The document provides interview questions for a student to ask an individual serving on a board of directors or board of trustees of a nonprofit organization. The questions cover how the individual was selected for the board, whether they knew anyone already on the board, what expertise they provide, how future board members are chosen, the diversity of the board, and expectations for financial contributions. Students are asked to analyze the interview material in a 3-5 page APA formatted essay evaluating the board's diversity and how diversity relates to the organization's mission.

1. Find an individual who serves on a Board of Directors or a
Board of Trustees (a non- profit) and interview this person
about board membership. Try to learn the answers to the
following questions:
How he or she was selected?
Did he or she know someone on the board?
Does he or she have a particular expertise that the Board needed
(lawyer, accountant, civil engineer, etc.)
Does he or she know how future Board members are selected?
How are members of this Board, diverse or not diverse?
If this is a for- profit corporation, What is his or she
compensation for serving as a Board member? If this is a non-
profit Board, What are the expectations for financial
contributions? Has recruiting diverse members to the Board
been an initiative?
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What types of diversity did the Board seek? If so, how was this
done and was it successful? Why or Why not?
If there are diverse members, do they participate fully in Board
discussions?
Remembering that this is only one individual's perception and
that his or her position may have some bias,
Analyze the material from this interview and write a three- to
five- page APA formatted essay that evaluates this Board from
the perspective of diversity. b. Answer the following questions:
If the Board is diverse now, how does the board diversity link to
the organization's mission and the business case for diversity?
Or, if this Board is not diverse, how could a more diverse board
potentially improve the link between the company's mission and
the business case for diversity?
Conclusion (every paper should end with a strong conclusion or
summary)

2. The root of civilization is the Latin civis city. So when we think
about what makes an early civilization possible we need to
think about what makes it possible for human beings to live
together in a settled community, sedentary society? Most of our
ancestors for the vast majority of our history have been
migratory. They've moved from place to place often from season
to season in search of resources. The earliest cities can only
develop when human beings have a source of food that is
sustainable over a long period of time and that means that
civilization depends upon agriculture.
So for the first time around ten thousand BCE human beings are
involved what we often call the Neolithic revolution. They are
revolutionizing the way that human beings feed themselves by
practicing agriculture. Not only do you have to have a
sustainable source of food, but you have to find a way to store
it. So these human beings were also learning how to use
stoneware or pottery vessels in order to store food safely
against times of famine or drought. The other thing that we have
to think about is what enables people to live together in a
society without fighting with one another? When you are
nomadic you can just simply, if you have a disagreement with
another group, you can simply just split up and leave. In a
sedentary society you need a method of just of settling disputes,
which means that you need a law giver or a set of laws.
The earliest cities that we are studying in this chapter started in
Mesopotamia what the Greeks called the land between the two
rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. This is actually a very
forbidding landscape and so the only reason cities could
actually emerge here is because of their sustainable water
supply and yet these two rivers are rather unpredictable. So the
inhabitants of these earliest cities had to start engi neering the
landscape by building an elaborate system of drainage ditches

3. and dikes in order to channel water and to hold that water.
The other thing that helps these cities to survive is that they are
fortified. So the earliest cities are walled. They are defending
themselves against their neighbors and that means they're
defending their inhabitants and also defending their flocks of
sheep and goats.
They're defending their food supply. They were also ruled by
relatively strong rulers what the Mesopotamians called Lugals
or strong men and these rulers helped to keep the peace within
the city and they were also war lords and war leaders in times of
conflict. And remember we've talked about how a settled
society needs to have a source of law and strong rule.
III. The Building Blocks of Civilization
A. Neolithic Revolution: New Stone Age (post-11,000 b.c.e.)
B. Climate change
1. Cold Mediterranean conditions between 40,000 and
11,000
2. Climate warms and species change, as glaciers retreat
C. Major characteristics
1. Development of managed food production
2. Permanent settlements
3. Trade between settlements: long distance and local
4. Individuals and communities to accumulate and store
wealth on a large scale
5. Specialization developed along with distinctions of status
and rank
D. Changes and challenges of food production
1. Increasing birth rates
a. Women more specialized in roles
b. Men have less participation in child raising
2. More rapid spread of diseases
3. Necessity of developing storage capacity
4. Predictable surpluses allow for more animal domestication

