A: Bad News Letter: Problem with service
Scenario:
Just last week, your academic organization held a three-day international conference at a
local hotel. You coordinated the logistics. About two-hundred people attended —
participants (mostly research scholars, professors/teachers from universities/colleges in
Canada as well as different countries, local colleagues) attended the conference and took
part in its proceedings.
Throughout the three days of the conference, the event faced many problems: necessary
equipment was missing or did not work (be specific); lunch on the second day was an hour
late; coffee and tea were cold on the first morning; and event staff spoke rudely to you and
to at least one of the participants, who complained bitterly to you. You spoke with the event
manager at the hotel repeatedly during the conference to express your concerns and to try to
get everything working right.
You have discussed the situation with your supervisor and with your organization
colleagues, and everyone agrees that the organization should not pay the full fee to the hotel.
Plan a responsive letter (in response to the invoice from the hotel) to the manager at
the hotel, explaining why the organization is not paying in full and suggesting future
steps.
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Instructions:
1. Write a short paragraph or two explaining your Goal for the letter, and analyzing both
Audience Need and Barriers facing this communication.
2. Write a formal letter. You should include letterhead and other features to make the letter
as professional and ‘real’ as possible

What are the benefits (e.g. cultural maintenance, provision of services, etc.) and challenges (e.g. exclusion, stereotyping/prejudice, etc.) of ethnic residential concentration in the suburb of Cabramatta?

Note: I have conducted a self-guided field trip to Cabramatta in south-western Sydney to collect data for use in the essay. I will upload the photos that I took for this essay in a separate document.

The essay must include three (3) of my own illustrative photographs which present the 3 benifits we are going to talk about.

Note: you can talk about the challenges without using any photographs.

The benefits and the challenges could be language, religions, culture diversity, etc.

Referencing: 5 academic references including at least two (2) sources that you find yourself (i.e. NOT on the list of for Assignment 2 (see the suggested readings list in the learning guide under the section Photographic Essay).

“Apoptosis, Crossover, and Tumor-suppressor genes”

For your primary post, please respond to one of the following three topics with a post of at least 125 words that addresses each point given in the instructions. Also, please reply to at least one fellow student on any topic.

Topic 1

: Apoptosis. Watch the Khan Academy video about apoptosis (1)*, then address the following issues in your own words:

(a) What is the difference between apoptosis and necrosis?
(b) What is the role of apoptosis in the normal, healthy development of animals?
Reminder: you don’t need to cite the Khan Academy video for this topic, but if you use any other sources, you must cite them.
Topic 2 [article]: Crossover. Read the article from the University of Rochester on a gene that influences crossover rates in fruit flies. Then address the following:

(a) Explain the relationship between crossover, genetic diversity, and natural selection.
(b) Summarize the findings regarding a gene that influences crossover.
Reminder: you don’t need to cite the University of Rochester article for this topic, but if you use any other sources, you must cite them.
Topic 3 [research]: Tumor-suppressor genes versus Proto-oncogenes. This is a library-research topic in which you are required to provide your sources. Mutations in tumor suppressor genes can contribute to or cause cancer, just as mutations in proto-oncogenes can also contribute to or cause cancer. However, tumor suppressor genes are very different from proto-oncogenes.

(a) Explain why a gain-of-function mutation to a proto-oncogene (or its promoter) may be associated with increased risk of cancer.
(b) Explain why a loss-of-function mutation to a tumor suppressor gene may be associated with increased risk of cancer.
References:

Khan Academy, No date given. Apoptosis

, https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cellular-molecular-biology/stem-cells-and-cancer/v/apoptosis
Lindsey Valich, April 19, 2018. Scientists discover gene controlling genetic recombination rates. http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/genetic-recombination-selfish-dna-may-help-explain-differences-in

Beethoven: Art and Protest in the 1800s

Please respond to each of the following questions, using on line sources and the textbook for your response:

Cite several lines from a Romantic poet/poem in our text and then find a landscape painting by Constable or Turner from this time period you think might illustrate those lines. Consider poems from Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Bryon, or William Blake.
Listen to one (1) composition (i.e., for a symphony) by Beethoven. How would this music fit into one of your favorite computer games? Give us some details about the game and why you like to play it. Here is a link that describes 15 great video game music scores (is your game on this list?) http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/video-game/video-game-music-15-great-computer-game-scores/halo/
The Beethoven-Haus Website at http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=portal_en (Note: Click on Digital Archives > Works by Ludwig von Beethoven; then find one [1] of his symphonies and listen to a clip.)

