Assignment: Assignment 2 Christopher and Joseph were legally married in the fictitious U.S. state of Petoria in August of 2012. Petoria State Code O.C.P.A. § 9-2-37(b)(5) defines marriage as a union between any two individuals, over the age of 18. Christopher is a U.S. citizen, and Joseph is from Beijing. They are both twenty-five (25) years old. Christopher and Joseph are buying a home together, and they share in the household duties and expenses, and they have bills in each of their names. Christopher and Joseph were college sweethearts and knew each other for six (6) years prior to their 2012 marriage. Christopher has decided to file a family-based petition on Joseph’s behalf as his spouse. Christopher and Joseph talk to the senior partner at your firm and ask if the firm will handle the case. Before giving them an answer, the senior partner asks that you research whether Christopher and Joseph will face any challenges in attempting to file their petition as this issue has never been addressed at your office. There are no courts in Petoria that have previously ruled on this issue. However, the senior partner seems to think that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on a similar case out of California in the 1980s. The senior partner asks that you find the U.S. Court of Appeals case and draft her a memorandum based on that case stating answering the following questions: 1) will Joseph be considered Christopher’s immediate relative spouse under the Immigration & Nationality Act for purposes of filing the petition; and 2) what effect will the fact that Petoria recognizes Christopher and Joseph’s marriage have upon USCIS’s decision? Note: There is also a 2013 Supreme Court case that can and should be used in addition to the 1980 U.S. Court of Appeals case

The Product Marketing Research PlanResearch is becoming much more critical to all aspects of business as competition gets more intense, and as consumers can choose between a wider array of products online. You will address just the first two steps of the market research planning process to better understand what is really involved in marketing research.The following Course Outcome is assessed in this Assignment:MT450-2: Develop a marketing research plan for a product.Scenario: After your first couple of months as a product line manager with this new successful startup, ASG, you are called into the conference room. The marketing director announces that she has a product idea you need to research.Make sure to complete the Learning Activity in order to be more successful in completing this Assignment.View the introductory ASG simulation, view the simulation research tip and the ASG Customer Service Representative (CSR) database, and then address the checklist items.Instructions: Below is your task checklist. Respond to all the items in a 2- to 3-page paper (minimum 600–800 words) with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style.Checklist: (Steps 1 and 2 of marketing research planning)Define the problem and research objectives you want answered in line with the company's mission and objectives.Determine how to go about getting answers to those research questions in the most time- and cost-efficient way while getting viable and significant data (i.e., determine the means of obtaining the data).Explain what type of data you will you need, primary or secondary.Explain what type of research you will pursue. Will you use quantitative or qualitative data? Explain why.Describe the sampling plan:A) Who will you survey?B) Sample Size: Knowing that all the people you intend to survey may not respond or may respond with an incomplete survey, how many people will you survey?C) Sampling procedure: How will you go about finding your sample population? What will be a statistically significant measure?D) How will you contact the subjects? Will you email them, phone them, etc.?Determine how to ensure the data is significant enough to make a decision as to whether or not the product development engineers should proceed with product development.Access the Unit 3 Assignment grading rubric.Submit your 2- to 3-page paper (minimum 600–800 words) in APA format and citation style with additional title and reference pages to the Unit 3 Assignment Dropbox.

