What is your conception of the good life? What goals or principles are primary? What are the roles of success, wealth, freedom, and friendship? Are they ends or means? If they are means, how do they lead to the end in question?

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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Attack on Morality

  1. What is your conception of the good life? What goals or principles are primary? What are the roles of success, wealth, freedom, and friendship? Are they ends or means? If they are means, how do they lead to the end in question?
  1. What qualities do you consider to be the most important virtues a person can possess? What are the qualities most valued by our society?
  1. In our sense, is it always the case that everyone strives for happiness? Are there other goals or principles that might be more important?
  1. What considerations do you use to tell whether someone’s action is selfish? Is selfishness always wrong? Sometimes wrong? When? Be specific.
  1. Under what circumstances, if any, is it permissible to lie? What does your answer indicate about the justification of the principle that one ought not to lie?
  1. How would you apply the first formulation of Kant’s categorical imperative to a specific circumstance? Imagine, for instance, that you are considering stealing a book when no one is looking. How would you decide, according to Kant, that this act is immoral?
  1. The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once wrote, “What is morality in any given time and place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.” Do you agree?
  1. A hungry cannibal chieftain looks you over and declares that you will indeed make a fine dinner. What can you say to him to convince him that cooking you would be wrong? (Convincing him that you won’t taste good is not enough.)

 

Choose a complex hypothesis that you are interested in testing with the data. Determine what set of tests would be needed to identify whether your hypothesis is true.

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Testing a hypothesis

Testing a hypothesis with data requires identifying a series of relations about what might be happening. In this paper, you will be using an existing dataset — in this case from the Pew Research Center — to test a hypothesis and write a journalistic piece about it. In practice, there are two parts to this project. You will need to test your hypothesis with data and you will need to write about your hypothesis test in a paper.

To test your hypothesis with the data, you will need to do a few tasks:

– Choose a complex hypothesis (mediation, moderation, or spurious relation) that you are interested in testing with the data. Note that you will need to select three (3) variables to accomplish this.

– Determine what set of tests would be needed to identify whether your hypothesis is true.

– Run each of these tests and get a p-value for them using the approaches we learned in lectures and labs (Lab 11 and Lab 12).

After you have run your hypothesis test, you will be writing up a news-style article based on your results. Here, your goal is to not only report on whether the hypothesis appears to be true, but also to provide the necessary information to contextualize what was done to test the hypothesis. As in your other papers, make sure to put the most important results up front and to provide contextual information later. Your article should be between 600 and 1200 words (3-6 double-spaced pages).

Here are some things to make sure you mention in the piece:

– What did you find?

– What was the hypothesis tested?

– How can the results be generalized? (What does the sample tell you about that?)

– What were the actual measures used?

– How were the variables coded for analysis?

– What were the statistical tests that were used?

Select 2 chapters from our text “Looking out Looking In” that reflects an area of interest that they will research and relate to their own interpersonal relationships.

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Looking out Looking

Students will select 2 chapters from our text “Looking out Looking In” that reflects an area of interest that they will research and relate to their own interpersonal relationships. Students will submit a 3-5-page research paper that analyzes and explores the ways in which they can become more effective communicators.

Select 2 chapters from our text “Looking out Looking In” that reflects an area of interest that they will research and relate to their own interpersonal relationships. Submit a 3-5-page research paper that analyzes and explores the ways in which they can become more effective communicators.

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Research paper

Students will select 2 chapters from our text “Looking out Looking In” that reflects an area of interest that they will research and relate to their own interpersonal relationships. Students will submit a 3-5-page research paper that analyzes and explores the ways in which they can become more effective communicators.

 

Assess the impact of mediated communication on communication climate. Identify ways that mediated communication can contribute to building a negative and positive communication climate.

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Communication Climate Essay

Impact of Mediated Messages on Communication Climate

Learning Objectives:
• Assess the impact of mediated communication on communication climate.
• Identify ways that mediated communication can contribute to building a negative and positive communication climate.

