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Learning Module 6: Multimodal Proposal Assignment
Students should explore “all available means of persuasion.” ~Aristotle
Assignment: Instead of producing a formal essay, create a multimodal proposal. This means that you will use (1) text, (2) visuals, (3) audio, and/or (4) video to enhance your argument. You must use at least three.
The Proposal: Your proposal will address the following components:
What is the issue? Educate the audience (assume that they do not care about the issue)
Why is it important? Convince them to care.
What is your stance on it? Articulate your position.
What do you think needs to be done? Argue what action should be taken to resolve the problem.
Topic: The topic is your choice, but it will be easiest to build upon the work you have done in the 1st and/or 2nd paper.
Requirements: You must have…
A claim (thesis)
Use at least 5 sources to build the argument
3 quotations must be incorporated into your multimodal essay
You must use at least 3 modalities
You will be awarded extra points for doing a voice-over of your presentation!
Research: Your project must explicitly show evidence of your research (a minimum of 3 sources are to be used). You are to include a Works Cited which may be part of the multimodal essay or submitted as a separate Works Cited page via the Dropbox.
Format: You can choose whatever platform you want as long as the final product can be uploaded and viewable to the class. Consider what multimodal format will be most effective in persuading your audience? What can be conveyed best through modalities other than the printed word?
Possible Formats: Podcast, video, iMovie, VoiceThread, PowerPoint, Prezi, Powtoon, SITES, Glogster, Fakebook, infographic, photo essay
Resources: Here is a good resource on available technology to use in this project: Resources. Additionally, please remember that all HACC students have access to Google Apps for Education. You can access these by logging into MyHACC (the portal) and clicking on the link. There, you have access to Slides (Google’s version of PowerPoint, SITES (build an easy website) and much, much more.
Traditional Approach: If you are looking for a fairly traditional approach to a proposal, you might want to consider having sections that address:
Introduction
Nature of the Problem
Current Approaches or Previous Solutions
Proposal Recommendations
Advantages
Counter-Arguments
Feasibility
Implementation
Final Note: That said, the beauty of this assignment is the freedom to create and use new ways to communicate a message!

Discussion Question:
Johnson viewed health as efficient and effective functioning of the system, and as behavioral system balance and stability. Behavioral system balance and stability are demonstrated by observed behavior that is purposeful, orderly, and predictable. Consider a clinical-practice situation that demonstrates Johnson’s model of health. How can the nurse support this theory to return the patient to balance and stability?
Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Students must submit at least two posts for each weekly discussion. Your first post is due no later than 10pm on Wednesday, must answer one of the following questions, and be at least 250 words in length. Your second and any subsequent posts must respond to a classmate’s post on a different document. Second posts must be submitted no later than 12pm on Saturday and must be at least 150 words in length. You are encouraged to submit more than the required two posts as doing so will enrich the discussion. Posts must provide parenthetical citations like this (name of document, page number) to support students’ argument. In other words, when you make an argument, you will have to provide the evidence so others may refer to the appropriate part of the reading if necessary. Be as specific as you can and try to avoid making sweeping generalizations that are often not supported by the evidence.
Questions:
1. How does Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur describe Americans? What does his description suggest about the nature of their national identity?
2. Read the Declaration of Independence carefully. How is it organized and why is it organized in that way? Please cite specific examples that illustrate some of the ways in which the Enlightenment influenced how it was written. (Note: At some point during the week, the class collectively must answer this question as doing so will help to illuminate students’ understanding of the Founding Father’s worldview and arguments.)
3. There are many reasons why George Washington is held in high esteem by the American people. In reading his Newburgh Address, with what was he most concerned? What does it suggest about the general’s character and leadership abilities?
4. Compare the rhetoric used in the Declaration of Independence and the slave petition presented to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1779. What conclusions can you draw?

For your final essay you will first hand in an outline of your paper. The outline will include:
a) Your choice of a contemporary social issue formulated as a thesis statement.
“A thesis statement focuses your ideas into one or two sentences. It should present the topic of your paper and also make a comment
about your position in relation to the topic. Your thesis statement should tell your reader what the paper is about and also help
guide your writing and keep your argument focused” .http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/tips/thesis/
b) Brief description of the theoretical perspective(s) you will adopt for the purpose of your analysis, and an explanation as to why you
chose this lens.
c) Outline of the body of your essay. Each paragraph is presented in point form (2 or 3 sentences) and constructs a well rounded
argument. The flow of your critical analysis is obvious in its building toward a conclusion.
d) Brief description of each of your sources with appropriate APA references.
e) Present your outline to the class (5mins) (use PowerPoint, Prezi or other platform like it).

Watch the Ted Talk from Gary Haugen, The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now, and answer the questions below.
The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now
Explain your interpretation of the complexity of social class, poverty, and discrimination in terms of the interconnections among race, ethnicity, age, gender, and education.
How are they related? How are they unrelated?
Your paper should be 1–2 pages in length, double-spaced. Use current APA format, and include in-text citations and sources for all references. you may use your textbook Understanding Human Differences sixth edition as your reference.

Question:

What are some of the principal issues of topical interest and concern in the study of contemporary social movements, as well as the key contributions to their study? Consider the full range of theoretical insights, patterns, or sociological truths that seem most pertinent to an understanding of the contemporary landscapes of dissent, offering a discussion that demonstrates a grasp of key issues involved, and ask yourself, What is really important to know about social movements today?

