1. Reflect on your own journey as a reader and writer. Provide a three-sentence description of your literacy development at each stage of your life. The stages are Early Years, Elementary Years, Middle School Years, High School Years, and College Years. Clearly label each stage. In each stage, you may describe reading and writing experiences, favorite books, people who influenced your journal, and any other memories you may have.
2. Identify and describe the six approaches to reading provided in Chapter 2 of the textbook.
3. After watching the read-aloud of Thank You, Mr. Falker, write a response that describes how Mr. Falker gave the gift of literacy to Trisha. Then, explain how you can give the gift to your future students.
4. Share a Biblical worldview toward giving the gift of literacy to all students. Provide a reference from the Bible to support your response.

Throughout ones career, workplace situations will involve negotiation and conflict with both members of management and fellow employees. An employee may want a raise, more vacation time, or to be transferred to a different department, or they may sense favoritism of others. Communication amongst the involved parties in all of these types of situations is directly related to the negotiation process, which is employed to resolve the conflict, and create a successful outcome.

For this assignment, create or research an employee dispute involving negotiation and conflict resolution techniques. This can be a dispute between an employee and management, a group of employees and management, or a dispute among employees.

7 page

1. Propose 34 ways that the negotiation process could alleviate or mitigate conflict amongst the parties involved.
2. Identify at least three possible approaches to the negotiation, and determine the advantages and disadvantages of each approach in resolving the conflict.
3. Identify the importance and description of skillful communication during the negotiation process so that each party feels understood, validated, and heard in order to create a successful outcome.
4. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of a mediation approach for an additional component of the chosen scenario.
5. Examine 34 issues that litigation causes for both parties. Recommend at least two strategies that can be implemented to avoid and resolve the dispute.

Imagine that you are a leadership teamwork consultant. The new manager of a company has hired you to create a new theme for the companys teamwork training. You will be working with nine other team members. 

Your client, the new manager, has always coached individual members of a team in the past, but now the manager has less time and has hired you to help with the training. Executive management believes that the purpose of coaching or training is to work with the entire team at the same time. 

You will work with the team from the beginning to define a new theme for training. Brainstorm to devise the type of theme that you would like to use for the companys new teamwork training. Consider the manner in which you would direct the team members to develop this training and the roles that you would assign the different members of the team. 

7 page

1. Suggest two key ways in which the proposed teamwork project would affect organizational performance. 
2. Recommend where the company should set limits on spending and on using company assets for socially responsible projects. Predict the main effect that socially responsible projects could have on the companys overall bottom line. 
3. Propose two approaches geared toward introducing the topic of ethics or ethical behavior in the teamwork training project.
4. Examine two aspects of teamwork training that change a person into a transformational leader. Justify your response.
5. Predict your possible reaction to a team members suggestion of another theme that does not relate in any way to the theme that you have proposed. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment.

American jazz served as the foundation for rock and roll music. American jazz is explored in the discussion this week.

Select one jazz composer that is not covered in the course text. (These are some in the text:  Scott Joplin, Sippie Wallace, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.) Write the post from the perspective of the chosen composer. Discuss the style of his or her music. Explain how this composer influenced the development of jazz.  Also show how his or her contributions have impacted popular American music.

Write from the composer’s perspective–using first person voice. Do not just include a biography of the composer. The focus is to be on the style of music, contributions to the evolution of jazz music, and the impact this composer’s music has had on popular American music. Include a YouTube link featuring a performance of the composer’s music. Write in your own words. Cite all sources/provide links to your source.

American jazz served as the foundation for rock and roll music. American jazz is explored in the discussion this week.

Select one jazz composer that is not covered in the course text. (These are some in the text:  Scott Joplin, Sippie Wallace, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.) Write the post from the perspective of the chosen composer. Discuss the style of his or her music. Explain how this composer influenced the development of jazz.  Also show how his or her contributions have impacted popular American music.

Write from the composer’s perspective–using first person voice. Do not just include a biography of the composer. The focus is to be on the style of music, contributions to the evolution of jazz music, and the impact this composer’s music has had on popular American music. Include a YouTube link featuring a performance of the composer’s music. Write in your own words. Cite all sources/provide links to your source.

 Here are several speeches from world leaders representing numerous approaches to globalism or globalization. Watch at least two of the supplied videos. Follow the 3+1 Rule, plus refer to two of the provided videos, to identify a pro and a con of how these forces of change affect your quality of life.

Present your findings as a speech. The format can either be a written speech or, ideally, a video recording of your thoughts. The speech should be no less than 500 words and no more than 700 words in length. Focus on the classroom provided materials to construct the arguments in your speech. Be sure to include a thesis statement and use your speech to support the argument in your thesis. Provide a clear and strong closing argument. 

please see the document “question 9” for full details

3+1 doc has weekly topics to reference

 Use a sources such as the Internet, newspaper, magazine, journal, find a recent article (less than six months old) on cyber-attack or on an information security breach. This will be a summary of 1,000 word of the article which is double space.  Describe the issue and cause, and give recommendations for how such an incident can be prevented in the future. The source of the article must be cited following APA format. 

