write a reflective comment (500 words) on how this issue may impact students.

                                   ASSESSMENT 2 – Gifted and Talented Education

1.MYTHS AND UNDERSTANDINGS (write a brief overview (125 words)

Then write a reflective comment (500 words) on how this issue may impact students. Each reflective comment needs to make use of scholarly literature to support the arguments made. Evaluate and discuss the changes in your thinking towards the needs of gifted and talented student Consider the evidence presented through the readings undertaken and express views integrating these sources

2.WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE AND IS IT FIXED?( write a brief overview ( 125 words)

Then write a reflective comment (500 words) on how this issue may impact students. ( Each              reflective comment needs to make use of scholarly literature to support the arguments made. Evaluate and discuss the changes in your thinking towards the needs of gifted and talented student. Consider the evidence presented through the readings undertaken and express views integrating these sources

3.Identification of gifted students, including rural, Indigenous, refugee, EAL/D (write a brief overview 125 words)

Then write a reflective comment (500 words) on how this issue may impact students. Each reflective comment needs to make use of scholarly literature to support the arguments made. Evaluate and discuss the changes in your thinking towards the needs of gifted and talented student. Consider the evidence presented through the readings undertaken and express views integrating these sources

4.Twice–exceptional students and asynchronous development( write a brief overview 125 words)

Then write a reflective comment (500 words) on how this issue may impact students Each reflective comment needs to make use of scholarly literature to support the arguments made. Evaluate and discuss the changes in your thinking towards the needs of gifted and talented student. Consider the evidence presented through the readings undertaken and express views integrating these sources.

Reference List (please use these articles for each topic) and have at 3 incite references in total from these 3 articles for each topic. You must use APA 7^th edition referencing.

Topic 1:

Competing with Myths about the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Students (sengifted.org)

Ten Myths of Giftedness — The G Word (thegwordfilm.com)

Disproving Myths About Gifted Students – Davidson Institute (davidsongifted.org)

Topic 2:

Intelligence is fixed | Centre for Educational Neuroscience

Fixed versus growth intelligence mindsets: It’s all in your head, Dweck says | Stanford News Release

Frontiers | Teacher Mindsets Concerning the Malleability of Intelligence and the Appraisal of Achievement in the Context of Feedback | Psychology (frontiersin.org)

Topic 3:

Munro, J. (2011). Identifying gifted knowledge and learning in indigenous cultures: Africa and Australia. Giftedness from an indigenous perspective, 24-31.

Thraves, G., & Bannister-Tyrrell, M. (2017). Australian Aboriginal peoples and giftedness: A diverse issue in need of a diverse response. TalentEd, 29(2), 18-32.

Vialle, W. J., & Gibson, K. (2007). The Australian Aboriginal view of giftedness.

Topic 4:

https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/twice-exceptional-definition-characteristics-identification/

https://theconversation.com/intellectually-gifted-students-often-have-learning-disabilities-37276

https://www.nagc.org/twice-exceptional-home-and-school

Determine which of the conditions you would reject and why. Identify the most likely condition, and justify your reasoning.

Discussion: Assessing Musculoskeletal Pain

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The body is constantly sending signals about its health. One of the most easily recognized signals is pain. Musculoskeletal conditions comprise one of the leading causes of severe long-term pain in patients. The musculoskeletal system is an elaborate system of interconnected levers that provides the body with support and mobility. Because of the interconnectedness of the musculoskeletal system, identifying the causes of pain can be challenging. Accurately interpreting the cause of musculoskeletal pain requires an assessment process informed by patient history and physical exams.

In this Discussion, you will consider case studies that describe abnormal findings in patients seen in a clinical setting.

To prepare:

• By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned to one of the following specific case studies for this Discussion. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your assignment from your Instructor.
• Your Discussion post should be in the Episodic/Focused SOAP Note format rather than the traditional narrative style Discussion posting format. Refer to Chapter 2 of the Sullivan text and the Episodic/Focused SOAP Template in the Week 5 Learning Resources for guidance. Remember that all Episodic/Focused SOAP notes have specific data included in every patient case.
• Review the following case studies:

With regard to the case study you were assigned:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the insights they provide about the case study.
• Consider what history would be necessary to collect from the patient in the case study you were assigned.
• Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient’s condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
• Identify at least five possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient.

