Term Paper: Do BOTH Parts: Part One and Part Two (but submit both in one document — one upload, one submission):
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Part One: Essay Assignment: Imaginary Future Impacts of Life Choices, Laws, and Government Actions
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You can use an AI tool (chatbot) to help you think up and detail some, or all, of these items in Part One. Just follow the steps below, one at a time, and put down your answers as numbered items, in that order. I recommend you save a copy as you go, and go over it one final time before submitting. For a REALLY outstanding-quality paper, I usually give a few papers some extra points.
IMPORTANT: I will be grading hard, looking for your own active engagement, editing, and voice: not just a paste of AI stuff. That usually means going back over the AI output, and reworking it. AI-related writing I dont like, and will cut points for, sounds flat, smooth, generic, impersonal, and lacking distinctive imagination and distinctively human presence in the writing. I was very pleased with the distinctive voices in the earlier writing assignments, done by most of you!
Free AI tools are listed below.
Suggested Free AI Tools:
Google Gemini (Free):
ChatGPT (Free/GPT-3.5):
Microsoft Copilot (Free):
Text only: do not include any images, sounds or videos.
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Each item in Part 1 of your term paper should be labeled 1-1 to 1-7, matching each of these 7 items:
1-1. Create an imaginary person who is about your age. This person should not be you, a friend, or any real person. Do this to protect personal privacy (to not disclose your actual personal details to a chatbot). Write an imaginary first name for this person, and a 3-year range of age. (Example: Sarah, age 22-25.)
1-2. 3 life roles. Give this imaginary person three (3) future life roles. One role must be professional (a job or career, as in, working in a certain industry or business). The other two roles must be personal (like ‘parent,’ ‘homeowner,’ or ‘partner in a marriage’). You will include these and build from them for your remaining items:
1-3. NAME 3 GOVERNMENT POLICIES. Identify government policies affecting each of the life roles: identify three (3) current or likely future government policies (federal or state) that could affect your person’s decisions in those roles. These are laws or policies that, if they happen as expected, may make it more, or less, challenging or costly to seek and have these roles.
One law or government policy must relate to business or work. (For example, the US federal budget passed in 2025, and President Trump’s 2025 executive orders, have cut funding for certain government jobs and programs, affecting particular types of employment and government-linked businesses, while preserving high military funding, and tax cuts. Your job is to find what the specifics are, affecting your person’s possible choices.)
Others of these 3 government/law items can relate to the roles in terms of business or personal choices such as seeking student loan or other government assistance.
(“Policies” are big, overall government projects or plans, that in turn, are usually further expressed and carried out in laws. For example, the government may have a policy to support a certain field of business or technology, by tax laws or direct financial support, or a policy to increase child care assistance, or veterans’ benefits. More points are awarded for identifying current or expected government policies clearly.
1-4. NAME 3 ACTUAL LAWS. For each policy you identified, name and summarize at least one actual law that carries out, or is intended in the future to carry out, that policy, by its correct official name. For each law you identify, give a short summary of what it does, overall. Be sure to tell the AI to only use real, not made-up, law names and descriptions. More items you can think of, and develop clearly, get more points!
1-5. SCENARIOS (QUICK STORIES). Tell me 3 scenarios (stories) of how each of these roles and choices could be affected, and made easier or more difficult, by these policies and laws. Write a scenario, an imagined story, for each of the three laws/government policies. The scenario must show how the law or policy may affect your person’s ability to achieve or practice their roles, and the person’s decisions to seek these, or to seek alternate roles, or to adjust the person’s plans. A scenario could, for example, include choices of what life and business priorities the person decides to accomplish first, second and third, what to emphasize in the person’s future education, or what region of the country to live in, based on businesses, laws, or politics that are strong in that region.
1-6. Identify all AI use. Document all AI use inside your essay: For every AI use, list the site name, and summarize the prompts you used, and the output you got, from each. You can do this by labeling each part above, with this info.
1-7. NOW, tell DIFFERENT possible futures. Now find different ways it could play out. The real-life future involves guesses, even for an AI! So ask the AI for alternatives: for each of your three scenarios, use a new prompt to ask the AI to suggest a different, alternative scenario for how the government, law or business trends could change or turn out different, affecting your person, and your person’s choices. Include this second AI output in your essay.
Grading: Points will be given for how imaginative and detailed you make the person’s roles and scenarios, and how clearly you identify laws and government policies that relate to this.
Format: I am very open on the format you use, as long as you include the items listed above.
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Part Two:
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Part 2: make up a quick little story (one or more sentences long) for each part of this California law:
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For each item below, write a statement (like a little story, which can be just one sentence long, or a few sentences) of an imaginary business (not a real business) doing each thing described. (Just so you know: these things are illegal to do.) Note: this is a real law. But here, I put it in a different order from the actual law, and from earlier semester assignments, so copying older papers from earlier semesters will not work. Make each one separate; number each one, in order, matching the numbers below:
Example: sample answer (do not use this example as your answer): for the first item below:
Part 2 – (1)[Falsely stating] geographic origin [of] goods or services.
[Sample/Example answer:] Part 2 – (1) Joes Wine Shop sells wine that Joe falsely claims is made in France, but in fact, it was made in Joes house in El Cajon from grapes grown in his back yard.
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These are each from a California law: California Civil Code section 1770, “Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices”:
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The following unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts [by a seller] intended to result in sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful [in California]:
[Tell a story of an imaginary business doing each of these things:]
Part 2 – (1)[Falsely stating] geographic origin [of] goods or services.
Part 2 – (2) Representing [claiming, stating, communicating] that goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, or grade, or that goods are of a particular … model, if they are of another.
Part 2 – (3) [Falsely stating] the source [such as, the brand or maker] … of goods or services.
Part 2 – (4) Representing that a part, replacement, or repair service is needed when it is not.
Part 2 – (5) Representing that goods are original or new if they have deteriorated unreasonably or are used.
Part 2 – (6) Inserting an unconscionable provision in the contract. [That word is explained in our contracts notes and videos, or can be looked up in a legal dictionary online.]
Part 2 – (7) [A fake sale:] Advertising goods or services with intent not to supply reasonably expectable demand, unless the advertisement discloses a limitation of quantity.
Part 2 – (8) Disparaging [defaming: making a false statement, as fact, that harms reputation, to a third person such as a customer, about the] goods, services, or business of [another business or business person] by false [statement]of fact. [Example: lying to wreck a businesss good name with a desired customer.]
Part 2 – (9) [Making a false statement of] certification [this business supposedly has, from a government agency or other organization].
Part 2 – (10) [Falsely stating] that goods or services have … characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or quantities they do not have.
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