Category: Essays

Guiding Questions:

I. Based on the textbook reading, what are the benefits of rhetoric in personal communication? Academic? Professional? (1-2 paragraph 1 paragraph = 5-8 sentences)

II. Words and actions can create controversy. Consider issues in education that has generated controversy. Complete the following for four (4) possible topics.

Topic:

Explanation:

Interest:

Guiding Argument:

Counterarguments:

III. Which topic piques your interest most? Why? What concerns do you have about choosing this topic?

General topic: Issues in Education

General Ideas to get you thinking:

• Public or private early childhood, elementary, middle/high school, community college, university, post-graduate studies, alternative schools & programs

• Teachers, staff, administration, students, parents, communities, politicians, etc.

• Resources, cost, pay, opportunities, curriculum, testing, facilities, school/district policies, discipline

• Sports, tutoring, special programs, music, academics, electives, graduation requirements, college requirements, school involvement on a variety of issues.

Make sure your topic is controversial

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• A controversial topic is one that people have different opinions about.

• Narrow your topic to clarify the direction you want to take in your paper and the overall argument you will make.

• The next two screens show how to move an informative topic to a controversial topic.

Topics to avoid

• •Obesity in school children (overly argued)

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• •Physical Education in schools (obvious results)

• •Religion/Prayer in the Classroom

• •School lunches (overly argued)

• •Arming teachers (lack of research)

• •School Uniforms (overly argued)

• •Parental Involvement (obvious results)

• •Bullying in schools (obvious results)

• •Homeschooling (obvious results)

• •Proficiency grading (lack of research)

• Avoid these topics. Submission of these topics for consideration will earn a zero.

Topics to consider

• •Repeating a grade.

• •National curriculum standards (K-12)

• •Shortened school weeks

• •Year round school

• •Online high school

• •Play Based Learning

• •Academic Preschools

• •Technology in lower grades

• •Project Based Learning

• •Teacher Assessment Programs

• •Crowd Sourcing Education

• •Gender Equality in the Classroom

• •Full Day Kindergarten

• •Federally Funded Preschool

• •College Readiness Programs

• •Character Education

• •Year round school

• •Sports impact on Academics

• •Tracking Programs

• •School-to-Work Programs

• •School Discipline Programs

• •Bilingual Education

• •Contingent Faculty Positions

• •Collective Bargaining

• •Life Skills Programs

• •School Choice

• •Student Retention (higher ed)

• •GED programs

• •Alternative School Programs

• •Sex Ed Programs

• •Exam Preparation Curriculum

• •College Athlete Pay

• •Portfolio Curriculum

• •Groupwork

• •Health Education

• •Single-Sex Schools

• •Technology Free Education

• •Distance Learning Degrees

• •Cooperative Teaching

• •College Loan Repayment

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Assignment 1: HR Management

Due Week 2 and worth 125 points

Imagine you are the HR manager at a company, and an employee came to you upset because she felt a male co-worker had sexually harassed her by repeatedly asking her out on dates even after she said “no.” What would you do?

Write a one (1) page paper in which you:

Formulate the conversation you would have with the employee, based the concepts found in Chapter 2 in your textbook.
Summarize the conversation you would have with the employee’s male co-worker, based on the concepts found in Chapter 2 of your textbook.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain the human resource management process, its role in supporting the overall organizational strategies, and the various functions involved in human resource management.
Explain the key provisions of major government legislation affecting human resource management, including equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, health and safety, and labor relations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics

Assignment 3: Analyzing a Financial Statement

Conducting a financial statement review is like a physician conducting a routine physical examination. By analyzing an organization’s financial statement, you can identify the strengths and weaknesses of the organization or diagnose problems.

Review the following company summary:

Compnet International is a US organization that manufactures automobile parts and various technical components used in computers and computer devices.

Throughout this course, you will analyze the financial statements of Compnet International.

In this assignment, you will begin your analysis of the financial statements of Compnet International. You will discuss details of Compnet’s financial position with your classmates and formulate an independent memo that summarizes a strategy for the future growth of Compnet.

Select the links that follow to download and review the financial statements of Compnet International and the other documents you need to complete this assignment:

Compnet Company Summary
Compnet Balance Sheet Income Statement
Compnet Prime Component Product Line Acquisition Summary
Ratio Calculator
Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Template
Compnet Budget Template

Tasks:

Part I: Analysis of Financial Statement

Review the Compnet balance sheet income statement and company summary. Use the information in these documents to analyze the financial position of Compnet.
Respond to these questions using appropriate financial terms.

Compnet has established a cash reserve. Why might a company like Compnet use this strategy?
The company had a charge for the impairment of goodwill. Why did this take place?
The notes in the financial statement indicate that a $3-million-long-term-debt payment is due in three years. Why is this information important to an investor?
In 2013, accounts receivable and the revenue decreased. What is the significance of this event to the success of the company? How did Compnet adjust its operations to address the effects of the recession?

Part I: Submission Details:

By Sunday, January 10, 2016, post your response in approximately 500 words to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Monday, January 11, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Special education professionals need to create, “safe, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments to engage individuals with exceptionalities in meaningful learning activities and social interactions.” (CEC Initial Preparation Standards with Elaborations, Element 2.1)

Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following questions for the inclusive, resource, self-contained, and online environments:

What are the advantages for students with and without disabilities?
What are the disadvantages for students with and without disabilities?
How can you ensure students with disabilities can be successful in this type of classroom?

The presentation must include a title slide, a reference slide, and speaker’s notes that detail what you would be saying during the presentation.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

As one of the program outcomes for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology program, students must apply the principles of systems analysis and design to fundamental business systems within the organization.

