...As we sit in the theatre’s lobby at the University of Illinois in Springfield, the nerves and tension begin to settle in all of us. Most were either playing cards or gossiping about the other shows. The rest of us were quietly thinking about the fate of our show. As our coach came out of the office, we headed outside. He holds up a small piece of paper and flips it over. We all start screaming, hugging each other. My greatest success is being the stage manager for a state winning theater program. “Hey, Tom you ready for the play this year?” My coach Mr. Wargin says as I walk into the little theatre. “Of course! It’s my senior year, it is going to be the best year for us, I promise!” As the other stage managers and I stand on the stage taking attendance and pass out the calendar of practices and events, Mr. Wargin tells us a game plan. “We meet every Tuesday and Thursday; occasionally we’ll have a Saturday where we work all day. We’ll use those Saturdays for when we are falling behind and need to finish big projects that we can’t finish during the school week. We provide lunch if you come, and it is greatly appreciated if you do.” He continues to say, “We have two sets to build, one for each play, and we have about a month and a half to complete both”. He explains that our contest play is “The Picnic” and we are going to build two houses, with faux grass, something we have never done before. Our other show, the group interpretation, is “A League of Their Own”. This show...
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...INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION TOPIC REPORT This assignment is worth 20 points The purpose of this report is to: 1. Focus your efforts on selecting an informative presentation topic 2. Assist you in refining your chosen informative topic 3. Encourage you to begin the research process 4. Demonstrate audience adaptation The report must be: Typed Single-spaced At least 1 full page Stapled (if more than 1 page) The template should be left intact Answer the writing prompts in as much detail as possible. Address each point with a well-developed paragraph (unless otherwise indicated). Failure to elaborate on ideas will result in a zero on the assignment. This assignment MUST be turned in to receive formal approval of your topic. Topics will not be approved verbally or via email. Students with topics not formally approved by the instructor will not be allowed to deliver their presentation, resulting in a zero. If the Informative Presentation is not delivered, it will not be possible to pass the course If your final product does not meet the minimum requirements listed above, it will not be graded and a score of zero will be assigned. This assignment cannot be resubmitted for credit. INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION TOPIC REPORT 1. Describe in detail the specific topic you wish to present. Will you be able to cover this topic adequately in 5-7 minutes? I will give my informative presentation on the reality of dreams. I will talk about how the...
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...reviewed scholarly journal that looked at stroke incidence statistics, demographics, pathophysiology, etiology, and nursing care of patients with stroke. According to Casey, “stroke is the leading cause of disability and second most cause of death worldwide.” Stroke is becoming more common affecting people from all walks of life including young adults. Statistics also suggest that the number of strokes will continue to rise due to lack of access to prompt medical care in low and middle-income countries. An increasing world population, environmental factors, cultural factors, lack of health care, and social depravation in the elderly all contribute to higher incidence of stroke. The risk factors...
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...Human Factor and User Interface Assignment 1 For the Air Macao web site, I have described some comments which are in positive and negative ways. Positive things: 1. Strive for consistency: Using consistent font size and color in each area on the home page. Web sites use consistent layout in the same languages. 2. Cater to universal Usability: A new web site for those cities which “Air Macao” has the flight line provides their local language. For example: It provides Korean, Chinese and English. 3. Offer informative feedback: When purchasing flight tickets, this requires people to input their personal information. On the “Online Booking” page step 4, it requires users to fill-in personal information. If you entered something wrong, a dialog will be shown to tell user which item’s inputs are wrong. 4. Design dialogs to yield closure: On the “Online Booking” page, whenever users purchase tickets, it tells that there are six steps (procedures) to complete a transaction in the beginning. When you finished step one, it indicates you to the second step, step by step. 5. Prevent error: For the user’s input data, when users who want to purchase/book tickets, it provides 2-D menu calendars and drop-down lists for those cities “Air Macao” provides flight line on the “Online Booking” page. 6. Permit easy reversal of actions: When purchasing tickets on the “Online Booking” page, it provides a “Last Step” button on the bottom of the web page for users to redo...
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... Essays earning a B-grade typically were considered for an A-grade, but missed the mark of excellence of the A- papers in either content (examples) and/or style (conventions, sentence fluency, word choice). C = 70-79: These essays demonstrate an understanding of the assignment by providing a maxim and at least two good examples of its application. The essay most often suffered from some grammatical and/or usage problems, including simple sentence constructions that did not show relationships between ideas. The essays may contain redundancy and “filler,” providing multiple sentences that say, essentially, the same thing; ideas are not developed as much as restated. D = 60-69: These essays attempted to address the writing prompt, but lapsed into informative essays regarding topics or people related to the maxim. Essays in the “D” range may or may not have had good sentence structures and conventions. The writers of these essays did not explain their chosen maxim with several examples and non-examples. These essays may be noticeably short (less than a...
