Category: Writing

“The trial was held in Scottsboro just two weeks after the arrests, and an all-white jury quickly recommended the death penalty for eight of the nine boys, all except 13-year-old Leroy Wright” (Paragraph 5). How does the quoted sentence contribute to the development of ideas in the text?

A mixed methods purpose statement should include a rationale for combining both qualitative and quantitative data. Discuss the rationale for mixed methods and provide an example of each.

Using your Swatch Kit, indicate the swatch number and fabric name for each of the following terms:
Find one sample that illustrates a blotch print.
Find one sample that looks yarn dyed but is printed.
Find one sample that is a burn-out print and explain how this was accomplished.
(Fashion Textiles Class)

The executive director of a charity-run homeless shelter asks you to help solve what she calls “a public relations problem.” For each of the past three years, the amount raised in the annual summer fund drive has decreased. “To solve the problem” (her words) the executive director wants you to design a new brochure that will “really catch the eye of our prospective donors.”
PART I: Thinking about what you learned in Chapter 11, how would you respond to this request?
PART II: Which one of the following comes closest to defining the public relations problem in this situation, and why? In later replies, choose one or more of the other answers and explain its flaws.
Donations have decreased during each of the past three years.
The agency needs a new and effective publication.
The current fund drive must raise 20 percent more than last year’s fund drive.
The annual fund drive program failed because of past public relations efforts.
The organization is doing a poor job of communicating with its donors.
** The text is
Cutlip & Center’s Effective Public Relations
, Glen M. Broom, 11th edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2013.
Here is a free link to the text https://b-ok.cc/book/5605812/e87f7f

Select a speech from the internet and identify the thesis statement. List the name of the speech, author, occasion below.
Then imagine that you are conducting a survey on this speech topic. Then give four-point scale/survey of questions that would be appropriate for your speech, audience, and topic.
Example of a four-point scale: Outstanding, Very Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory
. Please include at least four (4) statements on your survey to rate.

Watch and Critique–Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving
Watch the video of this PERSUASIVE speech and comment on the following areas:
1.What is the organizational pattern for this speech? Is it effective to achieve the specific purpose of the speech? Explain why.
2. Please provide at least two examples EACH of the speaker’s use of logos, ethos, and pathos.
3. How does the speaker address the audience’s concerns and questions? Please share at least two examples.
4. Please comment on the speaker’s delivery, specifically on both the voice use and body language.
5. Did you find the speaker credible? Did you find the speaker persuasive? Why (be specific, use evidence to backup your claims)?

What is physician assisted suicide and how does it differ from euthanasia?
What are some issues for health service managers as it relates to physician assisted suicide? Identify a state law (USA) to support or oppose this service. (Provide supporting reference)

The Thrill of the Chase
Margie Goldsmith
Directions: Respond to these questions. Use textual evidence to support your responses.
1. (a) Interpret What was Fenn’s mood as he compiled memories and ideas for his memoir? (b) Make Inferences What can you tell about Fenn’s personality and character through his interactions with treasure hunters who have sought out his hidden treasure chest?
2. (a) Identify How have people responded to Fenn and the news of his hidden treasure? (b) Analyze In what ways has Fenn’s treasure positively impacted the lives of some of the people who have searched for the treasure?
3. (a) Interpret What does Fenn mean when he says that those undertaking the search for his treasure should not take the quest lightly? (b) Identify What are some of the risky situations the author says some treasure hunters have found themselves in?
4. Predict Do you think anyone will ever find Fenn’s treasure chest?

1.Explain the inability of economic theory to find satisfactory solutions to the theoretical problem of price and output decision-making in oligopolistic markets.
2.Discuss this view of advertising in relation to its role in the modern firm, and explain the determination of an optimal advertising budget.
3. The Hot-Bake shop sells only bread made that day. Each loaf produced has a variable cost of 30p and sells for SOp. Any bread unsold at the end of each day is thrown away
4.’Profit is the maximum value a company can distribute during the year and still expect to be worth as much at the end of the year as it was at the beginning.’ Discuss this statement, and comment on its value in measuring profit for decision-making.
5. ‘The fitting of mathematical trend curves is by far the easiest and cheapest method of forecasting long-run changes in product demand, and is likely to be just as reliable as any alternative method. ‘ Discuss.
6. Define an optimal inventory policy, and assess the impact on that optimal inventory policy of:
(i) uncertain demand
(ii) uncertain lead times
(iii) customer reactions to product shortages
(iv) an oligopolistic product market.
7. (a) Compare and contrast the explanatory and extrapolatory approaches to demand estimation. Illustrate your answer with reference to the problem of estimating demand for a new luxury food processor.
8. The senior partner in a local accountancy firm is concerned about the error rate amongst assessments issued by her office. A careful check over the past few years enables her to estimate that the error rate has the following probability distribution: Error rate Probability 0.05 0.25 0.10 0.35 0.15 0.25 0.20 0.15 Each error costs £40 because of the labour time involved in reassessment.

Within specific required course readings, the terms and concepts of an apocalypse, The Apocalypse, and/or apocalypticism have been defined or described as involving:
A. Although the origins of apocalypticism are in “a prominent paradigm in religious systems” that date back from the ancient world to the present in the Middle East, the “term ‘apocalypse’ derives from the Greek
apokalypisis
. . . meaning revelation.”
B. involves belief by some that an apocalypse or The Apocalypse is imminent, perhaps in their own lifetime and is not just as something that happened during a historical period
C. a revelation, disclosure, unveiling or uncovering of something previously hidden
D. an earth-shattering, momentous, destructive event
E. visions by a man named John are described in the Christian New Testament’s book of Revelation that tell of the end of an age, and concepts such as Armageddon (Harmageddon in the NRSV) and the “New Jerusalem” are involved
F. all of the answers provided for this question are correct