My School And Its Culture (Two Page)

As illustrated in the introduction discussion this week, each of you has experienced a unique journey through a variety of educational experiences throughout your lives. Naturally, some of these experiences will have contributed to your personal development and identity with greater impact than others. Furthermore, many in-school variables have affected your educational journey.

After reading selected materials from Week One, you should now be familiar with the research that describes the relationship between social class and school success (Chapter 7 and the Funds of Knowledge (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/939) help by students and their families). You will use this knowledge as a foundation for completing this assignment.

For this assignment, describe a school-related experience that you believe influenced your identity either positively or negatively or both. You will analyze this experience and reflect on all the factors that might have shaped it, and the different ways these experiences shaped you. This analysis will include an examination of factors related to school (such as social class, socioeconomic status, diversity, family issues, etc.) that you believe influenced your schooling. This type of analysis provides a powerful introduction to learning more about the relationship between culture, education and how such factors can impact school.

In your paper, include the following:

• Describe your selected school experience that influenced your personal identity development. (1 points)
• Describe the school where your experience took place including (a) school characteristics, (b) student population characteristics, (c) socio-economic background of the families affiliated with the school, (d) the family structures represented, and (e) values, behaviors, and symbols that would be considered normal in that community (microculture). (2 points)
• Explain the influence that your family’s “funds of knowledge” and social capital had on your ability to succeed in your school; address your success in the following three areas: academic success, social success, and emotional success. (1 points)
• Explain, using specific examples, how educators could use information about culture and individual student identities to make effective instructional decisions. (1 points)

Unit 2 Assignment: General Motors’ Commitment To Diversity

General Motors’ Commitment to Diversity

Read the vignette “General Motors’ Commitment to Diversity” at the end of Chapter 3. This vignette explores General Motors. Back in the 1980s, valuing diversity was far from the minds of the leadership at General Motors. True, GM had established a program to promote minority-owned dealerships, but there were problems within the company. Women and minorities complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the carmaker was discriminating against them. In 1984, the EEOC and GM reached a $42.4 million settlement in which GM promised to promote women and minorities into management positions. Since then, the company has never swerved from that effort at inclusiveness. Today GM garners praise as a company that far exceeds legal standards for equal employment opportunity.

Directions

Read the vignette “General Motors’ Commitment to Diversity” at the end of Chapter 3. Imagine that you are a consultant to GM and have been asked to help them identify ways to avoid discrimination. Write a 500-word business memo to GM leadership answering the questions below. Follow the memo format in the Business Memo example provided here

. Note that APA style is NOT required for business memos.

1. Of the activities and accomplishments described in this case, identify which activities General Motors needs to do in order to meet legal requirements and which go beyond legal requirements.
2. Identify at least three ways General Motors can avoid illegal discrimination.

DB 1

Describe in detail 5 reasons why a professional school counselor working with children and adolescents must be knowledgeable about development when working with children, adolescents, and/or their parents. Then, with your understanding of child/adolescent development, discuss how you would be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of a student exhibiting a mental health disorder and a student with behavioral concerns. 

Thread must be at least 500 words and must include at least 1 source from a peer-reviewed journal article (outside of the assigned course readings) cited in current APA format

Business Intelligence

Assignment Instructions
Business Intelligence
You have been hired as a consultant for a small retail company that sells widgets online. The 
company is interested in learning how to use their data to improve their business. They have asked 
you to write a business case (search term business case template) to explain the justification for 
implementing a database management system to improve business intelligence within the company.
Within your business case, begin by explaining business intelligence. Then explain data 
management and how a database management system can facilitate business intelligence. You 
should also explain the benefits that the company will experience with the system. 
Next, consider the design of the system. Begin by describing the data entities, attributes and keys. 
For instance, a data entity may be Customer. Attributes of customer may include name and 
address. The key may be a uniquely assigned customer number. You should have at least five data 
entities in your database. Create an entity-relationship diagram showing the relationship between the 
entities (YouTube search term: entity relationship diagram tutorial). Create a relational database 
model to describe the data (YouTube search term: relational database model). ( I have added an attachment of what I turned into the teacher and my grade was 0/100. I want you to upload it to see if tyou can add to it or just redo it the same way and add what I am missing by reading the following criteria of what they are looking for)

 Memorable Speech

For this assignment, let's pretend that you're in that situation, and you want to WOW us with a good story! This speech is simply a well told memoir from your life. It should be interesting, it can be entertaining – but ultimately, I want it to be a story that you're familiar with and enjoy telling. Treat us as if we were friends at a round-table discussion, and you want to tell us something that you know we'll enjoy.

