SYMPOSIUM: IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Which American Dream Do You Mean?
David Stoll
Published online: 7 July 2009
# Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009
Abstract According to the latest U.S. Census projection,
the arrival of immigrants and their higher birthrates,
projected forward at current rates, will turn the U.S. into a
“minority–majority” society in 2042, 8 years earlier than
the Census used to predict. Liberals tend to view immigra-
tion to the U.S. as a human right, but many employers prefer
to hire immigrants because they can be paid less than the
cost of reproducing their labor-that is, the cost of keeping
an American family above the poverty line. One way of
looking at the resulting debates over U.S. immigration
policy is in terms of moral economy, that is, how different
factions compete for moral authority in order to gain
control over a desired good. In this case, the desired good
is American citizenship, including access to the highest
consumption rates on the planet, and national definitions of
citizenship are competing with transnational or globalist
definitions of citizenship. Constructing moral rhetoric for
either national or transnational definitions of citizenship
requires excluding information that does not serve the
cause. One way of spotlighting the omissions is to look at
each moral economy as a highly selective version of the
American Dream.
Keywords Comprehensive immigration reform .
Census projection . Minority–majority
In his campaign for president, Barack Obama promised a
comprehensive immigration reform that will probably
include legalizing undocumented immigrants. So as we
stumble out of the rubble of our credit collapse, activists
and talking heads will return to this contentious subject. In
2007, 38 million people or 12.6% of the U.S. population
was foreign-born. According to the latest U.S. Census
projection, the arrival of immigrants and their higher
birthrates, projected forward at current rates, will turn the
U.S. into a “minority–majority” society in 2042, 8 years
earlier than the Census used to predict. That is, the
percentage of people who we define as non-Hispanic
whites (currently 65% of the population) will decline to
less than 50% of the U.S. population. In 15 years people
who we currently define as minorities will comprise more
than half of all children, and by 2050 they will comprise
54% of the population.
Statistical trends such as these are quick to provoke
indignation. Some Americans are horrified that, in 2008,
the U.S. government forcibly deported 361,000 people,
almost ninety percent of them Mexicans and Central
Americans. The deportees include people who made their
lives in the United States, and they have many relatives,
friends and employers who feel their human rights have
been violated. Other Americans are horrified that immi-
grants who deliberately broke the law, who did so
repeatedly to smuggle in their relatives, and who may
continue to do so, w ...
Muslims in the Golden Age is the theme for the research project. You.docxssuserf9c51d
Muslims in the Golden Age is the theme for the research project. You are required to prepare a minimum of 25-minute presentation on the life, work, and contributions of a Muslim scholar, scientist, poet, artist, etc. from the Golden Age of Islam (not contemporary scholars). You can choose any form of media for your presentation paper. A narrated paper has been the common form used in the past; however, the addition of voice-over is required. If you require assistance with the recording, please email instructors.
This project should be completed individually. The objective of this project is to explore the Muslims' contributions to the modern civilization.
Resources:
Format, Length and Style: The presentation must include:
• Minimum of 3 page. Each of pages should be visually appealing, contain relevant content.
• Narrate each page without reading the text line by line. Use the narration to explain and elaborate on what is presented on the pages
• Correct spelling and grammar
• APA citation and bibliography on a separate page
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Multiple Sources of MediaExamine the impact of multiple sour.docxssuserf9c51d
Multiple Sources of Media
Examine the impact of multiple sources of media on children and adolescents. Discuss how media influences children and adolescents differentially at various ages. Discuss at least one positive and at least one negative result of media exposure for children and adolescents.
Respond to the discussion by referencing at least one reputable media source.
Response Guidelines
Respond to fellow learners' posts and the sources they cite. Ask questions and expand on the research to further the discussions. Respond to comments made by at least two learners. Your responses to learners are expected to be substantive in nature and to reference the assigned readings, as well as other theoretical, empirical, or professional literature to support your views and writings.
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Multicultural Event WrittenPlease choose and research a cult.docxssuserf9c51d
Multicultural Event Written
Please choose and research a cultural or diverse event that you are not familiar with. Examples can include a ritual, holiday, religious custom, cultural practice, cultural celebrations, etc. While these are a few suggestions please think outside the box and find something that interest you.You will write a 2 - 3 page paper, APA format (this does not include the cover or reference page). It will consist of :
the introduction of the cultural/diverse event
describe the event (be sure to provide enough detail so that the reader can understand it)
What is unique/different of the event from your culture or custom?
What is the frequency of the event?
What is the importance of the event?
What did you learn about the cultural/diverse event that you did not know?
Are there any similarities to you and your families events?
provide a conclusion.
Please be sure to use reputable resources to complete the assignment. You should have a minimum of 4 sources .
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Muslims in the Golden Age is the theme for the research project. You.docxssuserf9c51d
Muslims in the Golden Age is the theme for the research project. You are required to prepare a minimum of 25-minute presentation on the life, work, and contributions of a Muslim scholar, scientist, poet, artist, etc. from the Golden Age of Islam (not contemporary scholars). You can choose any form of media for your presentation paper. A narrated paper has been the common form used in the past; however, the addition of voice-over is required. If you require assistance with the recording, please email instructors.
This project should be completed individually. The objective of this project is to explore the Muslims' contributions to the modern civilization.
Resources:
Format, Length and Style: The presentation must include:
• Minimum of 3 page. Each of pages should be visually appealing, contain relevant content.
• Narrate each page without reading the text line by line. Use the narration to explain and elaborate on what is presented on the pages
• Correct spelling and grammar
• APA citation and bibliography on a separate page
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Multiple Sources of MediaExamine the impact of multiple sour.docxssuserf9c51d
Multiple Sources of Media
Examine the impact of multiple sources of media on children and adolescents. Discuss how media influences children and adolescents differentially at various ages. Discuss at least one positive and at least one negative result of media exposure for children and adolescents.
Respond to the discussion by referencing at least one reputable media source.
Response Guidelines
Respond to fellow learners' posts and the sources they cite. Ask questions and expand on the research to further the discussions. Respond to comments made by at least two learners. Your responses to learners are expected to be substantive in nature and to reference the assigned readings, as well as other theoretical, empirical, or professional literature to support your views and writings.
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Multicultural Event WrittenPlease choose and research a cult.docxssuserf9c51d
Multicultural Event Written
Please choose and research a cultural or diverse event that you are not familiar with. Examples can include a ritual, holiday, religious custom, cultural practice, cultural celebrations, etc. While these are a few suggestions please think outside the box and find something that interest you.You will write a 2 - 3 page paper, APA format (this does not include the cover or reference page). It will consist of :
the introduction of the cultural/diverse event
describe the event (be sure to provide enough detail so that the reader can understand it)
What is unique/different of the event from your culture or custom?
What is the frequency of the event?
What is the importance of the event?
What did you learn about the cultural/diverse event that you did not know?
Are there any similarities to you and your families events?
provide a conclusion.
Please be sure to use reputable resources to complete the assignment. You should have a minimum of 4 sources .
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Multi-Party Negotiation
For this Essay, you will explore the complexities that occur with multi-party negotiations and groupthink.
Your essay will address the following points.
§ Describe two-party, coalitions, and multi-party negotiations.
o Within your description, include a real-life example of how these types of negotiation are used in the business world.
Describe the social complexities of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
What is "groupthink," and how did it affect the Challenger?
Make sure you include your source used for this portion of your research.
What do you think you would have done if you were in that Challenger meeting?
Your essay must be a minimum of three pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Reference source for your paper. Follow proper APA format, including citing and referencing all outside sources used
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Music has long been used by movements seeking social change. In the 1950s and '60s, this was particularly true, as successful black and white musicians openly addressed the issues of the day. During the '60s, popular white singers, such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, lent both their names and their musical talents to the American Civil Rights Movement. In fact, music long assisted those working to win civil rights for African Americans. Freedom songs, often adapted from the music of the black church, played an essential role in bolstering courage, inspiring participation, and fostering a sense of community.
Instructions:
Your PowerPoint presentation should include the following:
• Background and explanation of your special topic.
• Brief background of your American musician/artist.
• The relationship your American musician/artist had to this special topic and the contributions
they have made.
• An explanation of how your American musician/artist connected to and influenced both music
and American society and culture.
Special Topics in American Music - Final Project
MUS320 - American Music
Requirements:
• Presentation must consist of 7-10 slides, with additional title and reference slides, all formatted
in accordance with the most current APA guidelines.
• Each slide will provide succinct points of the key information that you wish to convey.
• Use the Notes section to elaborate on the information presented in each slide. The Notes section is your narrative for the presentation. Here is a tutorial on how to use speaker notes in PowerPoint. If you do not have a LinkedIn Learning account (complimentary for Post students), refer to the Course Information page for information on how to set it up so you can properly view this video.
• At least four (4) images - Two (2) related to your special topic and two (2) related to your artist.
• A video example from YouTube including music from your artist.
• Cite and reference at least three (3) scholarly sources. One of these sources may be your textbook.
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MSW Advanced Clinical Concentration -Student Learning Agreement
Walden University -- Barbara Solomon School of Social Work
Used with SOCW 6520 and SOCW 6530
Agency Name: Keep Smiling Therapy
Agency Address: «555 Broadhollow Road Suite 101
Melville, NY, 11747 »
Student Information
Instructor/Supervisor Information
Faculty Liaison Information
Agency Info
Name: Varda Sauveur
Walden Email: [email protected]
Phone: 347-869-32356
Name: Chanell Smiliey
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 631-505-2961
Name: Alisha Powell
Email: [email protected]
Phone: [Type here]
Description: Psychotherapy
Academic Term
Example: Winter 2019
Course Number
Example: SOCW 6520 III
Population Served: Working with clients who are affected by depression, phobias, stress, anxiety, emotional and relationship problems, physical or psychosomatic disorders and behavioral problems.
Proposed Schedule: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 12pm-8 pm
Describe what your regular tasks will be at the agency:
My regular task is as follow:
· Create an appropriate treatment plan for them, which will provide them with a structured and focused way of addressing their problems.
· Learning how to use verbal interaction skills to explore behavior, attitudes and emotions
· Helping clients to understand and address their inner conflicts.
· Completing Psychosocial forms
Importance of the Learning Agreement
Purpose of the Learning Agreement: The learning agreement is designed to ensure students are mindful about the learning expectations in their field placement. It was developed to help students and supervisors/instructors plan a well-rounded experience that will help students meet the learning objectives.
Learning Objectives: The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) requires students gain competency in nine areas of social work practice. These areas of practice are defined as core competencies of the profession. Each core competency requires particular behaviors students should be able to engage and gain competency in. Students should provide examples of activities in the agency they can participate in to help them meet the learning objectives. Some examples of activities are provided. This is not an exhaustive list, so others can be added. Students must have an opportunity to complete tasks in all nine areas of competency.
Connection to the Student Evaluation: Not only is the learning agreement a helpful tool to plan the learning goals for the term, but it connects directly to the evaluation points in the student evaluation. Field Instructors/supervisors will be asked to complete student evaluations. Each student is evaluated on the nine core competencies of social work. Having a solid learning agreement aligns the learning goals with the student’s evaluation, so no areas are missed.
