Aging Lyrics

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Analysis of Lyrics Assignmen

Select a song with lyrics that suggest an aging theme. Provide a complete citation for the song and a copy of the lyrics. Then you will write a short paper (3-5 pages) (Times New Roman 12 point, one inch margins on all sides, double spaced) in addition to a cover sheet. answering the following questions:
What do the lyrics have to do with aging?
In whose voice is the song? (For example, an aged person reminiscing or a younger person looking ahead or “preminiscing”)
What is the lyrical Message (moral message, dedication, etc)
What is the image of Aging (frail, wise one, experienced, etc.)
How, if at all, are elements of the “life course perspective” treated?
a) Personal attributes (personality traits, genes, adaptive resources)
b) Birth cohort
c) Period effects
d) Stratification

2:Phenomenology, grounded theory

Studying the five major approaches to qualitative research (case studies, narrative, phenomenology, grounded theory, and ethnography). For this Discussion activity, you will review and critically reflect on each of the approaches presented, and then select the approach that you believe will best suit the research problem, purpose, and questions you developed last week.

Consider looking ahead to this week’s Application assignment as it asks you to analyze the five approaches and draft a problem, purpose, and research questions for each one. Beginning that assignment may assist you with thinking about this Discussion.

Review the reading for this week in Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches. Analyze the five approaches presented by Creswell. What kinds of research questions seem to fit with each approach?

Review the research questions you developed in the Week 2 Discussion.

Of the five approaches presented in Creswell this week, which is the best fit for the research questions you developed? How does the approach fit your research questions? Which approach is the next best fit? Why did you choose one approach over the other?

Write 3 paragraphs in which you present your research questions, select the qualitative approach that best fits the questions, and defend your selection. Include an explanation of which approach would be the next best choice for your research questions, and explain how you decided between the two approaches to find the best fit.

3:The Paleolithic period

1. In general, how do anthropologists describe life for humans during the Paleolithic period?
2. What is the significance of the Figurine (or Venus) of Willendorf?
3. In what ways did humans benefit from the domestication of animals, and how did that help to change the lifestyle of humans during the Neolithic period?
4. What does “Mesopotamia” mean? What are the three successive ancient Mesopotamian civilizations? And, on a current world map, what modern countries correspond to ancient Mesopotamia?
5. What are pictograms, ideograms, and phonograms?
6. What is cuneiform, and who invented it?
7. What does it mean when we say that Mesopotamians viewed their deities through the following: polytheism, anthropomorphism, and pantheism?
8. We’ve seen the similarities and differences between the Mesopotamian Utnapishtim and the Hebrew Noah. But, what do you make of those similarities and differences? How do you view the two stories together?
9. Discuss at least two of Hammurabi’s laws and your reactions to them. Also, how does the Code of Hammurabi compare to U.S. Constitutional law? Which do you prefer, and why?
10. What is Egyptian zoomorphism?
11. What do we mean when we say that Egypt was a theocracy? How did it happen practically?
12. What is significant about the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti?
13. What are some typical characteristics of Egyptian sculpture?
14. Who was the most successful female pharaoh to rule alone in ancient Egypt, and how would you characterize her?
15. What is the ancient Egyptian writing system? What discovery led to the deciphering of that system, and how did it do that?
16. Read the selections from The Book of the Dead in your Readings book. How would you summarize the Egyptian view of judgment and the afterlife based on these selections? Also, how does it compare or contrast to your own view?
17. What material did you find most interesting to study in Chapter 1? In other words, what did we cover that you would be most apt to further discover on your own time?
18. What was your favorite creative work from Chapter 1? It can be a painting, a sculpture, literature, you name it. What piece stood out the most to you?

Egyptian writing system