Sports Management M2

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As a PR team, discuss and create a PR strategy, tool, or technique to address one of the two assignments.

Assignment A: Select an expert endorser and a well-known celebrity to build media attention, credibility and acceptance for each product / campaign. An expert endorser is a person who is considered an expert in the field. For example, a dentist would be an expert endorser for a dental product. A celebrity is someone who is well-known in the public eye. Provide a detailed explanation of why you made your choices. Remember that you need to research extensively the expert endorser and celebrity you choose and be familiar with their backgrounds and any scandals that may prevent them from representing the product / campaign well.

  • lightweight luggage
  • suntan lotion
  • a public service campaign for literacy training for adult learners
  • hiking boots and winter outerwear
  • a new hybrid fuel car that will be environmentally responsible
  • Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization
  • A public service campaign to conserve water usage

operating systems

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There are so many operating systems available in the market that it’s difficult to decide which one is the best. Search the Internet for information on the following operating systems, and draw a table that compares them in terms of scalability, ease of use, reliability, and cost. The list of choices should include the current version of the following common operating systems:

  • Windows
  • Unix/Linux
  • MacOS

Below is an example of how the table can look:

Operating System Scalability Ease of Use Reliability Cost
Windows (version)
Unix or Linux
MacOS

In the table, specify the version of the operating system being reviewed for each category and rate each operating system on a scale of 1 to 3 (1 belonging to the operating system that is the highest in that category [e.g., 1=easiest to use]).

Based on the above analysis, state which operating system you recommend for the following requirements and your justification:

  • The finance department of XYZ Inc. has hired two trainees to work on a simple database application. Users are going to use the computer for the first time.
  • Smart Shoppers needs an OS with an easy-to-use interface and also the capability to support dual processors.
  • A non-profit organization wants to host a Web site and needs a computer to host the Web site. They want a cost-effective solution for hosting the Web site.

3- to 5-page Word document

sociology 100 assignment

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SOC100_Assignments_Rubrics.pdf 

Writing Assignment Overview

In this Assignment, you will consider a social issue that interests you. It could be human freedom, sexuality, deviance, crime, social mobility, poverty, education, aging, or another similar issue. Within that general issue, you will select a specific hypothesis to evaluate.  You will conduct library research to gather and critically evaluate evidence that bears on your hypothesis

This assignment is completed in four (4) stages that build on each other.  At each stage, you should keep the final stage in mind.  

Stage (and Week due)

Point Value

Description of Stage

Grading criteria

1 (Week 3)

50

Identifying the Hypothesis

Hypothesis is stated in a clear manner. 

2 (Week 5)

100

Outline and Preliminary List of References

Content is provided for each component of the paper.  A list of at least three (3) references is provided.

3 (Week 8)

120

Draft 1

Evaluated on content for each component, as well as writing skills, and use of citations and references.

4 (Week 10)

150

Final Version

Evaluated on content for each component, as well as writing skills, and use of citations and references.

In the final stage of this assignment, you will submit a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Specific Hypothesis. Introduce your paper by identifying the specific hypothesis you are evaluating in this paper. 
  2. Applicable Sociological Concepts. Identify the sociological theories and terminology from the text that apply to your social issue
  3. Practical Implications. Discuss the value of sociological research into your issue.  Determine whether or not there are (or would be) practical implications of sociological inquiry into this issue.  
  4. Evidence. This is the most important part of the paper.  Analyze  at least two (2) lines of evidence that pertain to the hypothesis you are evaluating.  Does the evidence support your hypothesis?  For each type of evidence, consider possible biases and alternative interpretations.  
  5. Conclusions. Draw conclusions based on the evidence that you have discovered. Does the evidence confirm or refute your hypothesis?  Is the evidence sufficiently convincing to draw firm conclusions about your hypothesis?  

Modern Theatre Choose 2 of these and answer in essay form. 2 PAGES ONLY.

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Choose 2 of these and answer in essay form. Don’t forget to mention the title of the play when you begin. Assume the reader doesn’t see the question.

  • In HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, ere all of the aspects of Peck and Li’l Bit’s relationship negative? Were there ways in which they helped each other? Do you think that their relationship was at all constructive, or entirely destructive?
  • Towards the end of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, Li’l Bit’s mother tells her that if anything were to happen with Peck she would hold Li’l Bit personally responsible. To what extent is Li’l Bit responsible for the events that take place? Should anyone else be held accountable?
  • In AUGUST:OSAGE COUNTY, Why is the fact that Little Charles and Ivy are in love a problem for the family? Does Charles Senior know that Little Charles isn’t his son, and if so, why is he so compassionate towards the boy, while Mattie Faye is not?
  • In AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Why does Karen side with Steve after Johnna accuses him of forcing himself on Jean?
  • In RUINED, Which male character do you most sympathize with and why?
  • Discuss the role of power in RUINED. Who has it, how does it shift, and why is it important?
  • How is FEATHERS AND TEETH a retelling of HAMLET? What is similar about it, and what had to be changed to make it work in a modern context?
  • EACH QUESTION HAVE TO WRITE ONE PAGE.

