Category: Writing

2. Write a letter to Jason Allred, owner of Midwest Sparkleen, informing him that PolicyPlan will not renew its annual cleaning contract with Midwest Sparkleen when the Current contract expires at the end of this month. Cite the examples identified in the scenario, and keep the tone of your letter professional. The letter should be addressed to: Jason Allread Midwest Sparkleen 4000 South Howell Avenue Milwaukee, WI, 53207 Scenario Your company, PolicyPlan Insurance Services, is a 120-employee insurance claims processor based in Milwaukee. PolicyPlan has engaged Midwest Sparkleen for interior and exterior cleaning for the past five years. Midwest Sparkleen did exemplary work for the first four years, but after a change of ownership last year, the level of service has plummeted. Offices are no longer cleaned thoroughly, you’ve had to call the company at least six times to remind them to take care of spills and other messes that they’re supposed to address routinely, and they’ve left toxic cleaning chemicals in a public hallway on several occasions. You have spoken with the owner about your concerns twice in the past three months, but his assurances that service would improve have not resulted in any noticeable improvements. When the evening cleaning crew forgot to lock the lobby door last Thursday-leaving your entire facility vulnerable to theft from midnight until 8 am Friday morning-you decided it was time for a change.

Thanks for your interest in Rev. Please listen carefully to the audio file all the way till the end and please edit and transcribe as needed, correcting misspellings, researching names and attributing speech through the correct speaker to create an accurate and complete transcript. Let’s talk a little bit about Rev and its expectations. Great, so tell us how Rev got started. Jason Chicola says that the idea for Rev.com was inspired by his time at oDesk. Mr.Chicola started the site with co-founder and former oDesk colleague Josh Brianlinger in 2010. They were joined by other MIT classmates who built this platform which now specializes in transcription, captions, foreign subtitles, and document translation. Rev started Temi as well. What does Rev look for in a freelancer? A strong command of the English language is essential. It’s important to know which word fits the context, such as “They’re going to get their books from there.” We also value research skills such as correctly spelling, Sysco food company, Cisco software as well as C Sharp and sequal programming languages. Your files are graded on accuracy and formatting, you’re going to need to follow Rev style guidelines. It’s important that quality is consistent. How do you handle difficult audio? We recommend that agents work on files with which they’re comfortable. Otherwise, use appropriate notation tags such as ” Inaudible Tags” for indiscernible dialogue. Please do your best to clear inaudibles by slowing down audio or rewinding. Do we transcribe non-English speech? Use foreign language tags for foreign language speech and the file is 100% in a foreign language or is only an automated recording, then the file is considered unworkable and must be unclaimed not submitted. What about software or equipment? Rev software is optimized to work with the latest version of Google Chrome browser and using Mozilla Firefox as a backup. We recommend good quality headphones or ear buds. You’ll need a laptop or computer with a keyboard. Please, no iPads, iPhones nor Android tablets. How do the agents get paid? We pay via PayPal on Mondays by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Well, that’s all the time we have for now. Thanks for taking the time to speak with me.
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What’s more? Activity 1. Answer the following question: 1. What has been cascading in the Philippines and bringing a lot of gloom? 2. How will democracy enter the context of the Philippines? 3. What is democracy? Define in your own words. Activity 2. Cite at least 5 examples Step 1. Discuss school rules and identify what makes a good school rule. Step 2. Identify what makes a good law. Step 3. Examine critically an area of law in their country, e.g laws on alcohol. To propose and justify their own new school rule or law. School Rule/s Law Is it good? Not good?

“That Gentleman,” 1960, tempera on panel by Andrew Wyeth Describe in detail the use of color in this painting. What hues are
present (primary, secondary, and/or tertiary)? Refer to the color wheel on page 94 for assistance. How intense are these individual colors?
What are their individual values? What are their temperatures? How has the artist used color to communicate mood?

Choose one specific technology and do an ethical matrix for it. Use the template given below respect to well- being autonomy fairness EXAMPLE GIVEN BELOW: (Evaluation of ethical use of growth hormones in cattle) Respect for: Well-being Autonomy Fairness Cattle farmers The use of hormones Cattle farmers should There should be equal provide satisfactory have the choice of access to the use of income and working using hormones on hormones. conditions cattle. Consumes Products derived from The consumers should Products derived from hormone-fed cattle be aware of the use of hormones-fed cattle should be safe for hormones in cattle. should be affordable human consumption. and available. The cattles Hormones should not The cattles should not The use hormones be harmful to cattle be subjected to should also benefit the health. behavioral restrictions. cattles. Other animal and Other animal and plant The use of hormones The production and plant life life are not exposed to should not affect use of hormones hormones. biodiversity. should be ecologically sustainable. THUMBS UP IF IT IS CORRECT

UNV 104 T7- Self-Reflection Essay
Assessment Description
Create five-paragraph self-reflection that includes: an introduction with a mapped thesis statement, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
The following sub-topics should be the basis of your thesis statement and three body paragraphs:
Explain how you can apply the knowledge learned in this course towards effective communication within your field of study.
Explain areas of strengths in communication you feel you will bring to your field of study.
Explain areas of opportunity that you can work on in regards to communication within your field of study and why developing these communication skills will be important to you personally.
You may use
First Person
point of view in the writing, as it is a personal reflection.

