I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Education. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Communication with Families In the first paragraph of the speech, the teacher does demonstrate some sensitivity to her audience. First of all, she thanks them for coming to Back-to-School Night. Working evenings is an important part of being a teacher. We grade papers and make lessons plans, and sometimes come back to school for meetings – but hardly anyone enjoys leaving their home after dinner to come back to work. Instead of feeling inconvenienced by having to attend the meeting, the teacher demonstrates that the parents’ time is also valuable, and that the school is grateful to have their participation in the event. Also, the teacher has provided translators for parents whose first language is not English. Since “translators” is plural, it is possible the teacher arranged for translators of more than a single language to be present at the meeting. Also, the teacher announces a willingness to stay late one day a week until 8:00 PM.

Showing sensitivity to parents provides instant benefits. Thanking attendees for their presence is a basic element in many addresses, because it focuses attention on the audience and the effort they made to get to the meeting. As Mendoza (2003) notes, geographic distances can be difficult for some parents to cross so they can get to school events. By providing translators, the teacher is indicating an understanding that language barriers might exist and need to be addressed. This action says, “Those of you who can’t speak English deserve to know this, too.” The teacher’s willingness to stay late once a week would positively affect parents who could not make it to the school during regular school hours. Mendoza (2003) cites a study that showed how the structure of the school day limited information exchange to transition periods. A meeting at 6:00 PM would be more peaceful and productive for both parties than a hurried exchange in the parking circle at 3:00 PM.

While the speaker clearly has good intentions, the speech is not without examples of insensitivity. The teacher states, “E-mail is one of the best ways for us to communicate!” This is only true for homes with Internet access, though. Students in households with low incomes might not have such access. Also, while the teacher has not peppered the speech with jargon, it is still not free from confusing vocabulary such as “state education office,” “national standards,” and “country reports,” though she does make an attempt to explain her “disclosure document” (there has got to be a friendlier name for that!).

Such insensitivity can immediately turn parents off. They may feel badly if they have no home computer – it may seem like, without one, their children are starting off behind the others. The statement makes it seem like a home computer is standard, and something could be wrong with your home if you do not have one. Using confusing vocabulary tells parents the teacher is a poor communicator and incapable of knowing the needs of other language speakers (Mendoza, 2003).

The teacher could have easily found other ways to show sensitivity. For instance, at no point did the teacher ask parents what they needed to promote their children’s success in the upcoming school year. Also, the teacher could have offered specific ways for parents to be involved. Parents could be made aware of opportunities to tutor, guest speak, act as translators, or which school clubs needed advisors. Mondoza (2003) notes a study wherein Hispanic parents grew increasingly frustrated over their school’s inability to provide this information.

The role of parents in a child’s education is paramount to that student’s success. No one knows more about a child’s strengths, abilities, history, and potential than parents. As a teacher, I will facilitate parental input in my classes by finding ways to stay after school for parents who can not come to school during regular hours (Mendoza, 2003), and to keep my communications with parents free of jargon, filled with easy-to-understand vocabulary, and at a suitable reading level (Mendoza, 2003).

Reference

Mendoza, J. (2003). Communicating with parents. Clearinghouse on early education and parenting. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved July 23, 2008, from http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/2003/mendoza03.

 

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Drought issues/ other necessities for food plan(security). Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Due Food Sustainability in Tanzania Most of us living in the United s today do not know what is like to be unable to eat, because there is simply no food to eat, more so, there may not be food the next day, or the next. However, in place, like Tanzania, this is a very real issue. High poverty rates have contributed to serious malnutrition in children as young as five years old, which are, often, as much as, 22% under weight. (Rapaport, 2011) Much of the great poverty that has occurred in Tanzania is a result of failed crops, primarily due to seeds that cannot withstand drought conditions. There is, also, issues of limited or inefficient food storage, lack of a stable infrastructure, and a Iimited availability of receiving credit when times are lean.(“Tanzania seeds: Disaster,” 2012) In a country where it may only rain 5 times in a given season finding crops that will withstand Tanzania’s drought climate is essential.

Many initiatives have been established to participate in solving this problem and improving the agricultural crisis occurring in Tanzania. The Food and Agriculture Organization, FOA, developed the “Disaster Response and Preparedness to Drought” project, donating large quantities of sustainable seeds that will grow into healthy crops. They, also, set up a trade market allowing framers to gain vouchers, based on their economic need, and provided them with, not only seed, but also, tools and farm implements, which, of course, will make planting and harvesting of their crops more efficient and, likely, more successful. In turn, the crops these farmers now plant will produce more sustainable seeds that these farmers can then sell at trade fairs in other parts of the country. (“Tanzania seeds: Disaster,” 2012) Global Services Corps is an organization that gathers volunteers who are interested and eager to travel to countries, like Tanzania, with a program called the “Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security Services Learning Program.” As a volunteer with this program, participants will help in the teaching of communities in positive and sustainable agricultural solutions. The volunteers will interact with the local peoples to learn bio-intensive agriculture, like composting and small organic farming, sack gardens, a means for families with limited space to grow a garden that will improve their diets, poultry vaccinations, and catching rainwater. There are two, particularly, important lessons valuable to the people of Tanzania. The first, is implementing improved grain storage, which prevents unnecessary grain loss. The second, is the need for food drying techniques, which allows items to be properly dried, stored, and prepared later or in times when food is limited.(“Gsc sustainable agriculture,” 2008)

