Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.
Also, your essay should demonstrate what your contributions to pharmacy will be.

Write a letter to a local, state, or national government official addressing an issue that affects current APRN practice. Make sure to use a professional tone throughout your letter. (You are not required to send the letter.)
There is no minimum length requirement for this letter; however, the letter must contain professional content and be free of grammatical errors.
A reference page must be submitted with the document citing the source of the issue of concern.

Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.
Also, your essay should demonstrate what your contributions to pharmacy will be.

Watch a brief video of John Gottman discussing his research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=625t8Rr9o6o
In a 1-2 page paper, answer the following:
In what ways did the couples display each of the following horsemen (one per couple)? Be specific about their verbal and nonverbal behavior that led you to this conclusion:
Contempt, criticism, stonewalling, and defensiveness
How would you recommend each couple communicate better to address the problem they demonstrate? Be specific. For example, avoid generalizations like talk more, be nicer, listen. Instead, recommend specific verbal and nonverbal messages they could use.
Importantly, why do you think the behaviors you recommend address each of the four horsemen?

Watch this movie and complete a write up. In your write up, link the movie to marketing strategy and specifically the hospitality industry. This video special is now 16 years old.  What have we learned? What are the take-home messages and/or prescriptions the video offers? Think about the significance of the movie for explaining and guiding the hospitality industry over the next 1-4 years. 

The movie: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-persuaders/

In recent years, several celebrities have committed suicide (Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams, Kate Spade to name a few). What sort of cultural impact does it have when celebrities commit suicide?

Resources (if needed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgVB5egTrz4&feature=emb_title

Death & Dying, Life & Living by Corr, Corr, & Doka

Chapter 16 – Legal Issues
Chapter 17 – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Complete the Module 6 portion of the Explore and Analyze assignment.

Step 1: Click and read the NPR article on climate change:

How Psychology Can Save The World From Climate Change (Links to an external site.)
Reference:

Lombrozo, T. (2015, November 30). How psychology can change the world from climate change. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/11/30/457835780/how-psychology-can-save-the-world-from-climate-change

Step 2: Submit your response as a Microsoft Word document.

We must change the way that we think and behave if we are to save the world from climate change. What changes in social norms do you believe will be necessary to combat climate change?
Your response should be a one-page (300-350 words) report that makes informed references from this module’s materials. A grading rubric (how this assignment will be graded) is provided.

Reminder: You are required to comply with the Academic Honor Code at all times. Facts, quotes, ideas, and so forth, that are borrowed from a resource or resources other than personal experiences must be cited in proper APA format in your response.

Think of a leader you admire and respect. Why do you like this leader? How did this individual become a leaderfor example, by appointment, democratic selection, or emergence? How would you characterize this leaders styleis the leader autocratic or laissez-faire, a technician, or a coach? Give examples (1-2 pages, single spaced). Use at least 3 references in APA format (both in-text citations along with a references page).

Essay #4: Ideology
Do an ideological reading of ONE film of your choice, excluding the films assigned on the syllabus. Choose a peer-reviewed article (find using JSTOR or EBSCOhost) that discusses the film within the framework of an ideological analysis (Note: You may only use the reading from week 11 if it falls within the parameters of this chapter, i.e. a film made between 1960s-1970s). Summarize the articles argument. Do you agree or disagree with the author? What is your reading of the ideology present in the film? Compare/contrast your reading with that of the author. You can consider multiple ideologies within the film and whether they are implicit or explicit.
To access the NYFA library website, go to this link.
(Username: nyfa library, Password: leave blank)
To log into the EBSCO databases, go here 
(Username:  nyfastudentla, Password: Kurosawa10!) Select all the databases they offer, then begin your search – film title, year, and directors last name should bring up plenty of results.