Beethoven’s Eroica at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XL2ha18i5w and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RFG5rG

Project Outline

1. Select a country (after checking availability of the required data on GDP and the macroeconomy).
2. Gather data for the last ten years (if data is not available for 10 years, then at least 7 to 10 years as available) for the following variables:
a. Nominal GDP.
b. Real GDP
c. Per capita GDP (calculate if necessary).
d. Inflation rate
e. Unemployment rate
Use the above data to draw timeline graphs for each variable.
3. Identify and study the periods of recession and/or inflation revealed by the graphs and your research of the country’s macroeconomic data/information.
4. Research, identify and discuss the economic policies implemented by the government and the central bank during the crises identified in item 3 above in the context of our discussions in class and the readings in the text. In particular, discuss any policies related to taxes and government spending carried out by the government and their reasons for doing so, and any policies carried out by the central bank in regard to interest rates and their reasons for doing so. In addition, please discuss the outcomes of the implementation of the policy(ies).

Format:

SIze 11, standard Margins.
Pages are not well specified, since this will be a business paper.
expected to use graphs, charts or pictures.

For this assignment, you will examine some software system you’re familiar with from a variety of perspectives: introducing new users to the system, proposing changes to the system, and promoting the changed system to its users.

Imagine, for example, that you are in charge of UCI’s Gmail-based electronic mail system. Periodically you will have to instruct new users on how to use Gmail. You might write an introductory document, explaining the basics of electronic mail and the kinds of operations one might expect to perform (creating a message, sending it, receiving a message, printing it, saving it, and so on); later in that document, or in another document, you might give a tutorial providing the details of carrying out those operations (the specific commands to use), perhaps with a set of examples the reader would follow. You might also give an oral introduction to Gmail to groups of new users or create a video of that introduction.

In addition, you might think that Gmail could be improved in various ways (such as a fancier user interface or additional features). Probably you would have to convince someone that these changes would be worth implementing. For UCI’s Gmail, it could be the director of UCI’s Office of Information Technology or the director of the Gmail project at Google; for some other system, it might be your boss or a committee in charge of deciding what software enhancements are most important. You would make your case both in a written memo and in an oral presentation.

Any change in an existing system is likely to disrupt the system’s current users. If your change were implemented, you would want to reassure the current users that the new system will be better for them—to “sell them,” in other words, on your changes. Again you might prepare something written, such as a flyer or brochure or memo or web page, and also make a short oral presentation or announcement with the same intent.

For this assignment, you will choose some software that you’re familiar with and do each of these things. As you develop each of these different documents (and their corresponding oral presentations), focus on how the audience for each document is different—they have different experience, different needs, and so on, which means that how you write for each will be different, too.

introduction for novices: You will write an introduction to the system for novice users, of three to four pages. This document should give a high-level description of the system and its capabilities, describing what tasks the system will perform and giving the necessary background. It should not get into the tedious minor details of which keys to press or which menu items to choose; the “Writing Instructions” project covers that kind of writing, and those details would extend this assignment far beyond four pages in any case. A good draft of this is due on October 19; the final version is due October 26. (All written assignments are due at the start of class.)

You may choose any biological, chemical or physical agent (physical
agent being a source of ionizing or non-ionizing radiation) which presents an
environmental hazard, directly or indirectly, to humans. You must describe what the
agent is, the nature of the risk (e.g., exposure effects), how it moves through the
environment before reaching a target host (e.g., soil, groundwater, food chain, human),
and how it moves (and possibly changes) within the body following entry. Include
hazard source(s) and recommendations for control measures. The paper represents 25%
of your grade.
Length: 6 – 8 typed (double spaced) pages, excluding references. References must be
from peer-reviewed sources in science literature, cited (numerically sequenced within the
body of the paper and a separate reference page included. Paper is to be submitted
electronically only on the class blackboard, as a MS Word document

You will design your gallery as if you were guiding a visitor to each work of art. You may draw from images that you find in Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective or from a website listed on the ART101 Museum and Images Website document located in your classroom that incorporate the characteristics significant of your chosen movement and time period. You may also choose to reflect back on your weekly art journal entries for any works of art relevant to this movement.

In your gallery, include the following:

A brief introduction to your gallery, which includes a description of the movement and the time period to which your gallery is dedicated.
Six images of works of art that incorporate the characteristics significant to movement and time period. Along with each image of a work of art, include the citation for the work of art. A summary of how the media (materials), methods, and subject are significant to that time period and region, using appropriate art terminology.
A summary of how iconographic, historical, political, philosophical, religious, and social factors of the movement are reflected in the work of art.
Make use of at least three scholarly sources from ProQuest and JSTOR in addition to the course text.

Online Price Tracking

Got your eye on a new 32-inch Samsung television? Well, you better not purchase it in December—that’s when the price was highest on Amazon.com ($500 versus $400 in November or February). Most consumers know that prices fluctuate throughout the year, but did you know they even fluctuate hourly? You probably can’t keep up with that, but there’s an app that can. Camelcamelcamel is a tool that tracks Amazon’s prices for consumers and sends alerts when a price hits the sweet spot. This app allows users to import entire Amazon wishlists and to set desired price levels at which emails or tweets are sent to inform them of the prices. All of this is free. Camel makes its money from an unlikely partner—Amazon—which funnels price data directly to Camel. Camel is a member of Amazon’s Affiliate program, kicking back 8.5 percent of sales for each customer Camel refers. It would seem that Amazon would want customers to buy when prices are higher, not lower. But the online behemoth sees this as a way to keep the bargain hunters happy while realizing more profitability from less price-sensitive customers. This is an improvement over Amazon’s earlier pricing tactics, which charged different customers different prices based on their buying behavior.

