Provide a detailed response to ONE OR MORE of the following questions:

1). As it concerns elections, are interest groups or political parties more influential in affecting the outcome?

2). On balance, do you believe that interest groups are good for our democracy? Or, are they harmful? Provide an example of an interest group whose work has had a positive, or negative, impact on the nation.

3). When you hear the term “lobbyist”, what comes to mind?

4). The founding fathers warned against the formation of ‘factions’. Would our Democracy be better and stronger without political parties? Or, should there be MORE parties actively involved in the political process, as is the case in many European Parliamentary systems (Links to an external site.)?

5). Do “Political Action Committees” have a corrupting influence on our democracy? Or, are they simply a necessary and important part of our democratic system of government and politics – one component of a pluralistic political system?

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9.00 Module 9 Overview (READ)

To-Do Date: Apr 26 at 11:59pm

This module will focus your attention on one of the rhetorical appeals, the one that is most important in academic writing, appeal to reason, also known as rational appeal, or logos. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (Links to an external site.), whose work lay the foundations for Western scholarship, distinguished the three appeals that rhetors (Links to an external site.) need to consider: logos, pathos, and ethos. Pathos is an emotional appeal; appealing to human feelings helps writers or public speakers persuade their audience. Ethos is an appeal to the writer’s character, her or his credibility. Authors establish their character/credibility not so much by their credentials as by their ability to demonstrate their knowledge about the subject and their good intentions in dealing with that subject so that they will earn the reader’s trust. (Students establish their ethos by appropriately using and documenting their sources, even by following the required formatting style, such as APA, MLA, etc.) Logos is the Ancient Greek for “word,” “knowledge,” “wisdom.” Logos is used in the opening verse of the Gospel According to Saint John, which was originally written in Ancient Greek: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The discipline of logic also derives its name from logos, and so do various other branches of knowledge, for example, biology (life science).

A reminder: Do not confuse rhetorical appeals with rhetorical strategies; the former are more general concepts that indicate the sphere of application (the reader’s mind or heart) in which persuasion is attempted. The latter represent more specific efforts of a writer to persuade the reader.

Some writers, intentionally or unintentionally, misuse or abuse rhetorical appeals, especially logos, and these missteps, known as fallacies, will also be discussed in this module.

Another feature that you will learn is a practical model of an argument offered by the British-American scholar Stephen Toulmin, who “updated” the Aristotelian model of the 4th century BCE; it will help you to organize your research-based argument for the term paper.

I have attached the instructions. 3-4 full pages double spaced, please. PLEASE FOLLOW THE ATTACHED INSTRUCTIONS.

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PSYC 203, Assignment: Comparing Career Sequences

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Objective: To identify differences in motivation, strategies of career development, and social contexts that have influenced individuals’ current positions and preferences in employment and to analyze in terms of what we have learned aboutthese topics in our course.

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Directions: You will be comparing your own career development and plans with two other individuals from different points of the life span than yourself.

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Identify one individual from two different cohort groups. You can choose from the following 5 groups: 20-29 years; 30-39 years; 40-49 years; 50-59 years; 60 and over. You will be able to see good differences if you have people from different generations, and it will make your assignment much easier! Remember, don’t pick someone close to you in age, you will be that third person in the assignment!

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Create a questionnaire that can be administered in a personal interview. You may use your text to help you generate questions. You will gather this information from yourself and the other two people you chose.

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Here are some guidelines: (you are not limited to these!)

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1. When you were in high school, what jobs or careers did you think about pursuing?

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2. What influenced those choices? Financial ability, family circumstances, parents, peers, past educational experience, educational opportunities, gender, ethnicity, geography, other? Did you have a choice?

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3. What kind of advice/information about career planning was available to you in secondary school? How easy was it to obtain? Did you take advantage of what was offered?

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4. How would you rate your secondary education?

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5. What further education did you receive? (if attended or completed college, find out area of study)

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6. What educational experience did you have to begin working at each of the jobs you have had?

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7. Has/Have your employer(s) paid for subsequent educational preparation?

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8. How many jobs have you had so far? How many do you expect to have over your work life? What influenced you to stay at or leave each of the jobs?

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9. What is your current job?(f you are interviewing someone who is retired, ask them about their last job).

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10. How many hours per week do you typically work?

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11. What are your favorite three leisure activities: How often do you engage in these activities?

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12. What would you have done differently if you had all options available to you?

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13. Of all the jobs you have had, which was the most satisfying? Why?

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14. When do you intend to retire? What will you do during retirement? (adjust appropriately if person has retired-ask what influenced decision/timing of retiring)

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Analysis: Remember, this is a key part of your paper. Here you want to tell me what the responses to your interviews suggested. Did the people you interviewed follow jobs or careers identified during adolescence? What were the major influences for each individual’s career choices? Were outcomes differences characterized between cohort groups? How can you connect what you found out from your respondents to what your text has to say on this subject? Make sure not to overlook this last part- you need to make connections to what we are studying. You need scholarly citations and references to our text and/or other scholarly work that supports your analysis. You need a minimum of two such academic references from peer reviewed journals. This is what will elevate your paper form merely being a collection of interviews to an academic paper.

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Please note: Your paper needs to be typed, double spaced in Times New Roman, 12 pt font), with one inch margins which is APA format

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Spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure do count! Careless errors just detract from your work. If this is an area of challenge for you, please make use of the services offered by the Writing Center. They can be accessed virtually!

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Point Value: 75 points