Best Writer

1. What historical figure, living or dead, do you draw inspiration from and why? How do you plan to pass along this inspiration to the world around you?
NOTE: This individual could be a politician, musician, artist, writer, poet, scientist, … The only requirement is that the person is someone who has been recognized as having made some contribution to our world.

Max Length: 300 words

2. Write a 500-word essay describing educational and life goals and how you will use this education to further yourself and/or your family.

Min Length: 300 words
Max Length: 600 words

3. If you are pursuing a health related degree/program, please complete this essay to increase your chances of becoming a candidate for additional health program related scholarships.
Explain why you chose your specific field.
Min Length: 150 words
Max Length: 300 words

4. Please submit an essay on financial literacy and the wise use of credit.

Min Length: 300 words
Max Length: 600 words

5. Explain why you should be considered for a scholarship.

Max Length: 300 words

How does Thomas Aquinas define virtue and justice, and how is his definition different from Macheivilli’s definition?

1. Thesis Control: Paper exhibits strong thesis and control of topic and voice is clear. The thesis or point of view is refreshing and engaging. Point of view is appropriate and consistent.
2. Support and Development: Strong detail and clear examples lead to consistent and refreshing development. Transitions move the paper with clarity and precision.
3. Style, Grammar, and Usage: Writing is virtually free of style and usage errors.
4. Mechanics (capitalization, spelling, italics, quotations): Relatively free of errors in mechanics.
5. MLA Formatting: Conventions of MLA followed consistently and properly throughout the paper

FIRST Paragraph I already wrote:

Higher Education Vs Job

Higher education will provide a more stable financial future for the students that follow
through with their career choices. Although a corporate job can offer benefits, companies fail and
do not offer other opportunities to their employees who have been working there for years.
College-educated adults and their children benefit from a healthier lifestyle than those with only
a high school diploma. Studies show that having a higher education is better than having a job
because it sets you up to succeed, plans your future, and is financially beneficial in the long run

Assignment 2: Research Paper
In an organized, well-developed address the following research question:
Is modern technology enhancing or interfering with people’s ability to connect with each other?
Remember that this is a research paper, so you will want to make your point and support it with at least three scholarly sources. Three quotes will need to be incorporated from your research, and all quotes should be cited both in-text and in the references list.
Please be sure to watch the following tutorials:
Characteristics of Scholarly Sources
Locating Academic Sources for Assignment 2
Using the LRC to Find Sources

All sources, including your textbook, need to be cited in-text and on your Works Cited page.
Be sure that your in-text citations are properly formatted using MLA. Your in-text citations should follow this format: (author’s last name date of publication) Ex. (Jones 1998). If there isn’t a date or a page, use n.d. or n.p., but keep in mind that scholarly sources typically have all of that information.For additional information on how to properly cite your sources , refer to Works Cited in MLA 8th edition
Refer to the OWL at Purdue’s website for proper formatting for your Works Cited page. See In-Text Citations MLA 8th edition
*Please note that NO GRADE WILL BE AWARDED if scholarly sources are not included in-text AND on your Works Cited page since evidence of research is the key component of this assignment.
*Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source and should not be used for this assignment!

Overview: For the second milestone of your final project, you will submit your review of current and past research. This assignment will require an annotated bibliography and an analysis outline (paper) or talking points (via a podcast or video) of prevalent stereotypes, historical and modern interpretations, and recent social change related to your chosen issue. Be sure to provide detailed examples. Your analysis will be submitted in the medium you intend to use for your final project: paper, video, or podcast.
Milestone Two is designed for you to generate a more complete sense of your final project’s structure and content through your alignment of all its foundation pieces with evidence.
Your annotated bibliography will be submitted as a 1–2 page document in APA style. Your annotated list should include at least five academic sources, with a short explanation (one paragraph) after each source that briefly states the source’s topic and relevance to your project. Your explanation should also indicate each source’s usefulness in terms of historical and social context. This usefulness can be demonstrated through identifying any relevant social institutions, social roles, and/or stereotypes present in the source and connected to your project.
Your outline should be 1–2 pages if it is a paper or 3–5 minutes if you are submitting a podcast or video. Provide relevant examples and citations for your outline or talking points.