Note: Before you submit your initial post, replace the subject line (“Discussion – Week 8”) with “Review of Case Study ___.” Fill in the blank with the number of the case study you were assigned.

By Day 3 of Week 8

Post an episodic/focused note about the patient in the case study to which you were assigned using the episodic/focused note template provided in the Week 5 resources. Provide evidence from the literature to support diagnostic tests that would be appropriate for each case. List five different possible conditions for the patient’s differential diagnosis, and justify why you selected each.

***Respond to at least two of your colleagues on 2 different days who were assigned different case studies than you. Analyze the possible conditions from your colleagues’ differential diagnoses. Determine which of the conditions you would reject and why. Identify the most likely condition, and justify your reasoning.***

What did you find most useful on the module and why? How has this impacted you (or will it impact you) as a student or member of society?

Portfolio Task 4: Reflect on your learning journey

The assignment brief asks you to answer _ of the following questions in your reflection:

NB the word limit is 300 words (meaning 315 is the absolute maximum). When writing the reflection, please make it clear which question you are answering.

Read the following examples I created. What do you think? Does it fulfil the task completely?

Is it better to prevent illness than cure it?

Is it better to prevent illness than cure it?

By identifying potential health issues at an early stage, it is easier to manage or postpone the onset of conditions and even prevent them from occurring.

In the first written section of this assignment, you are required to write a 1,000-word Policy Brief, which is a short piece providing a short summary of a policy document.

The document in question is – Prevention is better than cure: Our vision to help you live well for longer (DHSC, 2018). The document was published in November 2018 and may be accessed at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer

Before writing your Policy Brief, it is essential you read the above document in full.

Title

A title quickly communicates the content of the Policy Brief in a memorable way.

Part 1: Policy brief (1,000 words)

Aim

Summarise the aim of the assigned policy (DHSC, 2018) in one or two sentences to articulate the importance of this brief and what it aims to achieve.

Do not define the terms ‘prevention’ or ‘policy brief’, and no other source is required here except the assigned policy.

Problem

This section communicates the importance and urgency of the problem and aims to convince the reader of the necessity of policy action. You need to frame the issue in this section by including the following information:

1. A clear statement of the problem or issue in focus; what is the policy trying to achieve in terms of improving population health.
2. A short overview of the root causes of the problem; consider the public health prevention continuum, social determinants of health, and other relevant theories you have studied.

Background research

The aim of this element is to detail why the policy is valuable for public health practice and therefore, illustrate both the need for change and where the change needs to occur. To do this, you might do the following:

1. Provide examples of health issues from the policy and from your wider reading that illustrate where public health practices are failing to meet the aims of the policy.
2. Identify stakeholders (i.e. those providing the service and those using the service). Who is more affected/benefiting by the failure/success of the practices.

Policy Recommendations

The aim of the policy recommendations element is to provide a detailed and convincing proposal of how the failings of the public health practices need to change. This could be achieved by including:

1. A breakdown of the specific practical steps or measures that need to be implemented.
2. An argument about why and how these steps or measures are likely to be effective.

In summary, your Policy Brief needs to be:

Part 2 – Critical Analysis (1,500 words)

This section asks you to prepare a critical analysis of the policy, using theories of policy development that you have studied in the module. You may structure this part around the following sections:

Describe the policy development process

State how the policy-making process (i.e. problem identification, policy formulation, implementation and evaluation) can help identify factors associated with health policy.

Discuss the impact of the political perspectives

Consider the political policy context and law-making process in which the specified policy was situated. Evaluate how political priorities may have informed the policy, whether an appropriate needs assessment was undertaken. You may wish to argue about whether the needs of all communities were considered in the formulation of the policy.

Reflect upon the influence and involvement of relevant stakeholders potentially engaged within the process

In this section, you need to conduct a stakeholder analysis to identify the key stakeholders, those with power and those whose needs must be met.

Discuss the health implications of the strategies suggested in the specified policy to address the problem

In this section, you should consider how the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach has been implemented and how the approach supports decision making across other sectors.

Consider the potential barriers to implementing the policy recommendations and how these barriers might be overcome

Refer to weeks 8 and 9 to argue what factors may hinder the implementation of the policy. Identify which factors are a priority to address and suggest methods to improve the likelihood that the policy will be applied in public health practices.

P.S : Weeks 8 and 9

Week 8 outlined monitoring, policy evaluation, policy cycle, CDC’s framework for program evaluation , WHO evaluation framework, monitoring and evaluation framework, Stakeholders.

