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Essay #1 Prompt – “What Kind of Writer Are You?” Now that you have spent some time studying the importance of academic writing, how to be a good academic writer, and reading about writing and discussing how writing affects our lives, you can better understand that writing is a crucial part of being a college student. To a student in an academic writing course, writing can be an experience that could only be described as challenging as she struggles to define success. Through it all, the important part of writing is thinking critically and communicating effectively.
Assignment: For this essay, answer the question, “What Kind of Writer Are You?” In your own answer, analyze and describe your experiences with writing and incorporate at least two ideas from the essays we have read together in class. You might not have thought about this question before, nor about your own process of writing, but now you have the chance to do so and tell your audience about it. For some of you, writing has not been a part of your life until now that you are in college, so you can describe this new experience and your relationship with your writing. For others, writing has been a part of your life before, but you wrote in another language. Your analysis can include how you write in English and how this process might differ from writing in your native language. You can also use the sources we read in class to describe how you might use some of the author’s suggestions to become a stronger academic writer or how in the past you thought some of the writing myths were true or did not use their suggestions.

Questions to consider when you explore own writing experience:
● Why do you write?
● Why don’t you write?
● What are some of your writing “successes’?
● What have been some of your negative writing experiences?
● What attractions do words, language and written communication hold for you—or not?
● What changes have you experienced in your interest or disinterest in writing in recent years?

Notes:
● Define yourself as a writer, and use your own personal experience and ideas from the essays we have been discussing to help you define yourself.
● Follow MLA format
● You will need to use at least TWO of the essays we read in class to support your ideas.
● This essay needs to have grammatical correctness, organization, and comprehensibility. Your essay needs to contain a clearly stated and well-supported thesis, which addresses this topic, and no other topic.

Sources:
● “How to Read Like a Writer?” by Mike Bunn
● “What is Academic Writing” by Lennie Irvin
● “Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students” by Shelly Reid

The kind of writer I am
Introduction
Writing is for amateurs, which did not give up and became professionals. I am an amateur when it comes to writing, but my plan does not include me quitting. My eyes are set on becoming a professional. I don’t want to be a living testimony of Maya Angelou’s words of living with the greatest agony of an untold story in me.
In fact, the problem of writing in high school has always existed. At that time, as a non- professional writer, I would often practice my skills, but relatively speaking high school is much easier. So it was more like an “amateur”. When I went to college, the process of writing always made me anxious as I did not know how to start or how to even go about it after I started. Sometimes the college will give me a kind of fear, this fear reminds me all the time, I must get a high score, I must get a good score. If I didn’t write a good essay and I didn’t get a good grade, that’s why it becomes my anxiety. Also in college, there are many excellent people, it can also be stressful, but I believe it is a challenge to become a better writer.
However, I come from a family that believes in seeking discomfort. I spared time to go to the library and read widely. I also read other materials, including magazines, newspapers, among other materials that told a story. It is from them that I learned how to identify ideas, research and organize materials that I will use for my writing. From an amateur’s perspective, I will detail my writing journey to identify my motivations, the challenges I have encountered and my strategy towards becoming a professional writer that never gives up.

Works cited
Fowler, Corinne, and Harry Whitehead. “Practice at Large: How Creative Writing can-Enhance University Research Environments.” Essays and Studies 71 (2018): 171-180.

