Write a 15-page essay on Psalm 119 explaining how it talks about us making deals with God all because we kept following his word.
Category: Bible
8 required sources with 5 being web-based only. Each student will write a Paper on one of the specific topics suggested. The date for presentation of the paper in class be will be chosen as the beginning of the class. The presenter will present a PowerPoint of the paper topic in class (length 15 minutes). The paper itself will be a minimum of six pages long, must be a documented synthesis of various sources (at least 8, only 5 web-based only), which might include the class text (Tuesdays with Morrie, Mere Christianity, or Making Choices,) as well as outside readings suggested on teh resources handout. Movies, music, personal experiences, and other appropriate materials are welcome for the class presentation.
Instructions
PROMPT: Choose a critical passage, two or three related passages, or a broader subject that can be specifically identified in Scripture. Analyze the passage(s). Answer questions about the passages. Some example questions follow. YOU ARE NOT EXPECTED TO ANSWER ALL THESE QUESTIONS. These are examples.
What is the significance of the passage(s)?
Why were the important to the Israelites? Has that changed now?
What do these passages tell us God?
What do we learn about Christ?
What do we learn about salvation history?
What do we learn about God’s role in our lives?
Guidelines for writing the paper:
The Research Paper must be typed, double-spaced. It must be 5 pages in length. It can be longer if you wish but avoid going beyond 10 pages.
Please type this paper in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, with reasonable margins.
Please keep in mind that this is both a research paper and a Scripture paper. You should be engaging the text directly and using multiple sources to build your paper.
This is a research paper. Therefore, you must have references in your paper to demonstrate where your ideas came from. Any assertion you make that is not just an opinion needs a reference to back it up.
You must use footnotes or endnotes for your final paper! See the footnote reference below.
You also must have a bibliography.
The number of sources you use is up to you. For a paper of this length, you should be able to come up with at least four sources other than the Bible, but that would be a minimum.
Avoid all sources that you grabbed from just a Google search. These articles and webpages can help you understand your text (and you can include them in your bibliography) but they are not academic sources.
Academic journals are great; use the academic databases available in the library! Note many scholarly articles on biblical studies, however, are going to be “deeper” than you might be able to follow.
Your paper must have a thesis statement! This is a statement, within the first paragraph (and on the first page), that plainly tells me both what your topic is and what your “take” on that topic will be.
If you do not know how to do footnotes and bibliography, please consult the following website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html
Use the Notes and Bibliography style not the Author-Date style
The B&K Real Estate Company sells homes and is currently serving the Southeast region. It has recently expanded to cover the Northeast states. The B&K realtors are excited to now cover the entire East Coast and are working to prepare their southern agents to expand their reach to the Northeast.
B&K has hired your company to analyze the Northeast home listing prices in order to give information to their agents about the mean listing price at 95% confidence. Your company offers three analysis packages: one based on a sample size of 100 listings, one based on 1,000 listings, and another based on a sample size of 4,000 listings. Because there is an additional cost for data collection, your company charges more for the package with 4,000 listings than for the package with 100 listings.
Bronze Package – Sample size of 100 listings:
95% confidence interval for the mean of the Northeast house listing price has a margin of error of $24,500
Cost for service to B&K: $2,000
Silver Package – Sample size of 1,000 listings:
95% confidence interval for the mean of the Northeast house listing price has a margin of error of $7,750
Cost for service to B&K: $10,000
Gold Package – Sample size of 4,000 listings:
95% confidence interval for the mean of the Northeast house listing price has a margin of error of $3,900
Cost for service to B&K: $25,000
The B&K management team does not understand the tradeoff between confidence level, sample size, and margin of error. B&K would like you to come back with your recommendation of the sample size that would provide the sales agents with the best understanding of northeast home prices at the lowest cost for service to B&K.
In other words, which option is preferable?
Spending more on data collection and having a smaller margin of error
Spending less on data collection and having a larger margin of error
Choosing an option somewhere in the middle
For your initial post:
Formulate a recommendation and write a confidence statement in the context of this scenario. For the purposes of writing your confidence statement, assume the sample mean house listing price is $310,000 for all packages. “I am [#] % confident the true mean . . . [in context].”
Explain the factors that went into your recommendation, including a discussion of the margin of error
For your response posts to your peers, choose two different confidence intervals for your responses. Do you think the agents would prefer a different confidence interval than their management? What advantages and disadvantages would there be in having different confidence intervals for the agents? Explain your thought process and reasoning in your response.
post 1
I am 95% confident the true mean house listing for the Northeast is between $285,500 and $334,500 with a margin error of $7,750. Utilizing the Silver package with the sample size of 1,000 listings out of the Northeast population. This margin of error of $7,750 is typically preferable to invest more in the data collection to reduce the margin of error. This ensures that your conclusions are based on reliable and precise information.
post2
I would recommend the Silver Package with a sample size of 1,000 listings for B&K. My confidence statement would be “I am 95% confident the true mean listing price of Northeast homes falls within the range of $302,250 to $317,750.” This option strikes a balance between cost and precision. While the Bronze Package is cheaper it has a larger margin of error might compromise the accuracy needed for informed decisions. On the other hand the Gold Package offers the smallest margin of error but at a significantly higher cost. As the sample size increases, the margin of error decreases. The Silver Package’s margin of error $7,750 is acceptable for B&K’s purposes, providing a reasonably narrow range around the estimated mean listing price and ensuring agents have a fairly accurate understanding of the market. A 95% confidence level is standard and offers a good balance between confidence and precision. It indicates a 95% chance that the true mean listing price falls within the calculated interval, giving B&K reasonable assurance in their decision-making process.