Part 1 – Research Paper Topic and Outline

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NOTE: my topic I want to do is “Why the NLRA Act Has Failed”, “Right to Work Laws: What do They Really Mean?” or “Unionism in Professional Sports”. You can pick one of the 3.

Begin to think about the topic for the research paper that is due in Lesson 12. The paper provides an opportunity for you to explore in some detail an issue within the broad topic of employment relations or labor-management relations that particularly interests you.

Any issue that has appeared in the textbook, the supplemental readings, or the lesson commentaries could potentially serve as the topic for your paper (in thinking about an issue you might want to review the material we have covered to date and also look at the syllabus to get an idea of material we will cover in the remainder of the course).

It is important that you choose an issue that can be reasonably addressed in a paper of approximately 2000-2500 words. Issues such as labor history, labor law, union organizing campaigns, strikes, arbitration, labor-management cooperation, or public sector labor relations are much too broad to cover in such a paper, but you might use such broad categories to begin to narrow your search for a topic. For example, if you were interested in the subject of union organizing campaigns, you might review the material on that topic.

“One study of over 22,000 petitions for certification elections filed with the NLRB found that only 8,100 resulted in union election victories and only 4,600 resulted in signed contracts within a year of victory. In other words, unions need to file five petitions to gain one new bargaining unit… (Budd 216).” This issue, its causes and implications, would be appropriate to explore in the research paper.

You also might want to consider a topic that is related to your industry or employer, or in some way potentially useful to you professionally.

Click the following for a list of potential topics. You are welcome to choose one of these topics but they are presented primarily to give you a sense of the range and nature of topics appropriate for this assignment.

  • This week at a minimum, submit your paper topic with an explanatory paragraph.
  • If you have prepared an outline of the topics to be addressed in your paper (optional but recommended), submit this with your topic and paragraph.
  • Review the Research Paper Schedule on the Course Syllabus to see the deadlines for this paper.
  • Your instructor will give you feedback on the topic/outline, which will explain what you will need to submit in the Week 7 Research Paper drop box. Your paper topic must be approved before you begin in-depth work on the project.
  • Make sure to use APA Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for your Research Paper.
  • Access an additional helpful resource (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.for writing your paper.

I will indicate approval when I respond to your paper topic submission.

Communicating with Stakeholders and Other Constituents, homework help

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LASA 2 Grading Criteria and Rubric

This assignment is worth 300 points. Download this rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Summarize the research findings from the selected research study.

24

Interpret the results of the selected research study.

28

Identify the key facts and issues of the selected research study.

24

Analyze the key facts and issues of the selected research study.

32

Propose an appropriate set of recommendations for the selected stakeholder or constituent.

40

Support recommendations with appropriate sources and effective arguments.

40

Create an effective script for visual presentation of the data cited.

48

Presentation components.

64

Total:

300

power point review and answer questions in a few paragraphs

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essay form

¢Part One: Reaching out to a Hesitant Audience

¢A. Do you think that Jacobs does a good job of communicating the hardships of a slave woman?

¢B. What is she doing to try to reach this audience that believes in the “Cult of True Womanhood”? To put it another way, how does she try to reach an audience that is especially conditioned to think that a true woman is one that follows that dictates of the “Cult of True Womanhood”?

¢Parts One and Two can be addressed together if you want and you can talk about both at the same time if it will help you. In order to see if she is doing a good job, I want you to take into consideration the cultural context and to actually refer to the Cult of True Womanhood.

¢Part Two: The Setting / Enclosures and their Personal Meaning:

¢Harriet Jacobs goes into hiding. What do you think enclosures come to personally symbolize for Harriet Jacobs?

¢Please quote from the three chapters. Quote specific words or phrases or a short sentence or part of a sentence. Do not turn the homework assignment into a collection of long quotes with little or no reflection. Just short phrases or specific words will be enough. Carefully lead into the quote. Present the quote and let your reader know your thoughts about it.

Discussion Board Response

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Please provide an articulate and meaningful response to a fellow students discussion board post here is the students post:

Project: SafeWater Fracking

Purpose: Water Conservation

Company: Exxon Mobil

Industry: Oil and Gas/Fracking

My approach to the proposal for a fracking water conservation process was two-fold:

  • To provide adequate background identifying the severity of current fracking water usage and current levels of water depletion to concretize the environmental crisis to which fracking causes and contributes
  • To provide substantial, detailed, and compelling evidence of the financial benefits of this project – to Exxon Mobil, the US, and the oil and gas industry

Beyond that, my approach was largely a subtractive process, by which I honed down all five of our milestone papers into one artifact that contained only the most critical content. This part was incredibly challenging, and in general I’ve always found synthesis work like this to be migraine-inducing. In the end, I’m telling a story of how society and our environment has outgrown much of the fossil fuel era (Brown’s Last Chance, 2018) and needs a mechanism for transitioning into an age of renewables. It will take a few decades and my idea will enable us to move in that direction while causing less harm to public health, our natural resources, and our fragile planet.

