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Choose four popular press articles related to genetics, and come up with four research questions and a hypothesis (one per article) you
propose as a possible explanation for that research question.

Example:

Are the health promoting effects of the Greenlander genotype due to bacteria fermenting undigested sucrose and isomaltase?
Remember that research questions have two characteristics: are unknown and can be tested. Remember that hypotheses are logical possible answers to that research questions.
To find a good research question please follow the next steps:
Look for a popular press article related to Genetics
Summarize the main points
Think of follow-up questions that could be a good research question
Devise a research question + hypothesis
Provide back up information for your hypothesis
Here is how the post would go:

I thought of this research question after finding the article “For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy”. In the article, a study performed in humans and mice, demonstrated that adult individuals with a homozygote genotype for a particular mutation in the gene that codes for the sucrase-isomaltase enzyme exhibit high levels of acetate and some health benefits such as lower BMI and better metabolism. However, they found that children with this genotype suffer from intestinal problems.
One thing that the authors of the research did not test though, was WHY these individuals had the health benefit. My research question comes from the unknowns the article left: DO THE HEALTH BENEFITS IN ADULTS COME FROM BACTERIAL GUT FERMENTING THE UNDIGESTED SUGARS INTO ACETATE?
My hypothesis is that indeed the health benefits in adults are caused by bacteria fermenting the sucrase into acetate. Some evidence that backs up my hypothesis is that: 1. It has been demonstrated that acetate reduces hunger and boosts metabolism, 2. Children with underdeveloped gut bacteria do not see this benefit and 3. Gut bacteria can transform sucrase into acetate.

Purpose
By the end of this writing project, you will be able to:
• Define key rhetorical concepts including purpose, audience, and genre
• Employ critical reading strategies to understand a text’s content and rhetorical choices
• Explore personal experiences with reading, writing, and language through the lens of rhetorical concepts
• Engage with texts by summarizing, paraphrasing, and responding
• Compose a text using the writing process by drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, and editing
Task
Before you enrolled in English 101, you had years of experience with learning in school, family, and community settings. These experiences come with you to the classroom and inform how and why you communicate today. For this assignment, you will write a narrative essay about a significant personal experience with learning that influenced you in some impactful way.
Topic:
For this assignment, we will use a broad definition of literacy as any skills or knowledge in a specific area or discipline. Traditionally, “literacy” means the ability to read and write, but you can also think about learning a language or a new sport, learning how to operate certain kinds of technology (digital or not), learning how to live in a new culture, or how to play a musical instrument. While looking for a topic for your narrative, think about various kinds of knowledge and skills you have: how did you acquire them? What was your learning process? Was there a specific person that helped you learn or influence your learning in some way? How do these skills influence you on a personal level? You can also reflect on the connection between the different types of literacy and your family and social life. Your narrative can focus on a specific event, person, or object (e.g. a significant book you’ve read), or a combination of the three. Your purpose is to present a significant experience with learning new knowledge or skills that has made you who you are as a person, a student, or a writer today.
Your narrative should describe a particular experience, and it should also explain what role this experience has played in your life. Make sure your main point is not too broad or generalized. For example, something like “Learning to read and write helped my life in many ways” sounds like an important point, but it might not work so well because it lacks originality and specific focus (whose life wouldn’t be affected if they could not read or write?).
Finally, consider how your personal experience fits in with the larger context: what kind of issues in our society does it relate to? You can think of political, social, economic, or cultural problems that your narrative can connect to; these connections are what makes people interested in reading literacy narratives.
Directions:
• Your narrative should describe your experience, so you need to tell a story. Use descriptive language to create a vivid depiction of the setting, event(s), and/or people (you can describe these things using sensory images, metaphors, similes, etc.). You can include dialogue.
• Besides describing what happened, you also need to provide your reflection on the experience. Show your readers why this experience was important to you and how your it connects to larger social, cultural, political, or economic issues.
• The introduction should grab the reader’s attention, announce your topic, and indicate how you plan to proceed.
• The body of the paper should develop your story and include your reflections and thoughts on the experience you describe.
• The concluding paragraph should tie your points together and highlight the significance of your narrative.
• The narrative should have a creative title that will grab the readers’ attention.
• Make sure your narrative is organized in a logical way and that you provide enough details for your readers to follow your story.
• Include at least one multimodal component into your narrative. It can be a picture of the setting or people involved in your story, an image that can illustrate an idea, or even a video or an audio podcast that can be a meaningful addition to the story. You can add this element (or multiple elements) at any point in the paper where it will help illustrate a point.
• For example, you can use an image on the very top of the first page if that image corresponds to the general message of the narrative; or you can add an image next to a specific paragraph if the image illustrates a specific moment in your story. Make sure to add a caption next to your multimodal element explaining what it is and its relation to your narrative.
Requirements
Length: 1,000-1,400 words
Genre: literacy narrative
Audience: your classmates, your instructor, and anybody interested in the topic

