Author: chris

Assignment: A compare and contrast paper; you will compare and contrast how three works treat similar topics. If none of the topics works for you, please see me to discuss possible alterations or alternatives.

1. Compare and contrast the depictions of Native-Americans and/or African-Americans in any three works on the syllabus).

Use MLA-style documentation for in-text citations and the list of works cited—all works should be listed separately.

Basic Guidelines:

• Double space your essay; include your name, the course number and section at the top of the first page.
• Avoid the use of the second person as it is conversational and too direct. Use the first person to describe your own thoughts, but better to use the third person in most of your analysis.
• Do not focus on the writing process—your reader does not need to know why you chose the topic or what you’re going to write about. Instead of telling your reader what you are going to do, do it.
• Write in the present tense unless specifically describing past events.

Textbook is The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol C-E

• Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
• Bierce: “An Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge”
• Smohalla: “Comments to Major MacMurray”
• Charlot: “He has filled graves with our bones”

• Washington, Up from Slavery
• Wells: “Mob Rule in New Orleans”
• Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
• Cather: My Ántonia
• Hurston: “How It Feels to be Colored Me” and “The Gilded Six Bits”
• Modern Poetry: Stevens’ “The Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock,” Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say,” Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” and “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” H.D. “Leda” and “Helen,” Moore, “Poetry” and “The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing,” and Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and “The Hollow Men”

• Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,”
• Hughes Poems: All
• Ellison, “Chapter I [Battle Royal]”
• Morrison, “Recitatif
• Reed, “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto”
• Spiegelman, Maus
• Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek”
• Alexie, “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”

Out-of-Class Paper #3 Assignment: Short Research Argument

Paper Prompt:
The second paper assignment asked you to think about how one text shapes your reading of another text. This assignment asks you to continue to develop that skill, but to deepen it by bringing in outside research of your own. For your third paper, I’d like you to locate one or two scholarly journal articles that will serve as the “lens” through which you analyze your chosen work of literature. First, determine what significant issues are raised by your chosen work. Then choose one issue and explain how the scholarly articles shape your interpretation of the work of literature. For example, do they help you to understand the issues that the literature raises? Or, do they show that these issues are more complex than the literature would lead us to believe? Or, do they challenge the argument made in the piece of literature? Or, do they support that argument?

Readings:
Any ONE story, poem or play on the syllabus (your choice).
Two scholarly journal articles that you’ll find through research

Your essay must meet these requirements:
Use scholarly sources that you find through research: Your paper’s grade will be reduced if you don’t use two scholarly sources. If you’re not sure if your source is OK to use, please ask me.
Make connections between texts: Your paper must connect your research to the piece of literature that you’re analyzing. Don’t just describe what your research sources say.
Use quotes from the piece of literature and from each scholarly source that you use.
Have a Works Cited page: Your final draft must include a Works Cited page in MLA style. The Works Cited page does not count toward the 4-5 full-page length requirement.
Turn in copies of your sources: You must submit copies of all of your secondary sources along with the final draft.

Final draft: 4-5 full pages (not including the Works Cited page), double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font.

I have attached the course schedule that has all of the readings on it.

There is a great deal of strategy and research that goes into the marketing process, but at the end of the day, marketers ultimately strive to build a brand that creates sustainable customer relationships that bring value to both the customer and the business. You should be starting to think of yourself as a brand in order to create a competitive advantage in the modern workplace.

Today, there is a lot of talk about personal branding and every career minded professional understands it’s importance. Everybody has his or her own personal brand but effective brands are based in reality.

Strong personal brands know their values, passions, goals and ultimate mission. You must know yourself and to know yourself you need to learn what others think about you. Since your brand is held in the minds of the people who know you, you must be constantly aware of external perceptions. Think about what you stand for and what your values are.

With a clearly defined brand statement, you can begin to get the message out, both online and offline. Start to share your story so you can build emotional connections with your target audience. LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Circles, Twitter and Instagram are some of the most accessed websites on the Internet. By not being present on these platforms, or by having an average social media presence you are missing valuable opportunities.

