“Thank God For the Atom Bomb” 722
(The Norton Reader)

You will be performing a critical rhetorical analysis over the reading’s argument and how it was made. The purpose of this essay is to critique the author’s strategies in making and proving their claim, as well as judging whether or not it was successful in its argument. YOU ARE NOT WRITING ABOUT THE READING’S ISSUE OR IF YOU AGREE WITH THE AUTHOR OR NOT. NOR ARE YOU GIVING ME JUST A SUMMARY. Using the strategies discussed in class and your readings, you will analyze the chosen reading and write a 4-5 page (1200 – 1500 word) paper describing how the author employs the rhetorical techniques discussed in the course, contextual or situational factors that are relevant to the work and whether or not the author successfully accomplished his or her agenda based upon the elements of the rhetorical situation and use of rhetorical appeals. For example, you might look at the following, among others:• Author: (Who is the author?) Purpose: (What is the author trying to accomplish? – Why did the author feel the need to write the text?)• Audience/Relationship to the Reader: (To whom is the text addressed?)
• Context: (What are influencing factors surrounding the event of the text?• Where/When was the text written?)• Voice: (What is the overall tone of the text?)• Genre: (What type of writing is the text?) Strategies: (How did the author write the text? Does the author follow prescribed methodologies? Does the author deviate from the norm?) Effectiveness? (Is the author rhetorically effective? Does the text ‘move’ you? Does the text convincingly get you to think critically/differently about the topic/subject matter?) Your rhetorical analysis should demonstrate how the author utilizes one or more of the three elements of the rhetorical appeals:• Ethos: Appeals to the character and expertise of the writer or speaker• Logos: Appeals based on logic, reasoning, and evidence concerning the subject• Pathos: Appeals to the beliefs and values of the audienceYou do not have to talk about ALL of these ideas, but these are merely examples to help spur your writing. This essay requires at least one outside source to help give historical context to the piece, or background on the author/issue to give exigence, but no more than three sources. The majority of the essay should focus on a close examination of your chosen reading. These outside sources, along with your primary source/chosen essay must be quoted and cited in MLA format and be included in your MLA Works Cited at the end.

Scene Analysis Paper

Write a paper on the mise en scène in the opening scene from Laura (Preminger, 1944). What is the mise en scène communicating to the audience? Think about what kind of characters, world, and story are established through it, and what themes and meanings are implied. What has the mise en scène taught you about this story and these two people. Do not refer to the rest of the film. (In fact, do not watch the rest of the film until after you have written your paper.)

Remember mise en scène is everything in front of the camera – actors, costumes, props, sets, lights, and the arrangement of all of those elements both on set and within the frame. Do not discuss sound, editing, or narrative structure. But you may mention camera movements and positions if you desire. And you may refer to the dialogue to clarify who is who and what is going on.

The paper should be at least two pages long (about 550 words) but it can go longer. You do not have to mention everything in the scene (there’s a lot of stuff in there!) but try to include as much as you can. That said, be logical about what you leave in and out. For example, maybe just discuss the first shot or two, or just the last minute, or perhaps just focus on the actors and what’s going on with them.

Extra credit: after finishing the paper, watch the whole film and write a paragraph about how that changed or not how you see the opening scene.

Hand in a hard copy Thursday October 11th, and email an electronic copy. Double space, 12 point font, Times New Roman.

2,500 word Research Proposal.
For the Research Proposal students are asked to:

identify a current issue or problem in their area of study that requires further research to understand or to identify appropriate solutions.
A research proposal should include a concise literature review. You may choose to build on your research and literature review in Assignment 1
• develop a research design to address this issue or problem;
• justify the questions, methods and data that will be used; and
* propose tentative conclusion
* Table inserted into document of expected timeframes
* References

Note for this research proposal the time frames are as follows:

20 000 word Dissertation

International Business

 The paper assignment allows you to analyze any subject that interests you in the broad field of international business. While gathering information is an inevitable part of writing a paper, the focus should be on you analysis and hence your own contribution to the topic at hand. If you write a theoretical paper, your goal is to develop your own insights, to practice argumentative writing. An empirical paper can tackle any phenomenon or policy relevant to international economics. The goal is to learn to apply economic logic and insights from the class material to analyze the issue at hand.

