Question 1:

For this assignment, you will be writing a statement about your dream job. I am looking for approximately 3-5 paragraphsin total. Please type your statement on a separate document and submit the assignment as a file upload or you may copy and paste your statement into the text box. Please review the sample assignments at the bottom of this page prior to starting the assignment.Imagine you have the job of your dreams! Think about what it would look like, be like, feel like... Don't worry about a specific job title or even if the job actually exists at this time---just start thinking about elements of the job that appeal to you. What kind of environment are you in? What kind of people do you interact with? How are you and your co-workers dressed? What is your day like? Try to be as specific as possible!

(I am looking for at least 5-7 sentences) Identify 3-4 general characteristics of your dream job that appeal to you.Examples: work outdoors, work in an office, work mostly with people, work mostly with information, work mostly with things, have a set schedule, have a varied schedule, can sit for long periods of time, move around a lot, etc.(2-4 sentences)

Identify 4 skills that would be part of your dream job. A skill is a goal-directed behavior that can be strengthened through practice

Examples:

• Active listening - Giving full attention to what others are saying
• Critical thinking - Using logic and reasoning to assess solutions
• Speaking - Conveying information effectively
• Instructing - Teaching others how to do something
• Service orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people
• Repairing - Fixing machines or systems with the needed tools
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of errors and deciding what to do
• Decision-making - Considering costs and benefits of potential actions and choose
• Manage financial resources - Determining how money will be spent

Other examples: Managing resources, time management, systems analysis, equipment maintenance, monitoring, technology design, negotiation, active learning, reading comprehension, complex problem solving, persuasion, social perceptiveness, etc. (2-4 sentences)

What PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS would you like to demonstrate in your dream job? A personal characteristic describes the kind of person you are or the personal qualities you have and are usually identified by an adjective. Examples: Being persistent, a good listener, confident, enthusiastic, productive, organized, humorous, detail-oriented, decisive, creative, analytical, entertaining, patient, etc. (2-4 sentences)

Briefly describe any other elements that you would like to be part of your dream job

Examples: I want my dream job to allow me to...

• directly help people and have a positive impact on their lives, or
• motivate other people to do a good job, or
• advance to higher levels of responsibility, or
• be looked up to and respected, or
• use logic to solve problems, or
• constantly learn new things, etc.

(2-4 sentences)

What kind of yearly or monthly salary would you hope to make in your dream job? How many years of training and/or education would you be willing to commit in order to pursue your dream job? What level of education would you expect your dream job to require? (2-4 sentences)

Question 2:

here is the link for the assignment NERIS Type Explorer personality assessment (Links to an external site.)

For this assignment you will first need to take the NERIS Type Explorer personality assessment (Links to an external site.). This is a free assessment and will take approximately 10-15 minutes. Please be yourself and answer all questions honestly even if you don't like the answer. Once you have completed the assessment, view your "Results." You will need to answer all questions highlighted. You may submit this assignment as a text entry or file upload.

Please identify the following: Type: , Code: , Role:, Strategy:See example below that demonstrates how to identify your type, code, role, and strategy.Now you will spend more time learning about your "type" by clicking on "personality types" and select your "type." Please read through all tabs underneath Explore your Type paying close attention to the introduction, strengths & weaknesses, career paths, and conclusion.

After reading through the information related to your type, answer the following questions:

1. How well do you believe your results match your personality? Provide at least one or two examples to support your belief. (3-5 sentences)

Identify one strength and one weakness that relate to your type and provide an example of each. (3-5 sentences)

Question 3:

MLA STYLE

HEADING AND TITLES

lIn the upper left-hand corner of your first page, begin about one inch from the top and flush with the left margin. Write your name your instructor's , the course title, and th date each on a separate line,with double spacing between the lines. After another double space, center the title in the middle of the page. Do not underline your title or put it in quotation marks or all caps.

MARGINS AND INDENTATION

Set your margins at one inch from the top and bottom, and left and right, of your text. Indent the first word of a paragraph by one-half inch.

PARENTNETICAL CITATION

When you need to cite a reference mid-text (a quotation, for example), you should use the author-page style of citation. All you need is the author's name and /or the page number (s) where the quotation or information is found. You can put this citation in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number (s) should always be in parentheses. The full citation should be on your works cited page. Here are two examples:

The Format of a Parenthetical Citation

In the Great Gatsby's final sentence, Fitzgerald writes "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (189) tidily summing up the futility inherent in the pursuit of the American Dream. Or you can cite the title of the work- A literary critic has said The Great Gatsby reveals that the American Dream was mere nostalgia for a time that never was. (Readerman, 217)

SPACING- Double -space your paper

throughout. Leave one space aftaer periods or other end-punctuation marks.

PAGE NUMBERS - On each page, in the upper right-hand corner, one-half inch from the top and flush with the right margin, write your last name followed by a space and then the page number.

