Topic: Education about proper business planning

After choosing your topic,  use this space to create a web, with your main topic in the middle and possible subtopics in the outer circles:

2. What do you already know about this topic?  Briefly make a list of the things you already know about this topic:

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3.  Make a list of all the questions you want to have answered about this topic.  Sometimes you don’t know what questions you have about a topic until you have had a chance to research it.  So over the next day or two you will need to come up with several questions you think you could answer about your subject in your paper.  List them here:

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4. It is also important to start making a list of the books and Internet sites you visit that are useful.  Start this list early as it will be important for your works cited page.

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5. Write your thesis.  A sentence like this is not acceptable: “I am going to tell you about Ernest Hemingway and his life and stuff.”  There is a certain formula to follow when creating your thesis statement:

General Topic + Limited Focus = Thesis Statement

For example, if my general topic was Ernest Hemingway and my limited topic is his involvement in WW1, then the thesis statement would be: “Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in WW1 shaped the way he would write and live for the rest of his life.”  The rest of the paper would be spent only on the things that pertain to that focus.  I would not discuss how living in Cuba affected his writing.  So now it is your turn:

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After all of this information is collected it will be time to start your outline.  What fun!

6. Creating a problem/solution outline

After narrowing your subject down, collecting some information, formulating some questions you would like to have answered and making a list of possible sources, it is time to organize your information into an outline.  The important part of an outline is remembering that all of the information that you plan on including in your research paper must support your thesis statement. 

Sources must be included in each section of the outline showing where you found the information you will be using.

Introduction (½-1 page)

Attention Getter (write this out) – could be a startling statistic/fact, an anecdote, quote, rhetorical question

Transition to thesis which explains connection between grabber and main ideas

Thesis statement-focus on emphasizing the solution to the problem in your thesis

Section 1 – Problem (1-2 pages)

Topic Sentence – Define problem (write out)

Topic Sentence – Causes/history of the problem (write out)

Topic Sentence – Seriousness/Consequences (write out)

Transition sentence to lead into the solution.

Section 2 – Solution (2-3 pages)

Topic Sentence – Solution 

Topic Sentence – Implementation 

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Conclusion (1/2-1 page)

Summary statement (write out)

Relate to the world today or future (write out)

Call to action/final thought (write out)

Hello I need help with a discussion post:

2-1 Discussion: Financial Statement Production and Milestone One

In your initial post, consider the steps in the accounting cycle. In what order do you think the financial statements should be produced? Specifically, does the position of the closing entries make sense to you as described in the textbook, or does it make more sense to produce the statements in the order described in Milestone One, in which the closing entries are completed before the income statement? Why or why not?

The Good Life

Imagine you could go back in time and give your childhood self a letter in which you explain your current view of the good and ethical life. Write a 3-4 page letter to your childhood self explaining your view of the Good in which you:

• Identify at least one philosopher who might agree with your view of the Good. Explain that philosophical ethical theory and discuss how it compares to your own views.
• Discuss how another philosopher might disagree. For example, if you discuss deontology in support of your view, utilitarianism might be a good point of contrast. Virtue and care ethics are very similar, but it would be interesting to explore their differences as well.
• Support your account of the theories with citations to the textbook and online lectures in correct APA format.

The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your beliefs about what is good by discussing how you would resolve an ethical dilemma of your choosing. In 1-2 pages, address the following:

• Identify an ethical dilemma you or someone you know has faced.
• Identify and explain the ethical philosophy from the reading that you think either should have or did inform how you resolved the dilemma. You can choose utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, care ethics, Buddhist ethics, African ethics, or existential ethics.
• Identify and explain an ethical theory that would take a different approach.