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Selected Topic:  Deliver an elevator pitch that describes your professional background and experience for a potential employer during a job interview about property and casualty insurance. (see below for speech outline)   I.Outline for a speech Title of your speech Topic Date of presentation I.Introduction A. Capture your audience’s attention with a quote, anecdote, or personal experience B. Build up to your case or the main reason for your speech C. Summarize the main idea of your speech. Quickly state your three main points 1. First Main Point 2. Second Main Point 3. Third Main Point  II.First Main Point: Working with outline numbered text in Microsoft Word A. You can move an outline numbered item to the appropriate numbering level 1. On the Formatting toolbar:  a) To demote the item to a lower numbering level (1) click a list number (2) click Increase Indent.  b) To promote the item to a higher numbering level (1) click a list number (2) click Decrease Indent.  B. You can use this procedure to help you plan your speech and organize your thoughts. III.Second Main Point: Creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline A. About creating a PowerPoint presentation from a Word Outline 1. PowerPoint uses the heading styles in your Word document a) Heading styles are applied when you use numbered outlines (1) Heading styles are already turned on for you in this template.  (2) For example, each paragraph formatted with the Heading 1 style becomes the title of a new slide, each Heading 2 becomes the first level of text, and so on.  B. Procedure 1. Open the document you want to use to create a PowerPoint presentation.  2. On the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Microsoft PowerPoint.  C. This procedure makes it easy for you to create a PowerPoint presentation based on the notes you’ve prepared for your speech in Word.  IV.Main Point 3: Creating an outline from an existing document allows you to build on work you’ve already done  A. If you use heading styles to create longer documents, you can see a document’s organization in Outline view, and use it to prepare your speech. B. To learn more about Outline view, see Microsoft Word Help.  V.Conclusion A. Restate your three main points 1. First Main Point 2. Second Main Point 3. Third Main Point B. Summarize the ideas you’ve presented C. Return to your introduction or conclude with a compelling remark

Assignment 1: Culture and Communication

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Assignment 1: Culture and Communication

Assignment 1: Culture and Communication

In this assignment, you will explore your own cultural and ethnic background and analyze how this background may affect your communication. A great deal of a message is communicated not through spoken words but through the nonverbal channels. Culture and personal experience can play a large role in the transmission and interpretation of nonverbal messages. You will reflect upon your personal experience from the viewpoint of your cultural and ethnic affiliation(s) and compare it with the scholarly literature relevant to your cultural and ethnic background.

Tasks:

Watch the video, Empathy Training for Ethnic and Cultural Awareness. Afterwards, identify your cultural and ethnic background. In your response, answer the following questions:

In what ways do you feel your culture affects the way you communicate? (For example, eye contact or the lack of eye contact has a cultural component and can be interpreted as defiance or something similar by those unaware of the cultural context.)

Provide an example of how your culture has influenced nonverbal communication.

Discuss how nonverbal communication could influence whether or not a message is perceived accurately.

How is someone from a different cultural background likely to perceive your message?

Submission Details:

By Saturday, January 23, 2016, post your responses in at least 3–4 paragraphs to this Discussion Area. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This 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). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Individual project one

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Benefits of this assignment: This assignment allows you to become familiar with using the Internet and Library to find useful research. This assignment also allows you to start understanding how to evaluate sources for your research assignment.

For the process of writing in a graduate-level course, you are expected to have a solid grasp of writing a well-researched assignment. The Internet offers a large amount of information, but the vast majority of it is not scholarly. Therefore, it is important to be able to identify what is a good resource and what is not. One way to evaluate information is to look at some of the distinguishing factors of the resource, such as the following:

  • Is the information current and timely?
  • Is the information relevant and useful?
  • What is the source of the information, and how legitimate is this source?
  • Is the information both accurate and objective?
  • What is the reason and purpose for the information, and is there any bias from the author?

Be sure to read Evaluating Resources for more information.

Your first task will be to identify a subject that you could conceivably write about in your graduate studies. For example, you may be working on a Masters in Information Technology, and you have an interest in virtual identities.

Your next step will be to identify 3 resources on the subject using the CTU Library and the Internet.

Use this template to complete the remaining steps of this assignment.

For each article, you should identify which criteria it meets or does not meet. Try to find 1 article that fits each of the following (3 total):

  • 1 resource should be a high-quality resource that meets all of the criteria.
  • 1 resource should be a solid-quality resource that meets some of the criteria and could still be useful for your research.
  • 1 resource should be a poor resource that meets few of the criteria and should not be included in your research.

