1.What do the data from actual operations in September say about how the business model is playing out in practice? Does this data give you comfort or concern? We suggest that to answer these questions, you analyze the case in terms of revenues, costs, and contribution per member per month and the things that drive those ratios.
2.What actions should Chase take as a result of the September operating results?
Day: January 14, 2021
1What do the data from actual operations in September say about how the business model is playing out in practice? Does this data give you comfort or concern? We suggest that to answer these questions, you analyze the case in terms of revenues, costs, and contribution per member per month and the things that drive those ratios.
2. What actions should Chase take as a result of the September operating results?
Pose two questions in response to at least two different posts. Your questions should be very specific as to what you are asking or critiquing in regard to anothers post and also as to what further points of elucidation or clarification you are situating in your questions.
Respond to at least two other posts in the form of a critical commentary. Your critical commentaries do not need to ask any questions, but rather they are vehicle for you: to further develop a point or argument about a text that someone else began, to reiterate in your own use of language what someone else is trying to articulate, and this is also a space to make a case against someone’s argument or position with supporting evidence from the text.
Once you have read through the “Message of the Text” handout, compose and submit a two-page essay covering the message of Zepheniah. You will need to pull from some outside scholarship for this, no fewer than four sources and be sure to use footnote citations. Please be sure to include a title page as well as a Works Cited page.
Zepheniah is a book in the the Old Testament bible.
Communing: They eat, I eat
Background
Over the past days we have encountered a small but widely varied set of individual experiences and thoughts that center on eating habits, customs, and other encounters with the culinary.
These include: Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian Takeout; Ray Gonzalez, Hangover Cure; Junot Diaz, the chef; Michelle Zauner, “Crying in H Mart”; Frederick Douglass, Ash Cake; Ntozake Shange, Whatd You People Call That?; Diana Abu-Jaber, A House and a Yard; Chang-Rae Lee, Sea Urchins
The memoir, as weve discussed, is fundamentally personal, yet it is also public. As someone who is socializing with these writers by reading, first think about these questions: what details or perspectives have resonated with you, and why? What experiences do you connect with? Which perspectives are different from your own, or lie outside of how you think or what you have been through?
Task
Create a piece of writing that relates one of the short memoir readings insights to a specific experience you have had with food or consumption. You might describe a memory, a way of thinking, an eventanything that will allow you to connect. The goal of this piece is to clearly reveal a specific and interesting way that your experience and the writers experience relate to one another.
Your discussion should include plenty of detail from the text, your experience, and explanation of their connections. Present these elements in a way that you deem appropriate for effectively conveying how these experiences connect.
At minimum your piece must include these parts:
Description of the memoir using accurate summarizing language and details that are carefully chosen to allow you to best relate your own experience.
Suggestion: Keep these descriptions specific to the authors experience so that the uniqueness of their perspective doesnt get flattened into generalizations (for example, lines like This author shows that food brings us together might be true sometimes, but is overly generalcould we build more specifics from here?)
Description of your experience or observation with specific details that illustrate the significance, and accurate language that makes clear what is important to note.
Discussion that makes clear, and specific interesting link(s) between the two accounts of food/eating, and explains them logically.
Notes:
The experience you choose does not need to be the same as the one in the memoir; in fact some of the most interesting pieces show how commonality exists in very different situations.
You may use any of the writings you have done for our class.
Requirements
Clearly connected ideas and a specific overall insight about how your experience relates to the story. You do not need to craft a formal thesis statement for this assignment (we will cover thesis statements later); however, the descriptions of the memoir, your experiences, and connection between the two must be clearly explained and specific.
Strike an even balance between description of the memoir, of your experience, and how they connect.
Formatting requirements
1000 words, minimum; include word count at the end of the document
1 margins all around, 12 point font, double-spaced
Grammar and spell check. (Papers with more than 4 spelling errors will be returned for editing.)
Original title
Short memoir titles go in quotation marks.
When referring to the author, use their first and last name on the first reference. Use the last name only on every reference afterward.
Avoid list summaries (e.g., First the writer says X, then she moves on to discuss Y; then) Instead, highlight the most important ideas and tensions, and use smaller details to add context.
See RWL Ch 4 for an example of a summary.
Evaluation
Ideas/thinking: the paper thoroughly summarizes both the memoir and the experience using specific details and careful explanation; reveals specific ideas and/or emotions in each experience and how they relate to each other (40 points)
Clear explanations: the paper describes the experiences and their connections clearly; sequences information logically (30 points)
Language: the paper employs specific and descriptive language that demonstrates critical thought (15 points)
Mechanics: the paper’s grammar and spelling create effective communication (15 points)
For this assignment, you will apply your analysis to the creation of a management plan from my previous paper assigned to you.
For the purpose of this course, a management plan is an approach to engage action with your topical area of concern based on key analysis of evaluative criteria pertaining to this area of public administration and management. The aim of this plan is to help you organize your insights from your review of the literature concerning how this area can be mitigated or managed more effectively in the practitioner realm.
In this assignment, you will construct a management plan to address the nature of the issue related to your topical area, develop evaluative criteria to judge the merits of your management plan, and apply the appropriate analytical methods to assess the nature of your management plan as related to your chosen theoretical framework. You will also identify and explore the impact and insights provided by other theories as suggested by this analysis, identify recommendations based on the findings of the topical analysis, and provide a conclusion related to your management plan.