The purpose of the B0ldrige fr0mework is simply to help
org0niz0tions, no m0tter its size or the type of he0lthc0re services it
offers, 0nswer three questions:
1) Is the org0niz0tion doing 0s well 0s it could?
2) How is the org0niz0tionʼs success confirmed?
3) Wh0t 0nd how should the org0niz0tion improve or ch0nge?
By ch0llenging students with the questions th0t m0ke up the He0lth
C0re Criteri0 for Perform0nce Excellence, students explore how well
their org0niz0tions 0re 0ccomplishing wh0t is import0nt to success.
The questions, divided into six interrel0ted process c0tegories 0nd 0
results c0tegory, represent seven critic0l 0spects of m0n0ging 0nd
performing 0s 0n org0niz0tion:
1) le0dership,
2) str0tegy,
3) customers,
4) me0surement, 0n0lysis, 0nd knowledge m0n0gement,
5) workforce,
6) oper0tions, 0nd
7) results.
As future he0lthc0re le0ders, students will:
0nswer questions to 0ssess the le0dership strengths of their current
he0lthc0re org0niz0tion.
consider how senior le0ders le0d the org0niz0tion (1.1) by ev0lu0ting the
org0niz0tionʼs:
mission, vision, 0nd v0lues
vision 0nd v0lues
promoting leg0l 0nd ethic0l beh0vior
cre0ting 0 successful org0niz0tion
communic0tion 0nd org0niz0tion0l perform0nce
communic0tion
focus on 0ction
consider how the org0niz0tion is governed 0nd how it fulfills its societ0l
responsibilities (1.2) by ev0lu0ting the org0niz0tionʼs:
org0niz0tion0l govern0nce
govern0nce system
perform0nce ev0lu0tion
leg0l 0nd ethic0l beh0vior
leg0l, regul0tory, 0nd 0ccredit0tion compli0nce
ethic0l beh0vior
societ0l responsibilities
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societ0l well-being
community support

Continuation of 1 and 2
Project: Final Project — Health Care Policy
Part 3: Health Care Policy
For Part 3 of the Final Project, you will provide an analysis of the policy issues surrounding the health care policy issue you selected. This requires significant research of policy analysis and economic, business, consumer and other policy factors related to your selected policy.
Note: In grading the Final Project Part 3, your Instructor uses a Final Project Rubric. Review the rubric prior to completing your Project Component.
All rubrics can also be found in the Course Information area in the course navigation menu.
The Assignment (2–3 pages)
For this component of your Final Project, describe how the health care policy issue you selected is related to policymaking from different broad perspectives, including social, economic, business, and cultural. Include this assignment labeled as Part 3 with a header in your combined file. Submit your cumulative file with Parts 1, 2, & 3 included. Only Part 3 will be graded this