Instructions
Negotiating the Agreement: The learning agreement should be completed by week 3 at the agency. This is a collaborative process, where the .
Multimedia Instructional MaterialsStaying current on technolog.docxssuserf9c51d
Multimedia Instructional Materials
Staying current on technology is an essential aspect of being an educator. Today’s students are digital natives, and they often respond better to media than to traditional methods of teaching. Having a strong technology repertoire is important.
Create a matrix detailing a variety of multimedia, technology, games, apps, and other technological tools for teaching reading and writing to struggling readers and writers. Include five tools/media/apps and address the following, in 100-200 words per tool:
· App/technology tool description, app/technology location (online, offline through software, through a game console, etc.), and the cost.
· Age level or academic level for which the technology is appropriate.
· Advantages of using the technology.
· Drawbacks to using the technology.
· Rationalize why struggling students may benefit from the app/technology tool.
Additionally, write a 250-500 word overview of the contents of the matrix, describing how you will implement technology in your ELA classroom. Justify which of these technologies you think will be most beneficial and describe how you might convince an administrator to help you acquire the technology.
Support the matrix and summary with 3-5 resources.
Course Paper Assignment: 30% of course grade, Final Paper due in Week 11
Proposal Due: April 22, (1 page) – Description of proposed project (abstract), Proposed Case Studies (3 to start), Bibliography with at least 3 sources
Final Paper Due: May 19, Week 11
Course Analytical Paper – Assignment
In this paper you will provide a rigorous and thoughtful analysis on your chosen theme, to include an analysis of one case study project or several projects, as a comparative analysis. The paper must include a clear and concise Thesis Statement, shown in “bold” at the end of the introductory paragraph. Please use proper paragraph form, beginning each paragraph with a Topic Sentence and ending with a Concluding Sentence. Keep your paragraphs approximately the same length, throughout. Use our course readings, along with 10 or more sources, to help you construct arguments. Cite using proper APA
form, when using text from sources. The goal of your paper is to prove (or disprove) the Thesis Statement. Writing a detailed outline is highly recommended. Include the following:
1. Title Page – Include a unique title for your paper topic, your name, my name, course name/number, and the quarter: “Spring 2020” You may also include an image or multiple images on the cover.
2. Final Paper (at least 8-10 pages of double-spaced text, images not included) – Font size: 11 or 12; Margins: ½ inch or 3/4 inch max on sides.
3. Bibliography (include at least 10 sources, 6 of which must be books or articles. The remaining 4 sources, or more, can include video lectures and other multimedia). Use APA format. You may use more than 10 total.
4. Include illustrations and project documents. Analytical sketches a.
Murray Bowen is one of the most respected family theorists in th.docxssuserf9c51d
Murray Bowen is one of the most respected family theorists in the field of family therapy. Bowen views the family unit as complex and believes it is important to understand the interactions among the members in order to solve problems. Satir and Minuchin also advanced family therapy with their concepts and models. As a clinical social worker, using these models (along with having an ecological perspective) can be very effective in helping clients.
For this Discussion, review the “Petrakis Family” case history and video session.
By Day 4
Post
(using two concepts of Bowen’s family theory) a discussion and analysis of the events that occurred after Alec moved in with his grandmother up until Helen went to the hospital. If you used the concepts of structural family therapy, how would your analysis of the situation be different? Which family theory did you find to be most helpful in your analysis? Finally, indicate whether Satir’s or Minuchin’s model is the more strength-based model. Why?
The Petrakis Family Helen Petrakis is a 52-year-old heterosexual married female of Greek descent who says that she feels overwhelmed and “blue.” She came to our agency at the suggestion of a close friend who thought Helen would benefit from having a person who could listen. Although she is uncomfortable talking about her life with a stranger, Helen said that she decided to come for therapy because she worries about burdening friends with her troubles. Helen and I have met four times, twice per month, for individual therapy in 50-minute sessions. Helen consistently appears well-groomed. She speaks clearly and in moderate tones and seems to have linear thought progression; her memory seems intact. She claims no history of drug or alcohol abuse, and she does not identify a history of trauma. Helen says that other than chronic back pain from an old injury, which she manages with acetaminophen as needed, she is in good health. Helen has worked full time at a hospital in the billing department since graduating from high school. Her husband, John (60), works full time managing a grocery store and earns the larger portion of the family income. She and John live with their three adult children in a 4-bedroom house. Helen voices a great deal of pride in the children. Alec, 27, is currently unemployed, which Helen attributes to the poor economy. Dmitra, 23, whom Helen describes as smart, beautiful, and hardworking, works as a sales consultant for a local department store. Athina, 18, is an honors student at a local college and earns spending money as a hostess in a family friend’s restaurant; Helen describes her as adorable and reliable. In our first session, I explained to Helen that I was an advanced year intern completing my second field placement at the agency. I told her I worked closely with my field supervisor to provide the best care possible. She said that was fine, congratulated me on advancing my career, and then began talking. I listened for the reasons H.
Mrs. Thomas is a 54, year old African American widow, mother and gra.docxssuserf9c51d
Mrs. Thomas is a 54, year old African American widow, mother and grandmother, who lives with her daughter and four grandchildren (ages 12, 10, 7 and 5) in a 4 story walk up apartment. She is an active member of her church community and friends, comments that she had so much energy that she exhausted all of them just being around her. At age 51, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Busy with raising her grandchildren, a little more than 3 years went by before she sought attention for her symptoms and was diagnosed. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy and radiation, her diseased progressed and she was considering undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Climbing the stairs to the apartment one afternoon she became very short of breath and collapsed. Her twelve, year old granddaughter called 911. At the hospital she was minimally responsive and in severe respiratory distress. She was intubated and transferred to the ICU. A family meeting with the oncology and ICU team was called to discuss Mrs. Thomas’s advanced condition, the fact that she would probably not survive further treatment for the lymphoma and to develop a plan of care. Fifteen family members arrived, including her daughter, pre-teen granddaughters and grandson, three nieces, four nephews, several friends from her church and the minister. On being asked that only the immediate family participate in the meeting, the family and friends became angry and insisted that all of them be involved in this discussion.
1. The students should focus their thoughts on the dynamics of this family meeting. If you were the nurse in this situation, how would you address meeting? Here are some questions that may help your thinking. W
hat is your impression regarding this scenario? What are some concerns you have with this case? What do you anticipate would happen? How would you handle all the family members and friends wanting to be included in the discussion? There is not right or wrong answer. But remember you need a professional journal to support the discussion.
2. Now think about you being the patient. How would the situation be handle within your family? Have you thought about what kind of care you would want? Does someone know what you would want if you had a catastrophic event? Would family members support the decision maker's decision for for you?
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Multiple Source Essay, Speculating about Causes/Proposing a
Solution
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Topic: Women Mistreatment and Inequality in the US.
7 PAGES INCLUDING (
REFERENCE, ABSTRACT, TITLE PAGE
) - SO BASICALLY 4 PAGES
CONTENT.
4 pages content includes:
Specific thesis with your three causes that explains why you are arguing for something
Cause 1 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Cause 2 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Cause 3 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Conclusion
Minimum of 4 sources. I provided 4 sources but you can use other RECENT sources.
IN ATTACHMENTS: ASSIGNMENT SHEET + SOURCES AND TIPS.
MUST BE DONE TOMORROW BY 11 PM PACIFIC TIME (in 23 hours)
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Multiyear Plans Please respond to the followingDo you.docxssuserf9c51d
"Multiyear Plans"
Please respond to the following:
Do you think the federal government should increase spending on Social Security and Medicare for the elderly? If not, how should the elderly fund retirement and medical costs? Provide research support for your positions.
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Multinational Financial Management
Determine key reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow in a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than in a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low. Provide support for your rationale.
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Murder CasePreambleAn organization system administrator .docxssuserf9c51d
Murder Case
Preamble
An organization system administrator was labeled as the key suspect in a homicide case. The accused claimed that he was at work at the time of the murder.
Police Intervention
The police asked his employer to help them verify his alibi. Unpredictably, the same organization, occasionally trained law enforcement personnel to investigate computer crimes and was eager to help in the investigation.
Collaborative Strength:
The organization worked with police to assemble an investigative team, seized the suspect computers in his office and residence, and backup tapes on a file server managed by his employer. All of these evidence were stored in a room to where only members of the team had access.
Harsh Situation
At the initial stages, the operation appeared reasonably well documented, but the reconstruction process was a disaster. The investigators made so many omissions and mistakes that one computer expert when reading the investigator's logs, suggested that the fundamental mistake was that the investigators locked all of the smart people out of the room. The investigators, in this case, were unaware of the situation and unwilling to admit the slip-up.
As a result of the investigators' omissions and mistakes, the suspect's alibi could not work together. Digital evidence to support the suspect's alibi was identify later but not by the investigators. If the investigators had sought expert assistance to deal with a large amount of digital evidence, they might have quickly confirmed the suspect's alibi rather than putting him through years of investigation and leaving the murderer to go free.
Lesson Learned
The case amplifies forensic investigators' requirements to obtain fundamental knowledge of computers, compatible operating systems, and application software programs.
Forewarning forensic investigators to seek the assistance of the system administrator during the criminal investigation.
Scenario
You have been retained as a Deputy Technology officer at the University and charged with the responsibility of developing an Acceptable User Policy for the department of computer science based on this murder case.
Question 1
Use the AUP to amplify the advantages and disadvantages of investigators' quarterly training on most currently used operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, Sun System, and more.
Scenario 2
The investigators, in this case, were unaware of the situation and unwilling to admit the slip-up. As a result of such omissions and mistakes, the suspect's alibi could not work together. Digital evidence to support the suspect's alibi was identify later but not by the investigators. If the investigators had sought expert assistance to deal with a large amount of digital evidence, they might have quickly confirmed the suspect's alibi rather than putting him through years of investigation and leaving the murderer to go free.
Question 2 "Investigators allowed the Murderer to.
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Multimodal Personal Narrative – Develop a multimodal document to both visually illustrate and verbally express a personal transformation.
Use a one-page newspaper or single-panel brochure format to present a personal narration of a transformation of your choice from a point in your childhood to today. You might discuss a career aspiration you had as a child, transition to the job you held as a teenager, and lastly, explain the profession you maintain today. Use connecting ideas to ensure you have a cohesive essay, which will ultimately (in the conclusion) explain what you learned from this transformation. For example, how and why did you go from point A (job 1) to point B (job 2) and then on to point C (job 3)? Or, you might consider illustrating a transformation based on a way of life or philosophy.
Implement three photos to represent your ideas, feelings, etc., at the three focal points in your life. You may use personal photos, clip art, or other images, but be sure you use and/or attribute them appropriately. For example, you are free to use your personal photos as you’d like, but make sure to choose clip art or other images that you either have permission to use freely or that you cite adequately. Equally consider your document’s layout, such as text sizes, photo placement (near the related essay text), and colors, in addition to how you present your content, to include thesis, support, and organization.
Sample thesis statement:
Growing up in Sedona, Arizona, I was constantly looking up into the clear night sky, viewing multiple constellations and shimmering stars, which had me yearning to reach them—literally—so when I turned 16, I began working as a camp counselor at a space camp, which ultimately led to a career at NASA; my journey taught me that if I reached for the stars, nothing could stop me.
