Environmental Disasters

Businesses have created a variety of environmental disasters throughout history. As the world becomes more industrialized, the potential for disaster increases. For this Discussion Board, you will explore the Exxon Valdez oil spill to see how it influenced the discussion of a companys duty to environmental stakeholders.

Click on and read the Alaska Oil Spill Commission Report:

Alaska Oil Spill Commission. (1990). Spill: The wreck of the Exxon Valdez. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/oil-spill/docs/alaska-commission-report.pdf

Who were the stakeholders in this incident? What should have been done to prevent this disaster? What responsibilities did Exxon have to future stakeholders? How did Exxon react to the disaster, and did they act responsibly before, during, and after this disaster?

Choose one of the short stories in the required reading. Reflect and respond to

Choose one of the short stories in the required reading.
Reflect and respond to one of the short stories you read by selecting one of the following prompts:
– Imagine that you could become an omniscient character in any of the pieces you have read and could change the plot somehow. Describe the piece of literature in which the character belongs, and how that character would alter the plot. Use details from the piece to note how the plot might change.
– Using a short story that you read in this unit, analyze a character who begins as a minor character, but evolves into a major character with an important role as the story progresses.
– Using a short story with which you are familiar, examine how one character influences other characters to change.
– Examine a character who embodies a dark mood.
– Examine a character who goes through a complete mental breakdown as the story progresses.
– Examine the attributes of a determined character.
You should work on answering the question as it relates to the story. How you answer the initial question in the introduction will help you to develop your thesis. There is no need to include a summary of the story, as your instructor has read the stories; instead, focus on writing a reader-response essay.
Writing Requirements
Should be 2-3 pages in length (not counting the title page and references page)
Minimum of two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook (The CSU Global Library is a good place to find these references.)
Follow correct APA guidelines

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Write in response to one of the following prompts. Create your assignment in a w

Write in response to one of the following prompts. Create your assignment in a word document, using APA format to include in-text citations (include few if any direct quotes) and references as well as a cover page. An abstract is not needed. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words (cover page and references are not included in the word count)
Sexuality Education: Why is education on sexuality important? Of what benefit is education at each stage of the human lifespan beginning with middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and late adulthood? If you would create and ideal sexuality education program, how would you balance religious beliefs, cultural belies and technical/scientific approaches?

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The goal of this assignment is for you to use your life experience as data to un

The goal of this assignment is for you to use your life experience as data to understand the nature and function of a bureaucracy.
In an essay of 1,000 words, describe an organization with which you have direct personal experience and which appears to fit the characteristics of a bureaucracy, as listed in Chapter 6 of Our Social World: An Introduction to Sociology.
Your essay should incorporate the five items listed below and show that the organization bureaucracy meets each characteristic:
Clear hierarchical levels of authority with the work assignments flowing downward
A division of labor
Written rules
Written communications and records
Impersonality
Be sure to provide a conclusion paragraph to your essay.
You must use a minimum of three scholarly sources

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