The brain processes images around 60,000 times faster than text, which means people tend to gravitate towards images when scanning through a busy feed. You have a millisecond to make an impact and display the best you that you can! Having professional personal branding images across all social media platforms is vitally important. Pinterest is great for product images (pictures of you) while Facebook is better for aspirational images to encourage your brand’s awareness.

There are three files attached. One is a worksheet to help you organize your thoughts about your personal brand. The other two are articles regarding the necessity for personal branding in the current work environment. Using ideas from the worksheet, and looking at the steps to building a personal brand in the other two article do the following:

1. Write a personal brand statement – like a mission statement -that embodies who you are. Make it something you would be proud to share with anyone?

2. Describe how you will display this statement on one of the social media sites bolded above?

3. What are some of the connections (associations) you may have with other brands (people)?

4. What value can you bring in terms of content when you post on the social media sites bolded above?

Your assignment should be well structured using proper English language conventions (using spell check), written in MLA format, and be no more than two pages long. It should be submitted as a .doc or .docx attachment.

Assignment 2
Research/project proposal of 3,000 words (60% of module marks)
The assessment criteria are on the eBridge site of the module.
Hand in date as stated in section 8.

Rationale
This assessment is designed to prepare you for the honours project (dissertation or independent study) you will undertake in your final year. This assessment intends to cover all the Learning out comes stated in Section 12.

Brief
Design a research proposal (the first step in undertaking a dissertation or independent study unit in your final year). When setting out your proposal, please include the following:

-Background and case: Why this research is important, how you came to choose it and its relevance to your programme of study.
-Clear aims and objectives: No more than 5 objectives. The objectives can take the form of hypotheses or research questions. Supplementary research questions may also be necessary to give strength to your proposal.
-An initial literature review: This is important to support your research proposal where appropriate. You should review a minimum of 10 references no more than 5 of them being textbooks. Your reference list at the end of the assignment will not be included in your word count, but ALL work cited in the text will.
-A brief case for the research methods and research approach you will adopt and support this with relevant references. Ideas/arguments developed in assignment may be included here if useful.
-Any limitations to your research and how you may overcome them, paying careful attention to ethical issues. (These need to be considered though you need NOT complete the HUBS Ethics Proforma at this stage).
-The key practice and/or academic benefits– contribution to knowledge from your research.

Task Requirements
The assignment will be judged by the quality of the work you provide, which is expected to meet the academic standards of level five.
Your assignment must be word-processed and double spaced in 12 point Arial.
The title of your work should appear at the top of the first page, and for this assignment, you DO need to use a contents page.
References will be Harvard style within the text and listed alphabetically, on a new page, at the end of the assignment using the heading References. You should NOT list references you have not used in the text. Page numbers of references MUST be included where text is within quotation marks.
Marks will be awarded for scholarship and related to the quality of the analysis carried out. This reflects the University assessment criteria for level 5. You MUST demonstrate what was discussed from the module as taught in class, as read in the core text, and as developed during tutorial sessions. References from ACADEMIC research papers from online journals (NOT INTERNET SOURCES-E.g Wikipedia) are expected to illustrate your examples. You must be careful to avoid plagiarism.

In the case of those planning to undertake a year in industry, this proposal may include specific discussion of investigations and research actions that could be considered during this year.

NOTE: There are many different types of final year projects, so the way you approach the six sections listed above may be very different from your class mates attempting other projects. Follow the guidance given during semester two, and be sure to participate in workshops/seminars where we will help you!

Create your own intelligence agency. You can do this one of two ways–(a) choose one and institute major reforms in its structure; or (b) build a completely new one whose purposes you will choose.
For example, if you choose the CIA, you may want to use some of the reforms suggested in the book to change its structure into “centers” for transnational targets; reorganize the way the departments are arranged by geographical areas or subject matters. You may want to abolish some departments and create new ones or combine them, or anything else you can think of that might make a better and more efficient agency. When I was there, each department had its own lawyer who rejected or restricted many of the proposed actions before they could get out of the office.
If you choose to create your own agency, who will it report to? The President directly or to the DNI first? Will it be more bureaucratic or a stand-alone super secret place that reports only to the President directly without any middlemen? A lot of new spy fiction books have these which also include assassinations as part of their covert actions. I have heard rumors that they exist, but I do not know for sure.
Do NOT use classified sources and methods for any reason.
Your project text should be about 2500 words (about 10 pages, double-spaced in a 12-point font and one-inch margins). Some graphics, diagrams, organizational charts, etc. are all welcome, if you wish to include them and are talented in these ways, but they are not required. If you do, make sure most of your project is text.
This is a creative exercise, and I want you to have fun with it. There are almost no limits for this project, so think out of the box.

