For this paper, you’ll choose a an essay, short story, or poem that’s listed below and write a rhetorical analysis addressing the devices the author has chosen to employ.  During the past few weeks, we’ve discussed devices like diction, symbolism, irony, juxtaposition, and metaphor.  Ideally, those discussions have prepared for you for a paper like…

Choose two tasks that you do every week (for example, shop for groceries, host a sports party, clean your house/apartment, do laundry). For each one, identify how you could (a) be more productive in doing that task, and (b) have higher-quality output from that task.

You will create a 2 minute pitch for a fictional company.  Imagine you’ve trapped potential investors in an elevator and they have no choice but to listen to you until they reach their floors.  Put your best foot forward. Pitch the idea from your Week 8 paper.  Review the executive summary on pp. 194-5.  Hit the…

Case Study #14 – Safaricom Read the Safari.com case study located in the section titled Case Studies in your textbook concerning the following situation: The Safaricom case provides an excellent opportunity to apply strategic management concepts to a constantly growing and extremely competitive organization. Safaricom is the largest mobile service provider in Kenya. It offers not only…

The landscape of birth in the United States is dismal in comparison with other countries in the world. The US rate for maternal mortality is the highest rate of all industrialized countries in the world. Discuss your perspective on why the rates of birth complications and maternal and infant mortality are so high. Also present…

Think about significant moments or events that have made a difference for you. How did these moments or events change you? Another approach is to think about the larger ideas of identity, belonging, and resilience and how they relate to your own life.  Don’t forget about your work in the previous learning activity.  You may…

1. Please answer questions #1, #2, and #4 from the case study. POST your responses by clicking on the "reply" button. The responses should be at least 3-5 sentences for each question. Use complete sentences and proper spelling/grammar.  Due 03/02/2022 by 11:00pm.   2. REPLY to at least 3 other group members’ posts. Each reply should be at least 3 sentences.…

Do you believe, per Skinner, that you actually have no free will (even if you think you do), and that everything you do is controlled by the environment? Where "environment" means (a) stimulus situations and (b) the history of the consequences of your actions – i.e., reinforcers.

Assignment: The Activist Toolbox you will develop an Activist Toolbox, a set of tools which queer activists and their allies might use to inform, educate, empower, or protest. Tools may include, but are not limited to: information pamphlets, zines, newsletters, blogs, playlets, maps, newspaper op-ed articles, letters, or planned events (such as an information session,…

Pick one of the business ideas from the discussion boards (yours or someone else’s).  Write a fictional executive summary for that idea, hitting the points for an executive summary in Fig. 11.1 (not the whole plan, just the executive summary).  Use particular care in writing your first two sentences.  You have to grab your audience…