With Structuralism—Poststructuralism-Postmodernism we went within the topics/methods of Genealogy and
Semiotics. There we tracked the ways in which Subjectivity, Meaning, Lived Experience, Space/Positionality, and
Perception were shaped by systems of Signification. Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche and Discourses addressed the
problem of how paradigms of historical knowledge and experience (including contemporary discourses) overlook
more microcosmic ‘forces’ and events that play within the layers of human being-in-the-world. Barthes’ reading of
urban experience addressed the active possibilities in our navigation of the ‘symbolic’ relationship of perception and
identity to the poetics of microstructered ‘sign’ dynamics, as opposed to the calculative point of view/measurements
of the urban-planning mindset and its utilitarian modes of writing the city and self. Our present transition maintains
this ‘existential’ itinerary, but it is as though the poststructuralist unfolding of dynamism on the side of the signifiersignified
relationship is unpacked more specifically within the play of ideas that comprise the writing and reading of our
literary and lived poetics.
1. Bakhtin’s account of Heteroglossia in novelistic style, and the ‘refraction’ within authorial intention opens itself up
to dialogical plays of forces (between literary characters, even within the stylized voices of a single sentence),
sometimes feels like a formalist way of accounting for revolutionary content that breaks with the formal
(monological). The relation of the author to language is like Barthes on the relation of the tourist/dweller to urban
architecture and perception, and to Foucault on the relation of the Genealogist to the structures of historical
becoming. Consider Bakhtin’s discussions of the Comic/Parody style (274f), the Character Language/Autonomy
techniques (283f), and how Incorporated Genres that stratify linguistic unity (286f).
2. Near the bottom of Bakhtin’s p.280 there is a summary point about ‘stratification.’ Then in pgrph 2 on p.286
there is a summary statement about the ‘dialogized zone’ carved out within character interchanges. And at the
bottom of p.288 we find a comment on ‘double-voiced discourse’. Finally on p.292 these elements are tied together
into the themes of ‘heteroglot’ and historical ‘becoming.’ Try to connect these steps/insights, and track how the
novelistic attention is also at the same time an existential reflection more broadly.
3. Kristeva’s attention to the psychoanalytic situation at work within Signification draws us into other layers of our
semiotic formation and experience, both in terms of the situation Subjectivity is in and the intertexual Method for
‘reading’ this situation. This attention picks up where Bakhtin seems to have left off – the social and speaking
subject and not just the intersubjectivity between authors and their characters. Thus, the course of ‘refractions’ lying
on the surface of storied experience is still there, but also located ‘within’ the process of how human becoming
traverses the internal and societal realms. And it is almost as if her use of Plato’s Chora on one hand appreciates
Barthes’ emerging distinction between stable signifiers and mobile signifies, yet on the other places ‘both’ within a
deeper positional flux of heterogeneity. Barthes’ ‘reader’ and Foucault’s ‘genealogist’ could here serve as Analysts,
whereas the dynamics they account for could function as the Analysands. Consider how her process of
interpretation includes a ‘healing’ vocation that might supplement or diverge from their more decalcifying function?
4. Kristeva’s practice of elaborating the formative modes of ‘poetic meaning’ links with Bakhtin’s ‘transgressive’
focus on the (dialogical) literary word as an ‘intersection of textual surfaces rather than a point (a fixed meaning)’
(p.36). We need to have Bakhtin’s account of Heteroglossia as well as his earlier work on Dostoevsky’s poetics in
mind here; and Kristeva goes into considerable detail. In working toward her conclusion at p.59 regarding the
‘dialogical principle for a space of thought much larger than that of the novel’, how has her own semiotic-LacanianDerridean
lens enriched her case for reading ‘space and infinity’ (p.58) in narrative structure (Bakhtin) as a
promising, yet still somewhat ‘naïve’, advance for dialogism? Specifically, within her close reading of Bakhtin, what
elements has Kristeva been adding to the critique of ‘epic monologism’ (see p47-49 for example)?
5. Stepping back a bit, we might say that both authors work with a laser-like focus that displays the strategic
interaction of their ‘methods’ with their ‘topics’ (topics which again here involve the case for the methods in use). In
simple terms, how might we report on, and even apply in our own philosophical and artistic work, this intertextual
approach to matter and method?

This essay should be a 825 word essay, at a minimum.

Choose 1 of the following topics, and write a thesis-driven essay in response to that topic:
1. The Tragic Hero: In Oedipus Tyrannus, should we view Oedipus as tragic only, or can we find something heroic in his actions and end? Support your argument by discussing only events and lines from the play.
2. Being Human: Consider Oedipus’ attempts to outrun prophecy: what does Sophocles seem to be arguing, through the play, about human potential and limitations? Support your argument by discussing only events and lines from the play.
3. Learning Culture from Literature: choose 1 poem by Li Bai, and analyze it for a picture of the culture in which Li Bai was writing. What is one piece of information about that culture that we can infer from the poem, and what does Li Bai seem to be saying about that information? Support your argument by discussing only passages from the poem you chose.
4. Shared Themes: Choose one (1) poem by Li Bai, and identify in it a theme that you also can find in Oedipus Tyrannus. Compare and contrast the two works’ treatment of the theme. Do they deal with that theme in a way that is more alike or different? Focus your thesis on arguing how the treatments are more similar/different, and support your argument by discussing only passages from the two works.