Length:
This assignment should be at least 500 words.
Underline your thesis statement.
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Multigenre Project
EN101O Fall 2019 Dr. Walter
A Multigenre Project (MGP) presents multiple, even conflicting, perspectives on a topic in order to provide a rich context and present an aesthetically appealing product for an audience. Your MGP should reflect the following:
A focus: You should not only include documents that relate to a general topic, but you should ensure that the documents work towards a claim you are making about the topic.
A coherent organization/your entire MGP should be presented in an umbrella genre that best fits your purpose. You should create and organize documents in order to lead readers through the project, to help them understand your focus and purpose. Coherent organization will come out of the umbrella genre you choose for the project. For example, creating a magazine as the umbrella genre that includes articles, images, advertisements, etc. with one focus will provide cohesion to the project. Examples of how you might “package” the MGP include a CD, a scrapbook, a photo album, a patient file, an employee handbook, a manual, a newspaper, a magazine, a website—the options are endless! Just be sure to provide a table of contents (TOC) that offers an overview of and title for each document.
Look at some of the examples posted on D2L for concrete depictions of how this can work.
The Multigenre Project includes at least 8 documents (including an Introduction, Table of Contents, 5 documents of different genres (not including your Introduction), and a works cited page) that offer a sustained argument about your chosen issue. By creating documents in different genres (e.g., editorials, feature stories, brochures, short fiction, charts, scripts, etc.), you learn to write for multiple audiences, multiple (rhetorical) purposes, and multiple forums. All documents/text must be original work you create for the MGP.
Your Introduction serves as a guide to readers, helping them understand the issue you are addressing, offering insight about why you chose the genres you chose, etc. The introduction is your chance to help readers understand why this topic is important, how they should “read” your documents, etc. The introduction may be written as a letter to readers, a magazine article, an editorial, etc.
The bulk of your MGP will be the five documents, each representing a different genre, that helps persuade your audience(s) to your point of view. Aim for a good balance of genres, and be sure at least three of your documents directly use the sources you have gathered from your research. By writing a brochure that utilizes your research sources, a chart or other visual, a story drawing from the information you have gathered, a quiz based on researched sources, etc.—by approaching your research findings in a creative way, your MGP helps an audience understand many different perspectives about your topic. Some of the documents you will include may be more time-intensive than others. But the 5 documents that make up the bo.
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Multimedia activity: Business Organization
Visit the Choose Your Business Structure (Links to an external site.) section of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s website.
If you were to start your own business, which business entity structure would you choose? Justify why your chosen structure is the best organizational form.
Explain the following business structures: sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, and a corporation. In your analysis address the following for each business structure:
Steps to form
Personal liability for owners
Taxation
Advantages and disadvantages
Your paper must be three to five pages (excluding title and reference pages), and it must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. You must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook. Cite your sources in-text and on the reference page.
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Multicultural Perspective
Today’s classrooms are diverse and you will be expected to meet the needs of all of your students. Many of our students come from different cultures, which affects how they learn. We must take this into consideration when developing our lesson plans, making our role as an educator even more complex. As a result, we must be informed of our students’ cultural backgrounds as this includes another element of cognitive understanding that will guide our instructional practices. By understanding student culture, we can gain insight into learning preferences, interests, motivation, and prior knowledge.
Based on the important features of multicultural education found in Figure 4.6 of our text and selecting a specific content standard from the
Common Core State Standards Initiative (Links to an external site.)
(CCSS), develop a learning activity that includes these key features of multicultural education:
Integration of content
– How does your learning activity incorporate content from different cultures?
Reducing Prejudice
– How does the learning activity attempt to minimize any of your own prejudices as well as your students?
Making Teaching Equitable
– How does the instructional approach to your learning activity meet the needs of all your students by recognizing learning styles, interests, and motivation to help achieve academic potential?
Empowering Learners
– How does the learning activity empower all students to work toward their academic potential?
Construction of Knowledge
– How does your learning activity promote different perspectives that validate how culture influences knowledge and beliefs?
Be sure to first provide your content standard from the CCSS followed by your learning activity. Then explain how your learning activity meets each element of multicultural education by providing evidence to justify and support your assertions. Then reflect on your K-12 school experience. Was a multicultural education part of your schooling? What factors may have contributed to the inclusion or exclusion of a multicultural education in your own early schooling? Make sure to incorporate the five key features of multicultural education in your reflection.
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example
of this week's assignment.
You have several options in completing this task:
Write a three-four page paper (does not include a title page or reference page).
Develop a PPT presentation that is 8-10 slides long (does not include title page slide or reference page slide).
Use Voicethread or Prezi that is 8-10 slides long (does not include a title page slide or reference page slide).
Use a combination of the above.
Be sure to reference the course text and at least one other scholarly source. Your assignment should follow APA formatting guidelines as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)
, and be sure to include a title page or slide as well as reference page or slide.
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Muhammad Ali, how did his refusal to go into the army affect his.docxssuserf9c51d
Muhammad Ali, how did his refusal to go into the army affect his professional career.
Tommy Smith, what happened to him after coming home from the Olympics at the raising his fist.
LeBron James, what has been his influence in today’s society when it pertains to social injustices.
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MS 113 Some key concepts that you need to know to navigate th.docxssuserf9c51d
MS 113: Some key concepts that you need to know to navigate through
the key reading – I will keep updating these
1.democracy
2.citizenship
3.public sphere
5. Nation and nationalism, nation-state, government, sovereignty
4. oligarchy (polyarchy, plutocracy, aristocracy and so on)
4.capitalism
5.liberalism, neoliberalism
6.civic republicanism
7.socialism
8.authoritarianism
9.populism
10. fascism
11. Marxism -ideological, hegemonic, discursive
12.globalization
13.transnational media spheres
14. consumerism, neoliberal consumer democracy
15. social movements
16. identity politics
17. recognition and redistribution debate
18. political power
19. the notion of common good
20. the digital divide
21: digital public sphere
22. communitarianism
23. social construction of culture
24. poststructuralism
25. postmodern
26. modernity
27. civil society
28. civil disobedience
29. civic engagement
30. structure and agency
31. pluralism and multiracialism, multiculturalism
A NEW FRONTIER
SOCIAL MEDIA / NETWORKS
DISINFORMATION AND
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
IN THE CONTEXT OF
ELECTION
OBSERVATION
by Michael Meyer-Resende
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) operates on the conviction that democratic,
participatory governance is a human right and governments should be accountable to
their citizens. DRI supports democratic governance around the world with a focus on
institutions of democracy, such as constitutions, elections, parliaments and rules of
democracy grounded in international law. Through careful assessments based on field
research with partners, DRI convenes diverse stakeholders to promote policies that
strengthen democratic institutions. A non-profit company, DRI is based in Berlin and has
offices in Tunisia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Michael Meyer-Resende is a lawyer with twenty years of experience in political
transitions and democratisation. Works in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His
professional experience includes two years legal practice in Berlin, four years with the
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE (Warsaw),
three years with the election team of the European Commission in Brussels and
journalistic experience with the BBC. In 2006 he co-founded DRI and serves as Executive
Director since then. He publishes it regularly in newspapers like The New York Times,
The Guardian, Politico, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and think tank publications.
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union.
Its contents are the sole responsibility of Michael Meyer-Resende and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Union.
Graphic and layout design: Giorgio Grasso for Democracy Essentials
Cover photo: Ezequiel Scagnetti
Interior photos: Victor Idrogo (pp. 3, 6-7, 17); Ezequiel Scagnetti (p. 22)
CREDITS
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
I. SUMMARY
II. BACKGROUND
III. INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND NATIONAL LA.
Much has been made of the new Web 2.0 phenomenon, including social n.docxssuserf9c51d
Much has been made of the new Web 2.0 phenomenon, including social networking sites and user-created mash-ups. How does Web 2.0 change security for the Internet? How do secure software development concepts support protecting applications?
Pages: 1
APA format
References
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Mrs. Dolan is a 46-year-old female who presented to the emergency de.docxssuserf9c51d
Mrs. Dolan is a 46-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with complaints of episodic abdominal pain, a low-grade fever, and diarrhea for almost two weeks. Mrs. Dolan was on vacation in another country when she developed pain in the left lower quadrant of her abdomen. Mrs. Dolan delayed seeking health care because of fear of the country’s unfamiliar medical system and the assumption that bad water or food she had while on vacation must have given her a stomach “bug.” Mrs. Dolan also reports a recent onset of painful urination. Upon examination in the emergency room, Mrs. Dolan is found to be dehydrated with a fever of 102.58F (39.2 8C). Vital signs are blood pressure (BP) 106/58, pulse 88, and respiratory rate of 22. Her potassium (K1) level is 2.8 mEq/L, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is 37 mm/hr, and white blood cell (WBC) count is 16,000 cells/ mm3. A urinalysis showed a positive urinary tract infection (UTI) and an abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) scan revealed diverticulitis with a question of an ileus. Mrs. Dolan is admitted and started on intravenous (IV) fluid of D51/2 normal saline (NS) with 20 mEq of potassium chloride (KCl) at 50 mL per hour. Two IV antibiotics (cefoxitin sodium and metronidazole) are prescribed. Her admitting orders include nothing by mouth (NPO), bed rest, IV morphine sulfate for pain management, stools to be checked for occult blood, strict intake and output (I & O), and repeat blood work in the morning to monitor her K+. Her height and weight on admission are 5 feet 7 inches and 170 lbs (77.3 kg). She is prescribed diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulfate, propantheline bromide, and acetaminophen as “as needed” pro re nata (prn) medications.
1. Explain how Mrs. Dolan’s symptoms might be related to her urinary tract infection.
2. The emergency department health care provider considered several differential diagnoses for Mrs. Dolan and a diagnosis of diverticulitis was determined. What diagnostic test confirmed Mrs. Dolan’s diagnosis of acute diverticulitis?
3. Mrs. Dolan’s abdominal/pelvic CT scan revealed diverticulitis with a question of an ileus. What is an ileus?
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Mr. Luis Coromina Unzueta, CEOTable of contents• P.docxssuserf9c51d
Mr. Luis Coromina Unzueta, CEO
Table of contents
• Presentation
• The company
• Market definition
• Clients
• Products Facilities
• Finance overview
• Internationalization
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Presentation
• BA in Business Administration at ESADE Barcelona
• Strategic consultant at Oliver Wyman Madrid
• Founder of 2 start-ups:
Mycd Music
ThinkLight-Insolit: https://www.insolitbcn.com/
• CEO at Farinera Coromina Agri-Energia since 2013: https://farineracoromina.com/?lang=es
• Board member at TEISA Bus
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiscoromina/
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https://www.insolitbcn.com/
https://farineracoromina.com/?lang=es
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiscoromina/
Company overview
• Agri-Energia Group was founded in Banyoles in 1897 by the Coromina family.