Through some helpful feedback from our Professor and classmates, I’ve refined the audio visual presentation to be a bit slimmer, with more bullet points and less narrative text, and I also removed several slides to make the overall presentation a bit shorter. I believe these changes make for a tighter presentation and bring more impact to my message and vision.

I am also keeping a close eye on the news between now and our final submission deadline. For example, I read a new article published today in Forbes identifying some rather grim predictions about fracking: fast deterioration of fracking wells, and a resulting increase in equipment and production costs going forward (Lynch, 2018). Production costs for fracking are significantly less than traditional oil and gas drilling because of the velocity and efficiency that fracking brings. But production cost has historically been the Achilles heel of the oil business. Oil and gas exploration/discovery is not a sure thing, refining production is complex and perilous, and profits are only possible at massive scale and volume. My SafeWater Fracking project significantly lowers production costs because it eliminates the huge cost of disposal in Phase 1 and transportation + disposal in Phase 2.

And there are two major political issues right now that could significantly impact the future of fracking and the regulatory environment: the November congressional midterm elections, and the appointment of a Supreme Court nominee. While the congressional midterms are looking increasingly blue, Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment could loosen fracking regulations – for decades. By and large, red creates opportunities for traditional oil and gas, and blue strengthens the fracking business environment (Bloom, 2018). Exxon Mobil’s diversified portfolio is intended to hedge these types of political movements to create stable overall financial results.

My plan is to keep watching the news and then carefully decide whether or not to incorporate new information into the narrative paper portion of my final.

Lisa

References:

Bloom, M. (2018). Increased Oil, Gas Well Setback Measure Qualified for November Ballot. Retrieved from www.kunc.org

Brown’s Last Chance (2018). Retrieved from www.obrag.org

Lynch, M. (2018). Fracking As The Next Financial Meltdown. Retrieved from www.forbes.com

Complete English Persuasive Essay Outline NO PLAGIARISM

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PERSUASIVE ESSAY TOPIC: VACCINATIONS IN CHILDREN ARE A NECESSITY FOR THE WELL-BEING OF SOCIETY

Part One: Topic Search

For the first part of this assignment, consider the following three questions:

  1. What issue or problem would you like to write about?
  2. Choose a side. What is your view on the issue? What is the opposing view?
  3. What specific change might fix this issue?

Then, freewrite for 10-15 minutes about the topic you have chosen. Share all of the reasons you can think of for why your problem needs to be fixed. Do not worry about grammar, spelling, or format. Do not edit. Write what comes to mind. Do not research yet. If you are stumped and cannot write what you know for 10-15 minutes, go back to #1 and start with a new topic.

Part Two: The Outline

Draft an informal outline for your upcoming persuasive paper. Do not include quotations or paraphrased material. Your outline should be built from your current knowledge of the topic. You can refine this later when you conduct your research.

Basic Outline for a Five Paragraph Essay

  • Introductory Paragraph (five to seven sentences that include a hook, background information, and a thesis)
  • Body Paragraphs
    • First Topic Sentence
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
    • Second Topic Sentence
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
    • Third Topic Sentence
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
      • Supporting Point
  • Closing paragraph (five to seven sentences that include a restatement of the thesis, summary of the main ideas, and a closing thought)

Student Contributed Resource Worksheet

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Student Contributed Resource Worksheet

This Assignment is due by Day 3 of Week 3.

Directions: Please type in your answers in the boxes provided. If you need more space than is provided, the box will expand as you write. Do not write your answers in a separate document because your Instructor uses the rubric after each question to grade that section. You may also use the rubric as a guide to make sure you completed that question correctly.

Popular Culture

1. Find 1 article from the library or credible Internet site that focuses on popular culture.

You may use articles by the authors listed in the Learning Resources section, but you may also include other authors. Note: All resources included in your Student Contributed Resources should be in English.

Insert the requested information in the box below

Author name:

Year and date of publication:

Name of the article (or web article or website):

Name of the publication (or website):

Volume and issue number (for magazine or journal articles):

URL (that is, the web address) of the website (if applicable):

Next, attempt to organize the information above into an APA style reference. There are two examples in the box, one for an article published in a magazine or journal and one for an article published on a website.

