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Any topic (writer’s choice)

                    TOPIC
You must choose to write on only one of the four following sociologists whose ideas we would have discussed in class. Instead, consult a good internet source of information about your chosen thinker.
1. Karl Mannheim
2. W.E.B. Du Bois
3. Thorsten Veblen
4. Robert Park
                REQUIREMENTS
1. Write your essay response in the following form:
2. Name of Sociologist:
3. Major Works (list three):
4. Main area or areas of research and theorizing (list the major areas):
5. The thinkers key concepts and theories (discuss them briefly):

Bob Fosse

*Provide a brief biographical description of Bob Fosse (Who they are/were, where
and when were they born/raised, how did they get their start, what are they most well known for, etc.)
*Discuss a critical issue that exists around their work. This should be the main
part of your paper. What social or political contexts do or did this artist work under? How
do these contexts inform or affect their work? (For example: You may choose to write
about Gwen Verdon, and discuss how she had to negotiate working in the male dominated Broadway scene during her era, and how that societal sexism was reflected in her life and her work.)

SOURCES: At least 5 sources.
Sources may come from a variety of different media, but they must be from solid scholarship about the artist and their social context. Wikipedia and opinion pages about the artist in a printed or online newspaper do NOT count as sources.

Examples of acceptable sources are:
*Printed or online journals
*Books about the artist/social context
*Online or printed scholarly articles
*Documentaries
*Interviews
*Journalism that appears in a newspaper (online or printed) that is NOT simply
an opinion page.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

The topic of discussion will be: Obesity, Hypertension and Diabetes in the African American Community. Discuss in Depth Obesity, Hypertension and Diabetes and its higher instance in the AFRICAN AMERICAN community. Also, it MUST include the highly consumed Soul Food which includes high fat sugar and salt content that contributes to these diseases.  Include modifications to Soul Food that can be made for a healthier lifestyle. ALL CRITERIA IS ATTACHED IN FILE. MUST HIT ALL POINTS EXACTLY!

From Plantation to Ghetto

The period from the 1890s until the mid 1920s was marked by very significant events in the African American community. From the disagreement between Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Dubois concerning education, to the founding of the NAACP and the Urban League, World War I, race riots the Great Migration, the growth of the KKK and the Pan Africanism of Marcus Garvey and others, black lives changed little although there were some very positive developments. Perhaps the most interesting and significant event was the Harlem Renaissance which brought great black talents to the fore. Choose two of these developments and discuss its importance to the black community and their struggle for equal rights.

Below is a discussion response to the paragraph above.

The NAACP has and is continuously making positive impacts on the black community.  The NAACP is an important factor in relation to the progression of the black community as well.  The purpose of the NAACP was to ensure political, social, economic, and educational equality for the minority.  The NAACP was established in 1909 and is currently the oldest and largest civil rights organization (History.com Editors, 2019).  The NAACP has fought for equality for the black community for many years.  The organization was founded by a mixed race of activists.
The Anti-Lynching Campaign was one of the NAACP campaigns that aided in improving the black communities’ struggle.  The campaign took place in 1917 as a silent march to protest lynchings and violence against blacks.  The campaign brought out approximately 10,000 people in New York City (History.com Editors, 2019).  It was a very large demonstration in America that was against racial violence.  The NAACP played a major role in the Civil Rights Era.  One of the organization’s biggest victories was the Brown v. Board of Education decision that removed segregation in public schools (History.com Editors, 2020).  This movement alone made a tremendous impact on the black communities right to receive an equal education.  Without this case, the future education of the black community could have been different.  The NAACP assisted in organizing the March on Washington, which helped to understand the racial and economic injustice.  The march shed light on job discrimination and state-sponsored racism.
If not for the NAACP the black communitys progression may have been shortened.  With the efforts of the NAACP, the black community has been able to prosper and continue to break barriers from all walks of life.  Today the group continues to push to resolve issues of inequality in jobs, education, healthcare, and the criminal justice system.

The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a positive turning point for the black community.  The Harlem Renaissance provided a platform for African American writers and artists to have control over how the black culture was represented.  During the 1930s it was known as the New Negro Movement (Johnston, 2015).  Harlem became a place where black writers, musicians, artists, poets, photographers and more could freely express their talents and thoughts.  The Great Migration was a key contributor to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance.  The Harlem Renaissance was important to the black community as it produced a new black cultural identity.  It allows blacks to have social pride and appreciation for roots and culture.
The Harlem Renaissance aided in the struggle of the black community to receive the equal right to express themselves and to change the narrative of the black community.  The Harlem Renaissance broke barriers for many generations of black artists, musicians, and writers.  The artists wanted to gain control over the representation of black culture.  Prior to World War I, black painters and sculptors had rarely concerned themselves with African American subject matter. By the end of the 1920s, however, back artists had begun developing styles related to black aesthetic traditions or folk art (Johnston, 2015).  The Harlem Renaissance helped shaped the image of the black culture and shed light on the creativity of the culture.  Ensuring that other races had an understanding of what the black culture represented.  The events helped to shape the rights black artists now have and the acceptance of black creativity.

