Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Scheduling is essential to a project’s success. Forming a network activity with a visual depiction helps the team understand the relationships of tasks in a project. Two of the most common charts used in project management are the Gantt and program evaluation review technique (PERT) charts. The purpose of these charts is to assist with project scheduling and illustrate task dependencies. Another tool that can be used is the critical path method (CPM).

1. Research and define PERT, CPM, and Gantt relative to project planning, scheduling, and control.
2. Respond to the following:

o What are the advantages and disadvantages of each technique in project management?

o How do these techniques assist in monitoring and controlling the project activity?

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Do you still have all the files from the last assignment? Worried about finalising it as you will need those files for this assignment?

Paper instructions:
You will present a summary of your research work and your findings to your peers.

(Oral presentation or poster)

Paper instructions:
REMEMBER TO KEEP TO THE BRIEF AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Assignment Title: Presentation of Research Work

Learning Outcomes:
3. Independently plan, execute and present hypothesis-driven work.
4. Demonstrate an ability to select and apply appropriate subject knowledge from across their programme of study.

Rationale:
As part of a course of study in science at this level students need to put into practise the processes of scientific discovery and present their own research work. This assignment provides an opportunity for students to either orally present their research work or present it in the form of a poster, in the style used when addressing a research conference.

Brief:
You are required to present a summary of your specialist research study at the SDC HE Research Dissemination Event. This event is in the style of a research conference/symposium and you must present your work in one of the two forms appropriate for that kind of event in science. The two forms are either a poster or an oral presentation. You must include a brief description of your methods, an analysis of your results and present your conclusions. Also include an evaluation of your experimental design, improvements and suggestions for further work.
You should be prepared to answer questions from attendees at the event.
This presentation will be based upon your written report in assignment 2 and may contain similar sections as appropriate.
The specific form of the presentation will be discussed with your supervisor.

Assessment Criteria:
1. Development of the conceptual framework for the research project: 10%
2. Theoretical background to the research undertaken: 30%
3. Findings and discussion of the research: 30%
4. Conclusions and recommendations: 10%
5. Presentation of work, design/layout: 20%

The writer must be English as it is to be written in English, not American or Chinese English. Would rather that not so many American (uni/college) websites were referenced either, I hope you know what I mean by this.

HAVE INCLUDED A FILE called example of a past paper that shows what harvard referencing should look like called EXAMPLE PLEASE LOOK AT THIS.

YOU MUST LOOK AT JOURNALS FOR THIS. Where possible reference from up to date journals (from the last four years) and reference from the suggested reading list at the bottom of the instructions. As a rule use around 1 reference (from different sources) for every 100 words, use journals mainly, up to date books and try to stay away from webpages.

Type of assignment: Presentation

Word count: N/A

Format:
Oral presentation supported by any resources appropriate/available. Computer, projector and IWB available for use.
Poster presentation: A1 poster printed out.
All references must be cited in both forms of communication. Referencing system appropriate to the assignment handbook. Refer to your Assignment Handbook for further guidance.

Indicative reading:

Texts
Cottrell, S. (2008) The study skills handbook. 3rd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN-13: 978-0230573055
Walliman, N. (2005) Your Research Project: A Step-by-Step Guide for the First-Time Researcher. 2nd edition. London: Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-8178295404

Scenario:

Your family has always been very politically active.  From a young age, you have been politically aware.  When you were young, you worked with your parents as they supported their political party and you even helped during campaigns for the candidates your parents supported.  In college, you were a leader of the organization on campus that was part of the political party you supported.  This could have been the Young Democrats or the Young Republicans or any college group that supported the political party of your choice.  Until your exposure at college, you always supported the same political party as your parents, but then your views began to change and you developed your own  ideas, ideals and expectations.  While you continued to remain politically active, you have become more and more disillusioned with the current major and third parties and movements on the political scene, having studied all thoroughly.  You have come to be completely discouraged by the state of the political process as it pertains to political parties.  In your opinion,  none of the major or third parties truly represents the best interests of the citizens, and you have decided to create your own political party.