write a response to the following post the origonal propmt is in italic for contex

Finding another article about a real-life fraud case similar to Rita Crundwell was not a difficult task. Two employees at FTE Networks, Inc., a publicly traded company in the telecommunications industry, were recently involved in a high profile fraudulent case in 2021. Michael Palleschi, the ex-CEO and David Lethem, the ex-CFO were charged by federal prosecutors and sued by the SEC for fraud. Palleschi and Lethem were accused of fraudulently hiding FTE Networks’ financial condition from 2016-2019 (Mangan, 2021). They caused FTE to recognize over $13 million in fraudulent revenue (The United States Department of Justice, 2021). They were also accused of embezzling millions of dollars for personal luxuries like private jets, luxury cars, personal credit cards, wire transfers, stock issuances, and unauthorized salary increases (Mangan, 2021). The two men also doctored and forged numerous documents and signatures, provided fake copies of documents like notes to FTE’s accounting personnel who in turn improperly accounted for Notes as conventional promissory notes. (SEC, 2021). It wasn’t until an FTE employee told FTE’s only independent director the truth of FTE’s finances that an internal investigation was conducted and led to the unraveling of Palleschi and Lethem’s scheming (SEC, 2021).

Palleschi and Lethem’s case was similar to Crundwell’s in the sense of conducting fraudulent schemes for personal gain. However, not that it should be applauded but Crundwell was able to do this for over two decades while Palleschi and Lethem were only able to do this for 3 years. In order to avoid situations like these, organizations must have a separation of duties. One person should have been approving invoices while another was authorizing the payments. This helps to an organization avoid unauthorized purchases and payments. Palleschi and Lethem were a slightly harder duo to combat because both had different duties and worked together to make their fraudulent schemes work. Corrective internal controls like physically tracking the assets could have helped to reveal well-hidden discrepancies. When you have upper management like the CEO and CFO involved in fraudulent schemes, it becomes hard to restrict employee access to financial systems, increasing oversight and allocating separate accounting responsibilities. However, it is not impossible. More should have been done to strengthen internal accounting controls.

References

Mangan, D. (2021, July 15). Former executives of FTE networks charged with securities fraud and Asset Swindle, sued by Sec. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/fte-networks-executives-charged-with-securities-fraud-conspiracy.html

SEC. (2021, July 15). Complaint: Michael Palleschi and David Lethem – sec.gov. SEC. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2021/comp-pr2021-127.pdf

The United States Department of Justice (2021, July 15). Former CEO and CFO of Public Telecommunications Company charged in Manhattan Federal Court with scheme to defraud investors. The United States Department of Justice. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-ceo-and-cfo-public-telecommunications-company-charged-manhattan-federal-court

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this is the origonal discussion prompt for context Article Summary – After understanding internal controls and segregation of duties, find an article about a real-life fraud case similar to Rita Crumwell. (Avoid the large complex cases such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco…) Briefly summarize the situation and focus your discussion on the root cause. What internal controls were lacking? What actions could have prevented this fraud?