History.com Editors. (2019, March 12). NAACP. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/naacp
Johnston, J. (2015, April 29). Harlem Renaissance Summary. Retrieved from https://scalar.usc.edu/works/harlem-renaissance/harlem-renaissance-summary
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NAACP
[1]The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 and is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. Throughout its hundred years of existence, the association has fought all manifestations of racial segregation and discrimination and demanded equal rights and opportunity for all Americans regardless of race and color. Its preeminent goals have been the full integration and participation of African Americans and other racial minorities in the promise of American democracy. [2]Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment, and segregated public facilities. Dedicated to the goal of an integrated society, the national leadership has always been interracial, although the membership has remained predominantly African American. In the early decades of the NAACPs, its anti-lynching campaign was its main agenda. During the 1950s and 1960s ( Civil Rights Era), the group won major legal victories, and today the NAACP has more than 2,200 branches and some half a million members worldwide. [3]During the final decades of the 20th century, the NAACP experienced financial difficulties and some members charged that the organization lacked direction. Today, the NAACP is focused on such issues as inequality in jobs, education, health care, and the criminal justice system, as well as protecting voting rights. The group also has pushed for the removal of Confederate flags and statues from public property.

Berg, Manfred. “National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People.” In Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present. : Oxford University Press, 2009. https://www-oxfordreference-com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195167795.001.0001/acref-9780195167795-e-0862.
Separate Is Not Equal – Brown v. Board of Education. Accessed April 8, 2020. https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html.
History.com Editors. NAACP. History.com. A&E Television Networks, October 29, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/naacp.

Pan Africanism
[1]Pan-Africanism represents the complexities of black political and intellectual thought over two hundred years.  Pan-Africanism reflects a range of political views.  At a basic level, it is belief that African people, both on the African continent and in the Diaspora, share not merley a common history, but common destiny.  [2]Pan-Africanism served as both a cultural and political ideology for the solidarity of peoples of African descent. Most notably championed and pioneered by Marcus Garvey, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism aims to connect and understand the universal injustices within the Diaspora. However, the past Pan-Africanist calls of Garvey, Kenyatta, Nkrumah and countless others have translated into modernity; as neo-black liberation movements are advocating for the socio-economic, political and even psychological independence from those under colonial and now, neo-colonial regimes.[3] Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. Garveyism would eventually inspire others, from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement. [4] Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair of the Africology and African American studies department at Temple University in Philadelphia, describes Marcus Garvey as probably the most significant African political genius that has ever livedHe infused the idea of black self-sufficiency in all of the societies and communities in the black world the idea of you can organize and create institutions that fight for your own liberation, Asante says. He says Garvey is also responsible for symbols such as the red, green and black Pan-African flag.

Why Pan-Africanism Is Important for the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. For Harriet | Celebrating the Fullness of Black Womanhood. Accessed April 8, 2020. http://www.forharriet.com/2015/07/why-pan-africanism-is-important-for.html.
Why Pan-Africanism Is Important for the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. For Harriet | Celebrating the Fullness of Black Womanhood. Accessed April 8, 2020. http://www.forharriet.com/2015/07/why-pan-africanism-is-important-for.html.
Friedman, Jordan. From Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey Came an African Vision of Freedom. USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network, February 15, 2018. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/14/black-history-month-marcus-garvey/1004478001/.

please write a response for the 2. They can be 100 words per

What was Volkswagen thinking

In “What Was Volkswagen Thinking?,” Jerry Useem (2016) presents Diane Vaughans theory of the normalization of deviance and includes a variety of corporate examples that demonstrate the effect of her theory.

In your response, briefly explain Vaughans theory. Explain how this type of communication within one of the organizations (Ford Motor Company, NASA, B.F. Goodrich, and Volkswagen) altered the behavior of the employees.

Your response should be at least 500 words in length.

Vietnam war

    1. Give a very brief overview of the course of the war. 

    2. Then describe issues, events, dilemmas and developments from the war that make it difficult to simply divide everyone into “good guys” and “bad guys.”  To illustrate this, describe a number of specific situations or actions, or reflections by people from Ken Burns’ documentary.  In the midst of the different points you make, you must include American soldiers, American politicians, American protestors, and Vietnamese (from any side) at least once.  (This section should make up the largest part of your paper).

    3.  Which of the actions, policies or events that you described were clearly just, which were clearly unjust, or which are difficult to determine, ethically?  Why?  (You do not have to find examples of each of these ethical positions).

