Assignment 2: Course Project—Explaining a New Business to Investors

Imagine that you are starting a business, and you must prepare a PowerPoint presentation to explain your business plan to potential investors and/or lenders.

When creating your business plan presentation, include the following:

Slide 1—Title and business name.

Slide 2—Describe the form of business ownership of your business and explain the advantages and disadvantages of establishing your business in this form.

Slide 3—Describe your target customers.

Slide 4—Explain how you plan to promote your business.

Slide 5—Explain the economic factors that will impact your business.

Slide 6—Describe how you plan to use technology to manage your business.

Slide 7—Identify the competition that will impact your business.

Slide 8—Develop a code of ethics for your business. The code should include at least three rules or principles to which members of your organization are expected to adhere.

Slide 9—List of references using APA format. Include at least three resources one of which may be your textbook.

Provide your information as a bulleted list on the slides and insert explanations where applicable. Use the notessection in Microsoft PowerPoint to add additional information and/or clarity to your presentation. It is acceptable to use additional slides as needed to clarify your responses.

Provide a minimum of three references (one may be your textbook) that you used in formulating your responses. Verify that you have included all of the required sections in your presentation. Check for proper use of mechanics and APA citation. Refer to the grading rubric for insight into grading criteria for this assignment.

Develop a 9–12-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

The course Module #4 covers very important concepts of how Denial of Service (Do’s) attacks work. However, the module does not discuss detection, prevention, or mitigation of Do’s attacks (or Distributed Do’s). The task of this individual assignment is to write a research paper/report.

A 3 page summary on the following readings: 1. Political corruption: an introduction to the issue issues by Inge Amundsen 2. The linkage between China’s foreign direct investment and Ghana’s building and construction sector performance ( focus on the data findings in this reading) by kwasi Boakye gyasi and Yao li

These papers must be at least 600 words and no more than 1000 (although no penalties for going over). Papers under 600 words receive no comments, are not graded using the rubric, and earn 33 points. Remember that one, single-spaced page of text equals about 350 words, so 600 words is approximately a two page paper. Quality is more important than quantity; a well-done 610-word paper may be stronger than a 999-word paper. So there’s no need to write to the upper limit of the requirements in order to earn a better grade. The word count must appear at the top of the paper or the paper will be penalized 2 points. Please do not claim that the paper has 601 words or more when it doesn’t: I’ll run a word count and discover this. The Works Cited page, the heading which includes your name/class # and title/assignment name/and word count, or bibliography (if included) is not included in the word count. Submit your paper via TurnitIn.

This paper discusses one or more of the theories or concepts in Race, Class & Gender. You may write about the theories or ideas in any of the essays we read.  Your paper should do one of three things: 

1. Analyze issues of race, class, and gender that you identify, using the theories and concepts from an essay or essays

2. Refute or otherwise elaborate on the theories or concepts presented in an essay or essays

3. Tie together two essays to demonstrate how the theories either work together or contradict one another.

The key to a successful paper is to analyze and use formal academic writing. For example, Andersen and Hill Collins use the phrase “matrix of domination” as an analytic tool that “sees social structure as having multiple, interlocking levels of domination that stem from social configuration of race, class, and gender relationships” (4). A paper that followed #1 (identifying and analyzing an issue) might take this “matrix of domination” and argue that the U.S. penal system is an excellent example of how systems of domination work together to situate people of color as more vulnerable to incarceration (meaning that power relations mean more non-white people go to jail than white people). An example of approach #2 might be to take Peggy McIntosh’s highly influential essay “White Privilege:  Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (49) and argue that the essay – while intending to show the invisible nature of white privilege – actually (albeit unintentionally) relies on black suffering as its primary theoretical tool, therefore, simply (and somewhat voyeuristically) reproducing black suffering as a tool for white people. An example of approach #3 might be to show how data and concepts in the essays “Policing the National Body” (343) and “Seeing in 3D” (286) reinforce the argument that larger economic and social structures uniquely position poor people as most likely to go to prison. 

A superior paper will not rely on examples from personal experience, but on the theories in our textbook, essays or analyses you find elsewhere, and your own analysis. Papers must include at least three quotations or direct references to reading from Race, Class & Gender and/or another academic source; these in-text quotations or references must be appropriately cited in either MLA or APA style. Papers must include a “Works Cited” page or bibliography.Position Papers Grading Rubric 

5 points: Meets the content requirements of the assignment (paper is on topic) 

10 points: grammar, punctuation, sentence construction (mechanics of writing), citations

10 points: specificity – the argument incorporates one or more of the following: concepts in 

Reconstructing Gender, specific events or social issues, personal examples 

10 points: original thinking – the paper reflects your own attempt to grapple with the topic, is not a recitation of someone else’s argument or ideas, but is your own argument or idea. 

15 points: complexity of analysis 

In each category, superior work is an A (5 or 9/10 points), strong work is a B (4 or 8 points), competent work is a C (3 or 7 points) and below standard work is a D (2 or 6 points). For papers two and three, adequate use of quotations and evidence will be assessed in the categories of specificity & complexity.

These are the two possible topics: