Respond to the prompt and follow these directions carefully.

Discussion Posts have three goals:

1) To have students critically engage central ideas emerging from the course curriculum

2) To provide a brief format whereby students can develop critical writing skills

3) To encourage dialogue with classmates through sharing ideas and reflections from the readings

Every Thursday a question will be announced which students will answer in a discussion post (blog). The discussion posts will be due the following Tuesday by 09:30 AM. Every week students will be assigned to a new group of three students. Students will provide comments to the discussion entries from students in their group. Comments are due every Thursday by 09:30 AM.

Students will upload their discussion posts in two locations:

Canvas

Students should enter their text into two locations: “Assignments” >Discussion (individual) and Discussion (groups). I am asking students to upload their text into two locations, so that I can grade the entry efficiently in Canvas and so that you can dialogue with classmates via the Discussion (groups).

1. Discussions should be titled “Discussion 2: your name”
2. Discussions should be marked as “Individual to all students”
3. Discussions should be spell checked and proofed for readability and grammar.
4. Discussions should be 250-300 words max (please count the words and list the total under your response)
5. Discussions should properly cite readings and sources using MLA format. A bibliography is not needed for each discussion entry but if you are citing a source it should citing using MLA parenthetical citations. Details on MLA format can be found here:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
6. Discussions are responses to a weekly question posed by the instructor. The Discussion entry should demonstrate your understanding of the applicable readings and/or provide a thoughtful personal reflection on the material. The Discussion entry should have a thesis that guides the entry.
7. Discussion should directly answer the question posed, utilizing applicable readings from the course to strengthen the argument/thesis.
8. Discussion can contain personal reflection and experience from the first person perspective. Depending on the question posed it may be necessary to write from your personal experience. The Discussion entry is designed to encourage this form of writing yet the entry should be grounded in the course content from lecture/discussion, readings, films, and other visual aids brought into the course by the instructor.
9. I will break students up into new groups of three every week. Students will respond to the discussion posts of the two students in their group via the “reply” section of each student’s Discussion entry. The comments for your group will be due every Thursday before class (9:30).

Comments do not need to be uploaded to the Discussion (individual) when submitting the Discussion entry. The details on the due dates for the Discussion post and comments will be provided in the Canvas “Assignment” portal weekly.

Comments should be no more than three to four sentences and should do the following:

1) Provide an affirmation

2) Provide a follow-up question

3) Share how your own answer differed

4) Comments should be brief, thoughtful, considerate, and supportive

Each Discussion entry is worth 4 points. Students will be graded in their discussion post using the following breakdown:

2 points for a thesis and direct answer to the question posed

1 point for good incorporation of the readings/course content into your post 1 points for style (proper citation, grammar, spelling, readability)

1 point for comments back to group member’s

4 Points

The Chicano Movement reflects the Mexican American struggle for civil rights. As we have studied in class, these struggles were very diverse and complex. In your opinion, what struggles led to real “pathways of change”? What other struggles remained unresolved? Use your readings, documentaries or class notes to support your thesis.

Rubric

Blogs (individual)

Select individuals who vary in interesting ways that may be relevant for understanding the factors that motivate people – for example, people at different organizational levels, career stages, job roles, sex, marital and parental status. Good variation in your sample makes it easier to identify differences among participants, and also highlights the contours of the performance management system (e.g., maybe it works we ll for senior level employees who get bonuses, but not for lower level employees who don’t).

Purpose: This assignment will give students insight about what motivates employees to work, and why motivation differs based on job and personal factors. Applying motivation models can guide manager’s interventions to improve employee motivation. This knowledge will increase student’s awareness of employee attitudes and behaviors associated with motivation, and frameworks for more motivating work arrangements. Such insights can be helpful for understanding job performance – one’s own, co-workers, and subordinates. It is especially beneficial for managers to recognize and understand the dynamics of motivation.