Week 9 discussed new policy development, public health systems, collaboration and its benefits, Partnership, Group dynamics, understanding culture.

An explanation and evaluation of how comprehensive and transparent their sustainability reporting is, using relevant frameworks to support this evaluation.

Assignment Two tasks – additional step by step guidance

This guidance is not a replacement for the Assignment Details Brief to be found on Moodle. Make sure that you have read that brief fully, in particular the format requirements and the assessment criteria that will be used. Make sure to read the Assessment Criteria Grid as well so that you know how to distinguish between an A/B/C/D/F response under each assessment criterion. This guidance is mainly about the tasks not the assessment criteria but the two are obviously connected.

Before you start on Assignment Two, make sure you have fully absorbed the implications of the feedback you received on Assignment One. You will write a better second assignment if you do.

We know that 4 pages of guidance looks a lot. Don’t try and take it all in at once. Read it in bite-sized chunks as you methodically research for and write your second assignment.

Task 1

“An introduction that summarises key company and environmental impacts information from your first assignment (no more than 200 words)”

The purpose of this brief introduction is to provide a foundation of information that enables the reader to make sense of Tasks 2+3. You will have to be selective about how you summarise your first assignment, but in doing so be sure to include the key environmental impacts for which your company is responsible. Make brief reference to relevant frameworks especially the Nine Planetary Boundaries Framework. On no account write more than 200 words here – if you do, you are wasting your word count.

Task 2

“A critical evaluation of the environmental sustainability strategy and performance of your chosen company. Your evaluation should include at least the following:

1.  A summary of your understanding of the sustainability strategy of your company.
2. An evaluation of the company’s approach to their sustainability strategy using a variety of theoretical frameworks
3. An explanation of your company’s approach to Environmental Management Systems, and what this says about their commitment to their strategy
4. An evaluation of the company’s environmental performance i.e. the implementation of their strategy over the last 3-5 years, in two or more of the following areas: marketing; operations and supply chain management
5. The incorporation of relevant concepts, frameworks and theories (including but not restricted to the principles of resource savings (the 5Rs) into the performance evaluation
6. An explanation and evaluation of how comprehensive and transparent their sustainability reporting is, using relevant frameworks to support this evaluation.”

First, really concentrate on the first sentence. In this assignment we are talking about environmental sustainability strategy so if you find yourself talking about strategy in general or other non-environmental forms of sustainability then you are probably on the wrong track.

Second, notice we are asking you about strategy and performance. You need to evaluate both, not just one of these.

Third, note we are asking you to carry out a critical evaluation. This means throughout this report you need to maintain a critical, questioning frame of mind that subjects both company and other data to critical scrutiny. This means asking yourself questions such as: on what basis is this statement made, is the evidence valid, is there independent verification of this claim, have all stakeholder perspectives been considered, what is not being said (omitted) in this report etc. etc.? You will find it much easier to maintain this critical perspective if you are reading widely, especially the very up to date reports via ENDS and edie.net.

Looking now at the more detailed requirements of Task 2:

1. “A summary of your understanding of the sustainability strategy of your company?”

   Before addressing any of the questions below, you need to present your overall summary of what you think the company’s sustainability strategy is. Remember that the company might not have a section in their report headed “Strategy”. They might instead talk about long term objectives, key goals, plans etc. You will need to work from your understanding of what strategy is (from the week 6 materials) to judge what to include here.

2. “An evaluation of the company’s approach to their sustainability strategy using a variety of theoretical and policy (e.g. COP26) frameworks”

The PWC Reporting with Purpose publication as well as authors such as Blowfield and frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals give us ways of assessing, classifying and understanding the environmental sustainability strategy of organisations. Use the evidence you find in your company’s report and beyond to make a case for classifying your company’s strategy in a particular way using some of these models. What are the insights that such models help to generate? Critique the models too if you find them inadequate, or draw on other models you have come across in your reading.

• “An explanation of your company’s approach to Environmental Management Systems, and what this says about their commitment to their strategy”

Ask yourself questions such as:

• Have I identified which environmental management system, one driven by ISO, EMAS or another, my organisation uses? This information should come from your company’s report or from wider reading about your company.
• If they do not appear to use an EMS, what conclusions can be drawn?
• Have I evaluated how well the organisation uses an EMS to help implement and monitor its strategy? To demonstrate criticality, have I considered what competitors do, or whether there are external sources of data commenting on my company’s choice or use of an EMS?
• Have I read the recommended journal articles from the week on Environmental Management Systems. There are many relevant findings and concepts to draw from there to evaluate your company’s EMS practices.

