Documentary Film Response: Crigs and Bloods:
Made in America
After watching the documentary, write an informative personal response (5 paragraphs) based on the techniques of persuasion used by the filmmaker (at least use 3 techniques – Hyperbole, world choice, Example, Repetition ). Use specific
examples from the film to support each technique chosen.

Structure:
Paragraph 1- Introduction: This includes your overall opinion of the documentary as a persuasive text
and the three techniques of persuasion chosen.
Paragraph 2-Technique of Persuasion #1 with a specific example from the film
Paragraph 3-Technique of Persuasion #2 with a specific example from the film
Paragraph 4-Technique of Persuasion #3 with a specific example from the film
Paragraph
h 5 -Conclusion

Write an essay of no more than 2000 words on ONE of the topics below.
1. To what extent are myths charters for religious practice in the ancient world? Substantiate your
answer with examples from Greek, Roman and Near Eastern myths.
OR
2. To what extent are myths both traditional tales and a reflection of the culture in which they are retold?
Substantiate your answer with examples from Greek, Roman and Near Eastern myths.
OR
3. What can we learn about an ancient culture through the study of its myths? Substantiate your answer
with examples from Egyptian, Greek, and Near Eastern myths.Giving References in Assignments: the Ancient History Departmental Style Guide
A. Introduction: What are references for, and why are they necessary?
In nearly any assignment you are asked to do in an Ancient History subject, you will need
to give references showing where the ideas in the assignment have come from. Any
assignment is a combination of your own original ideas, things you heard in lectures and
tutorials, and things you learned from your own reading and research. As a general rule,
if an idea is your own, you will need to give evidence to support it, and if it is not your
own, you will need to say where you came across the idea, and why you believe it (or
don’t). Showing where an idea came from, and what the evidence supporting the idea is,
is one of the main jobs of references.
Broadly speaking, supporting evidence is of two kinds. First there is ancient evidence,
which is either statements by ancient writers (or simple deductions based on such
statements), or ancient objects or artefacts (or simple observations about such objects).
Second, there is modern scholarly opinion (which should be based, directly or indirectly,
on ancient evidence). You will need to keep the distinction between ancient evidence
and modern scholarly opinion clear in your mind, because there are different conventions
for referring to each of these.
When you give a reference either to a piece of ancient evidence or to a modern
scholarly opinion or opinions, the essential reasons for doing so are
1. intellectual honesty (admitting the idea was not your own original idea), and
2. providing the reader with the tools to check your work for themselves by showing what the
evidence is and where to find it.
You will soon learn how important this is to you in your own research. There is nothing
more frustrating than a modern historian making a significant claim (one you want to
make use of!), but not telling you what the evidence for the claim actually is! In the same
way, the reader of your assignment (who will usually be your marker) wants to know not
simply what you think, but also why you think it, and the evidence, ancient or modern,
which led you to your conclusion. That is what references are for: telling the reader
where the claims in your work are coming from.
There are many different styles of referencing. Here we will give you basic details about
three different styles, each of which is appropriate in particular circumstances. Different
publishers make use of different styles. Sometimes your lecturer will have a preference in
relation to a particular assignment. Sometimes you can decide which style suits a
particular assignment. But don’t mix and match within an assignment: stick to one style!
Please note: the Library has a number of online resources to help you with referencing.
An introduction to the topic can be found here; information about reference management
software can be found here.
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B. What basic kinds of references are there?
There are three basic kinds of referencing, which need to be combined in most
assignments. There are
1. Brief In-text references
or
2. Footnotes or Endnotes (we prefer that you use Footnotes. Modern word processors
handle footnotes very well, and they are easier to keep track of when you’re reading
the assignment than are endnotes).
and
3. Bibliographies.
C. Different reasons to use references, and the different kinds of references:
There are two basic reasons for using references in an assignment:
1. As above, they can be used to make it clear where a quotation, an idea or an argument came from.
2. They can also be used to explain or qualify a point made in the main text, or to qualify, or
give further details of an argument which would unnecessarily break up your main text.
If you only need to give references of the first type (to show where a quotation, an idea or
an argument came from, or to refer to ancient evidence or a modern scholarly opinion),
then you can either use simple “In-text referencing”, or you can use formal footnotes.
Footnotes can be in “author-date” (“Harvard”) format, or extended “author-title”
(“Traditional”) format. The difference will be explained below.
If you need to give references of the second type (giving further details or qualifying your
argument), you will have to use formal footnotes of one of the two kinds. Since there is
no point mixing up the two kinds of references together, if you are ever going to need
formal footnotes in an assignment, use them the whole way through the assignment for
all your references.
Whichever form of referencing you use, you will usually also need to give a
Bibliography at the end of the assignment. The Bibliography should include only works
you have actually referred to in the assignment (i.e. not ones you just have a feeling you
should have!). The Bibliography should usually be divided into ancient authors you have
referred to, and the works of modern scholars you have used, listed separately. Each list
should be sorted alphabetically by the name of the primary author. (Works by more than
one author or editor should be listed under the name which comes first alphabetically.)