Coordinate adjectives, non-coordinate adjectives and compound modifiers: Where are hyphens and commas needed in these sentences?
1.The story about the old stone wall is an ancient one.
2.She is a part time worker. He works part time.
3.The 6 month old baby drowned Wednesday.
4.Although the short term problems of the drought could be corrected with a few inches
of rain, the extension agent said long term problems would be more serious.
5.He’s a short stout but pleasant fellow.

Communicative Learning Activity:
Writing an Application Letter A friend of yours who works in Starbucks Philippines informs you of a job vacancy in the company. The store manager is in need of a student assistant for clerical and other administrative tasks, and you are interested in applying. Knowing the job requirements of the position, you want to pass an application letter to Mr. Juan Lorenzo Flojo, who handles several branches in the province, but you want to be assigned to SM Batangas City branch.
With these information as background, write-a sample application letter.

Greed, Cancer, and Pink KFC Buckets
John Robbins
1 We live in a world of profound contradictions. Some things are just unbelievably strange. At times I feel like I’ve found a way to adapt to the weirdness of the world, and then along comes something that just boggles my mind. It is ironic that the largest grassroots breast cancer advocacy group in the world, a group called “Susan G. Komen for the Cure,” has now partnered with the fast food chain KFC, known for its high-fat foods and questionable treatment of its chickens, in a national “Buckets for the Cure” campaign. The program began last month and runs through the end of May.
grassroots involving ordinary people at a local or community level
2 KFC is taking every chance it can manufacture to trumpet the fact that it will donate 50 cents to Komen for every pink bucket of chicken sold. For its part, Komen is announcing on its website that “KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are teaming up . . . to . . . spread educational messaging via a major national campaign which will reach thousands of communities served by nearly 5,000 KFC restaurants.”
3 Educational messaging, indeed. How often do you think this “messaging” provides information about the critical importance a healthy diet plays in maintaining a healthy weight and preventing cancer? How often do you think it refers in any way to the many studies that, according to the National Cancer Institute’s website, “have shown that an increased risk of developing colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancer is associated with high intakes of well-done, fried or barbecued meats”? If you guessed zero, you’re right.
4 Meanwhile, the American Institute for Cancer Research reports that 60 to 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented with lifestyle changes. Their number one dietary recommendation is to: “Choose predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, legumes and minimally processed starchy staple foods.” Does that sound like pink buckets of fried chicken?
5 Pardon me for being cynical, but I have to ask, if Komen is going to partner with KFC, why not take it a step further and partner with a cigarette company? They could sell pink packages of cigarettes, donating a few cents from each pack while claiming “each pack you smoke brings us closer to the day cancer is vanquished forever.”
6 Whose brilliant idea was it that buying fried chicken by the bucket is an effective way to fight breast cancer? One breast cancer advocacy group, Breast Cancer Action, thinks the Komen/KFC campaign is so egregious that they call it “pinkwashing,” another sad example of commercialism draped in pink ribbons. “Make no mistake,” they say, “every pink bucket purchase will do more to benefit KFC’s bottom line than it will to cure breast cancer.”
egregious outrageously bad
pinkwashing using support for breast cancer research to sell products, especially products that can be linked with cancer
7 One thing is hard to dispute. In partnering with KFC, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has shown itself to be numbingly oblivious to the role of diet in cancer prevention. Of course it’s not hard to understand KFC’s motives. They want to look good. But recent publicity the company has been getting hasn’t been helping. For one thing, the company keeps taking hits for the unhealthiness of its food. Just last month, when KFC came out with its new Double Down sandwiches, the products were derided by just about every public health organization for their staggering levels of salt, calories and artery-clogging fat.
8 Then there’s the squeamish matter of the treatment of the birds who end up in KFC’s buckets, pink or otherwise. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has an entire website devoted to what it calls Kentucky Fried Cruelty, but you don’t have to be an animal activist to be horrified by how the company treats chickens, if you lift the veil of the company’s PR and see what actually takes place.
9 When PETA sent investigators with hidden cameras into a KFC “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, what they found was enough to make KFC choke on its own pink publicity stunts. Workers were caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them and violently slamming them against floors and walls. Workers were also filmed ripping the animals’ beaks off, twisting their heads off, spitting tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-painting their faces, and squeezing their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces—all while the chickens were still alive.
10 KFC, naturally, did everything they could to keep the footage from being aired, but their efforts failed. In fact, the video from the investigation ended up being broadcast by TV stations around the world, as well as on all three national evening news shows, Good Morning America, and every one of the major cable news networks. Plus, more than a million people subsequently watched the footage on PETA’s website.
