STEP 7: THE SOLUTIONS – 250-300 words: (15 PTS) After completing and reviewing the different research on the problems associated with this interpersonal issue and what causes it, come up with suggestions on how to solve this interpersonal communication problem. The solution section should be thorough & explain what the suggestions are and why they would make good solutions for the problem. This section should include information from your research in addition to sources from researchers to support that these are good solutions for the problem. (include at least 3 scholarly journals in this section, 1 must be only in this section)
Day: November 23, 2020
Pan’s Labyrinth and Fairy Tales
In this written assignment we suggest that you reflect on the theme of Pan’s Labyrinth and fairy tales. Could Del Toro’s film be considered a fairy tale? How does the film dialogue with this narrative genre? How is it similar to or different from these stories?
NO WORK CITED NEEDED
OUTLINE AND REFERENCES AFTER GUIDELINES
Research Paper Guidelines
1. The paper is to be approximately 10 pages long as follows:
a. Page 1: Cover sheet
b. Page 2: Table of Contents (the listings on this page are to be used as the headings throughout
the paper)
c. Page 3: Abstract
d. Pages 4 through 9: Body of the paper (which includes an introduction with a clearly stated thesis
and a conclusion at the end of the paper)
e. Page 10: Resources
2.
3. The paper is to be formatted per APA style; in general, this includes the following:
a. Text is to be double-spaced; do not add an extra space between paragraphs.
b. One-inch margins
c. 12-point, Times New Roman font
d. Page numbers (required)
e. Sources must be cited properly using APA style including a references page and intext/parenthetical citations throughout the paper.
f. Material borrowed verbatim (word-for-word) from resources must appear in quotation marks or in
an APA-style block quotation format.
Note: Per APA Guidelines, both quoted material and paraphrased ideas must be cited using a
reference to the author (or title of the article if the author is not identified) in the text (and/or
parenthetically) in the body of the paper. All sources referenced in the paper must appear on the
References page, and all sources listed on the References page must be referenced specifically
in the paper. Material borrowed verbatim must appear inside quotations marks, as necessary.
4. A minimum of five (5) different resources must be used in writing the paper. Research resources will
be limited to those available on the Internet (no Internet accessible books) and may be no more than
five (5) years old. This is to ensure that a topic relevant today is being addressed from a current
perspective. Avoid Internet subscriber services (such as material available only to AOL members or
e-magazine subscribers) and material with restricted access (such as material that may only be
accessed from systems running on some .mil or .gov domains).
5. Personal experience may be referenced sparingly in the paper, but must be supported by cited
research. One of the important aspects of this assignment is to use resource material properly.
Choose resources wisely as they must be appropriate for academic research. Blogs, Wikipedia, and
travel websites do not meet these criteria.
6. Avoid the use of I and you. (Avoid writing from the first person perspective.)
OUTLINE and REFERENCES:
Proposed topic: The evolution of NAFTA into USMCA
Description of the topic (3-4 sentences): A brief history of what drove NAFTA into being, and the recent transformation/implementation into USMCA. Political issues that arose and how (internal) agreement was reached. The major changes that USMCA wrought in contrast to NAFTA, and they way forward, not only with USMCA, but what effects in may have on other future trade agreements internationally.
Description of the relationship between your topic and the core values of community and/or personal
Development.
Community: This plays into how, as a nation, we interact with the global community, and how diplomacy and agreements pave the way not only economically, but build and maintain relationships.
Development: This goes into being educated about the world around us and interactions within that world. How you and your neighbors, friends, colleagues may be affected by changes in trade and economy and helping you understand how intertwined things can be.
Proposed subtopic 1 and brief description: A brief history on the origins of NAFTA, why and how it came about.
Proposed subtopic 2 and brief description: How and why USMCA came to be.
Proposed subtopic 3 and brief description: Internal politics and how USMCA was changed to reach bipartisan approval within the U.S.
Proposed subtopic 4 and brief description: The major changes implemented by USMCA and how they affected industry.
Proposed subtopic 5 and brief description: The way forward, future changes to the USMCA, and how it might drive changes to other international trade agreements.