Because Bibliographies are organised alphabetically, you should give the surname of the
author first, followed by their first name. (In In-text references and in footnotes you will
normally give the author’s first name or first initial first. See the examples given below.)
The only cases where you will not need a Bibliography are likely to be those where you
have been provided with all the necessary references in your Unit materials.
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D. Choosing a Referencing Style for an assignment
The choice between the three recommended referencing styles basically comes down to
three factors:
1. Does your lecturer or Department have a preferred style for this assignment?
2. How much information about your references will the reader need to be able to pick up “at a
glance”?
3. Does the variety of assignment mean you will need to give lots of explanatory comments or
qualifications to the argument in your main text?
If your lecturer or Department require a particular style, you should obviously go with that.
“Author-date” styles of referencing generally work to keep the amount of referencing
information on the page to a minimum: just the author, the date of writing, and a page
reference. All the other detail, like the title of the work and where it was published, is kept for
the Bibliography at the end. In some cases this works very well. “Author-title” styles put
more information on the page, and so take up more space and may distract from the main text.
If you will be referring to a small number of well-known works, without detailed interaction
with their opinions, you can use In-text notes in author-date style. But don’t forget to include
precise page references, and the full Bibliography at the end of the assignment!
If you will be adding explanatory comments or qualifications to the argument in you main
text, you will need to use formal footnotes so those comments and qualifications don’t break
up the flow of your argument. Author-date or author-title style? That depends on other
factors.
If you will be interacting with a relatively small number of well-known works, you would be
better off using formal footnotes, but could use the author-date style. Again, don’t forget
page references, and the Bibliography at the end, in the same style.
If you will be referring to a wide range of material, so that constantly having to cross-check
with the Bibliography would be frustrating for the reader, you would be best to use formal
footnotes and the author-title system. It takes a little more work, but it gives the reader more
information “at a glance”, without having to turn to the Bibliography, and perhaps lose their
place in the main text. There may turn out to be other factors in particular cases as well.
As you begin to build up a body of works you regularly refer to, you should consider making
use of reference-management software. Such software keeps a database of all the relevant
information about each work on your list, and can output references in a wide range of formal
styles. This means you can easily re-use items from one assignment’s Bibliography in a
second or third context. Over your University career you could build up quite a large
database, and save yourself a considerable amount of time.
For further information about reference-management software such as EndNote and
Mendeley, see the Library’s online resource page, here. The University provides students with
free licences for this software, if you decide to make use of it.
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E. How do you know when you should give a reference?
As a rule of thumb, if you know where an idea came from, you need to give a reference
saying so. Unless there is a good reason to put it earlier, in mid-sentence, a reference will
normally come at the end of the relevant sentence.
1. If the words you use are a direct quotation, whether from an ancient author or a modern scholar,
you need to give a reference (quotations also need to be in quotation marks!). Quotations should
be brief. In rare cases where you need to quote more than three lines of text, put the quotation in
its own paragraph and inset it from the margin with a “hanging indent”.
2. If the idea is your own, no reference is necessary, though you may still need to say where you
found the evidence that suggested the idea.
3. If the idea was given by staff in lectures or tutorials, there is no need to reference it: everyone
else in the class heard it as well (or should have!), so it’s “common property”.
If you read the idea in one place, you need to say what that place was. If you read it in two or
more places, you need to give a reference to at least one of them. Referring to more than one
may strengthen your argument. If you read it in almost everything you read for the
assignment, you probably only need to refer to one item.
If you refer to an idea more than once, you only need to give a reference the first time.
References normally count towards the word limit of your assignment: don’t let them get too
long or repetitious! (Note: references normally do count: Bibliographies don’t.)
If you refer to the same book or article more than once, you only need to give the full details
the first time (even if you’re using the fuller “author-title” style). The second, third and
subsequent times, you can give the author’s name and an abbreviation of the title of the work,
and the different page number. There’s no need to give the full details over and over. Once
again, references count towards the word limit!
If you don’t know where the idea came from, you haven’t been keeping careful notes of
your reading! One of the most basic habits of effective study is keeping track of where
you notice ideas! And don’t just keep track of the author, or the book or article: keep
track of the page reference as well. There is nothing more frustrating than knowing there
was a great idea somewhere in your reading, but not being able to remember where.
In brief:
1. If you directly quote either an ancient author or a modern scholar, you must set it within
quotation marks, and you must give a reference,
and
2. If you make use of an idea which you know is not your own, even if your paraphrase it in
your own words, you must give a reference.
3. Rather than give multiple footnotes in the one sentence, it is usually best to combine them into
one footnote. If necessary you can add brief explanatory comments in the note.