Assignment Instructions
In a 1013 page plan, address the following:
Apply an appropriate perspective of public administration to your management plan as it relates to your topical area.
Relate theory and perspective to the topical area.
Identify problem components of the theory in terms of operations. Identify any key issues.
Explore the manner in which the theory is made operational and relate it to an outcome.
Identify alternative strategies to address the topical area from a public administration perspective.
Develop evaluative criteria to judge the merits of the management plan.
Consider the following questions:
Are all concerns related to the topical area addressed?
What are the outcomes?
Does the management plan offer the potential to address issues?
How is quality being measured?
Does the plan improve the effectiveness of this topical area of the project, program, or initiative?
Evaluate diversity and equity considerations related to the nature and scope of the management plan.
Define equity as it relates to your program.
Consider how this embeds itself in management.
Consider how this relates to the plan.
Evaluate the political context related to the nature and scope of the management plan as framed by public administration perspectives.
Consider the implications pertaining to the political context and federalism.
Develop suitable recommendations based on the findings of your analysis pertaining to the construct of the management plan.
Identify gaps based on your analysis.
Identify any innovations that arose through your analysis.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Your writing should clearly identify where each grading criterion or part of the assignment is addressed. Your points must be logical, substantive, and relevant based on the evidence presented. The writing must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA guidelines: Resources and citations must be formatted according to current APA style and formatting. When appropriate, use APA-formatted headings.
Resources: Your ideas must be supported with relevant scholarly sources that are dated within the past five years and are properly cited and referenced in current APA style.
Length of paper: 1013 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and references.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Based on your understanding of the scientific method and how experiments work, as well as our discussion of research articles this week, please write a 1-2 page opinion paper that answers the following questions:
Which aspects or steps in the scientific method do you think are most important, and why?
Which aspects of steps in the scientific method do you think are least important, and why?
Please use at least two references and citations
I have attached the file that you have to go by for this paper!
Following the description in the reading assignment “Common Core: Solve Math Problems, select one end-of-lesson assessment problem that is rich and representative of the bulk of the concepts in the standard you are targeting. Develop three different stations in three different waysconcretely, representationally, and abstractly. Include a description of what will be happening in each station.
Your literary analysis essay will be on the novel Sula by Toni Morrison. You can choose from any of the topics listed below (recommended) or explore further topics in the chapter on Sula, pp. X to Y in the book How to Write about Toni Morrison (linked here for your convenience).
Your literary analysis should be 5 pages, not including the Works Cited page, and should be double spaced in Times New Roman 12- point font and must include:
A clearly articulated thesis that states, somewhere in your introduction, the assertion (position, interpretation) that your paper will prove
An introduction, a minimum of 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion
At least two quotes from the novel itself that are integrated into your discussion
At least two citations of outside sources (such as literary criticism on the novel, preferably from articles from the MDC databases)
Topic sentences that focus the discussion in the body paragraphs Examples, details, explanations in the body paragraphs that clearly support your thesis
Clear connections between ideas from paragraph to paragraph and within paragraphs
Proper MLA style format in the heading, in the in-text citations, and in the Works Cited page (see the template for the heading and margins in this lesson). Please remember that MLA formatting guidelines apply to the entire document, not just how you interact with sources.
Works Cited page includes articles from two sources and from the novel for a minimum of three total listed sources
Standard usage, grammar, and mechanics
short writing assignment
Context for this writing assignment
Marcel Prousts madeleine is one of the most famous examples of the way food evokes memory. In his case, the taste triggered an involuntary memory of his childhood in Combray–but even beyond reminding him of the place, the madeleine brought him to a very specific feeling.
The connections between memory and food have long interested thinkers. How do you connect them?
Task
Following Prousts meditation, think of how food links to memory for you. Select an example of an experience or memory related to food or eating that holds some kind of meaning. Compose a 2-page piece of writing that describes this connection. The food and the memory may be extraordinary or mundane–it doesnt matter. What does matter is that you can explain what is meaningful about the connection. Use this writing piece to convey this meaningfulness to a reader who is, as yet, unfamiliar with you. You are free to be as explicit or implicit as you like in your reflection, so long as you are detailed in expressing your ideas.
Start your writing with a brief reference to Proust to establish the context for your writing. You might mention the madeleine as an example of a certain experience of memory, and then introduce your own experience as similar, different, or a little of both. Then move to describe your experience and what sort of meaning it holds.
The structure for this assignment is open–you may choose to use a thesis-like statement that states directly what your experience is, and why it is experience; or, you might choose to illustrate the significance by describing a story. It is up to you, but make sure that you understand what you want to say about memory and food, and that this main insight is clear by the end of your piece.
Required elements
Brief reference to Proust to start the piece
Detailed explanation of your experience — use concrete examples
Language that makes clear what subtle meaning comes from this experience: what do your details lead us to understand that might lie below the surface? What do they lead us to understand about your unique experience (for example: emotions, values, perspectives)?
Evaluation – madeleine reflection
You can also view this list on the rubric attached to this assignment.
Relevance to the text: piece makes clear how the details of your experience links to Proust’s madeleine [5 points]
Critical thought: piece demonstrates careful consideration of your experience by using concrete details and explaining how the experience is meaningful; discusses insights that go beyond summary or generalization. [10 points]
Clarity of language: piece’s language communicates with clear grammar and logical flow from sentence to sentence [5 points]
