Archive for December 18th, 2017

Assignment 3: Perspectives on Gender Identity

M1 Assignment 3 Submission

Instructions

 

Assignment 3: Perspectives on Gender Identity

This assignment challenges you to examine theoretical perspectives about gender identity and compare them to your own gender identity development. You will use your personal experiences to answer questions about identity and explore any related conflicts or affirmations as to whether you agree or disagree with the accuracy of the theory you picked.

Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research theories of gender development (such as Social Learning Theory, Cognitive Development Theory, Gender Schema Theory, Gilligan's Gender Identity Theory, and Gender Transcendence) and current perspectives on the role of nature and nurture in gender identity development that might help explain your own gender identity development. Answer the following questions.

· Describe the gender theory that you picked.

· Analyze the accuracy of the interpretation of the theory and how it relates to you—do you fit the mold?

· Explain how gender identity may have changed in the past 2–3 generations (i.e., your parents and grandparents) with changing dynamics in family (divorce, single parents, women in the workforce, Title IX, etc.).

· Reflect on how your gender identity impacts the way you communicate with those of the same gender, different gender, etc.

Include a reference page in APA format of your research resources.

Write a 2- to 3-page essay in Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

Social Science – Sociology

Project: Final Project

 

What is your vision for social change? What outcomes would you like to see regarding the social issue on which you have focused during this course? What might you be able to contribute to the realization of those outcomes? This Assignment provides an opportunity for synthesizing the information you have researched and the ideas you have formulated regarding your social issue. It also provides an opportunity for peer review and collective comments in Week 6.

To prepare for this Project:

 

  • Review the Final Project section of the Course Project Overview and Guidelines located in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Consider the scope of what you have learned regarding your social issue. What insights have resonated? What inspiration have you drawn from examples in the Learning Resources? What can one person do to make a difference on this issue? What can many people do?
  • With all of this in mind, consider actions you can take that might impact this issue. What is the objective of each action? What might be gained?

Due by Sunday 12/31/17

 

Develop a Final Presentation by writing a (3-page paper, not including cover page or references).

 

Include the following:

 

  • Introduction
  • Summary of the problem
  • Potential solutions
  • Key actions that you as an individual can take
  • Objectives/desired outcomes of each action
  • Expected objectives for the immediate future and 5–10 years from now
  • Conclusion

The following should be evident in the Final Project:

 

  • Research (using sources to formulate the presentation)
  • Explanation (articulating the issue or problem to be addressed)
  • Analysis (looking at the connections between the facts and assumptions when discussing your issue)
  • Stance (taking a definitive perspective and calling for specific goals)
  • Understanding (acknowledging any counter perspectives or problems related to proposed solutions)
  • Implementation (listing concrete steps—both personal and collective—that might be taken to solve the problem)

Be sure to support your statements with APA Style in-text citations.

Assignment 2-1

Details:  Select one patient (neighbor, family, or friend) and write-up their comprehensive health history. Include the following variables: 

1.Identifying data.

 2.Past medical history. 

3.Health status, perceived barriers, and support.

 

 4.Chief complaint (CC). 

5.History of present illness (HPI). 

6.Family and/or social history (PFSH). 

7.Focused review of systems (ROS). 

8.Identify age, spiritual values, and cultural variables that were considered and how these variables influenced your interviews or health history. 

 

 In a 1,000-1,250-word essay, summarize effective interview techniques for collecting a patient's health history. Include the following: 

1.Address how to elicit the patient's interpretation of their health status, their perceived barriers, and support. 

2.Critique the effectiveness of several history taking techniques with rationale from the readings.

Operations Management Exam

Multiple Choice: select the best possible answer.

1. What TQM tool helps identify causes or drivers of a problem (also known as the effect)?

a. Cause-and-effect diagram

b. Pareto Chart

c. Flowchart

d. Control Chart

e. Statistical Process Control (SPC)

2. A graphical representation of a process or system using annotated boxes and interconnected lines.

a. Cause-and-effect diagram

b. Pareto Chart

c. Flowchart

d. Control Chart

e. Statistical Process Control (SPC)

3. Which TQM tool organizing errors, problems or defects which shows where the defect most frequently occurs?

a. Cause-and-effect diagram

b. Pareto Chart

c. Flowchart

d. Control Chart

e. Statistical Process Control (SPC)

4. The ______________ is a good initial analysis tool used to help identify drivers which need to be researched further.

a. Cause-and-effect diagram

b. Pareto Chart

c. Flowchart

d. Control Chart

e. Statistical Process Control (SPC)

5. A type of analysis, made popular by Dr. Juran, which indicates which problems may yield the greatest payoff.

a. Cause-and-effect diagram

b. Pareto Chart

c. Flowchart

d. Control Chart

e. Statistical Process Control (SPC)

6. What are the two types of variation?

a. Unnatural and categorization

b. Natural and mathematical

c. Assignable and Natural

d. Standard and Deviation

7. Which of the following is NOT something that TQM focus on?

a. Customer driven quality standards or attributes

b. Managerial Leadership

c. Continuous Improvement

d. Building Quality into products & process

e. Identify quality issues at the source

f. Maintaining the Quality Management System (QMS)

8. What is forecasting?

a. Planning for future use of materials to meet market demands.

b. The ability to predicting future events through the use of historical data and projecting them into the future with mathematical models.

c. Maintaining enough inventory to satisfy the production needs of an organization.

d. None of the above.

