AP/SOSC1140 9.00
Self, Culture and Society
Fall/Winter 2017-2018
ESSAY 3
Assigned: Assigned January 14 on Moodle
Due: Week of February 25 In Tutorial or as Instructed by your Tutorial Leader
Length: 6 pages maximum.
Format: Double-spaced. 2.5cm (1″) Margins. Times New Roman Font. Size 12.
Attach Turnitin Receipt to your essay.
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Use only the Course Kit and class notes. A paper containing any information from the Internet will receive a
grade of zero. Provide proper citations in the format suggested by your tutorial leader.
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ESSAY TOPIC
NOTE: This paper integrates material and ideological conditions. Be sure to balance the two in your paper.
Avoid the mistake of placing more emphasis on material conditions simply because they involve three authors.
It may help to think of the paper as 40% on ideological conditions.
Material Conditions
Polanyi refers to the emergence of market society as “the great transformation” (Polanyi, Kit #16). Discuss what
characterizes market society and show why this transformation is so significant. Include a few points about how
market society differs from the structures of previous social organizations in order to stress the importance of
this development (Heilbroner, Kit #15 and Polanyi, Kit#16). Also, present some of the changes that take place
in the workplace (Rinehart, Kit #17).
Ideological Conditions
Describe the worldview of people in market society according to Weber. Discuss this in terms of the connection
between the “Protestant work ethic” and the “spirit of capitalism” (Weber summarized by Bendix, Kit #18).
Explain the importance of these ideological conditions for the emergence of market society.
Conclude by summarizing why the shift to market society is a fundamental transformation. Include both
material and ideological conditions in this conclusion.
crime mapping and GIS softwarse programs
here are a variety of scrime mapping and GIS software program available today. Currently, these two programs are the leaders in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) used by law enforcement in the United States: ArcGIS and MapInfo.
The Captain of your agency has requested that you research these two programs (ESRI and MAPINFO) and by comparing and contrasting the two technologies and then explaining which program your agency should purchase.
Paper Submission Requirements:
Your paper should be 4-5 pages in length (cover page and reference page are not included in the 4-5 page minimum).
Paper must include a “works cited page”.
Use APA format.
To review the criteria and requirements for completing this assignment, click on the assignment link and then click on View Rubric.
Resources for Assessment:
Websites:
Arc GIS
MAP Info
GIS Vision
Document:How to write a Compare and Contrast paper
Ersi Publications
Turkish attack in northern Syria threatens to ignite broader conflict
Effective communication with Public during a Mass Casualty
The final project will synthesize the information from the course and focus on a problem you have identified in your community (or community of your choice) through your preceding assignments. The Final Project should meet the following parameters:
Final Project should be at least 15 APA-formatted and referenced pages-long, including title page and references.
You must submit your Final Project as any other Written Assignment in the course to Turn It through Week 8 Assignments.
You can use the EDMG540 (Research Methods) Template
Final Project without a satisfactory Turn It In Similarity Index (in the blue or green, or around 23 percent of lower) will not be accepted for grading.
You can submit your Final Project to Turn It In through Week 8 Assignments multiple times. I will count your latest Final Project Turn It submission as your final submission.
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN account or through someone else’s account before you submit it under Week 8 Assignments.
Submitting YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN ACCOUNT or using someone else’s Turn It In account, will render your actual Week 8 submission ineligible for grading because it will generate 100 percent similarity (plagiarism) once it is (re)submitted under Week 8 Assignments.
Investment Planning Proposal
Investment Planning Proposal
Imagine you are meeting with friends to discuss the importance of investments as part of a retirement plan.
Read the following summaries of the financial situation and goals of two of your friends:
Kathy
Kathy is a 28-year-old, single mother of twin boys. She has been working as a public relations media specialist for three years, having worked at the same company where she started out answering the phones. She has her B.A. in Communications and a student loan of $20,000 she has not yet begun to pay off. Her job pays $70,000 a year. She receive no financial support from the father of her twins. Her costs include paying for childcare, credit cards, and a mortgage. She is able to set aside between $200-325 a month in a savings account. Her financial goals are to pay off the remaining $1,000 of her credit card debt, and to begin contributing to a retirement plan. Her employer offers a 401k with a 3% match, and she is not yet enrolled in that plan.
Jackson
Jackson is a recently graduated 44-year-old, single man. He earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice and just recently started a job at the local police department earning $45,000 a year. Jackson pays child support for one child from a previous marriage. His student loans total $30,000, and he has no other debt at this time. He expects to have $200 a month to contribute toward his goals of owning a home and having a more secure retirement.
Choose one friend and write an APA-formatted, 3- to 4-page proposal advising a friend about investing for the future. The text of your proposal should be a minimum of 700 words. You may add any graphics or illustrations that support your proposal.
Address the following in your proposal:
” Why is investment planning important?
” How would you suggest your friend start retirement planning? What steps should he/she take to start?
” What investment strategy would you suggest? Why? (Note: Your strategy should explain how money could be invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or a mix of all.)
” Of what risks and rewards of investing should your friend be aware?
” How could your friend minimize the risks associated with investing risk?