Instructions:
• Answer the prompts below in as much detail as possible and/or that you feel comfortable.
• For prompts 1, 3, 4, and 5, please write your answers in complete sentences.
• For prompt 2, your answer can be written in bullet points or complete sentences.
• Proper use of grammar, spelling, word choice, capitalization, and punctuation are expected.
• Space has been provided below each prompt to allow use of this document to respond. You may also write your responses in a new document if preferred.
o The dashes below each prompt indicate where responses should go.
o Be sure to edit the header to insert your name and date where indicated.
• Upload the completed assignment to Blackboard by 11/20, 11:59pm.

1. Describe how the use of mediated forms of communication channels (e.g., telephone, e-mail) contributes to the communication climate (emotional tone) of your relationships.
2. Compile a list of the ways that you currently use or could begin to use mediated messages to recognize, acknowledge, and endorse others.
3. Give examples of how mediated messages have contributed to defensive spirals (negative, ineffective patterns of communication) in your relationships.
4. Give examples of how mediated messages have contributed helped minimize defensive spirals (negative, ineffective patterns of communication) in your relationships.
5. Your text describes ways we can respond nondefensively to criticism. In which mediated contexts could you most effectively use this skills?

Criticize at least one of the article’s tips on email etiquette. Explain how one or more of the article’s tips on email etiquette will be adapted into your computer-mediated communication.

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Article Critique – Email Etiquette

Read the article entitled, 14 email etiquette rules every professional should know https://www.businessinsider.com/email-etiquette-rules-every-professional-should-know-2015-6, then write a paper about your thoughts on this article. In your paper, be sure to also address the following:

– Argue for or against the article’s tips on email etiquette being helpful.
– Criticize at least one of the article’s tips on email etiquette.
– Explain how one or more of the article’s tips on email etiquette will be adapted into your computer-mediated communication.

Make sure to reference the article and at least one other article in your paper.

The paper must be two pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page.

Reference

Smith, J., & Sugar, R. (2015, June 6). 14 email etiquette rules every professional should know Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/email-etiquette-rules-every-professional-should-know-2015-6/#include-a-clear-direct-subject-line-1

What key decisions did you make? Why did you make those choices? What aspects of the situation did you find most challenging?What advice do you have for managers in these types of crisis situations?

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Simulation Exercise – Debriefing Discussion

After the completion of a press conference draft, there will be a general class debriefing by answering question 1 to 3.

Question 1 – What key decisions did you make? Why did you make those choices?
Question 2 – What aspects of the situation did you find most challenging?
Question 3 – What advice do you have for managers in these types of crisis situations?

Think of a barrier to organizational development that you have personally experienced as an employee or that stands out to you as being common. Explain why you believe this barrier is challenging for organizations as well as what you would do to overcome it, if you were faced with change in your organization.

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Communicating

Part I (1 page, No intro/conclusion)
Mediated communication and social media (e.g., email, blogs, Facebook, Skype, and Twitter) have played a major role in changing the way that organizations engage in communication with their customers and with employees internally. Communicating through electronic media is referred to as mediated communication. There are pros and cons to using mediated communication in the work environment. How do you believe mediated communication has improved organizational communication? How has it hurt organizational communication? Provide examples to illustrate your point.

Part II (1 page)
Although organizational development can be an effective way for companies to remain competitive, only about two-thirds of change efforts are actually successful. Why do you believe organizational development is so difficult?

Think of a barrier to organizational development that you have personally experienced as an employee or that stands out to you as being common. Explain why you believe this barrier is challenging for organizations as well as what you would do to overcome it, if you were faced with change in your organization.

Explain why these concepts are necessary for successful communication and how best to implement them within an organization. Examples of concepts that you may choose to use are active listening, organizational culture, conflict resolution, key principles of human communication, leadership strategies.

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New communication structure for successful communication

Imagine that you are proposing a new communication structure for an organization.
Write a formal proposal in which you discuss at least five concepts that you feel are most important for successful communication within an organizational setting. (The outline was completed on order 775600)
• Explain why these concepts are necessary for successful communication and how best to implement them within an organization.
• Examples of concepts that you may choose to use are active listening, organizational culture, conflict resolution, key principles of human communication, leadership strategies.

