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The term-paper for this course is to be done on a topic of your choice from the subject matter and time period this class cov
The term-paper for this course is to be done on a topic of your choice from the subject matter and time period this class covers, meaning:
World Civilizations,
3500BC-1600AD
It is to be between 5 and 7 pages (NO MORE & NO LESS). Do not use: large/small fonts, abnormal spacing, massive chapter subdivisions, outlines/numbered sequence points etc.) Do not use extended quotes (meaning more than a few lines). Double spacing, 12 point fonts and 1 inch margins are the maximum.
You must turn in 1 hard copy in class AND 1 electronic copy through Safe Assignment.
For the paper you must use 4 sources:
2 secondary sources meaning scholarly books written by a university professor. Any book in the campus library will fulfill this requirement. If you find books elsewhere and are unsure, look inside the book since many provide a biography of the author. Also you can check the publisher; if the publisher is a university press it is fine. Journal articles are also acceptable to fulfill this requirement and the campus library is full of scholarly journals. Another good place to find the journal articles is online on JSTOR which is accessible through the campus library website. Remember, these articles must come from scholarly journals such as the Journal of Roman Studies or the Journal of Asian Studies. Articles from magazines such as National Geographic or Newsweek do not count.
With the exception of JSTOR internet sources such as sites like Wikipedia are NOT acceptable and will not fulfill this requirement.
The main textbook and other modern books assigned for this class DO NOT count towards fulfilling this requirement.
Lecture notes DO NOT count as secondary sources. They represent my research and should not be cited in your paper.
You CANNOT use a paper from another class-this must be a new and original paper.
2 primary sources written by someone who was roughly contemporaneous with the topic you are describing. You always want to find eyewitness accounts (if they exist) or accounts written by someone who was alive during the period of your topic. If these do not exist, then you want to find sources written by someone who lived shortly after the period of your topic. This could mean as much as a few centuries afterwards since these people would have access to sources that no longer exist today. For example, if you are writing a paper on Julius Caesar you would first use Caesar’s own accounts of his military campaigns. Then you could also find accounts written by his contemporaries such as Cicero before moving on to later authors who wrote biographies of Caesar or histories of his time. Some of these authors lived a few centuries later but are still acceptable.
The campus library has a huge selection of primary sources translated into English for all periods of history no matter what your topic. Also, many primary sources are now online. It is acceptable to use the internet to fulfill the primary source requirement.
Primary sources assigned for this class CAN be used towards fulfilling this requirement.
The first step in finding sources is choosing a topic. Once you have a topic go to the campus library and search the library computer catalogue. For example, if your topic is the Chinese voyages of Yung-lo look up China and Yung-lo. Sometimes you get lucky and there is a specific book about your topic. In other cases you may find general histories of your period such as, in this case, a history of China that covers the late 1300’s and early 1400’sAD. Once you find the book or books on the library shelves, you can then find information about your topic. More importantly, these books can lead you to other secondary and primary sources. Check the bibliographies of the books you found since they will list dozens of secondary sources (books and articles) the author used which you can then find in the library. Also, the author will discuss in detail the various primary sources for your topic which you can then find in the library or online.
Your paper must have a proper bibliography page at the end (the bibliography page does not count towards the page total). The bibliography must contain all the information about each source you used. It must include the author’s name (last name first), the year the book was published, the title of the book (in italics), and the publisher. For a journal article, you must include the author’s name, year published, title (in quotation marks), the name of the journal (in italics), and page numbers. For primary sources either include the above information from the book along with the name of the translator or the information from the website where you found the source.
In your paper all references and quotes must have proper footnotes. Since there will be a full citation in the bibliography you do not need a full citation in each footnote. Instead in the footnotes only include the author’s name and the page number where you found your information. If the footnote is from a primary source include the author’s name and page or chapter number. When trying to decide when to quote the sources, a few “rules of thumb” are useful. You should always cite the sources if you are using information from them that you did not already know (again don’t cite the lectures). Additionally, cite the sources or offer quotations when you think they enrich or support your point. For instance, if you are describing the cruelty of Caligula, offer a quote from a source that would make your point. Imagine that you were reading your paper in a presentation and think of the quotes as if they were pictures: whenever you would want to show the audience a picture to make your point or give them a better idea of what you mean, then add a quote. If you are making claims that may be controversial, then quotes/citations are more important. Chicago, APA or MLA are all OK.
