The Discussion post should be 150 words

Read the article “McCarthyism, Response to Communist Threat or Political Witch Hunt?” The article is available by clicking on “Discussion Articles” on the navigation tree on the left side of the screen. The article will present two sides of the argument.

After you have read the article, create a new thread on this forum in which you state which of the arguments you believe is most convincing. Use specific examples from the article. Your post should be a minimum of 3-4 sentences. Greater detail will earn more ponts. Your original thread is worth 25 points .

Next, post a reply to one of your classmates and comment about what they have written. Be sure to do more than simply agree with your classmate. Again, greater detail will earn more points. Your reply is worth 20 points. Your writing mechanics are worth 5 points. Be sure to use proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization.

The Discussion post should be 150 words

Read the article “Clinton Impeachment, High Crimes and Misdemeanors or Political Witch Hunt?” The article is available by clicking on “Discussion Articles” on the navigation tree on the left side of the screen. The article will present two sides of the argument.

After you have read the article, create a new thread on this forum in which you state which of the arguments you believe is most convincing. Use specific examples from the article. Your post should be minimum of 3-4 sentences. Greater detail with earn more points. Your original thread is worth 25 points .

Next, post a reply to one of your classmates and comment about what they have written. Be sure to do more than simply agree with your classmate. Again, greater detail with earn more points. Your reply is worth 20 points. Your writing mechanics are worth 5 points. Be sure to use proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization.

course pack contains readings from two authors in section XI (pp. 267-299), William J. Faulkner and Peter Kolchin. These authors provide different perspectives on slave culture, life, religion and resistance. While Kolchin’s work is scholarly, the excerpts from Faulkner come from the book The Days When the Animals Talked. This is an amazing book of folklore; I have provided a helpful review of Faulkner’s book from Amazon.com to give you a sense of his work:

5.0 out of 5 stars Among the best of its kind, March 16, 2011

By

Andre M. “brnn64” (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) –

This review is from: The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be

This is unquestionably hands-down one of the best books ever written on Black American Folklore.

This was where William J. Faulkner (not to be confused with the the Nobel-winning Misssissippian author of the same name) recalled the tales told to him as a child by an ex-slave handyman named Simon Brown in rural South Carolina circa 1900 when the author was about 10 years old.

The title and cover may give you the impression that this is a children’s book. It’s not. Simon Brown’s recollections of slavery (the first half of the book) are often quite raw and similar to the kind of tales told by ex-slaves in the WPA Slave narratives of the 1930s, in regards to beatings, concubinage, and other atrocities. He also delights in telling young Faulkner some tall tales and stories about the religious and social practices of slaves. This is best for about teen age to adults. Faulkner also puts the Brer Rabbit and other animal tales (the second half of the book in the context of being thinly disguised analogies of slaves overcoming masters). The story about Brer Rabbit and the meeting with the long-tailed animals (not found in any of Harris’ Uncle Remus collections) deserves special attention as one of the most simple and brilliant analogies of racial injustice-this is a great wasy to articulate this subject with children!

Faulkner has done his homework and the tales are recorded in an entertaining style.

As with most educated Black writers of the time (Zora Neale Hurston being an important exception), Faulkner eliminates the dialect Simon Brown would have used as he wanted to discourage the use of dialect among schoolchildren (a stance that would horrify the politically correct utopian thought police of today), but the standard English is not unrealistic to the character and does help the stories to read better. This is important because part of the reason Black Folklore is such a lost art today is because most of the best books on the subject (see below) were written in a “Negro Dialect” so thick that ithey are almost unreadable today. In a sense, this book is kind of a flipside to Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus books in that Harris (with rare exceptions such as the opening chapter of “Daddy Jake the Runaway”) tended to show the softer side of slavery.

However, in reading this book, one really envies Faulkner as he graphically describes the joy of listening to an elder regale him with marvelous stories. Those of us who came of age when this was a common experience will truly identify with this, while those who did not will get an idea of what this was like and wish they had the pleasure of such an experience.

I would place this book with other classics of the genre such as Julius Lester’s “Black Folktales,” Edward C.L. Adams’ “Tales of the Congaree,” Ted Poston’s “Dark Side of Hopkinsville,” Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Conjure Woman,” Zora Neale Hurston’s “Mules and Men,” and of course the Harris Brer Rabbit books. Read, think, learn, and enjoy.

Once you have read the excerpts from Faulkner, the review on Amazon, and the Kolchin article, please comment on the following question:

How did slaves use folklore, religion and African practices to create a unique culture under slavery? How powerful and effective do you think culture would have been in the slaves’ efforts to resist the oppression of slavery?

ALSO, Please use 2 sources and list in bibliography.