Insert APA reference below

Example of an article published in a magazine or journal:

Ouellette L. (1999). Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class identity and girl-style American dreams. Media Culture & Society, 21(3), 359–383.

Example of an article published on a website:

Popular Culture. (2015). Cultural Politics. Retrieved from http://culturalpolitics.net/popular_culture

Enter your attempt at an APA style reference:

Finally, post this reference to the course blog.

2. Write an annotation in the box below. An annotation summarizes the article and its point of view. It can be thought of as the explanation for why the article relates to the topic or an Assignment. Your annotation for this article should be 3–4 sentences.

Insert your answer below

12 angry men and Groupthink

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View the movie, 12 Angry Men (1957), Orion-Nova Productions.

Write a paper of 750-1,000 words in which you do the following:

  1. Discuss patterns of persuasion, conformity, and minority influence seen in the film.
  2. Analyze issues of prejudice observed while watching the jurors deliberate.
  3. Determine if there was evidence of cognitive heuristics. If so, where/how did it occur?
  4. Interpret the catalyst of change that resulted in the outcome of the film, based on your perceptions.
  5. Discuss if the group in the film demonstrate group polarization, or if they were at risk for groupthink.
  6. Include specific examples from the film to support your ideas/claims. Be sure to include proper APA citations for your examples.

You must include two to three peer reviewed scholarly sources to support your claims in your writings.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENt

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CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT

The lessons learned in this course, are first and foremost, practical tools for assessing the governance strength and stability of nonprofit organizations. For this assignment, I am asking you to conduct an assessment of a real nonprofit organization, using the attached checklist and your knowledge from this course. Specifically, you should:

1. Identify a nonprofit organization willing to allow you to conduct the assessment. I will provide you with a document to share that states you are not providing legal advice (an ethical requirement) and also indicates that the information provided by the organization is for educational purposes and will not be shared outside of this class. You may select a nonprofit you are familiar with or you can contact me and I will connect you with one. For this assignment, I would recommend choosing a small organization,

2. Use the checklist to guide the interview with your chosen organization. Take careful notes on what you learn, particularly where an organization appears to be out of compliance. Apply what you have learned in this course to apply each of the survey items. If the organization is willing to share its governance documents, take the time to review them as well.

3. Using the results of your review, draft a memo (directed to the board of directors of the organization) assessing the organization’s “legal health.” Note areas where there may be compliance issues and make recommendations on how to address. You may use your textbook as a resource.

Your memo will be graded on quality of composition, strength of your analysis and your mastery of the legal terms involved.

Communication – PowerPoint presentation

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Using the movie you chose for the Communication Practicum Project – The pursuit of Happiness, create a final presentation using a screen recording tool such as Screencast-O-Matic or PowerPoint with audio.

Create no fewer than 12 slides to support your analysis, including:

  • Title slide
  • Objectives slide
  • Review slide
  • Final slide

The presentation should be 10-15 minutes in length and should cover no fewer than half of the following communication elements:

  • Culture
  • Perception
  • Perception of Self
  • Listening
  • Verbal Messages
  • Non-Verbal Messages
  • Emotional and Conversational Messages
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Interpersonal Relationship Types
  • Interpersonal Conflict
  • Conflict Management
  • Interpersonal Power and Influence

The presentation should have no fewer than 4 cited resources, including your book.

The presentation should have no fewer than 3 examples of your movie taken from YouTube or another Internet source. You may use any scene that you have previously evaluated.

The presentation must have an Evaluation Section as the summary. It should give a personal evaluation of the communication process from your point of view. You will not use sources, quotes, paraphrases etc. in this section. You are expected to provide an in-depth discovery and explanation using what you have learned throughout the quarter.

I will provide the scenes

Responding to STIFF: THE CURIOUS LIVES OF HUMAN CADAVERS

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Now that you’ve read almost all the chapters of Mary Roach’s book, how are you feeling about “the curious lives of human cadavers”? What has surprised or impressed you about the ways human bodies can change, be used, or be memorialized after death? How has the book altered your perceptions about death?

What two parts of the book have, so far, had the largest impact on you? Why (be specific)? How do you think reading this text will change the way you think about death in the future? Where do you see connections between what you are researching and what you have read in this book?

Are there ways in which the writing you are doing has been impacted by the textbook, or by what your classmates have said or recommended? Be specific in showing this impact.