Consider a possible linear relationship between two variables that you would like to explore.
TOPIC: Choose a fast food restaurant. Variables: calories and price of item OR fat content and price of item for 20+ items

Directions: Create a PowerPoint with presenter’s notes describing your research project. A minimum of 10 slides is required, including a title and References slide. The presentation should address the following:
1. Describe the techniques and procedures that will be used.
2. State the hypothesis.
3. State general equipment that will be necessary and their intended use.
4. Describe type of data that will be collected and measurements that will be made.
5. Define and describe experimental units and be specific.
6. Define the population for generalization.
7. Define sampling technique and randomization, and include rationale.

LENGTH: Minimum of 800 words, Maximum of 1000 words

Writing Assignment 1 is a book review of one of the following class readings (you choose which one you would like to write on):
(1) Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2, Part 2, Chapters 1 and 2
(2) Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Section 1 (you will also want to use the Preface)
(3) Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Moral, Section 2 (you will also want to use the Preface). Note that this work is quite complicated and will be difficult to write on.
(4) Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8

This is academic book review (modified for our purposes) and so it will have the following parts:
• Statement of the author’s goal(s)
• Summary of what the author argues
• Your recommendation of the book (strong points, weak points, who would find it interesting)

The rubric below describes what each of these parts entails and how much each is worth. As the rubric shows, the most important part of the book review is the summary. This is worth half of the total grade and should take up most of your review. Your recommendation should take up no more than one paragraph. The first step to making a good summary is figuring out what the author’s goal or goals are (which is why I ask you to begin by describing that). Sometimes, the author makes finding their goal easy. For example, Kant explicitly states his goal: “The present groundwork is, however, nothing more than the search for and establishment of the supreme principle of morality” (p. 47). For other writers, it will be necessary to do some investigation. Once you have the author’s goal in mind, you will want to break the work down into parts (the author often does this already) to make the work more manageable. You can then describe how each of the parts contributes towards the goal of the work.

Please double-space your assignment and use a 12-point font. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format.
Item Description Points
Statement of Author’s Goals Does the paper offer a plausible statement of the main goal(s) of the selected reading? 2
Summary of Author’s argument Does the paper show how each part of the reading contributes towards the stated main goal? Is time spent on points proportionate to their importance to the main goal? 5
Recommendation Does the paper provide an opinion, with reasoning, of what the strong points and the weak points of the work? Does it recommend what sort of reader, if anyone, would benefit from the work? 2
Spelling and Grammar 1
TOTAL 10 points

Rubric:

Citations. You are expected to provide citations to the work you are reviewing to support your interpretation of the work. Citations can either be paraphrases or direct quotations. In either case, a reference to the relevant page number in the reading must be provided. There is no need to follow a specific format (e.g. MLA). Simply provide the page number, using the edition provided on TRACS, to the work being reviewed.

For this paper I just need Category Overview and Competitive Review section to be written (don’t need introduction). Brand information attached in the additional files folder.

Overview
For this project, you will work in a group environment in order to present a brand strategy and recommendation based on the parameters outlined below. Each member of the group must contribute to the final brief in some way.

Assignment Directives
During this semester, you will learn all of the key areas needed to develop a brand strategy. You will now be working on a hypothetical situation that will help you implement these skills in order to develop a brand strategy and subsequent advertising strategy and execution for a local business.

In this scenario, you and your team have been invited to pitch a brand and advertising strategy to a local restaurateur and her investors (subsequently referred to as your “clients”) who are opening a new concept restaurant in downtown Champaign. Specifically, your clients have purchased a vacant restaurant space at 6 E Columbia Ave. (formerly Escobar’s). The clients have experience running a wide variety of restaurants in other towns across the Midwest, but are seeking insight into the local Champaign market and are open to your recommendation for a unique new brand of restaurant – in any service style (e.g., fast food, casual dining, fine dining, etc.) and any food type (e.g., American, BBQ, Mexican, Chinese, etc.). Your clients would like to attract a young, affluent professional crowd to the new restaurant and are planning to open in the Fall of 2018.