Your outline or talking points of your final project will include the following:
 A restatement of your issue, refined and narrowed as necessary.
 Stereotypes related to your issue. Here you will be building on the stereotypes you began to identify in your Milestone One worksheet. Be sure to list the
validity, effects, and persistence of these stereotypes with media examples.
 Examples of social change around your chosen issue with specific examples from the media.
 Historical interpretations of the issue within relevant social structures (i.e., social institutions and culture).
 Modern interpretations of the issue within relevant social structures (i.e., social institutions and culture). Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Provide an annotated bibliography. Your bibliography must include at least five resources and an annotation stating the source’s relevance and usefulness in terms of historical and social context.
Develop a statement that communicates the position of the social advocacy group and refines the previously stated position. Be sure to narrow your statement down based on your continued research.
Evaluate prevalent stereotypes regarding the issue, addressing the validity and effects.
Provide examples of social change around the chosen issue with specific examples from the media.
Analyze historical interpretations of the issue within relevant social structures and supports analysis withevidence.
Analyze modern interpretations of the issue within relevant social structures and supports analysis withevidence.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your annotated bibliography must be submitted as a 1–2 page Microsoft Word document in APA style using at least five academic
sources. Your outline paper should be 1–2 pages, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins or a 3–5 minute podcast or video.

As you look through the attached files, “STS3726 S22 Research Project Instructions” is the instructions for the research paper. On the second page, there are 3 options for an area of topic which I have selected topic 2. Please only focus on topic 2. From that topic we are to examine a question in that field and relate it to experts within the field of science and technology. This research paper required a outline which I have completed and am waiting for the feedback which I will provide as soon as I recieve it. This outline is the other attached file.
I ask that you thouroughly review the instructions criteria as well as the outline I have provided for an idea of what area I would like to be discussed. Please pay attention to all necessary questions the instructions are asking and incoorporate it through the paper.

TO:
CIRRUS Division Team Members
FROM: CIRRUS
Division Assistant Director
SUBJ:
Critical Infrastructure Overview Briefing Book

