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“Using your Experiences”Think of a time when you assumed a leadership role, yet were not formally labeled a leader. Why did you step into that role? What were the circumstances that allowed you to take on those responsibilities? Provide analysis on your leadership. Was it effective and successful? What could you have done better?Protocol for Assignments:1. 1” margins, 12 pt Times New Roman, double-spaced.2. References do not count towards page limit (in-text citations do count)3. Please submit all assignments as a .doc or .docx file.4. 2 Pages, References on page 3Note:I am a college student. Don’t have prior experience. I grew up in India. Please write the case study accordingly.You have to reference 2 instances from Harvard Business Review (HBR) about leadeership and incorporate them in the essay. If you need the material from HBR for referencing let me know!RUBRIC:What is the format required for Case Write-Ups? 2 page maximum – double-spaced, 12 pt times new roman font, 1” margins on all sides. Thereason for this is two-fold; (1) Part of being an effective leader and communicator is being able to express your thoughts concisely, (2) To create an even playing field for assessmentWhat is the grading rubric for the case write-ups??- Criteria 1 – The extent to which readings (articles) are incorporated into the case analysis (when relevant)- Criteria 2 – The quality of the analysis of the case including depth of analysis and organization of ideas- Criteria 3 – Stating a position and developing a compelling argument to support that position or stating a recommendation and developing a compelling argument for that recommendation.- Additionally, I will be looking for proper citations of ideas (if not your own), grammar, spelling, and adhering to proper format.

Short Answer:1.) Define Tin Pan Alley and discuss its importance. Name two Tin Pan Alley songwriters (250 words) (5 point scale)2.) Name 3 big band artists. Define big band music. Explain its popularity (250 words) (5 point scale)Long-Answer:3.) Create your own definition of what constitutes popular music and why. Support your argument with specific examples. How has this changed from when you first started the course? Is your definition applicable to each time period of popular music? How so? (500 words) (5 point scale)4.) Describe issues of race and racism in the music industry. Provide specific examples. How have these issues changed over time (ex. 1960s R&B industry compared to the present R&B industry)? What issues have remained? Explain in detail. (500 words). (5 point scale)