This is a course on national security and intelligence, make sure your project reflects that subject and not just adding a department to a regular domestic law enforcement agency or something to do with prisons. You can add a division to an existing department, if you wish, but it must be relevant to the intent and subject natter of the course. You can also create a new agency or reorganize an existing one. You can also add a new department, which I had not thought of, but it a great idea.

Attached is the final project summary that I was given in class. This paper is a biographical analysis on Hemingway and his short story \”Indian Camp.\” My thesis should revolve around how Hemingway projected his own fears and life experiences through the three main characters: the Dr., the child Nick, and the Indian man who commits suicide.
The main connections I want in the body are: How Hemingway\’s wife was having a child at the time he was writing this, and he was terrified that she would not make it and that there was nothing he could do to alleviate her pain; how the Indian man killed himself because he could \”not stand it\” (and that Hemingway projecting his worst fears, of being weak/suicide, are projected on a Native american); how was first shielded from violence/blood, or whatever you want to call a C-section, but it was a useless effort because in the end, the boy witnessed violence/blood. Nick not being introduced to this concept through life (childbirth), but his first view was of death (the suicide); and how the Modernism movement promoted self-consciousness and reflection and linking how all of these themes in \”Indian Camp\” reflect Hemingway\’s own fears and doubts and how that is an aspect of Modernism.

Notes: Try to incorporate all of these topics in the essay but MAKE SURE that the link between Hemingway\’s biography/life and the analysis of the text itself stays relevant throughout the paper. I put 5 sources, but use as many as you think you need while writing this paper (as long as everything is justified and non common information is backed up with sources) also, using interviews or journals or anything by the actual author that could be relevant counts as a source as well. The link to Modernism is very important as well.

Harley-Davidson: External and Internal Analysis

Instructions for this assignment: Perform all of the elements listed below.

This assignment has you complete two parts of a strategic business plan. To see how those parts fit into a full business plan, click here for a strategic business plan outline.

Part I – Analysis of the External Environment

As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to:

Identify and analyze the major driving forces for change in the external environment of the motorcycle industry.
Analyze the dynamics of competition using Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition. Correctly assess the dynamics of competition.
Provide at least three statistics about the size of the motorcycle industry such as revenue, growth rate, number of units sold by manufacturer/country, etc.
Summarize the strategic issues firms in this industry face and identify their biggest threats.

This section should be titled “The Analysis of H-D’s External Environment.”

Part II – Internal Environment Analysis

Financial

Gather the financial information necessary to do a complete ratio analysis and the Balance Score Card (BSC) key metrics information.

If you were going to create a BSC, what would be the key metrics you would measure in each of the four BSC areas:

Financial
Customer
Internal Business Process
Learning and Growth

How do you determine which training vehicles to use with which audiences? When would you use a video or a series of videos to describe a product? When would you use a website? When would you create a detailed manual with graphics? For this discussion, based on your readings and research so far, and as a guide for your technical writing team, describe the framework you would construct to help decide which training vehicle would be appropriate in which situation for which audience.

In response to your peers, comment on their reasoning and framework for deciding which vehicles and channels of co

Public health homework

The Secretary for Food and Health and Director of Health have advised the Chief Executive of Hong Kong that urgent effective multi-sectoral interventions are required to address the escalating problem of overweight primary and secondary school children. The Chief Executive insists that the food and drinks industry are involved and consulted in this process.

Outline and discuss three public health strategies, which could be formulated and implemented in a named jurisdiction at a population level to prevent overweight and obesity in children.

“Governance and Compliance” Please respond to the following:

Given the need for governance and compliance within the workplace, suggest two (2) methods that an organization could employ to distill the importance of governance and compliance to employees.
Create a list of three (3) points that you would emphasize when explaining this subject to employees. Justify your choices.