Length: 2-3 typed pages
Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to choose an issue or current event that is in the news right
now and write a two- to three-page commentary in which you express your own views on this
issue.
To develop content for your commentary, use the invention techniques discussed in the chapter on
pages 167 to 169.
When organizing your commentary, be sure to include an introduction, a brief explanation of the
issue, support for your argument (reasoning, evidence, examples, and observations), clarification,
and a conclusion.
For further samples of commentaries, see “Is College Worth It?” (525-28), “The End of Identity
Politics” (537-40), and “Forget Shorter Showers” (593-95).
Getting Started
Review the material in Chapter 11, “Commentaries” (pages 164-183), which instructs readers on
developing, organizing, and designing a commentary.Formatting
For this assignment, be sure to use MLA format—typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch
margins, with title centered.
Grading Criteria Percent
Focus 30
Development 30
Organization 20
Style 10
Mechanics 10

Each question is worth 1 point for a maximum of 5 on this assignment. To get full credit, you must show all your work, no assumptions are to be made. If you use Excel, please show your answers as they appear and also include your answers in the “show formulas” mode so that I can see your operations.
You can scan and upload your answers or take a picture and upload it to Blackboard by Wednesday at 11:59 PM (the end of the Module). Please make sure it’s legible. Please do not email me your answers. You don’t need to type your answers, just show your work and please circle your answers. Thanks!
Please answer questions: 12-7, 12-15, 12-17, 12-23, 12-31

Also please watch this youtube video for more instructions highlight it then click the right hand twice for you tosee the option to open this link.

Prior to entering this discussion, review Chapters 8 and 9 in the Abraham’s textbook several required web-based resources on the subject for this week. Strategic planning and operational planning are both important in the overall planning process, but are distinctly different. Succinctly define each and summarize the key differences between them. Who are the typical participants in each process? How does an organization benefit from operational planning? Provide an example of a company which has been successful in implementing Strategic and Operational planning and a company that has failed in implementing both.

Provide a set of references you have read in preparation for your final project.
Each reference should include the following:
APA formatted citation of the source as it will appear on your References page
A brief description of the source
A short summary of its primary points or arguments
A brief explanation of how the source is relevant to your project
A minimum of 5 references is required for this assignment.

How to Structure Your Essay
To make a clear overall point, any story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. In short, an author must provide his or her readers with a sense that every event starts and then, subsequently, finishes. However, no story can relate every detail of what happened in a given situation. Therefore, each individual writer must choose details carefully and use them to build a scene that reflects the chosen point or mood. To review how to plan and organize your ideas, return to Section 2.1, Generating Ideas and Planning.

The Introduction
There are many appropriate and interesting ways to begin an essay. Whatever method you use, you must catch the readers’ attention and give your audience an idea of what will follow. The first sentence (or even the first paragraph) should be like a store window; it should make people (who might otherwise pass by) stop and enter the store. You can choose to appeal to your readers’ curiosity or feelings to engage them. Your primary objective is to hook the audience and get them interested in reading more.

Let’s take a look at what should happen in the introductory paragraph.

Define the Topic
You’ve been given an assignment to write an essay about one of your hobbies. How can you get your reader interested in what you have to say? The simplest way is normally to plunge right into your subject.

Let’s consider an example.

For hundreds of years, hunting was necessary in order to avoid starvation. Even though it’s no longer a required activity to keep our families fed, some of us still find the thrill of the hunt and the connection to nature intoxicating. Hunting is absolutely my favorite hobby and one that I’m able to enjoy with my friends and family.

This is an example of a good, direct beginning. The paragraph has

Defined the subject
Stated that there’s a difference of opinion about it
Invited the reader to go on and read more
Start with an Incident or Anecdote
Plunging directly into the subject is certainly not the only way to catch the readers’ attention. You may also start with an incident, an anecdote, or some personal experience—something that will appeal to the readers’ personal curiosity.