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...presentation follow and perform the following tasks: Step | Instructions | 1 | Start with a topic that has purpose. Decide the topic; will the topic be persuasive or informative. | 2 | Explain what the topic of your oral report is, who you are, and who the audience should imagine they are. Make sure that there is a clean break in between the explanation and the beginning of the actual oral report. | 3 | Give an overview of the reports contents, an introduction that keeps the interest of the audience. Stay organized. | 4 | Use (limited) visuals that are not too animated or distracting. Keep the visuals relevant to the topic. Use the 7X7 rule for the written content. | 5 | For the oral presentation keep the speaking style normal and with a consistent tone. Be sure that you are loud enough so that the report is heard clearly, do not speak too fast, and keep the tempo slow. Be aware not use words like "uh," "you know," and "okay." Avoid slang and text terminology. | 6 | End the report with a conclusion. Use a conclusion that can summarize and go back over the high points of what has been discussed. In the conclusion give a logical conclusion based on what has been presented, provide some last thought, and end with some final interesting point but general enough not to require elaboration. | 7 | Prompt the audience for questions and concerns – be prepared to answer the audience with facts and subject authority. |...
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...Name: Course: Title: Date: Are Young Teens Ready To Raise Children On Their Own? Introduction Visual texts are widely accepted as being very informative owing to the saying that “pictures speak for themselves”. However, a lot of caution must be taken especially in the analysis of visual images as these images are prone to manipulations so that the objective they are meant to achieve can be met. Reading visual text requires one to understand, do proper interpretation and finally analyse. In the visual text we are seeking to analyse, we shall seek to ask ourselves certain questions in order to find out whether its objective is met. Source of text Our visual text of analysis is an advertisement of a young kid on one of the media; probably the television. In the visual text, there is some writing that accompanies the image that delivers the message of the disturbed kid to the mother. The writings seek to establish whether the mother of this kid has the capacity to bring up the kid in a situation where parents are not together. So how far for the teens is too far? The complementing message touches on a very crucial issue that requires all the affected parties to contribute. The question is “will you make it on your own?” Let us examine this in our analysis: The Body It is interesting to read the comments the kid is making to the mother. The kid appears to have a very clear and firm resolve that the mother will not manage to fully support her when the dad withdraws. As...
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...strategy for accomplish those objectives, and indicates how the firm can determine whether the campaign was successful. Generally, in advertising to consumers, the objective is a pull strategy Pull strategy- designed to get consumers to pull product into the supply chain by demanding it Push Strategies- designed to increase demand by focusing on wholesalers, retailers, salespeople. These campaigns attempt to motivate the seller to highlight product, rather than the product of competitors, and thereby push the product to consumers. 1.) Informative Advertising Informative Advertising is the communication used to create and build brand awareness, with the ultimate goal of moving the consumer through the buying cycle to purchase. Such advertising helps determine some important early stages of a product’s life cycle, particularly when consumers have little information about the specific product or type of product. Retailers often use informative advertising to tell their customers about an upcoming sales event or the arrival of new merchandise When product has gained a certain level of brand awareness Persuasive Advertising Persuasive advertising used to motivate consumers to take action usually occurs in the growth and early...
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...Surname 1 Name: Course: Title: Date: Are Young Teens Ready To Raise Children On Their Own? Introduction Visual texts are widely accepted as being very informative owing to the saying that “pictures speak for themselves”. However, a lot of caution must be taken especially in the analysis of visual images as these images are prone to manipulations so that the objective they are meant to achieve can be met. Reading visual text requires one to understand, do proper interpretation and finally analyse. In the visual text we are seeking to analyse, we shall seek to ask ourselves certain questions in order to find out whether its objective is met. Source of text Our visual text of analysis is an advertisement of a young kid on one of the media; probably the television. In the visual text, there is some writing that accompanies the image that delivers the message of the disturbed kid to the mother. The writings seek to establish whether the mother of this kid has the capacity to bring up the kid in a situation where parents are not together. So how far for the teens is too far? The complementing message touches on a very crucial issue that requires all the affected parties to contribute. The question is “will you make it on your own?” Let us examine this in our analysis: Surname 2 The Body It is interesting to read the comments the kid is making to the mother. The kid appears to have a very clear and firm resolve that the mother will not manage to fully support her when the dad...