WORKS CITED - As you prepare to write your paper, keep accurate records of all the sources you use. At the end of the paper, you will need to provide a Works Cited page that lists all your sources. These sources should be listed alphabetically by the author's last name, on a separate page at the end of your paper. At the top of that page , one inch from the top write the words "Works Cited" centered in the middle of the page. After a double space, begin your entries flush with the left margin. Double-space between entries. For entries that require more than one line, indent every line after the first by on-half inch. Use the following formats:

For Books: Author's full name (last name first). Full title in italics or underlined (including any subtitle). City of publication: publishers's name, year.

Sample: Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Capricorn, 1959.

For Magazine or Newspaper Articles: Author's full name (last name first). "Title of articles" ( in quotation marks). Title of periodical in italics or underlined Day Month (if there is one) page number.

Sample: Bahrampour, Tara. "War comes to Guernsey Street." The New York Times 30 Mar. 2003:B1.

For Electronic Source: Author's full name ( if there is an author listed). "Title of the document." Name of the Web site in italics or underlined. Date of publication or last update. Project or source that sponsored or created the work. Date when you accessed the site, Internet address, or URL .

Sample: "Study: Bottlenecks choking U>S> roadways." CNN.com 19 Feb. 2004. Cable News Network. 19 Feb. 2004 .

Your Turn - Directions: Write a Works Cited page for your term paper on Extraterrestrials. You found several reliable sources. Make sure your cite them using MLA Guidelines.

1. A book by A. Lien, called "The Green Planet." It was published in 2040 by Marshalls, a publisher based in Marsville.

2. A magazine article from Cosmospolitan entitled "Is There Life on Earth?" The article, by I.B.Leeve, appeared on page 33 of the August 2042 issue.

3. A newspaper report, "First Earth Landing Postponed." This appeared on the front page of the Mars Times on March 12, 2043. The reporter's name was U. Wait.

4. A Web site called " Alien Profiles, sponsored by the University of Marsville. You visited the site on March 11, 2043. It was established in 2042. The pate you looked at was entitled "Carbon-based life-forms." Here's the URL:

http://www.umars.edu/aliens/carbonoids.html

Refer to the information provided to edit your entries.

Question 4:

Unscrambling a paragraph can help you measure your ability to organize ideas and present them logically. The sentences that follow are actually a paragraph in scrambled order. Each sentence in the group has a place in the paragraph; no sentence is left out. Read the sentences and decide how to arrange them so as to form and write a well-organized paragraph.

P Yet in the years preceding the Second World War, southern farmers had serious problems.

Q Poor farming practices -- especially that of planting only one crop-- had exhausted the once fertile soil.

R They are fortunate in having wide plains, warm weather, and plenty of rainfall.

S In the 1030"s the government undertook programs to help Southern farmers to reclaim their land as good farm land.

T The Southern states should be excellent farming areas.

Question 5:

Prompt: In a five (5)- paragraph essay, discuss how William March uses an allegory to define the Unique Quality of Truth. Cite three direct references/quotations from the allegory to support your contention. Include two Sentence Patterns . Label and highlight the patterns. Tip: Do not retell the plot; discuss the thought.

Prewriting Activities: Answer the following questions which will help you answer the prompt more effectively..

• Define the word "Allegory".
• Read Read William March"s allegory below.
• Define Truth's unique quality.
• List the characteristics which Truth has; and does not have.
• More Pointedly, What is the quality that characterizes Truth which the scholar seeks to know?
• You will arrive at your answer based on what Truth does in the Allegory.
• You may develop and clarify your response by using a hypothetical or real example.

"The Unique Quality of Truth". -- William March

When the old scholar heard that Truth was in the country, he decided to find her, as he had devoted his life to studying her in all her forms. He knocked on the door, and Truth asked what he wanted.The scholar explained who he was, adding that he had always wanted to know her and wondered a thousand times what she really was like. Truth came to the door soon afterwards, and the scholar saw that the pictures he had formed of her in his imagination was wrong.He had thought of Truth as a gigantic woman with flowing hair who sat nobly on a white horse, at the very least , as a sculptured heroic figure with a wide white brow and untroubled eyes. In reality, Truth was nothing at all like that; instead, she was merely a small shapeless old woman who seemed made of some quivering substance that resembled India rubber. "All right," said the old lady in a resigned voice. "What do you want to know?" "I want to know what you are." "The old lady thought, shook her head, and answered, "That I don't know. I couldn't tell you to save my life." "Then have you any special quality that makes you an individual?" asked the scholar. Surely you must have some characteristic that is uniquely yours. "As a matter of fact, I have," said the old lady; then, seeing the question on the scholar's lips, she added, "I'll show you what I mean. It's easier than trying to explain." The shapeless old woman began to bounce like a rubber ball, up and down on her doorstep, getting a little higher each time she struck the floor. When she was high enough for her purpose, she seized the woodwork above her door and held on; then she said, "Take hold of my legs and walk back the way you come, and when you know what my unique quality is, shout and let me know ."The old scholar did as he was told racking his brains in an effort to determine what quality it was that distinguished Truth. When he reached the road he turned around and there in the distance was Truth still clinging to the woodwork above her door. "Don't you see by this time? she shouted "Don't you understand now what my particular quality is? ""Yes," said the old scholar. "Yes, I do." "Then turn my legs loose and go on home," said Truth is a small petulant voice.