4. E. The Emergence of Towns and Villages
1. Jericho
a. Seasonal grain-producing settlement
b. Massive building program (walls and towers)
c. Supported 3,000 inhabitants
d. Pottery used for storage, cooking, brewing beer
i. Identifiable pottery styles help archaeologists
2. Impact of stored agricultural surpluses
a. Stockpiling wealth
b. Tied people to a specific community
c. More stratified communities
3. Rise of priestly class
a. Dependence on agriculture required more attention to land,
seasons, and weather
b. Rise of a priestly class
c. Spiritual power tied to more worldly power
4. Trade and the exchange of commodities
a. Accelerated exchange of commodities and new ideas
b. Increasing social stratification
c. Social elites
His 101
Essay #1
Due March 3rd at 10:30 PM (turn in to Blackboard) Late
essays lose 2 ½ points per day late
Worth 50 points
Choose and answer ONE:
1) Define as thoroughly as possible the term “civilization”.
What qualities does a culture need to have to be considered a
civilization? What specific qualities of civilization do we find
in the earliest Mesopotamian culture of Sumer? (Be sure to use
specific terms for Sumerian civilization (such as “Ziggurat” and
“Cuneiform” etc.).

5. 2) Discuss the development of the Hebrews’ fairly unique
culture from the larger Mesopotamian world they lived in.
What similarities did they have to Mesopotamian religion and
culture? What notable differences developed? What events
changed the Hebrews’ culture and religious views? Cover the
period from the Covenant through to the end of the Babylonian
Captivity.
3) Discuss the development of democracy in Athens. What did
the Athenians mean by “democracy”? Who was considered a
citizen? What branches of government did the system have?
What role did the magistrates play? What type of government
did pre-democratic Athens have? How was the system reformed
by Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles?
Your essay should be about 1 ½ -2 pages (typed, double-spaced,
Times New Roman 12-point font, one inch margins). For this
essay, only use your textbook as a source of information. Do
not copy and paste online sources. Pretend you are basically
writing an “open book open note” essay in class. Write in the
past tense. Do not make comparisons outside the historical
period identified in the topic or with the present. Write it in
your own words (Plagiarism score should be below 20%-most
essays I’ve received in the past are below 10%).
Spelling and grammar errors count off (1/2 point per error) so
be sure to proofread carefully (and don’t rely on spell check
alone-it doesn’t catch everything)! Here are some common
spelling errors to watch out for:
-Pharaoh
-Lead/Led-for example: “The toy soldier, though covered in
lead paint, took the lead and led the unit up the hill.” It is that
last “led” that students usually get wrong

6. -Its/It’s/Its’: If you aren’t trying to write “it is” use “its” (“it is”
is the only thing abbreviated as “it’s”; “its’” isn’t a word)
-Words ending in “ist”: more than one scientist, Communist,
colonist, environmentalist etc. is two scientists, four
Communists, six colonists, ten environmentalists for example.
There would also be two Nazis not Nazi’s
-For the most part, if you are trying to write centuries in
numerical form it will be like this: 1900s, 1700s, 2000s not
1900’s, 1700’s, 2000’s
-Where/Were-“Where were you looking for the werewolf?”
Submission Instructions: Write the essay as a Word document
(.doc or .docx ). THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: the Blackboard
CAN’T OPEN most other types of files (for example, .pages,
Google docs). Failure to upload the document properly may
result in a zero for the assignment.
When ready to submit it, click on “Essay #1” then “Turn in
Essay #1”. Go to the “attach File” part and click on “Browse
my computer to upload the document. Once that uploads just
click “Submit”. You should get an email submission receipt if
things went properly. If not, try to upload it again. If it still
doesn’t send an email receipt, let me know.
His 101
Essay #1
Due
March 3
rd
at 1
0

7. :30 PM
(turn in to Blackboard)
Late essays lose
2 ½ p
oints per day
late
Worth 50 points
Choose and answer ONE:
1)
Define as
thoroughly as possible the term “civilization”. What qualities
does a culture
need to have to be considered a civilization? What specific
qualities of civilization do we
find in the earliest Mesopotamian culture of Sumer? (Be sure to
use specific terms
for
Sumerian civilization (such as “Ziggurat” and “Cuneiform”
etc.).
2)
Discuss the development
of the Hebrews’ fairly unique culture from the larger
Mesopotamian world they lived in. What similarities did they
have to Mesopotamian

