Insights, recommendations, probable issues vis-a-vis the future. This can include a vision of the future, an illustrative scenario.
Overview: In this section, you bring together your research, your analysis, and your insights, and you lead your reader to a brief contemplation of where they have been as they traveled through your paper. You have a chance to explain why this paper is relevant to future studies and investigations.
If you are making a recommendation which would require the reader or someone to take action, then you can develop action steps, and even develop an illustrative scenario to help the reader envision your ideas.
Keys to Success: Do not be too reductive or narrow. Instead, reinforce the importance of the research. Be specific, and avoid being too universal or general.
IX. References. Please be sure to refer to the Longman’s Writing Guide or another commonly accepted style guide and clearly cite all sources: journals, books, reference materials, Internet-based information.
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UNIT 7:MISSION/VISION/CAREER
If you are able to articulate your personal mission and vision, you are much more likely to communicate your core values and capabilities to a potential client or employee. You will also be more likely to be able to create a resume that responds directly to the job description in a job
• How will I modify my resume to highlight my experience, abilities, and values that align with the needs expressed in a job description or help wanted ad?
You may wish to include actual job posts or help wanted ads.
Writing Requirements
• Your essay must be two to three pages. Your cover email should be brief and clear.
• Your document must be double-spaced using a 12-point font with 1-inch margins and include your name at the top of the first page.
• Proofread your document to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.
• For citations, follow APA format.
Example 1: Cruella DeVille Mission Statement
My goal is to create ideal environments for perfectly proportioned spotted dogs (Dalmations), and to improve my own life and that of a few (very few) “friends” by identifying the strengths I possess that relate to designing fur coats and distributing them after I have worn them to the point I am bored with them.
My Core Values:
Results-Oriented: I value competent henchmen who can capture dogs with spotted coats, and the ownership of a spooky mansion that has lots of places to hide.
A Patterned Reality: Everything goes my way. All the time.
Organization: I value the ability to create order out of chaos, to deal with the unexpected, and to develop a structural framework that allow me to perform effectively and stay on task. For example, I developed an app that delivers a mild electrical shock if I am running slightly behind schedule, and which delivers an incapacitating jolt of electricity directly to my central nervous system if I am seriously out of sync.
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Mission Statement
My goal is to create ideal environments and to improve the lives of individuals and community members by identifying my strengths and building on them.
My Core Values:
Imaginative: I value the ability to envision a positive outcome, and then to develop the action steps required to achieve that vision. For example, I was a part of a team the developed an innovative way to train volunteers to hold a fundraising event.
Organization: I value the ability to create order out of chaos, to deal with the unexpected, and to develop a structural framework that allow me to perform effectively and stay on task. For example, I developed an app that delivers a mild electrical shock if I am running slightly behind schedule, and which delivers an incapacitating jolt of electricity directly to my central nervous system if I am seriously out of sync.
Example 3: What is my core mission / vision?
My Mission:
My mission is to encourage creativity in all walks of life in order to build bridges and help solve what seemed, in the past, to be intractable problems in human relations, technology, economics, politics, and in one’s sense of self and destiny. Creativity, coupled with action and hard work, can, with luck and perseverance, open doors and expand access to education, economic life, and social groups, in order to strengthen one’s ability to have a purposeful, enfranchised, examined, and courageous life.
HOW DO I ACTUALIZE MY MISSION AND VISION? Tactic One: List and Describe Core Values
Creativity: I like the way that thinking creatively requires the willingness to put unexpected things together, and to look at a set of things, circumstances, or concepts from multiple perspectives.
Sometimes it’s necessary to explore biases and blind spots in order to avoid confusing the status quo with the truly creative, or simply using new ways to reinforce old biases. Creativity, in the ultimate sense of the word, should be generative and life-supporting, as well as psychologically freeing.
Perseverance: I value staying with a project until it’s done. If the project is on the wrong path, I think it is perfectly acceptable to drop it. Nevertheless, the ability to envision the outcome, and to stick with it, is something I have always respected.