• Originally Farinera Coromina flour mill and Agrienergia dedicated to production, distribution and
commercialization of electricity
• Further ventures such us TEISA 1920 and AGBANY
• Revenue > 50M€
• > 300 professionals
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• Farinera Coromina flour mill: we help artisan bakers differentiate their business and spread
quality, flavorful and healthy bread across society
• Revenue >13.500.000 €
• 40.000 tones of wheat processed
• Team of 50 professionals
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gNxmO1qAU
Company overview
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gNxmO1qAU
Company overview
• Lluís Coromina Foundation: people, animals and arts
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Company overview
• Family company
• Culture oriented to:
✔ communication
✔ team work
✔ Innovation-Intrapreneurship
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Market definition
Spanish market
• Around 100 flour mills in Spain
• >4.000.000 tones of wheat processed
• Market size >1.500 M€
• Overcapacity thus low profitability
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Marketing strategy
• Sales agents
• Fairs
• Digital: website, Instagram and Facebook
• Sponsoring artisan bread events such as “La Ruta Española del Buen Pan”
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Marketing strategy
Client segmentation
Small Artisan Baker
• From 1 to 5 bakeries
• Artisan production
• Needs to differentiate his products from the retail channels
• Format: 25kg bags
• Involved in all the key processes (production, sales, HR…)
thus needs help from suppliers
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Marketing strategy
Client segmentation
Medium sized baker
• Up to 30 bakeries or important distribution network
• More type of a business man
• Format: bulk and 25kg bags
• Automated production with human intervention
• Needs to differentiate his products from the retail channels
• Involved in some key processes
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Products
TRADITIONAL
• Bread flour
• Pastry flou.
MRKG 1311- Principles of MarketingFinal ExamInstructor Sarah Fe.docxssuserf9c51d
MRKG 1311- Principles of MarketingFinal Exam
Instructor: Sarah Felmet
1) Which of the following is one of the eras of marketing?
(1 point)
A. The historical marketing era
B. The sales oriented era
C. The services oriented era
D. The marketing mix era
2) Which of the following are channels of marketing?
(1 point)
1. B2B
2. C2C
3. C2B
4. B2C
A. All of the above
B. 1 only
C. 1 and 3 only
D. 1, 2 and 4 only
3) Step 3 in the implementation phase of the strategic planning process involves which of the following?
(1 point)
A. Positioning
B. Pricing
C. Placement
D. Promotion
4) Which of the following are growth strategies?
(1 point)
1. Market development strategy
2. Operational excellence strategy
3. Product excellence strategy
4. Diversification strategy
A. 1 and 2 only
B. None of the above
C. 4 only
D. 1 and 4 only
5) Which of the following is not included in the Micro environment?
(1 point)
A. The climate
B. The company
C. The corporate partners
D. The competition
6) What are the two types of culture when considering the macro environment?
(1 point)
1. Regional culture
2. Personal culture
3. Religious culture
4. Country culture
A. 1 and 2
B. 4 and 1
C. 2 and 3
D. 1 and 3
7) Diversification strategy focuses on current markets and products
(1 point)
T
or
F
8) In external research,
(1 point)
A. The consumer does internal reflecting
B. Actual research such as internet search is done by the consumer
C. The consumer uses psychology to determine whether or not to purchase
D. Situational factors are a huge factor
9) The term counter trade refers to:
(1 point)
A. Trading goods for money
B. Trading goods for goods
C. Changing your mind about trading goods
D. Refusing to sign a trade agreement
10) Which of the following is a type of global marketing opportunity?
(1 point)
A. Quota
B. Licensing
C. Franchising
D. Direct Experience
11) The first step in a market research project is:
(1 point)
A. Data Collection
B. Design the research project
C. Define the research objectives
D. Present the results
12) Stage 4 in the international market entry evaluation process is:
(1 point)
A. Country identification
B. Direct experience
C. In depth screening
D. Final Selection
13) Infrastructure and technology are factors in assessing global markets
(1 point)
T
or
F
14) In transfer pricing, the ________________ based manager sets the price but an international subsidiary can change it
(2 points)
15) Which of the following is an example of a segmentation strategy?
(1 point)
A. Demographic segmentation strategy
B. Concentrated Segmentation Strategy
C. Macromarketing
D. Symbolic Strategy
16) Export pricing is a form of international pricing approaches
(1 point)
T
or
F
17) Tariffs are considered:
(1 point)
A. A tax
B. A marketing firm
C. To be illegal
D. To be something that every marketing form wants
18) Fill in the blank
(2 points)
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Multi-Party NegotiationFor this Essay, you will explore the co.docxssuserf9c51d
Multi-Party Negotiation
For this Essay, you will explore the complexities that occur with multi-party negotiations and groupthink.
Your essay will address the following points.
§ Describe two-party, coalitions, and multi-party negotiations.
o Within your description, include a real-life example of how these types of negotiation are used in the business world.
Describe the social complexities of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
What is "groupthink," and how did it affect the Challenger?
Make sure you include your source used for this portion of your research.
What do you think you would have done if you were in that Challenger meeting?
Your essay must be a minimum of three pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Reference source for your paper. Follow proper APA format, including citing and referencing all outside sources used
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Music has long been used by movements seeking social change. In the.docxssuserf9c51d
Music has long been used by movements seeking social change. In the 1950s and '60s, this was particularly true, as successful black and white musicians openly addressed the issues of the day. During the '60s, popular white singers, such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, lent both their names and their musical talents to the American Civil Rights Movement. In fact, music long assisted those working to win civil rights for African Americans. Freedom songs, often adapted from the music of the black church, played an essential role in bolstering courage, inspiring participation, and fostering a sense of community.
Instructions:
Your PowerPoint presentation should include the following:
• Background and explanation of your special topic.
• Brief background of your American musician/artist.
• The relationship your American musician/artist had to this special topic and the contributions
they have made.
• An explanation of how your American musician/artist connected to and influenced both music
and American society and culture.
Special Topics in American Music - Final Project
MUS320 - American Music
Requirements:
• Presentation must consist of 7-10 slides, with additional title and reference slides, all formatted
in accordance with the most current APA guidelines.
• Each slide will provide succinct points of the key information that you wish to convey.
• Use the Notes section to elaborate on the information presented in each slide. The Notes section is your narrative for the presentation. Here is a tutorial on how to use speaker notes in PowerPoint. If you do not have a LinkedIn Learning account (complimentary for Post students), refer to the Course Information page for information on how to set it up so you can properly view this video.
• At least four (4) images - Two (2) related to your special topic and two (2) related to your artist.
• A video example from YouTube including music from your artist.
• Cite and reference at least three (3) scholarly sources. One of these sources may be your textbook.
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MSW Advanced Clinical Concentration -Student Learning Agreement
Walden University -- Barbara Solomon School of Social Work
Used with SOCW 6520 and SOCW 6530
Agency Name: Keep Smiling Therapy
Agency Address: «555 Broadhollow Road Suite 101
Melville, NY, 11747 »
Student Information
Instructor/Supervisor Information
Faculty Liaison Information
Agency Info
Name: Varda Sauveur
Walden Email: [email protected]
Phone: 347-869-32356
Name: Chanell Smiliey
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 631-505-2961
Name: Alisha Powell
Email: [email protected]
Phone: [Type here]
Description: Psychotherapy
Academic Term
Example: Winter 2019
Course Number
Example: SOCW 6520 III
Population Served: Working with clients who are affected by depression, phobias, stress, anxiety, emotional and relationship problems, physical or psychosomatic disorders and behavioral problems.
Proposed Schedule: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 12pm-8 pm
Describe what your regular tasks will be at the agency:
My regular task is as follow:
· Create an appropriate treatment plan for them, which will provide them with a structured and focused way of addressing their problems.
· Learning how to use verbal interaction skills to explore behavior, attitudes and emotions
· Helping clients to understand and address their inner conflicts.
· Completing Psychosocial forms
Importance of the Learning Agreement
Purpose of the Learning Agreement: The learning agreement is designed to ensure students are mindful about the learning expectations in their field placement. It was developed to help students and supervisors/instructors plan a well-rounded experience that will help students meet the learning objectives.
Learning Objectives: The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) requires students gain competency in nine areas of social work practice. These areas of practice are defined as core competencies of the profession. Each core competency requires particular behaviors students should be able to engage and gain competency in. Students should provide examples of activities in the agency they can participate in to help them meet the learning objectives. Some examples of activities are provided. This is not an exhaustive list, so others can be added. Students must have an opportunity to complete tasks in all nine areas of competency.
Connection to the Student Evaluation: Not only is the learning agreement a helpful tool to plan the learning goals for the term, but it connects directly to the evaluation points in the student evaluation. Field Instructors/supervisors will be asked to complete student evaluations. Each student is evaluated on the nine core competencies of social work. Having a solid learning agreement aligns the learning goals with the student’s evaluation, so no areas are missed.
Instructions
Negotiating the Agreement: The learning agreement should be completed by week 3 at the agency. This is a collaborative process, where the .
Multimedia Instructional MaterialsStaying current on technolog.docxssuserf9c51d
Multimedia Instructional Materials
Staying current on technology is an essential aspect of being an educator. Today’s students are digital natives, and they often respond better to media than to traditional methods of teaching. Having a strong technology repertoire is important.
Create a matrix detailing a variety of multimedia, technology, games, apps, and other technological tools for teaching reading and writing to struggling readers and writers. Include five tools/media/apps and address the following, in 100-200 words per tool:
· App/technology tool description, app/technology location (online, offline through software, through a game console, etc.), and the cost.
· Age level or academic level for which the technology is appropriate.
· Advantages of using the technology.
· Drawbacks to using the technology.
· Rationalize why struggling students may benefit from the app/technology tool.
Additionally, write a 250-500 word overview of the contents of the matrix, describing how you will implement technology in your ELA classroom. Justify which of these technologies you think will be most beneficial and describe how you might convince an administrator to help you acquire the technology.
Support the matrix and summary with 3-5 resources.
Course Paper Assignment: 30% of course grade, Final Paper due in Week 11
Proposal Due: April 22, (1 page) – Description of proposed project (abstract), Proposed Case Studies (3 to start), Bibliography with at least 3 sources
Final Paper Due: May 19, Week 11
Course Analytical Paper – Assignment
In this paper you will provide a rigorous and thoughtful analysis on your chosen theme, to include an analysis of one case study project or several projects, as a comparative analysis. The paper must include a clear and concise Thesis Statement, shown in “bold” at the end of the introductory paragraph. Please use proper paragraph form, beginning each paragraph with a Topic Sentence and ending with a Concluding Sentence. Keep your paragraphs approximately the same length, throughout. Use our course readings, along with 10 or more sources, to help you construct arguments. Cite using proper APA
form, when using text from sources. The goal of your paper is to prove (or disprove) the Thesis Statement. Writing a detailed outline is highly recommended. Include the following:
1. Title Page – Include a unique title for your paper topic, your name, my name, course name/number, and the quarter: “Spring 2020” You may also include an image or multiple images on the cover.
2. Final Paper (at least 8-10 pages of double-spaced text, images not included) – Font size: 11 or 12; Margins: ½ inch or 3/4 inch max on sides.
3. Bibliography (include at least 10 sources, 6 of which must be books or articles. The remaining 4 sources, or more, can include video lectures and other multimedia). Use APA format. You may use more than 10 total.
