Assignment 4: Presentation Recording
Worth 200 points
You must have access to audio/video recording equipment (a microphone/webcam camcorder with digital file capabilities or cell phone with a high quality camera/microphone) to complete this assignment.
Please write what I WILL say
Present the PowerPoint presentation designed in Assignment 3. As a reminder the content should focus on some aspect of social media use in the workplace. Potential examples include the importance of companies embracing social media advertising through social media policies involving social media proper professional communication through social media platforms or any number of other angles.
The presentation must be submitted using one of the following methods:
1. Recorded live narration of the PowerPoint slides.
2. A video recording of the student presenting the presentation (submitted in an appropriate video format like .mov / .mp4 and uploaded to the OneDrive).
3. A scheduled live presentation to the instructor (subject to schedule availability).
The PowerPoint presentation must adhere to the following requirements:
Your assignment must:
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In this unit we have taken a closer look at writing as a craft. We have revisited the writing process and methods for invention we have examined informal logical fallacies and we have discussed paragraph cohesion. For this writing think about your past experiences with writing (which may include the experiences you have had in this course). What advice about writing did you find most helpful? Why? Please explain the context that led to this advice. You may also tell more than one story about your writing experiences. The objective of your discussion is to consider the advice of other writers and how we can always improve our writing by listening to others. Further you are sharing that advice with your reader by reflecting upon the experience. Remember as always that this writing should be a positive and constructive experience. The idea is that you reflect upon the process so that you understand it understand yourself as a new student writer and understand the challenges and successes you experience.Your response should be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

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Assignment 4: Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution and Advantages Due Week 7 and worth 200 points
Using feedback from your professor and classmates revise Part 1 and develop the solution and identify the advantages of the solution. Note: The disadvantages or challenges with your answers will be in Part 3.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)
1.Revise using feedback from the professor and classmates your Persuasive Paper Part I: A Problem Exists.
Develop Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages for 6-8 pages total)
2.Include a defensible relevant thesis statement clearly in the first paragraph. (The thesis statement may need to be modified to reflect added information and purpose of this part.)
3.Explain a detailed viable solution that supports your thesis. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
4.State explain and support the first advantage (economic social political environmental social equitable ethical/moral etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
5.State explain and support the second advantage (economic social political environmental social equitable ethical/moral etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
6.State explain and support the third (and fourth if desired) advantage (economic social political environmental social equitable ethical/moral etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
7.Use effective transitional words phrases and sentences.
8.Provide a concluding paragraph / transitional paragraph that summarizes the proposed solution and its advantages.
9.Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction body and conclusion.
10.Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategies (ethos logos pathos) to explain advantages.
11.Support advantage claims with at least three (3) additional quality relevant references. Use at least six (6) total for Parts 1 and 2. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:
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The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Briefly describe a cost-control measure from another country and discuss the following:
Explain the type of cost control measure (compare to specific types in the cost readings)
and 2) the policy tool or government power that it uses (from class discussion of policy tools).
3) Explain how it fits with the type of health system that exists in that country (specific types of health systems on course slide) – why is it a fit for that kind of system?
4) Compare or contrast this measure to a measure in the Affordable Care Act designed to reduce costs.
USE THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES
Bodenheimer TS Grumbach K Chapter 8. Painful versus Painless Cost Control (Chapter). Bodenheimer TS Grumbach K: Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 7e (Links to an external site.)
Bodenheimer TS Grumbach K (Links to an external site.)Chapter 9 Mechanisms for Controlling Costs (Chapter). Bodenheimer TS Grumbach K: Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 7e.(Links to an external site.)

MUST BE NEW AND ORIGINAL WORK NOT GIVEN TO OTHER STUDENTS.Write in a clear concise and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in the accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling grammar and punctuation. Include citations in the text and references at the end of the document in APA format.PLEASE READ INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY. IN TEXTCITATION AND MUST CITE ALL REFERENCE IN APA FORMAT–ORIGINAL WORK ONLY
According to Ethics for Life: A Text with Readings there are two main types of ethical theories–non-cognitive and cognitive theories. Cognitive theories can be further separated into two theories–relativist theories and universalist theories.
Using Ethics for Life as your source write a 750 word essay in which you overview the history of ethics briefly and then summarize and compare these categories of ethical theories. As you summarize and compare be sure to describe these different levels or categories in some detail. Additionally in your essay explain which of these four categories is most relevant to your life and why.
Write your essay in a formal tone and follow a formal academic structure.
Include in your essay an introduction with a thesis statement body paragraphs and a conclusion.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
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As we watched the documentary film The Queen of Versailles we were introduced to the family and relationship dynamics of Jackie and David Siegel along with their lavish lifestyle. For this essay you will examine the relationship between economic classes and develop your own ideas about ONE of the following questions:
You must choose one question.
-Why do lower economic classes idolize the wealthy?
-What is causing the increasing divide between the economic classes?
-Does money change us and what are those changes psychologically?
-What effect does wealth have on the family structure and environment?
Use your critical thinking skills to develop a clear and concise thesis statement and use evidence to support your thesis. Develop your ideas by examining the topic and ideology that could connect such as psychological or economic factors. You have the option of using the film as the framework of your argument or using it as supportive evidence you have observed.
Essay Requirements:
1000 Word Minimum
Five MLA Sources Minimum
Choose two to three provided sources
Choose two to three new sources
Provide an argumentative thesis statement
Support each main idea with at least two points of research
The only sources and articles that should be used in this work. Shown below;

