MEMO TO: Tamara Kaur President FROM: John Smith Communications Manager DATE: January 31, 2020 SUBJECT: Sample Memo Format for Professional Use Begin your message by providing some brief context and orienting your audience. For the information paragraphs, provide explanations and further details. Bullet points should be used correctly. You should: · Use a list when you want to improve readability · Use the same grammatical structure for all points · Keep list items concise Your final paragraph should provide a quick summary and provide appropriate actions for the audience. JS Atayde 1 Samantha Atayde Professor Misaghi ENGL 1 2022, 2036 21 March 2021 The world is filled with unjust problems that occur on a daily basis. It is honestly hard to be able to determine which ones are more important, because it wouldn’t be right, all problems are equally important. Some unjust acts are more common in certain areas than they are in others. Although there are many problems in our world, the one problem that is imbedded within our society that has always seemed the most unjust to me: racial profiling. For those who many not know what racial profiling is, it’s honestly pretty simple, people (usually minorities) are targets simply based on their race. Something as simple as one's race can be cause for suspicion on a crime being committed. Racial profiling comes from any and everyone, but the problem with this comes when people are being racially profiled by people with power, people who we are expected to have our best interests, those who we believe with protect us. Throughout our history racial profiling has always existed, there is honestly no shortage, however within the last decade there has been a huge uproar whenever police officers commit unthinkable acts due to racial profiling. This is a major problem that has occurred in our past, continues to occur in our present, and if we do nothing, it will continue to occur in our future community. Many do not see the problem with this because it is not their category of people being targeted. They do not know the fear the minorities live with daily, or the many different precautions that minorities have to take in which they don’t. Now is the time to band together and come up with a solution to this problem. Atayde 2 In my community, racial profiling occurs on a daily basis and comes mostly from people who have some sort of power, like the Los Angeles police department officers. I also want to mention that although this occurs in my community, my community and I are not the only ones that are affected by racial profiling, as it has also occurred in other cities and other states showing it is a countrywide, and perhaps even a worldwide problem. This is not something that has no evidence to back it up, there has been proof along with statistics to prove that Los Angeles police officers are targeting minorities like Hispanics and African-Americans. However while ...

1. MEMO
TO: Tamara Kaur
President
FROM: John Smith Communications Manager
DATE: January 31, 2020
SUBJECT: Sample Memo Format for Professional Use
Begin your message by providing some brief context and
orienting your audience.
For the information paragraphs, provide explanations and
further details.
Bullet points should be used correctly. You should:
· Use a list when you want to improve readability
· Use the same grammatical structure for all points
· Keep list items concise
Your final paragraph should provide a quick summary and
provide appropriate actions for the audience.

2. JS
Atayde 1
Samantha Atayde
Professor Misaghi
ENGL 1 2022, 2036
21 March 2021
The world is filled with unjust problems that occur on a daily
basis. It is honestly hard to
be able to determine which ones are more important, because it
wouldn’t be right, all problems
are equally important. Some unjust acts are more common in
certain areas than they are in
others. Although there are many problems in our world, the one
problem that is imbedded within
our society that has always seemed the most unjust to me: racial
profiling. For those who many
not know what racial profiling is, it’s honestly pretty simple,
people (usually minorities) are
targets simply based on their race. Something as simple as one's
race can be cause for suspicion
on a crime being committed. Racial profiling comes from any

3. and everyone, but the problem
with this comes when people are being racially profiled by
people with power, people who we
are expected to have our best interests, those who we believe
with protect us. Throughout our
history racial profiling has always existed, there is honestly no
shortage, however within the last
decade there has been a huge uproar whenever police officers
commit unthinkable acts due to
racial profiling. This is a major problem that has occurred in
our past, continues to occur in our
present, and if we do nothing, it will continue to occur in our
future community. Many do not see
the problem with this because it is not their category of people
being targeted. They do not know
the fear the minorities live with daily, or the many different
precautions that minorities have to
take in which they don’t. Now is the time to band together and
come up with a solution to this
problem.
Atayde 2
In my community, racial profiling occurs on a daily basis and

4. comes mostly from people
who have some sort of power, like the Los Angeles police
department officers. I also want to
mention that although this occurs in my community, my
community and I are not the only ones
that are affected by racial profiling, as it has also occurred in
other cities and other states
showing it is a countrywide, and perhaps even a worldwide
problem. This is not something that
has no evidence to back it up, there has been proof along with
statistics to prove that Los
Angeles police officers are targeting minorities like Hispanics
and African-Americans. However
while there has been evidence to prove what is going on, the
evidence is usually quickly
dismissed or not even acknowledged. Along with all of the
overwhelming evidence, there have
also been several, well known and trusted news outlets have
also spoken out on the injustice
from the racial profiling being an issue with the Los Angeles
Police Department as well as within
our country. The major issues with racial profiling is that
innocent / the wrong people for
actually being accused of being “gang-affiliated”, innocent

