Topic A or B

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  Pick ONE of these topics. A or B; not both:

A.  What current product or service sold in California needs more regulation? Why?

B.  Research the Cap & Trade carbon emission programs. Do you support them or not? Why? Take ONE position. I want your position and opinion NOT an analysis of pro vs. con. If unsure, ask!
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to no more than 1 full-page, single-spaced essay
Name, PID# and Title of the essay
No title page or citations required

Reading Journal 8

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All the instructions are well demonstrated in the files which I uploaded. Please BE ADVISED to carefully and closely look over all the materials (Instruction, Grading Rubric, The Sample Journal, and etc.) before starting the task to have a general idea for what to expect of this assignment, as the grader for this assignment can be quite precise.

Required Reading Materials:

Week 8: Transformations, Part 2

Mon 11/23

Takaki, Ch. 14, World War II: American Dilemmas

Takaki, pp. 339-340, The Problem of the Color Lines

Wed 11/25

Ira Katznelson, White Veterans Only (2005)

Developing Policy Stock Issues and Stock Issue Attacks

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The 1st document is the outline of the assignment, so you can write arguments in there.
I am also including samples of affirmative and negative outlines for a review.

Here are full instructions of the assignment:

This assignment is designed to assess your skill at developing a complete logical outline of appropriate claims to constitute a four-part stock issue strategy on either side of this semesters policy topic:

Resolved:  That the U.S. Constitution should be amended to abolish the Electoral College in favor of the national popular vote.

You will develop a 1-1.5 page, single-spaced logical outline of simple, single sentence claims on the Affirmative for an internally consistent, complete Affirmative case that develops these four stock issues:  significance/ill/harm, inherency/blame, solvency/cure (both that the plan is practical/feasible/workable and that it solves EACH ill identified), and either an extra advantage or a developed preemptive defense to your Negative disadvantage/cost.  The Affirmative outline will be followed (in the same document) by a 1-1.5 page, single-spaced logical outline of simple, single sentence claims constituting a Negative position that develops an attack on each of the foregoing Affirmative stock issue positons:  a significance/ill/harm attack, an inherency/blame attack, a solvency/cure attack or PMN (either that the plan is somehow not feasible/practical/ workable or that it does not substantially solve an Affirmative ill or ills), and a disadvantage/cost attack.  Be mindful of including all the necessary parts in your PMN (link, claim, reasoning, impact) and your DA (external link, internal links, uniqueness, impact) AND LABEL EACH PMN AND DA PART IN YOUR OUTLINE.  (Be aware that this is something that the main sample does not illustrate because of tighter space limits on the assignment for which the sample was prepared; look at the Negative Outline on the HIV test resolution to see a better example of PMN and DA development and labeling.)  You will NOT be inserting the evidence that supports each terminal point in the outline, BUT you should be able to produce it from a combination of your research.

Marks of a Disciple Assessment Implementation Assignment Paper

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MARKS OF A DISCIPLE ASSESSMENT IMPLEMENTATION ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW

In a previous assignment, you designed an assessment to measure the Marks of a Disciple in someones life. In this assignment, you are giving the previously designed assessment to other people and reporting the results. (Look at the uploaded paper section it is under graded paper )

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assignment, you will give that assessment to at least 5 Christians. (It is imperative that these 5 people claim to be believers in Jesus.) You can exceed this number. It is preferred that you survey people within the church you attend; however, if that is not possible, anyone will work. You can find family or friends. You can post on social media. You can go door to door. The goal is simply to get at least 5 Christians to take the assessment.

Take the results, summarize them, and submit them in the class. Include these elements:

    Your name and course number.
    How many people took your assessment?
    Describe the group of people who took the assessment. In other words, provide a brief demographic summary. This summary can be in bullet form or paragraph form. Keep it short and simple. DO NOT provide any names or identify characteristics such as places of employment or places of worship unless you change them and use pseudonyms.
    Present the total results of the assessments. Provide an average point total for each section based on the assessments that were taken. Add up the point total for a section of all the assessments and divide that by the number of assessments taken.

Thus, your submission will look something this:

Adam McClendon, DSMN 815

    12 people took the assessment.
    Of those that took the assessment: (Be clear whether you obtained this information from them or you are guessing. If you do not have this information, thats fine. Just be clear and honest.)
o    6 Caucasian, 1 Hispanic, 3 African American, 2 Unknown
o    The participants ranged in age from 32 to 55 and the average age was 43.
o    The education level of the participants is:
    2 High School only
    2 some college
    6 college graduate
    2 graduate degree
o    All participants live in Bedford County VA.
o    All participants attend the same church.

Summary of Marks    Average Total from Assessments
Mark 1:    4.5
Mark 2:    3.8
etc.   

NOTE FOR THE PAPER”

1. Look at the graded paper thoroughly for direction and to do the same survey or asking  5 people different questions that you will report. The people should be from your church for the paper please. Know guessing. The graded paper has like 6 things that you will ask them, including the new that you will add from the Mclendon example abobe.

2. Follow the example above under the instruction in Reporting it.

3. I will not extend the time for the paper, so don’t ask me for an extension pls.

4. I need a Title page and Table of content page for clarity sake, it should be done following the current Turabain Style and note that the one in the graded paper is off, but the same information is needed in it.

5. For my name in the reporting, leave it blank or put unknown, and for the course code it is DSMN 815 okay.

6. Readings which should be put at the bottom of the assignment as a Reference(s). is:

1. TEXTBOOKS TO BE READ AND CITED AMONG THE 9 SOURCES TO BE CITED

1.  Gorman, Michael J. Cruciformity: Pauls Narrative Spirituality of the Cross. Eerdmans, 2001. ISBN: 978-0802847959. (Read Chapters  9 AND 10 )

2. Whitney, Donald S. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. NavPress, 2014. ISBN: 978-1615216178. ( READ CHAPTERS 1, READ CHAPTERS 6 AND 7 )