My renaissance

Select one of the several topics that you understand well and the one that relates to your thoughts about different issues that affects you. Be critical and provide convincing arguments. Some of the topics you can select are: Wealth of Nation that talks about free market economy, Industrial Revolutions, Darwin's theory of Evolution or the The Art of War. Thinks about these or choose another topic that interests you and give me an outline about why you are choosing the particular topic and the issue that you want to raise in your paper.

Topic: Wealth of Nation that talks about free market economy.

If you recall some of the material we have covered in this course, you might remember that business is as old as civilization (10,000 years).   Civilization has had its ups and downs.  The downs we refer to as dark ages.  Those were times of ignorance and brutality.   Civilization has also had its amazing and glorious comebacks.   When that happens it is called a renaissance, because it usually means rediscovering and relearning all those things lost during the dark age. 

Students have their dark ages and renaissances too.  Many take a long break from studying after high school.  When they return to school it is very much a renaissance.  This course especially is a renaissance.  I hope it has been a pleasant one.  We have covered the history of business, the philosophy of business, and we have explored it through the literature of civilizations' greatest thinkers: not all of them, certainly, but some of the best.  

In this, your last homework assignment, you need to describe your renaissance experience.  This is a rare opportunity to speak in first person in an essay.  All the other writing rules apply, but you may use first person in this piece.  Please think about all the interesting things we have discussed.  Some of it must have surprised you, some may even have provoked anger or frustration at the way the world seems to work.  Consider this, think about which topics moved you the most.  Describe them in three pages, roughly 750 words.    

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING YOUR ESSAY:

• You must write a new essay from scratch, describing your renaissance.
• It must read like an essay
• Do not copy and paste work from your homework.
• Do not list homework questions
• Do not use bullets
• Do not list vocabulary words
• The essay must be minimum three pages, three paragraphs per page, single spaced, one inch margins, top, bottom,left and right.    At 250 words per page, this is a 750 word essay, pretty short.
  
• Follow the Writing Style Guide below
• Assume you are writing to someone who has NOT read the book.  Tell them what the topic is and use all the information you have already collected to write your essay.
• First person is permitted, but the essay is not about you, it is about the material that moved you
• No Second Person (you, your)
• No Passive Voice
• No Cliché's
• No Contractions
• No jargon
• No jigoism
• No plagiarism.
  
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  LINK TO EPORTFOLIO ACCOUNT 138019_4086 view longer description threshold: pts Edit criterion description	PROVIDED ACTUAL LINK TO EPORTFOLIO ACCOUNT SHOWING THE ESSAY 20.0 pts blank Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating NO LINK 0.0 pts blank_2 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	threshold: pts Edit criterion description	FOLLOWED STYLE GUIDE 20.0 pts 138021_5921 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating MEDIOCRE GRAMMAR & STYLE 10.0 pts 138021_1985 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating POOR GRAMMAR & STYLE 0.0 pts 138021_7821 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	threshold: pts Edit criterion description	DESCRIBED REDISCOVERY OF CRITICAL THINKING 20.0 pts 138021_4306 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating VAGUE ALLUSIONS TO CRITICAL THINKING 10.0 pts 138021_3159 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating NO MENTION OF CRITICAL THINKING 0.0 pts 138021_5270 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	threshold: pts Edit criterion description	YES, fully sustainable logic, supported by empirical evidence. 20.0 pts 138021_9286 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating VAGUE attempt at clear thinking. 10.0 pts 138021_2408 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating WISHY WASHY rhetoric. 0.0 pts 138021_4663 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	threshold: pts Edit criterion description	ON TIME 20.0 pts 138021_9668 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating 1 DAY LATE 15.0 pts 138021_5619 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating 2 DAYS LATE 10.0 pts 138021_7875 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating 3 DAYS LATE 5.0 pts 138021_8350 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating 4 DAYS LATE 0.0 pts 138021_2698 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	threshold: 5 pts Edit criterion description	Full Marks 5 pts blank Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating No Marks 0 pts blank_2 Edit rating Delete rating Add new rating category after current rating This area will be used by the assessor to leave comments related to this criterion.	[removed] pts   / 5 pts --
  Total Points: 100.0