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Congratulations! You’ve been promoted to be a new training manager for your department. Your first task is to train your team to use some new software. In your psychology class, you learned about two different approaches to learning 1.) Operant conditioning; 2.) Observational learning. In your discussion post, share which approach you would use to train your team in using the new software. Be sure to use EITHER operant conditioning OR observational learning. In general (just a few sentences), describe what your training would be like based on the approach. Why do you think that approach will successfully teach your team to use the new software? Remember to have a total of 3 posts to earn full credit for the discussion.
dicussion question

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is one of the very few top executives at large banks or major financial services firms who was unscathed by the sub- stantial economic recession which began in 2008—a recession largely caused by those firms taking inap- propriate risks. He is described as charismatic and an excellent leader. Yet, in 2012, JPMorgan Chase experi- enced its own scandal caused by exceptional risk taking. Traders in its London operations were allowed to build a huge exposure in credit derivatives that breached the acceptable risk limits of most analytical models. As a result, the bank suffered losses of more than $6 billion. It is referred to as the London Whale trading debacle. In 2013 and 2014, there were large regulatory and legal settlements. Most significant was a $13 billion settle- ment with regulators over mortgage bond sales in 2013. In addition, to this record settlement, “the bank paid $2.6 billion to resolve allegations that it didn’t stop Bernie Madoff ’s Ponzi scheme and two fines of about $1 billion each stemming from currency rate manipula- tion and the London Whale trading loss.” It may need an additional $20 billion in additional capital to satisfy reg- ulatory bank safety rules. One Democratic Senator from Delaware, Ted Kaufman, noted: “I think Jamie Dimon is Teflon-coated.” Because of the huge loss and concerns about the lack of oversight that led to these fines and settlement, there was a move by shareholder activists to separate the CEO and chair of the board positions, requiring Dimon to hold only the CEO title. Playing key roles were the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The AFSCME was pushing to separate the holders of the CEO and chair positions at JPMorgan Chase. The ISS was pushing for shareholders to withhold the votes for three directors currently on the Morgan’s board policy committee. Dimon described the London Whale debacle as an anomaly caused by the inappropriate behavior of a few bad employees. However, this debacle plus the huge fines and settlements seems to suggest serious weaknesses in the bank’s oversight of activities involving significant risk and compliance with regulatory rules. Executives and board members of JPMorgan Chase worked hard to thwart these efforts. Lee Raymond, the for- mer CEO of ExxonMobil who has been on the JPMorgan board for 28 years, played a key role in these efforts to support Dimon and avoid a negative vote. This group lobbied major institutional shareholders and even asked (though he declined) former U.S. President Bill Clinton to help work out a compromise with the AFSCME. They even suggested that Dimon would quit if he had to give up one of the roles and it would harm the stock price. In the end, Dimon and the bank won the vote with a two- thirds majority for Dimon to retain both positions. Several analysts decried the vote and suggested that having a third of the shareholders vote against Dimon is not a major vote of confidence. One even suggested that the vote is not surprising because of the 10 largest institu- tional owners of the bank’s stock, seven have CEOs who also hold the chair position. So, how could they openly argue that this is bad for JPMorgan when they do it in their organizations? Furthermore, these major institu- tional investors want the banks to engage in high-risk activities with the potential to produce high returns. This is especially true because the downside risk of losses is low as the government cannot afford to allow the big banks to fail. One analyst suggested that the shareholders voted out of fear (potential loss of Dimon) and for personal- ity instead of good corporate governance. Analysts for the Financial Times argued that the outcome of this vote demonstrates how weak shareholder rights are in the United States. Finally, another analyst noted that while splitting the CEO and chair positions does not guarantee good governance, it is a prerequisite for it. Lee Raymond suggested that the board would take action. Several speculate that such actions will not relate to Dimon duel positions, but rather to a reconfiguration of the board members on the risk and audit committees. Some have argued that certain members of these com- mittees have little knowledge of their function and/or have financial ties to the bank, thereby creating a poten- tial conflict of interest. One protection for Dimon is that the JPMorgan Chase continues to perform well, even with poor ratings from governance evaluators.Respond to question 1: How well do you think the governance system of JPMorgan Chase is working in protecting shareholder interests?ANDRespond to question 3: What do you recommend to improve the governance system specifically for JPMorgan Chase but also overall relative to the system of governance devices described in Chapter 10?800 words
BUS 4476 Troy University JP Morgan Chase Corporate Governance Issues Discussion