Let’s consider another example.

My grandfather took me into the Smoky Mountains for my very first hunting trip. After years of listening to his stories, I looked forward to finally seeing him in action. However, what I remember most about that weekend is the time we spent together. He taught me lessons that I will never forget.

While this paragraph will require more information to be complete, the personal anecdote provides an effective beginning.

Start with a Bang
You can interest your reader in your subject with a startling, striking, or unexpected beginning. To do so, you’ll need to make a special effort to find something surprising to relate to your topic. If you can do it, it’s an excellent way to start.

Let’s consider a third example, one that incorporates a sense of mystery.

My grandfather took me into the Smoky Mountains for my very first hunting trip. After years of listening to his stories, I looked forward to finally seeing him in action. However, what I remember most about that weekend is the time we spent together. He taught me lessons that I will never forget.

You can also surprise the reader with the following:

Are you someone who would like to save money? An avid hunter living in an area that allows year-round opportunities for game can provide food for his family and avoid paying thousands of dollars in grocery bills.

Goals of an Introductory Paragraph
Following the opening sentence, the introductory paragraph should solidify your topic and your approach, setting the mood and tone for the remainder of the essay. Save the actual story for the body paragraphs. Use your introduction to build suspense, interest your reader, and establish an overview or preview of your writing.

Your introduction doesn’t need to be written first. Some writers find it helpful to write the body of the essay first and then go back to write the introduction later.
Your Thesis Statement
Finally, aside from an interesting beginning, keep in mind that your essay needs to have a strong thesis statement, one which will be supported by the essay as a whole. Your thesis statement declares the main idea of the entire paper and should be contained in your introductory paragraph.

It is concise, summarizing your point in one clear sentence
It should state the reason you’re telling this particular story.
It must be present not only to help grab the readers’ attention, but also to inform the readers of the approach you’re taking on a particular topic in your essay.
Your thesis statement is simply your main idea for the essay. It functions the same way a topic sentence does in a paragraph.

The Body
The body of your essay should consist of several fully developed paragraphs expand on the main points of your essay (mentioned in your introduction) according to the approach defined in your thesis statement.

The number of body paragraphs will vary depending on the assignment. Often, short papers make use of the “five paragraph essay,” which refers to having one introductory paragraph, one summary paragraph, and three body paragraphs, for a total of five. This is not always an appropriate length, and for longer assignments (such as some assignments in this course) you will want five to seven body paragraphs.

Be sure that you include appropriate and logical transitions between ideas within paragraphs, as well as between the paragraphs themselves. One idea must logically follow another as you lead your readers through your story.

Since the introduction sets up the content of the body paragraphs, there should be nothing covered in the body of the essay that’s different from what’s promised in the introductory paragraph. The Conclusion
The conclusion paragraph should restate the content of the introduction, summarize the main points covered in the body paragraphs, tie up any loose ends, and bring closure to the essay.

Be sure that your conclusion restates the overall message of your narrative, so that your readers are left with your main point fresh in their minds. The best conclusions are directly tied to the introduction and give closure to the work as a whole. This isn’t the place to write the actual ending to your story or to introduce new information.

CONCLUSION VERSUS ENDING
A conclusion and an ending aren’t the same. The ending of your story should be contained in the body; the conclusion paragraph has its own job to do.

Voice
Personal narratives should be casual and are often emotional. If you’re writing about something you feel very strongly about, your story should evoke emotions in your readers as well, whether happiness, sadness, excitement, joy, anger, or something else. When you show your audience how you feel about something and why, your readers can recognize your sincerity. Your sincerity will, in turn, allow your readers to relate to you and/or your situation.

Be firm about your opinions, your feelings, and your views so that the reader may get a clear picture of who you are and what you stand for.