This essay should please use these sources ONLY:

Bonilla, Yarimar and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist 42 (1): 4-17.
Castells, Manuel. 2013. Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. Wiley.
Haugerud, Angelique. 2016. Public Anthropology in 2015: Charlie Hebdo, Black Lives Matter, Migrants, and More. American Anthropologist 118 (3): 585-601.
Freeland, Chrystia. “The rise of the new global elite”. The Atlantic, vol. 307, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2011, p. 44+.
Lindholm, Charles and Jose Zuquete. 2011. The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century. Stanford Univ Press.
Sorge, Antonio. 2018. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee “Crisis”: Alter-globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa, in Messy Europe: Crisis, Race, Nation-State in Postcolonial World, ed. by C. Loftsdottir et al. Berghahn Books.
Anthropologist Scott Atran speaks to the UN Security Council on radicalization and de-radicalization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc
A strange and disturbing story: Man in Florida Told the Police He Killed Neo-Nazi Roommates for Disrespecting His Muslim Faith. NY Times. 24 May 2017.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/neo-nazi-roommate-murder.html

Please use APA in-text citation (author, year, page number).

A plagiarism-free paper will be very much appreciated.

Looking forward to what you come up with.

Please communicate with me if the requirements of the essay are not understood.

AGAIN, PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SOURCES SEPARATE FROM THE ONES I HAVE PROVIDED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!

In a 2- to 3-page paper, address the following:
Briefly describe
humanistic-existential psychotherapy and the second approach you
selected.
Explain at least three
differences between these therapies. Include how these differences might
impact your practice as a PMHNP.
Focusing on one video you
viewed, explain why humanistic-existential psychotherapy was utilized with
the patient in the video and why it was the treatment of choice. Describe
the expected potential outcome if the second approach had been used with
the patient.
Support your response with
specific examples from this week’s media and at least three peer-reviewed,
evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is
considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources

Please do the following in this exact order:

1) Read E.B. White’s essay “Education,” which is posted on the main page immediately below this assignment as a PDF file.

2) In a paragraph or two, answer the following: Strictly based upon White’s writing – disregarding any personal experiences or biases that you may have brought to this essay – which school seems better, the private city school or the public country school? Does White seem to favor either one or do you think he honestly believes what he claims – that they are equal? Support your answer with examples from his essay.

3) Also appearing on the announcements page, you will find my “Analysis of E.B. White’s ‘Education.'” Read this piece paying particularly close attention to my discussion of ethos, pathos, and logos and how they are used in the “Education” essay.

4) In another paragraph or two, answer the following: Did your answer to question two above agree with my analysis of White’s essay? If it did not, did I change your mind? (Hint: I sure hope so!) Why or why not? If our analyses of this essay did agree to begin with, did I help identify the specifics about which you may have just had a “hunch” originally? Or, had you already made note of some subliminal uses of language in White’s piece?

Overview
To measure the financial performance of any company, it is important to analyze its four key financial statements: balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and shareholders’ equity statements. In this assignment, you will:
Visually present the balance sheet to depict what each company owns and what it owes over the past three years.
Visually present the income statement to depict how much money a company made and spent over the past three years.
The visual presentation and analysis will help you understand and compare the performance of both the companies to be acquired and eventually will help you build your recommendation for the acquisition.
Prompt
Use the provided data sets of Company A and Company B to create data visualizations of their financial performance in Power BI. Then, based on the visualizations, write an executive summary interpreting the financial performance of Company A and Company B. Include screenshots from your data visualizations as needed in your summary. Follow the directions in the Power BI Executive Summary Assignment User Manual.
Specifically, you must address the following criteria:
Assets, Liability, and Equity: Summarize how the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity have changed over three years for Company A and Company B. Include screenshots of your data visualization as follows:
Company A: In Power BI, use the provided balance sheet and construct a set of three clustered column charts, representing:
The assets of Company A as represented in the data during each of the three years
The liabilities and owners’ equity over the same three years
Company B: In Power BI, use the provided balance sheet and construct a set of three stacked column charts, representing:
The assets of Company B as represented in the data during each of the three years
The liabilities and owners’ equity over the same three years
Revenue and Earnings: Use the provided income statements to summarize the gross revenue and net earnings for Company A and Company B over three years. Include screenshots of your data visualization as follows:
Company A: In Power BI, use the provided Company A Financials document and construct a line chart illustrating the visual relationship of revenue, gross profit, total expenses, earnings before tax, net earnings, and taxes.
Company B: In Power BI, use the provided Company B Financials document and construct a line chart illustrating the visual relationship of revenue, gross profit, total expenses, earnings before tax, net earnings, and taxes.

Conclusion : Summarize your observations about the financial performance of both companies. Include any insights you may have about their performance trends or how they have performed compared to each other over the past three years.
Guidelines for Submission
Submit a 2- to 3-page Word document using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

This paper is to be in the form of an argument. Choose an issue related to that topic. Research both sides of the issue, and then write a paper that’s supports one side or the other of the issue. The essay must define the issue, present evidence on both sides of the issue, and then argue that one side is stronger and more persuasive than the other. The essay must address at least three relevant aspects of the issue.