You can write an essay about an important event in your life and show how it impacted you.
Tell the story of what happened in such a way that your readers can see that you have thought seriously about the event, its significance to you, and why an audience might be interested in reading about it. Your audience is your instructor and this class, a collection of interested and diverse readers who do not know you well. Think of this essay as a way to share something important about yourself.
Style, Length, and Related Matters. Although this is an academic assignment intended for an audience of myself and your classmates, it is somewhat less formal than other assignments in this course. So, you have some latitude in adopting a style and approach that feels appropriate for your subject matter, your audience, and the intended purpose of the assignment (as explained above). Be mindful of the conventions of written English(academic grammar and punctuation) and the expectations of your audience.
The paper will be 1.5 to 2 pages long (approx. 500 words). This paper will be written in MLA format, double spaced, using Times New Roman 12pt font please. Use Microsoft Word! ***Be sure to title your narrative.
Best Writer
Fairy Tale Journals
The following are journal entries that you must accomplish (which will be replacing tasks listed on our latest syllabus). These entries must be typed and ultimately submitted/uploaded into Canvas. (I will be posting a document under Announcements that might aid the few of you who are still having issues with Canvas submissions.)
Use these as opportunities to do pre-thinking/pre-WRITING for Essay Two. Indeed, feel free to use any of these as the basis of your ultimate topic for Essay Two. (Further, if you do well on these you should have NO issues with your Fairy Tale Exam, which will be worth 150 points.)
*By “tale saga” I mean a selection of tales listed under the same “saga” title, i.e. all of the Little Red Riding Hood tales (LRRH).
You need to select TWO of the following topics and respond in a thorough (one page minimum) response for each. (Do not simply pick what “appear” to be the easiest topics. All responses need to feel thoroughly developed, which is often easier with a more complex topic.) These are worth 25 points apiece for a total of 50 points.
Apply concepts from Tatar’s essay “Sex and Violence…” or Tatar’s “Introduction: Beauty and the Beast” to either assigned version of the Beauty and the Beast tale (or a different version in which you are more interested).
Analyze Carter’s “The Tiger’s Bride.” You can approach it from any/all angles: theme, tone, characters, symbolism, conclusion. Perhaps, how does it compare/contrast with your understanding of other Beauty and the Beast tales?
Explore your thoughts about the Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty sagas. You can approach this from any/all angles: structure, tone, theme(s), characters, symbolism, conclusions, etc.
Apply concepts from Tatar’s “Introduction: Cinderella” to either or both assigned versions of the tale (“Cinderella,” Perrault’s “Donkeyskin”).
Pick your favorite tale saga and explain why it appeals to you using/analyzing at least one assigned tale; (feel free to add any others). For development you may include: tone, theme(s), characters, symbolism, conclusions, etc.
Pick your favorite tale saga and explain its (perhaps variant) content/structure based on Propp’s “31 Functions.”
Discuss how having a British identity led American Colonists to rebel against England’s Parliament and led to the American Revolution.
you will write an essay (worth 100 points total) and identify terms (worth 25 points total). Write your answer in a word document. You must submit the assignment by uploading the file by the due due date. You will only have one chance to upload one file, so make sure you have completed the assignment fully before submitting it.
First, you will choose and answer one of the following questions. Your essay should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs and 500 words, but be sure to thoroughly address the prompt and provide specific examples. You may discuss the historical context generally, but you must provide clear examples from lecture/powerpoints and the reading. Do not use outside course materials (such as googling things or random websites). All material from the reading and sources must be properly cited, and material that is not from the reading/lectures must be in your own words.
Treat your response as an essay. Remember to include a thesis for your response with specific examples to prove your claim. Review the rubric before submitting your exam. Good responses will include the following characteristics:
A thesis statement that clearly expresses your position.
Consistent commentary on the significance of your examples in proving your claim and situating your arguments within the context of this course.
Cause and effect explanations of significance.
A satisfying conclusion. This is not a mere summary of your points.
Discuss how having a British identity led American Colonists to rebel against England’s Parliament and led to the American Revolution. Why did the American Colonists feel as though the British were taking away their natural rights as Englishmen? What were these rights? How and why did the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, and Intolerable Acts politicize American colonists as never before? What were the intents of the British, and how did the American Colonists interpret them?
