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Your goal in the second half of this class is to create a report that gives current undergraduate
students in your field of study advice about how to pursue their careers during and after college.
You have the information that you gained from the interviews of faculty and alumni that you
did, so now you will gather more information about career advice for undergrads and recent
grads and prepare a report that your colleagues in your major can read. You will create the report
and also an explanatory document in which you explain what you learned in your research and
how that affected your report.

Your audience will be the other students in your major as well as faculty who will be
reading over your work. Thus you must consider what will make your report attractive to your
colleagues to read and believe but also be acceptable to faculty.

This may sound like a boring report in which you plug in boilerplate info that you get from the
internet, or, alternately, you may feel that writing this report is an intimidating project that is
asking you to approach a problem that is way too big for an undergrad to think about. But the
truth is that you are writing a document that explains the issue to other people in your field of
study, and so you should base your choices of what to include in and research for this document
on what you want to know for yourself. You may need to research the Bureau of Labor
Statistics’s Occupational Outlook Handbook for your career , resources from sites like Harvard
Business Review, The Muse, LinkedIn, and other resources about your career that you can find or
that are recommended to you by your interviewees. In all cases, you must soak up career advice
from various sources, check it against other sources, narrow the advice down to a particular
issue if possible, and decide how students at Western would like to hear this info and what it
would take for you to get them to believe you.

It will take work; the people you will be talking to know more about careers than you do, and so
you will have to ask them what sort of research will support their advice and will be believable
to students in your major. Maybe just “get an internship” is not detailed enough to get Western
students to act, and so you must look to the internet to find studies on just how much an
internship increases the chances of you getting a job post-graduation.

Choose an organization with which you are familiar or use the organization you chose for the Week 1 assignment.

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with speaker’s notes representing how this organization manages and develops its brand personality, and deliver the following:

• Find an ad (digital or non-digital) that you feel communicates a strong brand personality. Include this ad in your presentation.
• Describe that brand personality in terms of the dimensions in Figure 10-2 (p. 369 in Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy).
• Describe the various techniques used in the ad (celebrity endorser, user imagery, executional factors, etc.) and how that links to the personality they are communicating.
• Review what traits you believe are good to have in a brand personality.
• Analyze how this brand personality impacts competitive positioning.
• How does this ad impact your belief in the brand or impact your motivation to purchase from this organization?

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

I need someone who read the Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale novel to write the essay.

Write an essay in which you provide an interpretation of a particular theme that you see operating in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. You should develop your idea about the theme you have chosen through your careful close-reading of at least 3 particular passages from the novel.

THESIS

Your thesis should answer the following question:

What is the interesting, surprising, contradictory, or bizarre thing that you feel Atwood is showing us about your theme?

Tell us what you have figured out that you would like to show other
readers of the novel, something not all readers would immediately see
unless they engaged in the kind of careful analysis that you have done.

INTRODUCTION

Your essay should have a compelling introduction that introduces the
reader to your chosen theme. You should create sentences that provide a
bit of context for the reader and, more importantly, that give the
reader an overview of your theme. You do not have to give a summary of what happens in the novel; you can assume the reader has read it.

BODY

In the body of your essay, you should include the pieces of evidence
that help you support and develop your thesis, and you should explain
the specific idea of each piece of evidence. That is, ask yourself:

What idea does each piece of evidence suggest about my theme that
is related to, but slightly different from, my other pieces of
evidence?

Your goal is to use your interpretation of each piece of evidence to
add some insight into your idea. Do not simply allow your textual
evidence to speak for itself. Instead, draw our attention to specific
words, phrases, or images and tell us the idea that the wording
implies.

Conclusion

Your conclusion should not simply repeat what you have already said
in your essay. It should tie together what you have written in the body
and leave the reader with something slightly new to think about. It
should make a move beyond what you have written thus far to consider the
larger implications of the issue you are interested in.

FORMATTING

3-4 typed, double-spaced pages with one-inch margins and 12-pt font. Parenthetical documentation and works cited in MLA style. Don’t paraphrase, use your own ideas and your own words( No plagiarism!!!!). I need to know what you want to write about before you wanna start it.

INSTRUCTIONS

In the following page (posted under this one under papers), you see two poems, one written by a former student of an English professor and one written by a former English professor about a student. Both narrators see a little bit of themselves in the person they are writing about.

Your job in this short paper is to give a close reading of both of these poems. You must, however, write ONE unified essay and not two separate parts so you will need to have a unifying thesis statement. You must consider all aspects of the poems and address them fully with specific textual examples. Please make sure you cover the following:

• Voice

•
Situation and Setting

• Theme

• Tone

• Language Choice

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Sound patterns and rhyme

• Internal /External Structure

Your task in this paper is to use the close reading as a way to discover what the narrator thinks about the professor (in the first poem) and the student (in the second poem) and why. You will not find analyses of these poems on line nor are you expected to work together. Please submit on CANVAS.

Poetry Close Reading Paper

In the following page (posted under this one under papers), you see two poems, one written by a former student of an English professor and one written by a former English professor about a student. Both narrators see a little bit of themselves in the person they are writing about.

