Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with the cultural venues and communities. This will inform you personally of the Humanities and groups that support it.

Skills

This assignment will help you practice the following skills that will be useful to you in your professional and personal life beyond school.

• Identify cultural venues and inform you with deeper knowledge about the cultural form chosen.
• Organize reflections about engaging with a cultural experience and community
• Use concepts and skills learned in class to describe and interpret cultural experiences and communities
• Use appropriate and proper grammar, organization, and academic-style formatting in order to communicate

Knowledge
This assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the Humanities.

• Available virtual cultural venues and communities
• Methods of interpretation within the Humanities

Instructions
For your report, choose one virtual venue from this pre-approved list that most interests you, or contact your professor for approval of your own online choice. If your choice below has both a website and a video, make sure you examine both. If you need special accommodations to complete this assignment, please inform your instructor and contact the Accessibility Accommodations office for guidance.

Please watch the entire performance or thoroughly explore the venue you choose.

• Becoming a Buddhist Monk
  https://youtu.be/MpKzoH0mTDU

Your report should include the following information. Include photos or links that help convey the information. As always, be sure to document all sources you consult in preparing your work. This includes any learning resources from the class, or information from the websites that informed you about the particular item you explored.

• Name and location of event or name and director of the film, writer’s name etc. If there is on-line information about what you viewed, be sure to include a link to it within the text of your essay in an appropriate place.
• Type of event. For example is it a film, ritual, service, ceremony, poetry reading, festival, author interview etc. Make sure to include the name of the authors, directors, producers, speakers, author of your favorite poem (if poetry festival or event).

• Briefly describe the general setting by talking a bit about the location (you can research the location online) and the general overall “vibe” of the place or places viewed.
• Describe at least one aspect of what you viewed that you found especially interesting. For example, you might write about the different ways the same ritual is conducted by different groups, a poem you really liked from the reading or poetry festival, something an author or direct said that really struck you. Explain what impressed or affected you, and why. Your reaction can be positive or negative, as long as you offer an explanation.
• Identify and use at least two tools, concepts or methods that you have learned about in this class in the Learning Resources to talk about your viewing. For example, if you view a director’s commentary, you might point out what the director says about lighting or the set, or if you view to a ritual, talk about the myth the ritual is based on, or if you watch a spoken word or poetry reading, you can talk about specific literary language or imagery. Make sure you are explicit in identifying the tools/concept/methods you are using and the specific learning resources they come from. Be sure to inform the reader about the tool/concept/method through a quote or paraphrase from the learning resource. Then, make sure to tell the reader how you interpret and/or analyze some elements of what you experience with the tools.
• Be sure to cite the learning resources you have used in MLA format. Please see http://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm
• Reflect on the relevance–if any–of your viewing to your everyday life. How did the experience engage your feelings or emotions, if at all? What does this tell you about human culture, and/or about yourself?

STOP: Before you hand in your assignment, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Have I clearly provided identifying information about what I viewed in terms of who was involved and where it took place and provided the URL, if applicable? Have I done what I could to describe the setting and/or vibe?
2. Have I identified and explained an especially interesting aspect of the experience and used examples to illustrate reflections and to explain why this aspect was interesting?
3. Have I identified and applied two tools, concepts or methods of interpretation from learning resources to concrete and specific examples from visit?
4. Have I used examples to clearly explain the relevance of my visit to at least one of the following: 1) emotion 2) human culture 3) self-identity 4) cultural identity?
5. Does my report engage meaningfully and critically with class materials, arguing for some particular thesis, rather than merely describing what I did?
6. Have I used Learning Resources from the class and provided a list of resources, and do all of my citations conform to MLA 8th edition guidelines?
7. Have I proofread this assignment for grammatical, structural, and spelling errors that might impede someone from understanding what I am trying to say?

Conduct some research on common interest communities and answer the following questions on them:

1. What is the difference between a cooperative and a condominium?
2. What is a declaration of condominium and why is important?
3. Name five elements that a declaration of condominium should contain.
4. What are time shares and would you consider getting one? If so, where and why?
5. Explain what a CCRC is and explain in detail each of the three types of contracts involved with living at one.

APA Format, Minnesota is the STATE 1-2 pages

book used in class is

Real Estate Law Fundamentals

Hughes, A. H., Goldman, T. F., Nemeth, C. P. (03/2013). Real Estate Law Fundamentals, 1st Edition

Your city has decided to build a new library. The projected cost is $2 million. A bond issue for $1.2 million has been authorized, and the remainder is supposed to come from a contribution of $800,000 from the general fund. The bonds sold for $1.3 million, a premium of $100,000. Create the required journal entries for the following transactions:

• The budget for the library
• The payment and receipt of funds from the general fund
• The issuance of the bonds
  • Assume that the premium remained in the capital projects fund.
  • Identify all of the funds required for these entries.
  • Discuss how the bond premium could be disposed.

In general terms, compare and contrast how expenditures are controlled in the general fund and in debt service funds. Explain why differences would occur.

Week 6 Assignment 3.2: Voice Mail Follow-Up
Due Week 6 and worth 40 points

Your supervisor has asked to you write a brief email on the vacation policy changes to be distributed to staff. You have just finished up and have sent your newly constructed email to the staff. Now, you must call your supervisor and leave a voice mail response updating him or her that you have sent out the new vacation policy email to staff. Once you create your voice mail message, be sure to attach it when submitting this assignment.

Note: For this assignment, you will need to use a sound recorder such as Sounder Recorder on PC or Quicktime on Mac.

Leave a follow-up reply voice mail for your supervisor when you have completed the email in which you:

1. Inform your supervisor that you have completed the email.
2. Confirm to which employees you sent the email.
3. Confirm the date and time when you sent the email.
4. Target the appropriate professional audience.
5. Use appropriate rate, volume, and pitch for professional audience.
6. Speak for clarity, including articulation, pronunciation, and fluency.
7. Meet three to five (3-5) sentence minimum requirement.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Demonstrate understanding of the basic fundamentals of communication.
• Develop and practice communication skills, including verbal, nonverbal, listening, writing, interpersonal, perception, and critical thinking.
• Use various electronic communication platforms in academic and professional work.
• Relate to the interpersonal and organizational dynamics that affect communication in organizations.
• Analyze and assess effective communication.
• Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in communications.
• Write clearly and concisely about communications using proper writing mechanics.