Discuss the impact of slavery on the British Colonies in America. What were the main reasons why colonists turned to slavery instead of other forms of labor? Why was slavery implemented across racial lines? Make sure to include in your discussion indentured servants, labor needs, Britain’s economy, and variances between colonies in their use of slave labor.
Discuss the establishment of the American government. What were the Articles of Confederation? Why did the founding fathers decide to call a constitutional convention? How did the American Constitution differ from the Articles of Confederation? What were the strengths and weaknesses of each. Make sure to include how slavery was dealt with in the founding of the nation.
Please make sure there is no grammar mistakes or plagirism as this will be graded as a Exam. I will provide about 6 powerpoints where you can use for sources if possible. please make sure to choose one of the questions to write a essay andlet me know what you have choosen.
Memorial’s Healthcare System: Organizational Change and Workforce Management for the Future
A. Submit a rough outline of your final Portfolio Project as well as a list of references that you intend to use.
B. Memorial Hospital System (MHS) has been facing many serious issues including leadership problems, staffing deficiency, and financial hardship. Challenges include:
High staff turnover, which doubled to 20% in the past two years and is expected to rise;
Healthcare costs that continue to spiral out of control, with plummeting reimbursement (overall margin is negative and working capital reserves are below industry standards); and
An inability to raise capital funding due to a bond rating that was lowered earlier this year to “junk” status.
MHS is a union shop for non-managerial workforce staff and the contract between management and the union is up for renewal this fiscal year.
MHS is in the process of implementing complex and expensive multi-year healthcare information systems such as Electronic Health Record and other critical-need clinical information systems.
MHS is facing significant competition from other local healthcare facilities.
Last year, a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was hired. She identified the current organizational culture as apathetic, leaderless, and resistant to change. She also noted that the staff was under stress, resisting teamwork, accepting mediocrity, and compromising patient safety values and industry best practices. The CEO noted that critical human resources functions were broken, and that financial performance was suffering. She attributed this to a variety of process issues as well as to the lack of focus on the core business of patient care.
In response, she decided to implement the following strategies:
Change the organizational culture,
Improve human resources and workforce practices and outcomes,
Ensure the organization’s solvency and financial viability in the long run, and
Cutting costs across the board including implementing a labor-reduction strategy (salary and benefits) with an aggressive timeline to turn around the financial bottom line.
Within a few months after these strategies were implemented, the MHS started to show less of a financial loss and seemed to stabilize financially. The morale of the staff, however, took a significant hit.
Staff turnover increased as the sense of job security decreased and as an increasing number of valued and critical staff in all areas left. Soon, MHS experienced an increase in patient complaints and lowered customer service with signs of impact on clinical patient outcomes.
Now the CEO, with approval and support from the MHS Board of Directors, wants to create a dynamic long-term organization and human resources strategic plan to put MHS on the right track. To formulate and implement this plan, the CEO hired a well-known consultant who is tasked with performing a system-wide organization and human resources assessment.
Within the scope of this assessment is the development and formulation of a multilevel strategic program. This new program is to be implemented system-wide with the goal to help MHS leaders to understand the link among finances, employee morale, human resources functions, and patient satisfaction. The end result of this assessment is: to create a culture of accountability; to shift the culture to one of services after two years; to attract, hire, and retain staff; and to implement best practices in workforce management.
Instructions:
Assume that you are the consultant the CEO hired to do this assessment project. Your main task is to identify the key components involved in changing the organizational culture and to identify the steps needed to generate sustainable change.
Here are the deliverables that the Board of Directors and CEO want to see from you:
Develop a comprehensive organization and human resources strategic plan. The plan has two major sections: Organization Development and Human Resources. The CEO and Board of Directors expect you to create your plan using benchmarking and by integrating human resources and organization development best practices from other healthcare organizations as well as from other industries.
The Organization Development section will address the following items:
Workplace communication,
Motivation,
Leadership,
Employee stress,
Decision making,
Conflict management,
Team building and group dynamics, and
Embracing change and change management.