• This should be a close reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the story or stories that you discuss. ***You may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor’s approval***.
• The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the sample essay attached below) and use MLA citations. A works cited entry and in-text citations for each text discussed are required.
• The essay should be focused on making a debatable claim about the work(s) in question; informational essays or essays consisting of summary are not appropriate. The claim should be supported with discussion of specific passages from the text(s) on which the essay is focused. The essay grading rubric can be found here.

One of the keys to being prepared for the complexities and pace of change in today’s business
environment is to be up-to-date on relevant events, trends, and insights. Therefore, regular, in-class
discussions about companies and current business issues will be a significant focus of this course.
Instructions:

• Choose a business-related article from one of the approved sources list (can be found on page 5
of this document and on BlackBoard). Your chosen article must be less than two weeks old.
• Create an outline using the template on page 3. There is also an example of one from an actual
article on page 4 for your reference. You should not do additional research to find out
information about companies; simply outline the information in the article.
• Written outlines are to be no more than one page.
*Hints for choosing an article and creating your outline:

• Choose and article that is approximately 7-10 paragraphs in length in order to have enough to
summarize.
• Keep your audience in mind. How much detail is appropriate/necessary? Why is this article
interesting? What do you want the audience to take away?
• Try to pick topics about markets, companies or industries that you are genuinely interested in.

Directions for handing in your assignment:
• Submit to BlackBoard
• Bring paper copy to class
SBS220 – “CURRENT BUSINESS NEWS SUMMARY” OUTLINES #1 and #2
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STRUCTURE & GUIDELINES
Outline Template:

Article Title: Title from publication

Source: Use APA standard citation.
Link to Article: web address of the article
I. Main Idea – A succinct statement about the article’s content and
purpose (1-3 sentences).

II. Facts / Background – What do we know to be true or factual from
the article? What is relevant as well as what provides the audience
with sufficient background knowledge?

1. Fact/Background 1
a. Specific/example/evidence of “1”
b. Specific/example/evidence of “1”
c. Specific/example/evidence of “1”
2. Fact/Background 2
a. Specific/example/evidence of“2”
b. Specific/example/evidence of “2”
c. Specific/example/evidence of “2”
3. Fact/Background 3
a. Specific/example/evidence of“3”
b. Specific/example/evidence of “3”
c. Specific/example/evidence of “3”
III. Reaction & Results –
1. What is the outcome, potential change or warning?
2. What do experts/analysts/executives say?

IV. Conclusion – What fact, lesson, or new knowledge do you want
the audience to take away from your outline summary of the
article? No opinions.

An example outline is included on the following page.

SBS220 – “CURRENT BUSINESS NEWS SUMMARY” OUTLINES #1 and #2
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*OUTLINE EXAMPLE FROM AN ARTICLE*