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...Integrating Technology • Assignment prompt One: Discuss the powerful movements that transformed European society during the early modern era. Briefly describe the origin of each, and how it affected society as a whole. • Assignment prompt Two: Trace the development of the slave trade. Under what circumstances did the slave trade begin? How did the Islamic Slave Trade change the existing system? How did it change again during the Atlantic Slave Trade? Finally, what impact did slave trade have on Africa and the Western world? • Assignment prompt Three: Discuss the emergence of Islam. Who was the founder and what was his background? What are the key beliefs of Islam? Compare it to other religions that existed at the time of its development. What...
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...affect policing in the future, and changes which might need to be prepared for efficiently addressing these serious issues towards policing. Trends affecting Policing According to the Walker & Katz (2010), “there are five extents of policing where current trends possess long-standing and profound effect towards police force and agencies. It includes police technology, research, employment practices in law enforcement, the war on terrorism and demographic change” (Walker & Katz, 2010). Today, the most persuasive change takes place towards policing is concerned with information technology. To deliver information the public; various police enforcement agencies are utilizing the internet, using cell phones for communication; and to retrieve prompt facts and figures; they utilize mobile computers. A police manager and professional in police related technology, Jim Chu notifies that, “four foremost applications which are of concerns to police enforcement agency of future are: computer aided dispatch (CAD), information and database technology, mobile computing and record management system” (Walker & Katz, 2010). Moreover, the significant innovation towards police criminal fighting is COMPSTAT which facilitates with accurate and timely facts on disorder and crime. Another technology is Early Intervention systems that contain computerized records and performance data of every officer. Likewise, there is a significant approach to identify...
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...Target is a company that competes in the department store industry. So, the first step to increase primary demand size in the department store industry would be to form some kind of mutual agreement with its competitors. This would enable them to function together as a team with the intention of developing a marketing strategy to increase demand size for the entire industry. For instance, Target Corporation and the rest of the department store companies would develop a marketing campaign where they would communicate to consumers the advantages of buying and choosing department stores over online stores, discounted department stores, along with other competitors of the department store industry. Also, marketers would generate informative advertisements...
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...journal on national issues I imagined they were good. I wrote them like I’d written previous responses and essays so when I turned them in I was confident about getting a good grade. Then you gave them back and I soon realized this class was a whole different ball game than previous years. You asked questions on those papers, about how I knew who the author was addressing and how I knew an author was doing something, that to this day I still have trouble answering. This class made question my academic writing. If it weren’t for all the scheduled peer review days my work probably would have been a bunch of mix matched paragraphs with no real connection to each other let alone the prompt we were addressing. But I have noticed that over time my writing has seemed to improve. I somehow learned how to address prompts properly and learned to use quotes to improve my writing instead of just randomly picking one and attempting to use it to justify my...
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...and edit it if need be. Another form of internet communication that we used was Facebook. We used this to locate members when email responses were not available by messaging a member. Text messaging by phone was also used in the process of setting up meetings. After communicating through emails and texting, our group met up at the library and met face-to-face to discuss the project. During our meetings at the library we discussed how we were going to split up the project, and decide what type of non-profit organization we are going to do. As a group we worked together to come up with our company proposal of City-Reach, (the organization we created), along with an informative report and presentation. The group meetings were very productive in completing our assignment and working well as a team. The group was prompt and diligent in getting the tasks at hand covered when we met. Our group was also very good at working separately at home and communicating through emails to make sure we had everything done in time. I think that our group did an excellent job of mass communicating and working around everyone’s busy schedule. Reflection: In this project our group used all different types of communication. The source of communication I preferred best when setting up times to meet was either email or text message. I get both on my phone instantly so it was a very effective way for me to communicate with my group. Once it came to working on the project I preferred working...
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...Impact Of Technology Advancement On Education Introduction : Technology has certainly changed the way we live. It has impacted the different facts of life and redefined living. Undoubtedly, technology plays an important role in every sphere of life. Several mundane manual tasks can be automated, thanks to technology. Also, many of the complex and critical processes can be carried out with ease and efficiency with the help of modern technology. Thanks to the manifold positive effects of technology, the fields of education and industry have undergone a major change and sure, they have changed for the better. Computers and the Internet technology have revolutionized the field of education. The importance of technology in schools cannot be ignored. In fact, with the onset of computers in education, it has become easier for the teachers to render knowledge and for the students to grasp it. The computer technology is used to add a fun-element to education. And it goes without saying that the Internet has endowed education with interactivity. The computers offer an interactive audio-visual media. PowerPoint presentations and animation software can be used to render information to the students in an interactive manner. The visual effects provided by the animation and presentation software result in inviting greater interest from the students. Moreover, these software serve as visual aids to the teachers. Overhead projectors and screens facilitate a simultaneous viewing of information...
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