Use the voice and tone that come most naturally to you, but keep in mind that this is an academic assignment. You’ll need to use appropriate language and proper grammar.

It’s very important to use your own vocabulary; an essay in which the author has made use of a thesaurus stands out, but not in a good way. When you honor your own voice and use the words you know, your writing is easily viewed as authentic, and an audience will recognize and appreciate this.

Begin by writing the way that you speak. After you have your story down, you can go back and correct grammar, word choice, and sentence structure.

Earlier in this course, you learned about the writing process and its effectiveness. Now is your chance to use that process to your advantage, as it will allow you to efficiently and effectively draft your essay. This assignment covers the stages of the writing process.

Prewriting
The first thing to do during the prewriting stage is to determine your purpose, medium, and audience. For this essay, your medium is the personal narrative and your audience consists of a general and diverse population of people who aren’t familiar with you, your life, or your work. What you need to establish, for the purpose of beginning your essay, is your purpose.

Your goal is to use one or more of the five types of prewriting (brainstorming, freewriting, webbing, researching, and journal keeping) to find the specific idea you want to choose as your focus.

Try any of these to help you get started:

If you can’t think of anything to write down, just write something, anything. Eventually thoughts that are relevant and related will begin to come to you.
Don’t think too much about it or apply too much pressure to yourself. Just jot down anything and everything you can think of.

Unless you’re relatively focused on a particular topic, do your prewriting exercises on all different topics. If you’ve chosen a topic or a specific area of focus, try to confine your prewriting exercises to that one topic or area.

You can use full sentences and paragraphs, or you may simply use words and phrases. You may even use a combination of both. You should use whatever makes you most comfortable and allows you to express your ideas.

If you get stuck, try taking a different approach to some of the words, phrases, or sentences you’ve already written down. Soon, new ideas will begin to surface.
If it doesn’t contribute to nervousness about the assignment try to set a time limit and write continuously during that time.
During this stage, don’t be concerned about how your writing sounds. The idea in this stage of the writing process is to try to discover ideas that might not otherwise occur to you.
When you finish your prewriting activities, don’t discard them. If you decide to change the direction of your essay during the revision process, referring back to prewriting exercises may help to make organizational decisions easier.

Planning
Once you’ve established an acceptable topic, you must decide which thoughts you wish to include, organizing them in a logical order. Outlining and/or mapping may help you make some difficult decisions. Keep in mind, however, that effective planning requires you to already have a firm grasp on your purpose, medium, and audience.

During the planning stage, you’ll be writing out your main ideas and organizing them in an order that your audience will be able to understand. This will set up a framework for paragraph development in the next stage. Remember the order can always be changed; getting your ideas down is the primary goal.

First Draft
Once you’ve established your purpose and decided on the points you would like to include, you’re ready to begin writing your first draft. For your own well-being, don’t try to perfect the first draft while you’re writing it. Don’t attempt to write, edit, and revise each sentence and paragraph as you proceed. This will only cause frustration and, most likely, will trigger writer’s block. For the time being, you can simply fill in the paragraphs indicated by your outline.

Revising/Editing
Revision requires you to look at your essay as a member of your audience. Your concern at this point is the overall message conveyed by your essay, or the “big picture.”

Ask yourself these questions:

Are my purpose and meaning clear? If not, you may need to reorganize your topics or take a different approach to your essay as a whole.
Are there sections of the essay that don’t contribute to my established purpose? If so, delete those sections.
Are there sections of the essay that require more information to be clear? If so, add more information as needed.
Are there sections of the essay that should be moved for the sake of clarification? If so, try to determine where the information will make the most sense.
Are there concepts/ideas that could be combined? If so, you may have to combine concepts/ideas into single paragraphs. Remember details within a paragraph should support the paragraph’s main idea or topic sentence. You’re goal is to give the reader a clear and concise explanation.
During editing, your goal is to establish a clear, concise writing style. Your focus should be on grammar, sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, and spelling.

