Day: April 11, 2021

Business Writing – Discussion: Identify an Ineffective Message

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, Undergraduate

Business Communications – Discussion Post – Identify an Ineffective Message

Textbook
Bove, C. L., & Thill, J. V. (2018). Business Communication Today (14th ed.) New York,
NY: Pearson

Reading
Part 2 Applying the Three-Step Writing Process
Read Chapters 4-6

Discussion: Identify an Ineffective Message

Prompt
Find a business letter that you find especially ineffective and explain why it is so. This
can be a junk mail letter, a rejection for a job, a complaint, etc. When formulating
your response: identify the message, purpose, words and phrases used that create
inappropriate tone; does it use ineffective direct or indirect approach? Use your text
to formulate your response.

Response Parameters
Minimum 250350 word response
Include at least two (2) references from text in analysis
o Outside sources may be used as well

Grading
Refer to the RISE model (Links to an external site.) as a guide for writing
substantial reply posts

Sustainibility Business

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, MLA

This is an individual report in which students are required to form a fictional company, and also identify a major sustainability challenge facing the company. In order to do this, each student will research existing companies in a chosen industry to assess their sustainability challenges. The idea is for the students to use these case study of companies as background studies for their chosen fictional companies.
Aim: A strategic action plan to improve ONE sustainability challenge (NOT scandal) faced by a fictional company (*).

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr conveying the message of empowerment and encouragement through figurative language and rhetorical appeals

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, High school

How does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s effective use of figurative language and rhetorical appeals to convey a message of empowerment and encouragement? Analyze this excerpt of his speech and support your answer with textual evidence.
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have A Dream speech
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest –quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” –one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day –this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Business Writing – Identify and Ineffective Message

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, Undergraduate

Business Communications – Discussion Post – Identify and Effective Message

Textbook
Bove, C. L., & Thill, J. V. (2018). Business Communication Today (14th ed.) New York,
NY: Pearson

Reading
Part 2 Applying the Three-Step Writing Process
Read Chapters 4-6

Discussion: Identify an Effective Message

Prompt
Find a business letter that you find especially effective and explain why. This can be a
junk mail letter, a rejection for a job, a complaint, etc. When formulating your
response: identify the message, purpose, words and phrases used that create
appropriate tone; does it use a direct or indirect approach? Use your text to
formulate your response.

Response Parameters
Minimum 250350 word response
Include at least two (2) references from text in analysis
o Outside sources may be used as well

Grading
Refer to the RISE model (Links to an external site.) as a guide for writing
substantial reply posts

Sustainibilty Business

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, MLA

This is an individual report in which students are required to form a fictional company, and also identify a major sustainability challenge facing the company. In order to do this, each student will research existing companies in a chosen industry to assess their sustainability challenges. The idea is for the students to use these case study of companies as background studies for their chosen fictional companies.
Aim: A strategic action plan to improve ONE sustainability challenge (NOT scandal) faced by a fictional company (*).

Case Study #2 -Hidden Podcast Brain

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Health Care and Life Sciences

Case Study #2:

Listen to the Hidden Brain Podcast: Fee-For-Service Monster (Sept. 7, 2020; 52:11)  Here is the link to the Hidden Brain Podcast: https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain (Links to an external site.)

Then, answer the following questions:

1. In the very beginning of the podcast, the host talks about an episode of The Office and describes the “surf-n-turf.”  Essentially, when your company or your boss pays for your dinner, most times, employees will pick the surf-n-turf option (with a side of lobster!).  How does this relate to healthcare as discussed in the podcast?

2. In the Utah Medicaid program example, described what happened when Medicaid moved from a fee-for-service payment model to a fixed payment model?  Also, what is the name of this “fixed” payment model?

3. Vivian Lee argues that wages have been stagnant because employer’s have to pay more and more to provide healthcare to their employees.  In essence, an employees “pay raise” is going towards their healthcare contribution.  Do you agree or disagree with this argument?  Please use at least 1 outside resource to support your answer.