Directions. In a 4-5 page Microsoft Word document, include the following:

1. Name your political party and evaluate why you have chosen that name.
2. Create a symbol for your political party and explain why you have chosen that symbol.
3. Create a slogan for your political party and justify why you have chosen that slogan.
4. Develop  a platform for your political party. A platform is a written outline and explanation of what your party believes in and why.  Your party can be a single-issue party, an ideological party, a splinter party, or a regular broad based political party.  Your platform must have at least four positions under the following topics.  Summarize each platform position.
   1. Social Issues
   2. Domestic Issues
   3. Foreign Policy
5. Design a brochure or one-page flyer for your political party that you would hand out to voters to introduce and explain your party.  In this flyer you want to include the essentials of what your party stands for, points of your platform, and  the benefits of joining your party.
6. Project what demographic groups would vote for your political party and why. What demographic groups will your political party reach out to and seek support from?
7. Predict what regions of the country will support your political party and why? Or, what regions of country will your party win? Justify your claims.
8. Compare the areas of support with those of other political parties.
9. What main idea or belief is your political party based upon? Why? For example, in the 2008 election, the Democrats focused a lot on the economy and the war in Iraq.

Some links that may help you understand and assess current political parties, which in turn may help you to create your political party.

• The Democratic Party Web site http://www.democrats.org/
• Republican National Committee http://www.rnc.org
• Politics 1 http://www.politics1.com/ (directory of U.S. political parties)

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What are the implications for web design and online instructional pedagogy if:
1. most people can only handle a very limited number of disconnected bits of information at the same time.
2. most people look for familiar patterns to understand and handle new information.
3. most people can handle a limited number of information rich pictures or stories at the same time.
4. most people are more comfortable with handling analogue data (is a picture of) than digital data (is identical to).
Write 400 words on this subject and chunking.
Separate teacher instructions
• If most people can only handle a very limited number of disconnected bits of information at the same time …
• If most people look for familiar patterns in order to understand and handle new information …
• If most people can handle only a limited number of information rich pictures or stories at the same time …
• If most people are more comfortable with handling analogue data (is a picture of) than digital data (is identical to) …
Then what are the implications for designing an information-rich online class with which “most people” can interface?
Write 400 words on designing an information-rich online class with which “most people” can interface supported by references.
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Topic:  Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse

1. Have a clearly defined thesis. You should be able to say in one sentence, “in this paper I argue that ___________.”

2. Articulate your thesis in your opening paragraph.

3. Emember that posing a hypothetical question is not the same thing as articulating a thesis.

Your thesis should be in the form of a declarative statement

4. Take intellectual risks and make your thesis interesting. If you’re stating the obvious or

regurgitating exactly what you read in class then you’re not thinking hard enough, and I will

be bored.

5. Saying “Gosh, things sure have changed since then” is not an acceptable thesis for a history

paper. You need to explain how and why things have changed. Similarly, saying “Let’s review everything that happened in the past 500 years” is not a thesis. You need to make an explicit argument about historical change.

6. Consider that generally it is better to go narrow and deep than wide and superficial. Tackling a few texts and offering a focused inquiry is better than trying to include everything. If you try to cover the waterfront, you will not venture beyond the shallows.

7. Stay off the soapbox. Righteous indignation is a poor substitute for thoughtful analysis. 8. Avoid hyperbole. Exaggerating facts and overstating your case will weaken your paper.

Exploring subtleties and addressing contradictions will strengthen it.

9. Do not ask hypothetical questions that you have no intention of answering.

10. Support your thesis throughout your paper. Your paper should be structured as one big

argument proving your thesis. Draft an outline of your argument before you start writing. 11. Keep your eyes on the prize by ensuring that each paragraph advances a new point or a new

example in support of your thesis. Every paragraph should have a point, and you should have no more than one point per paragraph. Think of each paragraph as a mini essay, with a thesis articulated in the first or second sentence, followed by example or elaboration.

