This extra credit assignment is focused on one of the world’s biggest companies, Nike.Go to -https://www.today.com/news/nike-s-new-ad-has-powerful-message-about-unity-t188306?cid=sm_npd_td_tw_maYou can watch their latest powerful ad on the unifying power of sports and then research Uighurs (A Muslim minority in China) and their connection to Nike. One helpful segment is on YouTube from John Oliver -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8&t=18sWrite a minimum 2 page paper on the above, discussing them and your opinion on Nike. On one hand you have the powerful positive ads and on the other hand the exploitation of innocent people.Write using APA 7 Format and list your references.
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Re-watch your movie (The Pursuit of Happiness) then select a 10 minute scene and evaluate the listening techniques of the main characters. Point out the good listening techniques from the book, and assess the effectiveness of the perceived listening. Describe the following:What was the topic which was being addressed?What level of listening was being used?What internal/external barriers to effective listening were observed?Hypothesize how these barriers could be overcome.If you were to counsel one of the lead characters, what listening goals would you give for him/her? Explain.Cite all references correctly using APA.Assess the culture of the characters in the movie:What was the culture of the main characters of the movie?How does the main characters culture relate to members of different cultures?Was the main characters culture one that he/she was raised with or was it chosen by the character?Find three elements concerning culture from your text and apply them to the movie, make sure you cite your source(s) using APA.
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Complete the Comprehensive Older Person Evaluation and the Home Safety Checklist on one non-family member over the age of 75 for this assignment.Write a 3 – 4 page paper, using APA format to:analyze and draw conclusions the findings of each section of the Comprehensive Older person evaluation and home safety checklist.discuss at least five evidence-based health promotion teaching opportunities that you base on your findings.Attach the Comprehensive Older Person Evaluation and Home Safety Checklist as an appendix to your paper following references. The 3 to 4 page range does not include Older Person Evaluation and Home Safety Checklist, title page, and reference page. You must use two or more scholarly references for your evidence-based teaching plan.Competency9 points6 points3 points0 pointsPoints EarnedPreliminary Cognition QuestionnaireDraws conclusions from the Preliminary Cognition Questionnaire.Summarizes results of Preliminary Cognition Questionnaire.Describes results of the Preliminary Cognition Questionnaire.Does not describe results of the Preliminary Cognition Questionnaire./9Social Support dataDraws conclusions from the Social Support data.Summarizes results of the Social Support data.Describes results of the Social Support data.Does not describe results of the Social Support data./9Financial and Demographic DataDraws conclusions from the Financial and Demographic dataSummarizes results of the Financial and Demographic dataDescribes results of the Financial and Demographic dataDoes not describe results of the Financial and Demographic data/9Psychological Health DataDraws conclusions from the Psychological Health data.Summarizes results of the Psychological Health data.Describes results of the Psychological Health data.Does not describe results of the Psychological Health data./9Physical Health DataDraws conclusions from the Physical Health data.Summarizes results from the Physical Health data.Describes results from the Physical Health data.Does not describe results from the Physical Health data./9Activities of Daily Living DataDraws conclusions from the Activities of Daily Living data.Summarizes results from the Activities of Daily Living data.Describes results from the Activities of Daily Living data.Does not describe results from the Activities of Daily Living data./9Home Safety List DataDraws conclusions from the Home Safety List data.Summarizes results from the Home Safety List data.Describes results from the Home Safety List data.Does not describe results from the Home Safety List data./9Competency15 points10 points5 points0 pointsPoints Earnedhealth promotion teaching opportunitiesProposes (or develops) at least five evidence based health promotion teaching opportunities based on findings related to deficits or other issues identified in the interviews.Lists five evidence based health promotion teaching opportunities based on findings related to deficits or other issues identified in the interviews.Lists less than five health promotion, without evidence based support, teaching opportunities based on findings related to deficits or other issues identified in the interviews.Does not include health promotion teaching opportunities identified in the interviews./15Competency5 points3 points1 point0 pointPoints EarnedOrganizationOrganization excellent, ideas clear and arranged logically, transitions smooth, no flaws in logic.Organization good; ideas usually clear and arranged in acceptable sequence; transitions usually smooth, good supportOrganization minimally effective; problems in approach, sequence, support and transitionsOrganization does not meet requirements/5GrammarGrammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage correct and idiomatic, consistent with Standard American EnglishGrammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage good mostly consistent with Standard American English; errors do not interfere with meaning or understandingGrammar, punctuation, mechanics and usage distracting and often interfere with meaning or understandingGrammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage interfere with understanding/5ReferencesReferences are relevant, authoritative and contemporaryAdequate referencesMinimal use of appropriate referencesPoor use and/or selection of references not relevant/5Competency7 points5 points2 points0 pointPoints EarnedAPA FormatDemonstrates competent use of mechanics and APA.Minimal APA errors.Many APA errors.Complete lack of understanding./7Total/100
JMU Comprehensive and Home Safety Evaluation for Health Promotion Discussion
ENG 120 Cuyumaca College Why Our Future Depends On Libraries By Neil Gaiman Bibliography
ENG 120 Cuyumaca College Why Our Future Depends On Libraries By Neil Gaiman Bibliography.
