The extra credit opportunity involves writing a short response essay (500 words or more) about a news article from that week’s news. The news article should be finance related and come from a full length article in either the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times. Submit here if you this is the third time you do extra credit assignment.

Please do the following:

• Research more about the topic using older news articles, company filings, etc. Your research should provide more detail or information about the current story (and not be irrelevant). For example, if it is about a CEO, tell us their background and history.
• Apply the tools you learned in class to help interpret the story. For example if it is about interest rates, use what you have learned about present values and the yield curve.
• Interpret the results and provide your own opinion.

I’m working on a management writing question and need a sample draft to help me study.

Each answer is limited to 2 ½ pages or less. Answers must be in 12-point Times Roman font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. Do not use bullet points; write your answers in prose. No executive summaries necessary. Simply answer the question.

Question 1. Your boss knows that you are getting your degree from London Business School, and has arranged a Zoom meeting with you. ‘Given what you are learning,’ he asks, ‘what should we be doing differently to manage our people who are working from home.’ Provide 3 pieces of advice and be specific about how they would be implemented and, if they were, the effect your advice would have on employee (engagement, creativity or productivity).

A two-part discussion essay (3 robust paragraphs).

Write a two-part essay in which you address the following:

Part I: Film analysis. Write a well-developed short essay in which you analyze one important theme, or one central idea from our “Black in Latin America” and “The Black Atlantic” films (you’ve seen them all, but here you’re writing in detail about one). Describe that issue in detail, and provide us with historical background from our lectures and readings from Chasteen and from our Wood and Alexander reader short articles so that we can fully understand the theme you’re developing.

Then discuss all of the ways that issue is important for our understanding of the Americas during the middle and late colonial period.

Examples of themes that these films deal with: 1) historical roots and origins of African slavery to the Americas; 2) how does the slave trade affect each of those countries- the United States, Brazil, Haiti, the Dominican Republic? (tell us the history of those differences); 3) How does “race-based slavery” emerge in the modern world and what are the consequences of that? 4) In what ways do African cultures (music, dance, language…) reshape those countries and how does this relate to “transculturation”; 5) How does each nation come define “blackness” and what are some consequences of that (legal, and social)? These are just a few examples of the themes that these films deal with- there are lots more)

Length of Part I: one robust, well-developed paragraph with specific examples.

Part II: Primary Source Analysis. Write a well-developed short essay in which you analyze the importance of two of the following primary sources or scholarly accounts (all are in Canvas)

*Primary Source in Canvas: “Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage (Links to an external site.)” 1789

*“A Cuban Slave’s Testimony” by Esteban Montejo (Primary Source in Wood & Alexander pp. 55-60)

*“Day on a Coffee Plantation” by Stanley Stein (scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 60-63)

*“Black Wet Nurses” edited by Robert Conrad (primary source in Wood & Alexander pp. 66-68; I also have a photograph of one of these Black Wet Nurses in the PPT)

* “The Sugar that Saturates the American Diet has a Barbaric History as the “White Gold” (Links to an external site.)

that Fueled Slavery,” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, from “The 1619 Project (Links to an external site.)” article in Canvas

*“Becoming ‘Legally White’ in Colonial Venezuela” (primary source in Canvas).

* “On Men’s Hypocrisy” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (primary source in Canvas)

*The “Casta” Paintings (by Miguel Cabrera in the early 1760s, primary sources in Canvas in the PPT “Colonial Legacies III”). Casta paintings count as one

*“America’s Enduring Caste System (Links to an external site.)” by Isabel Wilkerson, NY Times, 8/20, p’s 1-5 (article in Canvas) or podcast “Throughline”, episode “America’s Caste System (Links to an external site.)” (interview with Isabel Wilkerson, 8-20)

* Podcast “The Electoral College (Links to an external site.)” as a US ‘colonial legacy’ from “Throughline” (min’s 4-25)

* “War to the Death” by Simón Bolívar (primary source in Wood & Alexander pp. 32-33)