The Human Resources section will address the following items:
Organizational and human resources systems that need to be in place to effect positive organizational outcomes;
The steps and decisions involved in recruitment, selection, and retention of staff;
Performance management systems;
Compensation and reward systems;
Process of training and development and the contribution to the organization’s bottom line;
Relationship of organized labor and management in healthcare; and
The resources, key staff/roles, and steps required to develop a safe workplace.
Your submission will be 10-12 pages in length. You must include title and reference pages and a table of contents. These do not count toward total page count. Incorporate 20 credible and current references. Ten of these must be scholarly articles, preferably no older than three years.
Do you think Cupcake is called a “problem child” more-so because of her physical appearance (being of color) or her actions?
Reading questions and thoughts for A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown first
Please includes at least 2 questions about any of the week’s readings, as well as at least 250 words on your thoughts. You should not spend the entire post summarizing. You can quote the text (include in-text citations) but make sure to use it as a jumping off point.
Note: This can also be completed as a creative assignment. For example, a video, a Tik Tok video, a meme, etc., and explain it in relation to the week’s reading in a few sentences. Please still include 2 questions if you choose this option.
and answer the question
Do you think Cupcake is called a “problem child” more-so because of her physical appearance (being of color) or her actions?
What do you think Larry’s story would be like?
In approximately 500 words or more, please provide an essay on the topic “what does charity mean to me and why I need MLF’s scholarship.” (Essay is preferred to be written in English and typed.)
Prompt: In approximately 500 words or more, please provide an essay on the topic “what does charity mean to me and why I
need MLF’s scholarship.” (Essay is preferred to be written in English and typed.)
(Please focus on family financial hardship, and I plan to use this scholarship to pay for the college summer session fee.
Background about me: 2nd-year Computer Science Student at UC Irvine, applying for a scholarship. )
If COVID effected students online learning
This paper is a research paper. You have to conduct 10 interviews of students in the past and see whether COVID effected there online learning in a positive or negative way. This is a qualitive interview based research study and should be based entirley on your own research and how you have conducted the study, such as methods, results and findings etc. I have attached the insturctions as well as a proposal of what the paper should look like. There must be supporting graphs and results of the study to show that I interviewed students.
Are there differences in the average agreement with gay individuals having the right to marry one another among people who were interviewed in different geographic regions of the United States?
***The subject is Statistical Literacy in Psychology***
Overview
You work for a market research company that supplies information for political non-profit organizations throughout the nation. A number of your clients are interested in the public perception of policies about sexual orientation.
For this milestone, you will create an action strategy for each research question below and then choose one research question to analyze in more detail for Project Two, due in Module Seven. You will be provided with one Excel file for this milestone in your Soomo webtext. Each tab in the Excel file contains a data set with different variables that correspond to one of the research questions. Note: The tab number does not necessarily correspond to the research question number, as identifying the data set that corresponds to each question is part of your task.
Research Questions
Are there differences in the average agreement with gay individuals having the right to marry one another among people who were interviewed in different geographic regions of the United States?
Are there differences in the average feelings of warmth toward liberals among people who were interviewed in different geographic regions of the United States?
Is there a linear relationship between feelings toward liberals and beliefs regarding gay persons’ right to marry one another?
Is there a linear relationship between feelings toward conservatives and beliefs regarding gay persons’ right to marry one another?
Prompt
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
For each research question:
Write a possible corresponding research hypothesis for each research question. Your responses should be about 25 words in length.
Select the appropriate inferential test for each research question. Your responses should be about 25 words in length.
Justify your choice of inferential test for each research question, including how the scales of measurement affect this decision. Your responses should be about 25 to 50 words in length.
For one research question:
Identify the research question you will use to complete Project Two. Your response should be about 25 words in length.
Explain what personal or professional reasons you had for choosing this research question. Your response should be about 75 to 100 words in length.
Explain the social relevance of this topic. Include at least one scholarly source or recent review article that relates to the social relevance of the topic. Your response should be about 75 to 100 words in length.
Law and Globalization
On September 3rd 2019, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the UN General Assembly, gave the following speech:
“It is a great pleasure to join you for the Second World Meeting of Societies for International Law – and a privilege indeed to be here with Dame Rosalyn Higgins – first female judge and first female president of the International Court of Justice, as well as so many other distinguished lawyers, female and male.