8. religion and culture? What notable differences developed?
What events changed the
Hebrews’ culture and religious view
s? Cover the period from the Covenant through to
the end of the Babylonian Captivity.
3)
Discuss the development of democracy in Athens. What did the
At
henians mean by
“democracy”? Who was considered a citizen? What branches
of government did the
system have?
What role did the magistrates play?
What type of government did pre
-
democratic Athens have? How was the system reformed by
Solon, Cleisthenes,
and
Pericles?
Your essay should be about 1 ½
-
2 pages (typed, double
-
spaced, Times New Roman 12
-
point

9. font, one inch margins). For this essay, only use your textbook
as a source of information.
Do
not
copy and paste online sources.
Pretend you are basically writing an “open book open note
”
essay in class.
Write in the past tense.
Do not make comparisons outside the historical period
identified in the topic or with the present.
Write it in your own words
(Plagiarism score should be
below 20%
-
most essays I’ve received in the past are below 10%).
Spelling and grammar errors count off (1/2 point per error) so
be sure to proofread carefully
(and don’t rely on spell check alone
-
it doesn’t catch everythin
g)! Here are some common
spelling errors to watch out for:
-

10. Pharaoh
-
Lead/Led
-
for example: “The toy soldier, though covered in lead paint,
took the lead and led the unit up
the hill.” It is that last “led” that students usually get wrong
-
Its/It’s/Its
’: If you aren’t trying to write “it is” use “its” (“it is” is the
only thing abbreviated as “it’s”;
“its’” isn’t a word)
-
Words ending in “ist”: more than one scientist, Communist,
colonist, environmentalist etc. is two
scientist
s
, four Communist
s
, six co
lonist
s
, ten environmentalist
s
for example. There would also be two
Nazis not Nazi’s
His 101
Essay #1
Due March 3

11. rd
at 10:30 PM (turn in to Blackboard) Late essays lose 2 ½ points
per day
late
Worth 50 points
Choose and answer ONE:
1) Define as thoroughly as possible the term “civilization”.
What qualities does a culture
need to have to be considered a civilization? What specific
qualities of civilization do we
find in the earliest Mesopotamian culture of Sumer? (Be sure to
use specific terms for
Sumerian civilization (such as “Ziggurat” and “Cuneiform”
etc.).
2) Discuss the development of the Hebrews’ fairly unique
culture from the larger
Mesopotamian world they lived in. What similarities did they
have to Mesopotamian
religion and culture? What notable differences developed?
What events changed the
Hebrews’ culture and religious views? Cover the period from
the Covenant through to
the end of the Babylonian Captivity.
3) Discuss the development of democracy in Athens. What did
the Athenians mean by
“democracy”? Who was considered a citizen? What branches
of government did the
system have? What role did the magistrates play? What type of
government did pre-
democratic Athens have? How was the system reformed by
Solon, Cleisthenes, and
Pericles?

12. Your essay should be about 1 ½ -2 pages (typed, double-spaced,
Times New Roman 12-point
font, one inch margins). For this essay, only use your textbook
as a source of information. Do
not copy and paste online sources. Pretend you are basically
writing an “open book open note”
essay in class. Write in the past tense. Do not make
comparisons outside the historical period
identified in the topic or with the present. Write it in your own
words (Plagiarism score should be
below 20%-most essays I’ve received in the past are below
10%).
Spelling and grammar errors count off (1/2 point per error) so
be sure to proofread carefully
(and don’t rely on spell check alone-it doesn’t catch
everything)! Here are some common
spelling errors to watch out for:
-Pharaoh
-Lead/Led-for example: “The toy soldier, though covered in
lead paint, took the lead and led the unit up
the hill.” It is that last “led” that students usually get wrong
-Its/It’s/Its’: If you aren’t trying to write “it is” use “its” (“it is”
is the only thing abbreviated as “it’s”;
“its’” isn’t a word)
-Words ending in “ist”: more than one scientist, Communist,
colonist, environmentalist etc. is two
scientists, four Communists, six colonists, ten environmentalists
for example. There would also be two
Nazis not Nazi’s