Skills

• Understanding how motivation shapes employee performance
• Applying basic motivation models to real-world examples which may not exactly match textbook cases
• Analyzing and comparing three cases to identify key similarities and differences
• Interviewing
• Writing

Knowledge

This assignment will also help you become familiar with important management knowledge, such as:

• Recognizing employee attitudes
• Designing and implementing interventions to improve motivation
• Understanding the performance feedback process and how performance feedback influences employees

Task

• Interview three employees working in a single organization. This can be your workplace or another to which you have access.
• Apply ideas and concepts from job attitudes and satisfaction, personality, and motivation to explain the different attitudes and levels of motivation you saw. Compare the employees’ responses and offer rationale for differences among your three employees that links to their personal (age, sex) and contextual (job title, industry) situations.
• Ask about the organization’s performance evaluation system, and evaluate its effectiveness based on the information you’ve learned from your interviews. Consider the alignment between the organization’s reward system and its goals.
• What recommendations would you make to improve the motivation of the employees you interviewed, and/or to improve the performance management system?
• Analyze and evaluate your findings in a paper, not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages, in Times New Roman with 1-inch margins. The formatting requirements for this paper are flexible; use your judgement to make a professionally formatted paper. There is no minimum page limit, as long as you address the assignment.
• Do not include your interview notes; use selected quotes to make your points. This paper should give analysis of the interviews, not the interviews themselves.
• To protect confidentiality, please do not identify the company or use real names. You may disguise names or refer to people by role or title.
• The entire paper should be 6 pages single spacing

Suggestions

• Select individuals who vary in interesting ways that may be relevant for understanding the factors that motivate people – for example, people at different organizational levels, career stages, job roles, sex, marital and parental status. Good variation in your sample makes it easier to identify differences among participants, and also highlights the contours of the performance management system (e.g., maybe it works well for senior level employees who get bonuses, but not for lower level employees who don’t). The paper should be
• Review the OB concepts before you have your interviews so you can prepare questions that focus on specific aspects of the theories. Have a list of prepared questions that you can use, and be flexible so that you can pursue interesting responses.
• Ask each participant about the performance evaluation process since their answers may vary.
• Use your judgement to present the most interesting and salient comparisons among your participants.
• You are encouraged to check out the sample motivation papers posted on Canvas.

Criteria for Success

Sample motivation papers are available on Canvas.

DISCUSSION POST MUST BE 10+ SENTENCES AND THE PEER REVIEWS MUST BE 7+ SENTENCES PLEASE USE YOUR OWN WORDS AND DO NOT COPY FROM OTHER SITES STAY ON TOPIC ,BE POSITIVE , AND DO NOT COMMENT ON GRAMMAR ERRORS. TALK DIRECTLY TO CLASSMATES IN PEER REVIEWS!!! YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH PEER REVIEWS AND DISCUSSION QUESTION!! THANK YOU.

• 1) DISCUSSION POST

Slowing Down Global Warming

As Hite and Seitz (2016) discuss in Chapter 5: Climate Change, reputable scientific studies continue to show that the Earth is warming at an unsustainable rate because of a rise in the release of CO₂ and methane gases.

What is the relationship between population increases and climate change? Do you think fertility control

is an effective strategy to halt climate change? Why or why not?

Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least one other post, offering a substantive comment on that classmate’s position on the issue(s).

2)PEER REVIEW #1 (ANINKA)

Hello Class and Professor,

Fast population development and non-renewable energy source discharges are two driving attributes of our cutting edge age. Since 1800, the total population has become sevenfold, while per capita CO2 outflows have expanded multiple times. Set up the two together, and you have around 1,100 fold the amount of as far as discharges. (1)
Created nations expend a lot of petroleum derivatives. The United States, for instance, contains only five percent of the total population, yet contributes a fourth of all-out CO2 yield. In any case, while populace development is stale or dropping in most created nations (aside from the U.S., because of migration), it is rising quickly in rapidly industrializing creating countries. As per the United Nations Population Fund, quickly developing creating nations (like China and India) will contribute the greater part of worldwide CO2 discharges by 2050, driving some to think about whether the majority of the endeavors being made to control U.S. emanations will be deleted by other nations’ selection of our since quite a while ago held over-wasteful ways. (2)
“Population, an Earth-wide temperature boost and utilization examples are inseparably connected in their aggregate worldwide ecological effect,” reports the Global Population and Environment Program at the non-benefit Sierra Club. “As building up nations’ commitment to worldwide discharges develops, population size and development rates will end up critical factors in amplifying the effects of an unnatural weather change.” (2)
Many accept that on the off chance that we permit the wellbeing of ladies and kids to be improved in creating nations, it will decrease destitution and baby passings. Permit more ladies’ essential human rights (medicinal services, training, money related chance, innovation), ladies would be increasingly enabled and feel all the more a need to restrain family size by inclination approved uniquely through how to recreate.