” Provide two to three resources you would offer to your friend to continue learning more about investments and retirement planning and discuss how these can help.
Your paper must cite two to three academic resources (only one source can be your class textbook).
Submit your proposal to the Assignment Files tab.
Employers’ Health Care Costs and Preventable Employee Behaviors and Conditions
The paper should analyze the ethical controversies facing the healthcare industry today.
ETHICS ISSUES: Should U.S. employers be permitted to penalize employees for smoking behavior and
obesity conditions that increase employers’ health care costs? What ethical considerations should underlie lifestyle
policies, such as the use of dynamic pricing in health benefit and life insurance plans that charge smokers and
obese employees higher premiums? What types of medical interventions are ethically permissible for preventable
behaviors and conditions that are triggered by voluntary lifestyle choices that are made on a day-to-day basis?
How do social media platforms contribute to the spread of false information?
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Essay 1 – Research Assignment – “Truthiness” and Fake NewsDue: 2 FebruaryQuestions (choose one of the following questions to research)–What are “filter bubbles” and why are they dangerous?–How do social media platforms contribute to the spread of false information?Assignment Details–Find five sources on your chosen question and provide citation details for each. Your sources can be book chapters, online articles (from credible sources) or academic journal articles.–Provide a 200 word annotation for each source, summarizing its main ideas.–Begin your annotated bibliography with a 250 word introduction summarizing what you learned from your five sources. –Times New Roman size 12 font–MLA format Purpose of this assignmentFor this assignment, you will carry out your own research using open web and/or database sources and present your findings in the form of an annotated bibliography. A bibliography is just a list of sources or citations (often called a “works cited page”), organized formally in MLA style. An annotation is a short summary of the source which explains (in your own words) what the source is about. Researcherscommonly use annotated bibliographies to review the literature in a particular field, or as the basis for alarger research project. Summarizing/Avoiding plagiarismYour annotations must be written in your own words. This means that you cannot simply re-write words or sentences from the source in your annotation; you must either paraphrase (put a short passage in your own words) or quote (quotes should be no longer than one line) the source. The easiestway to avoid plagiarism is to make notes in your own words as you read the source and then use these notes as the basis for your summary. Plagiarism is very easy to detect and will result in a zero for the assignment, so come and speak with me if you need help. StyleYour citations should be written in appropriate academic style. “Academic style” means choosing moreformal words over slang terms (“women” is more formal than “gals,” for instance), avoiding cliches or idioms (“pull someone’s leg,” “raining cats and dogs” etc.), and using correct grammar and punctuation. Even if one of your sources is written in an informal style (some newspaper and magazine articles are quite informal), you must translate the language into academic style. Credibility
Your sources must all be credible. “Credibility” refers to the trustworthiness of the information contained in your source. Be careful to check that your sources are all credible (check the author’s credentials, cross-check any facts etc.) especially if you are using primarily open web sources.
Effective communication with Public during a Mass Casualty
The final project will synthesize the information from the course and focus on a problem you have identified in your community (or community of your choice) through your preceding assignments. The Final Project should meet the following parameters:
Final Project should be at least 15 APA-formatted and referenced pages-long, including title page and references.
You must submit your Final Project as any other Written Assignment in the course to Turn It through Week 8 Assignments.
You can use the EDMG540 (Research Methods) Template
Final Project without a satisfactory Turn It In Similarity Index (in the blue or green, or around 23 percent of lower) will not be accepted for grading.
You can submit your Final Project to Turn It In through Week 8 Assignments multiple times. I will count your latest Final Project Turn It submission as your final submission.
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN account or through someone else’s account before you submit it under Week 8 Assignments.
Submitting YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO YOUR PERSONAL TURN IT IN ACCOUNT or using someone else’s Turn It In account, will render your actual Week 8 submission ineligible for grading because it will generate 100 percent similarity (plagiarism) once it is (re)submitted under Week 8 Assignments.
Book review- write a review of both Robert Gottfried’s The Black Death and Michael Osterholm’s Deadliest Enemies at different points in the semester.
1. You will write a review of both Robert Gottfried’s The Black Death and Michael Osterholm’s Deadliest Enemies at different points in the semester.
2. Your book reviews each should be approximately 1000 words (this is about 4 pages, double spaced, times new roman font) and written on Microsoft Word. You will upload the document to the D2L assignments box.
3. A book review is not just a “summary” of the book’s contents. As the name implies, you are to “review” the book you have selected.
4. Write clearly and hand in a product you can be proud of when you are done. Grading will include your thoughtful responses to the questions below and grammar, style, and clarity. Proofread your work many times, and then do it once more before hitting send. Have you said what you want to say, and have you done it clearly?
5. Be sure to include the “publication data” for the book you review: publisher and place of publication, and copyright date, in addition to the title and the author’s name at the top of your review. It should look like this:
Decision Stage
Topic – Decision Stage (p. 176)
Decision Stage book review using t and other critiques
Text book –
I need 3 pages on the topic. Any scholarly articles (2 to 3) expanding on the content in the text. 2.5 page body including introduction, literature review and half page conclusion is what I need