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It is very easy to fall into the habit of listening to your own voice alone, forgetting that every effective community organizer is, before all things, a good listener. This exercise will give you the opportunity to see your project from a radically different perspective—from that of its potential opponents. Let this glimpse guide your work from here on out!Imagine that you are a community member who is writing an Op/Ed piece for the local paper in opposition to the proposed action-research project. Keeping this in mind, respond to the following:Write your initial response in 1-page. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

This Assignment will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate strategies for teaching fluency and comprehension as well as professional presentation. Review the Readings and the videos paying particular attention to strategies that will promote these important reading skills. Use this information to create a newsletter that will inform parents or other educators of some effective comprehension and fluency strategies as well as highlight aspects of professional presentation.Read the Assignment 2 directions document below for further instructions and use the Assignment 2 template (in Doc Sharing) or create your own newsletter. You may want to print the assignment directions to refer to as you complete your Assignment. For guidelines for creating the Assignment click .Save your project in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit it, click on the Dropbox and complete the steps below:Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted assignment.

 You must write about your observations in third person;You must use peer reviewed academic resources from ; You do not provide an itemized narrative to the items.  Part 1 (do not submit responses to) it is merely a guide for you in what you are to be looking for when you observe the group and I do not want your responses to these singularly and/or itemized in your paper.  This required Portfolio assignment that will give you experience observing and interacting with people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real world setting.  This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to: •Observe a group discussing a topic of interest such as a focus group, a community public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group•Study how the group members interact and impact one another• Analyze how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social facilitation• Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook, and additional scholarly sources Purpose: To provide you with an opportunity to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social facilitation.Process: You will participate as a guest at an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group, contact stakeholders and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and document the following for your analysis:   Part I .How were the people arranged in the physical environment (layout of room and seating arrangement)?• What is the composition of the group, in terms of number of people, ages, sex, ethnicity, etc.?• What are the group purpose, mission, and goals?•What is the duration of the group (short, long-term)? Explain.• Did the group structure its discussion around an agenda, program, rules of order, etc.?• Describe the structure of the group. How is the group organized?•Who are the primary facilitators of the group?• What subject or issues did the group members examine during the meeting?• What types of information did members exchange in their group?• What were the group\’s norms, roles, status hierarchy, or communication patterns?•What communication patterns illustrated if the group was unified or fragmented? Explain.•             Did the members share a sense of identity with one another (characteristics of the group-similarities, interests, philosophy, etc.)?•             Was there any indication that members might be vulnerable to Groupthink? Why or why not? •             In your opinion, how did the collective group behaviors influence individual attitudes and the group\’s effectiveness? Provide your overall analysis. Part II Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper incorporating your analysis with evidence to substantiate your conclusion. Explain how your observations relate to research studies on norm formation, group norms, conformity, and/or social influence. Integrate your findings with literature from the textbook, peer-reviewed journal articles, and additional scholarly sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.  Use at least two references in your writing.  

We are socialized at every stage in life to conform to our gender identity. Societal reinforcement of tendencies of gender identity is relentless. For example, in hospitals, little girls are wrapped in pink and little boys in blue. This difference in colors influences how we learn and how we internalize our role in our society.Girls tend to grow up to play feminine roles and boys tend to grow up to play masculine roles. This differentiation of gender identity has implications in social stratification. The videos given below will provide you with a better understanding of the differentiation of sexual identity from an earlier generation.Search for and watch an episode of at least one of the following shows. You may find these videos using a variety of search methods including visiting your local library, using Netflix or your local video store, or searching on YouTube. If you have difficulty locating an episode of one of the following shows, contact your instructor for assistance in finding an alternative.As you watch the video, ask yourself the following questions:Based on your readings and understanding that you have gathered after watching the above-noted video, write a short biographical description of your life if you were to wake up tomorrow morning in the time period of the video you watched and find you have a different gender identity. Write a description of how you lived your life a day after your hypothetical change in gender as you answer the following questions:Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.By , deliver your assignment to the . 

Please respond to the following discussion questions, responses should be at least 2-3 paragraphs with citationsDiscussion #1As an advanced graduate student, there will be plenty of assignments where we have to analyze articles critically. As we move through our chosen degree paths, we must be cognizant to select scholarly articles that are reliable. Once we find those scholarly articles, it is then that we should utilize an effective tool to help us as scholars identify key elements of the research article as well as pertinent information. That tool is the Research Article Organizer from the Toolkit.For this discussion, I will reflect on my experience with using the Research Article Organizer. In my opinion, the Research Article Organizer is a great tool, and it helped me organize information from a multitude of sources for my literature review. It enabled me to brainstorm my research paper and connect ideas collaboratively. When I used the Research Article Organizer, there were only two modifications I made. One was to change the text color for each area, and the other was to add another topic area. I know some people think that a lot of colors could be a distraction and that black or blue ink should only be used. But, putting each area into different colors helped me to locate the area I was looking for with just a quick glance.  I also put another category called resource location. In this area, I put where I found my resources. I used this category to write where I located my references in case I need to obtain an article, book, etc. from that source for assignments in the future.On another note, iI think the Research Article Organizer and any other tools that we can use from the Toolkit should be on the sidebar where course overview, the syllabus and such are. It would be much easier to find and students wouldn\’t have to question the whereabouts of such tools.  Discussion #2

 For this post, the class will be divided into three sections. Please be sure to write about the specific topic you are assigned based on the first letter of your last name.First, all students should summarize how the Electoral College functions.Second, each student will focus on a specific argument regarding the Electoral College, based on the first letter of their last name. Explain the negative impact of the Electoral College and defend why the Electoral College should be abolished. Be sure to include both the pros and cons of abolishing the Electoral College. 

Using the course software, the first page (home/index page) for your website that demonstrates effective application of design elements based on your website plan. the following: your website page as index.html. your HTML code using the Markup Validation Service on the W3C website, (www.w3.org) prior to submitting your web page(s).: Your website does not need to be fully functional (for example, links may not work yet), but it should open up in a browser and include all design elements. Incomplete portions of the page should include text to indicate what is planned for that area. your compressed (zipped) files to the Assignment Files tab.

    You\’re a management consultant who has been asked by Green Company to help design an ethics communication and training program for all Green Co. employees. Your meetings to date have been with the head of human resources, and your contract with the company has been negotiated with him. Once the papers have been signed, you begin your research and are quickly stymied by Green\’s corporate counsel. He says that you will not be allowed to ask employees about ethical dilemmas that have occurred at Green. He specifically asks that you get your information from other sources such as press accounts of problems in the industry, or from other organizations with which you\’ve worked. In addition, the head of human resources has told you that you\’ll be unable to meet the three most senior executives because they\’re busy negotiating a large acquisition. You will have access to other high-level managers who can tell you what they think the seniors want. You\’re instructed to write a code of conduct for the company, a mission statement, and prepare presentations for the seniors to give to employees sometime next month on corporate expectations and values.