The final individual paper for this class includes three sections: one section of the paper is due each week; the final section is due in Week Four.

Complete Section 1 of the Service Request SR-rm-022 paper. Using the Service Request SR-rm-022, analyze the HR system.

Prepare a 4- to 6-page paper that accomplishes the following:

What key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing would you gather requirements from?
Describe the information-gathering techniques and systems analysis tools you would propose for the project.
Identify the key factors that help ensure the information required for the project is gathered successfully.
Explain what project scope is and why it is important. Describe the areas of project feasibility that are examined in the analysis phase of the SDLC.
Cite and discuss 2 to 3 references, in addition to the required readings, that are relevant to the assignment. Include citations and references formatted consistent with APA guidelines

What is your opinion on the use of nuclear power to fulfill our energy needs? Do you feel that the benefits of nuclear power outweigh the risks? 100 words and APA format

Question 2

Discuss your reaction if there were to be a MSW incinerator constructed in your community. What would your concerns be? If you want to fight the placement of the incinerator, how would you address the Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) issue? In other words, if it is not placed in your community, where should it be placed? Lastly, would you be more comfortable if the proposed waste disposal facility were a landfill? Why or why not

write a paper (minimum 750 words) using APA standards, that answers the questions below.

First, from the Argosy University online library, select one of the following articles to read:

Fantasia, Rick. (1995). From class consciousness to culture, action, and social organization. Annual Review of Sociology, 21, p. 267-289.
Martin, Karin A. (1998). Becoming a gendered body. American Sociological Review, 63(4), p. 494-511.
McKinlay, John B., Lin, Ting, Freund, Karen, & Moskowitz, Mark. (2002). The Unexpected influence of physician attributes on clinical decisions: Results of an experiment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43(1), p. 92-106.
Whitbeck, Les B., Hoyt, Dan R., McMorris, Barbara J., Chen, Xiaojin, & Stubben, Jerry D. (2001). Perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among American Indian children. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 42(4), p. 405-424.

Second, answer the following questions in an organized essay:

What is the social problem the researchers are investigating?
What is the research method (i.e.: survey, participant observation, experiment, secondary sources) used by the researchers?
What were the results or findings of the research?
What do you think would be a good solution to the social problem

Directions: Read the scenario below and then respond to the questions/statements which follow.

Scenario: Sally is a 3rd grade student with an identified specific learning disability in the academic areas of reading comprehension and math reasoning. Sally requires a resource level of support whereby she spends the majority of her school day within her general education 3rd grade classroom. Sally spends at least 20% of her school day receiving specialized instruction in the areas of reading comprehension and math reasoning (i.e., the academic areas where her disability manifests itself). Sally’s specialized instruction may include small group instruction with the special education teacher outside or inside of her classroom.

Based on what you have learned about inclusion:

Are Sally’s current special education services consistent with the inclusion model? Why? Why not?
What should Sally’s general education 3rd grade teacher do to help fully include her within the 3rd grade classroom?

Conducting an ethnographic study is a fun way of gathering research about your social environment. You may have done an ethnography before without really being aware of it. In a small way, this assignment recreates what ethnographers do when they visit a new community to conduct research.

Complete the following:

Observation

Choose a restaurant, library, mall, dining hall, coffee shop, or similar public location. Plan to spend a minimum of two hours at the location. You will visit this location twice, for a minimum of four hours total. Keep in mind that if you should find one of your peers in the establishment at the same time when you are there, do not interrupt him/her and do not do the assignment at the same time.
Document what occurs at this chosen location:
Describe the establishment.
Analyze the interactions between people.

Next, write a paper documenting and analyzing your observations of the location.

Observation Notes

Your observation notes should specifically include the following:

Name and location of the establishment
Dates and times you were there
Place where you stood/sat and when you did your research
Description of the physical characteristics of the inside and outside of the establishment (e.g. brick or concrete structure, paint color, seating arrangements)
Number and types of people visiting the establishment while you were there (age, sex, type of clothing, probable occupations, ethnicity, etc.)
Document interactions such as:
specific nature of the interactions that take place in the establishment among customers, between customers and staff, and among staff
types of languages used in the establishment and by whom
any strange or unusual behavior

Analysis Summary

Include the following in your analysis:

Comparison of similarities and differences of this establishment and other similar establishments you know about
Nature of the treatment of customers in the establishment
Relationships between customers and workers
Any behavior that surprised you or was contrary to your expectations
How it felt to do the research
Most difficult aspects of the research
What you found most interesting about the research

In your analysis, be sure to draw upon your observations to support your conclusions.

Appendix

In the appendix of your paper, include the following:

A sketch of the layout of the establishment (You can draw in a computer program, like Paint that comes preloaded on most PCs and insert it into your Word file.)
Transcription of your notes

Write a 4–6-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Week 3, Day 7, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Grading Rubric
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Documented observations for a total of two hours, at two different times in a public establishment on all required details such as dates, times, interactions.
28
Drew conclusions based on observations.
40

Wrote an analysis summary on all required details such as relationships observed, your reactions, comparison to other establishments.

60
Created a sketch of the layout of the establishment as an appendix

You are about to take over MoneyPlays Bank, a small but lucrative financial institution. You have hired new staff and are conducting orientation and training. You need to explain financial management risk to the new staff. Using the library and other credible sources, prepare a report responding to the following regarding factors of financial risk:

Explain risk management to your new staff.
Distinguish between the 3 factors of financial risk as it pertains to the banking industry. Explain each of the following:
Credit
Commodity
Operational risk
Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion
APA forma