4. Describe the care delivery model of Chen Med and the Military Health System.
Remember to follow the Case Study Assignment Guidelines found in the syllabus.  Also, please keep this case study between 2-3 pages max.  You only need to number your answers. You don’t need to include the question.

Effective Messages

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment Business and Management, Undergraduate

Textbook
Bove, C. L., & Thill, J. V. (2018). Business Communication Today (14th ed.) New York,
NY: Pearson

Reading
Part 2 Applying the Three-Step Writing Process
Read Chapters 4-6

Discussion: Identify an Effective Message

Prompt
Find a business letter that you find especially effective and explain why. This can be a
junk mail letter, a rejection for a job, a complaint, etc. When formulating your
response: identify the message, purpose, words and phrases used that create
appropriate tone; does it use a direct or indirect approach? Use your text to
formulate your response.

Response Parameters
Minimum 250350 word response
Include at least two (2) references from text in analysis
o Outside sources may be used as well

Grading
Refer to the RISE model (Links to an external site.) as a guide for writing
substantial reply posts

observation method

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Psychology and Education

1.    Select a key child and two learning areas to observe (Math & English subjects)
2.    Gather observation data: About the child, Notes/documents, etc. gathered from observations using 5-7 different types of observation techniques. Note: The learning story is mandatory.
3.    Collect 2 pieces of student work (Artifacts, tests, classwork, which I will provide in a word document)
4.    Write a report (500-700 words): A reflection on the observation and assessment information of the key child.

Checklist for Assessment
    Use of at least 6 different observations, some can be multiple times (these must be done in real-time be sure to include time, date, setting, and focus of observation.
    Choose two items that illustrate creativity, language, or relationships that you might include in a portfolio.
    Fill in a short summary report on student learning using observations in the different areas of learning (template below)
    Use a pseudonym for the student with this project to protect the student’s identity
    Lastly, consult the assessment rubric to see how you will be assessed for this assignment and ensure that you are meeting the assessment criteria.

Methods of Neuroscience Investigation

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Psychology and Education

In your discussion:

Select one method you think is the most powerful or useful for examining the relationship between biology and behavior.
Do not choose a category of investigational methods, but be sure to select one method (e.g., do not choose imaging technology but instead choose one type of imaging technology).
Evaluate the method you have selected.
Would this method be best used for basic research, initial diagnosis of a clinical condition, ongoing patient management, or a combination of these analytic practices?
What part of the nervous system (anatomical structure, function, cellular chemistry and function) would most likely be studied using this method?
What behavioral health or neurological condition could be studied by this method?
Describe how knowledge of neuroscience investigational methods would assist someone in a career that uses a degree in psychology.
Remember, a degree in psychology opens the door to many options regarding career choices. These include positions in human resources, the helping professions (e.g., medicine, counseling and behavioral health, teaching, social work, ministry, and nursing), science, marketing, law enforcement, and more.
Some examples to consider might be sharing the information youve learned to help you educate a patient/client:
Regarding their diagnosed neuropsychological disorder and the need for medication.
Why we now evaluate psychological disorders from multiple aspects (biological, psychological, social).
Why their child is ready for specific developmental milestones due to neurological maturation.

Sociology

April 11, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), English and Literature

Please note: 1. Each question / concept should have three separate paragraph answers: (i) describe the concept in detail. (ii) describe an example from your experience, OR reading. (iii) describe why this is a good example relating to a current issue.
2. Please email me your answers (pdf WORD) using your csi student email. 3. The test is due my midnight, March 17, 20201.
4. Grades will be emailed to you on March 18.
5. Each question carries 6 points ( 2 points for each paragraph ).

Questions / Concepts:
1. Scientific method; 2. Social Darwinism; 3. Micro level sociological analysis; 4. Symbolic culture; 5. Taboo; 6. Social institutions; 7. Transitional adulthood; 8. Re-socialization; 9. Master status; 10. Role conflict; 11. Reference groups; 12. Expressive leader; 13. Stigma; 14. Groupthink; 15. Medicalization of deviance.