In this assignment, you will create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that exhibits the different organisms in your current biome.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Describe Your Own Environment

  Consider the natural environment or biome found in the geographic area where you currently live. For example, if you live in the Midwest, the natural biome for this area is the grassland. If you live in Alaska you are likely to live in either the tundra or the boreal forest. Describe the main features of the biome found in your geographic area. Include features such as the environment (moisture, temperature) and any topographic features that would influence the climate (mountains, large bodies of water, etc.).

• Identify Ten Organisms

  Make a list identifying at least ten organisms—at least five plants and five animals—that live in your biome, and describe how these organisms interact with one another. For example, is the relationship competitive or symbiotic?

• Describe Each Organism and its Environmental Needs

  In the speaker notes section in your presentation, briefly describe these ten organisms and the type of conditions—that is, moisture, warm temperatures, or a type of plant—they need in order to survive. Be sure to include the interactions between these organisms and the resources they need to survive. You may wish to use various tools available in Microsoft PowerPoint to visually depict these relationships.

• Hypothesis of a New Environment

  Consider a situation where the temperature of the climate was to increase by an average of ten degrees Celsius. Address the following:

  • How would these organisms survive if the temperature warmed up this much?
  • Would they stay or move to a more suitable environment?
  • Would a new species move in?
  • How would migratory species be impacted?
  • What would happen to your biome?

  Now, consider if your biome changes with the temperature shift. Address the following:

  • What types of plants and animals do you think would live there?
  • What will happen to the rarer species? Will they cease to exist?
  • Identify five plants and five animals that you feel would inhabit this warmer area.
  • Describe this new ecosystem and the new interactions that will most likely exist.
• Additional Topics to Include
  • How would environmental management practices change in your area?
  • Would this drastic shift in temperature impact culture and society in your area?
  • Would you still choose to live in this area after a drastic shift in temperature? Give reasons to support your answer.

Use pictures from the Internet to represent your chosen species, and give credit to these Web sites. Support your statements with 3–5 credible sources. Use the last slide of your presentation as a reference slide.

Develop a 10–15-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Apply APA standard

Performance reviews can be a difficult experience for anyone to go through. In this assignment, you will recall a performance review or a performance-related discussion that you experienced at work. You will critically analyze that experience, focusing on the verbal communication, effective listening, and conflict resolution aspects of the experience.

Tasks:

For this assignment, you are to reflect on a time when you had a performance review or any sort of work-related performance discussion with your manager. Then, write a 5- to 6-page paper addressing the following items:

1. Describe your experience regarding the performance discussion.
2. Explain proven and effective ways to listen appropriately, resolve conflict, and negotiate. Support your response with sources from professional literature. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). You may find that the Lynda.Com “Having Difficult Conversations” course will be especially helpful as you prepare this assignment. The “Having Difficult Conversations” course is available in the AUO library holdings. The direct link was included earlier in this module on the Relationship Development lecture page.
3. Assess yourself on your effectiveness.
4. Assess yourself on your effectiveness in listening, conflict resolution, and negotiation.
5. Identify two to three areas of improvement in any category.
6. Create a plan for developing yourself in those areas. The plan may include:

• Teaming with a classmate or mentor to help guide improvement
• Creating a focus for improvement and an attainable goal
• Identifying how the goal will be measured for success
• Assessing success and reevaluating the goal

Submission Details:

• By Wednesday, January 27, 2016, prepare a 5- to 6-page paper. Your response should rely upon at least two sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Save your paper in a Microsoft Word document with the name M3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc, and upload it to the M3 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Identify and explain key developments in the “history” of terrorism. This is a very broad question, but you should respond “comprehensively, specifically, and in detail” (no minimum word length, but err on the comprehensive side) while including events, types of terrorism, tactics, and turning points (avoid simply listing events or only tactics, events, etc. – include “all” – events, types, tactics, and turning points). Note: A significant portion of you response should involve events, turning points, etc. prior to 1970 (including several hundred years ago).

Special Notes:

Ensure you follow the APA for your in-text citations and references (avoid just electronic links for references and make certain you have at least one in-text citation for each reference – and vice versa; and “if” you quote – not recommended, you must include a page or paragraph number in your in-text citation).

Presentation/Format: A superior exam will have clear and succinct headings (years, events, tactics, types of terrorism, and turning points) for organizational purposes. Those striving for 100% should follow this format.

A superior score will only be awarded to those that adhere to all the above with well-articulated responses (good grammar, word usage, etc) and incorporates research from class textbooks and external/outside sources. As a reminder, write in 3 to 7 sentence paragraphs (avoid long/short paragraphs). Introductions and conclusions are necessary for superior scores.

Once you have reviewed “Terrorism and the Media” attached here and under week four in Resources as well as your assigned week four reading in both textbooks, respond “comprehensively and in detail” (no minimum word length, but err on the comprehensive side) to the following two partquestion:

Initially, explain “why terrorist organizations seek media coverage.” In addition, “in a second section “ TITLED “Counter-terrorism & the Media” describe how can the media support international counter-terrorism efforts?Be careful not to omit this second part of the question the question.

Special Notes:

Ensure you follow the APA for your in-text citations and references (do not be concerned about hanging indents or double spacing).

A superior score will only be awarded to those that include robust response that is well-articulated (good grammar, word usage, etc) and incorporates “proper” APA in-text citations from the attached article (course text book/s and external/outside research is a recommended “option” to further enhance your work).

Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirements

THIS PAPER IS DUE TODAY 8 HOURS FROM NOW SOONER THE BETTER NO LATE WORK…MUST BE ORIGINAL WORK, NO PLAGIARISM,..PROPER GRAMMAR, PRONUNCIATIONS AND WRITING SKILLS..