4. Include illustrations and project documents. Analytical sketches a.
Murray Bowen is one of the most respected family theorists in th.docxssuserf9c51d
Murray Bowen is one of the most respected family theorists in the field of family therapy. Bowen views the family unit as complex and believes it is important to understand the interactions among the members in order to solve problems. Satir and Minuchin also advanced family therapy with their concepts and models. As a clinical social worker, using these models (along with having an ecological perspective) can be very effective in helping clients.
For this Discussion, review the “Petrakis Family” case history and video session.
By Day 4
Post
(using two concepts of Bowen’s family theory) a discussion and analysis of the events that occurred after Alec moved in with his grandmother up until Helen went to the hospital. If you used the concepts of structural family therapy, how would your analysis of the situation be different? Which family theory did you find to be most helpful in your analysis? Finally, indicate whether Satir’s or Minuchin’s model is the more strength-based model. Why?
The Petrakis Family Helen Petrakis is a 52-year-old heterosexual married female of Greek descent who says that she feels overwhelmed and “blue.” She came to our agency at the suggestion of a close friend who thought Helen would benefit from having a person who could listen. Although she is uncomfortable talking about her life with a stranger, Helen said that she decided to come for therapy because she worries about burdening friends with her troubles. Helen and I have met four times, twice per month, for individual therapy in 50-minute sessions. Helen consistently appears well-groomed. She speaks clearly and in moderate tones and seems to have linear thought progression; her memory seems intact. She claims no history of drug or alcohol abuse, and she does not identify a history of trauma. Helen says that other than chronic back pain from an old injury, which she manages with acetaminophen as needed, she is in good health. Helen has worked full time at a hospital in the billing department since graduating from high school. Her husband, John (60), works full time managing a grocery store and earns the larger portion of the family income. She and John live with their three adult children in a 4-bedroom house. Helen voices a great deal of pride in the children. Alec, 27, is currently unemployed, which Helen attributes to the poor economy. Dmitra, 23, whom Helen describes as smart, beautiful, and hardworking, works as a sales consultant for a local department store. Athina, 18, is an honors student at a local college and earns spending money as a hostess in a family friend’s restaurant; Helen describes her as adorable and reliable. In our first session, I explained to Helen that I was an advanced year intern completing my second field placement at the agency. I told her I worked closely with my field supervisor to provide the best care possible. She said that was fine, congratulated me on advancing my career, and then began talking. I listened for the reasons H.
Mrs. Thomas is a 54, year old African American widow, mother and gra.docxssuserf9c51d
Mrs. Thomas is a 54, year old African American widow, mother and grandmother, who lives with her daughter and four grandchildren (ages 12, 10, 7 and 5) in a 4 story walk up apartment. She is an active member of her church community and friends, comments that she had so much energy that she exhausted all of them just being around her. At age 51, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Busy with raising her grandchildren, a little more than 3 years went by before she sought attention for her symptoms and was diagnosed. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy and radiation, her diseased progressed and she was considering undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Climbing the stairs to the apartment one afternoon she became very short of breath and collapsed. Her twelve, year old granddaughter called 911. At the hospital she was minimally responsive and in severe respiratory distress. She was intubated and transferred to the ICU. A family meeting with the oncology and ICU team was called to discuss Mrs. Thomas’s advanced condition, the fact that she would probably not survive further treatment for the lymphoma and to develop a plan of care. Fifteen family members arrived, including her daughter, pre-teen granddaughters and grandson, three nieces, four nephews, several friends from her church and the minister. On being asked that only the immediate family participate in the meeting, the family and friends became angry and insisted that all of them be involved in this discussion.
1. The students should focus their thoughts on the dynamics of this family meeting. If you were the nurse in this situation, how would you address meeting? Here are some questions that may help your thinking. W
hat is your impression regarding this scenario? What are some concerns you have with this case? What do you anticipate would happen? How would you handle all the family members and friends wanting to be included in the discussion? There is not right or wrong answer. But remember you need a professional journal to support the discussion.
2. Now think about you being the patient. How would the situation be handle within your family? Have you thought about what kind of care you would want? Does someone know what you would want if you had a catastrophic event? Would family members support the decision maker's decision for for you?
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Multiple Source Essay, Speculating about CausesProposing a Solution.docxssuserf9c51d
Multiple Source Essay, Speculating about Causes/Proposing a
Solution
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Topic: Women Mistreatment and Inequality in the US.
7 PAGES INCLUDING (
REFERENCE, ABSTRACT, TITLE PAGE
) - SO BASICALLY 4 PAGES
CONTENT.
4 pages content includes:
Specific thesis with your three causes that explains why you are arguing for something
Cause 1 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Cause 2 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Cause 3 = paragraph (be sure to explain the limits of the cause, or whether it’s a big cause, a small cause, or even a wrong cause)
Conclusion
Minimum of 4 sources. I provided 4 sources but you can use other RECENT sources.
IN ATTACHMENTS: ASSIGNMENT SHEET + SOURCES AND TIPS.
MUST BE DONE TOMORROW BY 11 PM PACIFIC TIME (in 23 hours)
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Multiyear Plans Please respond to the followingDo you.docxssuserf9c51d
"Multiyear Plans"
Please respond to the following:
Do you think the federal government should increase spending on Social Security and Medicare for the elderly? If not, how should the elderly fund retirement and medical costs? Provide research support for your positions.
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Multinational Financial Management
Determine key reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow in a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than in a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low. Provide support for your rationale.
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Murder CasePreambleAn organization system administrator .docxssuserf9c51d
Murder Case
Preamble
An organization system administrator was labeled as the key suspect in a homicide case. The accused claimed that he was at work at the time of the murder.
Police Intervention
The police asked his employer to help them verify his alibi. Unpredictably, the same organization, occasionally trained law enforcement personnel to investigate computer crimes and was eager to help in the investigation.
Collaborative Strength:
The organization worked with police to assemble an investigative team, seized the suspect computers in his office and residence, and backup tapes on a file server managed by his employer. All of these evidence were stored in a room to where only members of the team had access.
Harsh Situation
At the initial stages, the operation appeared reasonably well documented, but the reconstruction process was a disaster. The investigators made so many omissions and mistakes that one computer expert when reading the investigator's logs, suggested that the fundamental mistake was that the investigators locked all of the smart people out of the room. The investigators, in this case, were unaware of the situation and unwilling to admit the slip-up.
As a result of the investigators' omissions and mistakes, the suspect's alibi could not work together. Digital evidence to support the suspect's alibi was identify later but not by the investigators. If the investigators had sought expert assistance to deal with a large amount of digital evidence, they might have quickly confirmed the suspect's alibi rather than putting him through years of investigation and leaving the murderer to go free.
Lesson Learned
The case amplifies forensic investigators' requirements to obtain fundamental knowledge of computers, compatible operating systems, and application software programs.
Forewarning forensic investigators to seek the assistance of the system administrator during the criminal investigation.
Scenario
You have been retained as a Deputy Technology officer at the University and charged with the responsibility of developing an Acceptable User Policy for the department of computer science based on this murder case.
Question 1
Use the AUP to amplify the advantages and disadvantages of investigators' quarterly training on most currently used operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, Sun System, and more.
Scenario 2
The investigators, in this case, were unaware of the situation and unwilling to admit the slip-up. As a result of such omissions and mistakes, the suspect's alibi could not work together. Digital evidence to support the suspect's alibi was identify later but not by the investigators. If the investigators had sought expert assistance to deal with a large amount of digital evidence, they might have quickly confirmed the suspect's alibi rather than putting him through years of investigation and leaving the murderer to go free.
Question 2 "Investigators allowed the Murderer to.
Multimodal Personal Narrative – Develop a multimodal document to bot.docxssuserf9c51d
Multimodal Personal Narrative – Develop a multimodal document to both visually illustrate and verbally express a personal transformation.
Use a one-page newspaper or single-panel brochure format to present a personal narration of a transformation of your choice from a point in your childhood to today. You might discuss a career aspiration you had as a child, transition to the job you held as a teenager, and lastly, explain the profession you maintain today. Use connecting ideas to ensure you have a cohesive essay, which will ultimately (in the conclusion) explain what you learned from this transformation. For example, how and why did you go from point A (job 1) to point B (job 2) and then on to point C (job 3)? Or, you might consider illustrating a transformation based on a way of life or philosophy.
Implement three photos to represent your ideas, feelings, etc., at the three focal points in your life. You may use personal photos, clip art, or other images, but be sure you use and/or attribute them appropriately. For example, you are free to use your personal photos as you’d like, but make sure to choose clip art or other images that you either have permission to use freely or that you cite adequately. Equally consider your document’s layout, such as text sizes, photo placement (near the related essay text), and colors, in addition to how you present your content, to include thesis, support, and organization.
Sample thesis statement:
Growing up in Sedona, Arizona, I was constantly looking up into the clear night sky, viewing multiple constellations and shimmering stars, which had me yearning to reach them—literally—so when I turned 16, I began working as a camp counselor at a space camp, which ultimately led to a career at NASA; my journey taught me that if I reached for the stars, nothing could stop me.
Length:
This assignment should be at least 500 words.
Underline your thesis statement.
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Multigenre Project
EN101O Fall 2019 Dr. Walter
A Multigenre Project (MGP) presents multiple, even conflicting, perspectives on a topic in order to provide a rich context and present an aesthetically appealing product for an audience. Your MGP should reflect the following:
A focus: You should not only include documents that relate to a general topic, but you should ensure that the documents work towards a claim you are making about the topic.
A coherent organization/your entire MGP should be presented in an umbrella genre that best fits your purpose. You should create and organize documents in order to lead readers through the project, to help them understand your focus and purpose. Coherent organization will come out of the umbrella genre you choose for the project. For example, creating a magazine as the umbrella genre that includes articles, images, advertisements, etc. with one focus will provide cohesion to the project. Examples of how you might “package” the MGP include a CD, a scrapbook, a photo album, a patient file, an employee handbook, a manual, a newspaper, a magazine, a website—the options are endless! Just be sure to provide a table of contents (TOC) that offers an overview of and title for each document.
Look at some of the examples posted on D2L for concrete depictions of how this can work.
The Multigenre Project includes at least 8 documents (including an Introduction, Table of Contents, 5 documents of different genres (not including your Introduction), and a works cited page) that offer a sustained argument about your chosen issue. By creating documents in different genres (e.g., editorials, feature stories, brochures, short fiction, charts, scripts, etc.), you learn to write for multiple audiences, multiple (rhetorical) purposes, and multiple forums. All documents/text must be original work you create for the MGP.
Your Introduction serves as a guide to readers, helping them understand the issue you are addressing, offering insight about why you chose the genres you chose, etc. The introduction is your chance to help readers understand why this topic is important, how they should “read” your documents, etc. The introduction may be written as a letter to readers, a magazine article, an editorial, etc.
The bulk of your MGP will be the five documents, each representing a different genre, that helps persuade your audience(s) to your point of view. Aim for a good balance of genres, and be sure at least three of your documents directly use the sources you have gathered from your research. By writing a brochure that utilizes your research sources, a chart or other visual, a story drawing from the information you have gathered, a quiz based on researched sources, etc.—by approaching your research findings in a creative way, your MGP helps an audience understand many different perspectives about your topic. Some of the documents you will include may be more time-intensive than others. But the 5 documents that make up the bo.