1. The remarkable development of technology provides comfort to us. As technology developed, there were many platforms that helped the population. We can watch television anywhere, anytime. There is a lot of information and knowledge that we can get through watching television, but there is also something that we lose from it. Although technology has brought convenience to people, it also has influenced obesity negatively. The further technology improves, people’s health suffers through obesity. Technology’s convenience is the key that affects children and adult obesity. Technology allows people to obtain whatever he or she wants on demand. With all these applications that allow people to get whatever they want or need with a touch from the screen, people naturally got lazier over time.The daily television viewing time for American children and adults. On average, children ages 8-12 in the United States spend 4-6 hours a day watching or using screens, and teens spend up to 9 hours. And Estimates suggest that in 2020 U.S. adults will spend an average of two hours and 46 minutes watching TV each day. Children and adolescents spend a lot of time watching screens, including smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, TVs, and computers. Watching television is the third most time-consuming activity after sleep and work. Also, while people watch TV, physical activity tends to be minimal and snacking is prevalent. Our activity ceases and time for exercise is reduced significantly.Television may not be the biggest factor that correlates to increase in obesity, but it does play a part. Obesity is not just being overweight, it potentially comes with different health problems for the future.2. “I knew this whale had died due to plastic ingestion,” Marine biologist Blatchley said when he saw a young fifteen-foot-long whale floating on the water. The autopsy revealed how the whale died. More than eighty eight pounds of plastic rubbish, such as plastic bags and rice sacks, were found in the stomach of the whale. It was not the only case that plastic garbage caused the death of a whale. Throughout the years, D’ Bone Collector Museum has found fifty seven marine mammals that died from consuming plastic waste. Plastics are an indispensable material in human’s modern life, variously used from packaging to transportation, due to its ease of production and durability. However, production and management of plastics are now out of our control. Not only ingestion of waste from animals, plastic waste has shown to cause multiple problems, such as threatening human health and the ecosystem. Now, urgent action is needed. All the countries in the world should decrease their plastic production through regulations that decrease the amount of plastic production and of plastic waste dumped into nature.Plastics are not biodegradable but a number of countries keep producing plastic without any appropriate plan to get rid of plastics and just dump out waste, causing contamination of the ecosystem. The definition of ‘biodegradable’ is an ability to be decomposed by living organisms such as fungi and bacteria. If a material is non-biodegradable, it remains and may pollute an environment. Plastic is one of the most known, used non-biodegradable materials. Many scientists have tried to find a way to decompose plastics completely and have ‘almost’ found a way by incorporating them with organic compounds but plastic itself at a molecular level still remains in the environment (“Biodegradable Substances” 553). In a landfill, plastics may have multiple negative effects on soil, such as blocking waterways and causing environmental pollution, especially when plastics are not filtered in composts (Esan, Ebenezer Oluwaseun, et al e0214376). By 2015, roughly 6300 metric tons, which is equivalent to 14,000,000 pounds, of plastics have been made and only nine percent was recycled, twelve percent was burned and the rest of it is predicted to be in landfills or in a nature (Geyer, Roland, et al). Now, the size and mass of plastic rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean is approximately the same size of Mongolia. Additionally, the World Economic Forum has predicted that the amount of plastic waste would outweigh the amount of fish in the ocean by 2050 (“Plastic waste”). As series of evidence has shown, the amount of plastic waste is difficult to overlook and will stack up quickly without proper plans to remove plastics. If littering of plastic continues, the earth will be completely covered with plastic waste.3. With many ideas and with courage I have decided that the topic I’ll write about is LGBTQ+ rights. This topic is important to me, because not only does it represent me but others as well. It’s a topic that is very sensitive to many people who don’t agree with this lifestyle. I have struggled in the past and I am still struggling to find out who I am. This essay will take part in helping me express some part of me that I would like to share.There were many topics that I would have chosen to avoid this one such as the current pandemic, Black lives matter and much more. Writing about the pandemic is a difficult but exciting topic to write because it’s new. It’s difficult because it doesn’t have enough resources to make a two page paper but it’ll make an amazing cliffhanger. After thinking of many topics that I could have chosen I realized that if I were to write about any topic I wouldn’t be writing it with passion. The reason I chose Lgbtq rights is because although we are more flexible than we were centuries back we still face discrimination.

The Freytag Pyramid32 41 51) Exposition or Introduction: The beginning of the drama introduces the setting, characters, situations, and conflicts. Stage directions may present the play’s background and characters, but usually the dramatic dialogue by both minor and major characters best describes the inner workings (traits and motives) of characters, as well as the situations, plans, back stories in the play.2) Complication and Development/Rising Action: This stage marks the beginning of problems for characters in the play. What is occurring that makes THIS day in the characters’ lives different? What new knowledge is gained that changes the situation in the play? For example, in The Great Gatsby, Daisy becomes upset when Tom’s mistress calls their home during dinner, and Nick is shocked to discover the state of his cousin’s marriage.3) Crisis and Climax: The pressure reaches its greatest intensity at this point, making this the turning point because the protagonist must make a decision. Once the decision is made, the play’s uncertainty ends and the inevitability begins. In The Great Gatsby, the scene in the hotel room on a hot summer’s day is an intense scene when Daisy is forced to choose between Tom and Gatsby.4) Falling Action: The results of the decision(s) made during the crisis begin to become clear, but often the falling action is a time of delay until the end of the play. In Gatsby, Daisy runs over Myrtle, Gatsby waits for the phone call/visit from Daisy that never comes, and the other characters wrap up their summer together.5) Dénouement, Resolution, or Catastrophe: The dénouement means “unraveling” and resolution means the “untying”: the knots or problems are resolved in this final stage. If the protagonists undergo suffering or death, then the end is known as the catastrophe, as when all the main characters are dead by the end of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In The Great Gatsby, the title’s character is shot by George, who then kills himself. Tom and Daisy move on, and Nick moves home to the Midwest as a sadder but wiser thirty-year-old.

