of the anthology.
Using the Online Databases (http://libguides.dcccd.edu/az.php) listed below and their respective search engine features, find and create MLA format for the following sources.
NOTE: Before starting, be sure to review the tip on using online databases provided in the MLA Information section of the class website. Also note that the databases identified below are all published by EBSCO.
5. In the
Academic Search Complete
database, find an article discussing the issue of assisted suicide, written by Josh Sanburn and published in
Time
.
6. In the
MasterFILE Complete
database, find an article discussing the issue of same-sex marriage, written by Theodore B. Olson and published in
Newsweek
.
7. In the
Humanities Full Text
database, find an academic essay on evangelical religion and wrestling, written by Jonathan Ebel and published in 2009.
8. In the
OmniFile Full Text
database, find an article discussing voter identification laws in Texas, published in
Texas Monthly
in August of 2015.
9. In the
Academic Search Complete
database, find an article about reality television, which was published in
The Journal of Popular Culture
and written by Deborah Kaplan.
10. In the
Social Sciences Full Text
database, locate an article discussing the political roots of inequality, written by Robert Reich, and published in
The American Prospect
.

Watch the Big Bang Segment entitled “Chess Clock Conversation” where the characters of Sheldon and Leonard are having a conversation in which neither is authentically listening to the other. Use the following link to access the video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr1uS8KZbto&t=27s PART A (12 POINTS) Based on the description of the key features of each of these styles of listening from our material in class and in the textbook this week: • Select 1 key feature of each listening style • Provide an example from the video of how the conversation between Leonard and Sheldon violates that feature Listening Style One key principle (1 point each) Example of how the principle was not demonstrated in the video segment (2 points each) Empathic Listening Nonjudgmental Listening Polite Listening Active Listening PART B (6 POINTS) Provide a response that demonstrates the principles of Active listening to the following two statements from the video clip. Be sure to include paraphrasing in your response. (3 points each) Statement made by Sheldon: “I humiliated Stephen Hawking in a game of “Words with Friends”. He stopped playing, and now we are not friends anymore.” Provide a response that Leonard could make to Sheldon that would demonstrate principles of Active Listening: Statement made by Leonard: “I can’t let Penny turn in a bad paper, but I can’t tell her it’s bad without letting her know I read it”. Provide a response that Sheldon could make to Leonard that would demonstrate principles of Active Listening:
COMMUNICATING IN RELATIONSHIPS: INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT #2 Total: /18 Watch the Big Bang Segment entitled “Chess Clock Conversation” where the characters of Sheldon and Leonard are having a conversation in which neither is authentically listening to the other. Use the following link to access the video dip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srluS8KZbtoat=27s PART A (12 POINTS) Based on the description of the key features of each of these styles of listening from our material in class and in the textbook this week: Select 1 key feature of each listening style Provide an example from the video of how the conversation between Leonard and Sheldon violates that feature Listening Style One key principle Example of how the principle was not (1 point each) demonstrated in the video segment (2 points each) Empathic Listening Nonjudgmental Listening Polite Listening Active Listening PART B (6 POINTS) Provide a response that demonstrates the principles of Active listening to the following two statements from the video clip. Be sure to include paraphrasing in your response. (3 points each) Statement made by Sheldon: “I humiliated Stephen Hawking in a game of “Words with Friends”, He stopped playing, and now we are not friends anymore.” Provide a response that Leonard could make to Sheldon that would demonstrate principles of Active Listening: Statement made by Leonard: “I can’t let Penny turn in a bad paper, but I can’t tell her it’s bad without letting her know I read it”, Provide a response that Sheldon could make to Leonard that would demonstrate principles of Active Listening:

Of Revenge, by Francis Bacon
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Sir Francis Bacon is acknowledged to be the first major English essayist. A notable jurist who served as both attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon argues in his essay “Of Revenge” (1625) that the “wild justice” of personal revenge is a fundamental challenge to the rule of law.
Of Revenge
by Francis Bacon (1597)
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, “It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.” That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore, they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong’s sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like. Therefore, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man’s enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent. But base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; “You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.” But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: “Shall we (saith he) take good at God’s hands, and not be content to take evil also?” And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more. But in private revenges it is not so.
Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate.
Answer the following questions in a paragraph.
1. What does Bacon believe of the character of the person who does NOT seek revenge?
2. Bacon says someone who does seek revenge is nobler if they let their identity be known to the person against whom they have taken vengeance. Do you agree?

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released its latest SGSecure campaign titled,
“What’s your role?”, which aims to educate and empower the public on their personal agency
to help keep Singapore safe.
The campaign features everyday people and demonstrates how by tapping on their current
strengths and personalities, individuals can bring people together in both peacetime and
crisis, spot fake news and support those at risk of radicalization, according to a statement by
the company.
Task:
Using the excerpt as an example, select one government agency from the list:
1. National Library Board
2. National Heritage Board
3. National Arts Council
You are to take on the role of a public relations practitioner engaged to work on a public
relations campaign for the selected government agency.
Question 1
Propose the objective for a PR campaign suitable for the government agency of your choice.
You are expected to do secondary research on the selected government agency before deciding
on the objective.
Question 2
Recommend the target group(s) for your proposed campaign. You are expected to do
secondary research on the selected government agency to determine the suitable target
group(s) for the PR campaign.
Question 3
Propose any two (2) public relations tools from the following list to work on your proposed
campaign and critique how both could work well together to bring success to your campaign
depending on the target group(s) and campaign focus.
– Public service announcements
– Advocacy advertising
– News releases
– Press conference
– Pamphlets