1. “An evaluation of the company’s environmental performance i.e. the implementation of their strategy over the last 3-5 years, in two or more of the following areas: marketing; operations and supply chain management”

Ask yourself questions such as:

• Have I presented the different initiatives that my organisation has undertaken, aimed at sustainability, in two or more of these areas – supply chain, operations and marketing?
• Is each section easy to follow i.e. have I presented the examples under clear headings of supply chain, operations or marketing?
• Have I evaluated these initiatives in terms of how well my company applies the principles of resource savings (the 5 Rs), always remembering that the 5Rs are in a hierarchy.
• Have I shown and evaluated actual performance data and trends over 3-5 years, with the help of tables or charts? (This might involve you presenting successful performance in some areas but gaps in others.)
• Have I benchmarked against other organisations’ performance or agreed VEI standards to demonstrate criticality?
• Have I used information from my wider reading to challenge what my company claims?
• What does performance in these areas indicate about how achievable/effective my company’s overall sustainability strategy is?

1. “The incorporation of relevant concepts, frameworks and theories (including but not restricted to the principles of resource savings (the 5Rs) into the performance evaluation”

This is not a separate section in the report as the 5Rs point above highlights. Your application of other concepts etc. also needs to be embedded into the performance evaluation of your company.

How can you achieve this application of concepts etc.? Some brief suggestions:

• On this module we look at Life Cycle Assessments and how they underpin concepts/models such as Green Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics and the Circular Economy. How do these concepts and models help us to identify the comprehensiveness and rigour (or lack of it) in your company’s approach to sustainability?
• The Seuring model could help you to evaluate operational and supply chain activities as it helps you to review your company’s performance from a life cycle and industrial ecology perspective. For instance, you could plot your examples of the 5 Rs on a Seuring life cycle diagram or on a Life Cycle Assessment diagram.
• In the marketing week we considered the main differences between traditional and green marketing. Have you referred to eco-marketing concepts and critiques of the kind of consumption that traditional marketing encourages?
• In our opening weeks we spent some time studying the overall sustainability challenges facing the planet and the ways that consumerism and dominant economic models make it difficult to challenge unsustainable behaviours. To what extent does your company actively challenge such behaviours in its core business assumptions and behaviours? For example, how could you use the concept of negative externalities to critique your company’s pricing policies, to what extent does your company in fact benefit from the Tragedy of the Commons, or how locked into patterns of unsustainable consumption and growth is your company?

1. “An explanation and evaluation of how comprehensive and transparent their sustainability reporting is, using relevant frameworks to support this evaluation”

To write this assignment you will have spent a lot of time studying your company’s sustainability report (or whatever they have called it). In this section you need to review how they do their reporting.

Ask yourself questions such as:

• Have I drawn on the PWC Reporting with Purpose and Impact criteria for Balanced Reporting and External Assurance to carry out this evaluation ?
• Have I identified and commented on the indicators they have chosen to report against (e.g. GRI, SDGs)?
• Have I used other company reports as a means of comparison to enable a critical evaluation of how comprehensive and transparent my focus company is?

Task 3

“A conclusions section that sums up your evaluation and makes relevant recommendations for future improvements to their strategy and performance”

Remember that as you only have 2000 words for the whole report, this section will necessarily be quite brief. So make sure to avoid lengthy repetition of material already covered.

As you look back over your own report and write this section you can ask yourself these questions:

• Have I been clear about what key sustainability challenges are facing my organisation?
• How can I present a balanced conclusion about how effective my company’s strategy and performance are in relation to its sustainability challenges?
• Do I make it clear on what basis I have come to this conclusion?
• Have I provided a clear line of argument through the report using reputable evidence that is correctly cited using Harvard referencing?
• Have I made specific recommendations for how the company could further improve its sustainability strategy and performance?
• Do these recommendations follow logically from the findings of my evaluation identified earlier?