  Resources: & Microsoft Excel, Wk 1: Descriptive Statistics Analysis Assignment 

Purpose 

This assignment is intended to help you learn how to apply statistical methods when analyzing operational data, evaluating the performance of current marketing strategies, and recommending actionable business decisions. This is an opportunity to build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills within the context of data analysis and interpretation. Youll gain a first-hand understanding of how data analytics supports decision-making and adds value to an organization.

Scenario: 

Pastas R Us, Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in noodle-based dishes, soups, and salads. Since its inception, the business development team has favored opening new restaurants in areas (within a 3-mile radius) that satisfy the following demographic conditions:

• Median age between 25 45 years old
• Household median income above national average
• At least 15% college educated adult population

Last year, the marketing department rolled out a Loyalty Card strategy to increase sales. Under this program, customers present their Loyalty Card when paying for their orders and receive some free food after making 10 purchases.

The company has collected data from its 74 restaurants to track important variables such as average sales per customer, year-on-year sales growth, sales per sq. ft., Loyalty Card usage as a percentage of sales, and others. A key metric of financial performance in the restaurant industry is annual sales per sq. ft. For example, if a 1200 sq. ft. restaurant recorded $2 million in sales last year, then it sold $1,667 per sq. ft.

Executive management wants to know whether the current expansion criteria can be improved. They want to evaluate the effectiveness of the Loyalty Card marketing strategy and identify feasible, actionable opportunities for improvement. As a member of the analytics department, youve been assigned the responsibility of conducting a thorough statistical analysis of the companys available database to answer executive managements questions.

Report: 

Write a 750-word statistical report that includes the following sections:

• Section 1: Scope and descriptive statistics
• Section 2: Analysis
• Section 3: Recommendations and Implementation

Section 1 – Scope and descriptive statistics

• State the reports objective.
• Discuss the nature of the current database. What variables were analyzed?
• Summarize your descriptive statistics findings from Excel. Use a table and insert appropriate graphs.

Section 2 – Analysis 

• Using Excel, create scatter plots and display the regression equations for the following pairs of variables:
• BachDeg% versus Sales/SqFt
• MedIncome versus Sales/SqFt
• MedAge versus Sales/SqFt
• LoyaltyCard(%) versus SalesGrowth(%)
• In your report, include the scatter plots. For each scatter plot, designate the type of relationship observed (increasing/positive, decreasing/negative, or no relationship) and determine what you can conclude from these relationships.

Section 3: Recommendations and implementation

• Based on your findings above, assess which expansion criteria seem to be more effective. Could any expansion criterion be changed or eliminated? If so, which one and why?
• Based on your findings above, does it appear as if the Loyalty Card is positively correlated with sales growth? Would you recommend changing this marketing strategy?
• Based on your previous findings, recommend marketing positioning that targets a specific demographic. (Hint: Are younger people patronizing the restaurants more than older people?)
• Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected? (Hint: Would you use survey/samples or census?)

Cite references to support your assignment.

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

There is seldom a period when an organization can be complacent. Consumer and industrial organizations must continuously stay current on issues because forces can impact their future. It is the responsibility of the organizations marketing personnel to provide a plan on how to stay current when addressing environmental forces as well as influences.

Organizations need to be prepared to address market perceptions. Addressing these perceptions can be a challenge because there are times when we have our individual opinion about issues, but the market reaction may differ. While we should not ignore our opinions, there are times when we need to set our opinions aside so that we do what is in the organizations best interest. With this in mind please address the topic below.

TOPIC: How should corporations address social issues?

Please read the following:

Disneys clash with Florida has CEOs on alert
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-clash-with-florida-has-ceos-on-alert-11651440367?fbclid=IwAR25URiNwVroqTkA2KK8JAkLrvUqnN4FfIGJm3MgTRx4k1sMmajxIzlAzns (Links to an external site.)

This is the same article, but on a different source:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/disneys-clash-florida-ceos-on-alert (Links to an external site.)

Please respond to the following questions in an essay:

In your own words, please discuss how organizations (not you) should address this issue.
Using specific examples to support your answer.
How will these decisions impact consumer behavior in the future? Be specific. Hint: Be sure to refer to your textbook for guidance.
What can organizations do to gain consumer confidence and boost business? Hint: Be sure to refer to your textbook for guidance.

Consider the following:

Your response should strongly reflect the content you learned in BUS 229 and I will be looking for specific terminology that you learned this semester while in this course.
Please include your name on the document you submit on Canvas.
Submissions should be 2-3 pages (see syllabus for details on format on Written Assignments)
Grammar, spelling, format, organization, flow, and content will be graded.
Please provide a full reference (author, publication name, date, article titles) for any additional references used. Use APA or MLA format.
If you use a Google Doc, then you must make sure it is viewable to me or you will be assigned a 0.