    4.  After reading Matthew 5 to 7 carefully, select several principles of Christ that should shape the way we think today, as Americans and Christians, as we look back on the Vietnam War.  (To illustrate this, you may want to give a hypothetical situation of how not to interpret the war, according to these principles of Christ). 
   
   

Active shooter policies

Write a 250-350 word paper that describes the policy-making steps and analyzes the current status for active shooter policies for Public policies for juvenile justice / Health allied agencies.  For issues that are still in progress, comment on what will have to take place for the process to be resolved for. 

Any topic (writer’s choice)

This week we discussed and reviewed network planning.  Describe how you would design a logistics network consisting of only one warehouse.  In the discussion, include the steps you need to take in order to design the optimal network.  What information and data is needed to make this determination?  What strategy will be employed in this network?

        750 1,000 words (3 4 pages) written essay
        APA format required (including title page, reference page no abstract required)
        5 7 academic resources for 300/400 level courses
        Content of paper should address the concepts covered this week utilizing personal experience as well as research

Scenario

Scenario:
Management has reviewed your work from two weeks ago about how the employees’ low job motivation may affect the company internally and externally and determined that there is sufficient evidence to support an organizational change. It has asked you to recommend changes that will help to boost employee job motivation.
Recall that a survey showed job motivation among employees was lower than average, with complaints such as:
My job is so boring!
My boss micromanages me but never tells me how I’m doing.
I’ve been in my position for seven to fifteen years, but I am never allowed to provide any input about making the work better.
Write a paper in which you:
Defend at least two organizational changes and explain how these changes will improve job motivation in the workforce. Support your recommendations by citing the theories covered in the readings or your own research.
Assess potential conflicts that may arise due to the changes, including why you anticipate these conflicts.
Justify a change implementation plan for leading the change initiatives and helping the organization overcome any resistance to the changes.
Justify an appropriate communication plan that announces the changes and continues through the change management process.

N. Carolina

Federal and State Adaptation of Cultural Heritage in North Carolina
You are the climate adaptation expert on the North Carolina Climate Adaptation Task Force and have been approached by the Governor to write a memo describing climate vulnerability and solutions for adaptation of cultural and historical resources, particularly in states that have coastal resources. Coastally-located cultural resources, such as historic buildings and structures, archeological sites, cultural landscapes, ethnographic resources, and museum collections are the record of the human experience and can connect one generation to the next. The state is faced with persistent sea level rise, subsidence, erosion, flooding, and storm surge, damaging many cultural heritage sites under state and federal protection. While the Governor needs to understand how to adapt cultural resources to climate impacts, you recognize that there may be too many resources to protect. This means the state will need to prioritize some resources over others but how?

Both the state and the National Park Service (NPS) are charged with preserving cultural resources so that they can be enjoyed by present and future generations. The NPS recognizes climate change as the greatest threat to the integrity of our national parks that we have ever experienced.* In response, the NPS has taken an active role in addressing the risks from climate change. Indeed, in 2014 the NPS signed Climate Change and Stewardship of Cultural Resources,** a policy memorandum outlining the NPS position on responding to climate change and its potential effects on cultural resources, emphasizing the stewardship, and preservation program mandates. This memorandum includes the following major points:

–        Cultural resources are primary sources of data regarding human interactions with environmental change; and changing climates affect the preservation and maintenance of cultural resources;

–        As the cultural resources often cannot change or have capacity to respond with the environment around them, a focus for climate change adaptation shifts to the states and federal systems for management and planning;

–        Prioritize climate adaptation according to vulnerability and historical significance of cultural resource, and;

–        Cultural resources hold an essential role in climate change communication.
Considering the four points above, identify one example of a cultural resource that is vulnerable to climate change in the United States and describe the implications for preservation. Should the resource be preserved over others? How should the governor prioritize the resource over other resources? Express your critical opinion about the adaptive capacity of the cultural resource: Does the cultural resource as socio-economic system have the capacity to respond to climate change impacts? Does the resource depend exclusively on human management? Identify at least one alternative approach for prioritizing adaptation of cultural resources.

This memo should be between 800-1200 words, including footnotes and references.

7 Scholarly Sources in addition to the ones below.

*National Park Service, National Park Service Climate Change Response Strategy (2010)(Page 1) available: https://www.nature.nps.gov/climatechange/docs/NPS_CCRS.pdf.

** National Park Service. “NPS Policy Memorandum 14-02, Climate Change and Stewardship of Cultural Resources.” Available at: https://www.nps.gov/policy/PolMemos/PM-14-02.htm.

See also: National Park Service, Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy (2017).
https://mylearning.nps.gov/library-resources/cultural-resources-climate-change-strategy/