9. The following are two general approaches to Forecasting?

a. Analytics and predictions

b. Qualitative and quantitative methods

c. Mathematical models

d. Financial and demand estimation

10. What is NOT a Qualitative Method?

a. Jury of executive opinion

b. Delphi method

c. Sales force composite

d. Time series models

11. Time series forecasting attempts to predict the future by using ______________ ?

a. Current data

b. Historical data

c. Operational data

d. Future data

12. Which times series method provides manager the flexibility of changing weights from period to period based on their experience, judgment and future expectations?

a. Moving Averages

b. Exponential Smoothing

c. Trend Projection

d. Exponential Averages

13. What forecasting method is used to project medium to long range forecasts?

a. Moving Averages

b. Exponential Smoothing

c. Trend Projection

d. Exponential Averages

14. Forecasts can be influenced by ____________?

a. A product’s position in life cycle

b. Inventory amounts

c. Its critical path

d. None of the above

15. What are the three phases of project management?

a. Planning, scheduling and controlling

b. Defining, scoping and managing

c. Defining, controlling and resourcing

d. Defining, resourcing and financing

16. Project Managers ensure which of the following?

a. Proper sequencing of the work

b. Keeping the project within budget

c. Meeting project goals and objectives

d. Provides motivation, direction and information to project team

e. All the above

17. The hierarchical description of a project broken into several detailed components is known as the ______________________?

a. Scope

b. Activities

c. Work breakdown structure

d. Project tasks

18. _____________ involves the sequencing and time allotment to determine overall project timeline.

a. Planning

b. Scheduling

c. Controlling

d. Managing

19. A Gantt chart helps project managers to do which of the following?

a. Activities are planned

b. Order of performance is documented

c. Activity time estimates are recorded

d. Overall project timeline is developed

e. All the above

20. Which project management phase consist of the monitoring of activities, resources, costs, use of feedback loops to revise project plan and/or shifting resources.

a. Planning

b. Scheduling

c. Controlling

d. Managing

21. ______________ is the longest time path in the network diagram.

a. Longest path

b. Critical path

c. Direct path

d. Shortest path

22. What are the two pass processes to determine the time schedule?

a. Forward and Backward Pass

b. Lateral and Remedial Pass

c. Reverse and Normal Pass

d. Work Activity and Migration Pass

23. Which of the following is NOT considered time estimates in PERT?

a. Optimistic time

b. Pessimistic time

c. Most likely time

d. Estimated activity time

24. The process where we shorten the duration of a project in the cheapest manner possible.

a. Project minimization

b. Project crashing

c. Project leaking

d. Project alignment

25. What is the method of measuring random samples of batches against predetermined standards?

a. Process Capability Analysis

b. Acceptance Sampling

c. Population Sampling

d. Acceptance Criteria

26. Which is not a reason for the importance of project management in an organization?

a. Managing projects can be challenging for Operations Managers

b. Can result in cost overruns

c. Can be controlled by careful monitoring of progress

d. Prevent delays

27. Determine the forecast for January using the 3 moving average.

Month

Actual Demand

3 Month Moving Average

January

10

February

12

March

13

April

16

May

19

June

23

July

26

August

30

September

28

October

18

November

16

December

14

January

28. Compute the forecast for month 5 using the exponential smoothing model; a = .2 and B = .4.

Month

Actual Demand

Smoothed Forecast Average, Ft

Smoothed Trend, Tt

Forecast Including Trend, FITt

1

12

11

2

2

17

3

20

4

19

5

24

29. What is the critical path of the following?

30. A nationwide parcel delivery service keeps track of the number of late deliveries (more than 30 minutes past the time promised to clients) per day. They plan on using a control chart to plot their results. Which type of control chart(s) would you recommend?

A) both x-bar chart and R-chart

B) p-chart

C) c-chart

D) x-bar chart

E) both p-chart and c-chart

3 Page Blog Post

Write a 3 page blog post in APA format-WITH IN TEXT CITATIONS AND REFERENCES (FROM LIST) that explains your interest in an area of psychology and the type of impact you would like to make in that area. Describe the skills required to be a psychology professional, and explain how the practitioner-scholar model supports professional development. Finally, explain the importance of research to the area of psychology you plan to go into. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY

 Use at least two of the resources provided to help you complete this assessment. 

MUST USE THESE:

 

McClintock, C. (2003). Scholar practitioner model. In A. DiStefano, K. E. Rudestam, & R. J. Silverman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of distributed learning (pp. 394–397). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Brinthaupt, T. M., Counts, V. E., & Hurst, J. R. (2012). Stereotypes about the psychology degree: Student sources and beliefs. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 39(3/4), 229–242.
Belar, C. D. (2012). Reflections on the future: Psychology as a health profession. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(6), 545–550.
Smedslund, J., & Ross, L. (2014). Research-based knowledge in psychology: What, if anything, is its incremental value to the practitioner? Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 48(4), 365–383.
Babione, J. M. (2010). Evidence-based practice in psychology: An ethical framework for graduate education, clinical training, and maintaining professional competence. Ethics & Behavior, 20(6), 443–453.
Nash, J. M., & Larkin, K. T. (2012). Geometric models of competency development in specialty areas of professional psychology. Training & Education In Professional Psychology, 6(1), 37–46.