By the late 19th century, industrialization had transformed America in many ways, and most
obviously in the Northeast. One of the hallmarks of this time and place was the struggle between
labor and capital, or workers and employers. Working people fought for decades to establish
and maintain labor unions, but were rarely successful for more than a few years at a time.
Keeping in mind that America’s working classes had many different perspectives, what were
some of organized labor’s major goals and accomplishments, and why was it so difficult for
labor unions to win or even survive?
You should plan to write a cohesive, formal essay, at least 1300 words in length and up to about
1600 words, in which you develop an argument and advance it through making points and using
evidence to back them up.
The formatting is the usual – double-spaced, standard margins, normal sized font (11 or 12 point,
depending on which you choose) and so on.
Do not use outside sources for this assignment. You should only be referencing the textbook and
set of documents on Sakai, and whatever we may cover in class. You do not need to use all of the
documents, but you should use some of them, along with the textbook. The best papers tend to
blend together a variety of different types of sources, making for a stronger case.
You can just use parenthetical citations (Author, page number) after something you wish to cite.
All essays should have citations. Those with none or very few will likely earn a failing grade.
Since you will all be using the same sources, there is no need for a works cited page.

The topic is about public trust of female lead public agencies which include the social context and the rapidly changing gender dynamics in American society (#metoo, female candidates in the upcoming election, etc). Not just changes in any social and cultural norm, but focus on norms on gender and public perception.

The final paper must be at least 25 pages (double-spaced) (Times New Roman, 12-point, 1 inch margins, left aligned) excluding a cover page, table of contents, abstract, and references. It should explicitly apply concepts drawn from MPA core course work, readings and professional practice that aid in understanding the political, social, economic and managerial factors relevant to the context and issues identified in your thesis. The outcome should be improved understanding of problem, challenge, issue or phenomena of interest, including a specific professional or regulatory practice in the public or non-profit spheres. An acceptable Turnitin.com similarity rate should be lower than 15%.

The project may also include new lines of inquiry, projected project’s outcomes including some potential recommendations for action that could change an organization’s program or policy.
A minimum of 25 references is required. References must contain at least 20 sources from peer reviewed academic journals.