These are the requirements.
Do not turn in papers which ignore these requirements or your paper will be marked down.
Late papers will marked down as well: 1 letter grade for each day it is late.
These papers must be your own work: PLAGIARISM IS ILLEGAL. Plagiarized papers will be given a zero and you will receive an F for the course. In addition the matter will be referred to university administration.
You may NOT turn in a paper you wrote in a previous term.
Last but not least: proofread your papers! Do not ruin an “A” paper with shoddy grammar/spelling etc.
If you are having problems fulfilling these guidelines please see me.
Suggestions
1. Your paper should have a clear thesis or argument within the introduction. The introduction itself is one of the most important parts of the paper. As a rough suggestion, the introductory paragraph (or few paragraphs) should introduce the subject of your paper, state your thesis, and offer some information on how the paper will be organized or how your argument will proceed. For instance, if the topic of your paper was on the role/importance of the Praetorian Guard in the early Roman Empire, you could offer a thesis such as: “The Praetorian Guard exerted noticeable influence on the political system of the early Roman Empire, at least during key moments of crisis.” When commenting on the structure of your argument (or organization of the paper), you could write: “The terror carried out by Sejanus, the role of Macro in Gaius Caligula’s rise to the position of emperor, the conspiracy of Cassius Chaerea, and the insertion of Claudius by the Praetorian Guard all indicate that this elite body of troops was able to threaten, remove, and even install emperors during this period of the Empire.” In this example, your reader would know that you were going to discuss (1) Sejanus, (2) Macro/Caligula, (3) Cassius Chaerea’s conspiracy, and (4) Claudius in separate sections or paragraphs of your paper. That format could provide the general outline of your whole paper. One way of evaluating your introduction is to ask yourself: “If all of my paper blew away in the wind on the way to class and the professor could read only my introduction, would he know what my paper is about?” If not, then you may want to rework your introduction. I stress this because the best papers have the best introductions. 2. If you are having trouble deciding what will be the topic of your paper, a good place to start would be to choose a topic that interests you personally. If you are interested in food or dress, write on Roman sumptuary laws (laws governing consumption: what can people eat, who can wear what, etc.) and if you are interested in boxing, then write on Roman gladiatorial fights. As long as you are scholarly in your approach, even unconventional subjects may be appropriate. If you are interested in your topic, your paper will generally be more enjoyable to read. Of course, for controversial topics, you should ask the professor first. In any event it is usually a good idea to run ideas by your professor before you begin since you do not wish to choose a subject that is so big it will not fit into a 5-7 page paper. For example, a biography on the whole life of Alexander or Cleopatra will simply not work since there is far too much information for a short paper of this type. It is possible though to pick 1 specific event or aspect of their careers to write about. Also, you do not want to pick a topic that is so obscure you cannot find enough information or enough sources to fill a 5-7 page paper. 3. When trying to decide on the thesis of your paper, a few considerations are helpful. Ask yourself what drew you to the topic. If you had a specific question in mind, then providing the answer to that question could be a valid thesis. If you had no specific questions in mind, then you can look at the secondary literature you are reading for the paper (i.e. things written by modern scholars/historians) and see what their thesis is. Their thesis might give you ideas. An important consideration when deciding on a thesis is that you should only present a specific thesis when you have enough sources/evidence to argue for that conclusion. For instance, if you have a large number of sources (primary and secondary) that claim that Tiberius encouraged Sejanus in his reign of terror, then you are warranted in positing that as your thesis. If not, then you probably can’t argue that thesis effectively.
4. Likewise, when trying to decide on how to focus your paper, a major consideration should be the amount of material you have on each subject. For instance, if you are writing on Ovid’s banishment by Augustus and can’t decide whether you should focus more on the actual conditions of living in Tomis or on the significance of the banishment, determine what amount of evidence you have from the sources. If the vast majority of your sources describe the significance, then focusing on the living conditions will prove very difficult. In other words, write what the sources enable you to write. Another consideration is the “So what?” question: decide which elements are most important and interesting. Of course, I can give suggestions on this matter.
