The document outlines an assignment for a leadership paper. Students are asked to write a 4+ page paper about a leader they admire from business, politics, religion or history. They must use at least 3 references to research the leader's abilities, leadership style, impact and how it relates to course concepts. The paper should analyze the research in relation to class materials and textbooks, and express insights and evaluations of the leader. It provides questions to help guide analysis, such as the leader's power and skills, effectiveness, development, success factors, inspiration of trust and ethics. The paper is due September 26th and students must submit preliminary information by September 15th.

1. Assignment SIX Visual Art & Society
• Complete the Homework 6 QUESTIONS PART ONE
Homework Comprehension Questions: Please respond to the
following questions?
1.What was Black Mountain College? Briefly describe the
intellectual interests and ideas of its faculty and students.
2.Who was John Cage? How did he influence visual art in the
1950s?
3.Briefly explain how Alan Kaprow believed his work followed
from Jackson Pollock.
4.Contrast the approach to painting represented by,
respectively, Jasper Johns and the earlier Willem de Kooning.
5.What are some of the similarities and differences in
Rauschenberg’s combine painting series and his later
silkscreens?
6.How would you sum up the stylistic and philosophical
differences between the “Beat” generation and the earlier
Abstract Expressionist artists? Which would you defend as
more successful in their artistic accomplishments?
PART TWO
Discussion: Is a "happening" visual art?
1. After you've considered Alan Kaprow's "happenings," how
would you defend these against the following simple deductive
argument about aesthetics.
2.Premise 1: Art takes the form of human-made material objects
with specific aesthetic attributes (line, color, texture, value,

2. deliberate composition).
3.Premise 2: A happening involves loosely-orchestrated,
performative encounters in which human-made material objects
are secondary
4.Conclusion: A happening is therefore not art, though it may
be some thing else (theater perhaps)
5.Try to undermine one of the premises. For example, how
could you persuasively define art without material objects or
specific attributes (thereby undermining premise 1)?
Assignment
SIX
Visual Art
& Society
• Complete the Homework
6 QUESTIONS
PART ONE
Homework Comprehension Questions: Please respond t
o the following

3. questions?
1.
What was Black Mountain College?
Briefly describe the intellectual interests
and ideas of its faculty and students.
2
.Who was John Cage?
How did he influence visual art in the 1950s?
3.
Briefl
y
explain how Alan Kaprow believed his work followed from
Jackson
Pollock.
4
.Contrast the approach to painting represented by, respectively,
Jasper Johns
and the earlier Willem de Kooning.
5
.What are some of the similarities and differences in
Rauschenberg
’s combine
painting series and his later silkscreens?
6.

4. How would you sum up the stylistic and philosophical
differences between the
“Beat” generation and the earlier Abstract Expressionist artists?
Which would
you defend as more successful in their artis
tic accomplishments?
PART TWO
Discussion:
Is
a
"happening"
visual
art?
1
.

5. After you've considered Alan Kaprow's
"happenings,"
how would you defend these against the following simple
deductive argument about aesthetics.
2.Premise 1: Art takes the form of human
-
made material
objects with specific aesthetic attributes (line, color,
texture, value, deliberate compositi
on).
3.Premise 2: A happening involves loosely
-
orchestrated,
performative encounters in which human
-
made material
objects are secondary
4.Conclusion: A happening is therefore not art, though it
may be
some thing
else (theater perhaps)
Assignment SIX Visual Art & Society
• Complete the Homework 6 QUESTIONS PART ONE
Homework Comprehension Questions: Please respond to the
following

6. questions?
1.What was Black Mountain College? Briefly describe the
intellectual interests
and ideas of its faculty and students.
2.Who was John Cage? How did he influence visual art in the
1950s?
3.Briefly explain how Alan Kaprow believed his work followed
from Jackson
Pollock.
4.Contrast the approach to painting represented by,
respectively, Jasper Johns
and the earlier Willem de Kooning.
5.What are some of the similarities and differences in
Rauschenberg’s combine
painting series and his later silkscreens?
6.How would you sum up the stylistic and philosophical
differences between the
“Beat” generation and the earlier Abstract Expressionist artists?
Which would
you defend as more successful in their artistic
accomplishments?
PART TWO
Discussion: Is a "happening" visual art?
1
. After you've considered Alan Kaprow's "happenings,"
how would you defend these against the following simple
deductive argument about aesthetics.
2.Premise 1: Art takes the form of human-made material
objects with specific aesthetic attributes (line, color,
texture, value, deliberate composition).

