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Research Paper-   THIS PAPER IS EIGHT DOUBLE SPACED PAGES IN LENGTH

FINAL ASSIGNMENT:

In preparation for your research, select an individual currently in a leadership position. The person must be responsible in some capacity for other employees, and the person must be an individual that can be researched.

Overview

In your overview of the leader, include

• The leader’s name and title.
• His or her specific role or position and responsibilities.
• The name, industry, and description of the organization, including the culture of the organization.
• The length of time the leader has been in his or her current position.
• A brief history of the leader’s background and career path to his or her present day leadership position.

Analysis

Your analysis should

• Describe, assess, and analyze the person’s leadership style. Be sure to provide specific examples.
• Identify and describe three significant challenges they faced as a leader.
• Identify and describe their greatest achievement, to date, as a leader.
• Apply and correctly cite a minimum of three leadership concepts from the course to this leader’s roles and responsibilities within the organization, their relationships with others, etc. 
• Use these concepts to help describe the person’s leadership style and assess what makes it effective or ineffective. 
• Reflect on what you learned about leadership from your research.
• Reflect on the implications for your personal leadership style.

ALL BULLETS MUST BE ANSWERED THOROUGHLY 

 

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper

• Must be eight double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least five scholarly sources.
• Must document all sources in APA style..
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style.

Please No Plagiarism

 

A clothing company uses sweatshop labor to manufacture clothing products that contribute to low pricing, which is a consumer want.

Many companies have engaged in sweatshop labor. Did the clothing company engage in unethical labor practices by utilizing sweatshop labor?

Research sweatshop labor.

Write a paper of no more than 750 words to present your position on sweatshop labor and provide justification. Include the following:

• How consumer demands affect a company’s business decision
• How different ethical perspectives guide ethical decision making
• How a company influences their ethical environment

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Your principal has asked you to design a global knowledge program for your school. Additionally, he has emphasized the need for collaborative communities on your campus. Consider how global knowledge program might be relevant across multiple grade levels and content areas at your school.

If you are not currently at a school site, use a school with which you are familiar.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word proposal to your principal.

Include the following in your proposal:

• Define global knowledge.
• Describe the global knowledge program and how it is relevant to your school.
• Identify the collaborative community.
• Explain how the collaborative community is relevant to the global knowledge program.
• Identify the skills and content knowledge needed by teachers and teacher leaders to implement the program.
• Suggest a professional development plan for implementing the proposal.

Format your proposal consistent with APA guidelines.

It consists of two questions. Please answer them separately in two pages per each question. You don’t need a cover page. A simple header with your name, the course number and a date will suffice.

1. In his analysis on jihadism, Walid Phares cites the Lord of the Rings fantasy novel. Explain what he considers as the ‘New Jihad’, and why he chose the Tolkien classic to argue his view.

2.  Choose a terrorist group from the course readings, including Lesson’s Notes and sources in the Announcements and describe it. State the reason why you decided to pick this group.

Because the Midterm is an assessment of course objectives, you may only use the required readings and all in Lessons. No additional sources are permitted. There will be point reductions if this requirement is not met. The required length is 4 double-spaced pages in 12 pt. font, not including the References. Make sure to use the Turabian Reference Style with in-text citations and include a Reference List at the end of your essay.

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.

Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 1.2: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay – Part II

Synthesizing and Writing

Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.

For Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes, reviewed the Procon.org Website in order to gather information, and engaged in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

* Remember that in the Week 2 Discussion, you examined the biases discussed in Chapter 2 of the webtext.

In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write a paper to synthesize your ideas.

Part II – Writing

Write at three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. State your position on the topic you selected for Assignment 1.1.

2. Identify (3) three premises (reasons) from the Procon.org website that support your position    and explain why you selected these specific reasons.

3. Explain your answers to the “believing” questions about the three (3) premises opposing your position from the Procon.org website.

4. Examine at least two (2) types of biases that you likely experienced as you evaluated the premises for and against your position.

5. Discuss the effects of your own enculturation or group identification that may have influenced your biases.

6. Discuss whether or not your thinking about the topic has changed after playing the “Believing Game,” even if your position on the issue has stayed the same.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

• Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
• Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
• Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

You must follow these submission guidelines:

• Submit the essay to Turnitin.com and then submit the originality report and final essay with any needed revisions to Blackboard.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the informal fallacies, assumptions, and biases involved in manipulative appeals and abuses of language.
• Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.

Assignment 1: LASA: Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report

Consider the toothpaste product presented in your Consumer Behavior/Target Market Report from Module 3, and prepare a Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report that covers the following:

• • Explain your product and the demographics and culture of your target market. Discuss whether factual or emotional appeals are more effective to the different segments.