* “The Vision of Father Morelos” by Enrique Krauze (this is correct spelling; scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 34-37 with primary sources-speeches and principles for future constitution- inside)

* “What Independence Meant for Women” by Sarah Chambers (scholarly account in Wood & Alexander pp. 37-41)

After having read them all, discuss all of the following about the document or primary source you’ve chosen to analyze (you’ve read them all and are analyzing one document for your essay and commenting on two different ones for your short response essays. One on Africans; one on Gender or Independence):

a) Tell us all about the document that you’ve chosen. Is it a primary source (an eyewitness account), or a secondary source (a scholarly interpretation)? This is important to know. If yours is a primary source, tell us: who wrote it? to whom? when? why? what was its purpose? If it is a scholarly account or podcast, discuss the scholarly contributions of this article or podcast to our understanding of the Americas.

b) Provide historical context from our lectures and readings. I.e. tell us the history behind the primary source or document. What has happened in the region and what is going on at the time this primary source is produced? If it is a scholarly account, discuss the historical context for your document.

c) Analyze the primary source and evaluate its historical significance. Primary sources are valuable for us, but we also need to ask questions about them. What kind of language does it use? Who is the audience? What are some assumptions the author or artist makes? Can you identify biases? In examining the “casta paintings,” for example, what assumptions does the painter Miguel Cabrera make about peoples of mixed ethnicities? Another example: Esteban Montejo, our former enslaved person who escaped slavery in Cuba, was interviewed by the anthropologist Miguel Barnett when Montejo was an old man (over 100). He was also one person on a plantation of dozens of people of different ethnicities and who spoke different languages. How might this affect the story that he tells? Another example: In our primary source “Black Wet Nurses”, the section “The Black Wet Nurse as a status symbol”, the French writer Charles Expilly writes about how wet nurses were treated “very well” (among other things). How does he form his conclusions? Can we take his conclusions at face value? What contributions does your primary source or document make to our understanding of the history of the modern Americas?

Length of Part II: Two robust and well-developed paragraphs with specific examples- one per primary source

Length of the whole essay (both parts): three well developed paragraphs with specific examples

Submit both parts together (just label each part: Part I, Part II).

Plan School Health Based on Data – National & Regional

Description

After assembling a School Health Council, the next step is to assess and prioritize needs. Examine national and regional data to identify needs and consider how the WSCC model (and your Council) could address them. Based on your findings, update your School Health Council mission statement.

If you worked in a team on the Assembling a School Health Council assignment, you may continue to work with that team. If on a team, don’t just divide the work; work together on all parts and in order. Each section builds on the next. Submit one document per team with all names on it.

Purpose

To develop the following National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) 2020 areas of responsibility and competency:

• Area I: Assessment of Needs and Capacity

To develop the following SOPHE 2019 Health Education Teacher Preparation Standards:

• Standard 2: Assessing Needs

Procedures

Resources

Use the CDC’s Healthy Youth website to assess national and regional needs related to youth needs.

National Data

Go to the CDC’s Healthy Youth website. Locate and download the report called: YRBS Data Summary & Trends Report. If unable to access it, you can find it in the D2L Resources folder.

Here is the citation for this source:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). YRBS Data Summary & Trends Report 2009-2019. Division of Adolescent and School Health. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/YRB…

Regional Data

Go to the CDC’s Healthy Youth website. Locate and click on the link that takes you to the Youth Online Data Analysis Tool.

Here is the citation for this source:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). Youth risk behavior surveillance system (YRBSS). Adolescent and School Health. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.h…

Prompts

Use the appropriate resources above to respond to the prompts.

