Part 1

Other people often see us in a different way, so personal development is most effective when we can include others in our feedback program. After all, can we ever really know the extent of our ignorance?

Your assignment is to conduct a “mini-360” evaluation of yourself. You should have already read the material on 360 feedback in Chapter 20. Review that information in the textbook about 360 assessment. We are going to violate a lot of the rules in doing this, but we just want to give you a flavor of the exercise. You are to pick 3 individuals–ideally select: 1 “supervisors”, 1 “peers”, and 1 “reports”–and send them an email (example shown below) asking for their honest feedback. Supervisors are persons that have been “above” you in some sense–a boss at work, a teacher in a class, a mentor, an internship preceptor, etc. Peers are those who are “at your level”—fellow students, co-workers, etc. Reports are persons that are “below you”–someone you have supervised in some way (even a younger sibling might work). Send them the email below (minor modifications are OK), and collect their feedback. Summarize it and compare and contrast it to your own assessment of your strengths and weaknesses.

Sample Email

Dear x:

As part of a class I am taking on healthcare leadership, I have to complete an exercise in gathering feedback from other people on my strengths and weaknesses. I would like you to be one of the people who provide that feedback. I would appreciate it if you could respond to this email with a reply to the following questions:

What would you say are my greatest strengths as a leader? What am I good at already?

What are my greatest areas of challenge as a leader? Where do I need to improve?

Please be as candid as you can in your responses. My goal is to understand those areas of personal development to focus on so that I can reach my potential as a leader in health care. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions and help with this assignment.

Sincerely,

Z

Part 2

By now you have identified your personal mission and vision, your strengths and weaknesses, your personal and professional goals, and had feedback from supervisors, peers and reports. This last exercise is designed to move you from where you are to where you want to be. You need a plan, a map, a strategy to do that. Look at your goals. What actions do you need to take to achieve them? What strengths can you apply in that action? What obstacles are you likely to encounter and how will your weaknesses prevent you from overcoming those obstacles? What do you need to do to improve upon your identified weakness to surmount that obstacle?

There’s no set way to write a developmental plan, but those are some of the questions to consider. The text has an example (Appendix B). I would encourage you to take some initiative and search online for other examples.

You should prepare a developmental plan for at least 1 of your professional and 1 of your personal goals.

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Due Date: April 1, 2020

Documentation: Please document your sources in the MLA parenthetical format.

NOTE: You are required to consult and cite a minimum of three other sources apart from the primary text. The sources you consult should be scholarly in nature, such as peer-reviewed articles or academic books. The sources could also be pertinent primary sources, such as published letters or historical resources. However, do not rely on non-scholarly online material, such as Wikipedia or SparkNotes.

Format: Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced.

Length: Minimum 1600 words. Please try not to exceed 2000 words.

Please choose ONE of the following options and write an essay response in formal English. You will likely have to narrow the scope of the topics before determining the thesis of your essay.

1) The Hound of the Baskervilles features medical doctors who encounter and try to explain evil. How does the presence of these scientists contribute the thematic conflict between rational deduction and irrational terror?

2) Unlike many of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles takes place in the country. How does the atmosphere of the Devonshire countryside contribute both to the novel’s suspense and to the thematic contrast between the “civilized” world of London and the primitive environment of the moor? Research on this topic might include literary and/or historical criticism.

3) On the whole, women play conspicuously minor roles in Sherlock Holmes adventures. Consider the role of women in The Hound of the Baskervilles. How do female characters (or, more broadly, heterosexual relations between men and women) contribute to the thematic conflict between civility and brutality?

4) How has one film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles modified or changed the original story, and what thematic interpretation of the text did these changes provide? Research for this topic might include film studies and literary criticism.

5) Discuss the theme of cultural and/or individual identity in Thomas King’s “A Short History of Indians in Canada”.

6) Explain the significance of the background of the American Civil War in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” OR Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”.

7) Analyze the symptoms exhibited by the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and demonstrate or disprove the hypothesis that she suffers from a nervous disorder associated with postpartum depression. (This assignment may require either historical and/or medical research. Do not write about this story if your first essay discussed it.)

8) Nineteen Eighty-Four envisions a dark futuristic society, yet it also satirizes elements of post-war England. Explain how the novel employs dystopian fantasy to critique Orwell’s own society.

9) Examine the ways in which Nineteen Eighty-Four fulfills (or undermines) the promise of a utopian world. What sort of “utopia” have the Party’s architects created, and why might it appear desirable to its adherents but terrifying to its opponents?

10) What role does technology play in Oceania’s punitive system? (You might wish to focus on one specific aspect to develop a more focused argument.)

11) Explain how and why Sinclair Ross’s story “One’s a Heifer” adopts elements of the Gothic genre to illustrate a boy’s coming-of-age.