CompetencyIdentify how art benefits wellness and creativity in the community and workplace.ScenarioYou just opened a small company and got your first contract to design a new product. You divided your employees up into two teams of three to see who could come up with the best new designs. You gave them a week to work. As you observed their work, you noticed how noisy it was in your open-plan space. You also noticed some arguing, and one of your best designers had to go home early with a migraine. After a week of work, you called the teams back to see what they accomplished and you were very disappointed. The designs were just not up to standard.When you asked your workers what the problem was, they had a long list of issues with the workspace. You know you need to revamp your office if your company is going to be successful, but you need to take inventory before you can begin improvements.InstructionsDesign an informational infographic to help employers evaluate their workplace environment.Infographic must include:At least 5 qualities of a creative workplace, with text and graphics.At least 5 obstacles to workers’ creativity, with text and graphics.ResourcesWhat is an infographic and how do I create one?Rasmussen College Writing Guide

WRITING ASSIGNMENT # 3B: Defending Slavery Before the emergence  of cotton as a primary crop in the south, the invention of the cotton  gin, and territorial expansion southward and westward, slavery appeared  to be on the decline. These factors, coupled with a rising demand for  cotton by the British textile industry, revived the South's agricultural  economy. Although cotton could  be grown with or without slavery, the expansion of cotton cultivation  and slavery occurred together. When slavery was challenged on moral  grounds, southerners chose to defend their "peculiar institution," as in  the words of John C. Calhoun "a positive good." INSTRUCTIONS: This writing  assignment will require you to analyze and discuss primary and secondary  sources that relate to the institution of slavery in the United States. Review the relevant content Chapter 13 of the textbook. Read this excerpt from a statement made in 1837 by John Calhoun in which he outlines his views on slavery. Note his comparison of a lot of slaves with that of European (and northern) workers. Read the linked essay: AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Abolition of Slavery, Read the linked article on BBC-British Anti-slavery PREPARE AND SUBMIT: Write a well-organized essay, a minimum of 700 words  (but not limited to), including supporting details from the  documents/textbook/other sources, in which you analyze and discuss the  material that has been assigned by addressing the following question: Most southerners  defended slavery, even though they were not part of the "Plantation  Aristocracy." According to the readings that you have completed, discuss  why they supported slavery, and your response to the claims made by its  supporters, and explain why it was easier to end the slave trade than  to end slavery itself.