12. Be sure your paragraphs flow by being attentive to transitions. Signposts like “Next I’m going to talk about X” or “Moving on to Y…” are red flags indicating a weak expository structure and an ill-formulated thesis.

13. Use specific examples and quotes from the texts we’ve studied to support your argument. Be sure to cite the page numbers of the passages you quote.

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14. Remember that summarizing a text or quoting from a text is not the same as analyzing it. Texts are never self-explanatory. You need to explain how you are interpreting each passage you quote.

15. Make your conclusion intellectually provocative or otherwise interesting. If you’re just repeating what you say in the introduction or the body of the paper then you’re not challenging yourself, and I will be bored. End with a bang, not a mumble.

16. Write clearly. I am impressed more by lucid prose than fancy words. Fancy words used incorrectly impress me not at all.

17. Do not rely on iWikigoogleazon for your information. Everything you read online is a lie.

Social Movements Essay #1: Stuck Rubber Baby

Your assignment is to write a 3-5 page paper on Howard Cruse’s graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby (SRB) in relation to our readings on social movements. You have a wide degree of latitude with respect to what you write about and how you approach the assignment, but here are some general guidelines:

Pick a single page (or even a single panel) of SRB to focus your discussion. You can and should of course discuss other parts of the book, but be sure to root your argument in specifics. Focusing on a particular part of the book will help you do this.

Write on a single question. Do not try to cover everything in the book that is relevant to the history of social movements. The narrower your thesis, the stronger will be your paper.

Follow the guidelines in “How to Get an A on a Verter Paper.” And see the guidelines for written work at the end of our syllabus.

Here are SOME of the questions you can write on. DO NOT EVEN TRY to write on them all (see #2 above). These are just to get you thinking. If there is some aspect of the book not mentioned here that you would like to write on, go ahead. Just make sure it has some relevance to the subject of our class.

? How does Toland’s social consciousness change over the course of the novel? How does he become involved with the cause of racial justice? Why does he participate to the extent that he does? What holds him back? How are his personal struggles with his sexual identity related to the larger political struggles around him?

? Consider one or two of the other activists – Ginger, for example, or Rev. Harland, Mable, Anna Dellyne, Shiloh Reed, Sledge Rankin, Raeburn, Esmo, etc. How would you characterize him or her? What defines that person’s activist style? What seems to motivate him or her, and what personal struggles must he or she overcome? How would you compare them with some of the other characters in the books?

? Trace some of the social networks that unite civil rights activists in the book. What different worlds are brought together? What parts of society are excluded or uninvolved? What resonances are there with McAdam’s characterization of the activists recruited for Freedom Summer?

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? Is there a common culture or consciousness that unites the civil rights activists in the book? What builds community among them? Consider the role of music, for example, or of particular forms of humor. Try this thought experiment: Two characters in the book meet for the first time. Neither is carrying a protest sign. How might they recognize the fact that they are both sympathetic to the struggle? What signs or attitudes might they share?

? How do movement leaders in SRB organize the ranks? Consider Rev. Pepper, or the organizer on p. 67. What specific actions are they trying to catalyze? What are they trying to avoid? Are they successful? Why or why not?

? What resources do civil rights leaders in SRB mobilize to get people going? Think about Aldon Morris’s discussion of what churches offered to organizers of the early sit-ins. Do you see similar uses of resources here? What resources does Rev Pepper use that are not covered in Morris’s discussion. How, for example, does he get the fence torn down at Russell Park?

? What incidents get people in SRB more mobilized and committed to the cause of racial justice? What gets them discouraged? What effect is generated by the opposition of the police, the procedures of the courts, and other representatives of state power?

? Consider the role of Sutton Chopper. Raeburn and his friends suggest they manipulate him. Are they right or are they fooling themselves? What are the advantages and disadvantages of goading the oppressor? How does their goading jive with Rev. Pepper’s discussion of nonviolence and the “strategic advantage” of refusing to “take their bait” (p. 111)?