A Literature Review to locate your study within the context of a broader professional/scholastic literature. 1. Identify a research topic (and state it clearly and concisely)
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2. Conduct a comprehensive and thorough literature search of scholarly and professional journals and books on this topic 3. Identify the key sources that relate to your topic (select up to 20 articles’ titles) 4. Read and analyze 15 of these articles: identify the studies’ setting, design, methods, findings and contribution. Identify important quotes, with their pages 5. Assess each article’s relevance to your general topic or problem. 6. Regroup the articles by themes, approaches or methods. 7. Write an outline of your literature review: organize the information collected, synthesize it. Structure how you will be using each articles as sources of information for your topic’s review. 8. Express your ideas in a clear, concise way, and go over your drafts or preliminary versions several times before finalizing. 9. Formally cite all references consistent with professional standards and guidelines (consult regularly the APA Oviatt library guide to ensure you are on track with regards to your references style) 10. Provide a comprehensive bibliography if all the sources you consulted are not specifically refered to in the body of your text. 11. Add your annotated bibliography (summary of all 20 individual articles you have read) in appendix.

Evaluation criteria: 1- Structure 25% 2- Clarity 25% 3- Pertinence 25% 4- Originality 25%
 20 (min) scientific sources (peer-reviewed articles) properly referenced in your text and summarized in appendix;  Source’s pertinence to your General Topic  Clarity in reporting data from these scientific sources.  Quality of the synthesis (judicious use of your 10 sources / good description of what makes these sources important and relevant to your topic)  Structure of the text: Clarity and rigor in reporting the content of other authors’ research.
o 15 to to 20 pages, double spaced1, (excluding: cover page, references and appendix) Time new roman, 12 pts 1 inch margins (normal margins) o Includes: – o a list of all your references: all the works you cite in your bibliography (also called list of references) must be included at least once within the body of your paper o in appendix, an annotated bibliography of all referenced articles summarizing a minimum of 15 articles.

Description of research methodology: research’s approach, design, dimensions and strategies • Description of data collection methods and analytical methods (projected) • Discussion of Limitations: o Ethical consideration (confidentiality agreements, strategies for reducing bias, transparency of epistemological positioning) o Validity and Credibility of research (both internal and external) • Expected contributions: 1) Transferability / 2) Projected generalization capacity. • Research Closure Criteria Students should be mindful of their writing’s clarity, their project’s feasibility, pertinence, originality, credibility; design validity as well as transferability.

This assignment is inspired by a project NPR began over 50 years ago called “This I Believe”.

Tell a story about you(Starting College): Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events that have shaped your core values. Consider moments when belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and family, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching—it can even be funny—but it should be real. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs.

Name your belief: If you can’t name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. Also, rather than writing a list, consider focusing on one core belief.

Be positive: Write about what you do believe, not what you don’t believe. Avoid statements of religious dogma, preaching, or editorializing.

Be personal: Make your essay about you; speak in the first person. Avoid speaking in the editorial “we.” Tell a story from your own life; this is not an opinion piece about social ideals. Write in words and phrases that are comfortable for you to speak. We recommend you read your essay aloud to yourself several times, and each time edit it and simplify it until you find the words, tone, and story that truly echo your belief and the way you speak.

Here is a link to the website if you’d like to read or listen to a few examples:
https://thisibelieve.org/top/

THESIS STATEMENT AND OUTLINE

Your thesis statement should be your whole opening paragraph, not just one sentence. (Instructions will be attached)

For this assignment, you must write a thesis statement and outline for a paper on the following topic: In the Robin Hood stories and films, Robin Hood is portrayed as a complex figure who plays many roles. Using at least two of the primary sources you have read so far

(Fantasies of Justice in the Early Robin Hood Ballads” by Mark Leahy, “Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar”,Robin Hood and the Monk, “The Outlaws of Medieval England” by Danielle Coyle, and “The Robin Hood Principle” by Graham Seal ),

write a thesis statement for a possible paper that answers the following questions: How do the “Trickster” elements in the early Robin Hood ballads help make Robin and stories about him heroic in the eyes of the common people and help ensure the popularity of his legend? In other words, how does being a trickster (no matter which character is acting like a trickster) make a folk hero out of a common criminal?

