Essay # 2: On Virgil

About: For this second exercise I would like for all of us to explore our creative side by Creating a Space/Platform type of exercise.

• What is a Creative Space or Platform?
  • They are commonly used in advertising. However, for this exercise it would be more of a proposal that should create: awareness, interest, changing attitudes and/or that leads to action.

• Some ideas or examples:

1. Project Luz: Founded by Argentinian photographer Sol Aramendi in 2004, is a learning space where participants can share different points of view through photography. It invites Hispanic immigrants to make connections between their everyday life experiences with learning. For more information visit: http://projectluz.org/
2. Jornalero/a Wage Theft App: It is a project in collaboration with the New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), artists, workers, lawyers and academics that provides workers with the Smartphone application to track payments, record details about unsafe work sites and share pictures to identify employers. All of this is done anonymously. The app has workers record their hours and wages, which are then saved in a profile. That profile, which lists a phone number but not name is linked to the NICE organization’s database. For more information visit: http://www.nynice.org/
3. The Nanny Van: Founded Chinese-Ecuadorian artist Marisa Morán Jahn. The Nanny Van is a bright orange mobile design lab and sound studio that “accelerates the movement for domestic workers’ rights nationwide”. The Nanny Van convenes domestic workers and employers alike to produce and provide new fair care tools. For more information visit: http://www.nannyvan.org/
4. Domestic Worker App: also founded by Marisa Moran Jahn. It is a hotline that provides nannies, housekeepers and caregivers about their rights. For more information visit: http://marisajahn.com/post/116257921199/domestic-w…

NOW! We’ve read about the hostile and violent atmosphere in Jamaica against the LGBTQ community.

Question: In thinking of Steve Orlando’s use of the popular graphic novel genre, what popular mediums would you use to create a social haven for this community in Jamaica?

Instructions: You will write a proposal for a Creative Platform.

It should have:

• Background: The social issue you will focus your Platform on (why is it a problem or how it became a problem?). Present what others have done to introduce this social issue (in this case use Steve Orlando’s Virgil as previous works that talk about the situation in Jamaica)
• Objective: To create awareness, to interest, to help change attitudes or to be active in helping members of the community.
• Your Creative Platform: For this part, describe the development, the medium and elements/agents that best support your proposal. Here, creativity is key and sky is the limit.
• Total of pages: 4-5 pages or more.

You should read Virgil write by Steve Orlando.

Select and describe a leader you admire. Your selected leader may be either a real-life individual or a fictional character from television, the movies, or a book. Using leadership theories, analyze your selected leader to identify characteristics and provide specific examples of leadership qualities you think contributed to that person’s success.

Evaluate your own leadership style and work with your mentor to identify your own leadership characteristics.

Write a paper in which you explain your leadership style and your ideas and plans for improving your effectiveness as a leader based on your comparison with an admired leader and your work with your mentor.

Required Elements:

• Between 800 and 1050 words
• Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
• Evaluate your chosen leader and yourself, based on the leadership theories.
• Summarize the discussion with your mentor

CIS_537_56_DB_Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property

One page only

Your grandfather recently passed away, at a ripe old age. As the only surviving family member, you had been expecting a sizeable inheritance, and were surprised to discover that he left all his money to various nature conservation causes that you weren’t even aware he cared about. He also left, in your care, a mysterious sealed package. Only you know the contents of the package. In the package are detailed design and implementation instructions for a robot that will revolutionize the world as we know it, and a key to a secure storage vault where a perfectly functioning prototype resides. Your grandfather states in a letter to you that he wishes the design for the robot to be given freely to the world, as his gift to humanity. He does not wish for any profit to be made from the robot, by anyone, even though the potential exists to make millions of dollars in profit. Again, you and your grandfather are the only two people who know this robot exists, and he is dead. Make a case for and a case against using his plans to patent the robot and make a profit off of it. Which action would you ultimately take and why? (You knew this part was coming…) What ethical framework are you using to support your decisions?

Feel free to use news articles as references, making sure to list those and any other references at the bottom of the post. Quotations by famous people are allowed, as well – you only have to identify the speaker, not the specific work, in the case of well-known quotations.

Prepare a two- to three-page paper on funding strategies for your start up business. In the paper:

• Describe origination of funding for your business venture and include a description of the two main sources of funding (equity and debt funding).
• Explain the type of funding you think is most appropriate for your business and why it is the most appropriate.

The Funding Strategies paper

• Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.
• Must use at least three scholarly sources.
• Must document all sources in APA style.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style.