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Touchstones are projects that illustrate your comprehension of the course material, help you to refine skills, and demonstrate application of knowledge. You can work on a Touchstone anytime, but you can’t submit it for grading until you have completed the unit’s Milestone. After you’ve submitted a Touchstone, it will be graded and counted towards your final course score.

Touchstone 3: Success Narrative

ASSIGNMENT: For this Touchstone, you will be writing a 2-3 page success narrative consisting of three components. Specifically, you will write about the following:

1. Who I Am Now: Create a brief biographical statement describing your academic and professional history, as well as any relevant personal characteristics you’d like to share.
2. My Goals: Identify three (3) professional and/or academic long-term goals for your future. 
3. How I Will Get There: Based on the professional or academic goals you created, identify at least two (2) short-term steps for each of these goals, and set target dates for each of these short-term steps. Make sure that in your plan to achieve these goals, you account for obstacles that may present themselves along the way. 

Sample Touchstone

A. Directions

Step 1. Who I am Now

In this section of your narrative, write a paragraph describing your academic and professional history, and related personal characteristics.

• Share your academic background, including your field of study, notable achievements, and any professional experience you have.
• Highlight relevant personal characteristics, skills, or experiences that have shaped your journey so far.
• Consider including personal anecdotes or impactful experiences that influenced your choices.

Step 2. My Goals

In this section of your narrative, write a paragraph stating three professional and/or academic long-term goals, and provide a brief description of each goal.

• Identify three significant professional or academic aspirations you aim to achieve in the future.
• Express how these goals align with your passions, skills, and values.

Step 3. How I Will Get There

In this section of your narrative, write a paragraph describing two or more short-term actions that you can take to achieve each goal described above.

• For each of the three long-term goals, outline at least two short-term steps that will contribute to achieving them.
• Consider potential obstacles or challenges that might hinder progress toward each step.
• Provide strategies to overcome these obstacles or alternative plans if necessary.

Refer to the checklist below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until it meets these guidelines.

1. Who I Am Now
❒ Have you provided a brief biographical statement explaining your educational and career experiences thus far?
❒ Have you shared any personal characteristics (e.g., determination, flexibility) that you feel are relevant to your narrative?

2. My Goals
❒ Have you provided three long-term goals you wish to accomplish?
❒ Have you connected those goals to either your academic or professional aspirations?

3. How I Will Get There
❒ Have you identified and explained at least two short-term steps for achieving each of your three goals?
❒ Have you set target dates for each of these steps?
❒ Have you addressed any obstacles you might face in pursuit of these goals?

C. Requirements

The following requirements must be met for your submission to be graded: 

• Composition must be 2-3 pages (approximately 500-750 words), double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
• Use a readable 11- or 12-point font.
• Composition must be original and written for this assignment and all writing must be appropriate for an academic context.
• Plagiarism of any kind is strictly prohibited.
• Submission must include your name, the name of the course, the date, and the title of your composition. 
• Include all of the assignment components in a single .doc or .docx file.

Instructions

Overview

Keller and Alsdorf (2012) states, “We must love our neighbor, but Christianity gives us very specific teachings about human nature and what makes human beings flourish. We must make sure that our work is done in line with these understandings. Faithful work, then, is to operate out of a Christian Worldview” (p. 21).

The different Christian traditions “give somewhat different answers of how we should go about the task of recapturing vocation. The streams are often confusing to Christians, for they are not perfectly complementary to one another” (Keller and Alsdorf, 2012, p. 21).

In these assignments, you will reflect on some of these sentiments that Keller and Alsdorf introduces in Every Good Endeavor and explore the ethical and legal foundations of their statements as they relate to business.

Instructions

Your assignment should include two paragraphs: one consisting of a reflection, and one on the legal and ethical implications for business. 

In your reflection, you will be asked to read a peer-reviewed article relate to the topic. Then you will reflect on the prompt from Keller and Alsdorfs’ book in light of this article. In your second paragraph, you will discuss the ethical and legal implications of Keller and Alsdorfs’ statement from a business perspective. You should reference one peer-reviewed source and your Keller and Alsdorf text. You should also follow APA formatting for in-text citations. 

You will complete three different reflection assignments based on the following schedule and prompts:

Module 3: Week 3 

For the Every Good Endeavor Reflection: Shareholder Theory & Biblical Perspectives of Generosity Assignment, you will reflect on the following prompt:

“The way to serve God at work is to make as much money as you can, so that you can be as generous as you can.”

Module 5: Week 5

For the Every Good Endeavor Reflection: Stakeholder Theory & Social Justice Assignment, you will reflect on the following prompt:

“The way to serve God at work is to further social justice in the world.”

