Write an internal memorandum which addresses one of the below scenarios (you may choose the scenario and take some liberty with details of the imaginary scenario you choose).

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Internal memorandum

Write an internal memorandum which addresses one of the below scenarios (you may choose the scenario and take some liberty with details of the imaginary scenario you choose).

  • A community disaster such as illness (e.g., a swine flu epidemic), earthquake, wildfire, plane crash, or a terrorism incident
  • An on-the-job accident with injuries or even death
  • A product defect resulting in injuries, illness, or even death to consumers
  • An unsuccessful product test (e.g., a new software system that isn’t going to be ready for launch as planned)
  • A company merger that may result in reductions in force or layoffs

 

Based on their social media, how would you describe the company? How is the company trying to portray itself on social media? Are users interacting with the company on social media? If so, how are they responding?

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Marketing and branding

Pick a company that uses social media as a marketing and branding tool. Review at least three social media accounts your company of choice uses and assess the following:

  1. Based on their social media, how would you describe the company? How is the company trying to portray itself on social media?
  2. Are users interacting with the company on social media? If so, how are they responding?
  3. Do you think the company you are assessing has an effective strategy for using social media as a marketing tool?

Requirements:

  • Your paper should be 500-750 words in length.
  • Please use specific examples (tweets, Facebook posts, etc.).
  • Please write this paper in essay format, not question and answer format.
  • At least two sources should be used and cited in APA style. List your sources in a references page at the end of your paper. All social media examples should be cited if quoted.

 

Do you have any fears that may have been enhanced by something you saw, heard, or read via some form of media? Discuss in detail three of the situations the author discussed and your reaction to it.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

Part one: Media Hype assignment directions:(3-4 pages)

  • Read: “Worry About the Right Things” by John Stossel
  • Read: “The Media Likes Scaring Us” by John Stossel

Watch: The YouTube Videos 2-6 from 20/20 about Media Hype.

Write: Students are to write a 3-page reaction paper regarding “Worry About the Right Things”, “The Media Likes Scaring Us”, and the Media Hype 20/20 YouTube videos.  Your opinion regarding the two articles you read and YouTube videos you watched. Please include your responses to each of these questions in your paper.

  • Was anything surprising to you?
  • Discuss something you remember being “hyped” on TV or in the newspaper.
  • Describe a time when you or your family members were affected by media hype.
  • Has something hyped in the media affected the way you thought or behaved?
  • Do you have any fears that may have been enhanced by something you saw, heard, or read via some form of media?
  • Discuss in detail three of the situations the author discussed and your reaction to it.

Papers Must:

  • Be typed, 12 point font, double spaced, MLA style only.
  • Include proper spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
  • Include proper paragraphs.
  • Include proper format (introduction, body, conclusion).
  • Include a cover page.
  • Include a works cited page.
  • Be a full 3 pages (in addition to your cover page and works cited page).
  • Remember to cite your sources (MLA proper citation). Otherwise it is plagiarism.
  • Fill a full 3 pages (or automatic loss of 5 points).

 

Part two: Agenda Setting & Cumulative Effects

1: Chapter 2 discusses the agenda-setting theory and the cumulative effects theory. Please choose either of those two theories, define it, and give a current example of this taking place in the media.

2: There are currently so many examples of outrageous media hype on TV, social media, in our newspapers, and online. Share one example that you have seen within the last week. Include a link to your example.

 

Discuss something you remember being “hyped” on TV or in the newspaper. Describe a time when you or your family members were affected by media hype.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

Part one: Media Hype assignment directions:(3-4 pages)

Read: “Worry About the Right Things” by John Stossel

Read: “The Media Likes Scaring Us” by John Stossel

Watch: The YouTube Videos 2-6 from 20/20 about Media Hype.

Write: Students are to write a 3-page reaction paper regarding “Worry About the Right Things”, “The Media Likes Scaring Us”, and the Media Hype 20/20 YouTube videos.

your opinion regarding the two articles you read and YouTube videos you watched. Please include your responses to each of these questions in your paper.

  • Was anything surprising to you?
  • Discuss something you remember being “hyped” on TV or in the newspaper.
  • Describe a time when you or your family members were affected by media hype.
  • Has something hyped in the media affected the way you thought or behaved?
  • Do you have any fears that may have been enhanced by something you saw, heard, or read via some form of media?
  • Discuss in detail three of the situations the author discussed and your reaction to it.

Papers Must:

  • Be typed, 12 point font, double spaced, MLA style only.
  • Include proper spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
  • Include proper paragraphs.
  • Include proper format (introduction, body, conclusion).
  • Include a cover page.
  • Include a works cited page.
  • Be a full 3 pages (in addition to your cover page and works cited page).
  • Remember to cite your sources (MLA proper citation). Otherwise it is plagiarism.
  • Fill a full 3 pages (or automatic loss of 5 points).

 

Part two: Agenda Setting & Cumulative Effects

1: Chapter 2 discusses the agenda-setting theory and the cumulative effects theory. Please choose either of those two theories, define it, and give a current example of this taking place in the media.

2: There are currently so many examples of outrageous media hype on TV, social media, in our newspapers, and online. Share one example that you have seen within the last week. Include a link to your example.

 

Explain the principles of team communication in high-performing teams. Describe and demonstrate approaches to planning, running, and following up on meetings.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. Explain the principles of team communication in high-performing teams.
  2. Describe and demonstrate approaches to planning, running, and following up on meetings.
  3. Explain the principles of effective virtual team communication.
  4. Describe strategies for effective group writing.
  5. Explain basic principles for handling a difficult conversation
  6. Describe the characteristics of cultural intelligence, its importance for global business leaders, and approaches to developing it.
  7. Explain the major cultural dimensions and related communication practices.
  8. Name and describe key categories of business etiquette in the intercultural communication process.
  9. Identify how generational, gender and other aspects of diversity affect workplace communication.

