Like your previous essay, your assignment for your third essay is to choose a pop cultural artifact. You should choose an artifact that you feel has academic value. Be sure to keep in mind your discussion of the readings and your prewritings for “Education: Popular Culture and the Academy” as you choose your artifact. When choosing your artifact, be sure to consider its original source. In citing your artifact, you will want to be as precise as possible in providing your reader with most relevant citation.
Your Thesis
The thesis of your essay should argue why you believe that your artifact has academic value. (Why would this artifact be worth studying in a course?) This assignment is a bit more difficult than our earlier two assignments because, in order to make a strong academic argument, you will want to think beyond the obvious. While lots of artifacts have educational value in that they teach us something (such as learning our numbers or letters from Sesame Street), this thesis asks you to consider how the popular cultural artifact can help us better understand the world around us or help us grow as people through our consumption of it. In the sample essays for this week, the authors argue how Stephen King,Grey’s Anatomy, and two Loretta Lynn songs from the 1970s can help us come to a greater understanding of the world in which we live. If you are unsure about what constitutes academic value, be sure to read the following article: “The Purpose of a Liberal Arts Education.” Your thesis statement should be an assertive statement that tells the reader how/why this artifact has academic value.
Evidence to Support Your Thesis
Like the previous two essays, in order to support your thesis statement, you will need to provide a careful analysis of your artifact. (Your artifact will be one of the required sources for this essay.) In addition, you will need to explain to your reader how your analysis demonstrates that your position is true.
In developing your argument, be sure to consider the prewriting that we have done in class as well as our in class discussions. You want to be sure that you address the key components of the artifact and the ways in which this artifact provides academic value.
In addition, your evidence for this essay may also draw on two outside sources for support. Please be sure to keep in mind the lectures and quizzes from Weeks 2 and 4 as you go about your research. You will want to begin your research at the library. You will also want to focus your research on as scholarly as sources as you can find. The library catalog and library databases should be the first places that you begin your search. Please be sure to remember the video by Dr. Bob Baker, “Info Literacy 10. Evaluating Information Sources.” Part of your score for your use of in-text citations will consider whether you are using credible sources.
Audience
Your audience is a college educated person who may or may not be familiar with your artifact, but who does understand the concepts covered by the essay. Be sure to use the appropriate academic voice as described in the lesson, The Academic Essay.
Essay 3 Requirements
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Your essay should be typed and double spaced using MLA format.
• This essay should be at least seven paragraphs.
• You will need to be sure to cite your outside sources according to MLA citation guidelines.
• For this essay, use three outside sources. Your artifact will be one outside source. You will also want to find additional outside sources to help with your analysis. Be sure to keep in mind the Citing Sources lectures and quizzes on research as you go about your research. In particular, be sure to start your research at the library and always choose credible sources. If you have trouble finding sources to support your argument, do not hesitate to let me know. I am happy to help.
• Be sure to include a Works Cited page as the final page of your essay. Essays, either rough or final drafts, will not be considered complete without the Works Cited page, and I will not comment on incomplete essays.
• The late submissions (even one minute late) of your rough draft will not receive credit or instructor comments. Rough Drafts without Works Cited pages will not receive comments.
• Late Final Drafts will be deducted ten percent for each day that they are late. Final Drafts without Works Cited pages will not be graded. Final Drafts will be graded using the Composition II Essay Rubric found in the Introduction to Composition II folder.

Essay 3 Readings
From the Book- Discovering popular culture by Anna Tomasino.
PAGES:
• “Education, Popular Culture, and the Academy,” 162-163
• Trussel, 165-168
• Johnson, 202-208
• Franzen, 181-191
• Warmbold, 193-200

You are required to submit a one page reaction paper to the video shown in class. The reactions must be typed, double spaced (no extra spaces between paragraphs), 12 pt standard font (Times New Roman or Arial), 1” margins.

Content: Use one of the given prompts as your guide for what to write. You are expected to put thought in your answers and respond intelligibly. You are encouraged to support your answers with material from the video. You must clearly indicate your source, and if you directly quote any material, you must clearly indicate what has been quoted along with indicating the source of the quoted material.

Format: Although these reactions are only one page, you are expected to submit well-written papers. These will be graded not only on the thoughts submitted, but also on grammar and cohesiveness. Put nothing but your name at the top.