​Whose Inventory is it?

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Whose Inventory is it?

You were asked to travel to Milwaukee to observe and verify the inventory of the Milwaukee branch of one of your clients. When you arrive on Thursday, December 30, and find that the inventory procedures have just been started. You spot a railway car on the sidetrack at the unloading door and ask the warehouse superintendent, Buck Rogers, how he plans to inventory the contents of the car. He responds, “We are not going to include the contents in the inventory.”

Later in the day, you ask the bookkeeper for the invoice on the carload and the related freight bill. The invoice lists the various items, prices, and extensions of the goods in the car. You note that the carload was shipped December 24 from Albuquerque, f.o.b. Albuquerque, and that the total invoice price of the goods in the car was $35,300. The freight bill called for a payment of $1,500. Terms were net 30 days. The bookkeeper affirms the fact that this invoice is to be held for recording in January.

  1. Does your client have a liability that should be recorded at December 31? Discuss.
  2. For what possible reason(s) might your client wish to postpone recording the transaction?

His Excellency, George Washington, Joseph Ellis In a complete essay, answer ONE of the following

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His Excellency, George Washington, Joseph Ellis

In a complete essay, answer ONE of the following. Please do not forget to answer the entire essay question (100 points).

Ellis’ book is in reality a psychological study of George Washington. In your opinion, what did the author consider to be Washington’s three strongest character traits? How did these characteristics affect Washington’s career, both military and political? Make sure to explain your answers.

Ellis says that the other “founding fathers” were considered more intellectually capable than George Washington, and yet it was Washington who was first in the pantheon of our country’s founders. What explanation does Ellis offer for this phenomena? What is YOUR opinion? Be sure to back it up.

Guidance and coaching

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Topic 1: Guidance and coaching is a core competency of advanced practice nursing. How do you think guidance and coaching in the advanced practice role is different from the RN role of teaching/coaching? Are there certain elements of this competency that are more important than others? How does the teaching and coaching role fit with a wellness versus sickness model of care?

For each Topic:

Initial posts for each discussion topic must also include 2 peer-reviewed citation.Citations must include outside sources. Additionally, comments should also include a citation to support assertions. A minimum of 200 words. While the discussion board tool limits the ability to use APA formatting (e.g., hanging indents), posts must include the required elements of an APA in-text citation and list of references. Each post requires it’s Own answer. They do not require a front face sheet.

Letter to Elected Officials:

MN507-2: Explain U.S. healthcare policy structures and the role of the nursing leader as a change agent at the public policy table.

read the Assignment presentation transcript.

Directions

You will do your work on this template for the Unit 3 Assignment:

1. Each member of the group must identify their state legislators’ addresses and phone numbers. (Ohio)

Can you complete this assignment entirely and without plagiarism?

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Write an evaluative essay of 750-1,000 words on the role of race, class, gender, and dialect and the effects they have on the English language.

Discuss your personal view on how the English language evolves. State a clear thesis for this portion of the assignment and use argumentative skills to provide logical evidence for your point of view.

Prepare this assignment according to the MLA guidelines found in the MLA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center

Involuntary Members

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Involuntary members have been ordered to attend a group in exchange for some reward. Many times, this is a result of judicial system intervention. Often, these members are not interested in participating and getting to know others. The clinical social worker must understand the potential issues or problems that arise within a group of involuntary members and ways to address these issues. It can be especially difficult to create a sense of empowerment when these members have been mandated to attend.

For this Discussion, pay particular attention to the Schimmel & Jacobs (2011) piece.

Post your description of the strategies for working with involuntary group members presented in the Schimmel & Jacobs (2011) article. Describe ways you agree and/or disagree with their strategies. How might you handle the situations presented in the article differently? Explain ways these strategies promote empowerment.

Then to a colleague who presents a different point of view on these strategies than you.

Please use these references:

Toseland, R. W., & Rivas, R. F. (2017). An introduction to group work practice (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Chapter 7, “The Group Begins” (pp. 197–230)

Chapter 8, “Assessment” (pp. 230-263)

Schimmel, C. J., & Jacobs, E. (2011). When leaders are challenged: Dealing with involuntary members in groups. Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 36(2), 144–158.

Holosko, M. J., Dulmus, C. N., & Sowers, K. M. (2013). Social work practice with individuals and families: Evidence-informed assessments and interventions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

  • Chapter 3 “Assessment of Adolescents”
  • Chapter 4 “Intervention with Adolescents

The Origins Of Consciousness

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For this assessment, you will evaluate in 5–8 pages what cognitive and affective psychology lends to the understanding about the origins of consciousness.

Ethical issues raised in research about consciousness and how scholars and theorists address those issues influence how theories and principles are applied in the real world.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Write a paper evaluating what cognitive and affective psychology lends to our understanding about the origins of consciousness.