Your job in this short paper is to give a close reading of both of these poems. You must, however, write ONE unified essay and not two separate parts so you will need to have a unifying thesis statement. You must consider all aspects of the poems and address them fully with specific textual examples. Please make sure you cover the following:

• Voice

• Situation and Setting

• Theme

• Tone

• Language Choice

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Sound patterns and rhyme

• Internal /External Structure

Your task in this paper is to use the close reading as a way to discover what the narrator thinks about the professor (in the first poem) and the student (in the second poem) and why. You will not find analyses of these poems on line nor are you expected to work together. Please submit on CANVAS.

Rubric

Poetry Close Reading Paper

Poetry Close Reading Paper

Criteria	Ratings	Pts
		1.0 pts
		2.0 pts
		5.0 pts
		2.0 pts
		3.0 pts
		2.0 pts
Total Points: 15.0

Poem #1

The Kid Poets by Joseph Meredith

Ten years ago I sat cringing in a chair

across from you. Now you call me confrere.

You were fifty then. I was just a kid

who’d given you some poems. The thunder in the air

was partly your old railroad watch hid

in a storm of papers on your desk. I’d have fled

into the drizzling afternoon, given half a chance,

to calm my thundering heart. But then you did

the kindest thing: your hand danced a little dance

finding a rhythm you said was more than happenstance

in one of my “things.” In the air between your face

and my face, the thunder died. Only a quick glance

out the window convinced me you could not chase

the storm away, could not, by gesture, replace

cloud with sun, only turn a life around.

And all by a movement of pure masculine grace.

Now you are sixty; each rumble of the watch is more profound.

And my paternal stoop will in time pull me to the ground.

But still they come to you daily, the kid poets,

waiting outside your office, tight-lipped, without a sound.

Poem#2

Poem for Christian, My Student By Gail Mazur

He reminds me of someone I used to know,

but who? Before class,

he comes to my office to shmooze,

a thousand thousand pointless interesting

speculations. Irrepressible boy,

his assignments are rarely completed,

or actually started. This week, instead

of research in the stacks, he’s performing

with a reggae band that didn’t exist last week.

Kids danced to his music

and stripped, he tells me gleefully,

high spirit of the street festival.

He’s the singer, of course—

why ask if he studied an instrument?

On the brink of graduating with

an engineering degree (not, it turned out,

his forte), he switched to English,

his second language. It’s hard to swallow

the bravura of his academic escapes

or tell if the dark eyes laugh with his face.

Once, he brought me a tiny persimmon

he’d picked on campus; once, a poem

about an elderly friend in New Delhi

who left him volumes of Tagore

and memories of avuncular conversation.

My encouragement makes him skittish—

it doesn’t suit his jubilant histrionics

of despair. And I remember myself

shrinking from enthusiasm or praise,

the prospect of effort-drudgery.

Success—a threat. A future, we figure,

of revision—yet what can the future be

but revision and repair? Now, on the brink

again, graduation’s postponed, the brilliant

thesis on Walker Percy unwritten.

“I’ll drive to New Orleans and soak

it up and write my paper in a weekend,”

he announces in the Honors office.

And, “I want to be a bum in daytime

and a reggae star at night!”

What could I give him from my life

or art that matters, how share

the desperate slumber of my early years,

the flashes of inspiration and passion

in a life on hold? If I didn’t fool

myself or anyone, no one could touch

me, or tell me much . . . This gloomy

Houston Monday, he appears at my door,

so sunny I wouldn’t dare to wake him

now, or say it matters if he wakes at all.

“Write a poem about me!” he commands,

and so I do.

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Please use the following policy for the assignment (https://ballotpedia.org/Healthcare_policy_in_Color…)

The goal of this project is to integrate the previous Critical Thinking Assignments into an interconnected exploration of a specific healthcare policy.For the Portfolio Project, you will complete a two-part assignment (further explained below). Pretend like you are making an appearance before a community group that is having a policy explained to them for the first time. Imagine that the group has no knowledge of what happens behind the scenes to create and implement a healthcare policy. You will not actually be required to present this to a group, but prepare the project so that it would be acceptable for an audience of that nature. The two documents are as follows:

1. A mind map (via the Mind Map website) depicting the essential points and subpoints of your topic. Note: Think of the mind map as a visual outline of your responses to the questions listed below.
2. A narrative explanation that covers the rationale, research, and processes involved in creating this healthcare policy. The narrative essay should serve as the commentary to accompany the mind map if it were being presented to the group mentioned above. Your narrative explanation should be 4-5 pages in length (not including your cover or reference pages).

This Portfolio Project will focus on state healthcare policy. Select a specific state healthcare policy, Provide information related to the following points:

• Explain the initial introduction process of the original policy.
• Assess the research that was conducted and/or analyzed to determine the need for the policy.
• Discuss how the policy was promoted or lobbied against at the state level.
• Review any other state entities currently working toward a similar policy or that have successfully passed a similar policy. Is the process similar or different?

Be sure your 4 to 5 page narrative paper, which does not include your cover and reference pages, follows APA style according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.

Note: When you complete the Mind Map, you will be given a web address specifically created for the map. Type this web address at the top of the first page of your narrative, and then submit this information. Please note that you will be given a web address, as well as a view-only web address. The first address, which is not view-only, is the one that should be submitted.