What do you think is the biggest barrier to economic stability or upward mobility is in the U.S.?

An arguementative paper!!
a minimum of 5 FULL double-spaced pages .
12-point Times New Roman font and 1 margins.
an introduction that sets up your argument.
a thesis that makes a specific, debatable claim about the topic you have selected.
effectively organized paragraphs with strong topic sentences and transitions.
Reference to or example from any of the assigned readings.
At least 3 pieces of credible research (1 piece from PCC databases)
Proper MLA page headers
Proper MLA in-text citations for all paraphrases and direct quotations
a conclusion that does not merely restate your thesis but that leaves the reader with further food
for thought.
A balance of the three rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, and pathos)
Demonstrated understanding of analyzing texts, strategies of persuasion, and composing
arguments.
Demonstrated understanding of finding and evaluating sources.
Effective essay structure
Clear and precise sentence-level rhetoric (grammar and structure)!!!!!!!!One source from Pasadena City College databases,
one from ( They Say (19-42); Owen and Sawhill Should Everyone Go to College?
(208); Ungar The New Liberal Arts (226) Addison Two Years are Better than Four (225); Freeman Colleges Prepare People for Life (259)Graff Hidden Intellectualism (264); Rose Blue-Collar Brilliance (272) Sandberg Lean In (642) Hooks Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In (659) Slaughter Why Women Still Cant Have It All (676)Dorment Why Men Still Cant Have It All (697) Baron (721); Kaplan The Plight of Young Males Tying in all together (105-129); Leonhardt Inequality (542) McClelland RIP the Middle Class (549)Tying in all together (129-139); Krugman Confronting Inequality (561)

How do the ads you looked at attempt to persuade their target audience? What kinds of fallacies appear in the ad?

Rhetorical fallacies are falsehoods told to intentionally mislead or distract an audience from critical flaws or shortcomings in an argument, often masked as indisputable truths or legitimate and well-founded departures from the task at hand. Fallacies have a long history in the discussion and study of rhetoric, harkening back to the ancient Greeks and beyond, but they can also be found throughout modern times as well. We see fallacies employed in political debates, around the dinner table, in classrooms, and just about anywhere else where arguments are being made, but ethical scholars and savvy interlocutors try to avoid and unravel fallacies at all costs. This essay will call upon you to study the nature of modern fallacies through examining the way they are used in advertising, especially the way images are adapted to mislead or capture the attention of an audience. You will need to select an ad or series of ads and explain their use of rhetorical fallacies, particularly their use of visual rhetoric. Drawing from our class discussions and readings, your essay should try to answer the following questions: Who is the target audience of the ad? Do you believe they are being used effectively? In other words, do you believe the ads actually con their target audiences? The completed assignment should be 1, 200 words in length, not including the works cited page.

Analysis of a motivation issues that affected you, a colleague or a team from yoru experience

You must prepare a paper (max 4,000 words) that applies concepts from the motivation element of this module (articles referred to will be uploaded) to analyze a real work situation from your own experience or that you are familiar with. The subject of your analysis will be a motivation issue that affected either yourself, a colleague or a team from your experience. Your paper should: 1. Describe the situation 2. Describe the conceptual frameworks you have chosen for your analysis, explaining your choice (including other options considered and reasons for rejection) 3. What insights your analysis has yielded 4. What actions you could take/could have taken to improve the situation based on your analysis The assignment must be grounded in theories and models of motivation in organisations. In completing the assignment, you will be expected to draw on relevant readings both from within and beyond the assigned readings for the motivation element of this module, referenced appropriate

Discuss how the health promotion model can be implemented in the community

Power point presentation about a health belief model we chose suicide in teenagers
we need to include a name for the health belief model we choose “Lifesavers” also we need to include an scheme of our health belief model 1 .Introduction of the health belief model explain the definition and introduction in nursing 2. Each group will provide a health belief problem in the community 3. Content that should be addressed during the presentation should be as follows
a. Perceived susceptibility of the health belief model
b. Perceived barriers of the health belief model
c. Perceived benefits of the health belief model
d .Cues to action for the health belief model
e. Self- efficiency of the health belief model 5. Describe the pros and cons of the health belief models.6. Provide further feedback on how the health belief model can be further improved.