MUST ANSWER ALL AREAS THOROUGHLY AND PROPERLY…

The purpose of this assignment is to explore how leadership is formally evaluated in different organizations.

In this assignment, examine and analyze the process used to evaluate leaders in a specific organization. Obtain a copy of a leadership performance appraisal form from an organization. To do so, contact an organization’s human resources department or conduct an Internet search.

Once you have obtained a sample form

-Provide a summary and overview of the form.

-Evaluate any gaps in the knowledge and skills assessed.

-Compare the form to the different techniques used to measure leadership effectiveness.

-Identify what the organization could do to improve the leadership evaluation process and make recommendations for improving the process.

Your paper should be three double spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style throughout the paper and with an reference page also, It must include at least four scholarly sources from a proquest database or internet but prefer proquest more.

1. How did the Love Canal incident influence the way we deal with toxic waste in America?

2. Do you think that the area around Love Canal should have been inhabited after the cleanup? Would you move

into such an area? Why, or why not?

3. What does the Blake family’s story indicate about the effectiveness of our hazardous waste regulations? What

more should be done to prevent situations like Hickory Woods?

4. Discuss your thoughts on how the health issues experienced by the Hickory Woods and Love Canal residents

should impact regulations. When public health impacts cannot be definitively linked to contamination, how should the government respond?

Your response to EACH question must be a minimum of 200 words, and EACH response should contain at least one intext

citation. You should include your references at the end of the document. Any sources used, including the textbook,

must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

As you have learned in this first unit, pollution is a worldwide issue that must be combatted. Read the scenarios provided below, and choose one to write about for your essay.

Option 1:

A consumer products company in a third-world country manufactures a cough medicine to be sold in the United States as an over-the-counter medicine in grocery stores and in pharmacies. At the manufacturing plant, the flavoring of the medicine is very volatile, and the smell permeates the plant. After the production run is completed, the mixing tanks are washed, and the contents are discharged into a trench that runs for a mile down to the local river. Filters used to remove any particles from the cough syrup are collected and discarded into a local trash pile located at the edge of the property.

 Identify the various environmental compartments that will be impacted by this manufacturing facility.

 If you were hired to be an environmental consultant at the facility, what would be your first steps in changing the manufacturing process (use the waste management hierarchy)?

Option 2:

A municipality is encouraging a furniture company to set up shop and to use local residents for their manufacturing operations. They have hired you as an advisor to identify the technology that the municipality should have in place to dispose of the non-hazardous waste that cannot be recycled or reused. There are two options: construct a new municipal landfill for the entire community or construct an incinerator. In these cases, the methane from the landfill will be burned to provide heat for the municipal buildings, or the heat from the combustion chamber of the incinerator will be used to provide heat the municipal buildings.

Identify adverse impacts to human health or the environment for each of the two technologies

Use the adverse effects you identified to make a recommendation to the city council.

Your response should be a minimum of one page in length, not including your title page and reference page. Any outside sources you choose to use should be scholarly sources. All sources used, including textbooks, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

Assignment 2: The Good Life

The final graded assignment is an 8–10-page paper about the question: what is the good life? This assignment will be completed in four parts, so you may want to use section headers to organize your paper. This paper is somewhat cumulative, so you may need to review material from previous weeks to prepare for this essay. Remember to explain the theories you reference with supporting citations to the textbook and online lectures before contrasting them. You may want to use examples to illustrate your understanding of key ideas from each theory. Your paper should be formatted in APA style. Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

Address the following in your paper:

1. The Consequentialism Debate: Compare and contrast deontology and utilitarianism. Briefly discuss the differences between Bentham and Mill’s versions of utilitarianism. Discuss the political and ethical implications of utilitarianism.
2. Explain virtue ethics and care ethics and discuss how these approaches offer an alternative to the deontological and utilitarian focus on how we should act.
3. Explain the political and ethical dimension of existentialism and at least one other social philosophy that addresses discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and/or sexual identity. The explanation of existentialism should discuss the following ideas: authenticity, ambiguity, freedom, anxiety, and bad faith.
4. Choose a social justice issue. A social justice issue is one that characterizes and critiques a given practice, policy/law, and/or situation as unfair, unjust, and/or unethical. For example, you might discuss a specific example of discrimination on the basis of gender/sex, race, sexual identity, ethnicity, or religious faith; economic injustice/wage inequality; taxation; or a violation of an asserted human right, such as the right to gun ownership, healthcare, education, or freedom from undue government interference. A good topic will make claims to both political/social justice and ethics. Analyze the issue and discuss how some of the theories explained in parts 1–3 might relate to the issue. You may need to do additional research on the issue in order to complete this part of the assignment.

Submit your assignment in the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 5, Day 6.

For the final Portfolio Project, write a paper about an event in a period of U.S. history up to Reconstruction. This paper must be written from the perspective of a specific historical figure from an under-represented population. Use this assignment as an opportunity to create an account from your subject’s perspective, to tell a history that people might not have seen interpreted the way you interpret it. Represent the person’s era and experience in context of what was happening around them, prioritizing their experience rather than the dominant experience.

PERSON CHOSEN IS WILLIAM (APRIL) ELLISON JR

This paper must include a discussion of the following topics:

• A thorough summary of the event, including the incidents that took place and the key individuals involved
• The importance of the event in the larger scope of U.S. history
• How the event changed the daily life of the person from whose perspective you are writing
• A prediction for how the event will make a long-term impact in the lives of those in the under-represented group from which the perspective is being written (keep in mind that this perspective should be written from the time at which the event took place).

Please adhere to the following requirements for the paper:

• Consist of at least four full pages but no more than six pages
• Use at least five sources, including a scholarly journal article
• Have an introduction and strong thesis
• Make use of historical evidence and examples supporting your thesis
• Finish with a forceful conclusion reiterating your main idea.