Teamwork: Working alone is efficient, at least for awhile. Teams are better. They bring energy, diverse perspectives, and multiple skillsets to a challenge, task, or problem. Being in a team is also vital for feeling enfranchised and that you have a sense of belonging.
Connecting the Previously Unconnected: I like the idea of taking two or three things that never worked together and seeing how they might connect. It’s a great way to approach problems, and can lead to breakthroughs of engineering. It’s also a great way to energize a team or group problem-solving
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group – there are usually moments of absurdity and humor that encourage the open exchange of ideas and create a supportive, non-punitive atmosphere.
Tactic Two: Describe the World as It Is Now, Describe Potential Vision for the Future (key example of this tactic: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech)
I see the world as a place where, despite the eternal self-fashioning and energizing transformations of technology, commerce, and human invention, the majority of the world’s peoples still behave as though they were approaching end times, “slouching toward Bethlehem” (as in the great Yeats poem, “The Second Coming”), and they interpret the events and activities around them as signs of decline, rather than opportunities for creative, energizing, empowering growth.
The fear-driven mind finds apocalypse in the random words, signs, and acts that surround it. For the fear-driven mind, the future is a predetermined horrorscape of chaos, equivocation, and snarling despair. The end is predicted to be ugly and inescapable, and there is no way to protect oneself from it.
The hope-driven mind may find apocalypse to be in our future, but instead of suffering and horror, the vision and hope-driven mind finds generative patterns, and pathways to growth. The end of the world signals Dionysian transformation, a necessary death phase that one goes through in order to be reborn, revitalized, regenerated. The vision-driven mind may have a mystical inclination, and the
“dark night of the soul” is the test of faith that ushers in a state of union, of intuitive knowledge, of the achievement of great things.
I would like to work toward a future that allows individuals to find a balance between their fear-driven and hope-fear-driven minds, and which provides a strategy for overcoming short-term, immediate anxieties by recognizing that working through the negative emotions is a necessary part of growth, and simply seeking to avoid pain will mean that one will remain in pain because no major changes have been made.
In the future, I would like to see a world where people understand that they may transform themselves, and that the barriers that once existed can be eliminated. It may take some time, cooperation, and willingness to learn another language, computer skills, philosophy, or higher-order math. It might also require one to examine one’s own internal resistances to change, and to read works of literature and creative non-fiction in order to understand the mindsets of others vis-à-vis one’s own.
The young child born into cold, hard streets of despair and abandonment has the same future as the young scion of a social media billionaire. It’s not enough to scoff and say that they share the same ultimate destiny, to die and be forgotten. It’s imperative to nurture the spark of life and imagination that drives one person to reach a hand out to another, without expectations or preconceptions, but simply to invite another to go on a journey together. The journey will strange, unpredictable, and yet infinitely worthwhile.
I’m reminded of “Woyaya” by the South African song written by Osibisa, performed by Art Garfunkel in the early 1970s:
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Heaven knows where we are going We ‘ll know we’re there…
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UNIT 8:PROPOSAL FOR PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
If you are able to write a compelling proposal, you may find that you are able to obtain funding for your ideas, and then develop a proposal.
For this assignment, you will write a brief essay that describes a proposal to correct a problem in your community and addresses the following questions:
• What is problem in the community?
• What are the key issues?
• Who is affected?
• What can you do to correct the situation?
• Who will be a part of your team?
• What are your action steps?
• What is the end result or goal?
You may wish to include actual statistics and demographic information. You may also wish to include examples of successful programs in other communities, especially if they resemble the problem and proposal that you intend to cover.
Writing Requirements
• Your essay must be two to three pages. Your cover email should be brief and clear.
• Your document must be double-spaced using a 12-point font with 1-inch margins and include your name at the top of the first page.
• Proofread your document to eliminate mechanical and grammatical errors.
• For citations, follow APA format.