 

What advice would you give someone who is about to take an online class like ours? What did you learn from this class that you can use in your interpersonal relationships?

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Communications discussion

  1. What advice would you give someone who is about to take an online class like ours?
  2. What did you learn from this class that you can use in your interpersonal relationships?
  3. What did you like the most about taking an online class? What was challenging about online learning

 

We sometimes say that to be a good person, one must be “true to oneself.” Do you think this is so? Do you believe that a morally good person will, at least in normal circumstances, also be assured of being a happy person? Why or why not?

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Morally good person

  1. We sometimes say that to be a good person, one must be “true to oneself.” Do you think this is so? Give examples.
  1. Do you believe that a morally good person will, at least in normal circumstances, also be assured of being a happy person? Why or why not?
  1. If a sadist were to gain enormous pleasure from torturing his or her victims—in fact, more pleasure than the pain suffered by the victims themselves—would the sadist’s cruelty be justified?
  1. Is there anything you would find worth dying for? What? (Camus, in his Myth of Sisyphus, said, “A reason for dying is also a good reason for living.”)
  1. Many religious commandments, in sexual and food prohibitions, tell us to abstain from the material, or bodily, enjoyments of life. Is it possible to be a religious person and deny yourself none of the pleasures of life? Or if a religion encourages us to make money, buy fancy cars, and live well, is it thereby corrupting its status as a religion?
  1. Do we in fact always act selfishly, even in those instances in which we appear to be “selflessly” helping others?
  1. Is it true that the “bottom line” of business is profit and profit alone? Or, even in business itself, are there other, less tangible goals that are intrinsic to and just as important as making money?
  1. Do you believe that abortion is justifiable, even in cases in which the life of the mother is not threatened? How do you justify your answer, and how would you defend it against a person who disagreed with you?
  1. Assuming that we agree on a list of injunctions that we all ought to obey, which we call morality, why should we be moral?
  1. Would it be possible for a person to be perfectly good and yet cause harm to innocent people? Could a person be wicked even if he or she never caused any harm at all?
  1. Which is more important to you, success or happiness? What if you are forced to choose between them?
  1. We are a nation ruled “by laws, not men.” What does this say about our view of “men”?

 

In Foster’s The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact. By a Lady of Massachusetts, explain for me Eliza Wharton’s overall concept of love.

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What is Eliza Wharton’s overall concept of love?

In Foster’s The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact. By a Lady of Massachusetts, explain for me Eliza Wharton’s overall concept of love.

Explain your answer in detail and use specific examples from the text. Remember: to cite and reference any sources that you may use, including the primary text itself. Use MLA formatting and standards.

 

Write an essay that’s about 1,000 words long in which you compare and contrast Vietnamese with English and reflect on your experience learning the second language by discussing which aspects of the language were easy and which were hard to learn.

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Comparing and contrasting Vietnamese with English

Write an essay that’s about 1,000 words long in which you (1) compare and contrast Vietnamese (first language) with English (second language) and (2) reflect on your experience learning the second language by discussing which aspects of the language were easy and which were hard to learn.

To compare and contrast, consider one or more of the following aspects:

  • phoneme inventory (e.g. English has /ŋ/ but Spanish doesn’t. Instead Spanish has /ɲ/ also known as “eñe”)
  • pronunciation of a phoneme that exists in both (e.g. /p/ in English is pronounced with aspiration at the beginning of a word, but it’s pronounced without aspiration in Spanish)
  • phonotactics (e.g. consonant clusters are allowed in English but not in Japanese)
  • word formation processes (e.g. circumfixation exists in Indonesian but not in English)
  • word order in phrases and sentences (e.g. English follows an SVO order while Korean follows an SOV order; adjectives often appear before the noun they modify in English but they often appear after the noun in French; English has prepositions but Turkish has postpositions)
  • agreement (e.g. German has three grammatical genders — masculine, feminine, neuter — and an article and a noun that follows must agree in terms of gender but there is no such gender agreement in English)

 

If you were to choose to create a podcast on your topic, describe any new content/style/formatting ideas that you would include based on what you heard in the Short Wave episodes. What would you do differently?

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Written Press Release Review:

  1. What are the major results presented in the Nature article?
  2. How well did each press release cover the major results accurately? Explain.
  3. A simple story is critical for communication with the public. Did the press releases provide a simple story? Explain.
  4. Good communication must target either the “who knew?” elements or the application — what does this mean for them or for society? It helps to talk about the people doing the work. Did each press release do this successfully? Why or why not?
  5. The typical audience is impatient and itching to know why this story will be interesting. That calls for a front-loaded Did the authors of the press releases lead with interesting information (i.e., front-load)? Explain.
  6. In writing for the public, a technical term will likely feel like jargon. The job of a press release author is to interest and educate the Provide examples where this was done successfully or not successfully in each press release.
  7. The best stories for the public integrate our joy in puzzling out nature with their focus on results and application. Was the information provided in a logical order?

 Podcast Press Release Review:

  1. Write a 2-3 sentence summary of each episode including the major take-aways
  2. Which did you find most interesting? Why? What about the tone, style, information held your interest?
  3. Which did you find least interesting? Why? What about the tone, style, information lost your interest?
  4. What was confusing or less interesting that you would cut from each episode? If you say “nothing”, then you must provide 2-3 additional sentences about what you liked about each episode.

Reflect – If you were to choose to create a podcast on your topic, describe any new content/style/formatting ideas that you would include based on what you heard in the Short Wave episodes. What would you do differently?