To continue in the vein of education, I want us to read a speech given by author Neil Gaiman which discusses why reading for pleasure is important, and the integral role libraries play in society and creating literate, more empathetic citizens.STEP 1:Carefully read through “Why Our Future Depends on Libraries” by Neil Gaiman. Read it slowly! Read it twice! Annotate it! If you need a refresher on annotating your work, you can review the materials I’ve supplied here: English 020.Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading andDaydreaming: The Reading Agency Lecture, 2013It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whetherthey might be biased. A declaration of member’s interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things.And I am biased, enormously and obviously: I’m an author, often an author of fiction. I write for children and for adults. For about thirty years I have been earning my living through my words, mostly by making things up and writing them down. It is obviously in my interest for people to read, for them to read fiction, for libraries and librarians to exist and help foster a love of reading and places in which reading can occur.So I’m biased as a writer.But I am much, much more biased as a reader. And I am even more biased as a British citizen.And I’m here giving this talk tonight, under the auspices of the Reading Agency: a charity whose mission is to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers. A charity which supports literacy programs, and libraries and individuals, and nakedly and wantonly encourages the act of reading. Because, they tell us, everything changes when we read.And it’s that change, and that act of reading, that I’m here to talk about tonight. I want to talk about what reading does. What it’s good for.Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons—a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth—how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going to be, fifteen years from now? And they found they could predict itvery easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based about asking what percentage of ten- and eleven-year-olds couldn’t read. And certainly couldn’t read for pleasure.It’s not one-to-one: you can’t say that a literate society has no criminality. But there are very real correlations.And I think some of those correlations, the simplest, come from something incredibly simple. Literate people read fiction, and fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble and you have to know how it’s all going to end . . .. . . that’s a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you’re on the road to reading everything. And reading is key. There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a postliterate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but these days, those noises are gone: words are more important than they ever were. We navigate the world with words, and as the world slips onto the Web, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we’re reading.People who cannot understand each other cannot exchange ideas, cannot communicate, and translation programs only get you so far.The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books and letting them read them.I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. Every now and again it becomes fashionable among some adults to point at a subset of children’s books, a genre, perhaps, or an author, and to declare them bad books, books that children should be stopped from reading. I’ve seen it happen over and over; Enid Blyton was declared a bad author, so was R. L. Stine, so were dozens of others. Comics have been decried as fostering illiteracy.It’s tosh. It’s snobbery and it’s foolishness.There are no bad authors for children, that children like and want to read and seek out, because every child is different. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to someone encountering it for the first time. You don’t discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrongthing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the twenty-first-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant.We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung, into literacy.(Also do not do what this author did when his eleven-year-old daughter was into R. L. Stine, which is to go and get a copy of Stephen King’s Carrie, saying, “If you liked those you’ll love this!” Holly read nothing but safe stories of settlers on prairies for the rest of her early teenage years, and still glares at me whenever Stephen King’s name is mentioned.The second thing that fiction does is to build empathy. When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well. You’re being someone else, and when you return to your own world, you’re going to be slightly changed.Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s this:THE WORLD DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT.Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. And discontent is a good thing: people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different, if they’re discontented.And while we’re on the subject, I’d like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandied about as if it’s a bad thing. As if “escapist” fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded, and the only fiction that is worthy, for adults or for children, is mimetic fiction, mirroring the worst of the world the reader finds herself in.If you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with people who meant you ill, and someone offered you a temporary escape, why wouldn’t you take it? And escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with (and books are real places, make no mistake about that; and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armor: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real.As C.S. Lewis reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.Another way to destroy a child’s love of reading, of course, is to make sure there are no books of any kind around. And to give them nowhere to read those books if there are.I was lucky. I had an excellent local library growing up. I had the kind of parents who could be persuaded to drop me off in the library on their way to work in my summer holidays, and the kind of librarians who did not mind a small, unaccompanied boy heading back into the children’s library every morning and working his way through the card catalogue, looking for books with ghosts or magic or rockets in them, looking for vampires or detectives or witches or wonders. And when I had finished reading the children’s library I began on the adult books.They were good librarians. They liked books and they liked the books being read. They taught me how to order books from other libraries on interlibrary loans. They had no snobbery about anything I read. They just seemed to like that there was this wide-eyed little boy who loved to read, and they would talk to me about the books I was reading, they would find me other books in a series, they would help. They treated me as another reader—nothing less, nothing more—which meant they treated me with respect. I was not used to being treated with respect as an eight-year-old.Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university, about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.I worry that here in the twenty-first century people misunderstand what libraries are and the purpose of them. If you perceive a library as a shelf of books, it may seem antiquated or outdated in a world in which most, but not all,books in print exist digitally. But to think that is to fundamentally miss the point.I think it has to do with nature of information.Information has value, and the right information has enormous value. For all of human history, we have lived in a time of information scarcity, and having the needed information was always important, and always worth something: when to plant crops, where to find things, maps and histories and stories—they were always good for a meal and company. Information was a valuable thing, and those who had it or could obtain it could charge for that service.In the last few years, we’ve moved from an information-scarce economy to one driven by an information glut. According to Eric Schmidt of Google, every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. That’s about five exabytes of data a day, for those of you keeping score. The challenge becomes, not finding that scarce plant growing in the desert, but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle. We are going to need help navigating that information to find the thing we actually need.Libraries are places that people go for information. Books are only the tip of the information iceberg: they are there, and libraries can provide you freely and legally with books. More children are borrowing books from libraries than ever before—books of all kinds: paper and digital and audio. But libraries are also, for example, a place that people, who may not have computers, who may not have Internet connections, can go online without paying anything: hugely important when the way you find out about jobs, apply for jobs or apply for benefits is increasingly migrating exclusively online. Librarians can help these people navigate that world.I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, over twenty years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath resistant, solar operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them. They belong in libraries, just as libraries have already become places you can go to get access to ebooks, and audiobooks and DVDs and Web content.A library is a place that is a repository of, and gives every citizen equal access to, information. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world. It’s a place with librarians in it. What the libraries of the future will belike is something we should be imagining now.Literacy is more important than ever it was, in this world of text and e-mail,a world of written information. We need to read and write, we need globalcitizens who can read comfortably, comprehend what they are reading,understand nuance, and make themselves understood.Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round theworld, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries asan easy way to save money, without realizing that they are, quite literally,stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that shouldbe open.According to a recent study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development, England is the “only country where the oldest age group hashigher proficiency in both literacy and numeracy than the youngest group, afterother factors, such as gender, socio-economic backgrounds and type ofoccupations are taken into account.”Or to put it another way, our children and our grandchildren are less literateand less numerate than we are. They are less able to navigate the world, tounderstand it to solve problems. They can be more easily lied to and misled, willbe less able to change the world in which they find themselves, be lessemployable. All of these things. And as a country, England will fall behind otherdeveloped nations because it will lack a skilled workforce. And while politiciansblame the other party for these results, the truth is, we need to teach our childrento read and to enjoy reading.We need libraries. We need books. We need literate citizens.I do not care—I do not believe it matters—whether these books are paper ordigital, whether you are reading on a scroll or scrolling on a screen. The contentis the important thing.But a book is also the content, and that’s important.Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learnlessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.I think we have responsibilities to the future. Responsibilities and obligations to children, to the adults those children will become, to the world they will find themselves inhabiting. All of us—as readers, as writers, as citizens: we haveobligations. I thought I’d try and spell out some of these obligations here.I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time.We writers—and especially writers for children, but all writers—have an obligation to our readers: it’s the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were—to understand that truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. We have an obligation not to bore our readers, but to make them need to turn the pages. One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading. And while we must tell our readers true things and give them weapons and give them armor and pass on whatever wisdom we have gleaned from our short stay on this green world, we have an obligation not to preach, not to lecture, not to force predigested morals and messages down our readers’ throats like adult birds feeding their babies premasticated maggots; and we have an obligation never, ever, under any circumstances, to write anything for children to read that we would not want to read ourselves.We have an obligation to understand and to acknowledge that as writers for children we are doing important work, because if we mess it up and write dull books that turn children away from reading and from books, we’ve lessened our own future and diminished theirs.STEP 2:Fill out an annotation worksheet for the reading.Source:Rhetorical Context (Who wrote it or created it? Why was it written? What is it trying to do to or for its readers? What is it? Where does it appear? When was it published? What is its genre?)Summary (What does the text say? What are its main points? What did you find most interesting or important?)What are THREE golden lines from the text? (Quotes that stood out the most.)Quote 1:Evaluation/Significance of the Quote (Why did you choose it?):Quote 2:Evaluation/Significance of the Quote (Why did you choose it?):Quote 3:Evaluation/Significance of the Quote (Why did you choose it?):Evaluation (Is the text convincing? Why or why not? What new knowledge did you get from reading this text?)Questioning (What questions do you have about the text? What would you ask the author if you could speak to him or her directly? Do you have any questions to ask your fellow students or the instructor?)
ENG 120 Cuyumaca College Why Our Future Depends On Libraries By Neil Gaiman Bibliography
University of Maryland Watergate Scandal Discussion
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The Watergate Scandal – Timeline, Summary & Deep ThroatAll The President’s Men (1976) Official Trailer – Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Thriller HDNOTE: Watch the full length movie, if you have time. It’s very well done.The story behind “All the President’s Men”DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:How does the information you gleaned from the videos and what you read square with your prior knowledge about Watergate? Your response can be based on your own knowledge, understanding and perceptions.What events, factors or other historical observations from the videos and readings stood out in your mind as most significant? Briefly explain your answer?What other observations do you wish to share about this event and the impact it has had on U.S. history since 1974?What other observations do you wish to share about Watergate and its historical significance from your perspective as a scholar of history?
University of Maryland Watergate Scandal Discussion
Complete this discussion, answer to this prompt and I’ll send comment of my peer to reply
Complete this discussion, answer to this prompt and I’ll send comment of my peer to reply.
Complete your required discussion prompt.Marie Curie was a famous French-Polish scientist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Her work not only brought her fame but her death as well; she developed aplastic anemia due to radiation exposure. She experienced recurrent and prolonged infections (viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal). Explain why she suffered from recurrent infections. Be sure to mention the different types of WBC and the relation to the various infections, and the reasons why she lacked the cell-mediated and the humeral response.Be detailed in your explanation and support your answer with facts from your textbook, research, and articles from scholarly journals. In addition, remember to add references in APA format to your posts to avoid plagiarism.
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Create a Scenario of Any Business then Respond to the E-mail
Create a Scenario of Any Business then Respond to the E-mail.
Write a 350 to 700 word response to the following e-mail:Dear Consultant,I am currently starting a business and developing my business plan. I’m in need of some advice on how to start forming my business. I am not sure exactly how it will be financed and whether or not I want to take on partners. I am interested and willing to learn the intricacies of my options to determine how to best proceed with my plan.Please advise on what my best option is pick one and give me, the advantages and disadvantages of it and possible tax consequences for this choice?Respectfully,John OwnerCreate the scenario of any business.
Create a Scenario of Any Business then Respond to the E-mail