Next, write 1–2 sentences discussing the quality of the article. Then, write a short paragraph explaining the subject matter you identified. The paragraph should include the following:

  • An overview of the topic.
  • What you learned from your resources.
  • Why subject is interesting to you and/or your reader.

Finally, write a properly-formatted APA reference for each resource. Upload your assignment to the Submissions area of this assignment. Review the Individual Project tutorial, if needed. 

SOCI 315 Assignment #1 FOOD AND MEMORY

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Food and memory

 

Write a description of a food memory, preferably from your childhood. This could be a memory of tasting or liking/disliking a particular food, or it could be a memory focused on a dish from a particular eating event, collective or individual. Pay attention to as many senses as you can invoke to evoke this memory. If you recalled a dish at a specific event, talk to others who were also present and see how they remember the dish and the event; analyze the similarities and discrepancies between your recollections.  You can also include a brief recipe.  

Do a bit of research to place your memory in wider context, incorporating related sources when applicable.  Discuss the cultural, symbolic, social, structural, or other meanings of this dish. Specify the social group for whom it has meaning, for what kinds of occasions and settings is this dish prepared, who is involved in the preparation, serving, and consumption of this dish, background, etc.

Is this a food that unique to your culture? What are its traditional names? (And do these names have any special significance and/or meaning?) What ingredients go into making these foods? How and when are they eaten? Are there unspoken family “rules” about food consumption (e.g., what’s okay, and not okay, to eat; how and where should one eat, etc.)

 

This paper needs to be 4 pages or more. You will need to use 12 Times New Roman Font. You need to double space and provide a cover page/reference page, following APA-formatting guidelines. These two items are NOT part of your page count.

week 6 HRM 530

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Assignment 3: Dismissal Meeting
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points

 

Imagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff.  

 

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
  1. Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
  2. Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.  
  3. Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
  4. Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation. 
  5. Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
  6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
  7.  
      Unacceptable Below 70% F Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B Exemplary 90-100% A
    HRM530-A3-1

    1. Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
    Weight: 15%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 15.74 (10.49%)
    Did not submit or incompletely proposed three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
     
    Points Range:15.75 (10.5%)– 17.98 (11.99%)
    Partially proposed three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
     
    Points Range:18 (12%) – 20.24 (13.49%)
    Satisfactorily proposed three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
     
    Points Range:20.25 (13.5%)– 22.5 (15%)
    Thoroughly proposed three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
    HRM530-A3-2

    2. Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
    Weight: 15%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 15.74 (10.49%)
    Did not submit or incompletely described a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
     
    Points Range:15.75 (10.5%)– 17.98 (11.99%)
    Partially described a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
     
    Points Range:18 (12%) – 20.24 (13.49%)
    Satisfactorily described a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
     
    Points Range:20.25 (13.5%)– 22.5 (15%)
    Thoroughly described a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
    HRM530-A3-3

    3. Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
    Weight: 20%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 20.98 (13.99%)
    Did not submit or incompletely determined the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
     
    Points Range:21 (14%) – 23.98 (15.99%)
    Partially determined the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
     
    Points Range:24 (16%) – 26.98 (17.99%)
    Satisfactorily determined the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
     
    Points Range:27 (18%) – 30 (20%)
    Thoroughly determined the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
    HRM530-A3-4

    4. Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
    Weight: 20%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 20.98 (13.99%)
    Did not submit or incompletely created a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation, using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice.
     
    Points Range:21 (14%) – 23.98 (15.99%)
    Partially created a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation, using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice.
     
    Points Range:24 (16%) – 26.98 (17.99%)
    Satisfactorily created a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation, using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice.
     
    Points Range:27 (18%) – 30 (20%)
    Thoroughly created a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation, using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice.
    HRM530-A3-5

    5. Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
    Weight: 15%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 15.74 (10.49%)
    Did not submit or incompletely predicted three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
     
    Points Range:15.75 (10.5%)– 17.98 (11.99%)
    Partially predicted three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
     
    Points Range:18 (12%) – 20.24 (13.49%)
    Satisfactorily predicted three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
     
    Points Range:20.25 (13.5%)– 22.5 (15%)
    Thoroughly predicted three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
    HRM530-A3-6

    6. 3 references 
    Weight: 5%
     
    Points Range:0 (0%) – 5.24 (3.49%)
    No references provided
     
    Points Range:5.25 (3.5%) – 5.98 (3.99%)
    Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices.
     
    Points Range:6 (4%) – 6.74 (4.49%)
    Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.
     