11 It wasn’t just animal activists who condemned the fast food chain for the level of animal cruelty displayed at KFC’s “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse. Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the meat industry’s leading farmed-animal welfare expert, said, “The behavior of the plant employees was atrocious.” Dr. Ian Duncan, a University of Guelph professor of applied ethology and an original member of KFC’s own animal-welfare advisory council, wrote, “This tape depicts scenes of the worst cruelty I have ever witnessed against chickens . . . and it is extremely hard to accept that this is occurring in the United States of America.”
ethology the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats
12 KFC claims, on its website, that its animal-welfare advisory council “has been a key factor in formulating our animal welfare program.” But Dr. Duncan, along with five other former members of this advisory council, say otherwise. They all resigned in disgust over the company’s refusal to take animal welfare seriously. Adele Douglass, one of those who resigned, said in an SEC filing reported on by the Chicago Tribune that KFC “never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used.”
13 You can see why KFC would be eager to jump on any chance to improve its public image, and why the company would want to capitalize on any opportunity to associate itself in the public mind with the fight against breast cancer. What’s far more mystifying is why an organization with as much public trust as Susan G. Komen for the Cure would jeopardize public confidence in its authenticity. As someone once said, it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but only 15 minutes to lose it.
Examining a Paragraph
Read the following paragraph from “Cancer, Greed, and Pink KFC Buckets,” noticing how all the details relate to one point and explain the topic sentence, which is highlighted. The topic sentence identifies the topic as animal welfare and states that KFC claims its animal welfare advisory council is key to its animal welfare program.
KFC claims, on its website, that its animal-welfare advisory council “has been a key factor in formulating our animal welfare program.” But Dr. Duncan, along with five other former members of this advisory council, say otherwise. They all resigned in disgust over the company’s refusal to take animal welfare seriously. Adele Douglass, one of those who resigned, said in an SEC filing reported on by the Chicago Tribune that KFC “never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used.”
After reviewing the key details in the reading “Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets” in Chapter 3 of your textbook, what do you think is the author’s main point in this essay?
What is he trying to convey to you, the reader, and what makes him effective or ineffective
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You will be reading “Help Me Follow My Sister Into The Land Of The Dead” by Carmen Maria Machado and then will be answering some questions at the end.
Reading:
Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead by Ursula Ruiz
19 Backers $1,395 Pledged of $5,229 28 days to go
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The project will only be funded if at least $5,229 is pledged by July 24, 2015 3:41am EDT.
Aid & abet a heartwarming sibling reunion–albeit under grievous circumstances — in a terrifying place where no mortal has any business treading.
Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead
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This is the thing about my sister and I: we’ve never gotten along, even when we’ve gotten along. This is what happens when you have parents who fetishize family, and the viscosity of blood relative to water: you resent the force with which they push you together with this person who is, genetics aside, a stranger. And that’s what my sister is: a stranger.
Not to mention a strange girl. Even when we were children, she had a weird fixation on contradicting everything I said, just because. She would pick a phrase to scream at the top of her lungs and do so over and over, like a computer glitch, until I ran out of the room. Whatever. It’s not important now. But she’s always been trouble. Our moments of connection have always been purely artificial, forged by necessity, by parental birthdays and holiday travel plans.
When I tell you that my sister has absconded to the land of the dead, do not mistake me. She hasn’t died. She just did what she always does-i.e., go to a place where she isn’t welcome and crash the party just because she feels like it. She heard that there was some “cool stuff” happening on the other side of the veil, and went. I only know where she is because I managed to sober up her stoned-out roommate vis-à-vis a cold bucket of water to the face just long enough to get access to their Wi-Fi. I found her search history, her bus ticket to Bethlehem (the nearest portal), her texts to her friends about how it’s going to be “so amazing,” etc.
(in the interest of full disclosure, I also searched her email for my name, but aside from an occasional ping regarding the aforementioned birthdays and travel, there was nothing.)
I am sorry and embarrassed that I have to even ask you for money for this endeavor. The truth is while I’m doing pretty well, all things considered, I don’t have the liquidity necessary for this.
Olive will be embarrassed that I put all of this online, but maybe a dose of shame will do her some goddamned good.
If you sense a tone of resentment to this entire project, that’s because I have to go chasing after my wretchedly ungrateful sister into another dimension to tell her that our parents are dead.
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Stretch Goals