9-9. Go to http://us.camelcamelcamel.com/ and set up a free account. Track 10 products that interest you. Did any of the products reach your desired price? Write a report on the usefulness of this type of app for consumers.

9-10. Camel is not the only Amazon tracking or online price-tracking application. Find and describe an example of another online price-tracking tool for consumers.

In a rhetorical analysis essay, you are expected to interpret & evaluate/assess the ways
in which a writer or speaker conveys a point to a targeted audience through various devices,
including vocabulary, metaphor, hyperbole, example, allusion, and others. Your job, as the
analytical writer, is to break down, dissect, observe, and describe the argument’s major point
and describe how each element is meant to convince their target audience of the overlying
message and whether the text does that successfully or not.
Essentially, you will write an essay that answers WHAT the author’s main purpose and
message is, WHAT audience it targets, and HOW the author uses rhetorical elements,
strategies, and devices (covered in class discussion and the textbook) to persuasively convey
his/her message to an identified audience. When in doubt, always try to answer the question:
What is this article’s, novel’s, commercial’s meaning and how is this article/novel/commercial
using rhetoric to make its audience believe, be persuaded by it, or be informed by it?
This means that reading comprehension is crucial: You must first recognize and
understand the author’s purpose. Then, you have to read between the lines: What rhetorical
strategies has the author chosen and why? In other words, you have to rhetorically situate that
article you’re analyzing.
You should NOT see yourself as part of the audience. You should stand apart as
observers. You see the audience. You see the author. What is the author doing in order to affect
the minds of the audience? Pretend as if you are an omniscient observer who has the ability to
see the devices/techniques of the speaker and their effects on the audience.
Now, below is a list of possible articles that you will explore. First, after reading the list,
decide on what speech or writing you will choose for your rhetorical analysis.
(All of these works can be found by simply doing a Google Search or just click the links to the
articles below). Pick only ONE to analyze.
Adapted and Inspired from Shelley Manns’ work
● Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
● Tennessee Says A Third Of Its High School Graduates Didn’t Meet Requirements
● The future of medicine is food
● To be happier, stop focusing on things out of your control
● Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person by Oliver Burkeman
● Studies find high achievers underestimate their talents, while underachievers
overestimate theirs
● Ronald Reagan’s Address to the nation on the Challenger (Google Search)
● The mindset that makes many women stay in toxic relationships
● Study: Trump and Clinton supporters accept new information when it conforms to their
desires
● Bernie Sander’s “Poverty in America: A Death Sentence”
● White nationalist movement growing much faster than Isis on Twitter, study finds by
Feliks Garcia
● It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
● Today’s dieting trends are tricking people into thinking fruit is unhealthy
● Why intersectionality can’t wait by Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw
● Beating yourself up is not as helpful as you think
All essays are to be written in accordance with MLA guidelines (2016 updates). Essay will be
between 800-1000 words. Margins should be set at one inch, although the Microsoft Word
default of one and one-quarter inch is acceptable. Font should be 12 point Times New Roman or
Calibri. Students should NOT provide title pages or enclose papers in any type of folder. When
sources are used, appropriate documentation must be included. Papers must be typed.
Handwritten papers will not be accepted. Use correct grammar, word choice, sentence
structure, spelling, and punctuation. When or if in doubt, please refer to the sample MLA essay
that available through the class’ Google Doc folder.
A Quick How-To Refresher:
First, you must decide how you will proceed with the paper. You must select THREE
rhetorical elements that stand out to you in the piece that make it a good/bad piece of rhetoric.
Perhaps one of the elements that will be a part of your thesis that you will hone in on will be the
use of language used in the piece. Here, you would talk about the vocabulary used in the work;
the use of “slang” hindered the understanding of the work. Or maybe you will address the use of
extremely “unidentifiable” words, and that such use of these words only confuse and exacerbate
the reader, making the reader feel inadequate or uneducated. Whatever elements you choose,
you must make sure that you use the piece itself to support what you are saying. Remember,
you have an entire paragraph to defend your point.
Adapted and Inspired from Shelley Manns’ work
Lastly, within this analysis, you are only to use the piece itself. You can do minor research to get
an idea of who the person is and some basic information about the writer and background on
the work. Basic background information is perfectly fine; usually that information is common
knowledge information.
● Make sure to flesh out your paragraphs by referring back to the work itself…and make
connections…
● Review all handouts, examples, and reading assignments on the Course Calendar for
this Essay