(Note: The various subtopics are to be labeled in the paper; this will help keep the paper organized.)
Source 1
Title of article: USMCA vs NAFTA
Date of publication (if available; use n.d. if not available): Not Dated (Dept. of Commerce site)
Source 1 URL (must link directly to the article or show the path): https://www.trade.gov/usmca-vsnafta
Source 2
Title of article: The Switch From NAFTA to USMCA, What’s the Same and What’s Different?
Date of publication (if available; use n.d. if not available): 4/23/2019
Source 2 URL (must link directly to the article or show the path): https://globaledge.msu.edu/blog/post/55764/the-switch-from-nafta-to-usmca–what’s-the-same-and-what’s-different-
Source 3
Title of article: These 4 changes helped Trump and Democrats agree to the USMCA trade deal
Date of publication (if available; use n.d. if not available): 11 December 2019, updated 16 January, 2020
Source 3 URL (must link directly to the article or show the path): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/these-4-changes-helped-trump-and-democrats-agree-to-the-usmca-trade-deal
Source 4
Title of article: NAFTA Versus USMCA: Taxes, Tariffs, And Trade In North America
Date of publication (if available; use n.d. if not available): 22 January, 2020
Source 4 URL (must link directly to the article or show the path): https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2020/01/22/nafta-versus-usmca-taxes-tariffs-and-trade-in-north-america/?sh=41c95d204a13
Source 5
Title of article: NAFTA vs.USMCA: A Complete Comparison
Date of publication (if available; use n.d. if not available):12 August, 2020
Source 5 URL (must link directly to the article or show the path): https://usacustomsclearance.com/process/nafta-vs-usmca-a-complete-comparison/
In this section, you will develop a plan to implement, which will support your development and personal growth as a leader of self.
No outside resources are needed. In this section, create a set of aligned measurable activities that you will follow in your life. There are several ways you might want to consider approaching this, although the format is up to you. One method is to write your 3-5 most important values. Define what you need to do to follow each value and what you would have to do to not follow your values. Then for each value, define a long-range goal (3-5 years). Medium-term goals (1-2 years) and short-term goals (< 1 year) to accomplish these. Another approach might be to create a chart with all the various areas covered in class. Within this chart, show using measurable goals and dates and what you will do to make progress in this area.
Regardless of the approach you take, show what processes, changes in behavior, lifestyle, tools, and other resources which you will use after class to make progress towards your plan
Write an open-end response to the author of The War on Food Waste is a Waste of Time. You can either agree or disagree, but you need to have TWO arguments for doing so supported by facts.
Here is the article link: https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time
Research-Supported Interpretive-Persuasive Essay
Purpose
In our reading this semester, we have examined some of the argumentation strategies with which other writers construct persuasive arguments. For this assignment, you will construct a persuasive argument of your own. Writing arguments often requires credible evidence for its support from recognized authorities. In this assignment, you will practice research skills, create a reasoned argument, and support your argument with information from outside sources.
Assignment
Task: Choose one of the options listed at the end of this document and compose an analytical, research-supported argument of significance. Regardless of which topic that you choose, your essay must clearly establish your viewpoint and use multiple points to support your argument.
Ancillary Files: As part of your completion of the larger writing assignment, you will also be writing a prospectus for your essay and formally sharing with classmates your research.
Technical Requirements:
Sources: Use a minimum of five (5) credible sources, of at least three different types, to help support your argument. At least one (1) of your five sources must be academic. An important source note: If you are writing about a story (a novel, a tv show, etc.), that story itself is your essay’s subject and therefore cannot count as one of your minimum sources. The research sources are to help you to support your claims about the story (claims which would need quotes from the story whether or not you bring in outside sources for support).
Works Cited: An annotated Works Cited page is required.
Length: 2,000-2,500 words (excluding the Works Cited and/or any images), typed and double-spaced (approximately 10-12) pages
Format: Modern Language Association (MLA)
Submitting:
Submission Draft Due: Sunday, 22 November
Submit the essay through Canvas, as a file upload, from Assignments > Essay Three, by its due date. This webpage explains how to upload an assignment to Canvas.