It is known that population increase and climate change are linked together. Climate change is caused by too much carbon dioxide and other gasses being released in the air or atmosphere. Humans and the things that we do produce carbon dioxide, with our factories, our cars, and deforestation. Hite and Seitz (3) describe how population and economic growth are the key factors in climate change. I do think that fertility control is an effective way to slow down global warming when there are more humans producing these harmful gasses the likelihood of climate change halting is very unlikely.

1. https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-11-28/links-betwe…

2. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/populat…

3. Hite, K. A., & Seitz, J. L. (2016). Global Issues. In Global Issues. Malden: Wiley Blackwell

3)PEER REVIEW #2 (TAWANDA)

Hello All!

The relationship between population increase and climate changes. Pollution and Agriculture are some causes of climate change. I say this because, with the increase of population it requires more highways, buildings, smog and other dangerous gases. The global climate is changing because the smoke from the burning of trash, trees. As it accumulates in the air the ozone layer is decreasing. Agriculture, it affected by the air pollution changes the air. The storms cause floods in rural areas affecting crops to grow. In the Northwest areas the climates are dryer causing more droughts and forest fires, once again affecting the air quality.

Fertility control, no I don’t think it would be effective to halt or climate change. Why, the damage is already done, they are already here, trees are already burned and cut down the coral reefs are almost extinct and the Amazon is already decreased. Restoring and preserving our ozone might help with the climate control.

Research and Citation Exercise

Directions:

Support each of the major claims listed below with researched material collected from at least one source (no more than two sources) for each answer. You may use credible online sources or library resources to respond to each claim. Write one paragraph, with a minimum of three minor supporting sentences, to support each major claim. Use the major claimas the paragraph’s topic sentence; then, support the claim with a combination of direct quotes, paraphrased material, and your own ideas.

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Example:The following paragraph (“answer”) illustrates how you should complete this exercise.

Major Claim: Illegal immigrant workers should be granted legal status.

Answer:

(1 – MC)Illegal immigrant workers should be granted legal status.(2 – MSC) In “Illegal Workers Should be Granted Legal Status,” George Bush states that the main reason America became a powerful nation in the twentieth century is because it welcomed the talent, power, and patriotism of immigrant families (554). (3 – MSC) Because we are a nation founded and inspired by immigrants, we should acknowledge the contributions made by working immigrants who contribute to our economy by accepting them as part of our country instead of pushing them out. (4 – MSC) Bush writes, “Out of common sense and fairness, our laws should allow willing workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans are not filling. We must make our immigration laws more rational, and more humane” (Connelly 556).

Bush, George. “Illegal Immigrant Workers Should be Granted Legal Status.” The Sundance

Reader. Fifth Edition. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009. 554-59.

[MC = Major Claim; MSC = Minor Supporting Claim]

______________________________________________________________________________

In the answer provided above, (2) is paraphrased support; (3) is my own ideas; and (4) is a direct quote. You must provide each kind of support (three in total) to successfully answer each major claim question. To complete this assignment, you must produce a one paragraph answer for each of the three major claims listed below. After each paragraph, cite your sources as you would in a “Works Cited” page (as exhibited in the example above).

1. Major Claim: Affirmative Action perpetuates racism.

2. Major Claim: Condoms should be distributed in public schools as a way to prevent teenage pregnancy.

3. Major Claim: The legal driving age should be raised to eighteen-years-old.

Note: You must support each claim, despite your real opinion on the issue.

LIBRARY SCAVENGER HUNT

Answer the following questions using library or online sources. Respond to each question with one or two complete, correctsentences. Document your sources using MLA documentation guidelines. Reference the Works Cited document located in Week 5’s Assignment instructions to complete questions 1-10.