5. When trying to decide what you need to explain or include in your paper, assume that your audience is a fellow classmate with fairly respectable attendance in our class. You may exclude things from your paper that they could be expected to know, except if it is essential to your subject. For instance, you don’t have to state that Augustus was effectively the first emperor and then cite your source. Still, anything that you feel is necessary to convince your reader of the truth of your thesis should be included. Likewise, facts that are completely irrelevant to your argument can probably be removed.
6. Think of your paper as a combination of narrative and argumentation. You are telling a story in your paper, but you want the reader to draw very specific conclusions from what you have said. Have enough narration (story-telling) to make sure your reader can follow the arguments, and enough argumentation that your reader understands the significance or meaning of the story you are telling.
If you have any questions, ask your professor or your TA.
Good Luck!
A Visit to Chinatown The Miss Chinatown Coronation Ball
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A Visit to Chinatown: The Miss Chinatown Coronation Ball
One of my greatest experiences in interacting with the cultures of Asian American groups occurred recently in Chinatown, San Francisco. Although the place is endowed with numerous elements of Chinese culture and one would not miss something to comment about, my specific target was the Miss Chinatown Coronation Ball which was held on the 14th of February 2014 at the San Francisco Hilton & Towers. The reason I chose this event was because it has a lot to tell about culture way of life of the Chinese people. Just as I had hoped to achieve interaction with elements of Chinese culture, so did it happen.
The first most noticeable cultural element was the Chinese spirit of festivals and cultural celebrations. This is done in jovial, colourful, and cheerful approaches. Thus, the auditorium where these auditions took place was colourfully decorated with flowers and beautifications of clothes and other elements. Although there were numerous colours in the blend including red, pink, yellow, orange, green, and brown among others, it was amazing how the experts put these colours in a way that they completely harmonize. One would easily notice the way they blend with the cooler ones toning down the shouting ones.
Celebration and cheerfulness is another distinctive mark of the Chinese tradition that I marked. Before the main event, various performers appeared on stage and dances were performed with both slow and robustly booming music. For the cases of soft music, most appeared religious and were characterised by slow body movements. Noticeable instruments included the violin, flutes, the instrument called Erhu or Huqin, and the Horse-Headed Fiddle. However, robust music added drums, trumpets, and some instruments like guitars which I consider modern. It is only with this music that one can notice how flexible their dances are.
In their dressing culture and tradition, I probably found it odd to dress ordinarily as most of the audience were in top Chinese traditional gears. The most common for men was the Dragon robe which had patterns of dragons on it. Traditionally, this was an Emperor’s cloth and thus is a sign of success. Other commonly noticeable were ornamentals of all sorts in ladies’ cases with beads and silvery jewellery. Also, there were different types of Chinese caps, some wide, hut like, and others compactly and roundly fitting on the head. However, there were others who had modern Chinese dresses, and although there were suits, jackets, and trousers, all of them looked distinctively Chinese.
The last defining element of this Asian American group that I interacted with was food. Indisputably, food is a defining element of almost all cultures. At the place where they served food, there were different settings for soups, different noodles, various snacks and drinks, main dishes, and desserts. Mostly, the soups were made from corn, mushrooms, Chayotes, and/or broth made from pork. They were relatively delicious. There were varied noodle offers from beef, crabs and sesame. Most of the desserts were different flavours of butter tea with main dishes having pork, pineapples, beef, and other varied sources.
Being at the centre of this Asian American group, I had to blend in, appreciate culture and embrace the spirit of multiculturalism. Thus I went alongside in times when they cheered and gave standing ovations for various artists or models. I had to teach myself to eat with two sticks instead of spoons. The worst of all these was to embrace the taste of hot chilli and pepper. Normally I don’t like pepper, but blending in all these made me have a lifetime experience with the culture of this Asian American group.
