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Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

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The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and write an essay, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full range if you need it, but don’t feel obligated to do so.

Essay Prompt 1: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

Essay Prompt 2: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you and what did you learn from the experience?

Essay Prompt 3: Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?

Essay Prompt 4: Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma, or anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.

Essay Prompt 5: Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.

Essay Prompt 6: Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Essay Prompt 7: Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you’ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.

What else do you need to complete your collection of websites BEFORE you begin your rough draft?

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This is Step 1 of your Personal Research Project. You will submit this in WITH the COMPLETED PACKET. It is a work tool. It should be used throughout the process to organize and improve the research experience.

What do you want to know about this topic? (type in the text box)

List some websites, by name or type, where you might find answers, OTHER THAN Google/Bing:

What search terms could you use to look for answers? Write them here exactly as used; add or subtract terms as needed and keep a record here of what you used, what worked, what didn’t, etc.

AFTER DOING SOME PRELIMINARY RESEARCH, ADD NOTES IN RESPONSE TO THESE QUESTIONS:

  1. Are you finding the information you wanted?If no, what problems are you running into?
  2. How has your search scope changed since you began your research?
  3. What else do you need to complete your collection of websites BEFORE you begin your rough draft?

What are likely consequences if the decision process is incompletely implemented, or marred by poorly designed incentive programs (hint:rational actor paradigm)?

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1. Think about a business problem and related decision from your work. Describe it from the perspective of the employer and avoid the pull to perceive this problem strictly from the employee’s point of view. Use your understanding of the rational decision-making process and the decision wheel to analyze the business problem.

2. How do these concepts tie together to form a rational decision process?

3. What are likely consequences if the decision process is incompletely implemented, or marred by poorly designed incentive programs (hint:rational actor paradigm)?

4. Share your perspectives on why rational decision making is such a challenge for businesses and for personal decision making?

Interact with your research participants or collect your data? How you interpret what you will see in your study? How you will analyze your data?

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o Briefly tell your reader what this section will be about.
• Researcher Reflexivity, Positionality, or Identity Statement (one of these titles, not each)
o What does Creswell & Creswell (or other authors) say about Reflexivity/Positionality? Explain and cite.
o Describe your “ways of knowing” (remember to cite)
▪ What philosophical framework/research paradigm do you subscribe to?
▪ What are your ontological beliefs?
▪ What are your epistemological assumptions and beliefs?
o Tell us who you are as the researcher who will conduct this study.
o Who are you in relation to this study?
o What bias will you bring to your research study?
o How will who you are impact how you will go about conducting your study?
Interact with your research participants or collect your data? How you interpret
what you will see in your study? How you will analyze your data?
o How will you address or bracket this bias in your research?

Use these sources:
Chiweshe, K. M. (2014). The problem with African football: corruption and the (under) development of the game on the continent. African sports law and business bulletin, 2, 27-33.
Crincoli, S. M. (2010). You can only race if you can’t win-The The curious cases of Oscar Pistorius & Caster Semenya. Tex. Rev. Ent. & Sports L., 12, 133.
Huggins, A., & Randell, S. (2007, April). The contribution of sports to gender equality and women’s empowerment. A paper presented at the International Conference on Gender Equity on Sports for Social Change, Kigali. Retrieved March (Vol. 3, p. 2009).
Inglis, D. (2005). Culture and everyday life. Psychology Press.
Kidd, B. (2013). A new social movement: Sport for development and peace. In Sport and foreign policy in a globalizing world (pp. 36-46). Routledge.
Long, J., & Sanderson, I. (2001). 12 The social benefits of sport. Sport in the city: The role of sport in economic and social regeneration, 187.

Write a paper that informs readers about a common way of understanding a film as well as a different, more surprising way of understanding that text.

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For this assignment, you will write a paper that informs readers about a common way of understanding a film as well as a different, more surprising way of understanding that text. In other words, you will explain two ways of making sense of a visual text, and analyze it to show evidence of the surprising interpretation.

This paper highlights the factor of tension—the existence of two quite different ways of making sense of a text. You will need to summarize those different ways of interpreting the text and then explain in detail how the second way extends or complicates the first. Recognizing more than one interpretation is a crucial skill for different kinds of academic assignments you will be asked to write in other courses.