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Multimedia activity: Business Organization
Visit the Choose Your Business Structure (Links to an external site.) section of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s website.
If you were to start your own business, which business entity structure would you choose? Justify why your chosen structure is the best organizational form.
Explain the following business structures: sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, and a corporation. In your analysis address the following for each business structure:
Steps to form
Personal liability for owners
Taxation
Advantages and disadvantages
Your paper must be three to five pages (excluding title and reference pages), and it must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. You must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook. Cite your sources in-text and on the reference page.
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Multicultural Perspective
Today’s classrooms are diverse and you will be expected to meet the needs of all of your students. Many of our students come from different cultures, which affects how they learn. We must take this into consideration when developing our lesson plans, making our role as an educator even more complex. As a result, we must be informed of our students’ cultural backgrounds as this includes another element of cognitive understanding that will guide our instructional practices. By understanding student culture, we can gain insight into learning preferences, interests, motivation, and prior knowledge.
Based on the important features of multicultural education found in Figure 4.6 of our text and selecting a specific content standard from the
Common Core State Standards Initiative (Links to an external site.)
(CCSS), develop a learning activity that includes these key features of multicultural education:
Integration of content
– How does your learning activity incorporate content from different cultures?
Reducing Prejudice
– How does the learning activity attempt to minimize any of your own prejudices as well as your students?
Making Teaching Equitable
– How does the instructional approach to your learning activity meet the needs of all your students by recognizing learning styles, interests, and motivation to help achieve academic potential?
Empowering Learners
– How does the learning activity empower all students to work toward their academic potential?
Construction of Knowledge
– How does your learning activity promote different perspectives that validate how culture influences knowledge and beliefs?
Be sure to first provide your content standard from the CCSS followed by your learning activity. Then explain how your learning activity meets each element of multicultural education by providing evidence to justify and support your assertions. Then reflect on your K-12 school experience. Was a multicultural education part of your schooling? What factors may have contributed to the inclusion or exclusion of a multicultural education in your own early schooling? Make sure to incorporate the five key features of multicultural education in your reflection.
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example
of this week's assignment.
You have several options in completing this task:
Write a three-four page paper (does not include a title page or reference page).
Develop a PPT presentation that is 8-10 slides long (does not include title page slide or reference page slide).
Use Voicethread or Prezi that is 8-10 slides long (does not include a title page slide or reference page slide).
Use a combination of the above.
Be sure to reference the course text and at least one other scholarly source. Your assignment should follow APA formatting guidelines as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)
, and be sure to include a title page or slide as well as reference page or slide.
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Muhammad Ali, how did his refusal to go into the army affect his professional career.
Tommy Smith, what happened to him after coming home from the Olympics at the raising his fist.
LeBron James, what has been his influence in today’s society when it pertains to social injustices.
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MS 113: Some key concepts that you need to know to navigate through
the key reading – I will keep updating these
1.democracy
2.citizenship
3.public sphere
5. Nation and nationalism, nation-state, government, sovereignty
4. oligarchy (polyarchy, plutocracy, aristocracy and so on)
4.capitalism
5.liberalism, neoliberalism
6.civic republicanism
7.socialism
8.authoritarianism
9.populism
10. fascism
11. Marxism -ideological, hegemonic, discursive
12.globalization
13.transnational media spheres
14. consumerism, neoliberal consumer democracy
15. social movements
16. identity politics
17. recognition and redistribution debate
18. political power
19. the notion of common good
20. the digital divide
21: digital public sphere
22. communitarianism
23. social construction of culture
24. poststructuralism
25. postmodern
26. modernity
27. civil society
28. civil disobedience
29. civic engagement
30. structure and agency
31. pluralism and multiracialism, multiculturalism
A NEW FRONTIER
SOCIAL MEDIA / NETWORKS
DISINFORMATION AND
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
IN THE CONTEXT OF
ELECTION
OBSERVATION
by Michael Meyer-Resende
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) operates on the conviction that democratic,
participatory governance is a human right and governments should be accountable to
their citizens. DRI supports democratic governance around the world with a focus on
institutions of democracy, such as constitutions, elections, parliaments and rules of
democracy grounded in international law. Through careful assessments based on field
research with partners, DRI convenes diverse stakeholders to promote policies that
strengthen democratic institutions. A non-profit company, DRI is based in Berlin and has
offices in Tunisia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Michael Meyer-Resende is a lawyer with twenty years of experience in political
transitions and democratisation. Works in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His
professional experience includes two years legal practice in Berlin, four years with the
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE (Warsaw),
three years with the election team of the European Commission in Brussels and
journalistic experience with the BBC. In 2006 he co-founded DRI and serves as Executive
Director since then. He publishes it regularly in newspapers like The New York Times,
The Guardian, Politico, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and think tank publications.
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union.
Its contents are the sole responsibility of Michael Meyer-Resende and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Union.
Graphic and layout design: Giorgio Grasso for Democracy Essentials
Cover photo: Ezequiel Scagnetti
Interior photos: Victor Idrogo (pp. 3, 6-7, 17); Ezequiel Scagnetti (p. 22)
CREDITS
3
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
I. SUMMARY
II. BACKGROUND
III. INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND NATIONAL LA.
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Mrs. Dolan is a 46-year-old female who presented to the emergency de.docxssuserf9c51d
Mrs. Dolan is a 46-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with complaints of episodic abdominal pain, a low-grade fever, and diarrhea for almost two weeks. Mrs. Dolan was on vacation in another country when she developed pain in the left lower quadrant of her abdomen. Mrs. Dolan delayed seeking health care because of fear of the country’s unfamiliar medical system and the assumption that bad water or food she had while on vacation must have given her a stomach “bug.” Mrs. Dolan also reports a recent onset of painful urination. Upon examination in the emergency room, Mrs. Dolan is found to be dehydrated with a fever of 102.58F (39.2 8C). Vital signs are blood pressure (BP) 106/58, pulse 88, and respiratory rate of 22. Her potassium (K1) level is 2.8 mEq/L, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is 37 mm/hr, and white blood cell (WBC) count is 16,000 cells/ mm3. A urinalysis showed a positive urinary tract infection (UTI) and an abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) scan revealed diverticulitis with a question of an ileus. Mrs. Dolan is admitted and started on intravenous (IV) fluid of D51/2 normal saline (NS) with 20 mEq of potassium chloride (KCl) at 50 mL per hour. Two IV antibiotics (cefoxitin sodium and metronidazole) are prescribed. Her admitting orders include nothing by mouth (NPO), bed rest, IV morphine sulfate for pain management, stools to be checked for occult blood, strict intake and output (I & O), and repeat blood work in the morning to monitor her K+. Her height and weight on admission are 5 feet 7 inches and 170 lbs (77.3 kg). She is prescribed diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulfate, propantheline bromide, and acetaminophen as “as needed” pro re nata (prn) medications.
1. Explain how Mrs. Dolan’s symptoms might be related to her urinary tract infection.
2. The emergency department health care provider considered several differential diagnoses for Mrs. Dolan and a diagnosis of diverticulitis was determined. What diagnostic test confirmed Mrs. Dolan’s diagnosis of acute diverticulitis?
3. Mrs. Dolan’s abdominal/pelvic CT scan revealed diverticulitis with a question of an ileus. What is an ileus?
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Mr. Luis Coromina Unzueta, CEO
Table of contents
• Presentation
• The company
• Market definition
• Clients
• Products Facilities
• Finance overview
• Internationalization
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Presentation
• BA in Business Administration at ESADE Barcelona
• Strategic consultant at Oliver Wyman Madrid
• Founder of 2 start-ups:
Mycd Music
ThinkLight-Insolit: https://www.insolitbcn.com/
• CEO at Farinera Coromina Agri-Energia since 2013: https://farineracoromina.com/?lang=es
• Board member at TEISA Bus
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiscoromina/
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https://www.insolitbcn.com/
https://farineracoromina.com/?lang=es
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiscoromina/
Company overview
• Agri-Energia Group was founded in Banyoles in 1897 by the Coromina family.
• Originally Farinera Coromina flour mill and Agrienergia dedicated to production, distribution and
commercialization of electricity
• Further ventures such us TEISA 1920 and AGBANY
• Revenue > 50M€
• > 300 professionals
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• Farinera Coromina flour mill: we help artisan bakers differentiate their business and spread
quality, flavorful and healthy bread across society
• Revenue >13.500.000 €
• 40.000 tones of wheat processed
• Team of 50 professionals
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gNxmO1qAU
Company overview
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gNxmO1qAU
Company overview
• Lluís Coromina Foundation: people, animals and arts
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Company overview
• Family company
• Culture oriented to:
✔ communication
✔ team work
✔ Innovation-Intrapreneurship
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Market definition
Spanish market
• Around 100 flour mills in Spain
• >4.000.000 tones of wheat processed
• Market size >1.500 M€
• Overcapacity thus low profitability
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Marketing strategy
• Sales agents
• Fairs
• Digital: website, Instagram and Facebook
• Sponsoring artisan bread events such as “La Ruta Española del Buen Pan”
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Marketing strategy
Client segmentation
Small Artisan Baker
• From 1 to 5 bakeries
• Artisan production
• Needs to differentiate his products from the retail channels
• Format: 25kg bags
• Involved in all the key processes (production, sales, HR…)
thus needs help from suppliers
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Marketing strategy
Client segmentation
Medium sized baker
• Up to 30 bakeries or important distribution network
• More type of a business man
• Format: bulk and 25kg bags
• Automated production with human intervention
• Needs to differentiate his products from the retail channels
• Involved in some key processes
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Products
TRADITIONAL
• Bread flour
• Pastry flou.
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MRKG 1311- Principles of MarketingFinal Exam
Instructor: Sarah Felmet
1) Which of the following is one of the eras of marketing?
(1 point)
A. The historical marketing era
B. The sales oriented era
C. The services oriented era
D. The marketing mix era
2) Which of the following are channels of marketing?
(1 point)
1. B2B
2. C2C
3. C2B
4. B2C
A. All of the above
B. 1 only
C. 1 and 3 only
D. 1, 2 and 4 only
3) Step 3 in the implementation phase of the strategic planning process involves which of the following?
(1 point)
A. Positioning
B. Pricing
C. Placement
D. Promotion
4) Which of the following are growth strategies?
(1 point)
1. Market development strategy
2. Operational excellence strategy
3. Product excellence strategy
4. Diversification strategy
A. 1 and 2 only
B. None of the above
C. 4 only
D. 1 and 4 only
5) Which of the following is not included in the Micro environment?
(1 point)
A. The climate
B. The company
C. The corporate partners
D. The competition
6) What are the two types of culture when considering the macro environment?
(1 point)
1. Regional culture
2. Personal culture
3. Religious culture
4. Country culture
A. 1 and 2
B. 4 and 1
C. 2 and 3
D. 1 and 3
7) Diversification strategy focuses on current markets and products
(1 point)
T
or
F
8) In external research,
(1 point)
A. The consumer does internal reflecting
B. Actual research such as internet search is done by the consumer
C. The consumer uses psychology to determine whether or not to purchase
D. Situational factors are a huge factor
9) The term counter trade refers to:
(1 point)
A. Trading goods for money
B. Trading goods for goods
C. Changing your mind about trading goods
D. Refusing to sign a trade agreement
10) Which of the following is a type of global marketing opportunity?