Having watched “A Million Little Things” (Season 3 episodes 1-14), write a paper that provides your own analysis of the show and the kinds of issues raised and how it addresses these issues

Description

Having watched “A Million Little Things” (Season 3 episodes 1-14), write a paper that provides your own analysis of the show and the kinds of issues raised and how it addresses these issues. Draw from examples from the show to illustrate your points. I am looking for your own thinking, not rehashing of media coverage of the show. Feel free to just read a plot summary of season 3 episodes 1-14 ONLY. Thank you

Identify the key issues, providing appropriate support from the health psychology literature.

Stress Case Study

John is a 45 year-old man who has been suffering with stress recently. He has been finding it hard to sleep, and he has been getting very angry with others. He has also been having some issues with his breathing, sometimes it speeds up and he finds it hard to breathe. He has two small children aged 5 and 7 and a wife who is a stay at home mother. John is the sole income provider for the family. He works in a factory on the assembly line, and there has been talk of replacing staff with computer technology. All the staff are worried and feel as though they need to work even faster to show that they can be just as efficient as the machines. John is finding that he is having conflict with his co-workers as he is very competitive and deadline driven. He is getting really cross with his co-workers if they want to take their breaks and the work has not been completed. John frequently misses his breaks. His wife has noticed that John seems irritable, but he hasn’t told her anything about his breathing difficulties. Every time she tries to talk to John about it, he heads down the pub with his friends. In fact, he is there most nights after work. He prefers it there, as they don’t talk about problems, they play darts and just have some drinks and a few laughs. John and his wife haven’t been anywhere together, just the two of them, since the children were born as they don’t have any family close by to look after them, and they can’t afford a babysitter.

1. Identify the key issues, providing appropriate support from the health psychology literature.
2. Drawing on research evidence, outline a tailored health psychology intervention for this individual.

What are the impacts of affordable healthcare policies in low-income communities?

Research Paper: Outline Assignment

Affordable Healthcare Policy

The Affordable Healthcare Policy is a government initiative that works under the economic theory of socialism by ensuring equity in healthcare access (Frech et al., 2017). Due to significant challenges experienced in the past when accessing healthcare services, the affordable healthcare policy seeks to bridge the gap between the poor and the access to quality healthcare. The policy seeks to achieve its objectives by regulating insurance and pharmaceutical companies to reduce healthcare costs.

Proposed Research Question

What are the impacts of affordable healthcare policies in low-income communities?

Affordable Healthcare

Financial security in healthcare involves expanding insurance coverage to meet the affordable healthcare requirements. Most individuals have been enrolled in Medicaid, thus eliminating healthcare costs in excess of 30 percent of income (Martin, 2015). More than 7.3 million people have benefited from the affordable healthcare policy through significant contributions to various insurance companies. Individuals from low-income communities have enrolled in various insurance programs as part of affordable healthcare policy requirements. The government considers health a public good that should be accessible to all without discriminating against the marginalized (Borgonovi et al., 2012). Therefore, it regulates the healthcare industry by ensuring insurance and pharmaceutical companies comply with various requirements to avoid exploitation. More than 31 states expanded their Medicaid, thus increasing enrollment by 36 percent to ensure quality care for all. Various states, such as Minnesota, California, and Connecticut, increased adult coverage by 7.3 percent in low-income communities. Moreover, more than 6 million young adults from low-income communities have enrolled for medical insurance, therefore facilitating the affordable healthcare policy (Patel et al., 2020). Government subsidies for healthcare have increased enrollment rates among adults in low-income communities, thus facilitating access to quality care as a public good.

Proposed Research Methodology

Since this research will entail the impacts of affordable healthcare policy in low-income communities, primary data sources will be significant to obtain first-hand information. Interview questions regarding the research question will be prepared for participants to respond to. The sample population will involve youths over 18 years and adults from low-income communities to determine their experience with the affordable healthcare policy and its impact on their lives (Patel et al., 2020). Therefore, the participant’s response during the interview will indicate their viewpoint regarding the impacts of affordable healthcare policy in low-income communities. Since interviews will be significant in data collection, the study will prioritize qualitative research to obtain the participants’ relevant perceptions. The research will target 100 participants organized into 10 groups of 10 participants each for the interviews.

Proposed Preliminary Suppositions and Implications

The research will provide significant knowledge on affordable healthcare and the economic theory of socialism by defining the government’s role in ensuring equitable access to public goods such as healthcare (Jakovljevic, 2013). Moreover, the research findings will impact future research by developing significant policies, data analysis methods, and theoretical understanding of various topics. The research will be significant for future practitioners in the government planning sector as it will develop a significant analysis of ensuring equitable access to services. Therefore, the research will be beneficial to health insurance companies, private investors, and different countries willing to implement universal healthcare programs.