NOTE: Please note that this speech will be used in part for Week 3 assignmnent.

A few parameters:

1. Your speech should be 3-5 mins in length.
2. Your speech should have a beginning, middle and an end. Introduce us to your situation, elaborate within the body, and conclude your tale.
3. Show enthusiasm and have fun with this assignment! Choose a story about an event that you have told before, one that was TRULY memorable.
4. Be prepared. You may certainly write out your speech, but rehearse it so that you're not reading your speech. Your eyes will indicate whether you're talking to us or reading to us.

BCOM 275 Week 2 Individual Assignment

BCOM 275 Week 2 Individual Assignment Demonstrative Communication Paper Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing demonstrative communication. Demonstrative communication includes nonverbal and unwritten communication and involves such things as facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, and so forth. Include the following elements in your paper: ? Provide examples showing how demonstrative communication can be effective and ineffective, positive and negative, for the sender and receiver. ? Explain how demonstrative communication involves listening and responding. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 COM 350 Week 2 Individual Assignment

COM 350 Week 2 Individual Assignment Characteristics that are Comon to Organizations Paper Choose an organization with which you are familiar. Prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that describes the culture and common characteristics of the organization you have chosen, given your current understanding of the common characteristics of organizations presented in your readings from Week One and Two. Cite at least two peer-reviewed references in addition to the text and be sure to address the following questions in your paper: How does your selected organization exhibit the common characteristics listed below? System (e.g., individual units, open, closed) Rules/norms(e.g., written, unwritten, formal, informal) Hierarchy (e.g., chain of command, supervisor, administrator, manager) Communication networks (e.g., formal, informal) Organizational orientation (e.g., achievement, dogmatism, authoritarianism) Leadership approaches (e.g., social, task, balanced) Management communication/decision-making (e.g., tell, sell, consult, join) Which common characteristics (choose at least four) from those listed above are most influenced by communication within the organization?

A Case Study in Scientific Revision

1. Did Wegener reveal his theory of continental drift too soon? For the sake of scientific investigation, how is revealing an explanation for a process early both risky and sometimes necessary?

I do not believe he revealed it too soon. He did so when he had the opportunity to work on his theory after having been in convalescent for some time.  By revealing it when he did, Wegener was able to drum up enough interest and resources to prove his theory of continental drift.

Stephen Toulmin and Carl Rogers' 

Three Strikes Laws

Law enforcement agencies have started to term the three strikes as inappropriate law that has failed to deliver as promised. The failure of this law can be understood from the example, that this law has posed life term punishment as obligatory without examining the criminals that were punished for particular crimes (Fitzpatrick, 2003). In

 unit 1 discussion geniuswriter only 

Follow the Discussion Board rubric and the Discussion Board criteria in the syllabus.

Read through the abstract of Writing Self-Efficacy and Written Communication Skills.(You will need to sign into the Library with your barcode to access this link. When the link opens, click on PDF Full Text on the lefthand side of the screen to view the Abstract on the first page.)

First, paraphrase the abstract into your own words and include an in-text citation and reference. 

After writing your initial paraphrase, answer the following questions about your classmates' paraphrases: (in a paragraph or more)

• What sections of the paraphrase are word for word or need to be revised to reflect a different word choice?
• What suggestions can you give to improve the paraphrase?
• Is the in-text citation and reference correctly written in APA? If not, suggest how to correct this.
• Is this paraphrase easier to understand than the original passage? Why or why not?
• How can you use this skill of paraphrasing in another context outside of college?