5. people are being murdered, and
guily people are getting away with breaking the law.
Like I have previously stated, there are many different problems
that result from racial
profiling done by those with power. One incident that occurs
most often is that certain people are
being targeted and pulled over more often. There were a few
different short stories that were in
the article, about real life instances when this happened. After
much research it was easy to be
able find a few articles with proof on this, as well as statistics.
The very first one that came up on
the results was an article written by The Los Angeles Times. In
short the article mentions that
people of color are more likely to be stopped by Los Angeles
Police Officers. The article to a
quote directly from a Los Angeles Police Advisor stating that
“they do not pull over people
based race” (“The Los Angeles Times, Poston, Chang.”) As you
continue reading the articles the
Atayde 3
third story that is introduced is one of “Bryant Mangum.” Like

6. most of the other short stories, he
was an African American man driving when he was suddenly
and unexpectedly being pulled
over at gunpoint. The officers never gave him a real answer as
to why he was even pulled over,
however that is not the interesting part. What jumps out at you
is the fact that the officers were
“While one officer searched the car, the other asked whether he
had guns or drugs, whether he
was in a gang and how he could afford a BMW. The officers are
pretty much insinuating that
since he is an African American he could not possibly be able to
afford a car as expensive as a
BMW. This is a perfect example of how they were racially
profiling him.
While the article has many real life testimonials along with the
experiences, it also comes
along with statistics of research experiments that have been
conducted to see how often people
are targeted. Embedded within the first article lies another,
written by Ben Poston and Cindy
Chang posted by The Los Angeles Times. With the acts violence
occurring more and more often
within the Los Angeles area police officers decided to change

7. their methods, and the results were
shocking. This led to about a 14 time increase in the amount of
traffic stops in 2018 since 2014.
“65%, roughly about 31% of people, that were stopped during
these incidents were Black
drivers, it was not only them 51% of stopped committed by Los
Angeles Metro officers were
Black drivers. The article also kept track of whether or not there
was contraband found in the
occupants car after being searched. To go along with this we
found that blacks were 17.2% likely
to have contraband with them after being searched. People who
are Latino we stopped 16.4%
higher than normal rates coming in with a similar percentage at
16.2% of contraband that was
found on them or in their vehicle. (The Los Angeles Times, Ben
Poston) Lastly, probably to no
one's surprise, white people were only stopped 5.1% higher than
normal rates. If you take into
consideration that roughly 59,512 people were stopped only in
the Los Angeles Police
Atayde 4

8. Department Metro Division, more than 50% of the people
stopped we’re people of color. The
huge issue that stems from this is that police officers are so
focused on certain groups of people
and expecting them to be the ones who will commit a crime that
other groups, which are not
likely to actually be committing the crime get easily
overlooked.
Works Cited:
Poston, Ben, and Cindy Chang. “LAPD Searches Blacks and
Latinos More. But They're
Less Likely to Have Contraband than Whites.” Los Angeles
Times, Los Angeles Times, 8
Oct. 2019, www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-searches-
20190605-story.html.
Poston, Ben, and Cindy Chang. “'Stop-and-Frisk in a Car:' Elite
LAPD Unit
Disproportionately Stopped Black Drivers, Data Show.” Los
Angeles Times, Los Angeles
Times, 24 Jan. 2019,
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-traffic-stops-
20190124-story.html.

9. Powers1
Chad Powers
Professor Misaghi
English 1
26 March 2021
America’s Homeless Epidemic
Life is an interesting thing because no matter what, things are
always going to be
changing. Now sometimes these changes are for the good and
sometimes they are for the bad.
One major change that can affect a person's life for the worse is
by ending up homeless. While
many Americans try to avoid this harsh truth, homelessness is a
constantly growing epidemic in
this country. The threat of homelessness isn’t a new issue in the
United States, it has been
plaguing this country for centuries. According to an article
titled History of Homelessness from
the organization Invisible People, the first ever “historical case
of homelessness” in the U.S. was
back in the “1640’s”(Invisible People). The article explains how
the uprooting of the native

10. population from “European settlers” caused conflicts that arose
and led to both Native
Americans and Europeans to become homeless. In the present
time people are much more likely
to experience being homeless than in days gone by. There are
many things that can cause a
person to end up homeless and it hasn’t been our country's main
concern to figure out how these
people ended up on the streets. I personally have known two
people who have ended up on the
streets and knowing a bit of their stories sheds some light on the
issue at hand, and it brings an
understanding on how to potentially solve it. No matter what the
causes are they need to be
discovered and dealt with appropriately. The issues of
homelessness that’s been on the rise in
the United States are only going to get worse unless something
is done about the lack of
jobs, the poor execution of mental health programs, and the
threat of natural disasters.
Powers2
Job loss and outsourcing have been key factors in people