Article Title: Workers Win Supermarket President’s Job Back
Source: Seelye, K. and de la Merced, M. (2014, August 27). Workers Win Supermarket President’s Job Back –
Market Basket’s Board Announces Deal to Reinstate Ex-Chief. The New York Times. Retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com
Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/us/market-basketsettlement.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A6%22%7D
I. Main Idea: Fired Market Basket CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas, will gain full control of the grocery chain after the board
approved his bid to purchase the remaining portion of the business from his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas and his
allies. This deal ends a 6-week employee protest, public rallies and customer boycott of the chain in response to
the firing of Arthur T.
II. Facts/Background
1. Privately held grocery chain with stores in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts
a. 2 million customers
b. 49.5% owned by Arthur T. Demoulas
c. 50.5% owned by Arthur S. Demoulas
2. Employees and customers protested firing of Arthur T.
a. CEO Arthur T. was fired in mid-July
b. Employees from all ranks (clerk to management) stood together to resist the firing of beloved CEO
b. Shoppers supported the employees and honored the boycott
c. Protests led to company loss of millions of dollars/week between mid-July and the end of August
3. Deal was negotiated and approved to meet the demands of workers
a. Governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire stepped in to mediate when there was a
stalemate
b. Arthur S. and his allies agreed to sell their 50.5% stake to Arthur T.
c. Price was about $1.6 billion
d. Valuation of the company is estimated to be $3.2 billion
3. Arthur T. will return to “day to day operational authority”
a. Will assume official CEO role when deal is finalized
b. Current co-CEOs, Felicia Thornton and James Gooch, remain in roles until deal is finalized
c. Expected final transaction in February 2015
III. Reactions and Results
1. Professor of work and employment research from MIT Sloan School of Management, Thomas
Kochan said, “Market Basket has done more to educate us on how to manage a business than any
business case study that has been written to date.”
2. Christopher Mackin, lecturer at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations remarked at the
rarity of the outcome. He said, “This show of group solidarity achieved what employees and
customers asked for…This is unheard of in corporate America.”
3. $3.2 billion valuation may be high since the business plummeted for 6 weeks, but analysts are
optimistic about a quick rebound with help from employees.
IV. Conclusion: The protests and boycott that Market Basket employees staged (and customers followed) led to
their demands being met with acceptance of a bid by Arthur T. Demoulas’ to purchase control over the
company. The outcome of this situation is unique in the united commitment by employees and customers, and
because it emphasizes the power that employees have in a business. This situation brings forth many lessons in
business management, leadership and employee relations.
SBS220 – “CURRENT BUSINESS NEWS SUMMARY” OUTLINES #1 and #2
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Grading Rubric

Follow the guidelines below for full credit for your “Current Business News Summary” outline.
Content
(4 pts.)
• Writing is clear and succinct
• Outline is one page in length
• No grammatical or spelling errors
• No personal opinions included (e.g. do not use the phrases “I believe” or “I
think”) – just include the facts of the article
Organization
(4 pts.)
• Main idea is clearly stated
• Summary points and background information are logically introduced
• Clear summary/closing statement
• Formatting matches example provided (see page 3) and enables high skim value
Sourcing (2
pt.)
• Article is from one of the approved online sources list and is business-related
• Source is written in APA format

Assignment Instructions

Goal: To demonstrate your ability to expand upon the project plan through the incorporation of research-based content.

Tool: Utilize PowerPoint to communicate your research findings to an audience.

Instructions: During the last six weeks you developed a project plan, researched the content of the plan, and collected sources. Now, create a PowerPoint presentation that effectively communicates the knowledge you have gained during your research process. Before you begin, review the assignment’s requirements below.

Requirements:

Use your Project Plan and the Source Organization worksheet as guides for the content for your presentation.

Well organized presentation to include an introduction, body, conclusion, and properly formatted reference/work cited slide in the citation style of your degree program (APA, MLA, Chicago).
Three (3) vetted credible sources. One (1) of the sources must be scholarly and from the library.
Appropriate length 7-9 slides and 2-3 minutes, if presentation is voice narrated.
Clear evidence topic was researched, expands upon the project plan, and includes appropriate source attributions.
Presentation provides audience with substantive information to increase their knowledge of the topic presented.
Engage the audience through the use of elements such as images, graphs, and charts. These must include appropriate attributions.

If you have advanced skills and want to try one of the following enhancements, please feel free to stretch your skills. As you think about whether you want to implement an enhancement, consider how it will impact your presentation and its intended audience.

Voice narration, closed captioning, script
Appropriate background music (must be cited on reference page)
Creative use of slide animations and transitions

After submitting your presentation, review your TurnItIn Originality Report. (Note: Review the individual flags, decide why that text is flagged, and make corrections as appropriate.).

Use the rubric below to ensure you are meeting forum expectations.