Grading Rubric: These are the elements of structure by which I will be evaluating your essays. For examples of thesis statements and of body paragraphs, see the Writing Resources pages inside of our Canvas course.
Research Points
Compose an argumentative paper that uses research to support its argument.
Develop a claim about your subject and support this claim, and your explanation of reasoning, with research.
This paper is not to be a regurgitation of the available research (easily accomplishable by copy-and-paste but contributing nothing to your development of your claim).
Use reliable, credible sources.
Prioritize sites with .edu domains (instead of .com or even .org or .gov domains).
Use research journals with the word academic or university in the title.
Do not use Wikipedia, About.com, Spark Notes, or other such websites as sources.
Do not use encyclopedias and dictionaries as sources.
Apply the CRAAP test.
Annotate your Works Cited. An annotated Works Cited is useful in two ways.
It allows you to keep track of your research. Second,
It allows you to demonstrate the depth of your research.
Follow MLA guidelines,
for your page format,
for your in-paragraph source citations, and
for your Works Cited. (No, the Works Cited does not count toward the essays minimum number of pages.)
Options for Writing
Choose one of the topic options listed here. Compose an analytical, research-supported argument of significance, drawing on interpretation and persuasion. Note that the sub-topics are examples of how the topic options can be narrowed and focused. You are welcome to choose one of these examples or to work in another way with one of the topic options.
Examine a significant issue that Fahrenheit 451 explores, choosing one of the writing options from Essay 2.
Write an argument-driven essay about the effects of sport on participants. Examples include but are not limited to the following:
How would you answer Mark Edmunsons question Do sports build character or damage it? What kind(s) of character does exposure to sports develop? For what reasons?
Should children participate in sports, whether individual or team? Why?
Many private high schools require students to participate in a sport. Do you agree or disagree with this policy, and why?
How have professional sports been impacted by the use of performance enhancing drugs?
Is a sports team beneficial to a citys economy? How many sports teams in one city are beneficial?
Do professional sports teams rivalries help or hurt their communities?
Choose a social technological device or applicationsmartphones, laptops, tablets, i-Pods, Facebook, etc.and compose an argument about its use. Suggestions include but are not limited to the following:
Write about how a particular device or application is (or is not) changing how people relate to one anotherand why.
Write about why you would, or would not, let your sixteen-year-old use social media.
Should a teenager (under eighteen) use social media? Why or why not?
Do you agree or disagree with Steven Pinkers refutation of the claim that changing technologies are lessening our abilities as thinkers? Do you feel that our changing technologies are helping or harming our intellect? For what reasons?
Compose an argument of significance about health (physical, mental, or emotional health). Note: This argument may include evaluation and recommendation as part of its persuasive thesis claims support. Suggestions include but are not limited to the following:
Write about junk food taxes. Should such taxes be levied? Against what kind(s) of food and/or beverages? At what percentages?
Write about contributing factors and strategies for treating depression. For example, what links exist between perfectionism and depression in women? In men? What strategies can perfectionists employ?
Or, what are techniques for treating depression without prescription medications?
What are effective strategies for identifying suicide risks and for preventing suicide?
Write an argument relating to education. Suggestions include but are not limited to the following:
Write about grade inflation. U.S. students receive more As than do their counterparts in many European countries. For what reasons are so many As given to American students? What are short-term and long-term problems with grade inflation? What should be done to address these causes and consequences?
Compose an argument in favor of an arts-inclusive education (fine art, music, drama, dance, or literature). What advantages result from arts education? For example, how does arts education strengthen empathy, creative thinking, self-confidence, etc.?
Working from Bettelheim’s and Hunter’s views on fairytale characters, and choosing a character in a particular fiction story that you know well (a particular work of literature, tv series, movie, etc.), write an essay arguing reasons for or against the suitability of this character as a role model. For whom should s/he function or not function as a role model (adolescents, adolescent boys, single mothers, students, etc.)? For what reasons? (Note: Hunters book is available through the colleges library).