For this first part of your group project, you will focus on developing a sound brand strategy. Directives for Part II, Advertising Strategy, will be released in the coming weeks. Your job now is to develop a written brief and short oral presentation about the new restaurant brand you develop.

Below are specific directives for the written brief:
C. Category Overview (Organic food)
• Describe the category itself:
o Is it growing?
o Provide sales figures for the category (last full yearly amount available)
o Who is the market leader nationally?
o Identify 5 direct competitors in this category and 3 indirect competitors (this should include both larger brands that operate in the area, as well as smaller regional or local brands(Champaign, Illinois)

D. Competitive Review
• Select 3 of the direct competitors outlined above (in section C) and provide the following for each:
o 3 features and the benefits directly related to those features
o 2 brand values
o What is the brand’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP)?
• Based on your analysis of the competitors, identify three concrete ways in which the new restaurant brand can stand out amongst the competition?

Explain if Mattel acted in a socially responsible and ethical manner with regard to the safety of its toys.
Describe what Mattel should or could have done differently.
Describe who or what was responsible for the fact that children were exposed to potentially dangerous toys.
Explain the best way to ensure the safety of children’s toys and consider how the following groups would respond: government regulators (in the United States and China); consumer advocates, the toy industry, children’s product retailers, and standard-setting organizations. Explain the differences in their point of view.
Describe what you think is the best way for society to protect children from harmful toys and discuss the appropriate roles for various stakeholders in this process.

Pick a disease that pertains to Human Physiology (keep away from cancer or viral and bacterial infections). Write a report (Maximum 1000 WORDS) on the physiological or biochemical effects of your disease. Also, you include disease history, symptoms, epidemiology, genetics, anatomy and the pathophysiology. Be sure to discuss the anatomical and physiological problems associated with your disease. Remember this is a physiology class, not a medical course. Keep the clinical stuff out of this paper. Do not pick a disorder that is very broad in scope that you cannot possibly write a two-page report on (example: heart disease)

Character Analysis
This typed 2-4 page paper should be double spaced with a 12 point font and 1 inch margins. Please include 6-12 sentences per paragraph and use your best grammar.Choose one character from Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson and create an analysis for the character based on evidence you find in the play.When you cite the Act and Scene numbers of your evidence, please do not use page numbers as you might with a novel. Please use the MLA Drama ciation by using a parenthesis, arabic numeral act, period, lower case arabic numeral for the scene number, and close with a parenthesis. In the quote below I am citing Act 2, Scene 3. See an example below:Shakespeare’s battling the class system of the time is essential in understanding Maria’s struggle against the hierarchy of Olivia’s household and her society. “Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?” (2.3).Although said in a drunken stupor by Sir Toby, it maybe a real question of equality. Maria has less money but is she really less valuable because of her poor lineage? It mimics Shakespeare’s later question “Hath not a Jew eyes” in this famed speech by Shylock in A Merchant of Venice.Write in complete sentences using the following questions as prompts. Do not write the questions.

1.What does your character say about himself or herself? Provide evidence using examples from the text by act and scene.
2.What do the other characters say about your character? Provide evidence using examples from the text by act and scene.
3.What are the motives that drive your character? List the things that he or shewants from the other charcters in the play. What seems to be the dominant motive for your character?
4.How does your character change during the course of the play? What are the important realizations that your character comes to during the play? What provokes the realizations? Where does the character begin? Where does the character end?
5.What is the history of your character? Put together all the information given by the playwright, your character, and the other characters.6.What is your character’s relationship to the other significant characters? How does it change?7.What does your character look like? Find several pictures that show clothes, physicality, or outlook.The pictures are not part of the 2-4 pages but in addition to so please make sure you have at least 2 full pages of text

First Quarter Paper – Article Analysis
Objectives: You are asked to critically analyze the quality of a historical article. You will need to access (from the link below) and read the article in order to judge its value. Your evaluation of the article will act as your thesis. Your body paragraphs will elaborate on your points and provide the evidence to support them. The evidence will come from the article itself as well as your own knowledge.
Guidelines: This paper will be of 3 pages in length in Chicago style. The cover page does not count. You will use 12-font, double-spaced, Times New Roman text. In order to evaluate the article, you may use outside sources, but they are not required. If you use any outside sources, you must have a bibliography and footnotes.
Article:
Brinkley, Douglas, “TRs Wild Side”, American Heritage, Fall 2009.
http://www.americanheritage.com/index.php/content/theodore-roosevelts-wild-side

This comparison of the grade 3 pencil paper PARCC test and the online grade 5 PARCC test is extra credit and worth 10 points. If you do not have a paper test from the face to face class, you can use the Grade 3 from the link below.