Describe at least two specific incidents in which an act of violence from a player in a notoriously violent sport (hockey, football, rugby, and so forth) prompted sports officials, and/or the general public, to re-evaluate the violence in that particular sport.

For example, think about rule changes in the NFL in response to concerns about helmet-to-helmet contact, or the types of suspensions that NHL players may be given if they fight too intensively, or too often. 2) Next, imagine a scenario in which a sport that is largely founded upon violence decides to greatly reduce, or eliminate, this aspect of its competition. (For example, imagine that the NFL has switched to flag football, or two-hand touch only.) First, how might this affect the marketability and/or profitability of such a sport? Second, explain how the removal of violence from this sport would change the meaning of the sport. (For example, would a sport with greatly reduced violence have less honor, less of a gladiator quality?). 3) Conclude your paper with a reflection upon whether the violence that we see in sport is a direct reflection of our admiration for violence in the greater society. For example, does violence in sport function as a type of “steam valve” in which participants and fans alike may release violent tension? Or, is the violent content of sport a mirror image of an increasingly violent society? Explain in detail. To successfully complete Project 2, you will need to organize your responses to these questions and then craft a formatted essay that includes each of the following: A title page; Well-developed introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the essay and briefly referencing some of the main points/contentions offered in the essay; The body of the essay should consist of your effort to best answer the primary questions from the assignment prompt and should consist of the required length of words of text (approximately 3 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). Though the method by which this is done is largely up to you, it is essential that the responses to the questions in the prompt be based upon scholarly readings and should remain at all times defensible (in an academic sense). You have a great deal of information to draw from in creating your essay, including the assigned readings and hyperlinked sources in the module notes. As is the case with every assignment in SOC 247, presenting any unsubstantiated, illogical, or indefensible position will have an adverse effect on the final grade. Please direct any questions regarding these expectations to the instructor; A concise concluding paragraph that briefly restates both the purpose of the essay as well as some of the primary argument offered by you, the essays author.

What cultural forms would you use for your B list so that people could change the stereotypes? Are old/new media possibilities?

The purpose of this essay is to enable you to formalize ideas about cultural content. The ideas, images that constitute the content are shaped by the cultural production process, and are open to interpretations through the encoding/decoding process. Sociologically, we can use significant categories like age, gender, class, race/ethnicity, nationality, religious organization to establish dominating patterns of representation. The essay lets you use your studies, observations, readings, and cultural engagement as your “source” materials. Choose one theme; do not attempt to do several themes. Focus on one. You may do an “intersectional” theme (e.g. young hispanic females). If you have already worked on the gender theme, then do a different theme to continue to expand your learning. Format: 5 typed pages in the following order: Page 1: Make 2 single-spaced lists in columns (or list two separate, consecutive entries on 2 pages) List A – “stereotypical” patterns of the image from the theme of your choice as these are found in cultural/media content List B – “cultural alternatives” to the stereotypes. (Note: you may use page 1a and page 1b for your lists if columns are not possible to make on 1 page). Page 2, 3, 4: In sentences & paragraphs, describe the cultural forms (mass media; arts; popular culture, including music, religious texts…) that are the basis for your A list.Describe the cultural patterns you observed. Page 5: Discuss your views on these representations. Are there images that you identify with? Are the images/representations those that you believe should be changed? If so, in what form? Themes: Choose your representation theme from those that are listed. Choose, using these sociological categories. Do not try to cover several. It’s more productive to develop the representations of one group, realizing some categories may be integrated. (For example, the representation of young, white, female, religious devotees). -Gender representations (females, males, & transgendered realities)
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If ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has enabled financial markets to become more globalised, wont this undermine the reasons for banks and other financial services to remain in London?

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World Bank (2008) ‘Chapter 4: Scale Economies and Agglomeration’ in World Development Report 2009, Washington: World Bank. Available online.