While I was preparing my remarks, I was looking through my notes on gender representation in the UN system, and I saw that there have been fewer than 10 female members of the International Law Commission in its seven decades of existence. I look at the expertise in this room and think: really, we must do better and I hope that I can count on law societies and associations to advocate for gender equality and representation.
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are witnessing the rise of nationalist populism and extremist ideologies, as the world becomes more multipolar but also more polarized. We have seen the impact of this trend on hard-won multilateral agreements and institutions: the Paris climate agreement; the global compact on migration; the Human Rights Council, the WTO, arms control instruments – these are just a few examples that I’d like to mention.
We are seeing a growing disconnect between people, governments and institutions. People expect us to keep the promises we have made, through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, for example. But they are losing faith in our capacity to deliver for them. Unless we reverse these trends, we risk damaging the values, principles, laws and systems that have been the bedrock of the international community for more than seven decades. And the irony is that these trends are occurring at precisely the moment when we need global cooperation more than ever.
The Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the International Court of Justice were signed at the same time. These two elements – political and legal – form the mutually reinforcing core of our international system. And over the past seven decades, the UN has provided the framework for international laws, norms and mechanisms on everything from the promotion of human rights and gender equality to the regulation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
These frameworks have often proved incredibly successful – the Montreal Protocol, for instance. Or the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Assembly itself plays a vital role in norm development, often serving as both the starting and confirmatory point for declarations and conventions. The Assembly’s processes are not perfect. The debates we have seen over the referral of issues to the ICJ is a prominent example of the difficult nexus between the political and the legal. But it is my firm conviction that the United Nations, and specifically the General Assembly, remains essential to the upholding and development of international law. There is simply no other forum that can match its representativeness and legitimacy.”
Do you agree with the President of the UN General Assembly’s statement?
Choose ONE of the world issues identified in the statement and use FOUR out of the “ten areas of study” outlined by Paul Schiff Berman (week 1) to argue whether or not you agree.
Pease refer to course readings when answering your question and rely on at least 2 external sources when writing your essay.
8-10 pages (excluding references)
“Rome, Islam, and the West”
Primary sources from Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Patricia Buckly Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Jerry Davila, Clare Haru Crowston, John P. McKay, editors. A History of World Societies: Volume 1: to 1600. Eleventh Edition. Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillan Learning, 2018, ISBN-13: 9781319059316.
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Jerry Dávila, Clare Haru Crowston, John P. McKay, editors. Sources of World Societies: Volume 1: to 1600. Twelfth Edition. Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillan Learning, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1319297435
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Jerry Dávila, Clare Haru Crowston, John P. McKay, editors. Sources of World Societies: Volume 1: to 1600. Twelfth Edition. Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillan Learning, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1319297435
OPTION #1: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL VIEWS OF GENDER
From the list above, in a 6-8 page essay, please use at least 3 of the Roman World (WH) and 3 of the Islamic World (IW) primary sources to assess comparatively how late antique Roman and Arabian religious and cultural traditions may have informed gender identity in the Early Medieval Period.
OPTION #2: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL VIEWS OF GENDER
From the list above, in a 6-8 page essay, please use at least 3 of the Roman World (WH) and 3 of the Islamic World (IW) primary sources to assess comparatively how late antique Roman and Arabian political and social traditions may have informed gender identity in the Early Medieval Period.
For both options, you may want to frame your approach by engaging the following prompts:
What did it mean to be a man or woman in the late antique and early medieval era?
Do the sources indicate any evidence of codes of conduct or gender expectations that a man or woman should follow in Christian and Islamic societies?
What was the impact of any classical traditions on gender identity?
How was being a man or woman different (or similar) between Christian and Islamic civilizations?
Do you see anything formative for our own time’s gender relations as originating in the early medieval period depicted in these readings?
*Don’t forget (1) to use the Wiesner-Hanks, et al main textbook, A History of World Societies, Vol 1: To 1600 to frame your historical discussions, and (2) to address “so what?” implications of your analyses (i.e., relevancies that these readings and historical people, events, and phenomena may have for you in our 21st Century world!)