For the online gr 5 test, go to:

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/

Review the Computer Based Practice Tests Unit 1 and Unit 2 ( skip Unit 3).

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Grade 3 Paper Pencil Reading test: After reading thru the Gr 3 PARCC reading test, discuss the following questions.
• Describe two reading strategies that a third grader would have to know in order to successfully complete this test.
2 points
• Identify a benefit that either the teacher or the student would derive from this test. Explain why.
1
• Describe a hardship or confusion that this test may cause for a student.
1

Grade 5 Online PARCC Reading test: After going thru the Gr 5 PARCC reading test, discuss the following questions.
• Describe two reading or computer strategies that a fifth grader would have to know in order to successfully complete this test.
2 points
• Identify a benefit that either the teacher or the student would derive from this test. Explain why.
1
• Describe a hardship or confusion that this test may cause for a student or a teacher.
1
• As a teacher, explain which PARCC test you would want to give – the paper pencil version or the computer version. Be sure to give your reasons.
2

Identify and evaluate alternative courses of action (ethical judgment).

Legal issues:
Identify any legal issues.

Alternatives/ethical analysis:
List all the possible alternatives that could or could not be done.

MF Global Holdings, Ltd. (2011)
✦ MF Global, a major commodities brokerage firm filed for bankruptcy in October 2011, much to the shock of its customers. The company was led by Jon Corzine, the former New Jersey governor and senator.

✦ However, following some bad investments, the company decided to use consumer money to repay its liabilities. There have been reports that the firm had heavily invested in the European sovereign debts. Almost USD 1.6 billion of consumer assets were reportedmissing.

✦ The curious case surfaced as to where the money had evaporated from the account books. Those hit were farmers, small investors, etc.
The customers had to wait for almost two-and-a-half years until the final payout was made in April 2014.

Might have to do a little more research..

Following the APA formatting guidelines as described in the APA Style Guide, 6th edition , set up your paper defaults and create a cover sheet. You will double-space this essay, as you will all your work going forward unless directed otherwise. You will not cite external sources in this personal essay so you will not have a References page. You will also not be required to write an abstract for this project.

I’d like to know what you value and what’s important to you about your profession, your industry, your career, or your education. This is challenging! It requires a level of introspection so deep that no one else can do it for you. Use the following suggestions, adapted from This I Believe, as a guide:

Name your belief—If you can’t name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. You are writing an essay, not a list. Focus on one core belief, which you will explain, define, and develop through the essay.
Tell a story—Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in specific events of your life. Consider moments when your belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and life, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your professional or educational philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs. Tell me how you reached your beliefs, and if they have grown, what made them grow. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching—it can even be funny—but it should be real.
Be positive—Please avoid preaching, editorializing, or finger-pointing. This essay should not be about your views on the American way of life, democracy, or capitalism. (These are important but for another occasion.) This essay should explain what you live by, what you DO believe, not what you don’t believe.
Be personal—Avoid speaking in the editorial “we,” the projecting “you,” or the accusing “they.” The project is “this I believe,” not “this everyone believes,” “this my company believes,” or “this Americans/Russians/Scientologists believe.” Make your essay about you. Speak in the first person. 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.
In a 500-word essay, write a statement of personal and professional belief. Answer the questions: “What motivates you. What’s your professional passion? What do you believe?”

When you are satisfied with your essay, continue to the next step to submit.

Reference

“This I Believe Essay-Writing Guidelines,” Copyright ©2005–2015 by This I Believe, Inc. Reprinted with permission.