IntroductionThis portfolio work project will give you practice with professional writing expectations, as well as motivating and persuading others by telling a story.Create a brief slide presentation, with graphics, and preferably your voice presenting, that analyzes the tools and strategies that leaders can use to build trust and collaboration, and explains why you believe storytelling is one effective tool for you to use to lead your team.The Creating a Presentation in the MBA Program Resources and the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Present document will help you with this presentation.The Ariel Group explains that a story needs to follow a basic four-step format that gently leads the audience into the story, through the story, and connecting the story:Executive Essentials: Storytelling.Use this format, based on page 9 of the Ariel group resource, to create six slides (not including cover page and references):Slide 1. Cover slide with title and your name, and a graphic for interest (be sure to credit graphic artist in the reference slide).Slide 2. Introduce the subject matter or business content, much as the introduction to a paper would do.Example: "NASA has a reputation for communication issues among teammates, but our team is going to change all of that. This presentation does this and that."Slide 3. Building Trust and Collaboration. Discuss the importance of trust and collaboration in the workplace, then identify and discuss at least two tools or strategies (other than storytelling) leaders can use for building trust and fostering collaboration.Slide 4. Storytelling. Explain ways in which leaders can use storytelling to build trust and relationships.Slide 5. Transition into the story. This slide should transition into your story, setting the expectations of the audience of what is to come.Example: "I once worked at another company that had some major communications issues. It wasn't life or death like here at NASA, but we did have some serious problems in communications that impacted our ability to be effective. Let me share with you a story to illustrate a vision of how we can work together . . ."Slide 6. Tell the Story. This slide should actually tell your story:Set the stage.Describe the conflict.Describe the resolution.Example: "About 10 years ago I was working as a shift leader at a manufacturing facility where safety was supposedly part of the culture, yet we had a frighteningly bad safety record . . ." Continue the story.Slide 7. Connect the story to a teaching point or subject matter. This slide should bring your story back to the issue at hand.Example: "In this situation, we learned this and that. Here at NASA, we can do the same thing. We can prove that communications this and that." Think of this like explaining the moral of the story.Slide 8. References. Include references here.Deliverable FormatContent and Organization. Attach a PowerPoint presentation that has a cover page, seven content slides per the above, and a references slide. You must have exactly eight slides—learning to follow established guidelines is important in school and the workplace.Audio Presentation. Your slides must be presented with audio; this is an important part of storytelling. Most learners simply record directly into PowerPoint, but you may use other recording software if you wish, as long as your courseroom faculty can access it without a password to see your slides and hear your presentation. If you have a disability that makes audio a problem discuss it with your faculty or coach.Slide Appearance. Your slides should be modern, professional, and effective. This means using color and some graphic design. Templates in PowerPoint can help with this. There are many free graphics websites you can use for graphics. Be sure to provide an APA citation for any graphics.Presenter Notes. Note that your slides should not be text heavy. However, you should make ample use of presenter notes. While the presenter notes do not have to be a word-for-word transcript, they should be very close to what you say in your audio.References. Your presentation must be evidence based, and as such must have APA formatted citations. This includes a reference slide at the end, but also intext citations on the slides themselves or in the presenter notes.Refer to the writing resources in the MBA Program Resources, especially paying attention to the MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines, under Writing Skills, for more information.EvaluationBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:Competency 2: Apply leadership strengths and behaviors to workplace situations.Apply storytelling skills to a workplace situation where trust and collaboration are essential.Competency 3: Recommend evidence-based strategies for leading and collaborating in complex environments.Analyze the tools leaders can use to build trust and relationships, foster collaboration, and help employees feel engaged with their work.Explain ways in which leaders use storytelling to build trust and relationships.Competency 4: Communicate effectively through academic and professional writing.Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of the relationship between the main topic and subtopics.Integrate appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.Convey clear meaning in text through sound grammar, usage, word choice, and mechanics.Storytelling Scoring GuideCRITERIADISTINGUISHEDAnalyze the tools and strategies leaders can use to build trust and relationships, foster collaboration, and help employees feel engaged with their work.Evaluates multiple tools and strategies leaders can use to build trust and relationships, foster collaboration, and help employees feel engaged with their work.Explain ways in which leaders use storytelling to build trust and relationships.Explains ways in which leaders use storytelling to build trust and relationship and provides specific examples and supporting evidence.Apply storytelling skills to a workplace situation where trust and collaboration are essential.Applies, with audio, storytelling skills to a workplace situation where trust and collaboration are essential with a well-organized narrative that is appropriate in tone and length.Develop text and presentation using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of the relationship between the main topic and subtopics.Develops a strong introductory statement and organizes text with skillful transitions into paragraphs with clear main ideas, sufficient evidence, analysis, graphic design, and linking information.Integrate appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.Integrates and synthesizes evidence from credible, scholarly, and professionally sound sources, with minimal flaws in APA citation style.Convey clear meaning in text through sound grammar, usage, word choice, and mechanics..Produces complex and concise text that conveys clear meaning, with no errors in grammar, usage, word choice, spelling, or mechanics.