References

Borgonovi, E., & Compagni, A. (2012, November 14). Sustaining Universal Health Coverage: The Interaction of Social, Political, and Economic Sustainability. Value in Health. Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1098301512041575

Frech, H. E., & Zweifel, P. (2017). Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health Insurance. Comparative Economic Studies. Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/compes/v59y2017i3d10.1057_s41294-017-0027-3.html

Jakovljevic, M. B. (2013). Resource Allocation Strategies in Southeastern European Health Policy. The European journal of health economics: HEPAC: health economics in prevention and care. Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23143312/

Martin, E. J. (2015). Healthcare policy legislation and administration: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 407-411.

Patel, K., & Rushefsky, M. E. (2020). Healthcare Politics and policy in America. Routledge.

What steps is China taking to address the environmental problems caused by air pollution and improve the country’s air quality Air pollution is at the top of China’s priority list in every aspect.

What steps is China taking to address the environmental problems caused by air pollution and improve the country’s air quality Air pollution is at the top of China’s priority list in every aspect. How is China effectively addressing this issue?

Essays must not exceed 3,000 words.

All sources used in your summative assessments must be properly referenced using Harvard Referencing.

Please focus on the issue of how effective has China’s policy response to the problem has been – or what challenges has it/is it facing in responding the problem of environmental degradation – this will serve to focus your essay on the analytical components and steer away from more normative/prescriptive (what they SHOULD do) as well as the more descriptive elements (what is happening).

Learning Outcomes Assessed:

Communication and Presentation (Written)

Research and Interpretation of Information

Critical analysis and evaluation

Knowledge and Understanding

persuade a generally educated audience of your thesis about Barthes’ argument and the influence of digital photography and/or social media

Essay Instructions

Essay 4 (E4) is a persuasive essay using Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida as the central

component. The purpose is to persuade a generally educated audience of your thesis about

Barthes’ argument and the influence of digital photography and/or social media or one of the

other topics listed later in this prompt. Additionally, this essay calls for outside, academic

sources; use at least 3 outside, academic sources and no more than 5 sources. Make sure these

are appropriate sources—Anthony Weston’s A Rulebook for Arguments can help with this.

Suitable sources may come from EBSCO, JSTOR, and Mirror of Race at mirrorofrace.org. Suitable sources may come from EBSCO, JSTOR, and Mirror of Race at mirrorofrace.org. As

usual, use MLA style formatting: 1inch margins, typed, double-spaced, no extra spacing between

paragraphs and heading lines, easy to read font style (e.g., Times New Roman or Arial), 12 point

font size, etc. This essay must be 5 pages minimum.

The first task of E4 is to summarize, explain, and analyze Barthes’ argument. Here, talk

about the studium and the punctum. Be careful because auto correct likes to change these words.

Also, discuss time and death in this section. Photos from Barthes’ book or other photos may be

utilized; however, the pictures will not count in the page count. Be sure to use quotes and

paraphrases from the reading throughout this essay. The in-text citations must be done properly

for both the direct quotes and paraphrases. Remember to cite Barthes on the Works Cited page and any photograph chosen not in Barthes’ book, refer to the MLA Handbook.

Task number two is to choose which topic(s) to address since Barthes brings many to

light. These notions overlap; thus, talking about some or all of them may be necessary. Provided

in the Modules are some videos, essays, and articles to help with E4. The following are some

directions to take:

1. a) the affect of digital photography and/or social media on Barthes argument
2. b) truth in photographs, referring to Barthes “this has been” (79) and “that has been” (77)
3. c) equalization or democratization of photographs/information/content/

communication/visibility through photography and social media and/or digital

photography, Fried’s article from Mirror of Race may be helpful here—do photos

equalize people, as Frederick Douglass believed; also, does social media and/or the

digitization of photographs and photography equalize photographs/information/

content/communication/visibility?

1. d) time, death, and/or history
2. e) connection to others and/or history
3. f) the perspective of the photographer, which Barthes does not really spend time

examining

In this essay, find 3-5 additional academic sources. You may use the videos, essays, and articles as outside sources. At least one of outside sources must be a written source—either a book, article, or essay. Be sure to cite properly within the text and on the Works Cited page.