7. 3.Premise 2: A happening involves loosely-orchestrated,
performative encounters in which human-made material
objects are secondary
4.Conclusion: A happening is therefore not art, though it
may be some thing else (theater perhaps)
Leadership Paper
MGT 304
Pick a leader you personally admire – ideally a business leader
– but you may also select a prominent leader in another field if
you can relate his/her background and accomplishments to the
assignment requirements. You may select someone who is
currently in a leadership position or someone who is a historical
character. For example:
BusinessPolitical/ReligiousHistorical
Jack Welch Angela Merkel Peter the Great
Warren Buffet Nelson Mandela Abraham Lincoln
Bill Gates Xi Jinping Queen Elizabeth I
Melissa Mayer Margaret Thatcher Simón Bolívar
Richard Branson Barrack ObamaSaladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf
Ibn Ayyub)
Jeff Bezos Pope Francis Genghis Khan
Mark Zuckerburg Hillary Clinton Cleopatra
Steve Jobs Winston Churchill Napoleon
Oprah Winfrey Dali Lama Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius
Caesar Augustus)
Henry Ford Vladimir Putin Alexander the Great
No fictional characters (although Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek:
TNG was a fantastic leader).
Using a minimum of three reference resources (and no
Wikipedia) for your research (newspapers, business magazines,
books, company reports, websites if the information is 100%

8. credible, etc.), this assignment is designed for you to share
information about your person’s leadership style and impact and
how that relates to what we are learning about leadership in
class and in the textbook.
Grading for this project will be as follows:
Followed guidelines for length, formatting, footnotes,
bibliography, etc.
25 points
Summary of your research about the person’s leadership
abilities and methods and how those skills impacted his/her
organization/ environment (what s/he did, how s/he did it, and
what was the impact)
50 points
Analysis of your research, in relation to the textbook and class
material, communication of your insights and evaluation using
the questions posed as a guideline.
75 points
Note: This is not a research paper where you merely report
what you learned. This is a paper to allow you to take your
research, analyze it, and express your insights and opinions in
relation to the class material. Some questions that may help
guide your analysis and thinking (and you don’t have to answer
all of them, or limit yourself to these particular questions):
· Was your person a leader, a manager, or both? What did you
find that leads you to that conclusion?
· How did your person develop into an effective leader? Would
you say s/he was a born leader, or developed into one?
· What would you say is your person’s leadership style? (What
leadership theories may apply?)
· What do you think contributed the most to your leader’s
success? Were there any other key contributors?
· Did your leader inspire trust? How did s/he accomplish that?

9. If not, what was the impact?
· What kind of power did your leader utilize? Would another
base of power have been more effective? What power tactics
did s/he use?
· Do you consider your leader to be ethical? Why?
· What skills did your leader demonstrate that could be applied
to other organizations, in other time periods, and/or in other
parts of the world or in other areas?
· What skills did your leader demonstrate that you would like to
adopt? Why? How would you use them?
· What could your leader have done to be more effective?
The paper should be at least 4 pages (and I do mean 4 full pages
or more), 1 ½ line spacing, with 1 inch margin and using a
normal 12 point font (Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri,
Univers, etc). Any “title” type information (your name, class,
date, etc.) will not be counted as part of the 4 pages. In other
words, don’t substitute lengthy titles, big margins, extra lines
for spacing or large fonts for actual paper content. It should
contain a synopsis of the articles/books you read but mostly
your commentary on what you read (see the grading guidelines
– the weighing is a good guideline for content). I expect
footnotes or attributions as appropriate (APA style is fine) and a
bibliography.
While there is an expectation of good business writing, grading
will mainly be based on the content of your paper – your
understanding, analysis and interpretation of your person’s
leadership qualities.
This paper is due on Monday, September 26th – no electronic
copies – printed only, and late papers will have a 10 point per
class deduction.
By 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 15th I want you to send an
email with the requested information in the body of the email

10. (no downloads) to …… with your name (don’t assume I can
easily figure that out from your email address). Send me
information on which leader you selected, what reference
resources you will be using (full APA bibliography info) and a
paragraph or two as to why you selected this particular leader
and what you think you can learn by looking at this leader in
depth. This is part of your 25 “follows direction points” – was
it on time with full information requested?