Self-Evaluation WorksheetPlease type your answers directly onto this form and submit it to Canvas when completed.Thesis Statemen1. Does the thesis statement contain the paragraph’s controlling idea and appear as the last sentence in the introduction? Explain your answer.Basic Elements2. (a.) Does you include effective basic elements (title, introduction, single-topic paragraphs, conclusion)? Explain your answer.(b.) Does the introduction paragraph have the four necessary parts (attention-getter, problem stated, bridge, thesis statement)? Explain your answerDevelopment3. Is the essay adequately developed (thesis, specific and enough details)? Explain your answer.Unity4. Is the essay unified (topic sentences relate to thesis and sentences in paragraphs relate to topic sentences)? Explain your answer.Organization5. Is the essay organized logically (including the paragraphs within the essay)? Explain your answer.Coherence6. Do the paragraphs and sentences move smoothly and logically from one to the next? Explain your answer.

You need to choose an immigrant to the United States of some note (preferably not someone VERY well known) whose story helps contribute to our larger understanding of how immigrants have a positive impact on the United States. You may take a look at some of the authors listed in our Becoming Americans text. Your thesis statement should reflect your purpose, which is to prove that this person’s story is integral to the “immigrant story.”You may choose to handle this paper in one of two ways:The scholarly chronicle is the most fundamental (and common) type of biographical research with its focus on the historical portrayal of an individual life. This basic research orientation constitutes telling the subject’s story in chronological order with emphasis upon the development of a quest plot (life pattern-stages) and the description of acts of recognition (or notoriety) as the biographer marches through the life of the biographical subject. The scholarly chronicle is often viewed as synonymous with biography; however, this research orientation is markedly different from other forms of biographical inquiry.Another genre, intellectual biography, forsakes the need for basic chronological structure and develops a narrative of a life through the conceptual analysis of the subject’s motives and beliefs within the world of ideas. Those who write intellectual biography have overcome the interpretive angst of other educational researchers; the intellectual biographer recognizes and accepts the invasive yet justifiable analysis and overcomes the intrusive nature of inquiry with care resulting in self-reflective thoughtfulness and insight.(These descriptions come from AERA).The paper should be 5-6 pages and include at least 6 sources. These sources should come primarily through UE library resources and books. 2 may be CREDIBLE Internet sources, but no more than 2 and they must be credible. If you have any question about the credibility of a source, please feel free to ask me.

The concept of an author of vernacular fiction changes a great deal over the time period we studied in the class. What kind of relation between author and text can we impute for Feng Menglong, Li Yu, and Cao Xueqin? Here we could think about their use of prior materials, the voice of the narrator, and the question of whether the text can be read as autobiographical.

Choose ONE story to fill in these grids to prepare for Essay 2: you have two weeks to fill these out. The goal is to prepare for Essay 2. For the section on ironies, you may just write “See Irony Worksheet.”The short stories you may choose from include the following short stories:“Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather“The Garden-Party” by Katherine Mansfield“The Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker

Besides bomb threats, sabotage, hijackings, and in general terrorism – what OTHER security issues do airlines/airport face?See chapter 8 and or internet/personal experiences etc.1. Choose an issue.2. From your research/experiences, explain its impact on air / airport operators.Make sure you comment on another students once submitted your entry. Include source for any research or examples.

The Merchant of VeniceShakespeare TableauIn-class activity, Tue 16 Mar, due end of classFor this in-class assignment, you are asked to make a quick but expressive pieceof art based on The Merchant of Venice.Task: Come up with a tableau—that is, a group of figures/ charactersrepresenting a scene from the play—to portray a specific theme, feeling, or ideafrom the text.Use any media you like (pens, pencils, markers, paints, fabrics, found objects,minifigures, photos, digital apps), though please note the time constraint: this is asingle-period activity to be turned in at the end of class.