National Data – Executive Summary and Overview

1. The YRBS
   1. According to the Executive summary (p. 4), what data does The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report share?
   2. According to page 10, what is the YRBS, who takes it, and when?
2. Priority areas.
   1. On what four priority areas does the trends report focus? List these.
   2. What does the report focus on these areas? Explain in your own words and indicate the page number(s) where you find your answer.
3. Page 7 lists ways the data could be used; and pages 7-8 suggest actions to take.
   1. Thinking about the School Health Council you formed in the previous assignment, which ways do you think your council could use the data? Explain.
   2. Thinking about the School Health Council you formed in the previous assignment, which actions do you think your council could take? Explain.
4. Page 9 describes the four priority areas. Read each carefully.
   1. How many questions on the YRBS addressed each area?
   2. Find those questions in the Appendix (p. 106-7). Based on the questions and the area descriptions, on which area would you like your school health council to focus?
   3. Explain why you chose this area.

National Data – Selected Priority Area

From the Table of Contents, locate the pages which report on your selected priority area. Notice that there is data for the general youth population and then also sexual minority youth (SYM). Read both…carefully. Study the symbols in the tables. Read the summaries. Then read about each variable.

1. Based on the general population summary, trends, and data…
   1. Which results surprise you? Explain.
   2. Which don’t? Explain.
2. Based on the SYM summary, trends, and data…
   1. How do the results compare to the general population results?
   2. Which results surprised you? Explain.
3. Based on the general population and SYM results…
   1. On which sub-areas should your School Health Council focus?
   2. Explain in detail (i.e. several sentences) why these areas are important. Cite data/facts.

Regional Data

Examine regional data related to your selected area. (Note: For our region, it was Chicago Public School students who took the survey!). Getting to the data is tricky. Follow these steps; respond to the prompts.

From the Youth Online website…

• At the top of the screen select whether you want to review high school or middle school data.
• Click on the state of Illinois on the map.
• At the top of the Illinois screen, click on VIEW TWO LOCATIONS. A second location, the United States, is added. Perfect! This will allow you to compare Illinois to all US data.
• Make the data manageable by filtering the results to look only at the questions for the priority area you selected in the previous prompts. This won’t be straight forward as the Topic names don’t match the priority areas. Here’s how to find them:
  • Sexual Behavior => Sexual Behaviors
  • High-Risk Substance Use => Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use
  • Experiencing Violence => Unintentional Injuries and Violence
  • Mental Health and Suicide => Unintentional Injuries and Violence

Don’t remember which question to look for? See the Trends report Appendix, pages 107-8.

1. The numbers in the table…those are percentages. Compare the Illinois and US percentages. For which of your priority area’s questions is Illinois worse? (i.e., Illinois percentage rates are higher)
2. Look at pretty pictures! On the YRBS page, click on the GRAPHS tab. Do the graphs help you to notice anything different? If yes, explain your observations. If no, just say “no differences.”
3. Based on the Illinois data…
   1. On which sub-areas should your School Health Council focus?
   2. Are these sub-areas the same or different from what you identified in the national data prompts? If the same, say “the same.” If different, explain why the change in focus.
4. Find your School Health Advocacy Letter and your School Health Council First Meeting Agenda. You identified 4-5 of the 10 WSCC elements as your initial approach to school health.
   1. Do you think implementing these 4-5 elements could help to address the priority area?
      1. If yes, explain how each element might help.
      2. If not, select new elements and explain how those might help.
5. Find your School Health Council mission statement. Update it to reflect your priority area and refined WSCC approach as appropriate..
   1. Paste your revised statement.
   2. Describe what you changed and why.

Assignment Submission Directions

1. Remove my directions. Your work should look professional.
2. Include your name(s) at the top.
3. Use Arial, Time New Roman, or a similar font style; use 10, 11, or 12-point font
4. Double or single-spaced is fine.
5. Cite all sources using APA format. Not sure how to do that?
   1. OWL: In-Text Citation Guide
   2. OWL: Reference List Rules
6. Save your file as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf. Other formats cannot be opened in D2L.
7. Submit to the appropriate D2L Assignments folder. Emailed assignments are not accepted.

Grading Criteria

• See D2L Rubric