Archive for September 17th, 2017

Should people under 18 be subjected to legal curfews or restricted driving privileges?

As an active citizen, you ask to research and present to the town's citizens one of the above issues. The governing body has agreed and asks that your presentation be specifically designed to show citizens of the community how and why one of the issues above is controversial and how to be educated consumers of information regarding this issue. They ask this because the citizens will be voting on these issues in future elections and the governing body wants its citizens to be properly educated on these topics.  In your presentation, make sure you include the following:  Remember, you are giving a presentation to an audience that does not know much, if anything, about your topic. •Explain the issue, including definitions of common terms involved in the issue and why this issue is controversial. •Identify and describe three to four different conclusions that are drawn when arguments related to the issue are made. •Summarize the kinds of evidence typically used for each constructed argument related to the issue. Be sure to discuss the reasons these kinds of evidence are used and/or are most effective. •Analyze how each of the different conclusions regarding the topic use particular evidence to support their claims, paying particular attention to analyzing how the conclusions rely on different facts, different sources of evidence, or different reasoning from other conclusions. In other words, explain why certain groups would use a particular type of evidence while an opposing group would use a different type of evidence, or how two groups can represent that same data in two completely different ways. •Utilize at least three different sources and properly cite them throughout the presentation.  The presentation should be 8 to 10 slides long, and each slide should have complete, formally written slide notes (proper grammar, APA formatting, and academic tone) for record-keeping purposes and in the event there are citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing at your presentation. The slide notes must include proper APA citation of sources, proper paragraphing, and proper grammar and tone. Visually, the slides should be easy to read. A properly APA-formatted reference page must be the last slide of your presentation. See the rubric for more specific requirements of the presentation.   Submit your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 3, Day 7.  Assignment 2 Grading Criteria    Maximum Points   Explain the issue, including definitions of common terms involved in the issue.  24   Identify and describe several different conclusions that are drawn when arguments related to the issue are made.   32   Summarize the kinds of evidence typically used for each constructed argument related to the issue. Be sure to discuss the reasons these kinds of evidence are used and/or are most effective.  32   Analyze how each of the different conclusions regarding the topic use particular evidence to support their claims, paying particular attention to analyzing how the conclusions rely on different facts, different sources of evidence, or different reasoning from other conclusions.   36   Analysis of commonalities and themes amongst evidence.  32   Organization: Introduction, Transitions, Conclusion   12   Style: Tone, Audience, Word Choice   12   Usage and Mechanics: Grammar, Spelling, Sentence structure   16   APA Elements: Attribution, Paraphrasing, Quotations when appropriate or assigned   4   Total:  200

Macroeconomics2

Inflation is a measure of how prices have changed over time.  If prices are changing due to inflation, each dollar spent will buy less.
In order to answer the questions below, go to the following website: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Questions:

  1.  What is inflation? What are the causes of inflation?  Is inflation desirable and what can be done to control inflation in a market economy?
  2. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?  How has the CPI behaved since the year 2000?  What have been the causes of these changes? In your response, include a graph of the CPI for this period and cite your source.
  3. What is the Producer Price Index (PPI)?  How has the PPI behaved since the year 2000?  What have been the causes of these changes? In your response, include a graph of the PPI for this period and cite your source.
  4. What is the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE)?  How has the Survey behaved since the year 2000?  What have been the causes of these changes? In your response, include a graph of the CE for this period and cite your source.
  5. What do the measures above tell us about consumer behavior?  Have incomes changed enough to offset the inflation since 2000?  What can we predict about future inflation?
  6. What are the implications of these measures for government economic policies?

By Week 3, Day 7, create a Microsoft Word file to collate your answers

Crime in America

In Crime Control in America, Worrell suggests that we should move beyond the justice system to control
crime. He also suggests that early intervention is the key to success in controlling crime. Please
explain in detail these themes and cite relevant examples of each.