(1 point)
A. Quota
B. Licensing
C. Franchising
D. Direct Experience
11) The first step in a market research project is:
(1 point)
A. Data Collection
B. Design the research project
C. Define the research objectives
D. Present the results
12) Stage 4 in the international market entry evaluation process is:
(1 point)
A. Country identification
B. Direct experience
C. In depth screening
D. Final Selection
13) Infrastructure and technology are factors in assessing global markets
(1 point)
T
or
F
14) In transfer pricing, the ________________ based manager sets the price but an international subsidiary can change it
(2 points)
15) Which of the following is an example of a segmentation strategy?
(1 point)
A. Demographic segmentation strategy
B. Concentrated Segmentation Strategy
C. Macromarketing
D. Symbolic Strategy
16) Export pricing is a form of international pricing approaches
(1 point)
T
or
F
17) Tariffs are considered:
(1 point)
A. A tax
B. A marketing firm
C. To be illegal
D. To be something that every marketing form wants
18) Fill in the blank
(2 points)
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
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SYMPOSIUM IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM.docx
1. SYMPOSIUM: IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE
AMERICAN DREAM
Which American Dream Do You Mean?
David Stoll
Published online: 7 July 2009
# Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009
Abstract According to the latest U.S. Census projection,
the arrival of immigrants and their higher birthrates,
projected forward at current rates, will turn the U.S. into a
“minority–majority” society in 2042, 8 years earlier than
the Census used to predict. Liberals tend to view immigra-
tion to the U.S. as a human right, but many employers prefer
to hire immigrants because they can be paid less than the
cost of reproducing their labor-that is, the cost of keeping
an American family above the poverty line. One way of
looking at the resulting debates over U.S. immigration
policy is in terms of moral economy, that is, how different
factions compete for moral authority in order to gain
control over a desired good. In this case, the desired good
is American citizenship, including access to the highest
consumption rates on the planet, and national definitions of
citizenship are competing with transnational or globalist
definitions of citizenship. Constructing moral rhetoric for
either national or transnational definitions of citizenship
requires excluding information that does not serve the
cause. One way of spotlighting the omissions is to look at
each moral economy as a highly selective version of the
American Dream.
2. Keywords Comprehensive immigration reform .
Census projection . Minority–majority
In his campaign for president, Barack Obama promised a
comprehensive immigration reform that will probably
include legalizing undocumented immigrants. So as we
stumble out of the rubble of our credit collapse, activists
and talking heads will return to this contentious subject. In
2007, 38 million people or 12.6% of the U.S. population
was foreign-born. According to the latest U.S. Census
projection, the arrival of immigrants and their higher
birthrates, projected forward at current rates, will turn the
U.S. into a “minority–majority” society in 2042, 8 years
earlier than the Census used to predict. That is, the
percentage of people who we define as non-Hispanic
whites (currently 65% of the population) will decline to
less than 50% of the U.S. population. In 15 years people
who we currently define as minorities will comprise more
than half of all children, and by 2050 they will comprise
54% of the population.
Statistical trends such as these are quick to provoke
indignation. Some Americans are horrified that, in 2008,
the U.S. government forcibly deported 361,000 people,
almost ninety percent of them Mexicans and Central
Americans. The deportees include people who made their
lives in the United States, and they have many relatives,
friends and employers who feel their human rights have
been violated. Other Americans are horrified that immi-
grants who deliberately broke the law, who did so
repeatedly to smuggle in their relatives, and who may
continue to do so, will be rewarded with citizenship. The
relation between these two positions is that of a head-on
3. collision. So a frequent reaction to the numbers and the
issues they raise is to jump out of the way. Among the
people jumping out of the way are many environmentalists
and labor Democrats. Environmentalists are not overjoyed
to see immigration driving the rapid growth of an American
population that consumes more resources per capita than
any other on the planet. Labor Democrats are not overjoyed
to see employers gravitating to cheaper immigrant labor.
But they often steer clear of the subject because they do not
want to be accused of racism.
Soc (2009) 46:398–402
DOI 10.1007/s12115-009-9245-2
D. Stoll (*)
Sociology/Anthropology Department, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT 05753, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
There are many reasons why the U.S. immigration
debate is loaded with shrill accusations, inhibition, and
double-talk; one is that it splits liberals and conservatives
down the middle. Liberals tend to view immigration to the
U.S. as a human right, the idea of excluding anyone repels
them, but many employers prefer to hire immigrants
because they can be paid less than the cost of reproducing
their labor—that is, the cost of keeping an American family
above the poverty line. Hence the lure of non-citizens as
ideal workers—not just to the kind of employers who own
citrus groves and sweatshops, but to the kind of employers
who rely on immigrants to raise their children as they write
angry pro-amnesty editorials for the New York Times.
Unfortunately, the social deficits created by not paying a
living wage are either made up by taxpayers or they are not
4. made up at all. This is why, even if many immigrants are
hard workers who deserve a break, large low-wage
migration streams undermine wage structures, social ser-
vices and personal security. Certainly there are benefits, but
these tend to be harvested by privileged social classes, with
most of the costs borne by more vulnerable classes. Hence
the perception of many middle and working-class Americans
that large, low-wage migration streams threaten their way of
life. Among both Republicans and Democrats, there is a
divide between elites who welcome new immigration streams
and ordinary voters who fear them. Both Republicans and
Democrats try to exploit immigration as a wedge issue against
the other, but this is a stratagem that can explode in their faces.
The Long Conversation Shifts from Human Rights
to Immigrant Rights
One way of listening to the immigration debate is that it is a
“long conversation” that has come to include people from
all over the world. When I showed up in a Mayan Indian
town in Guatemala in the 1980s, I wanted to talk to people
about political violence and reconstruction programs. Many
Ixil Mayas were willing to help me, but there was another
topic on their minds: Cuanto se gana en los Estados
Unidos? What’s the pay in the U.S? Could I help them go
there and get a job? This was their dream, not mine, and I
always said no. Eventually, without any help on my part,
they figured out how to sneak into places like Ohio and
Virginia, so now, every time I visit, we chew over the perils
of this strategy for superación or getting ahead.
The conversation between myself and Guatemalans did
not begin when I showed up in Guatemala and it does not
stop when I leave, because it is just one chapter in a much
longer conversation between North Americans and Guate-
malans, that goes back more than a century and that will
5. continue long after my interlocutors and I have departed
this world. Each side has our preferred topics; Americans
prefer to talk about Mayan culture, Guatemalan history and
human rights. Guatemalans prefer to talk about aid projects
and getting the hell out of Guatemala.
The metaphor of the long conversation comes from the
anthropologist Paul Sullivan. His book Unfinished Con-
versations explores the correspondence between Harvard
archaeologists and Mayan peasants during the excavation
of the Postclassic Mayan city of Chichen Itzá. Chichen Itzá
is in the Yucatán Peninsula, in a region from which the
Bush Mayas expelled white plantation owners in 1847 and
set up their own independent territory. When Harvard
archaeologists arrived 75 years later, they wanted the
Mayas to cooperate with the excavation. What did Mayan
leaders want in return? According to Sullivan’s analysis of
the correspondence, they hoped the Harvard archaeologists
would give them guns for another rebellion against the
Mexican state. When the historian Nelson Reed showed up
in the 1960s, village elders asked him for guns too.
The relation between the Mayas and the Americans was
amicable but full of mutual misunderstanding and manip-
ulation. What the two sides wanted from each other was
very different. But what they were saying to each other was
just the latest installment in a long conversation that goes
back to the Spanish Conquest and that continues to this day,
carried on by other people. Unlike a dialogue, which
suggests working toward a common end and eventually
reaching agreement, a long conversation is not likely to end
in agreement because it has no foreseeable end. It has no
foreseeable end because the two sides do not even want the
same thing. You could call it a long argument instead, but
because the two sides need each other it never breaks off.
6. The people who started the conversation die, others take
their place, and the discussion goes in new directions. In a
strange and marvelous way, a conversation that began
500 years ago, and that used to revolve around European
power and Christianity, has evolved into a conversation
about human rights.
When you join these conversations in poor countries, you
have to deal with the contrast between your own ability to
cross national boundaries, legally and comfortably, and the
inability of many of your interlocutors to do so. It is not fair.
If we give you permission to visit our country, Guatemalans
ask, why don’t you give us permission to visit the U.S.? This
is a good question, for which a good answer is: I am not
offering to work for their patrón for a lower wage than they
do. Yet it remains a painful issue for anyone with friends or
relatives who want to come to the U.S. Hundreds of millions
of people around the world dream of earning higher wages
here than they can at home. In Vermont many of us pride
ourselves on our sympathy for people trapped in poor
countries. Supporting generous immigration policies goes
without saying. Since few of us make our living as human
traffickers, immigration lawyers, or refugee counselors, we
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do our bit by supporting human rights. But the more we talk
about human rights, the more it becomes apparent that
human rights will arrive in countries like Guatemala only
slowly, if ever. And so Guatemalans ask, won’t we have a
better life in El Norte than we ever will in our own country?
And so moving to a stable, wealthy country has become a
powerful subtext in human rights. To return to the metaphor
of the long conversation, this is the topic into which human
7. rights has been morphing—immigrant rights.
National Versus Global Definitions of Citizenship
Since many American employers have found reasons to
prefer immigrant labor, and since the future of many
American workers is anything but secure, American social
scientists should be asking what, if any, obligations we
have to our fellow American citizens. Do our obligations to
them outweigh our obligations to all the people who want
to join our labor markets? If your answer to this question is
yes, you still probably define your citizenship in national
terms. If your answer is no, you may be defining your
citizenship in transnational terms—which would not be a
surprise for intellectuals pursuing transnational careers. Yet
what serves the purposes of globe-trotting professionals is not
necessarily good for working people treading water in the
treacherous cross-currents of global capitalism. Our water-
park could be their typhoon.
Once immigrants come to the U.S, they join another
long conversation which has been going for centuries—is
the United States a nation, of people who feel a special
sense of obligation to each other through descent, marriage
and patriotism, or is it a multinational society of people
from very different backgrounds, who do not have much in
common except our shared desire to enjoy lots of personal
freedom and high levels of consumption? And so the
immigration debate leads to touchy questions about
citizenship, about who belongs and who does not.
Or is the question of who belongs so discriminatory that
we should not even ask it? Why can’t everyone belong?
Our sense of moral obligation—and I’m stressing obligation,
the felt duty to respond even at high cost to ourselves—
depends on how narrowly or broadly we define our moral
8. community—the people to whom we owe our highest loyalty,
our obligations to whom trump our obligations to other
people. Consider four alternatives:
1. The oldest form of moral community is to your family
or clan or local residential group. For much of
humanity, even at the start of the twenty-first century,
this still trumps the other alternatives. Wherever states
are unstable and unreliable, a very localistic definition
of moral obligation is still the lifeboat. Even in the U.S.
family and clan loyalties often trump wider obligations,
although usually covertly. Let us call this first alterna-
tive familism or—when it interferes with the bureau-
cratic rationalism of states—what Edward Banfield
called amoral familism.