Make changes and improvements in these areas:

Vary sentence lengths.
Look for and delete unnecessary words.
Eliminate irrelevant information.
Get rid of clichés.
Use specific, concrete words.
Replace generalities with specifics.
Change negative messages to positive ones.
Check and correct grammar usage.
CHECK AGAIN
You may have to repeat this entire stage several times. In fact, you can continue to repeat these checks until you’re completely satisfied with what you’ve produced.

Proofreading
In this stage, you’ll clean up your writing to make it presentable to the audience. Since typographical errors, as well as errors in spelling and punctuation, can interfere with the clarity of your of your essay, you must eliminate them. Your final draft should be as close to perfection as possible.

Check for

Consistent paragraph indentation
Typographical and spelling errors
Correct punctuation
Correct capitalization
Grammar errors
Confused words, such as homonyms and homophones
Repeated words, sentences, and lines
Skipped lines, sentences, and paragraphs
It’s also helpful to have someone else read your paper, such as a friend or family member. Often, we don’t know that we use certain words too frequently, or that we consistently misapply a rule of grammar. Having someone else read your paper is a great way to help spot small flaws in whatever you are writing, and it helps you carry those lessons forward to become a better writer.

While they’re not foolproof, spell-check and grammar-check programs will help you to locate possible problems. Be aware, though, that these programs will not find every error and may suggest unnecessary or incorrect changes. For instance, if you have a word that’s spelled correctly, the spell-check feature won’t highlight it, even if it’s the incorrect word for that particular sentence. The same holds true for the grammar-check feature. Neither should be trusted; both should be used with caution during the proofreading process.

PROOFREADING TIP
Try to get an outside opinion, as it’s difficult to spot problems or errors when you’ve been immersed in writing. A new set of eyes may notice what you can no longer see. Computer programs that check for spelling or grammar aren’t designed to actually “read” your essay and can’t make judgments about tone and word meaning that a human can.

Presenting
Presenting is the final stage of the writing process and, for most students, the most exciting. During this stage, you’ll submit your essay for grading.

Before you “present” your essay, take a final run through the steps of the writing process to ensure that you haven’t overlooked anything. Your goal is to make your final draft as perfect as possible.

Summaries shall include a basic summary plus a critical analysis and commentary of the strengths and weaknesses of the author’s arguments and research, as well as comparison with other readings or class discussion. In the writing summaries, explain how the article relates to our topic of community justice or community-based approaches to justice please remember to rephrase the author’s words without changing their meaning; restate the main idea and the supporting points accurately and in your own words. Provide a more condensed but authentic version of the original. Cite any sources and credit the author with original ideas and phrasing. Provide the author’s name and the name of the article in the first paragraph. See below under Assignment Details for details about writing a critical summary. This will also be posted on Blackboard under assignments.

Provide a critical summary of Farmer, Esther. 2005. “Community Development as Improvisational Performance: A New Framework for Understanding and Reshaping Practice.” Community Development Journal Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 1-14. Discuss what improvisation means in this context, how and why the author followed this practice. Discuss any things that surprised or inspired you. Compare and contrast this strategy with any other community practice you have studied so far.

Biomolecules are molecules typically found in living organisms. They are represented by many different groups including carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. The primary component of living things is water. Thus, cells contain biomolecules and water.
Select one type of biomolecule (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids or nucleic acids) and describe its chemical structure. Then describe how this structure will interact with a water molecule.
Define the general chemical structure of your chosen biomolecule.
Identify any functional groups that the biomolecule typically contains.
Indicate whether this molecule would or would not be soluble in water.
Explain how water would interact with this substance (i.e. Would it surround it? Would it form bonds with it? etc.)
Draw an image that illustrates how the example molecule and water molecules would interact (hand-drawing is fine).
Properly cite any sources that you use to support your ideas (you should use at least one source).