THE NAME OF THE MOVIE IS ((Bust: America—The Story of Us ))
Movie prompt:

Choose a topic mentioned in this video and discuss the economic implications. (By this point you know what I’m looking for. I want you to put thought into this and keep it relevant.

Principles of Operation and Features of Photovoltaic Systems

the exact paper topic is:
critically discuss what research evidence (peer reviewed journals) there is suggesting that adults can lower their resting blood pressure by being physically active

Introduction of the company (limit to a maximum of three single-spaced pages). o Description of the firm and its products o Company history (brief history, critical events, competitors, leadership), including strategic elements of its history o Vision and mission statement o Assessment of mission and vision  External assessment o EFE and CPM with strategic implications o Analysis of competitive position, opportunities, and threats  Internal assessment o IFE with strategic implications o Financial ratio analysis with key conclusions and implications for strategic choice o Overall analysis of internal capabilities and implications for your strategic decisions

Module 1: Select company and secure instructor approval. Once approved, create plan outline, insert current mission and vision.

Module 2: Complete an EFE and CPM for your company (including analysis and conclusions) and insert in your working draft which you will hold until you submit Phase 1 during Module 3. .

Module 3: Complete an IFE and calculate financial ratios (including analysis and conclusions) for your company and insert in your plan to submit at the end of Module

The responsibilities of human services workers extend beyond providing direct care to clients to solve interpersonal problems, improve their access to basic needs, and offer support during difficult times in their lives. Human services workers also have to consider the ethical, legal, and moral implications of their decisions in their everyday work.

In this assignment, you will read a scenario to analyze the ethical theories, identify legal and ethical options and issues, and recommend a proper course of action.

Scenario:

You are employed at a human services agency where a part of your duties includes finding temporary placement for three clients (children aged 5–12) over the holidays. You were unable to find placement for one of the children, a victim of sexual abuse. The options available to you are to either leave the child at the agency or take him home with you.

Tasks:

Analyze the scenario above and in a 5- to 6-page report, identify the legal and ethical ramifications of your options, recommending a course of action. Make sure to complete the following:

Examine the current legal and regulatory requirements that are present in this situation.
Evaluate the legal, professional, and personal risks associated with both options.
Explain the ethical implications of both options.
Identify and justify a specific course of action. Make sure to support your decision with references to specific ethical theories and frameworks.

Use resources from professional literature in your research. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Submission Details

Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization, or an

Organization with which you are familiar and have access to the required information:

SAFETY MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM ELEMENTS

ANSI/AIHA Z10

Below you will find some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:

1. Organizational safety manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses

· Records: E-mails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records.

· Interviews: Management personnel, supervisors, and employees

· Observation: Walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.

2. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find). Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against an available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:

·World Class: OHS performance

·Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans

·Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place

·Significant Non-Conformances Exist: Still needs focus

·Major Effort Required: Major or systemic non-conformances exist

Appropriate references include the course textbook, textbooks from other college level courses, ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012, other published consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and voluntary guidelines, and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have any questions about the appropriateness of a reference source.

3. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.

4. Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management system.

The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of five professional references sources must be used

Discuss a current ethical issue in the business world that arises out of intellectual property. Research and discuss at least one case to illustrate the ethical issue. Some questions to consider include:

Why is it important to protect intellectual property?
How can intellectual property be protected?
Do intellectual protections ever go “too far”?
What is the proper balance between content producers and the public good?

Your well-written paper should be 3-4 pages in length, not including the title or references pages. Include a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond the textbook in APA Style Format. 12 Point Times New Roman Double Spaced 1″ margins

This analysis paper is about the macroeconomic variables affecting firm or industry performance. Using the company selection (Target Corporation), complete the following main elements in your paper:

Identify three to five macroeconomic variables that affect the demand for and/or supply of the products or services produced by your company or industry. For example, if you are analyzing a consumer product, such as television sets or computers, you might include consumer income, energy prices, wage rates, and interest rates.
Find historical data (three to five years) for these variables for one of the countries in which your company or industry has a major presence. Develop your own graphs and/or tables showing the data, and discuss how the variables have changed over the period you are examining. Do not copy and paste data from other websites, but use the available data to create your own table or graph.
Compare changes in the macroeconomic variables to changes in the company data you collected in analysis papers one and two. What observations can you make about the effects of movements in macroeconomic variables on the company’s performance

Write a 22 page double spaced paper Analysis of the Industry(Manufacturing) for Environmental Threat and Opportunity.