2. A second way of defining moral community is in terms
of ethnic nationalism. Ethnic nationalism would have us
prioritize our membership in groups of people who claim
common descent, but in much broader ways than
traceable kinship. We now associate ethnic nationalism
with tremendous destruction, but in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries many intellectuals considered it a
vast improvement over multinational empires ruled by
monarchs. Garibaldi and other nineteenth-century
romantics pulled together ethnic nationalism and repub-
licanism into the conviction that they were fighting for
all of humanity, not just their own nationalities.
The dangerous presumption in ethnic nationalism is that
states should have a core nationality. In the words of
Michael Ignatieff (1997:59), “what is wrong with national-
ism is not the desire to be master in your own house, but
the conviction that only people like yourself deserve to be
in the house.” If every group has the right to be master in its
9. own house, who defines the house appropriate to each
group? Do the Israelis have the right to the West Bank
because their ancestors occupied it 2,000 years ago? Do
Mexicans have the right to occupy California, Arizona,
New Mexico and Texas because Mexico owned these
territories 170 years ago? What if people who you define as
guests decide that this is their house, not yours? Who
decides who gets to be a national group?
3. Because ethnic nationalism has encouraged many such
disagreements, which could combine with nuclear
weapons to destroy us, many thinkers have argued for
a third and broader way of defining moral community.
Under civic nationalism, a constitution grants equal
rights to everyone, regardless of national origin, so that
what counts is your allegiance, not your national origin.
Hence the cult of the American flag, of the Canadian
maple leaf, of God Save the Queen, and liberty,
equality and fraternity. Yet according to skeptics, civic
nationalism continues to assume a core national group
and becomes a façade for ethnic nationalists to claim
they are no longer marginalizing minorities. Even if
this is not the case, civic nationalism ends up justifying
exclusion because the only way that it can define itself
as a nation is to have outsiders, non-nationals, who may
visit as guests but only with the state’s permission. And
so civic nationalism may be only an unstable variant of
ethnic nationalism.
4. For those of us who do not want to exclude anyone, our
fourth possible definition of moral community is
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10. globalism, and with it globalist definitions of citizen-
ship. Here it is important to distinguish between
globalism as an empirical analysis of material and
symbolic exchanges across national boundaries (often
called transnationalism) and globalism as a political or
moral project, which assumes that globalism should be
encouraged because it leads to better social outcomes
than nationalism. Many liberals presume that globalism
is more tolerant and humane than nationalism because
it is not exclusionary, at least at first sight. And so we
keep faith with a long and honorable tradition in
Western liberalism, which has extended legal equality
to one subordinate group after another—to religious
dissenters, to people without property, to females, and
to subordinate ethnic groups. The only people who are
still not equal are non-citizens.
But how well does globalism work as a definition of
moral community, that is, as a moral obligation to people to
whose aid we will come even if very expensive and
inconvenient? Obligation is the necessary measure because
warm feelings and impulses are not enough. Without
obligation backed by family resources, or community
resources, or tax dollars and state authority, we have the
least commendable chapters in the history of the United
Nations, or the sorry record of the U.S. and the European
Community in stopping genocide in Yugoslavia and
Equatorial Africa. Globalists like to think that we feel
moral responsibility for the entire world, but globalism
gives us so many victims from which to choose that we can
cherry-pick the victims that most attract us, leaving many
others in the lurch. The aid industry struggles with this
problem under the heading of “compassion fatigue.” How
do you keep up the interest of the global North in helping
the global South survive one crisis after another? Bottom
line—if you cannot renew your supply of appealing
11. beneficiaries, the donations flow elsewhere. In the words
of one of my students, globalism is flakey. It maximizes the
number of people for whom we can take credit rhetorically
while not obligating us to any of them in particular.
Could this be the very point of globalism, to minimize
local obligations? Nationalism has served the interests of
narrow minds, but globalism also serves narrow interests,
such as corporate elites moving their capital to cheaper
labor in the Third World, Third World intellectuals moving
to endowed institutions in the West, and the trust-fund left
drumming up moral authority for itself (Dirlik 1994). If the
American nation is just a history of racial discrimination
that needs to be transcended, then what claim do American
workers have on American corporate elites, or on East and
West Coast intellectuals who visualize themselves as heroes
in the struggle against nativist bigotry? Human rights
activists, foundation officers, international investors and
bureaucrats would like to believe that globalism is the
march of history, but they often sound like apologists for
market forces that were set in motion by entrepreneurs of
one kind or another. The globe, the market, human rights all
presumably work toward the greater good of all, yet the
noble rhetoric has justified the dissolution of local
obligations in spirals of debt and accumulation that
suddenly collapse, leaving devastation in their wake.
Nationalism makes big promises, but globalism makes
even bigger ones. Both national and transnational defini-
tions of citizenship conceal tremendous hierarchies and
power differentials, but transnationalism provides even
fewer mechanisms for resisting them. Compared to the
world system, as Timothy Brennan (2006:229–30) has
pointed out, nation–states are not just imagined communi-
ties; they are relatively manageable communities, in which
12. voters can vote the bums out of office and “draw a
boundary between what is theirs and what is not theirs,
between what is open to the outside and not open. In this
latter, very seldom talked-about sense, the nation protects
the weak and is their refuge.”
Two Moral Economies and Their Dream Lives
And so the debate over U.S. immigration policy gets back
to testy questions about citizenship, conflicting loyalties
and self-interest. If American social scientists do not wish
to sound like transnational elites, we should think about the
difference between a moral economy revolving around
national citizenship and one revolving around transnational
citizenship. Moral economy is a way of looking at how
different factions compete for moral authority in order to
gain control over the allocation of a desired good. In this
case, the desired good is the right to move from illegal to
legal residency, culminating in American citizenship and
providing access to the highest consumption rates on the
planet. And by good I do mean a commodity, a legal
commodity that is bought and sold like mineral rights. The
Guatemalans I interview have each paid human traffickers
$5,000 to enter the United States. If successful, they loan
money to relatives and neighbors so that they too can enter the
U.S. If they can persuade an American citizen to marry them
and bear their child, and if they can afford an immigration
lawyer, they have a chance of legalizing themselves.
It is economic transactions such as this that fuel immigra-
tion to the U.S., and it is through moral economy that we can
analyze how such transactions turn into moral and political
debates, in which different factions use loaded symbols (e.g.,
the American flag, the Mexican border, crosses marking
graves) to build moral authority for themselves. At immediate
issue is who deserves the rights associated with legal
13. residency and citizenship. Ultimately at stake are different
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demographic futures. Immigrant-rights advocates believe they
are defending the human rights of refugees and building a
more tolerant America. Restrictionists believe they are
protecting a middle-class society without huge gaps between
rich and poor. In actuality, each side could be encouraging the
opposite of what it intends—an America that is ever more
stratified along class and ethnic lines.
Given our addiction to importing cheap foreign labor,
constructing moral rhetoric for either national or transna-
tional definitions of citizenship requires excluding infor-
mation that does not serve the cause. One way of
spotlighting the omissions is to look at each moral economy
as a highly selective version of the American Dream—the
invocation of which has long enabled Americans to avoid
making unpleasant choices. What exactly is the American
Dream? The core assumption is that, no matter how poor
you start out, you can build a better life for yourself and
your children. Thanks to television, the American Dream
now enchants people all over the planet.
It is also extremely deceptive, as Sarah Mahler discov-
ered in her research with Salvadoran and Peruvian
immigrants. The only way they could achieve a modicum
of stability, Mahler reported in American Dreaming (1995),
was by monetizing their relationship with their relatives and
exploiting other immigrants. Immigrants typically say they
come to America to help their families yet many lose their
families in the process. Immigrant-rights activists assume
that any number of immigrants will benefit U.S. society,
14. and that U.S. society will benefit those immigrants, but new
waves of immigrants are undercutting the wages of earlier
immigrants. Corporate elites claim that a rising tide will
float all boats, but economic growth no longer translates
into rising incomes for most Americans. Such paradoxes
are less surprising once we recognize that American
consumption levels are not just completely unsustainable;
they are a potent form of addiction and the American Dream
is a particularly entrancing form of commodity fetishism.
The American Dream originated as a marriage between
capitalism and nationalism but it is now ending in divorce,
as corporations find cheaper labor and more permissive tax
havens outside the US. The children of the dream are
obliged to choose sides. Some cling to nationalism—with
its exclusionary national definition of citizenship—while
others put their hopes in capitalism and transnational
definitions of rights. Most immigrant-rights activists are
very critical of market forces, but they accept employers’
claims that the US economy needs lots of foreign labor.
Unfortunately, the more low-skill immigrants arrive on
American shores, the greater will be the oversupply of low-
skill labor and the easier they will be to abuse. The more
inequality develops in the American economy, the more
impossible it is to provide the plenty and mobility that
Americans have come to expect.
So let us look at each moral economy, one revolving
around national citizenship and the other revolving around
transnational citizenship, as a different version of the
American Dream. By suggesting that each moral economy
is a dream life, I do not mean to dismiss them as fantasies
completely out of touch with reality. To the contrary, each
derives credibility from its ability to provide satisfying
explanations for everyday experience. But a dream does
have to be very selective. If it included all the discordant
15. details of existence, it would not be a dream. So each of
these versions of the American Dream simplifies the world
into a more pleasant place than it actually is, by justifying
large rhetorical exclusions.
What then of the census projection that the U.S. will
become a “minority–majority” society by 2042? Is this the
result of inevitable economic and demographic forces, or is
it the product of decision-making by American elites? How
well or poorly is U.S. society and government functioning
where it is already minority–majority, e.g. Hawaii, New
Mexico, South Texas, California, New York City? If there
is a range of outcomes, are the most critical variables
economic? Are there any countries whose ethnic composi-
tion has changed at this pace without serious ethnic
conflict? If there are such cases, what can we learn from
them? Three decades from now, how significant will be our
current dichotomies of White/Black Anglo/Latino, Hispan-
ic/non-Hispanic? What dichotomies could replace them?
Are there large benefits to Americans claiming to be a
nation, that is, a single people through descent and marriage
and civic loyalty? Or would we be better off if we agreed
that we are actually a multinational society? I sense a lot of
hesitation to ask questions like these.
Further Reading
Banfield, E. C. 1958. The moral basis of a backward society.
New
York: The Free Press.
Brennan, T. 2006. Wars of position: The cultural politics of left
and
right. New York: Columbia University Press.
Dirlik, A. 1994. The postcolonial aura: third world criticism in
16. the age
of global capitalism. Critical Inquiry, Winter, 328–56.
Fonte, J. 2002. The ideological war within the West. Foreign
Policy
Research Institute (www.fpri.org/ww0306.200205.fonte).
Friedman, J. (Ed.) 2003. Globalization, the state and violence,
walnut
creek. California: AltaMira Press.
Ignatieff, M. 1997. The warrior’s honor: Ethnic war and the
modern
conscience. New York: Henry Holt.
Mahler, S. 1995. American dreaming: Immigrant life on the
margins.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Reed, N. 1964. The caste war of Yucatan. Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press.
David Stoll teaches anthropology at Middlebury College. He is
the
author of Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor
Guatemalans.
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