    Points Range:6.75 (4.5%) – 7.5 (5%)
    Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
    HRM530-A3-7

    7. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
    Weight: 10%

20-25 words

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Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 1: Creating a Thesis Statement

                           

The subject of your essay for this course is “Changing Our Lives.” You have taken a marvelous, brave step on an educational journey. Congratulations! You have likely done a great deal of soul-searching to come to this enormous decision. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is for you to tell your readers (your instructor and your classmates) why you came to this decision. In your “Changing Our Lives” essay, you will address why you decided to go to college at this time in your life and state the reasons behind your decision.

In this assignment, you will take the first step of the essay writing process by creating a thesis statement for your “Changing Our Lives” essay. The following formula may be helpful in constructing your thesis statement.   (Please do NOT write your whole essay in this assignment. We will create the essay step-by-step each week for final submission in Week 10. Creating your thesis statement is the next step in creating your essay.)

 

Write a twenty to twenty-five (20-25) word thesis statement in which you:

Construct a one (1) sentence thesis statement. (The thesis statement should clearly state the narrow topic and controlling idea of the essay.)

Identify the narrow topic of the thesis statement by bolding the text.

Identify the controlling idea of the thesis statement by underlining the text.

Meet the assignment word count of twenty to twenty-five (20-25) words.

Minimize mechanical and stylistic errors.

Your assignment must follow these APA formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required length

Homework

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One page homework due in 7 hours 

one page only 

Skim through the following PowerPoint slides to identify and use the most significant and relevant ones for answering the FOUR SPECIFIC questions of this assignment:  Slides 1, 108-112, 135, 206-210, 217-218, 220-222, 254, 283, 288, 304-305, 378. 

Based EXCLUSIVELY on the above PowerPoint slides, write a 300-400 word essay in which (1) you draw upon the seven definitions provided in PowerPoint slide 209 to CREATE your OWN original, concise, and inclusive definition of the Israel lobby, (2) youPINPOINT and EXPLAIN which one of the three—the US government, the Israeli government, or the Israel lobby—is ‘calling the shots’ (telling the others what to do) in terms of US Middle East policy, (3) you EXPALAIN why does predominantly Christian America support incoming Jewish settlers (in Palestine) who do not believe in Jesus against the underdog native Muslim and Christian Palestinians who do believe in Jesus?, and (4) you DISCUSS briefly the likelihood of the solutions suggested or implied in the three videos (by Finklestein, Pilger, and Alatar, respectively), in Attorney Jeff Gates’ book and audio interview in slide 254, and by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in slide 378.

 Sources for homework assignments MUST be cited briefly (including the author and slide number, for example: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, slide 279, Topic 4) and ONLY between parentheses in the text so I can verify them quickly while grading and writing feedback. Write your name (NOT the name of the instructor) on the homework assignment. This homework assignment must be formatted as a Microsoft Word single-spaced file on ONE page and uploaded through the TurnItIn link (View/Complete) by the deadline. No other submission will be accepted. Homework assignment 4 is worth 10 points ​

i will send 

English L

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please find the attached files for the assingment 

 

Your post on Stephen Crane’s novella is  open to any themes or topics you wish to introduce. Your post should be about 200 words in length, clearly state the task you aim to complete, clearly articulate the point you are making, and present specific textual evidence from the readings (including page numbers), making sure to explain explicitly how the evidence relates to your overall point.

In addition to topics of your own design, you can usethe options below to guide your writing and thinking (you can also use these frameworks for the directed threads as well):

Working through Confusion

Share a passage from the week’s reading that confuses you in some way. Describe why you are confused by the passage, and offer a tentative interpretation of what causes you the problems. Extra engagement can be demonstrated by responding to each other and working through confusion collaboratively.

Structure and Meaning

Offer your observation of some particularly striking, strange, or significant surface feature(s) of one of our texts, and explain how that feature(s) contributes to or drives the meaning of the text in that passage or overall.

Offering an Interpretation

Contrive some kind of interpretive statement about a text from the week’s reading and support with an explanation of relevant and strong textual evidence.

Criticizing a Perspective

In all of our texts, you will encounter characters, groups, and authors who seem to be communicating particular perspectives on the world.  Describe whether you agree or disagree with this perspective, and what about the text drives your agreement or proves problematic for the perspective you discuss.

 

please find the attachment book for the assignment no out side sources just use the book and follow the instructions carefully 

Due within 24 hours from now 

Summary Exercise Instructions

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Summary Exercise Instructions

For this assignment only, there is no draft option. You should simply submit your required final copy whenever you are ready.  This assignment is designed to inform your larger research project. 