? There are several movement-related deaths in the book – Emmet Till, Sledge Rankin, the innocents at the Melody Motel, and perhaps Sammy Noone. What sort of reactions are generated by this violence? Are martyrs inevitable in a social revolution? Are martyrs necessary? Can non-violence be sustained in the face of violence? Why does Les say his slumping days are over (p. 201)?

? Orley is one of several deeply religious racists in the book (see p. 88, for example). How would you compare their religious and social perspectives with those of, say, Rev. Pepper’s? How do you make sense of the different combinations of spiritual and racial attitudes?

? Riley suggests that the news media replicates the culture of white supremacy: “Crackers write the news an’ crackers read the news that crackers write. All of us are crackers too. We were raised to be crackers. There ain’t no fuckin’ way not to be a cracker around here!” (p. 99). Is he right? Is the news media part of the problem? Can social activists get a fair shake from the mainstream media? Can the revolution ever be televised?

? The Rhombus, the Alleysax: is the overlap in SRB between civil rights activists and the gay subculture coincidental? Consider Sammy’s confrontation with his paralyzed father in which he embraces his identity as a “nigger-loving queer” (p. 163).

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Answer each of the three Freedom Questions for this unit in a 500-700 word essay each. All three essays should be saved in one document. At the top, indicate which

essay you would like for me to assess for a grade (a simple note will suffice). Please note that youDemocratic Party dominated liberal state and toward a Republican Party conservative style of governance must complete each essay to receive credit. Lack of a good faith

effort overall will result in a lowered grade. Save the file as a PDF (if you need help with that, call the Help Desk at 346-4357). Submit to D2L Dropbox. The same

rubric used in the Practice Essay will be used in the Portfolios.

Use the following introduction into the material to frame your thinking about the topic. Use readings listed on the syllabus.

The last two questions ask you to consider the rise of conservatism in the late twentieth-century United States. With the election of the Republican Richard Nixon in

1968, the country began a turn away from the Democratic Party dominated liberal state and toward a Republican Party conservative style of governance. There were many

reasons for this transition. Many liberals lost faith in the Democratic Party, seeing its leadership as responsible for the Vietnam War.

…….

Americans of both parties

found fault with government in the wake of Watergate and the Church Commission in the mid-1970s. In this moment of retreat from championing government, a large

opportunity opened for supporters of free enterprise.

Arguments by such proponents of that idea as Ronald Reagan argued that government was no longer the solution to social problems, but the problem itself. His leadership

of the Republican Party courted evangelical Christians, a growing group of Americans in the 1970s. He also used “coded” language to attract those Americans still

reluctant to support the continuing civil rights movement. In 1980s, he won the presidency in a landslide. Since then, the idea of free enterprise has become more and

more commonly accepted in the United States–a large reversal from the days of FDR’s New Deal. In fact, even Democratic Party leaders such as Bill Clinton accepted and

advanced the idea in the 1990s.
How did these changes happen? That large question guides the two Freedom Questions for this unit and helps explain the world we live in today. In the 1970s, why did

many Americans turn away from New Deal and Great Society ideas about freedom? Why did conservative ideas about freedom gain popularity in the 1980s and 1990s? 20

In the 1970s, why did many Americans turn away from New Deal and Great Society ideas about freedom?
Of course, not all Americans turned away from the Democratic Party’s legacy of government programs (of which the New Deal and the Great Society were the most

significant). But many did. Your goal is to explain why they did.
Begin by listing all of the major conflicts of the 1970s—the “hot button issues.” For each, identify why they were important and why they seemed to undermine support

for the Democratic Party.
What patterns emerge in the list? You might find patterns in the types of freedom that reappear, or perhaps in the way each example revealed dissatisfaction with

Democrats.
Your main idea should be straightforward. Of course you cannot explain all the reasons why political opinion started shifting away from the Democrats’ longtime focus

on government programs, but you can offer a reasonable idea. Remember, it’s alright to note near your main idea the limits of what can be explained.
Now, take the rest of your time to brainstorm some sub-arguments. At this stage, it will be helpful to consider what did not make it into your main idea, but seemed

important to discuss.
Finally, check your work to make certain you’ve explained the ways in which freedom was used, just to make sure you have not left it undefined in its various contexts.
Why did conservative ideas about freedom gain popularity in the 1980s and 1990s?
Begin by thinking about how conservatives defined freedom. Make a short list of the most common ways conservatives thought about freedom in this decade.
Next to each, list all the conservatives who subscribed to that idea of freedom. Then, write down why. Be certain to note what sort of events or controversies they

were associated with.