Here is a very good (but not perfect) example of an Individual Case Analysis deliverable. This is from a case we will not be covering this semester, so focus less on the specific content and more on the level of detail in analysis, strategic nature of the recommendations and professionalism of the format.

Including two pages of original exhibits/appendices is optional so this particular analysis do not feature this. Please refer to the case-specific rubrics for the Nike & Starbucks cases.

Strategic Repositioning

General Electric (GE) is repositioning itself to be the world’s best infrastructure and technology company with a smaller financial services division. Their focus is on driving infrastructure leadership, investing in innovation, and achieving a culture of simplification to better serve their customers around the world. GE has grown its infrastructure platforms with major portfolio moves, investing in adjacencies and pursuing opportunities that are closely related to its core.

 

Transforming the Portfolio

GE is moving away from slow growing and non-core businesses such as appliances and NBC Universal, and turning to future-growth industries including clean-tech and health care. GE sold its Appliances business to Haier, and its ownership of NBC Universal to Comcast. In 2001, GE’s portfolio is: 40% industrial; 40% capital & insurance; 20% appliances, NBC, plastics. Since 2014, GE has become 60% industrial and 40% capital. In 2015, the company acquired Alstom’s Thermal, Renewables & Grid business. Alstom is a good strategic fit with GE, providing complementary technologies, global presence, and power services installed base.

 

Reducing the Size of GE Capital

In parallel, GE is making a concentrated effort to reduce the size of their capital business and align its growth with Industrial earnings. Although GE Capital used to produce 60% of GE’s profits, it made GE more vulnerable to changes in the macro-environment and can no longer generate acceptable returns. Thus, GE is selling most of the GE Capital assets and retaining those financial assets that support their core businesses. The financial services exits are unlocking significant capital that GE is reallocating to generate higher returns. In 2015, GE retired 6.6% of its public float through the Synchrony Financial split-off and plan to use the dividends to fund their buyback programs.

 

Multi-Business Portfolio as a Competitive Advantage

The new GE has a connected multi-business portfolio. Below are the major products in each department:

1) Power: power generation services, gas turbines, engine & generators, nuclear reactors, water systems. 2) Aviation: jet & turboprop engines; components & integrated systems for commercial, military, business; general aviation aircraft & ship propulsion applications, global service networks. 3) Healthcare: diagnostic imaging systems (MRI, CT, nuclear & molecular imaging, and digital mammography), surgical imaging products, ultrasound, pharmaceutical research & production tool. 4) Transportation: locomotives, diesel engines, drilling motors, mining equipment & propulsion system, motorized drive systems, software and analytic solutions to optimize rail & mining operations. 5) Lighting: light products and services, including industrial-scale lighting solutions. 6) Capital: GE industry-focused financial services verticals, including GE Capital Aviation Services, Energy Financial Services and Industrial Finance including healthcare Equipment Finance.

 

This connected multi-business portfolio has become the competitive advantage for GE – the infrastructure businesses were built upon technical and market leadership, and the diversity provides strength through disruptive events and commodity cycles. The company also developed the GE Store to drive advanced technologies for all of these business segments. The GE Store is a transfer of technology, talent, expertise, and connections through GE’s massive, diverse network of business and markets. Across its global network of nine technology centers, the GE Store has more than 3,600 of the world’s best scientists and engineers working for all the businesses. Each business can contribute to GE by providing unique expertise to the GE Store and leverages the GE Store to compete more effectively.