Module 7: Week 7

For the Every Good Endeavor Reflection: Cultural Engagement Assignment, you will reflect on the following prompt:

“The way to serve God is to work from a Christian motivation to glorify God, seeking to engage and influence culture to that end.”

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

For  the final assignment of the class, you will tie everything together in  an effort to build a successful restaurant with multiple locations. As  with the Week 2 assignment, you will work through a simulation titled  “Restaurant Mogul”, provide an explanation and critique of your  performance, and make comparisons to your own proposed food service  operation you have been examining since the first week of class [Industry Specialization]. Be sure to review instructions for all parts and use the Q & A forum if you have any questions.

(1) — The first part is to work through the simulation.

You can access the Restaurant Mogul simulation by clicking or by copying the following link:

ProSim – Knowledge Matters simulation

Having  completed previous assignments, you should be able to log in using the  login credentials you established when registering.

The  simulation will be on a larger scale than the week 2 assignment and you  will apply your knowledge to building a restaurant empire. You will  start by opening your first restaurant and address several key facets of  operations, such as pricing and staffing for example. Once you  establish a profitable restaurant, you will open the doors to a second  one, adding more restaurants to reach a total profit goal for the  business.

(2) — Provide an explanation and critique of simulation performance.

As with  the Week 2 simulation and assignment, you will be expected to provide a  summary of your experience. The summary will describe the scenario that  was presented to you, the decisions you had to make, and your reasoning  for the decisions you made. References are expected to support, refute,  or corroborate your perspective or reasoning. As a part of your summary,  you will need to describe the results you anticipated and what the  actual results were.

Your analysis will need to address the following simulation goals:

• Select a location based on demographics and survey data.
• Set up the business (layout, staffing, menu design, and purchasing).
• Attract customers through advertising and social media.
• Monitor ratings, messages, and financials.

Identify  relevant elements and variables, explain their significance or input,  and evaluate levels of performance and possible outcomes. The following  questions should be addressed in your analysis:

• What aspect of restaurant operations did you focus on most? Which seemed to be most important? 
• Explain your strategy for locating a new restaurant and how you go about setting it up. 
• Discuss how all the functions of a restaurant must work together in order for it to succeed. 
• What parts of the simulation were most challenging for you? And why? 
• What elements of restaurant operation were not included in the simulation?

(3) — Identify and evaluate financial data and how it can be used.

Now that  you worked through opening multiple restaurants and considering the  concept you have proposed and examined, you will select three [3]  financial performance measures identified in Week 7 [financial performance measures] and the Cost-Volume-Profit  analysis and explain how those measures could be used with the  simulation restaurant[s] and your own concept. Using the simulation and  your concept as a basis of comparison, discuss  how each measure would be used to appraise operational performance and  provide a critique of what you can learn by using the selected measures  and how they might affect business decisions, planning, and achieving  your specific objectives for your concept.

Use the Internet and personal interviews to make comparisons to existing businesses when possible.

Choose one of the topics below relevant to sexual assault. 

1.  Sexual assault in the military

2. Date Rape

3.  Marital Rape

4. Homosexual Rape

5.  Prison Rape

6.  Child sexual Assault

7.  Sadistic sexual assault

Discuss the classification of reverse logistics components and definitions of reverse logistics components in the reading. The types or processes listed and the descriptions in the textbook provide insight. Paraphrase, and cite/reference material from the class reading and library articles (for elaborating in the participating posts). Consider the components the process activities in the textbook 

The  final assignment will consist of two parts. For Part 1, you will create  the project communication plan using the project that you have worked  on during this course. For Part 2 of this assignment, you will create a  powerpoint presentation to update the stakeholders with the project status.

Instructions:

PART 1

Your project communication should contain the following information: 

• The purpose or goals of the communication plan.
• Specific information about each stakeholder and his or her role in the project.
• The types of information that needs to be shared with the specific shareholders.
• The methods used to communicate the project information.
• The frequency of the communications to each stakeholder.
• The project team member responsible for the specific project communications.

The  project communication management plan should be in a report format and  created in a Word document. The length of the plan will vary depending  on how many stakeholders you have and the communications you have  identified in your project. 

PART 2

The video will focus on the concepts that we have covered in this course. The update should include the following:

• The Project’s Vision
• Overview of the Project Charter
• Stakeholder Analysis 
• Project Integration
• Project Resources Overview
• Project Status Update 

Your  presentation should be a PPT presentation with audio,   The Word document with the project  communication management plan will also be updated to the assignment. 

