assignments

3 short (paragraph) Vignettes in style of house on mango street by sandra Cisneros. Should be about a place, a person, or even school. 

Each piece should have atleast six of the following devices: 

Metaphor/simile

Personification 

alliteration 

Six in tota

Part 2

Evaluate Before Terminate Case Study

Read the case study “Evaluate before Terminate” at the end of Chapter 15. Write a paper that discusses the following:

· On the basis of your work experiences, identify examples of behaviors that might be considered dangerous by managers, supervisors, and/or coworkers. How did your employers respond, and was anyone terminated? (For students without work experiences, please describe dangerous behaviors you have observed at school or with friends).

· If you were an HR professional, how would you handle the termination of a potentially dangerous employee? What policies might you create to make your organization less susceptible to wrongful termination or discrimination lawsuits?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

· Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.

· Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

· Include cover page and reference page.

· At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.

· No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.

· Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.

· Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.  

(example attached)

Part 3 –a

"Venture Capital" Please respond to the following:

· Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to identify a business recently acquired or financed by a venture capitalist. Next, evaluate the business decision to use a venture capitalist to raise funds, indicating whether or not you believe the company will benefit from this decision in the long run. Provide support for your position. 

· Assess the challenges for businesses using the resources of a venture capitalist, given that significant returns on the investment are likely to be impacted by the firm. Indicate how a business can manage these expectations. Provide support for your rationale. 

Part 3 b Ethnocentrism in Your United States

We discussed ethnocentrism briefly earlier in the quarter. Given what you’ve learned over the last five weeks, we’ll now write more broadly about this important topic. What is ethnocentrism? How can it be both positive and negative? Please share a story from your life in which you’ve either experienced or witnessed ethnocentrism.

This assignment will give you the opportunity to show your ability to think like a sociologist, using sociological theory to give validity to the content of your answer.