Total Environmental Health And Safety

1.Describe how your organization or an organization you are familiar with manages occupational safety and health. To what extent are executives and facility managers committed to the OSH effort, and to what extent are front-line employees involved? What level of effort is exerted to ensure that hazards are evaluated and controlled? Are there continuous improvement efforts in place? 
 

Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

2. Explain the five-why technique, and describe how this technique can be used in incident investigation to identify potential causes that may tie to deficiencies in processes and management systems rather than mistakes made by workers? 
 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

3. Compare and contrast the concepts of macro and micro thinking as they relate to safety and health management in the workplace. Which is more in alignment with the safety management systems approach and why? 
 

Your response must be at least 75 words in length.

4. Appraise the concept of organizational culture and its relationship to successful implementation of safety management systems. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

5. In the conclusion to Chapter 4, Manuel states that top-level decisions largely cause potential for human error, and this impact spreads through the entire organization. Please examine this statement with respect to how it aligns with the tenets of the safety management systems approach to produce desired results. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Ethical Advertisement Assessment

 Ethical Advertisement Assessment 

Analyzing the content of advertisements is helpful in determining if an intended message will be offensive. Search the internet for one print advertisement that you believe is an example of an unethical ad. Answer the following questions for your ad:

 

  • What is the ethical issue within the advertisement?      Discuss the problem that you see with the advertisement.
  • Do you think this ad was developed to be intentionally      unethical? Why or why not?
  • Do you think corrective action should be taken by the      advertiser? Why or why not?
  • Do you think the ad was effective in promoting the      product or service? Why or why not?

Be sure to choose a print advertisement for which you can answer all of the questions. Include the chosen print ad with this assignment.

Guidelines for Submission: Short papers should use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to a discipline-appropriate citation method. Page-length requirements:1–2 pages.

 

Earth Science

EARTH SCIENCE- 200 WORDS EACH

Question 9

1. Briefly describe what happens at a subduction zone

Question 10
1. Explain how an accretionary wedge forms.

Question 11
1. What is a hot spot? Explain how this forms a volcanic island chain such as that of the Hawaiian Islands.

Question 12
1. How are faults, hypocenters, and epicenters related? Faults that are experiencing no active creep (relatively consistent yet minor movements) may be considered "safe". Rebut or defend this statement with what you have learned so far about faults. Your response should be at least 200 words in length

DQ EARTH SCIENCE- 200 WORDS UNIT III

Please respond to one of the two discussion prompts below: Have you, or someone you know, personally experienced an earthquake? Describe the moment just before the earthquake. What was the earthquake itself like? How was your life and the local population affected? Or: Imagine that your city was hit by a major earthquake. What kind of damage would you see? For example, are there dams upstream of your city that might burst and release floodwaters? Are there any major pipelines that would be vulnerable, leading to fires? Are you near a coast? Is there a threat of tsunamis? Do you think your city’s building codes are enough to withstand a major earthquake?

HUMAN RESOUCE UNIT III- 200 WORDS

Organizations are competing more than ever for top talent, and oftentimes they're finding that in order to attract and retain this talent offering a work-life balance is pivotal in its staffing strategy. With baby boomers retiring in record numbers, parents taking care of their parents as well as their own children, single-parent families, dual career families, among others, what work options can organizations offer to employees to help strike the balance between meeting business needs and providing a positive a work-life balance for employees?

Information Technology Issues

Write an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the following topic:

Is it possible to regulate the Internet? Is it reasonable or desirable to try to do so? Discuss, with particular consideration of the technical, practical and ethical issues involved. 

Be sure to answer this question discursively – present your own point of view and also those of others which you have researched, and be sure to support your conclusions. Credit will particularly be given for evidence of analytical thinking and cogent argument. Be sure to address all aspects of the question asked. 

OSHA Training And Development

1.Explain the differences between asbestos abatement training and asbestos awareness training. 
 

Your response must be at least 75 words.

2. Discuss the connection between OSHA and EPA regarding hazardous waste operations. Why are most of the hazardous waste training requirements listed in the OSHA standards and not in the EPA standards? 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.

3. Discuss some of the benefits for an organization that follows the recommendations contained in ANSI Z490. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.

4. Discuss three different ways that information is encoded in memory. Which of these three do you feel is the most relevant for safety training? Explain your choice. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.

5. Explain the principle of praxis as applied to adult learning. Provide an example of how it could be applied in a safety training class. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.

6. What are the four motivational strategies of the ARCS model? Which one do you think would be most important for a two-hour class on respiratory protection? Explain your choice. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.

7. Explain how external factors can influence behavior and learning. Provide two examples that illustrate your point. 
 

Your response must be at least 200 words.