Establishing Theme
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Select a movie fromAFIs 10 Top 10lists and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Note: While you are allowed to choose a film that does not come from the AFI lists you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval before doing so.
In 800 to 1200 words
Note: Remember that a theme is an overarching idea that recurs throughout the plot of a film. It is the distilled essence of what the film is about the main design which the specific scenes and actions lead a viewer to understand.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the elements of your chosen feature-length film both establish and maintain one of its major themes. Review theWeek Three sample paper which provides an example of a well-developed analysis as well as insight on composition.
The paper must be 800 to 1200 words in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in theAshford Writing Center.
You must use at least two scholarly sources other than the textbook to support your claims. Refer to theENG225 Research Guidein the Ashford University Library for guidance and to locate your sources. Cite your sources (including the feature-length film) within the text of your paper and on the reference page. For information regarding APA including samples and tutorials visit the Ashford Writing Center.
Please note that if you opt to write about the same film in your Final Film Critique applicable pieces of this assignment can be used to write that assignment. Please also note that you should reflect on and revise this assignment based on the instructors feedback before you incorporate it into the Final Film Critique.
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Carefully review theGrading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

To: Members of English 202C
From: Michelle Kaschak
Subject: Website Analysis
Part One:
First visit the Way Back Machine at archive.org. At this site you can enter a web address and see how the site evolved over time. Try looking at www.lv.psu.edu to see the various website versions. How has the site changed both textually and visually? With each version of the site the technical communicators were working to improve its effectiveness for users.
Part Two:
Choose a website and look at all of the different versions. Discuss the changes over time in a document (formatted like a short report). In addition to discussing the changes and its effectiveness over the years here are some questions to help you analyze the website.
This will be graded on your thorough clear discussion of the website and how you answer the questions. You do not have to answer all of the questions; but you should discuss them as they apply to your website. As always editing and clarity should be a concern of yours. You should pay attention to your own format and design.