A value-creating strategy is one in which the business
Question 1
Organization: Emirates Airlines
Corporate Strategies
Value-Creating Strategy
A value-creating strategy is one in which the business looks to push out its rivals by picking up more piece of the overall industry. These methodologies try to increase the value of the business’ items and administrations by misusing economies of extension – the assets and capacities of the business that can be imparted over the whole association to diminish expenses and expand effectiveness. A key thought behind worth making method is expansion: offering more items to more purchasers inside the business sector trying to command all of a piece of the general piece of the overall industry (O’Connell, 2011).
Value-Neutral Strategy
A business can employ a value-neutral strategy isn’t such a great amount of concerned with apportioning assets and labor as it is with securing its present place inside the business. Generally, esteem nonpartisan method helps shore up the business’ operations plan. Launching administrative oversight, making cooperative energy between offices, attempting to diminish hazard and securing an enduring money stream are worth unbiased methodologies.
Business Strategies
Coordinate Unit Activities
A common business-level strategy is the coordination of all individual unit exercises found in a business. Unit exercises may be broken around office, areas of the division and individual employment positions. The coordination of these gatherings or people typically falls on a director or manager. The chief is in charge of getting representatives in agreement and centering these people on fulfilling objectives or destinations. Directors or chiefs might likewise be in charge of dispensing assets among a few distinctive exercises.
Utilize Human Resources
Companies must be able use the accessible human assets in their organization and the general economy. Just about everything organizations need some type of human work to fulfill business objectives and destinations. Organizations create a business-level technique to guarantee the association has enough representatives to deliver a particular yield of products or administrations. This business-level methodology is additionally in charge of guaranteeing the right kind of human work is procured for business operations. This regularly incorporates an investigation to figure out whether gifted or incompetent work is required to finish business capacities.
Functional Strategies
A practical technique is one that manages the assignment and exercises of a certain business territory. Managers and directors make up specific guidelines and rules for representatives to take after. Every office works by these rules, with all offices cooperating to accomplish the general organization objectives. Normal regions where an organization may execute a practical technique incorporate the generation, fund, or the innovative work divisions. A hierarchical method might likewise be practical. Creation division techniques frequently fall under the “make versus purchase” examination. Every item or product offering is explored by holders and directors, who use particular tenets to settle on this choice. The practical method helps direct how to choose the best option for new or existing items. For instance, the system may include exploring accessible materials, taking a gander at the work ability in the current market, and assessing the expenses for outsourcing the item for creation purposes. The result prompts an educated choice on how an organization will continue with item creation.
An organization’s account office ordinarily settles on choices on capital structure. The capital structure incorporates a mix of obligation and value trusts to back huge business operations. A useful technique gives direction on the most proficient method to audit operational pay and choose what part ought to be reinvested into the organization. From here, money workers then look to changed subsidizing alternatives to reserve the shortage in real money from operations. Selecting the least cost of capital from the mix of subsidizing choices is commonly the objective of a practical system.
Question B:
Performance Assessment for the Flying Staff in the Airlines Industry
Parts of the flying staff in the carrier part complete the absolute most paramount undertakings of their individual associations. Whilst the fruitful operations of an aerial shuttle is without a doubt reliant upon the joined exertions of workers on the ground and circulating everywhere, the flying group have the central obligation of really transporting hierarchical customers and making their encounters, fulfilling, agreeable and charming. The efficiencies, capacities and state of mind of parts of the flying group are indispensably essential for client fulfillment and client maintenance. Inefficiencies and deficiencies on their part can prompt client disappointment, with weighty unfriendly comes about on organization picture, deals and gainfulness.
Upgrading the execution of the flight group is in this manner a real target of all proficient and well run aerial transports. Most such aerial shuttles give careful consideration to the choice of their flying staff and create expand and specific preparing projects for their expert and self-improvement. Execution evaluations of such workers are done routinely and empower hierarchical administrations to find out diverse features of the identities, abilities and mentality of flying staff. Such execution evaluations structure the premise for advancements, work reallocations and compensation increments. Fittingly arranged and led execution evaluations can hence absolutely build the certainty and inspiration of air transport staff and improve their execution and benefit.