Anything over $5,229 is welcome and will be donated to a TBD mental health charity.
How Will I Spend the Money?
Here’s how the costs will break down:
$36.95: Bus ticket to Bethlehem. $176.05: Cost of ingredients (salt, sage, cypress branch, matches, mandrake, yew, chalk) to summon the necessary portal. $16: The cheapest bottle of whiskey that I can force myself to drink. $5,000: A one-time fee, for crossing.
Risks and Challenges
The land of the dead is the land of the dead. Sometimes people don’t come back.
FAQ
Do you remember when Olive was born? I remember the time my mother had Braxton-Hicks contractions — the fake kind–and I went to the hospital with her and my father, and the doctor informed her that she wasn’t really in labor. As we left the hospital, I went into hysterics, because I’d been promised a baby sister and one had not been delivered to me. We walked past a woman who was holding her own baby, and I lunged toward her howling “THAT one! I want THAT one!” My parents had to carry me out as I screamed. But of Olive’s actual birth, I remember nothing.
How did your parents die? You know how there was that SUV recall recently, because the brakes in some of their cars were failing for no reason, causing a series of high-profile, deadly accidents? I wish that was how they died. No, my father shot my mother through her left eye and then turned the gun on himself. Nobody knows why.
Who found their bodies? I came over for dinner. Olive had been invited, too, but she backed out at the last minute. She said she had “stuff to do.” Which honestly is better than her arriving two hours late with a weird dude in tow. Anyway, thank God she wasn’t there.
When was the last time you spoke to Olive? I don’t remember.
When was the first time you spoke to Olive? I don’t remember.
What is your biggest regret? In order from greatest to least: being born, having a little sister, not being adopted, caring at all.
What is your biggest fear?
Genetics.
Pledge $5 or more
9 backers A thank-you email from Olive, which I will make her deliver.
Pledge $20 or more
52 backers a small gift from the land of the dead-a pebble or a twig or a finger or something which I will deliver in a small, sealed jar.
KEEP IT IN THE JAR.
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1 backer I will send you salt from my personal tears, in crystal form (hand evaporated). Grinder optional.
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CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Pledge $100 or more
1 backer I will drive my sister to your house, where you can ask her any question. Limited to the contiguous United States.
Pledge $500 or more
0 backers You will receive an exclusive copy of my and Olive’s life story, written with my own hands, and complete with a happy, narratively satisfying ending detailing the success of our journey.
Update #1 · Jun 26, 2015
Starting Out I know I haven’t hit my funding goal yet, but I’m just going to put it on a credit card and pray. I’m on a bus to Bethlehem, which has a pretty decent Wi-Fi connection but, weirdly, no toilets. At least three drug deals have happened in the seat next to me, and in between deals the guy is singing this one part of a song out loud that I recognize from somewhere. I think it might be Paula Cole?
Update #2 Jun 26, 2015
Still Here Oh, yeah, it’s definitely Paula Cole. It’s that weird chanting part of “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” Just that part. Over and over. This is why I don’t do drugs.
I’m assuming Olive has no idea I’m coming because there’s no reception in the land of the dead, but I have been texting her every hour on the hour anyway, just to cover my bases. I haven’t told her why I’m coming, because I can’t tell her that our parents are dead via text message. I mean, I could, but despite what she thinks about me I’m not a monster. I just keep writing “Need to talk to you, v. important.” But Olive has no sense of what’s important and what isn’t. Even if she got the messages, she’s probably all “Oh man, Ursula’s just having one of those days,” which is something I overheard her telling our mother once, just because I was upset that she didn’t want to be my maid of honor. Not that it mattered in the end, with the wedding being called off, but it was upsetting nonetheless.
I’m so fucking tired.
Update #3 • Jun 27, 2015
Past Midnight I wake up and the bus is parked at the depot. I’ve probably been here for hours. I’d been dreaming about Olive. While I was sleeping my face had been pressed against the window, with my mouth hanging open.
I walk two miles to the elementary school playground. I get a blister and do the last half-mile limping and barefoot. Then I have to pee, and since I don’t know what the restroom situation is in the land of the dead, I squat in some bushes. As I do so, I wonder if my sister is also peeing in a semipublic place. (If the land of the dead can be considered public at all, I guess.)
There is another woman standing here, burning her sage and drawing sigils on the pavement. She doesn’t look like she’s chasing a wayward family member; she looks like she’s ready to party. She has a lot of eyeliner on. I feel angry at her, like she’s Olive. She says something and the portal slides open, like the door of a minivan wreathed in smoke. I look away–it feels rude to stare. When she’s gone, and it’s dark once again. I draw the sigil and arrange the ingredients according to my notes. I say the spell, the unfamiliar syllables catching behind my teeth.
When my portal opens, a faceless creature is standing there. All and roughly shaped, like a dust storm or a swarm of gnats. There are dimples where its eyes should be, but I feel like it’s looking at me anyway. It takes my credit card, holds it for a moment, and then hands it back.
Backers, please keep in mind that I’m still paying off my student loans.
I also got a comment on this page from Olive. Three comments.