DirectionsBefore you begin, please read the handout A Brief Guide to Analyzing and Writing About Primary Sources. Then read these two Primary Source readings:Olaudah Equiano ExcerptThomas Phillips ExcerptAfter reading the primary sources, pick a topic related to Europeans and Africans in the Transatlantic Slave Trade that you would like to analyze in your essay. Potential topics include:African perceptions of European slave traders or the slave trade.European perceptions of Africans slaves or African traders.The role of violence in the slave trade.African resistance to the slave trade.The relationship and negotiations between European and African traders.You can also develop your own topic based on your own interests. Email your instructor your potential topic and they can help you refine it as needed. You must develop a topic based on your reading of both primary sources and you must analyze evidence from both sources in your paper.Your essay should be at least three pages in length. Please use 12-point font and double-spacing. Your essay must have a works cited page and follow MLA style.Organizing Your EssayHere is a general guide for organizing your essay.Introduction: Introduce the topic your essay will address. Next, establish your essay’s main argument or thesis statement.First Main Paragraph - Historical Context : Explain the historical context in which your primary sources originated.Second Main Paragraph: Support your thesis by analyzing your primary sources and providing specific supporting evidence.Third Main Paragraph: Support your thesis by analyzing your primary sources and providing specific supporting evidence. You can develop more supporting paragraphs as needed if you start new sub-topics.Conclusion: Tie together the points you made in your essay and reiterate your thesis.

 Organizational Research Study Background: Assume you are an I/O Psychologist and have been contacted by a large organization to conduct a research study for them. You meet with a team from management and they explain to you that they are concerned that employee morale is low but employees won’t admit to anything being wrong when a manager approaches them. Work output has gotten messier with more errors and employees are not attending voluntary training opportunities that, in the past, always had maximum attendance. The company wants to conduct a research study to address their concerns so that changes can be implemented. 1. Discuss a problem statement, possible research question, and a hypothesis based on the given information. 2. Describe how the research could be conducted using the following research methods: a. Laboratory b. Quasi-experimental 1 / 2 c. Questionnaire d. Observation  

Discussion post, 2 paragraphs 12pt times new roman double spaced:Discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s film Breathless (1960) as an example of art film and a post-WWII alternative to Hollywood in European film. What are the unique and revolutionary elements of the film? How is the director’s style representative of a specifically French approach to filmmaking? Make sure to provide specific examples from the film itself to support your points.