…….

As you well know by now, you should start looking for patterns.
Your main idea should be direct. You might have found various good reasons, but focus on the one you think is most important. When you state your main idea, you can

always offer that it cannot account for everything, but that it is still an important idea.
Now, take the rest of your time to brainstorm some sub-arguments. At this stage, it will be helpful to consider what did not make it into your main idea, but seemed

important to discuss.

Questions to be answered
In the 1970s, why did many Americans turn away from New Deal and Great Society ideas about freedom?
Why did conservative ideas about freedom gain popularity in the 1980s and 1990s?

Use voices of freedom and use concert examples

Grading Rubric for Essays:
A: This work is excellent in nearly all aspects, keeping the interest of the reader by presenting original ideas clearly. Its style and organization seem natural and

easy. It supports claims with solid evidence, using impeccable logic to do so. In thorough and specific examples, the author demonstrates a deep knowledge of the

material.
B: Work in this category is competent and good, but with lapses here and there. Its thesis is clear, properly limited, and reasonable, and the writing is generally

effective without rising to sustained distinction. The author uses specific examples, but not to a great extent.
C: This type of work is competent but not yet good. It is adequately organized, but the thesis tends to be vague or imprudent, though not necessarily implausible. Poor

presentation, unclear organization, or significant grammars errors may mar otherwise sound ideas. In some papers, the organization, style, and grammar are fine, but

the ideas need development.
D: This work demonstrates some effort on the author’s part, but technical problems or flaws in thinking keep it from being competent. The author shows minimal

familiarity with course meetings and assigned readings.
F: This is a failing grade, usually reserved for work that demonstrates minimal effort on the author’s part.

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Your local town is addressing the following issues in its law-making:

1. Should people under 18 be subjected to legal curfews or restricted driving privileges?

2. Should libraries be required to install filtering software or otherwise censor the materials that they provide?

3. Should insurance companies in your state be required to pay for breast reconstruction, birth control pills, or Viagra?

4. Should the use of camera phones be banned in local gymnasiums or other locations?

As an active citizen, you ask to research and present to the town’s citizens one of the above issues. The governing body has agreed and asks that your presentation be specifically designed to show citizens of the community how and why one of the issues above is controversial and how to be educated consumers of information regarding this issue. They ask this because the citizens will be voting on these issues in future elections and the governing body wants its citizens to be properly educated on these topics.

In your presentation, make sure you include the following:

Remember, you are giving a presentation to an audience that does not know much, if anything, about your topic.

• Explain the issue, including definitions of common terms involved in the issue and why this issue is controversial.
• Identify and describe three to four different conclusions that are drawn when arguments related to the issue are made.
• Summarize the kinds of evidence typically used for each constructed argument related to the issue. Be sure to discuss the reasons these kinds of evidence are used and/or are most effective.
• Analyze how each of the different conclusions regarding the topic use particular evidence to support their claims, paying particular attention to analyzing how the conclusions rely on different facts, different sources of evidence, or different reasoning from other conclusions. In other words, explain why certain groups would use a particular type of evidence while an opposing group would use a different type of evidence, or how two groups can represent that same data in two completely different ways.
• Utilize at least three different sources and properly cite them throughout the presentation.

The presentation should be 8 to 10 slides long, and each slide should have complete, formally written slide notes (proper grammar, APA formatting, and academic tone) for record-keeping purposes and in the event there are citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing at your presentation. The slide notes must include proper APA citation of sources, proper paragraphing, and proper grammar and tone. Visually, the slides should be easy to read. A properly APA-formatted reference page must be the last slide of your presentation. See the rubric for more specific requirements of the presentation.

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