11. becoming homeless. Over the
last year alone unemployment has jumped from “5.72 million in
Feb 2020” to “9.97 million in
Feb 2021”(Statista). During the recent and ongoing Covid-19
pandemic, it is estimated that “over
8 million people” in the United States have become unemployed
(Flaming, 19). In Los Angeles,
a city that was hit tremendously hard by the pandemic,
“homelessness among working-age
adults” has seen a 100 percent increase in the past year (28).
Much of this is caused by a “less
forgiving” economy, low wages and high cost of living (28).
When the pandemic started in the
beginning of last year many jobs were deemed nonessential. An
article from the website
betterteam.com gave a list of employees that were seen as
nonessential. Anything from
“hairdressers, waiters and waitresses, and non food related
workers” many of which make
minimum wage were let go from their jobs (betterteam). When
these people lose their jobs and
source of income they aren’t able to make rent payments. Now
as of March 27, 2020 the CARES
Act passed Section 4022, that provides temporary relief on

12. “foreclosures” for people who have
“borrowed federal-backed mortgages”(Beard). This gives a
renter an “extended 180 day” period
to get payments, and during this time landlords can’t evict
tenants (Beard). The acts to help
people avoid eviction during the pandemic are helpful during
these trying times, but it hasn’t
helped so much for people who have already been evicted or are
currently living on the streets
for other reasons. Most of these people who are currently
homeless are suffering from mental
illness.
People with untreated mental health issues are much more likely
to end up on the streets.
According to an article from Professor Deborah K. Padgett at
Cambridge, the “relationship with
mental health and homelessness” have been a subject of many
reports (Padgett). Studies have
found that about “25-30 percent” of homeless people suffer
from a form of mental illness such as
Powers3
“schizophrenia”(Padgett). Mental health is already a vastly

13. overlooked issue in the United States,
and there is a huge “gap between mental health” services that
are available to not just the general
population but more importantly the homeless population as
well (Padgett). A vast majority of
homeless people are veterans of the U.S. Military. Things such
as PTSD are among some of the
psychological effects of war. An article from the American
Psychiatric Association has stated
that when “ the Afghanistan and Iraq wars” ended it has left its
veterans with a “legacy of
extensive” mental illness (Katz). I happen to have an insight
into a person with mental illness
who ended up homeless, because my cousin happens to be living
on the streets. She is suffering
from Schizophrenia. The symptoms of her illness didn’t really
show up until adulthood when
after she had her second child. Part of what made her illness
show up was her development of
postpartum depression. She began to hear voices and hallucinate
regularly. She was treated and
given meds to control her illness, but eventually she stopped
taking them and walked out on her
family. The effect of her mental illness became too much to

14. handle for her to live and be with
other people. Today she is in her 50’s and still lives on the
streets. From time to time she gets
into contact with her older sister who in earlier years tried to
get her help and off the streets, but
just like a lot of the homeless people she doesn’t want to be
confined to the prison of society as
she puts it. Some people don’t even need to lose their jobs or
suffer from mental health to end up
homeless. Sometimes it’s an act of nature that puts them out on
the streets.
Natural disasters can be a major cause in people ending up
homeless. In recent years
California has been the epicenter of wildfires. LA times posted
an article in Aug 2020 about a
Northern California wildfire that destroyed “2000 structures”.
That number of houses that were
destroyed have left over thousands of people left without a form
of shelter. These fires are
nothing new in California, there is even a season dedicated to
fires. With poor maintenance of
Powers4

15. forests and vegetation surrounding many homes, we’ve created
the perfect environment for
wildfires to thrive. According to a study done by CoreLogic,
about “roughly 35 million homes”
or one third of “our nation’s housing” are at potential risk of
being destroyed by natural disaster
(Olick). Data from CoreLogic states that the “unexpected
natural” occurrences puts every U.S.
citizen’s livelihood at a peril risk (Olick).
These are just a few of the major ways people can end up
becoming homeless and it is up
to the country as a whole to try and help find ways to help
people off the streets.
Powers5
Work Cited
Barile, John P., Anna S. Pruitt, and Josie L. Parker. "Identifying
and understanding gaps in
services for adults experiencing homelessness." Journal of
Community & Applied Social
Psychology 30.3 (2020): 262-277.
Beard, Virginia, COVID-19: Poverty, Housing, Homelessness –
A Broad View and a Picture

16. from West Michigan (May 28, 2020). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3613030 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3613030
“California Firestorm Could Claim More than 3,000 Homes and
Structures.” Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2020,
www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-26/california-fires-
burn-more-than-1-600-structures-
but-total-losses-could-top-3-000-officials-say.
Department, Published by Statista Research, and Mar 9. “U.S.
Unemployment Level: Seasonally
Adjusted Number February 2021.” Statista, 9 Mar. 2021,
www.statista.com/statistics/193280/seasonally-adjusted-
monthly-number-of-unemployed-person
s-in-the-usa/.
Flaming, Daniel, et al. "Locked Out: Unemployment and
Homelessness in the COVID
Economy." Available at SSRN 3765109 (2021).
Katz, Ira R. "Homelessness and premature mortality among
veterans." Psychiatric Services 64.7
(2013): 605-605.

17. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3613030
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3613030
http://www.statista.com/statistics/193280/seasonally-adjusted-
monthly-number-of-unemployed-persons-in-the-usa/
http://www.statista.com/statistics/193280/seasonally-adjusted-
monthly-number-of-unemployed-persons-in-the-usa/
Powers6
Olick, Diana. “Nearly One-Third of U.S. Homes Are at High
Risk of Natural Disaster, Study
Says.” CNBC, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2021,
www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/nearly-one-third-us-homes-natural-
disaster-high-risk-new-study-says
.html.
Padgett, Deborah K. "Homelessness, housing instability and
mental health: making the
connections." BJPsych bulletin 44.5 (2020): 197-201.
Raifman, Julia, Jacob Bor, and Atheendar Venkataramani.
"Association between receipt of
unemployment insurance and food insecurity among people who
lost employment during the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States." JAMA network open
4.1 (2021):
e2035884-e2035884.

18. Shinn, Marybeth. "Homelessness: What is a psychologist to
do?." American Journal of
Community Psychology 20.1 (1992): 1-24.
“What Is a Nonessential Employee?” Betterteam,
www.betterteam.com/what-is-a-nonessential-employee.
CMNS305
Spring 2021
Proposal
DUE: See Course Syllabus
GUIDELINES:
Submission must be word-processed and uploaded to eLearn in
a .docx file. Your submission should include the following in
this order:
Assignment must include ALL elements listed below, in the
order listed:
1. Persuasive Memo – Maximum of 1.5 pages (including
headers)
2. References, following APA 7th Ed. guidelines (in text
citations and references page
Choose one of the five prompts listed below. You can pick
which organization you’d like to work for in this case, i.e.
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, West Fraser Health Authority,
Lululemon, etc. Give yourself a position there!
Write a persuasive memo based on your chosen task. Focus on
engaging in effective research and use of the three persuasive

19. tools. Your memo can be addressed to your Manager, Susan
Christie-Bell.
In this memo you are to consider:
· All three tools for persuasive writing – logos, ethos, pathos
· 3Rs of your research – recency, relevance, reliability
· Business writing format for memos. See text examples.
· Writing: clarity, conciseness, tone, grammar/mechanics
PROPOSAL OPTIONS (pick one):
1. Staff anxiety: You work for an accounting firm (pick a
company). Employees have been working from home for the
past 11 months due to COVID and it is unknown when staff will
be returning to the office. Recently, you have had an increasing
number of employees report high levels of anxiety and a lack of
motivation. You have been asked to prepare some research on
anxiety and propose one key recommendation that will help
managers manage their employees who are suffering from
anxiety.
2. EDI practices: You work for a large clothing retailer (pick a
company). Your senior manager has asked you to create a
proposal for an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiative.
Your manager has asked you to research progressive EDI
practices to propose one key recommendation that will help the
company improve their EDI practices. Your recommendation
should keep discrimination employment laws in mind.
3. Female staff upward mobility: You work for an engineering
company (pick which company). With employees now working
from home, you’ve noticed that female workers, particularly
those who are mothers are becoming burnt out, not putting
themselves forward for promotions, and in some cases, reducing
their hours or going on a leave to care for their families. This is
worrying as the company has been making progress in

20. developing and promoting female talent. Your manager has
asked you to research this topic and create a proposal with one
key recommendation that will improve the company’s ability to
retain and promote female talent.
4. Ally-ship for underrepresented staff: You work for a forestry
company (pick one). Your company has operations mainly in
smaller towns in BC. Historically, the employee base of your
company has been predominantly Caucasian and male. In order
to attract and retain a diverse pool of talent, your manager has
asked you to do some research on how staff could become allies
for new recruits from underrepresented groups and make one
key recommendation.
5. On demand workforce – you work for a marketing agency
(pick one). With your staff working from home and fluctuating
customer demands, your company is considering increasing
their on-demand workforce. Your manager has asked you to
prepare some research on the pros and cons of increasing the
company’s on demand workforce and create a memo to propose
whether it is a good idea or bad idea.
NOTE:
Your analysis and recommendation should be based on
secondary research ONLY.
Secondary research is a process of using existing information
and data, which can be found
through books, journals, websites, etc. You can refer to your
chosen organization’s website for background information
regarding their mission statement, service goals, and workplace
culture, but do not contact anyone from the organization
directly.
This is an individual assignment.