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"Survey key аccоunts fоr custоmer sаtisfаction every six months." is an example of which S.M.A.R.T. goal?
(HC)The questiоn is bаsed оn the аccоmpаnying documents. You are advised to spend 15 minutes planning and 40 minutes writing your answer.In your response, you should do the following. State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question. Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of the documents. Support the thesis or a relevant argument by accounting for historical complexity, relating diverse historical evidence in a cohesive way. Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: author's point of view, author's purpose, audience, and/or historical context. Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents. Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes. Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay. Evaluate the extent to which Great Society legislation was effective at responding to the political, economic, and social problems of the United States in the period 1960 to 1970.Document 1Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, message to Congress, March 16, 1964Because it is right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty, I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The act does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences, of poverty. It can be a milestone in our 180-year search for a better like for our people.This act...will give almost half a million underprivileged young Americans the opportunity to develop skills, continue education, and find useful work; it will give every American community the opportunity to develop a comprehensive plan to fight its own poverty—and help them carry out their plans;...it will give many workers and farmers the opportunity to break through particular barriers which bar their escape from poverty. Document 2Source: Republican National Convention Speech, Barry Goldwater, 1964During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that faith...Because of this administration we are tonight a world divided—we are a Nation becalmed. We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity. We are plodding at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.Rather than useful jobs in our country, people have been offered bureaucratic "make work," rather than moral leadership, they have been given bread and circuses, spectacles, and, yes, they have even been given scandals. Tonight there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness among our youth, anxiety among our elders and there is a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives. Where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen. Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity...Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government, and a government that cannot fulfill that purpose is one that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens. History shows us—demonstrates that nothing—nothing prepares the way for tyranny more than the failure of public officials to keep the streets from bullies and marauders. Document 3Source: President Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., discuss the Voting Rights Act, 1965© Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Images Group / Image Quest 2015 Document 4Source: Speech Regarding the Los Angeles Riots, Congressman George V. Hansen, R-Idaho, August 16, 1965The events of the last few days in Los Angeles, Chicago, and other parts of the country—but especially in Los Angeles and southern California—are enough to make ones' blood run cold. Here we have seen rioting conducted to such an extent that it can only be called armed insurrection. Here we have seen armed thugs running rampant in the streets, burning, pillaging, and killing...Civil disobedience such as the current riots in Chicago and Los Angeles are doing much to harm the legitimate Negro goals. Document 5Source: NOW Statement of Purpose, 1966We, men and women who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders.The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.There is no civil rights movement to speak for women, as there has been for Negroes and other victims of discrimination. The National Organization for Women must therefore begin to speak. Document 6Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, 1967Our second objective is partnership—to create an effective partnership at all levels of government. And I should treasure nothing more than to have that partnership begin between the executive and the Congress...I welcome your views, as I have welcomed working with you for 30 years as a colleague and as Vice President and President.I should like to say to the Members of the opposition—whose numbers, if I am not mistaken, seem to have increased somewhat—that the genius of the American political system has always been best expressed through creative debate that offers choices and reasonable alternatives. Throughout our history, great Republicans and Democrats have seemed to understand this. So let there be light and reason in our relations. That is the way to a responsible session and a responsive government.Let us be remembered as a President and a Congress who tried to improve the quality of life for every American—not just the rich, not just the poor, but every man, woman, and child in this great Nation of ours.We all go to school—to good schools or bad schools. We all take air into our lungs-clean air or polluted air. We all drink water—pure water or polluted water. We all face sickness someday, and some more often than we wish, and old age as well. We all have a stake in this Great Society—in its economic growth, in reduction of civil strife—a great stake in good government.We just must not arrest the pace of progress we have established in this country in these years. Our children's children will pay the price if we are not wise enough, and courageous enough, and determined enough to stand up and meet the Nation's needs as well as we can in the time allotted us. Document 7Source: United States Department of Commerce, Poor and Poverty Rate, 1960–1970
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