Question C
Job Knowledge Tests
Job knowledge tests, now and then alluded to as accomplishment or dominance tests, regularly comprise of inquiries intended to evaluate specialized or proficient ability in particular information ranges. Work learning tests assess what an individual knows at the time of taking the test. Dissimilar to cognitive capacity tests, there is no endeavor to survey the candidate’s learning potential. At the end of the day, a vocation information test can be utilized to illuminate executives what a candidate at present knows, yet not whether the individual can be depended on to ace new material in an opportune way. Work information tests are not proper when candidates will be prepared after choice in the discriminating learning zones required for the employment.
Work information tests are utilized as a part of circumstances where candidates should as of now have an assortment of scholarly data before being contracted. They are especially helpful for occupations obliging particular or specialized information that must be obtained over a broadened time of time. Illustrations of occupation information tests incorporate tests of essential bookkeeping standards, machine programming, budgetary administration, and learning of agreement law. Work information tests are frequently built on the premise of an examination of the errands that make up the employment. While the most common arrangement for work information test is a different decision inquiry position, different organizations incorporate composed papers and fill-in-the-clear inquiries.
Authorizing exams, org confirmation, and/or proficient affirmation projects are additionally work information tests. Licensure and certificate are both sorts of credentialing – the methodology of giving an assignment that shows fitness in a subject or zone. Licensure is more prohibitive than accreditation and normally alludes to the required Governmental prerequisite important to practice in a specific calling or occupation. A passing score on work information test is commonly a center necessity to acquire an expert permit. Licensure suggests practice and title insurance. This implies just people who hold a permit are allowed to practice and utilize a specific title. For instance, to provide legal counsel, a graduate school graduate must seek induction into a state bar affiliation that obliges doing the certified lawyer’s exam licensure examination. Certificate is generally an intentional methodology organized inside a nongovernmental or single Governmental organization in which people are perceived for cutting edge learning and expertise. Similarly as with licensure, confirmation commonly obliges a passing score on an occupation information exam.
The requirement for print administration suppliers and organization supervisors to increase a strong handle of what’s going ahead inside their organizations has never been more prominent. The blend of savage cost rivalry, wide swings in deals levels, and the increment in media channels, the continuous digitization of creation work processes, and the capital-escalated nature of the printing business has lifted the essentialness of evaluating business execution. In a quick moving and focused environment, PSPS just can’t bear the cost of for business working results to be an astonishment.
Question D
While PSPS are experts at measuring generation proficiency, the business side of operations is frequently dismissed. Directing a business appraisal can be an essential instrument for measuring business execution and distinguishing regions of potential development. It’s not difficult to lose course and concentrate on regular operations, yet not taking the time to give your business an examination can put your association’s future in hazard. Leading a business evaluation assesses the wellbeing of zones that are key for development and change (Nyarko, 2010).
An alternate component hoisting the significance of surveying business operations is the need to stretch item and administration offerings. Developing new income streams that improve the estimation of print is the new mantra for the realistic correspondences industry. Firms of all sizes are looking to extend the auxiliary administrations that encompass print and the new interchanges channels that supplement it. The administrations that organizations add to improve income (e.g., promoting, getting done with, mailing, new correspondence channels) are truly differed, yet the accomplishment of any new administration development is manufactured in the beginning arranging and appraisal stages, before any ventures are made.
A Disk evaluation test helps target initiative abilities. The letters stand for predominance, intuitive, unfaltering quality and wary. The profile shows whether a worker lives up to expectations with individuals by attempting to shape their surroundings through orders, impact individuals by influence, chip in with others to accomplish things or work faithfully because of circumstances to get undertakings finished. The profile cases to help businesses construct gainful groups, upgrade deals and client benefit via preparing workers to better comprehend clients and support in representative recruitment, maintenance and preparing.
Reference
Nyarko, Y. (2010). The United Arab Emirates: Some Lessons in Economic Development (No. 2010, 11). Working paper//World Institute for Development Economics Research.
O’Connell, J. F. (2011). The rise of the Arabian Gulf carriers: An insight into the business model of Emirates Airline. Journal of Air Transport Management,17(6), 339-346.