Additional helpful resources:

Summary Exercise Rubric | Summary Exercise Sample 1 | Summary Exercise Sample 2

 

Option #1: Investigate and Interview

You have already chosen a topic and created a working thesis statement for your research paper topic. Find a non-profit organization (e.g., one that provides literacy instruction, a support group for cancer patients, a shelter that provides refuge for battered women) in your city that is connected to your topic. For example, if you are researching services for blind people, you might interview someone at the National Federation of the Blind. 

Explain your assignment and request an interview with a staff member who is considered an expert in the field. Create 10 to 20 questions related to your thesis statement to ask the interviewee. For the writing assignment (Note that you should be conducting this interview yourself. You should not be summarizing an interview that someone else conducted):

  • Create an introduction that includes the interviewee’s background. What is his/ her name? What is his/her position? How long has your interviewee worked at this organization, and what is his/her role there? These are just some of the questions that you can ask to help you build your introductory paragraph.
  • Summarize the interviewee’s responses in approximately three cohesive body paragraphs. 
  • Finish with a concluding paragraph that explains how this interview helped you better understand your chosen research paper topic.

Option #2: Getting What you Need from Periodicals

Locate credible sources for your chosen topic of the research paper project. Find at least five relevant sources from periodicals (Please do not use basic informative website such as ehow or Wikipedia. The source you choose will ideally be an academic or research-based article). From the sources that you find, choose one to summarize. The source you choose should be a credible periodical and not merely a random website. Also keep in mind that your chosen source should be research-based and non-fiction. For example, you should not summarize a short story for this assignment. Choose a source such as a journal article, an essay in an anthology, a magazine article, or a newspaper article. For this option, you might use this as a guideline for crafting your thesis statement: John Smith’s book The Guiding Light explained (add first paragraph focus), (add second paragraph focus), and (add third paragraph focus). 

Here are some possible places to search for good sources:

With this summary, you should include:

  • An introduction that provides the source information (book, journal, article, etc.) and offers the main idea of the information in the source. End the introduction with your thesis statement.
  • Approximately three body paragraphs to summarize the beginning, the middle, and the ending of the piece.
  • A conclusion that explains how this source helped you better understand your chosen research paper topic.

 

The guidelines and requirements for this assignment are as follows:

Remember to apply the concepts you’re learning in the course, including elements of grammar, punctuation, thesis development, and other skills. 

Length: This piece should be approximately 1-2 double-spaced pages or 500 words.

Header: Include a header in the upper left-hand corner of your writing assignment with the following information:

  • Your first and last name 
  • Course Title (Composition I) 
  • Assignment name (Summary Exercise) 
  • Current Date

Format:

  • Last name and page number in upper-right corner of each page 
  • Double-spacing throughout
  • Title, centered after heading
  • Standard font (TimesNewRoman or Calibri)
  • 1” margins on all sides
  • MLA-style citations and Works Cited list for any sources used
  • Save the file as .docx or .doc format

Underline your thesis statement in the introductory paragraph.

 

eng315 week7 professional experience

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Due at the end of Week 7 (not eligible for late policy unless an approved documented exception provided). 
Follow the link above to the OneDrive folder titled Week 7. Note the sample outline document provided. This week’s Professional Experience requires you to create a speaking outline for your upcoming presentation (Assignment #4).Create an outline (see below for guidelines) for your Week 8 presentation based on Week 6’s PowerPoint presentation (a video preview is available under the Week 7 tab in Blackboard). You may use the provided Presentation Outline Sample posted in OneDrive or develop a different outline on your own. Save your file as Your_Name_Presentation_Outline. Leave the “Comments” column blank. After you have completed your presentation outline, upload it to the “Completed Outlines” folder on OneDrive.
Finally, submit your outline file to Blackboard to the Week 7 Professional Experience #4 link. That will prompt your instructor to review your outline. 

Outline Guidelines

Create an outline of your presentation in Word or Excel.  Focus on short bullet points and key things that you want to say (in either your audio or video recording for Week 8).  An example is posted for you in the Week 7 OneDrive folder (link provided). You may choose to use that outline format or create your own for this Professional Experience.

This is a pass/fail assignment. All elements must be completed (simulating the workplace where incomplete work is unacceptable) for credit. You cannot receive partial credit. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Plan, create, and evaluate professional documents.

Write clearly, coherently, and persuasively using proper grammar, mechanics, and formatting appropriate to the situation.

Deliver professional information to various audiences using appropriate tone, style, and format.

Learn communication fundamentals and execute various professional tasks in a collaborative manner.

Analyze professional communication examples to assist in revision.

Develop presentation skills for use in the professional environment.

This is an outline not a paper, so it do not need a cover and reference page.