In the end, the different organization participating and, in some cases, collaborating to decrease the level of poverty and aid Tanzanian farmers to grow sustainable crops once again is very worthwhile. More importantly, as discussed in the video, the point is not to create a Tanzania completely and perpetually dependent upon outside monies or seed donations, but, instead, allowing them to harvest the new seeds the crops yield, they can sustain their crops and benefit from the sale of future seeds. (“Tanzania seeds: Disaster,” 2012) These sorts of programs are making it possible for Tanzania farmers to become, eventually, self sustaining and capable of feeding their families and contributing to their local economies, as well. Hunger and starvation is a significant and tragic occurrence. It is quite moving and inspiring to see that so many organizations, government agencies, and volunteers working to end this kind of tragedy in Tanzania and all over the world.

References

Rapaport, G. (2011, April 1). [Web log message]. Retrieved from

http://blog.usaid.gov/2011/04/feed-the-future-initiative-in-tanzania-–-a-sustainable-agricultural-and-food-security-approach/

Gsc sustainable agriculture & food security program in tanzania. (2008). Retrieved from

http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/tanzania-agriculture-and-food/

Tanzania seeds: Disaster response and drought preparedness [Web series episode].

(2012). In FAO: Disaster response and Drought preparedness. You Tube.

Retrieved from http://www.youtube.

 

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Discuss the theoretical principles behind Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its practical influence on marketing mix decisions. Use appropriate examples to illustrate your thoughts. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. processes. when these three aspects are taken into account, an organisation can get an in-depth information about its customers and achieve even higher levels of customer loyalty and increased profitability.

The primary role of CRM is to engage each customer in a valuable exchange of dialogue that will help a company to customize its product or service offerings in ways that will ensure that the customers are attracted, cordial relations with them are developed and they can be retained for long time by offering them appealing and attractive packages of high quality and innovative preferred offerings on an ongoing basis (Yim, Anderson & Swaminathan, 2004).

CRM allows the companies to emphasize on the areas that are important for the customers by monitoring their behaviour as it gives insights about their varying needs, demands and preferences. When a valuable pool of data is gathered, an organisation can successfully offer a service to its customer that exceeds his/her expectation level. in order to make successive progression, the company will have to employ the mechanisms that will improve the service excellence such as using multiple communication channels like sales and marketing.

Since CRM is an organisation wide strategy, it is important that its business strategy comprises of a specific target market that it will be focusing on for attracting the customers, developing long-term relations with them and then taking adequate measures to make them loyal to the company for a long period. According to Kim, Zhao and Yang (2008), the essence of CRM theory has its origination from three important notions of marketing management i.e. relationship marketing, customer orientation and database marketing. As the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has enhanced, all three marketing views are merged together in the CRM model (Roberts, Liu & Hazard, 2005).

 

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Differential Treatment. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. One major way racial profiling prevail is during traffic stops and searches. In an argument by Pickerill, Mosher & Pratt (2009) racial and ethnic minority groups are stopped by traffic police more than other social groups. In instances where they are stopped, a police is likely to insist on searching the vehicle regardless of the safety of the situation (Pickerill, Mosher & Pratt, 2009). In addition, minority groups have the greatest number of traffic offenders. Pickerill, Mosher & Pratt (2009) assert that a person from a minority group is likely to serve a sentence of be fined for a criminal offence more than a person from a majority group.

Frieburger, Marcum & Pierce (2010) point out that pretrial decisions in the justice systems are significantly influenced by differential treatment. The authors further point out that an African American is very unlikely to be favored for release by the pretrial judge (Frieburger, Marcum & Pierce, 2010). The setting of the bail for minority groups is significantly high thus minimizing their chances of being released. Most judges seem to conclude that a person from a minority group is guilty even before their trial. For people from majority groups, pretrial is more lenient and they are only considered as convicts after their trial (Frieburger, Marcum & Pierce, 2010).

Over the years, guilty sentences have been passed on African Americans and Hispanics than any other social group (Hurwitz & Peffley, 2010). On some occasions, the sentencing may be just, but the trend creates an assumption that the influence of race is still significant in the justice system (Kamalu, Coulson-Clark & Kamalu, 2010). Members of the jury and the judge always have the misconception that a person from a minority group are guilty when presented for a legal process.

 

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