You work as a communication specialist at Warby Parker, reporting to co-CEO David Gilboa. Using the skills you’ve been practicing in this course, respond to this challenge:You’re helping Gilboa prepare a report about the company. Gilboa characterizes the report as a “public business plan,” in that it will discuss the company and its objectives, strategies, and operations without disclosing the sort of confidential information that a typical business plan includes. The secondary audience includes potential investors, employees, and business partners.To help overcome shoppers’ reluctance to buy eyewear online, Warby Parker has been tested marketing the concept called Home Try-On, in which people in the South Florida test market can order five pairs of frames, keep them for five days at no cost, then decide which pair they would like to order, and which they will send back. This gives shoppers lots of time to try on the frames they are considering and get the opinions of family and friends.On the job (Internal, Unsolicited Proposal)Write a 2-3 page (2 if single-spaced, 3 or more if double-spaced) internal proposal, in memo form, to Mr. Gilboa, with your evaluation of the test market results and your recommendation how the company should proceed with this concept based on that test. Remember to include headings or sub-headings for each section in the proposal that explain this program-e.g. Background, Solution, Recommendation, etc. Make sure to correctly identify and analyze your audience, as well as any possible secondary audiences. Remember, Mr. Gilboa, the person to whom you submit your proposal, is in a position to order the implementation of the change recommended.It is important that you develop this memo with your own thoughts and input. You can make the test market experience good or bad, and base your recommendation on that. Make up any information you wish to bolster your case; in the real world, you would have this kind of data and information before you would write this memo.Here is an example: A rough outline for a favorable recommendation:Subject: Home Try-On Market Concept TestBackground: As you know…profits down, store rents rising, we are seen as an old-fashion, undynamic company by the general public. Question: is the internet the answer? Marketing cameup with concept of Home Try-On, and began test marketing it in South Florida in November of last year.Perceived Risks Prior to Test Market: Concept too confusing for public? What if customers did not return the 4 pair of frames they did not want? What sort of breakage might be expected? Would postage and handling be too costly?Test Market Results: Public seemed to love the concept. Orders very high. 98% return rate on 4 pairs they did not want. Virtually no breakage. Minimal shipping and handling costs, because customer had to agree beforehand to absorb these costs.Recommendation: Expand test market to entire East Coast for an additional 4 months. Prepare to go nationwide if results from that test equally encouraging.

Jerry and Communication Barriers -Effective Communication as a Motivator
One common complaint employees voice about supervisors is inconsistent messages – meaning.
one supervisor tells them one thing, and another tells them something different. Imagine you are the supervisor/manager for each of the employees described below. 
As you read their case, consider how you might help communicate with the employee to remedy the conflict.
Jerry is a 27-year old who is a foodservice manager at a casual dining restaurant. Jerry is responsible for supervising and managing all employees in the back of the house. Employees working in the back of the house range in age from 16 years old to 55 years old. In addition, the employees come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. For many, English is not their primary language. 
Jerry is SERV Safe® certified and tries his best to keep up with food safety issues in the kitchen but he admits it’s not easy. Employees receive “on the job training” about food safety basics (for example, appropriate hygiene and handwashing, time/temperature, and cleaning and sanitizing). But with high turnover of employees, training is often rushed, and some new employees are put right into the job without training if it is a busy day. Eventually, most employees get food safety training. The owners of the restaurant are supportive of Jerry in his food safety efforts because they know if a food safety outbreak were ever linked to their restaurant; it would likely put them out of business. Still, the owners note there are additional costs for training and making sure food is handled safely. 
One day Jerry comes to work and is rather upset even before he steps into the restaurant. Things haven’t been going well at home and he was lucky to rummage through some of the dirty laundry and find a relatively clean outfit to wear for work. He admits he needs a haircut and a good hand scrubbing, especially after working on his car last evening. When he walks into the kitchen he notices several trays of uncooked meat sitting out in the kitchen area. It appears these have been sitting at room temperature for quite some time. Jerry is frustrated and doesn’t know what to do. He feels like he is beating his head against a brick wall when it comes to getting employees to practice food safety. 
Jerry has taken many efforts to get employees to be safe in how they handle food. He has huge signs posted all over the kitchen with these words: KEEP HOT FOOD HOT AND COLD FOOD COLD and WASH YOUR HANDS ALWAYS AND OFTEN. All employees are given a thermometer when they start so that they can temp food. Hand sinks, soap, and paper towels are available for employees so that they are encouraged to wash their hands frequently.
Questions: 
1. What are the communication challenges and barriers Jerry faces?
2. What solutions might Jerry consider in addressing each of these challenges and barriers?
3. What Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) would be helpful for Jerry to implement and enforce? 