 

Current Performance

In the midst of this transformation, GE delivered good results. In 2015, the company grew its Industrial earnings per share by 19%, expanded the segment margins by 80 basis points, and returned $33 billion of cash to investors. Strong execution was reflected in share price. The company’s total stock return was +28% in 2015, above the performance of the S&P 500, which grew by 1%, and the industrial index, which declined by 4%. GE ended the year as the eighth most valuable company in the world.

 

Sustainability Strategies at GE

As a digital industrial company, GE has the tools to succeed in an evolving world and will continue to lead on sustainability through partnerships, digital solutions and new business models in the over 170 countries where it operates.

• Ecomagination is GE’s growth strategy to enhance resource productivity and reduce environmental impact at a global scale. As a part of this strategy, GE is investing in cleaner technology and business innovation, developing solutions to enable economic growth while avoiding emissions and reducing water consumption, committing to reduce the environmental impact in its own operations, and developing strategic partnerships to solve some of the toughest environmental challenges at scale.
• Healthymagination. GE is committed to developing and investing in innovations that deliver high-quality affordable and accessible healthcare to more people around the world. Healthymagination combines corporate venture capital with new business creation, external collaboration and thought leadership initiatives, alongside efforts in Human Resources, the GE Foundation, and with the GE Healthcare business, to provide a unique position to achieve this mission and drive innovation on a global scale. Through its Brain Health Initiative, GE has partnered with the Kavli Foundation and the Allen Institute for Brain Science to create a unified platform that allows neuroscientists around the world to better share, aggregate and analyzes research data. The company has also launched a program that encourages U.S. communities to work together to develop population health improvements by partnering with public and private entities.
• Unlocking Efficiency through Digital. As the world is marching towards an increasingly digital economy, GE launched Predix, the cloud-based platform for the Industrial Internet. With Predix as its foundation, the company will increase energy and materials efficiencies and reduce emissions across industries using the power of analytics. In transportation, GE locomotive control software can analyze data on train operations, weather and routes to deliver fuel savings and emission reductions of up to 17 percent. In healthcare, the GE Health Cloud can help unlock data, quickly and seamlessly so that clinicians can take action to improve outcomes and patient care around the globe.

 

Recommendation

Few companies in the world can combine technology, domain expertise, and manufacturing in the way that GE can. Consequently, there is a massive opportunity for GE to cross-leverage these areas of expertise and create game-changing solutions for itself and the industry at large. As the operating climate for industrial companies becoming increasing challenging, GE needs to focus more resources on developing the GE Digital, transforming the industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive.

 

Currently, GE is attacking this opportunity by marrying the physical and digital worlds, using technologies like the Internet of Things, sophisticated software, and big-data analytics. The company can invest more in R&D activities regarding to smart factories, smart operators and cyber security services. At GE, a 1% improvement in productivity across its supply chain represents an annual savings of $500 million that can be reinvested or distributed to shareholders. Worldwide, a 1% improvement in industrial productivity could boost global GDP by a staggering $10 trillion to $15 trillion over the next 15 years. Therefore, becoming a better digital industrial company will lead GE’s future growth.

Create a mind map to demonstrate the understanding of theories and collaborative teamwork in curriculum design and improvement. By viewing the final map, the reader will be able to determine the similarities, strengths, and weaknesses of the identified theories.

In addition, the connections and relationships to collaborative teamwork and the collaborative practices for your educational setting will be evident. A mind map is also a tool to assess student’s understanding of content relationships.

A mind map is a graphic organizer to help organize and present knowledge of the theories and research-based strategies for collaborative team work. Mind maps are not flow charts and they are not linear, with one concept following another. Rather, they give a visual depiction of the knowledge about the connections and relationships among theories, collaborative team work, and collaborative practices for an educational setting.

Mind maps help clarify thinking and brainstorm ideas until knowledge can be organized and demonstrated by connecting ideas.

Use the mind map below:

 

 

Demonstration of Proficiency

• Competency: Assess theories and practices focused on effective team collaboration in the design and improvement of curriculum.
  • Develop a thesis on theories on collaborative skills in curriculum development.
  • Analyze the relationships between theories of collaboration and curriculum development.
  • Explain differences and similarities among theories of collaboration.
  • Analyze relationships between effective group practices and one’s educational setting.
  • Reference theories and practices of collaboration from research.