SUPPORT
REQUEST
Develop and
submit a “briefing book” that provides a critical infrastructure (CI) overview
for one of CISA’s Assistant Directors speaking at – and some new employees
within this Assistant Director’s division attending – a virtual conference at
the end of next month that will focus, in part, on critical infrastructure
topics.
BACKGROUND
At the latest
CISA staff meeting, the Director went around the room asking if there were any
last items of business before adjournment. The Executive Assistant Director for
CISA’s Infrastructure Security Division (ISD) requested some assistance from
the CIRRUS Division for some critical infrastructure background information in
support of an upcoming virtual conference.
The ISD
Executive Assistant Director will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming online
conference scheduled for the end of next month. With a primary background
within the private sector, mostly associated with the energy industry, the
Executive Assistant Director feels that a comprehensive overview of the
critical infrastructure field would benefit not only the Executive Assistant
Director’s opening keynote speech but also with any personal discussions,
chats, etc. with other conference participants. In addition, the ISD Executive
Assistant Director is including some employees new to the ISD organization to
participate in order to gain a better overall perspective of “critical
infrastructure” and believes the CISA Division briefing book would provide
beneficial background information to the new ISD team members both prior to the
conference and after when performing normal duties in the office.
As a result,
the CISA Director has tasked the CIRRUS Division to provide the ISD Executive
Assistant Director with a “briefing book” insert that will assist the Executive
Assistant Director and ISD staff in becoming more familiar with the background
and latest developments associated with the field of critical infrastructure.
INDIVIDUAL URGENT STUDY #1 TASKER
Part 1:
You are required to complete the following two FEMA Emergency Management
Institute (EMI) courses for background information associated with this
assignment.
·
IS-860.C:
The National Infrastructure Protection Plan: An Introduction (latest version
7/21/2015). https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-860.c
·
IS-913.A:
Critical Instructure Security and Resilience: Achieving Results Through
Partnership and Collaboration (latest version 11/01/2013). https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-913.a
Once you’ve
successfully passed each FEMA EMI course’s final examination, you will receive
an email back from FEMA EMI with your completion certificate. Then, post each
of your completed FEMA EMI course certificates into your Assignment folder to
receive full credit.
Part 2:
As part of your briefing book insert, recommend that your contents include, but
not necessarily be limited to, the following:
·
What
is critical infrastructure (CI) and why is it important
·
Describe
the different CI sectors
·
Identify
the major stakeholders/players
·
Differentiate
the roles/responsibilities between federal, state, local, and other applicable
entities — and how do these correlate to the NIPP 2013 National Partnership
Structure, Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC),
Government and Sector Coordinating Councils (GCC and SCC, respectively), and
other applicable documents and/or partnering organizations
·
Identify
some of the major CI governing documents, Presidential directives, etc.
·
Discuss
how “complexity” and “interdependency” are considered part of CI
·
Describe
the concepts of CI “security” and “resilience”
·
Discuss
the concept of risk management” — what are its basic elements/framework, how
is it integrated within the CI community, etc.
·
What
are some of the more prevalent challenges, threats, and limitations now facing
the CI community?
·
Anything
else you think the Executive Assistant Director should be aware of to prepare
for the upcoming virtual conference
Ensure the
material is critical thinking perspectives yet maintains a realistic picture
that’s grounded in a fact-based, non-emotional, logical, and questioning
approach.
INDIVIDUAL URGENT STUDY #1 SUBMISSION GUIDANCE
You should
submit a single Word document in accordance with the following guidance.
·
Length
= minimum expectation of 5 full pages of text
·
The
following do not “count” towards your Word document receiving 100% credit for
the Length criteria: title page, table of contents (not required), abstract
(not required), executive summary (not required), illustrations (tables,
figures, graphs, pictures, etc. …all not required), appendices (not required),
or reference list
·
References
= minimum expectation of at least 8 high-quality “Scholarly references only
·
Paragraph
= 2.0 (double-spaced) … no right-margin justification
·
Font
= 11- or 12-point
·
Margins
= 1-inch

Analyze the following Case in this week’s Module, Cases are short and intended to highlight a few key concepts from our Module.
This is a graded assignment.
Your answer must be responsive to the question asked to receive full points, see Rubric.
Your answer must be 200 words or more.
Have you ever gone to the doctor and noticed that the pen you used to sign in for your appointment sported the logo of a drug company? Or maybe your appointment was delayed because the staff was busy enjoying bagels from a pharmaceutical representative. Everyone knows that doctors and the pharmaceutical industry enjoy a rather cozy relationship. But you might be surprised by just how cozy. Standard marketing practices in the pharmaceutical industry include lavish payments to doctors for food, travel, speaking and research fees. Eli Lilly, for example, indicated it spent $216.5 million on payments and gifts to physicians in 2011.
And in 2013, a federal lawsuit against Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis alleged that one payment among many included a nearly $10,000 dinner for three at the restaurant Nobu, to induce doctors to prescribe its drugs. Drug-makers claim that this type of spending is standard promotional practice in the industry, meant to educate physicians on how to use the company’s medicines. The Obama Administrations healthcare reform legislation included the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which will require pharmaceutical firms to report things of value that they have given to doctors, hospitals, and health care workers. The information should be available on a public website, without judgment attached about appropriateness, allowing consumers to make better-informed choices. And there are legitimate arguments on either side of this issue:
Against promotional “gifts” to healthcare industry:
Analysis by the New York Times found that doctors who take money from drug makers often practice medicine differently from those who do not and that they are more willing to prescribe drugs in risky and unapproved ways, such as prescribing powerful antipsychotic medicines for children.
Patients deserve to get treatment based on medical evidence, not an opulent meal or some other financial relationship.
In favor of promotional “gifts” to healthcare industry:
According to a key industry trade group, meals featuring educational talks are good for patients because they give doctors one more tool in understanding medicines.
One doctor claims that she is paid to take online classes by each company she speaks for as a way to learn about new drugs, and then is paid to give talks at free dinners. Usually, but not always, she speaks about new drugs on the market.
To minimize conflicts of interest, the American Medical Association has ethical guidelines that allow modest meals and pay as long as a service is rendered. The guidelines do not approve gifts or payments that expect anything in return.
Do you believe that the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare industry is too cozy? What level of relationship do you believe would be most appropriate and ethical? Why?