According to the course material and google scholar, what factors influence the outcomes of Senate and Congressional races?

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POL 330: Election Prediction assignment

Overview: Throughout this semester, we have focused on the structures and specific of the election process. Part of what makes elections so exciting is that sometimes it is extremely difficult to predict who is going to win in an election. The goal of this assignment is for you to hone your political analysis and to apply the concepts you are learning in this course to the real world. Please cite your sources. Submit an electronic copy of this assignment to Moodle by November 7 at 11:59 PM.

  • Extra credit: Receive 3 points of extra credit for being closest to the actual result of the elections (2 points for 2nd place and 1 point for third place).

What materials you will use:

  • The course textbooks and supplemental readings. Chapters 5, 10, and 13 in Campaigns and Elections would be the most beneficial for this assignment.
  • Google scholar
  • Suggested election prediction sites and campaign information
    • The economist
    • Politico
    • 270 to win
    • Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball
    • Real Clear Politics
    • Cook Political Report
    • Five Thirty-Eight.com
    • BBC
    • New York Times
    • Washington Post
    • The Hill
    • CNBC
    • CNN
    • Federal Election Commission (for campaign funding information)
    • Other news sites

 

Specific questions: Write at least 6-8 ROBUST sentences for each question.

  1. According to the course material and google scholar, what factors influence the outcomes of Senate and Congressional races? You may want to pay special attention to chapters 5, 10, and 13 in Campaigns and Elections by Sides, Shaw, Grossmann, and Lipsitz (one of the course textbooks).
  2. Research and Predict: Research the following races and fill out the following races with your prediction for the candidate that you predict is going to win each race. Also, pick the party that you think is going to win the House and the Senate. You do not need to write anything for this question—just fill in your predictions.

 

Senate 

Control of Chamber: (Democratic Party) or (Republican Party):_________

Which candidate will win the following US Senate Elections?:

  1. Georgia____________
  2. Nevada____________
  3. Wisconsin___________
  4. North Carolina_________
  5. Ohio_____________
  6. Arizona___________
  7. Pennsylvania_________
  8. Florida___________
  9. New Hampshire________
  10. Colorado___________

 

House:

Which party will control the House of Representatives Democratic Party or Republican Party: _________

By how much will the winner beat the loser in control over the chamber (take the total number of Majority Party seats minus the Minority’s number of seats): _____________.

  1. Support for your decision Part 1: Pick ONE (predicted) CLOSE Senate race from above. Please justify why you think this candidate is going to win based on real world information concerning the race. Please use both real-world sources AND your textbook to support your decision.
  2. Support for your decision Part 2: Pick a (predicted) CLOSE Senate race from above (please pick a race you have not picked yet). Please justify why you think this candidate is going to win based on real world information concerning the race. Please use both real-world sources AND your textbook to support your decision.
  3. Support for your decision Part 3: Pick a ANY Senate race from above (please pick a race you haven’t picked yet). Please justify why you think this candidate is going to win based on real world information concerning the race. Please use both real-world sources AND your textbook to support your decision.
  4. Support for your decision Part 4-Senate Control Pick: Analyze your predicted Section Elections outcome (who will have control of the chamber and by how many Senators). Please justify why you think this party is going to win based on real world information concerning the various Senate races. Please use both real-world sources AND your textbook to support your pick.
  5. Support for your decision Part 5- House Control Pick: Analyze your predicted House of Representative elections outcome (who will have control of the chamber and by how many members). Justify why you think this party is going to win based on real world information concerning the various House races. Please use both real-world sources AND your textbook to support your decision.

 

Grading Expectations for Assignments (see rubric for more information):

  • Those assignments that accurately answer the questions presented will receive higher grades.
  • Those assignments that meet the minimum writing length for each question will receive higher grades.
  • Those assignments that express more complicated and unique ideas are more likely to receive higher grades.
  • If outside sources are used, then the assignment cited these materials in some manner. Make sure to use in-text citations and citations at the end.
  • Those assignments that allude to assigned readings and current events are more likely to receive a higher grade.