Synthesis: Putting texts into dialogue Your task is to discuss two texts from your course readings critically and rhetorically with the goal of synthesizing connections across them. As you read ask yourself How does reading these texts together enrich our understanding of the debate? As you develop your discussion your handling of competing or complementary ideas is crucial. Rather than merely agreeing or disagreeing with a text synthesis means taking ideas from different sources and building a new argument based on new insights about them. You will have two purposes in this essay: To intelligently converse with two essays and to put the two essays into conversation with each other. More specifically your job is to show how the ideas in one text help you understand those in the others. You should specifically take into consideration the following pointers:
Although you will almost certainly find yourself more in agreement with some essays than with others be fair in your discussion of both essays. Temporarily (but only temporarily) put aside whether you agree with the writing or not and concentrate on whats thought provoking in the text (and whats not) for the purposes of your own writing.
Moreover try to think of the texts at hand as contributions to an ongoing discussion not containers of facts; think of yourself as working in (critical) collaboration with the arguments in the not as mining information.
Try to avoid only listing overt similarities and differences between the texts; try instead to focus on the interesting subtle or unexpected overlaps and disjunctions between the textsthat is those that help you to think more lucidly and originally about the subject matter.
Below are the questions from which you may choose in writing your paper.
1) In his article The Shame of College Sports Taylor Branch writes The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid but that more of them are not. According to Branch since major college sports are essentially businesses players should be paid as if they were employees. On the other hand in Cracking the Cartel Theodore Ross writes that transfer of cash from the NCAA and the universities to the players would not address the basic problems of big-time college athletics. Ross argues that even if colleges pay players fairly many problems with college athletics would persist. How do these essays taken together broaden our thinking about college sports? Which of these arguments are more convincing and why? Do you agree more with Branch or Ross? Or neither of them? Why?
2) Compare Witold Rybczynskis discussion of suburban sprawl and its consequences in Scatteration with Christopher B. Leinbergers argument in The Next Slum? Rybcynski defends some kinds of suburban development and argues that suburbs have been unfairly blamed for many of the things we dont like about modern life: traffic jams overcrowding instability change itself. Leinberger on the other hand suggests that [i]f gasoline and heating costs continue to rise conventional suburban living may not be much of a bargain in the future and also that some of the suburbs other big advantagesbetter schools and safer communitieshave eroded. What are some fundamental disagreements between Rybczynski and Leinberger? What dangers or opportunities do these authors see in the suburbs? Despite their disagreements are their some unexpected areas of agreement or overlap between these essays? How do these essays taken together broaden our thinking about suburbs land use commuting and cities? Are you more convinced by Rybczynskis limited defense of suburbia or Leinbergers criticisms? Or neither of them? Why?
3) Contrast Christine Rosens arguments about the shrinking popularity of physical books in In the Beginning Was the Word with those of Stephanie Foote in Lost Books and a History of Reading Them. Rosen worries that reading on screens instead of traditional paper books and newspapers leads to a kind of experience pollution that is challenging our ability to engage with the printed word. Foote on the other hand writes that digital texts open up new worlds of reading and allow us to [take] seriously the multitude of pleasures that even now-forgotten fiction and texts might have provided. How do these two authors think about reading and books differently? Do they value the same things in the experience of reading? Are you more convinced by Rosen or Foote? Or neither of them? Why?
4) Discuss the issue of video games as it is examined in Henry Jenkinss Art Form for the Digital Age and Chris Suellentrops Playing With Our Minds. What are the differing concerns of these two essays? How do they approach video games differently? How do Suellentrop and Jenkins see the future of video games differently? What kinds of arguments do these essays offer for the value of video games and a form of recreation or art? How do these essays taken together broaden our thinking about the future of video games? Which of these arguments are more convincing and why? Are you more convinced by Jenkinss claim that we should embrace video games as an art form or Suellentrops argument that video games are primarily a teaching tool? Or neither of them? Why?
The learning objectives for this assignment are as follows:
Students will make convincing and logical arguments by drawing conclusions from clear specific and concrete evidence in written texts
Students will use summary paraphrase and direct quotation to cite sources.
Students will read sources critically and objectively with an eye to both understanding and challenging them. Students will synthesize ideas from varying (and sometimes dissenting) sources and forge new insights based on them.
Students will employ clear and concise English prose unambiguous and appropriate syntax and diction and logically organized paragraphs.
The paper will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 1) originality thoroughness nuance and depth of textual analysis 2) thoughtful incorporation of material from the texts (as direct quotation paraphrase and summary) that elegantly and lucidly contributes to your argument 3) substantial and thoughtful support in the form of both reasoning and evidence 4) organization as manifested in the logic of how the argument is ordered and 5) clarity and lucidity of prose diction and style.

The Population Situation: An Exercise in Utilitarianism
You are a citizen of a developing country. The year is 2025 and your country is facing massive population growth. In the last decade alone it has seen a population growth of nearly 200 million people and demographics forecast continued rapid growth well into the next generation.
The nation has also seen a rapid rise in industrial and commercial development both of which are wreaking havoc on the environment. Climatologists have noted a marked increase in the levels of air and water pollution. In addition the nation’s reliance on mono-crops has made it food-dependent on its trading partners; it can no longer feed its growing population on its own. This has resulted in some food shortages.
The most promising option the state has at present is to try to stem the tide of population growth internally.
Demographers have noted that primarily due to a tradition of raising large families and other cultural and religious mandates most of the state’s population growth is occurring among poorer rural sectors. Many families are comprised of up to ten children each. In some instances birth control is available but simply not used. In other instances no birth control or formal family planning education is provided. The affordability of contraception is also a concern.
Culturally however it has been found to be taboo to discuss family concerns publicly. Yet the state knows that it is facing an impending food environmental political and even international crisis if something is not done immediately.
What is the nation to do? The following policies have been proposed:
Part 1: Brainstorming
Part 2: Assuming a Role
1) Is there a major moral difference between voluntary sterilizations and forced sterilizations?
2) If you’re against a one-child policy would a less strict limit be more palatable such as a two-child policy? Would that still be effective at reducing the population in a significant way?
3) Is an environmental impact statement reliable in less educated populations or when people can simply lie on them?
4) Is this an infringement upon procreative autonomy and bodily autonomy?