Describe the techniques and procedures you used to process the crime scene, including a list of the evidence you collected. Explain the reasons for your procedures.

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When you arrive on the scene of a crime you must follow certain procedures to ensure the admissibility of evidence. For this assignment, you will use a case file of a real crime scene and take on the role of the crime scene investigator at the scene of the crime. You will create a presentation where you will document your process, present your findings, and provide an evaluation of the scene in a narrated PowerPoint or presentation tool of your choosing.

To help you prepare for this assignment, use the mock crime scene resource below to review the steps of evaluating a crime scene. This will help guide you as you walk us through your scene: https://www.mesaaz.gov/residents/police/divisions/forensic-services/mock-crime-scene/

Choose one of the following cases from your textbook resource:

“He Hit Her Until She Fell . . . and That Was Just the Beginning”, Brandl, pp. 363-373.
“A Mutilation Murder”, Brandl, p. 670.
Then, create a presentation that is five to ten (5-10) minutes in length in which you:

Identify the tools you used to evaluate the crime scene. Provide a rationale for your choices.
Outline the steps you took to secure the crime scene.
Describe the techniques and procedures you used to process the crime scene, including a list of the evidence you collected. Explain the reasons for your procedures.
Describe the steps you took to preserve the evidence and provide an explanation for your process.
Provide photos of the crime scene.
Create a crime scene map that illustrates the crime scene upon arrival.
Narrate your presentation to walk the audience through the crime scene.
Use at least two (2) quality references documented on a reference page at the end of your presentation. You are encouraged to use the to locate academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Note: Need help getting started with creating and narrating your presentation? View the tutorial located in the help file here.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

This course requires the use of the new ). Take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. If you prefer to use APA style, discuss with your professor.
Include a title page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

What are three steps that individuals can personally take to combat homophobia and homophobic tendencies? Why is it difficult for some individuals to take a public stance against homophobia?

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Answer BOTH questions:

1. What are invisible privileges? Provide examples of three invisible privileges men have.

2. What are three steps that individuals can personally take to combat homophobia and homophobic tendencies? Why is it difficult for some individuals to take a public stance against homophobia?

How should brick-and-mortar food retailers decide/design their e-commerce strategies to achieve a competitive advantage?

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This paper will be written for a Supply Chain Management course. That is why I ask you to concentrate on this point.It is about the FOOD industry. Specifically, it is about that so far consumers have been reluctant to buy food over the internet. But this is changing. That means, the classic food retailers (brick-and-mortar) have to start finding ways how to open profitable online sales channels… The methodology will be a literature review and must be cited from Mark Saunders.

A4 Size: 1.5 line spacing, font – 12, Times New Roman Main body, 14 bold 1st heading, 12 bold 2nd heading, 12 (not bold) 3rd heading.

Numbering style – Chapter wise
1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Methodology
1.3 Statement of Limitation
2. Theory
2.1 …etc …
3. Findings
3.1 …etc..

Research Question is :How should brick-and-mortar food retailers decide/design their e-commerce strategies to achieve a competitive advantage?

Why did the Renaissance spread into northern Europe? How did the Renaissance in northern Europe differ from the one in Italy? Describe the features of Christian humanism in northern Europe’s Renaissance.

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It can be argued that the Renaissance was unrivaled for its impact on European cultural and intellectual history. While it originated in Italy, it eventually spread into northern Europe. Gradually, however, the marvelous spirit of the era declined in the face of the onslaught of several different developments.” The following guideline questions should be utilized and addressed in your essay:

What were the various characteristics of the Renaissance? What were the reasons for the origination of the Renaissance in Italy? What factors led to the decline of the Renaissance in Italy?
Why did the Renaissance spread into northern Europe? How did the Renaissance in northern Europe differ from the one in Italy? Describe the features of Christian humanism in northern Europe’s Renaissance.
What were the various roots of the scientific accomplishments of the Renaissance? What was the Copernican Revolution? Who contributed to this revolution and how did they contribute to it?

How did definitions of deviance differ for the actions of prison officials and inmates? What were the various statuses, roles, groups, networks, and hierarchies within the prison?

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Film Analysis: The Shawshank Redemption (Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994). Running time is 142 minutes. The film is available through Scheele Memorial Library, public libraries, and online.