Suggestions include but are not limited to the following:
Cinderella
The young bride in The Robber Bride-Groom
Jane Rizzoli in Rizzoli and Isles
Frankie Rizzoli in Rizzoli and Isles
Lorelai or Rory Gilmore in The Gilmore Girls
Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dr. Who in one particular iteration of the series Dr. Who (for example, the Tenth Doctor)
Write about the values that a particular fiction story (novel, movie or television show), consciously or unconsciously, expresses. Consider this story, however entertaining it is, as creative argument. Its picture of human nature reflects its creator(s)’ own understanding. In what ways does it work to shape our attitudes and perceptions about some aspect of life? Or our behaviors?
In preparation to write, consider these with regard to the story.
o What assumptions (about love, about childhood, about career progression,…) does it fulfill or challenge?
o What insights into human psychology does it give us?
o What behaviors, or behavioral standards, does it endorse?
o What values underpin it?
o Similarly, what is its vision of right and wrong? What morals does it, consciously or unconsciously, present?
o In what ways is it uplifting and life-affirming? Through what means does it suggest that our improvement or redeemability can be achieved? Or, in what ways is its vision pessimistic? For what reasons does it suggest that we are, in Mark Twain’s phrase, “the damned human race”? In other words, what contributes to the storys expression of its point of view (positive, optimistic, cynical, pessimistic,…) on human nature? Or, what contributes to the storys expression of a positive, life-affirming point of view, or to a cynical point of view in which humans are irredeemably flawed?
Examples include but are not limited to the following:
Address what the novel Twilight reveals about cultural thoughts about romance or male-female relations.
What does the movie The Full Monty suggest about relationships between genders?
What does the television show The Addams Family suggest about domestic relationships (parent-child, spousal, etc.)?
Analyze the way that a specific children’s book (fiction) uses rhetorical devices and language to teach children about morals and values while at the same time appealing to the inquisitive nature of a child and his/her imagination. Think about children’s literature as something that shapes attitudes and perceptions about life and about what it means to be “normal.” Make an analytical argument about how a single piece of children’s literature shapes or molds children’s collective values, and creates a certain perception of the world, all while appealing to their sense of curiosity and imagination.
Write an essay arguing reasons for or against the inclusion of a particular work of fiction or poetry in a literature or a composition class at either the high school or the college level. Suggestions include but are not limited to the following:
Native Son
The Woman Warrior
Under the Hawthorn Tree
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Macbeth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
An analysis of a specific character in a particular work of fiction (Ex.: Address the idea of Scarlett OHara in Gone with the Wind or of Nancy Drew in the Nancy Drew series as a feminist character. Ex.: Address the appeal of Harry Potter as a hero for youngor for olderreaders.)
MLA style essay (incorporating in-text citations) center your essay on Ceremony to further define wilderness. Do not summarize the text but address how literary devices such as symbol, foreshadowing, figurative language, metaphor etc. work in Ceremony. Your essay should address the idea of the role of the journey in wilderness, and comment on how a particular literary device is used in Ceremony. For instance, you might focus on a single symbol (the wind, the uranium mine, the cattle, etc.) or multiple symbols (make notes as you read). You may analyze the structure (what is its effect), or consider how figurative language, personification, simile, etc. work throughout the narrative. The point is to chose one literary device and build an essay around it which addresses the role of wilderness in Tayo’s development.
Instructions
The final research paper must be 5-7 pages in length, double-spaced, not counting the cover page and the reference pages. You must use at least 5 scholarly sources for your paper beyond the course textbook. Professional journal articles found in the Virtual Library will be key sources in researching your topic. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced and paraphrased; any quoted material must be placed in quotes, and must have accompanying APA style in-text citations.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the roles that the strategic leaders played in the formation of the performance management strategy.
Develop five-point criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the talent management strategy and how the data could be collected.
Critique the components of your talent management strategy and suggest alternative ways to achieve effective results.
Outline the functional expertise component of this strategy and how it optimizes the companys ability to identify highly qualified individuals.
Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources
Using the PEAS format, write your first body paragraph for the slave narrative essay. Use the resources in the “Writing Resources” toolbox to guide you and answer questions as you write. Remember to follow MLA format and cite your evidence appropriately. Attached is the slave narrative essay and files needed to complete this assignment.
