Journalism Analysis Report

You must select one article published within the last five years in one of the following journals: Journal of Advertising, Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Once you have found your article, please submit the following on a one-page, double-spaced, 12 pt. font document: 1. Proper citation of the article in APA format. 2. A brief summary of the article. 3. An idea about how the findings of the study might influence a campaign and/or your work as a strategic communication professional.

Analyze Quantitative Research

Instructions Consider the potential quantitative research topic you might choose for your Signature Assignment. This can be a topic you have examined in previous courses or one you have recently become interested in exploring further. This topic would ideally be suitable for your dissertation, although this is not a requirement for this course. Once you have chosen a fairly broad topic, select three peer-reviewed quantitative research articles related to your potential topic of interest using the Northcentral Library. Ensure the sources involve actual conducted quantitative studies and not a review of a multitude of previously conducted quantitative research. For each article, discuss the following elements: • Summarize the research problem. • Identify the purpose or intent of the research. • Summarize the research questions(s). • State the hypotheses, if provided. • Identify and explain the specific quantitative design. • Identify and describe the sample/participants and potential population. • Explain how the quantitative data were collected. • Explain and summarize how the ethical treatment of the human subjects was ensured. • Determine how the quantitative data were analyzed. • Explain how the proper design identification and implementation to ensure validity in the results was supported. • Briefly reflect on the overall strengths and weaknesses of the reviewed quantitative research. Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Consumer Analysis Audit

Format Your consumer analysis audit will be approximately 7-10 pages in length. In addition, you must include a cover page and a reference page. You may follow the suggested audit process and add any other relevant consumer behavior concepts you think will enhance or support your audit findings. For example, you may incorporate one or more of the concepts from the weekly Threaded Discussions: heuristics, means-end chains, new consumer trends, vicarious learning, etc. To improve readability, include headings and sub-headings to divide your audit into sections. You must support your findings, recommendations and conclusions with information from a variety of resources, such as the textbook, journal articles and trade publications (specific to the type of retail store you selected). Every fact or theory you use that is not your own must be documented using APA style guidelines. There is no minimum number of resources required but you should use at least six or seven for a subject of this depth. Check out this Web site for a quick and easy way to do reference citations in text and reference citations in a list at the end of your audit: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx You must also include your own primary research and findings that you described in your interview paper last week. In addition, you might: · Collect and analyze any print advertising, television commercials, radio ads, etc. for the selected store or its competition · Take photographs of the store, if you have permission – photos will enhance your audit! Critical Components of a Consumer Analysis Audit Develop relevant elements from the following list to include in your audit: Introduction Name of store selected Purpose of audit Consumer Affect and Cognition Consumer satisfaction Knowledge and beliefs about the brand Meanings and beliefs about the products/services sold Product knowledge – attributes, consequences, value, self-relevance Consumer-product relationship with products or brands Exposure to store information – attention and comprehension Brand equity – evaluation of the brand from a consumer prospective Consumer perceptions and attitudes about the store Emotional states of consumers in the store Overt Consumer Behavior Analysis of the common behavior sequence for a retail store consumer goods purchase (Information contact, Funds access, Store contact, Product contact, Transaction, Consumption and disposition, Communication) Vicarious learning or modeling opportunities How is the retailer influencing consumer behavior – promotions The Consumer Environment Social environment Physical environment – location, store layout, in-store stimuli (lighting, smells, noises) Store layout – grid or freeform. Take photographs of the store, if you have permission – photos will enhance your audit! The five generic consumer situations – information acquisition, shopping, purchase, consumption and disposition Culture and cultural meanings in products Subculture – demographics, income, lifestyle, social class, reference groups and family Trends that impact consumers Market segmentation Evaluate the effectiveness of the retailer’s apparent marketing mix strategy Price strategies Promotion strategies – Collect and analyze any print advertising, television commercials, radio ads, etc. for the selected store or its competition Product strategies Customer satisfaction policies Optional – Interview the manager or sales staff to learn more about current marketing strategies Conclusion: How could the marketing strategy be improved (made more effective)? Support findings with concepts from the course and “Wheel of Consumer Analysis” Recommend an improved marketing strategy for the retail store.