  • Begin by identifying foundational theories in both cognitive and affective psychology about the origins of consciousness.
  • Then, evaluate what these theories contribute to our understanding. Address these questions in your paper, drawing on scholarly sources to support your evaluation:
    • What does cognitive neuroscience contribute to our understanding?
    • What do theories related to affective psychology contribute to our understanding this topic?
  • Identify the ethical issues raised in research about consciousness and how scholars and theorists address those issues.
  • Explain how the field of cognitive and affect psychology evolved into a recognized psychological discipline.
    • Summarize key foundational theories about the origins of consciousness.
  • Evaluate the theories and principles that pertain to the cognitive components of cognitive and affective psychology.
    • Evaluate how cognitive neuroscience contributes to the understanding of the origins of consciousness.
  • Evaluate the theories and principles that pertain to the affective components of cognitive and affective psychology.
    • Evaluate how affective psychology contributes to the understanding of the origins of consciousness.
  • Explain how ethical principles and practices influence the application of the theories and principles found within cognitive and affective psychology.
    • Identify ethical issues raised in research about the origins of consciousness.
  • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
    • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
  • It is useful to consider the origins of consciousness through the lens of cognitive and affective psychology. In recent years, scientists and researchers in myriad disciplines—for example, David Chalmers, Francis Crick, Daniel Dennett, Roger Penrose, and Steven Rose—have addressed this question of consciousness: How is it that physical processes in the brain cause consciousness?
  • According to Chalmers (1996):
  • Consciousness . . . is as perplexing as it ever was. It still seems utterly mysterious that the causation of behavior should be accompanied by a subjective inner life. We have good reason to believe that consciousness arises from physical systems such as brains, but we have little idea how it arises, or why it exists at all. How could a physical system such as a brain also be an experiencer? . . . Present-day scientific theories hardly touch the really difficult questions about consciousness. We do not just lack a detailed theory; we are entirely in the dark about how consciousness fits into the natural order. (p. xi)
  • Francis Crick, Nobel prize laureate in physiology and medicine, in his 1994 book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, borrows an idea from Hippocrates and uses it to argue that “you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules” (Crick, 1994, p. 3).
  • Philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist Alva Noë, in response to Crick’s statement, argues that the most striking thing about Crick’s hypothesis is that is not astonishing at all:
  • What needs to be kept clearly in focus is that the neuroscientists, in updating the traditional conception of ourselves [we are our brains], have really only succeeded in replacing one mystery with another. At present, we have no better understanding of how ‘a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules’ might give rise to consciousness than we understand how supernatural soul stuff might do the trick. Which is just to say that the you-are-your-brain idea is not so much a working hypothesis as it is the placeholder for one. (Noë, 2010, p. 6)
  • Michael Gazzaniga, in his 2008 book, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, makes the following observations about consciousness:
  • One of the mysteries of consciousness is how a perception or information enters into consciousness from the nonconscious depths. Is there a gatekeeper that lets only some information through? What information is allowed through? What determines that? What happens after that? How do new ideas form? What processes are contributing to consciousness? Are all animals equally conscious or are there degrees of consciousness? Is our consciousness unique? The question of consciousness has been rather like the holy grail of neuroscience. If you tell me you are interested in knowing just exactly what parts of the brain are active when you are conscious of something—a flower, a thought, a song—what you are asking about is known as the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC). You are not a lone coyote on this request. No one knows exactly what is going on, but there are plenty of suggestions. (Gazzaniga, 2008, p. 278)
  • Journalist Steven Johnson, author of Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, tells the following story about an incident that demonstrates the complex relationships among the brain, memories, and emotions:
  • Several years ago, doctors at the Salpêltriére Hospital in Paris were experimenting with a revolutionary new treatment for Parkinson’s disease that involved implanting an electrode in a section of the brain stem that plays an important role in motor control. . . . With one patient . . . the doctors accidentally stimulated an area that initiates the physical posture of great sadness. Within seconds of receiving the electric current, the patient slumped in her chair, a morose expression spreading across her face. Soon her eyes filled with tears, and her verbal report to the doctors was suddenly something straight out of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground: ‘I’m fed up with life, I’ve had enough. . . . Everything is useless.’ When the doctors switched off the current, her despair disappeared almost instantly: she smiled and professed bafflement about why the world had suddenly seemed so bleak. (2004, p. 147)

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

  • What two fundamental approaches explain perception?
  • Can we actively process information even if we are not aware of doing so?
  • How do we attend to information in the environment? What processes are involved?
  • How are perception, attention, and consciousness connected to brain functions? How did theories and models of memory evolve over time? Which ones guide our current understanding of memory?
  • How is information processed—taken in, encoded, stored, and recalled—in and from memory?
  • What is the relationship between memory and brain physiology?
  • What is the relationship between memory and learning?
References

Crick, F. (1994). The astonishing hypothesis: The scientific search for the soul. New York, NY: Touchstone.

Chalmers, D. J. (1996). The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Gazzaniga, M. S. (2008). Human: The science behind what makes us unique. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

Johnson, S. (2004). Mind wide open: Your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life. New York, NY: Scribner.

Noë, A. (2010). Out of our heads: Why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.

Suggested Resources

The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.

Library Resources

The following e-books and articles are linked directly in this course:

Additional Requirements

  • Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting:Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
  • Length:5–8 double-spaced, typed pages.
  • Font and font size:Times New Roman, 12 point.