Instructions

The mind map must contain a central idea in the middle—in this case, a thesis statement. The following list is not exhaustive of what your mind map might contain, but these items must be on the map with the relationships and connections to each other evident and explained. Other topics may be included. Let your mind go free and show all of your knowledge. Add as many nodes as relationships you find. You should not have only three on the map.

• A thesis statement on collaborative skills in curriculum.
• Relationships between theories of effective collaboration and effective group practices.
• Relationships between effective group practices and collaborative curriculum design.
• Relationships between effective group practices and your educational setting.
• Differences and similarities of theories of collaboration, effective group practices, and curriculum design.

 

 

CRITERIA	paper requirements
Develop a thesis on theories on collaborative skills in curriculum development.	Develops a thesis on theories; thesis is supported by examples of collaborative skills needed in curriculum development.
Analyze the relationships between theories of collaboration and curriculum development.	Thoroughly evaluates the relationships between theories of collaboration and curriculum development.
Explain differences and similarities among theories of collaboration.	Analyzes differences and similarities among theories of collaboration and supports the comparisons with appropriate examples.
Analyze relationships between effective group practices and one’s educational setting.	Evaluates how effective group practices are used or not used in one’s educational setting.
Reference theories and practices of collaboration from research.	Supports all mentioned theories and practices of collaboration with appropriate, academic resources.

 

The name of your business: La Luz Outpatient Clinic

A description of your business. Describe your idea; purpose, mission, vision, background information, and description of the product and or service. Discuss how your business will meet a significant marketplace need or solve a problem or challenge that currently exists in the community. Discuss why you believe it is worth pursuing.

Targeted location (Where you would propose to establish this business and explain your reasoning).

Market analysis: Define the target market for your idea, why you think it exists, what you believe to be the size of the market demand for your idea, and who your competitors will be. Discuss how you would bring your product or service to market (how you would go about building or developing your product, service or idea into a real, tangible product or service that customers would want and buy). Perform a S.W.O.T. Analysis.

Budget: Create a budget that shows and discuss what it would cost in terms of time and resources to bring it to market and make it available to the public. In doing so, outline your plans to manage revenue (compliance management), manufacture the product or perform the service (including the proposed manufacturing process or method of performing the service) and your projection of the production costs, which may include: material labor, employees, salaries, equipment facility, etc.).

Discuss risks and or uncertainties within your proposal: Outline what you believe are the most significant risks and uncertainties that you are likely to experience in bringing your idea to market and discuss how you would deal with them.

Marketing strategy: Discuss your marketing and sales strategies. In doing so, discuss: Your target market and how you plan to reach that market (e.g. distribution strategy, pricing strategy, promotion strategy). Discuss how your business will offer a unique value proposition and be able to sustain a competitive advantage in the market. Discuss your marketing plan and budget to promote the business online or offline.

Discuss expected Profit and Return on Investments (ROI): Estimate the revenues you expect to earn, as well as the costs and expenses you expect to incur, and the resulting profits you would expect to earn over the first 3–5 years. Remember, even a non-profit business needs to be able to bring in enough revenues to cover its expenses. Estimate the amount of money you think would have to be invested to get your business started.

Discuss your assessment of whether or not your business service is likely to be successful.

Please select five articles on a topic within social psychology (e.g., romantic love, discrimination, social cognition, helping behavior, etc.). The paper should include: title page, introduction, summary of each article (including any comparisons between articles), a discussion, and a reference page.
The paper must be written in APA format. Do not provide only a summary of each article, but instead make connections between the findings of the articles. For example, consider how the findings in Article 1 compare to the findings in Article 2. The paper should include a concluding paragraph that describes the key findings and any future directions for this area of research. The paper should be 4-5 pages in length plus the title page and reference page.