Poetry exam question literature term paper

How does Don Paterson deal with questions of presence and absence in Rain? Discuss this literature term paper in relation to two or more poems from the volume. The other poems are to choose from for section B and A is ‘song of myself’ by Walt Whitman, ‘Inglan is a Bitch’ by Johnson, ‘excerpts from fidget’ by Goldsmith and ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg Section B- choose only one question to answer and when answering do not use Don paterson’s Rain as one of the poems to answer the question with 1. With reference to two or three poems covered on the module, connect the form of the poem(s) to that of the human body. In what ways do poems have (or reflect) embodied subjects? 2. If poetic forms remained static and unchanging, what would that say about their context? Why should poets seek to experiment with poetic form? Refer to two or three poems on the module. 3. The performance of a poem is importantly different from the way it appears on the page – discuss two or three poems in terms of the effects they have ‘beyond’ the printed page. 4. How is class difference portrayed in poetry? Use two or three poems from the module in your answer. 5. What makes a poem ‘political’? Refer to two or three poems from the module in your answer. 6. Discuss experiences of disability as represented in two or three poems from the module 7. Discuss the ways in which two or three poems on the module can be read as a ‘becoming animal’. 8. Discuss the ways in which two or three poems on the module speak of, and perhaps to, the dead.

Haunted narratives assignment

Haunted Narratives Assignment Brief Write an essay of 1500 words on one of the following questions or topics. Your answer should: • Show detailed knowledge of at least two stories or other short narratives (e.g. poems) that we have studied on the module. • Contain a bibliography of around five items (including both primary and secondary sources) • Be presented in accordance with The Essential Style guide Your essay will be marked in relation to the following criteria: • Relevance to the question; • Strength of argument; • Knowledge of the topic displayed in your response; • Fluency of written expression; • Evidence of some research undertaken in the preparation of the essay; • The use you make of that research; • Professionalism of presentation (in relation to the style rules set out in the Essential Style Guide). Questions 1. Examine the relationship between nineteenth-century understandings of female sexuality and haunting phenomena in at least two texts, including The Turn of the Screw. 2. How might you argue that haunting situations in ghost stories of the nineteenth-century are conditioned by the social class system in nineteenth-century Britain? Discuss with reference to The Turn of the Screw plus at least one other text from the module. 3. What effect does the presence of a framing narrator have on our interpretation of The Turn of the Screw plus at least one other story from the module? 4. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues are short stories in poetic form. Identify similarities and contrasts between at least one of Browning’s narrators and the narrator of one or two prose texts you have studied on this module. 5. To what effect do writers modify the conventions of the genre in their late-nineteenth century versions of the ghost story? Your answer should discuss at least two texts from the module. You may include both stories by M.R. James, or one by M.R. James and a least one by either Oscar Wilde, Perceval Landon, or Henry James. 6. The Uncanny as developed as an idea by Freud is often regarded as a central concept in discussing the ghost story. Discuss the usefulness of Freud’s concept in an analysis of at least two short fictions by different writers, including at least one text from week 6 of the module. (Freud’s essay is available on My Beckett and you should make direct reference to it.) 7. References to the colonial world, in particular India, occasionally appear in nineteenth century ghost stories, and B.M. Croker’s ‘To Let’ is set entirely in India. Drawing upon contextual information, explain this connection between colonialism and haunting in ‘To Let’ plus one or more other story from the module. 8. Does Oscar Wilde’s parodic tale ‘The Canterville Ghost’ simply exist to mock the ghost story genre, or does it also poke fun at social customs and conventions? Discuss with reference to Wilde’s story plus at least one other text from the module.

A Veil in Their Minds and On Our Heads- Anthropology Argument

1) All Homework needs to be submitted as a file attachment. 2) All Homeworks are to be written as fully developed, college-level essays. They need to have clear introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. 3) All Homeworks are to be cited with appropriate support for your anthropology argument. Use APA style to do this and provide a Works Cited at the end of the essay. 4) All Homeworks are to be written in third person style and use all the good writing skills expected of college level work. Essays will be graded on both content as well as professional writing ability. In no more than 3 double spaced typed pages, answer the following question(s) and attach your response as an uploaded file. Submit your file as an attachment (reference the Course Information folder for further details. File formats accepted: .docx .doc .pdf .rtf only). In Islam, one of the easily visible markings of a Muslim woman is the use of a head covering (hijab). The veil has long been seen by westernized people as a sign of subjugation and male dominance over Muslim women. This combined with laws forbidding women to conduct certain activities in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan portrays to outsiders a religious system of female oppression leading some public institutions in western societies banning its use (for example France). Read the article, A Veil in Their Minds and On Our Heads, (Found in Learning Module #3) for a different perspective on veiling. How is the veil viewed by the article’s author? How is the veil seen as a protective and identity forming piece of clothing? What would be an equivalent for a non-Muslim? Or, is there one? In addition to the article, what do the tenets of Islam propose as a way to give rights and protections to women?

Philosophy Research Paper

Please pick a topic for your philosophy research paper, and write a 5-page persuasive paper. Please don’t write about abortion, the death penalty, mercy killing or stem cells. Please use at least 2 ethical theories to analyze your position. Please use at least 3 outside resources. Please use the MLA citation method. Include in-text citations and works cited page.