The purpose of the film analysis is to reinforce sociological concepts and provide you with practice applying one of sociology’s major theoretical perspectives. The story told in The Shawshank Redemption spans more than 20 years. As movie viewers, you vicariously spend 20+ years in prison with Andy, Red, Heywood, Brooks, etc. The focus of the assignment is to explore Shawshank Prison as a society. The film analysis should relate the film to sociological considerations of culture and/or social structure.

Select a theoretical perspective—functionalist, conflict, or symbolic interactionist—and use the perspective to analyze the culture and/or social structure of Shawshank Prison. In particular, what are the unique symbols, language, values, norms, sanctions, and hierarchies of Shawshank? How are the culture and social structure created and maintained? What impact does the culture have on inmates and prison officials? Additional questions are provided below to help guide observation.
The task is to sociologically analyze the film. This is not a film review or film critique. It is a sociological research paper. It should be written as a research paper with an introduction that leads to a clear thesis statement outlining which theoretical perspective best applies to the social setting. The main body of the paper should discuss relevant sociological concepts that appear in the film and how the presentation of these concepts supports the thesis statement.

The finished paper should be approximately 3-4 double-spaced pages in length (12-point, Times New Roman or Calibri, please number all pages). The paper must have a title. Use appropriate citation of all sources. Please use MLA or APA citation format.

Due: April 30, 2020, submitted to Blackboard by 11:59 p.m. Make sure you use the appropriate file type, as specified on Blackboard (Word or pdf files).
General Instructions:
1. In the film analysis, you should use relevant quotations and examples from the film to illustrate sociological concepts and support their theoretical position.
2. Remember that the film is fiction and that films tend to be moralistic (i.e., advocating an ideology), psychological, or both. Filter these non-sociological aspects of the film and use your sociological imagination to investigate social features.
3. Focus only on those aspects of the film that relate to prison society, such as the culture of Shawshank Prison, the way inmates learned that culture, and the impact the culture had upon individuals. Or, you could explore the prison’s social structure: the statuses, roles, groups, networks, and hierarchies (such as dominant and subordinate groups within the prison).

Questions to Aid Data Collection:
The following questions are intended to help you focus your observations. You are not required to answer all of these questions, nor should you write your film analysis as a set of responses to these questions. These questions are simply a guide for data collection.

How was structure established by inmates in the prison?
How were new prisoners greeted by current inmates?
Why did new prisoners “break down or go mad” in the first night in prison?
How did Andy learn the norms of Shawshank?
Was Andy able to control his physical well-being in prison?
What symbols exist in Shawshank? For example, what gets used as currency?
What unique words or phrases made up the language of Shawshank inmates?
What values did inmates of Shawshank share?
What formal norms governed Shawshank? Informal norms?
What formal sanctions did inmates experience? How did inmates informally sanction each other?
How did definitions of deviance differ inside Shawshank as compared to outside the prison?
How did definitions of deviance differ for the actions of prison officials and inmates?
What were the various statuses, roles, groups, networks, and hierarchies within the prison?
Why did Andy’s social standing in Shawshank improve with the inmates? With prison officials?
Why wasn’t Brooks able to make it on the outside?
Why is hope dangerous inside prison?
How did Andy help return humanity to Shawshank prison?
Why did Red say he couldn’t make it on the outside? What is an “institutional man?”
Why was Andy’s removal of his prison shirt after his escape so symbolic?
Why did parolees live in fear?
Did resocialization occur at Shawshank?
What types of formal and informal sanctions did prison officials receive?

Sociological Concepts: culture, culture shock , language, symbols, values, formal norms, informal norms, folkways, mores, formal sanctions, informal sanctions, socialization, rites of passage, agents of socialization, resocialization, total institution, social structure, status, ascribed status, achieved status, master status, role, role exit, aggregate, group, primary group, secondary group, in-group, out-group, reference group, social network, formal organization, bureaucracy, deviance, crime, social control, power, social hierarchy or ranking, social mobility

Partial List of Characters: Andy Dufresne, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, Warden Norton, Captain Hadley, Heywood, Tommy, Bogs Diamond, Brooks Hatlen

This assignment was adapted from one developed by Prof. Kevin Dougherty of Calvin College.