Preparedness Planning

Competencies Addressed in This Assignment

• Competency 1: Apply emergency planning procedures to critical incidents.
• Competency 2: Explain the role of emergency planning within the emergency management field.
• Competency 4: Correlate appropriate emergency management response to hazards and threats.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively in a variety of formats.

Introduction

When you are working as professional emergency management official, you will be tasked with creating plans for dealing with a future possible occurrence of an emergency in your region. In all the assignments in this course you will be addressing how to plan for one of the specific phases of emergency management: preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Types of emergencies generally fall into three areas:

• Natural disasters: hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires.
• Man-made accidents: transportation disasters, such as train wrecks, or bridges collapsing.
• Man-made incidents: terrorist attacks such as physical attacks or electronic (hacking).

You will be using the Riverbend City train derailment scenario as a foundation for the assignments in this course. For this first assignment on preparedness planning view the Preparation, Planning, and Preparedness media piece, which uses a man-made accident as the type of emergency.

Common practices for preparedness planning are:

• Identification of local resources.
• Establishment of a continuity of operations plan for the community.
• Creation of a team.
• Setting outcome-based goals and tracking progress to those goals.
• Creating a plan for communicating the preparedness plan to the community through the media.

Instructions

You work for Jenny Cunningham, Riverbend City Emergency Manager. You are the supervisor who will be responsible for training representatives for the following groups in how to create a sample plan for preparedness:

• Emergency and government managers.
• First responders.
• Business leaders.
• Heads of families or households.
• Personnel in charge of or dealing with special needs groups such as the elderly, non-English speaking people, children, et cetera.

Jenny has asked you to send her a memo with the five top points you would present in a training for these groups. Your purpose for this eventual training is to introduce the target audience to what goes into a well-rounded preparedness plan. Use your personal and professional experiences, your readings, as well as examples of preparedness you have seen in the media scenario to support your ideas. Be sure to cite your resources.

In a memo to Jenny Cunningham explain how you would address the following with your group of training representatives. The memo should be short and concise. Use 1–2 paragraphs to succinctly deliver each main point.

1. Prepare a statement of why an emergency preparedness plan is important to establish, with emphasis on evacuation or sheltering in place.
2. Identify stakeholders who will be able to assist in the preparedness phase for government entities, businesses, and citizens.
3. Establish suggested necessary team members for your chosen incident (including governmental and non-governmental bodies).
4. Outline a continuity of operations plan that will help stakeholders be prepared to return to normalcy following a disaster.
5. Create a sample message to the community (one that would be delivered through the media) that provides a simple outline of steps families or special needs groups (such as the elderly, non-English speaking people, personnel in schools) can take to create their own preparedness plan.

Requirements

To achieve a successful assignment experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements for your memo:

• Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• APA formatting for any citations and references used in the assignment.
• A memo doesn’t require a title page, just who it is to, who it is from, and a subject line.
• Should not exceed 250 words for each point.
• You are required to submit your assignment to Turnitin. Once you review your results and make any needed changes, submit your paper for grading.

How to Submit Your Assignment

This is a two-step process.

Turnitin: All assignments must be submitted to Turnitin.

1. Access Turnitin through the link in the courseroom.
2. Submit your assignment using the draft folder.
3. Review the returned report and make changes as needed. (You may ignore any template matches.)
4. Resubmit your updated assignment using the appropriate folder.

Submit Your Assignment for Grading: See Submit an Assignment (linked in the Resources) for more information.

1. Click on the linked assignment heading.
2. Attach your file.
3. Click submit.
4. You will know your submission was successful by viewing the Submitted section of the My Grades area.

Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.

Resources

• Preparedness Planning Scoring Guide.
• Turnitin.
• Preparation, Planning, and Preparedness.
• Library Research Handbook: Keywords..
• Library Research Handbook: Databases..
• Criminal Justice Undergraduate Research Guide.
• Capella Writing Center.
• Submit an Assignment [PDF].
• Community of Excellence .
• Smarthinking Tutoring.
• Writing Feedback Tool.
• APA Style and Format.

1.Write an 10-14 page research paper on any human resources topic that allows for the application of strategic human resources management principles and strategies. The paper needs to display your understanding of strategic human resource management and how it fits with overall organizational strategy.

2.Topics/concepts include performance management; training and development, employee engagement; retention, workforce planning, compensation practices; sales compensation; executive compensation; global HR; labor relations; employee benefits; employee health care benefits; outsourcing/off-shoring, government relations; employee-management communications; employee turnover; diversity; etc.

3.This is a research paper so in addition to the text and other course materials, you are expected to include information from 5– 6 other sources. These sources should be substantial articles from professional or academic publications. You can access them through the Concordia library. Websites that are advertisements for consultant services or books are not appropriate.