1. Who was president of the United States when the Federal Reserve was created?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

2. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote, and in what year?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

3. What is the origin of the word “boycott”?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

4. Who coined the term “pandemonium,” and in what famous literary work?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

5. Who won the Academy Award for best actor in 1982, and for what film?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

6. What famous twentieth century American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

7. What is the name of the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

8. When did the famous English poet and playwright William Shakespeare live?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

9. What large library existed in ancient Egypt?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

10. What city hosted the first ever Winter Olympics, and in what year?

ANSWER:

DOCUMENTATION:

ENG 102 Research Paper Guidelines

The research paper assignment for this course is due at the end of week 7. The reading and writing skills shown in the successful completion of this assignment are the concluding step in the GMC ENG 101/ENG 102 sequence, displaying your skills as a writer,reader,researcher,and criticalthinker.

Your research paper should be an argumentative essay that makes a specific claim about one or more of the course readings. The claim should be made by applying specific schools of literary criticism from the “Critical Strategies for Reading” section of our textbook. Support this claim and argument in a well-developed, well-written, and well- organized essay of at least 1500-1800 words of text (not counting the works cited page) and must successfully use at least 5 critical secondary sources (primary sources are not included in the research requirement) accessed through the GMC library.

Research Paper Directions

The bulleted list below provides general options for paper topics. The entirety of the class reading assignments can be found in the Course Syllabus, under “Course Schedule.” The bulleted list below provides general options for paper topics:

• A paper focusing on one of the texts from class (if only writing on one text, it must be a different text than the ones you wrote on for Response Papers 1 and 2).

• A paper focusing on multiple texts (no more than 3) by the same author
• A paper focusing on multiple texts (but no more than two) by different authors

Tips and Reminders

Use your textbook as a resource. Review Chapters 47, 48, and 49. There are also various examples of student essays in the textbook.

Re-read the text(s) you want to base your paper on.

Once you have decided on a topic, begin doing preliminary research (you will need to do a lot of research for this assignment anyway). Read what other literary critics have said. This will help you to further narrow down your topic, and even

to find some of the sources you will end up using in the paper.
you are a literary critic too—this means you should feel free to question and disagree with the interpretations you read.

Make sure your thesis is an arguable one, something that readers might actually agree or disagree with. Don’t be afraid to take a leap and put forward a new, creative, and/or unique interpretation. Remember that any argument can be a good one if you properly support it with evidence from the text.

Remember that

Your paper must incorporate information from outside sources found through the GMClibrary. Rememberthatyouhavethreemethodsforincorporatingoutside

information into any paper: you
paraphrase (put the source’s words into your own words), or summarize (boil down information from a source to a 1-2 sentence summary in your own words).

sources that may not be appropriate.

can quote (use the source’s exact words),

Avoid unnecessary plot summary and biographical information. Assume that yourreaderhas alreadyreadtheworkyouarediscussing,andassumethatyour reader knows important information about the author’s life already.

Conduct your research through thelibrarylikearealresearcher,ratherthanrelyingon Googletofindopen-web

Remember that sources like Wikipedia, Sparknotes, and other open-web

sources are not appropriate for this paper.

MLA formatting for style, in-text citations, and works cited entries is a significant part of this paper. Review the sample essays in our textbook, and review grade feedback on past response papers for help with this.

Organize your argument to maximize its effectiveness. Your introduction should include a thesis. Each paragraph of your paper should include a topic sentence

that references your thesis. Each support that paragraph’s topic sentence.

sentence in each paragraph should directly

Finally, don’t forget the little things. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be perfect. Edit and revise your work. Manage your time efficiently to allow yourselftheopportunityto readandrereadyourfinalpapermultipletimes.

As always, contact your instructor whenever you have questions!

The teacher emailed me and said “his is such an interesting idea. However, the research paper needs to focus on at least one of our reading texts (story, play, etc). We just need a bit more focus to get you on the right path! 🙂 Discussing how a piece is made is a great (but broad) idea; narrowed down a bit, however, this type of direction could fall within the Formalist critical reading strategy! This would allow you to analyze a literary piece (or two) from our course, analyzing the formalist elements, such as language, structure and tone (including diction, irony, paradox, metaphor, symbol, plot, etc (1360). You might also pair two texts together that share a common element and make a claim about why/how this common element functions within the texts. Texts that you may use can go all the way back to Week 1 (“The Story of an Hour,” A Sorrowful Woman”), any Flannery O’Connor we’ve discussed…and so forth through Week 8.”