Key Components to Successful Project Management Table of Contents

Abstract 

Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 

Purpose and History

Criticisms  

Project Management Offices (PMO)

Purpose and History

Criticisms  

Systems Engineering Methods (SEM) 

Purpose and History

Criticisms  

References (Minimum of five in APA 7th Edition style

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You will assume the role of an employee of an emergency manager at a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help low-income people in rural (country) and urban (city) communities. You will develop a proposal document for your supervisor proposing that the organization adopt a continuity plan. You will need to:

• Briefly explain to them what an organizational continuity program is.
• Convince them that the organization should establish a continuity program.

Your proposal should have sections covering the following topics. Each section should have a unique section header in your paper. So, your paper sections will likely have similar (but not exactly the same) titles as the sections listed below.

In your paper,

• Explain what you will cover in the proposal in your introduction.
• Discuss what a continuity program does in an organization as your background.
  • Describe organizational continuity as a concept and a process.;
  • Identify some practical considerations relative to your nonprofit in maintaining operations during disasters.
  • Identify some ethical considerations relative to your nonprofit in maintaining operations during disasters.
• Explain how social vulnerability is relevant to your stakeholder population (low-income people) during disasters.
• Discuss why your continuity program should avoid relying on disaster myths as the basis for the plan.
• Describe what types of crime increase during disasters that might be expected among your stakeholder population (low-income people).;
• Examine mental health considerations that might be relevant to your stakeholder population during disasters.
• Review what was covered as your conclusion.
  • Synthesize your key topics from the proposal.

Overall, your goal is to justify the need for a continuity program at your nonprofit. The continuity program ensures that your organization maintains operations during a disaster and continues to assist its target stakeholders (low-income communities) facing the same disaster your nonprofit is facing.

Each major section covers one of your Course Learning Objectives from this course.

The Organizational Continuity Proposal

• must be 8  pages double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) 
• must include a separate title page with the following:
  • title of paper
    • Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • student’s name
  • name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • course name and number
  • instructors name
  • due date
• must utilize academic voice
• must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
  • Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

must use at least seven scholarly, peer-reviewed sources from the required readings.

During  the last seven weeks of class, you have been asked to read several  journal articles. You have been asked to reflect on your cultural  identity as you consider the many levels that constitute your identity.  You also considered attribution, dialectics, and how all of this is  applied to intercultural communication. 

For our final assignment, you will choose four articles from  the articles you have been asked to read in class and/or from the  article list provided for the Week 6 assignment to create an Annotated Bibliography. You will complete three items for each of your four sources:

1. Reference: Complete an APA reference for each article

2. Annotation: Complete an annotation for each article.

• The  annotation is not a summary or paraphrase. In this paragraph, you will  interpret and evaluate the contents of the article itself. It is a  narrative paragraph of about 100 words providing information and  assessment about the article.

3. Reflection:  Write a reflection for each article. The reflection should connect your  intercultural communication experience(s) with information from the  article as it applies to you personally (This section only can be written in first person).

• In  this paragraph of about 100 words, relate the information that you have  evaluated in the article to your own cultural identity and intercultural  communication. This is a reflective piece where you are able to connect  the information in theory to an understanding of your own identity.

Articles

 1.  https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=comm_etds 

2.   http://ezproxy.apus.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com./login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=ehh&AN=6380590&site=ehost-live&scope=site 

3.  https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/02/10/reconsidering-the-pipeline-problem-increasing-faculty-diversity/ 

4.  http://ezproxy.apus.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com./docview/226939572?accountid=8289&rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo 

Journal #4 Topic: Reflect on a client’s situation, what from their experience could inform macro level advocacy efforts on your part or from the agency? You may also include other reflections in your journal but please ensure to speak about the topic for the journal as well. 

Be sure to utilize all headings, including paragraph headings, in your journal.  Paragraph Headings:  What, So What, Now What, Summary.

• What: State facts and observations of the event/situation. (objective)
• So What: Students to present personal thoughts, reflections, and/or feelings about the event/situation. May also include a discussion about how your perspective has changed. (subjective)
• Now What:  Based on educational knowledge already possessed or learned, how does that knowledge affect your future behavior or action in connection with the event/situation?  Clearly connect knowledge with social work practice. (see explanation below)
• Summary: Brief overview of the journal. Each heading discussion should be about the same event/situation.

Focus (discussion of Journal) may be any Topic of the Week on the Syllabus OR any experience or observation that you had during your internship at the agency. 

How to Connect knowledge to practice in your journal??  Discuss knowledge that you learned or know through your education and how you applied that to your practice in field placement.  Why are you doing what you are doing as a social worker?

Journals should be no more than 2 pages in length and double-spaced. Please use APA format for all papers; points will be deducted if the paper is not in the proper format. Here is a resource General Format – Purdue OWL® – Purdue UniversityLinks to an external site.

Note- the internship that I’m doing is currently is in a clinical therapy wellness studio. The clinic deals with clients who are suffering from Depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders. Also please make sure to write the headings.