Thesis Statement for APA Argument Essay on an Environmental Issue:Submit the thesis statement that you are planning to use in your argument paper.Explain your thesis and approach to the topic and ask any questions you might have about the clarity and/or effectiveness of your thesis. What feedback would help you refine your thesis? Your post should be at least 150 words, including the thesis and your questions/comments about it.When you are done posting your response, reply to at least one classmate in no fewer than 75 words.Your discussion post will be graded according to the following criteria:80% – Thoughtful original post that includes both your tentative thesis and your questions/comments about it (at least 150 words)20% – Thoughtful response to a classmate’s post that responds to their questions/comments (at least 75 words)Submit the thesis statement that you are planning to use in your argument paper.Explain your thesis and approach to the topic and ask any questions you might have about the clarity and/or effectiveness of your thesis. What feedback would help you refine your thesis? Your post should be at least 150 words, including the thesis and your questions/comments about it.When you are done posting your response, reply to at least one classmate in no fewer than 75 words. In your response, discuss the strengths of the thesis and the areas for possible improvement and focus.The example will help you with your post. Ryan:My thesis: The privatization of water an ultimately lead to permanent loss of water quality and an increase in costs that will only benefit private companies and not the well-being of people.In my thesis goes straight to the point on why water privatization can have negative effects in the long run. Although it may seem great at first, giving a company control of an essential product can be harmful because they may not have stringent regulations to follow. What companies care about is making revenue, not the health of people, so if they have to cut costs, so be it. A question I would ask about the carity and/or effectiveness of my thesis is how can I make my statement more impactful? Some feedback I would give to myself is that I need to elaborate more on what is leading to a permanent loss of water quality.Isabella:I really like how clear your thesis statement is. I think to make your thesis more impactful, you can add the reasons why water privatization is negative in the long run. How is it affecting the Earth’s environment? What can we do about it? What are the short-term effects? I agree with the feedback you gave yourself, but that can always be elaborated with more research. I think you are off to a great start and your thesis looks nice so far.Your discussion post will be graded according to the following criteria:80% – Thoughtful original post that includes both your tentative thesis and your questions/comments about it (at least 150 words)20% – Thoughtful response to a classmate’s post that responds to their questions/comments (at least 75 words)

he data maps for adult obesity on the Center for Disease Control’s website data maps (Links to an external site.)provide a visual display of obesity by race/ethnicity by state. As we learned in our readings for Module 6, race and ethnicity are social-demographic characteristics that impact obesity for a number of reasons. Using the provided, you will review and discuss the rates of obesity by race and ethnicity in your state.In your essay, please address the following questions:Which race or ethnicity has the highest rate of obesity in your state? The lowest?How does your state compare to other states in terms of racial and ethnic differences in obesity?Finally, using the material assigned for this module, or other scholarly resources of your own finding, discuss why we have differences in rates of obesity by race and ethnicity.Your essay will be evaluated in terms of how thoroughly you: answer the questions above; use resources to document your main points, and properly cite referenced work. Your essay should address all of the questions above and should consist of approximately 500 words of text (approximately 2 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). Be sure to include specific examples and references from this week’s readings and any additional references you would like to include. Use in-text citations and a reference list that will make up an additional page.To successfully complete M6.4 Evaluate, you will need to organize your responses to the questions and then craft a formatted essay that includes each of the following:  A title page. A well-developed introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the essay and briefly referencing some of the main points/contentions offered in the essay.The body of the essay should consist of your effort to best answer the primary questions from the assignment prompt and should consist of approximately 500 words of text (approximately 2 pages of double-spaced and 12 point font of text). Though the method by which this is done is largely up to you, it is essential that the responses to the questions in the prompt be based upon scholarly readings and should remain at all times defensible (in an academic sense). You have a great deal of information to draw from in creating your essay, including the assigned readings and hyperlinked sources in the Module Notes. As is the case with every assignment in SOC221, presenting any unsubstantiated, illogical, or indefensible position will have an adverse effect on the final grade. Please direct any questions regarding these expectations to the instructor.A concise concluding paragraph that briefly restates both the purpose of the essay as well as some of the primary argument offered by you, the essay’s author. Be sure the concluding paragraph does not introduce new information.A list of all sources consulted the preparation of the essay. The essay should be formatted according to APA-style documentation. (Links to an external site.) This includes the format of the list of references.

Choose three concepts we have explored since the beginning of the term and make an argument for why we need to continue to explore these concepts if we are to have a world worth living in. You will be graded on how robust your answer is as well as how you demonstrate your mastery of the works in which these concepts are found.1. “The hens dreamed she could fly” themes surrounding parenthood, letting go of the ones we love, and finding peace in what we cannot control in what we have read thus far.2. Tolstoy’s Metamorphosis. Our study of Tolstoy yielded some conclusions that should give us all pause. What is the meaning of life? If it is to negotiate the mundane, the boring, and the trivial, how are we to ever derive true meaning out of that? It is now that we turn to Kafka’s response to what Tolstoy was only alluding to. Metamorphosis is more a statement about being a cog in the machine more than it is a statement about anything else. Kafka, of course, takes the conversation about the state of humankind to an entirely different and admittedly disturbing level.3. While many thinkers continued to wrestle with the growing sense of alienation and despair caused by a multitude of factors, mainly those related to industrialization and the breakdown of the family, others took the baton further downfield by immersing themselves, not in the causes, but in the results. What does life look like when the person just gives up and succumbs to the system? Tolstoy, in part, tries to answer that in his work, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.”4. The Romantics ignited a fire that was certain to spread across the pond. The negative effects of industrialization did not manifest themselves in Europe alone; the United States was also experiencing its fair share of a spiritual malaise that nevertheless energized some individuals to speak out. These became the Transcendentalists. explore Thoreau and Emerson5.The Romantics, a group of writers that included Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, and Keats, deviated from the Age of Reason by training their sites on the importance and relevance of emotion. While the Enlightenment thinkers celebrated the ability of individuals to reason and, thereby elevated their status among the denizens of creation, the Romantics broadened the scope by celebrating the ability of individuals to feel. In a rapidly industrializing world, many were feeling the effects of alienation and loneliness, so the Romantics made it their mission to retrieve what was lost: innocence, bliss, and intimacy with God.6. Enlightenment thinkers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke had very different philosophies about the character of humankind. While the former thought that we essentially lead “brutish” lives, the latter was more optimistic about this thing we do in between birth and death. This week, we are going to jump right into this debate. Our aim is to understand what will come out of this difference of opinion — what it holds for the post-Enlightenment world with its governments, its policies, its social movements.