Moral Development

Many researchers believe that our level of morality grows as we mature and grow through interactions with others. While Kohlberg, Gilligan and Piaget are best known for creating moral development models, there are other researchers that have developed other models for moral development. In this paper, identify two moral development models and summarize them. Then compare and contrast these two models to each other. In your summary of the paper, identify your beliefs about the moral development models you researched and reflect on your moral development and how it happened. Follow APA cover sheet and reference page styling for full credit

emphasis on risk

Often in business there is not enough emphasis on risk. Many projects fail due to improper planning and improper risk assessment. Now that you understand operations management, processes, and critical path it is time to think about risks associated with all of the tasks that have been outlined. Explain which of your tasks on a critical path can present the most risk to a project, and explain what types of contingencies you need to put into place to protect the success of a project?
Provide substantive details

The Water Manager’s Findings on Pollution

The Assignment:
Imagine you are a water manager for a growing urban area in which the local water supply has become polluted and is in short supply.

• Compose a 500-word essay in which you do the following:
o Identify sources of possible water pollution in the urban environment. Assess the immediate damage these sources cause to the local environment and ecosystems, as well as the long-term damage if the pollution is left unchecked.
o Evaluate different recommendations that you, as the plant manager, can make to citizens to reduce water pollution. Rank your ideas in order of difficulty to implement. Explain how citizens might put each of your recommendations to use in the short term to help clean up the water supply.
o Next, address ways to make the water supply safe for consumption. For each idea, evaluate the cost and approximate length of time required to restore the water supply to safe levels. Cite any sources you use to support your ideas, as a plant manager would do in making a report.

Other information: Use APA style of writing, the paper should have an introduction paragraph, the body of the paper and a conclusion paragraph that brings it all together. Don’t forget examples to support your answers were needed.

The Puritan faith community

Question: The Puritan faith community shaped the New England colonies in virtually every way during much of the seventeenth century. Discuss the ideas and religious principles that characterized Puritanism, and explore the significant differences between the Separatists led by William Bradford, who founded Plymouth colony, and the group of Puritans led by John Winthrop, who founded Massachusetts Bay colony.

Anthropology

Responses can consist of intelligent questions, disagreements with the texts, interesting insights, linkages between readings, linkages to current events, or even linkages to things happening in your own life (as long as you are able to situate these things in an anthropological context). The reading responses should not merely summarize the texts. These responses are not expected to be formal, polished pieces of writing. They are not expected to be fully developed papers. It is not necessary for you to demonstrate mastery of all the texts we read. However, they are expected to demonstrate that you have (a) read the material and (b) thought about the anthropological concepts and issues discussed in the readings.

This is the link of the book where it contains the articles need https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7e9NsvDNyW1X0ZzSTJIdW8yZ2s/view?usp=sharing

the articles to write a response are
Spradley, “Ethnography and Culture,” •
Sterk, “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDs,”
Gmelch, “Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas,”

Fieldwork 1

Responses can consist of intelligent questions, disagreements with the texts, interesting insights, linkages between readings, linkages to current events, or even linkages to things happening in your own life (as long as you are able to situate these things in an anthropological context). The reading responses should not merely summarize the texts. These responses are not expected to be formal, polished pieces of writing. They are not expected to be fully developed papers. It is not necessary for you to demonstrate mastery of all the texts we read. However, they are expected to demonstrate that you have (a) read the material and (b) thought about the anthropological concepts and issues discussed in the readings.

This is the link of the book where it contains the articles need https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7e9NsvDNyW1X0ZzSTJIdW8yZ2s/view?usp=sharing

the articles to write a response are
Spradley, “Ethnography and Culture,” •
Sterk, “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDs,”
Gmelch, “Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas,”

Regulating Professional Practice

Compare the roles of state board of nursing with the role of professional organizations in regulating professional practice. What are the major methods of credentialing?

List the benefits and weaknesses of each method from the standpoint of protecting the public and the protection of the professional scope of practice.