The Hero’s Journey Report Assignment (40% overall)
This assignment requires you to research
and present a report on how ONE literary element (plot, character, setting or theme) is interpreted from
book to film for ONE book/movie (Harry
Potter, Star Wars or LOTR). If you choose Star Wars, note that the books were written AFTER the films were
made, so your analysis will be a bit different than if you choose one of the
others. The goal of the assignment is to examine whether the book or the film
format is more effective at expressing the element that you are examining.
Be sure to read the posted content related
to the literary elements before beginning this project, and examine the element
from all the suggested perspectives.
If you choose to explore the element of
CHARACTER, please note that you may write about at least 4-5 characters in ONE
book/movie pair, OR, you may examine one character in depth over the entire
series (i.e. ALL the HP books, or all three LOTR, or all 6 Star Wars).
For example, you could choose to explore
how the setting in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
is developed by J.K. Rowling in her book, and in the movie of the same
name. You will both DESCRIBE how this is
done in both formats (using concrete examples from the book and film) and also
ANALYZE the effect of these choices (How does one differ from the other? Which
is more effective? Why do you think there are these differences? What is the
effect of these differences on the impact of book and movie on the
reader/viewer?).
To complete this project, you will need to
find text and/or online sources that provide information from critics and
reviewers of the book and film, and perhaps also present the author and/or
filmmaker’s perspective on how these decisions were made and developed. Try
searching You Tube for resources, or access the documentaries included with DVD
copies of the films, as well as looking at publications related to the
books/movies (“visual companions” or other illustrated resources). BE SURE to document ALL uses of this
source material (not just direct quotes) using MLA or APA format. Not sure how to do this? Review the documents/videos available through
the Student and Academic Learning
Services (SALS). See “Avoiding
Plagiarism” and “MLA Citation” at http://www.durhamcollege.ca/student-experience/helping-you-succeed/student-academic-learning-services-sals/writing-skills-and-resources#research. Failure
to document sources (i.e. plagiarism) WILL result in a failure on this project
and the issuance of an Academic Alert to your file!! Get whatever help you need
to do this correctly, please.
This project is graded in three parts, as
follows:
PART
ONE: Proposal (10%)
Complete the template titled “Research Project Proposal” and submit
it to the relevant dropbox by the deadline (midnight
Sunday at the beginning of week 9). This document will tell me what
book/movie and literary element you have decided to research, and give you an
opportunity to do some preliminary research into resources for your project.
Your grade will reflect how complete and coherent your proposal is.
PART
TWO: Progress Report (10%)
Due by midnight
Sunday at the beginning of week 11, the progress report should follow the
format outlined in the template titled “Progress
Report.” This report will tell me how you are progressing with your
research, and list the resources you have decided to use to complete your
project. The research phase of your project should be complete by the time you write this progress report; the remainder
of your time will be spent preparing your actual project. Your grade on this
part will consider how complete and in-depth your research has been, and how
much thought you have given to how you will present your findings and analysis.
The point-form project outline requested in this progress report should be
detailed and complete (NOT just section headings, but actual
examples/evidence).
PART
THREE: Research Project (20%)
You will post the results of your research
and analysis to the relevant Discussion Board thread by midnight on the Sunday at the beginning of week 13. Your project
may include text, images, multimedia, links etc., and be structured as an
essay, a powerpoint, a poster, a video, or some other multimedia format. By all
means be creative in how you present the material, BUT be sure that the
multimedia is tied to the framework of your analysis (i.e. that you actually
COMPARE the book and movie and present an analysis of the
similarities/differences and their effect of the reader/viewer)—don’t just
“mash-up” a bunch of images without reason or logic!
Here’s how your final project will be
graded:

Criteria

Excellent

Satisfactory

Requires Improvement

Depth/
Breadth (10%)

Examines a
wide variety of relevant examples from both book and film. Makes good use of
evidence from a variety of valid and relevant sources (i.e. the author and
filmmaker as well as other critics/writers) to fully inform his/her analysis;
sources are credited using correct MLA or APA format

Examines
relevant examples from both book and film. Makes use of some evidence from
valid and relevant sources, and applies this evidence to his/her analysis;
sources are credited using a consistent format

Examines
an insufficient number and type of examples from book and film. Makes little
or no use of evidence from sources outside his/her own opinion; sources are
documented inaccurately, or not documented

Analysis (5%)

Shows a
deep understanding of the impact of similarities/differences between book and
film, and presents a thorough explanation for these

Shows some
understanding of the impact of similarities/differences between book and
film, and presents an explanation for these

Shows
little understanding of the impact of similarities/differences between book
and film, and/or presents no explanation for these

Presentation (5%)

Format
enhances project; spelling, grammar, and tone show few or no errors

Format
suitable for content; spelling and grammar show only minor errors

Format
poorly chosen for topic; numerous spelling and/or grammar errors interfere
with meaning

Total (20%)

During week 13, you’ll have the
chance to review the projects posted by your fellow students. This material will be helpful to you during
the open-book final exam.

Discussion Forum Four: Marriage and The Family
In Chapter 16 of your textbook and the videos presented on Blackboard, the institutions of marriage and the family are presented in detail. When looked at from a sociological perspective, these concepts reveal much more understanding into why our courtship rituals and our families are structured in its current form.
In your discussion posting, first:
1) Apply this chapter’s contents to your own life experience with the institutions of marriage and the family. What social factors affect your family life? In what ways is your family life different from that of your grandparents?
2) Have social media and internet dating sites transformed the courtship process? In what ways? What social factors might explain the rise in usage of dating sites (Match, Bumble, Hinge, Tinder etc) and social media as a tool to seek out love, romance, sex and companionship?
3) Post a response to another classmate’s posting, discussing your thoughts of their post in a respectful and thoughtful manner. What stood out to you about their analysis?
NOTE: Make sure you answer all parts of the discussion question and that each post and response meet the minimum word count requirement of 250 words for each post and classmate response. Posts that do not have an accompanying classmate response or do not meet the minimum word count requirement will not be graded and will receive a “0” for the given assignment.
General Requirement(s):
Discussion postings are worth 20 percent of your total grade (5 percentage points per post and response)
You are required to first post a response to the discussion board prompt and it must be a minimum of 250 words. Citations, titles, copying questions, references, and other identifying information do not count toward word count.
You are required to use proper grammar and spelling. When using other sources, citations using APA style are required.
Direct quotes are not permitted in discussion postings, therefore you must paraphrase and cite.
You are required to post a response to a classmate. Your post will not be graded unless you do so as well. When responding to a classmate, your response needs to be pertinent and of substance. Stating that you agree or disagree is not sufficient. You must substantiate your responses. Responses must be a minimum of 250 words as well.
Above all, your posts must be respectful and worthy of intellectual honesty, sincerity, and humility.