Writing Assignments #3 and #4
Writing Assignment #3 and #4 – DUE by Wed 4/28/21 @ 11:59 Noon – (up to 25 points)
Your assignment is to:
1 ) watch one of the following options:
a. ‘The Men Who Built America” – (Season 1, Episode 7 ‘Taking the White House” on Amazon. On regular television, it was originally Ep. 3 where Congress begins to regulate the titans of industry; free with Amazon prime, $1-2 to rent an individual episode)
b. “Dark Waters” – (the 2019 version starring Mark Ruffalo – available for a fee on Amazon ($14.99) or Redbox (DVD $1.80 and on demand $14.99); possibly on Showtime).
c. ‘The Post” (2018/19 version with Meryl Streep; on Amazon for $3.99 rental; Redbox rent on demand $2.99; also on cable tv occasionally)
d. Any episode of “Dirty Money” on Netflix.
e. Any episode of “The Profit” on MSNBC
f. Any other program of your own choosing that involves a conflict of business and legal issues.
2) Write a 1-2 page report about what you watched in the EXACTLY following format:
a. Para 1 – identify the program and generally describe the storyline (5 pts)
b. Para 2 – describe the business decisions made in the story (5 pts.)
c. Para 3 – describe the impact of the law on those business decisions (or lack of impact) (5 pts)
d. Para 4 – describe your own thoughts on those business decisions and how they positively or negatively impacted those described in the story (5 pts)
e. Be sure to proofread your sentence structure, punctuation and grammar (5 pts)