Focus of the Final Paper
This course focuses on identifying types of conflicts and resolving conflicts through effective communication techniques. Your Final Paper will be an eight-to ten-page paper (excluding the APA title and reference pages) that will showcase what you learned about conflict and conflict resolution. 

Identify a recent interpersonal, group, or organizational conflict that you were involved in and was later resolved. Select five of the topics listed below and discuss how they apply to your chosen conflict.  You must use a minimum of five resources to help support your discussion of these topics. Be sure to focus on communication techniques that were used during the conflict management process. Argue whether the resolution to this conflict was a “best practices” approach to resolving this conflict.  

Your paper must include an introduction paragraph that provides a high-level overview of your paper. In addition, your paper must include a strong conclusion paragraph that brings together the topics discussed. Remember not to introduce any new topics in your conclusion.

Conflict Topics for the Final Paper (select five)

• Why does conflict occur?
• Conflict management
• The positive and negative effects of conflict
• Role of personality types in conflict management
• Communication techniques
• Ethics and workplace conflicts
• Climate in a conflict situation
• Stress and anger
• Facework
• Forgiveness
• Mediation and arbitration

Article: Antibodies improve in quality for months after COVID-19 vaccination

Please write a brief description (a few sentences, around 40-50 words) about why the article was chosen.

Provide 3 APA formatted references you will be using for your paper. These should include the article reference and two supportive references. Submit references for the popular media/news article in APA format and a brief description (a few sentences, around 40-50 words) about why you chose this article and research study in the designated assignment folder.

For this essay, you should approach a practitioner of another religion (a fellow student, a faculty, a friend, a person you know, a religious specialist, …) and interview him/her about a very specific aspect of his/her religion.
My topic is “‘Weed’ as Holy Rastafari Sacrament“.
You must use this name as an interviewer: Alexander Dueñas, a practitioner of Rastafarian customs for six years.
This is the source for my essay
Chicago Style Citation:
Chevannes, Barry. 1994. Rastafari Roots and Ideology. https://fiuflvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002021862706571&context=L&vid=01FALSC_FIU:FIU&lang=en&search_scope=ebooks&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=All40&query=any,contains,rastafarian,AND&mode=advanced&offset=10
In text citation:
Chevannes 199, chap 8

In groups of three, you will write a report on the animal species of your choice. Please select from the following: Black-footed Ferret, Florida Manatee, Gray Wolf, Green Sea Turtle, Hyacinth Macaw, Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly, Lowland Gorilla, Siberian Tiger. Those shells allow you to exchange comments, materials, etc. within your group. You are expected to submit one Report per group to the appropriate forum on Discussion Board.

The Report should be around three-four pages long, assuming a 12-point font. Use online scholarly resources, list them as references and quote them in-text according to the APA style.         

Please include the following in the content:

1. General information about the species: its zoological classification (e.g. rodent, bird of prey, etc), reproduction ( e.g. a clutch of four to five eggs once a year, type and length of care for the young), diet (e.g. omnivore, insectivore, particular food only), range (e.g. U.S. Southwest, Northern Australia, etc), include any important information about the animals’ habits, and particular characteristics.
2. The species’ conservation status and its uses by humans: include conservation status (e.g. least concern, endangered, threatened, etc); threats due to poaching  & examples of conservation efforts; uses: hunting (for food, for clothing, jewelry or decorations, for trophy); farming for food or body parts; other uses: in entertainment and/or research.
3. The species’ religious and cultural significance (use Chapters 14, 15, and 16, as general guides for this section of the report). Discuss religious and cultural symbolism of the species, its use as exotic pets, its representations in literature, film, and on the internet.
4. Your reflection: discuss the main insights that you gained from the research you did on your species.

Report Grading – All group members will receive the same score.  Total 13 points possible, distributed, as follows: 

• general information –2.5 points (0.5 point for each: classification, reproduction, diet, range, habits);
• the species’ conservation status and its uses by humans – 2.5 points ( 0.5 point for each: status, poaching & conservation efforts, hunting, farming, other uses). 
• the species’ religious and cultural significance – 2.5 points (0.5 point each for: religious symbolism and/or cultural symbolism, use as exotic pets, representations in literature, in film, on the Internet.
• your reflection – 3 points (1 point for each well-presented insight – max. 5 points).
• form – 2.5 points  (0.75 point for each: APA-style in-text citations, APA-style reference list,                   0.5 point for each: academic prose, and grammatical usage).

Assignment Overview and Directions:

Over the past eight weeks, we covered the various modules that you will find within an HRIS systems, as well as the benefits to both the organization and employees alike while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the human resources department. You will prepare a paper in APA format (no less than 5 pages) on the following topic:

Future Trends in Human Resource Information Systems