Based on Joshua Phillips’ book “None of Us Were Like This Before”, what impact has “pop culture” (most notably television shows and movies) had on attitudes toward (and the practice of) torture by U.S. personnel since 9/11?

1) Based on Joshua Phillips’ book “None of Us Were Like This Before”, what impact has “pop culture” (most notably television shows and movies) had on attitudes toward (and the practice of) torture by U.S. personnel since 9/11? In particular, what is the “ticking bomb scenario,” and how did it affect torture-related attitudes and practices in the post-9/11 period?

2) Based on Phillip’s book,” None of Us Were Like This Before” the film “Taxi to the Dark Side”, and Study Guide Three, what are the potentially significant flaws associated with the “ticking time bomb scenario?” Supplement your analysis of these flaws with at least two illustrations drawn from Phillips’ book, the film Taxi to the Dark Side, and/or the Declaration of Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.

Explain your critical response to the topic in the library essay you selected (place, community, communication/speaking out).

Write: As part of the writing process, you are expected to reflect on your work and revise and edit accordingly. It is also useful to establish a community of learners in which you help edit and proofread each other’s papers. This reciprocal process will help you identify areas of strength and weakness in others’ writing as well as reflect on your own work and perhaps discover similar mistakes. For this week, you will be performing a peer review on your Critical Response Essay – Rough Draft.
Please view the video Posting to a Discussing Forum
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for guidance on attaching word documents in your discussion post.

For this discussion
Write a two-page, properly formatted draft (or 500 words) of your Critical Response Essay, including introduction, thesis, and support paragraphs.
Signify your working thesis by including it in bold type.
Upload your rough draft to your post and address the following:
Explain the connection between your working thesis and your support paragraphs. Based on the thesis, what should readers expect to be covered in the body paragraphs? Would this connection be clear to someone without your explanation? If so, why? If not, how can you modify your support paragraphs and/or thesis statement to make this connection clearer?
Explain how you determined the most important topic in the library essay you selected (place, community, or communication/speaking out). Would the importance of the topic be clear to someone without your explanation? If so, why? If not, what information should you add to make this connection clearer?
Explain your critical response to the topic in the library essay you selected (place, community, communication/speaking out). Would this critical response be clear to someone without your explanation?
Note any other specific challenges faced or successes experienced when writing your rough draft or completing this discussion post.

What are your thoughts on the best way to connect with the key people within the leading environmentally-focused organizations in DFW?

An Elevator Speech is an introductory statement that you can use in a variety of settings (attending a career fair, waiting in line at a coffee shop, sitting next to somebody on an airplane, sharing an elevator with somebody at work, etc.).

For this assignment, develop your own Elevator Speech. Your Elevator Speech must be personalized with your unique information and include the following key areas which are explained in more detail below:

Who am I?

Example: “Hello, my name is… and I’m a student majoring in ___________at the University of North Texas.”

What is my objective?

Example: “I am interested in building on my experience and interest in environmental sustainability with an internship in an environmentally-friendly organization.”

What are my strengths?

Example: “My UNT education taught me to think critically, write well, and make connections across various disciplines. I use those skills in my involvement within the Sustainability Advisory Committee as we work to educate the campus community to the importance of living green.”

What is my passion (or what am I interested in)?

Example: “I want to make a difference by helping people understand how their actions affect our planet.

What action/response do I want from the other person?

What are your thoughts on the best way to connect with the key people within the leading environmentally-focused organizations in DFW?

Write an article on Abortion and child support laws and why they do not favor men.

Your article should use at least one interview and also some outside research.

While the focus is up to you, your article should have a purpose. It might make an argument, explain something that most people don’t understand, make a case that something overlooked is noteworthy, or push back against conventional wisdom.

This article should be written so that it’s suitable for a general audience.

Your article should also feel timely. Why would someone want to read your article now?

What terrorist group do you believe is the greatest threat to the world today?

Read the related chapters and watch the short clips below prior to addressing the following:

What terrorist group do you believe is the greatest threat to the world today? To the United States?
What specific argument can be made that combining terrorism and other transnational crime (such as drugs and human trafficking) units together will be more effective?
Finally, based on what you have learned throughout the semester, do you believe it is possible to significantly decrease terrorist incidents? If so, how do we accomplish this?

Develop and present the specific steps you will take to help her improve her team effectiveness.

Objective: Effectively manage a team member to significantly shift her behavior to become much greater in her team effectiveness – to effectively collaborate with her five fellow team members and achieve team performance objectives.

Situation: You have a team of five reporting to you. You manage major projects for the business. Teamwork and collaboration among your team members is critical to success. Your team members all are very collaborative and work very well together, except for one team member who joined the team about 6 months ago. She is very capable and is a strong individual contributor, but has failed to work well with the team. Upon joining the team about six months ago you have continued to work with her to help her become a stronger team player and work in a partnering and collaborative manner with her fellow team members. She has stated that she wants to be more collaborative, but continues to work in an isolated and non-collaborative way with the team. You have provided guidance and coaching to her over recent weeks and she has made very limited progress. In order for your team to meet performance expectations she must greatly increase her teamwork and effectiveness. You have had serious conversations with her over the past 6 months, but now you are at a point where you must take stronger action to shift her behavior.

Note: This individual was referred to you by the Senior VP for Operations and you know he has a strong interest in her success.

Assignment: Consider this situation. Develop and present the specific steps you will take to help her improve her team effectiveness. Prepare your paper outlining and explaining your approach. What measures will you use to determine a change in her approach? Prepare as if you were going to provide your approach to your boss.

Discuss how Micheal Jackson is the best representation of my generation. explain why this particular performer/musician can be considered an icon of your generation’s dreams, fears, aspiration, goals, concern, or values and analyze the ways in which his their music resonates with people generation in many ways.

Discuss how Micheal Jackson is the best representation of my generation. explain why this particular performer/musician can be considered an icon of your generation’s dreams, fears, aspiration, goals, concern, or values and analyze the ways in which his their music resonates with people generation in many ways.Also, Michael Jackson’s Micheal Jackson music resonates with our generations in many ways.

Identify a member of the current US Congress (Eleanor Norton) who has a minority group identity .

Identify a member of the current US Congress (Eleanor Norton) who has a minority group identity
Explain his/her background and how that might be connected with his/her committee assignments (e.g. think about Davidson book on assignments and CT on EOCs policy goals). How does this member of Congress’s background differ from your group project member of Congress?

Look at his/her webpage to analyze her/his “home style” and explain how they present themselves to their constituents. Is this the way your member from the group project presented themselves to their constituents, or does it differ, and if so, explain how?

Analyze what kind of public policies he/she is proposing changes in (for example, environmental protection, climate change,health care, children, seniors, housing, criminal justice,…).

How does this person’s policy agenda differ from the member of Congress you chose for your group project (think about CT’s findings that show personal ambition is NOT why EOCs run for office.

Part 2 How is Policy Really Made: Choose a public law from a policy area that interests you.
I chose to look at was H.R.866- 116th Congress (2019-2020).

You will discuss how this bill proceeded from being introduced in the House or Senate up to final passage by both branches.

Go to www.congress.gov (Links to an external site.) and select a public law from the last thirty years (2080-2020). Click on Status of Legislation and check: Became Law.

As you research the background of this policy area, think about the problems that have occurred that requires Congress to take action on this problem.

Who introduced and (co)sponsored the bill, and speculate on why he/she identified this as a problem area needing a solution?

Which committee(s) in the House and Senate held hearings and reported it?

What were the roles of outside interests interest groups (google which groups supported/opposed the bill)?

What kind of media coverage did your bill receive (google media coverage of your bill)?