Writer Choice

41657Explain a situation in which a personal, academic, or workplace problem was identified as resulting from limited resources or a limited access to resources. Then explain how the affected parties approached the resource-related problem and why you think they approached the problem in this manner. Finally, explain whether or not the approach was effective. (100 words)

Separate paragraph-100 words
Police officers arrive at a crime scene to investigate a robbery and shooting. The following four descriptions of the suspect are given by eyewitnesses (EW). These eyewitness descriptions are resources.

EW 1: He flashed about the store with the movement of a wolf, growling at people to get down on the floor.

EW 2: He was 6’2” tall with a scar over his eye, kind of like one that my uncle got in the first Gulf war from shrapnel.

EW 3: He drove away in a metallic gold 2004 Monte Carlo with double spinners on the wheels and no door handles—they had been filled in and painted over. The car was loud like there was no muffler on it. There was an emblem on the right-rear fender. He probably is a member of a gang.

EW 4: Given how many people are out of work in this section of town, he was probably laid off from one of the local garages since he wore a grease-stained, red-hooded sweatshirt.

Select two of the descriptions above to address in the Discussion.

Write a brief analysis of the impact these two descriptions have on the police officer’s problem-solving process.

references:
Gladwell, M. (2009). What the dog saw and other adventures. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.

“Million-Dollar Murray: Why Problems Like Homelessness May be Easier to Solve Than to Manage” (pp. 177–198)

Hyerle, D. (2009). Visual tools for transforming information into knowledge (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:Corwin Press.

“Prologue” (pp. x–xv)
“Introduction” (pp. 1–8)
Chapter 1, “The Mapping Metaphor” (pp. 9–19)
Chapter 2, “Facilitating the Networking Brain and the Patterning Mind” (pp. 20–34)
Chapter 3, “Using Visual Tools” (pp. 35–46)
Chapter 4, “Brainstorming Webs for Facilitating the Creative Mind” (pp. 47–70)
Chapter 5, “Graphic Organizers for Analytical Tasks” (pp. 71–90)

Roam, D. (2013). The back of the napkin (expanded edition): Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. New York, NY: Penguin Group.

Chapter 1, “A Whole New Way of Looking at Business” (pp. 3–11)
Chapter 2, “Which Problems, Which Pictures, and Who is ‘We’”? (pp.12–31)
Chapter 3, “A Gamble We Can’t Lose: The Four Steps of Visual Thinking” (pp. 32–42)