 

• • Discuss the particular American values you can target successfully with your product. Discuss any ethical considerations that need to be considered when targeting these values.

 

• • Consider the current economy. In this context write an analysis of the current state of consumer spending with reference to your product. Is your product dependent on the economy, or will consumers choose to purchase it regardless of issues like employment figures and interest rates? How does this help or hurt you?

 

• • Discuss the potential of your product as a success or failure in different cultures. What geographies and nationalities will not currently be interested in your product and why? Discuss whether you can make changes that will improve your product’s appeal to different cultures.

 

• • Write an analysis of the U.S. subcultures that will desire your product and those that might not. Do specific age groups, genders, ethnicities, and/or religions see your product through a lens that differs from other consumers? Propose ways to combat this.

 

• Describe what you will do differently to gain market share and attract consumer behavior decisions toward greater purchasing of your product over competitors.

Write a 10- to 12-page professional Consumer Behavior/Market Analysis Report. Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and at least 4 references from text books, Web sites, and other references using APA format.

Be sure to also include some history of the firm and the product.

Discuss the marketing mix, the target segments, positioning, and the benefits and drawbacks of different marketing strategies, including the one the firm currently utilizes.

Use the APA format.

Prepare your report and submit it to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Monday, February 8, 2016.

 

Paper #1

 

 

 

Who is Responsible? (50 points)

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes

 

• apply knowledge of research and theory of domestic violence to identify the scope of the issue within society and dispel commonly held misconceptions locate; and
• evaluate resources relevant to domestic violence issues in order to effect social change.

 

 

 

Guidelines

 

Your paper should be a typed and double-spaced two- to four-pages, in twelve-point font, with one-inch margins, edited for spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors, (and if applicable, include a list of works cited).

 

 

 

Remember to incorporate your readings, class discussions and outside sources to support your argument.

 

 

 

Assignment

 

 

In this assignment, you will be asked to indicate the level of responsibility of the people in each of these stories. The total responsibility for everyone in each of the five stories should collectively add up to 100 percent (i.e., 100% total for scenario #1, and so on for each scenario). You must explain your reasoning for each amount (%) of responsibility each person owns.

 

 

 

#1 – Ron bought a pair of slacks at JC Penney’s. When he got to his car, he tossed the bag into his back sear. On the way home, Rob stopped at the grocery store. He forgot to lock the car door. When he returned to his car, the new slacks were gone. How much responsibility does Ron have for the theft?

 

 

 

#2 – Bobby is 12 years old and has the day off from school. His parents tell him to stay home. He gets bored, however, takes some money from his mother’s drawer and goes to the video arcade. There he meets 2 other boys, Andy and Joey. When Andy and Joey see that Bobby has money, they talk him into taking them to a movie. On the way to the theater, however, Andy and Joey beat up Bobby and take his money. How much responsibility does Bobby have for the mugging and robbery?

 

 

 

#3 – You plan a 2-week vacation. You have a broken lock on one of your windows in your house and have been meaning to get it fixed. But you do not get it done before you leave. You figure that no one will notice. When you come home from the vacation, however, you discover that your house has been burglarized. The thieves used the window with the broken lock to get into your house. How much responsibility do you have for the burglary?

 

 

 

#4 – Julie has been dating Tom for 2-months and they are now going steady. Julie knows that Tom has a bad temple, especially when he has been drinking. Just last week he got into a fight over a disagreement with a friend. Julie and Tom go to their high school football game on Friday night. A student in Julie’s English class, Bill, talks to Julie for a few minutes about an assignment they have in class. After the game, Julie and Tom go to a party where Tom has several drinks and Julie chats with friends both male and female. While walking out to the car, Tom starts complaining that Julie was too friendly with Bill and the other guys at the party. Julie assures him that they are all just friends and there is no reason for him to be jealous. Tom orders Julie to stop talking to other guys. Julie says, “Don’t be silly.” Tom punches Julie hard on the arm almost knocking her down and giving her a nasty bruise. How much responsibility does Julie have for being hit?

 

 

 

#5 – Sara and Jane are sophomores in college. They are invited to a fraternity party where they pay $5 for all the beer they can drink. After a couple of hours Sara wants to leave but Jane does not. Mike and Matt tell Jane they will give her a ride back to the dorm later. Their friend Bob is the designated driver. At 2AM, Matt, Mike, Bob and Jane return to the dorm. Mike, Matt and Jane are drunk. The men help Jane to her room where she passes out. She awakens some tome later to realize that her clothes have been removed and that Mike is having sex with her. He says that Matt and Bob also had sex with her although she has no memory of it. How much responsibility does Jane have for the sexual encounter.