Month: July 2017

Identify someone with an interesting career, job, or hobby that has played a significant role in his or her life. Interview that person and write a PROFILE that demonstrates how that hobby or job has changed him or her. Use DIALOGUE and engaging details to help reveal your subject’s character. MLA format 3-4 pages

Think of an important interpersonal relationship you are currently in. It can be your spouse, significant other, family member or friend. Evaluate the communication and conflict styles of both parties, you and the other person, in this relationship. You must state the concepts from the following scanned pages: CLICK HERE FOR SCANNED BOOK PAGES, the approaches to handling conflict from our own textbook (p. 262-266), and give personal examples to analyze both sides of this relationship. 1. Give one example of each type of message you sent and received: Disconfirming, Disagreeing, and Confirming (from SCANNED BOOK PAGES p. 341-345). Each of those categories contains different types. Make sure you state which specific type it is. You will have six examples, three from you and three delivered to you from the other person. 2. Give two examples of Gibbs categories of supportive and defensive behaviors from each person (from SCANNED BOOK PAGES p. 349-355). Be specific about the behavior and category it fits into. 3. Analyze your approaches to handling conflict (our text p. 262-266). Discuss the style of each person has and give examples. 4. Offer at least two pieces of advice that you would give yourself on how to improve your relationship based on any concepts we have studied in the course. Be sure to say where you are getting your advice from. Conflict analysis Conflict analysis Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome #1 Disconfirming, disagreeing, and confirming messages; Gave 2 examples of each type, specifically naming the type of message 12.0 pts Gave partial information 7.0 pts No Marks 0.0 pts 12.0 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome #2 Gibbs categories; Gave two examples of supportive and defensive behaviors 8.0 pts Gave partial information 5.0 pts No Marks 0.0 pts 8.0 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome #3 Name and analyze conflict styles 8.0 pts Partial explanation given 3.0 pts No Marks 0.0 pts 8.0 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome #4 Advice – based on two course concepts 7.0 pts Gave partial information 2.0 pts No Marks 0.0 pts 7.0 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Intro, Conclusion, spelling and grammar Contained an introduction and conclusion; free from spelling and grammar errors 5.0 pts Limited introduction or conclusion; contained few spelling and grammar errors 3.0 pts Didn’t contain introduction or conclusion. Spelling and/or grammar errors impacted readability. 0.0 pts 5.0 pts

I need one page with two bibliographies and two pages with two quantitative datas ( chart, line graph, table…. 3 pages in total

For the final project you are to write a two page, double spaced, 12pt font paper about any country, region, or realm that was covered in the course. You can choose any aspect that you want to discuss about your selection. You need at least two outside sources (meaning sources other than the book). Your sources should be a reliable source so, no sources such as Wikipedia or other opinion /edited sites. Blogs and personal websites can be referenced if you are demonstrating a point – of – view or providing insight to a culture, society, event, or a ny other aspect that would benefit from a firsthand experience being told.

Milestone Two: Application of the Law to the Facts and Impact Assessment In Module Five, you will submit the Application of the Law to the Facts and the Impact Assessment sections (Sections IID and IIE) of the memorandum. In the Application of the Law to the Facts section, use the precedents you have selected in case law, regulations, and substantive law, assess the strengths and weaknesses of your company’s arguments in court. Is it probable your company will win this legal dispute? In the Impact Assessment section, based on your analysis, how do you believe this situation may affect public perception of your selected company? Will the public discourse reflect possible legal outcomes? Be sure to use specific examples. Make suggestions on how to alleviate any damages to your selected company’s public perception going forward. Will action(s) related to the other party be appropriate? Recommend how the company should modify specific business practices to avoid similar situations in the future. This milestone should be 4–5 pages. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Memo Introduction: Articulate what you feel are the strengths of your company’s legal claim or defense. II. Client’s Case A. Facts and Laws 1. Analyze the facts related to employment discrimination or unlawful termination based on your company’s perspective. 2. Analyze the facts related to contract issues based on your company’s perspective. 3. Identify the operative employment and contract laws that apply to your company’s case. B. Precedent 1. Select cases that support your company’s position in terms of employment discrimination or unlawful termination. Justify why they support its case. 2. Select cases that support your company’s position in terms of contract disputes. Justify why they support its case. C. Facts to be Determined 1. Determine any facts that will help you better analyze your company’s position. In other words, what questions do you need answered before you can proceed? 2. Explain how the identified facts will help establish the legal rights and/or obligations of the defendant in relation to your company. In other words, how would those facts reflect on the propriety and legality of the decisions that were made? D. Application of the Law to the Facts: Using the precedents you have selected in case law, regulations, and substantive law, assess the strengths and weaknesses of your company’s arguments in court. Is it probable your company will win this legal dispute? E. Impact Assessment 1. Based on your analysis, how do you believe this situation may affect public perception of your selected company? Will the public discourse reflect possible legal outcomes? Be sure to use specific examples. 2. Make suggestions on how to alleviate any damages to your selected company’s public perception going forward. Will action(s) related to the other party be appropriate? 3. Recommend how the company should modify specific business practices to avoid similar situations in the future. Scenario: Mary Jane and Allen Greene, a married couple, own a high-end costume jewelry manufacturing and distribution company called Greene’s Jewelry Wholesale, LLC. The principal place of business for Greene’s Jewelry is in Derry, New Hampshire, where it owns a warehouse and two storefronts. Originally started in 1957, the company expanded over five decades, and it now employs 502 individuals in a variety of departments, including sales and marketing, research and development, human resources, and manufacturing. The primary asset of Greene’s Jewelry is its process for creating a synthetic gold-colored material called “Ever-Gold,” which is used in Greene’s necklaces, rings, earrings, and bracelets. Ever-Gold is impervious to scratches, discoloration, oxidization, and is marketed as “everlasting gold.” Greene’s maintains this process as a trade secret. Jennifer Lawson, who has been employed for three years as a junior executive secretary in the research and development department at Greene’s Jewelry, has just learned that she is pregnant. She has earned high marks on each of her annual reviews with the company, with the exception of the fact that she routinely shows up 15 to 30 minutes late for work. Otherwise, she is deemed to be professional, articulate, diligent, and skilled in her role with the company. When Lawson advises the head of human resources, Lisa Peele, that she may have to take additional time off as a result of some high-risk factors that she will face during the course of her pregnancy, she is told that her position has been eliminated. The specific words are: “Congratulations Jennifer! That is exciting news for you. We do not need to worry about time off, though, because, regrettably, I was just going to let you know that we are downsizing and no longer have a need for any of our junior executive secretaries.” Jennifer is distraught, and immediately returns to her desk to clear it out as instructed. She removes all of her personal items, as well as the projects she was working on prior to her discussion with Lisa Peele. When she returns to her home, she realizes that she has inadvertently taken a draft letter to Greene’s intellectual property attorney, which details the secret process for creating Ever-Gold. Although Greene’s Jewelry requires all of its executives to sign covenants not to compete and confidentiality agreements, Jennifer was only required to sign a confidentiality agreement, by which she agreed never to disclose any information that she might acquire from Greene’s regarding the process used to create Ever-Gold. Panicked, and knowing that she needs a job, she calls one of Greene’s competitors, Howell Jewelry World, and advises its hiring manager that she is a former employee of Greene’s, that she needs a job, and that she has confidential information about Ever-Gold that would help Howell compete with Greene’s. The hiring manager at Howell, Naomi White, schedules an interview with Jennifer for the following day At the end of the interview, Naomi makes an offer to Jennifer to begin work with Howell immediately, but she conditions the offer on Jennifer’s execution of an employment contract. The contract contains two specific provisions that Naomi insists Jennifer read and initial, in addition to signing the contract as a whole. One of those provisions states that Jennifer will disclose the information she has regarding the Ever-Gold process prior to commencing work with Howell. The other provision is a covenant to not work for any competitor of Howell for two years after she leaves the employ of Howell, irrespective of the reason for leaving, and whether she quits or is fired. Jennifer initials both of the provisions, signs the contract for employment, and gives Naomi a copy of the letter that she removed from her desk at Greene’s. One week after she starts working with Howell, Jennifer is fired for chronic tardiness, and she thereafter gets a job working as a sales associate with the only other jewelry company in town, Triumph Jewels. Meanwhile, Greene’s learns that Howell has acquired knowledge of the secret process used to create Ever-Gold, and that Howell has tweaked the process slightly to create a product with similar characteristics and qualities to Ever-Gold. Howell, for its part, has learned that Jennifer is working for a competitor and fears that Jennifer will disclose the process to Triumph. Finally, one of Howell’s customers had developed a disfiguring rash as a direct result of the new process Howell has begun using in its jewelry. Greene’s sues Jennifer for breach of the confidentiality agreement when it learns that she has given confidential information to Howell. Jennifer counter-sues Greene’s for wrongful termination. Howell sues Jennifer for breach of the covenant not to compete, and Jennifer counter-sues for fraudulent inducement, believing that she was tricked into signing the employment contract with Howell and that Howell was never interested in hiring her, but was interested only in acquiring information on the process to create Ever-Gold. Howell also sues Trium
ph, claiming that it knew or should have known that Jennifer was subject to a covenant not to compete, and that Triumph should therefore be bound by its provisions. Guidelines for Submission: Your memorandum should be 4–5 pages, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. You should use current APA style guidelines for your citations and reference list. Generally speaking, the best memos include references to at least two cases for each point of law that is mentioned. Students also earn high marks when they cite cases that appear to support a different legal resolution than the one presented by the student, and then distinguish that case from the scenario described in this assignment. Such distinctions demonstrate exemplary understanding of the course materials. In text citation in each paragraph the paraphrase or directly quoted from source. APA formatting also requires indented paragraphs, so please carefully review APA formatting before submitting your next assignment. Documentation is especially important to avoid problems of originality. With respect to the laws, you need to be more specific than just title VII when it comes to discrimination law based on pregnancy and you actually do not have any law. with respect to the breach of the confidentiality agreement. Just saying that it was a breach of contract is not enough. Just saying it violates a general principle of a law is not enough, either. You need to find more specific laws at the state and/or federal level for both causes of action. Every paragraph needs documented research support as opposed to opinion. The facts to be determined section needs a lot more development and listing of just what you need to find out to succeed at trial.

List and discuss key challenges (For example, physical, psychological, or social) related to sexuality that people face in later life. What steps can be taken to promote the sexual health of people in the later stages of life? Articles to reference in essay: Delamater, J. (2012). Sexual expression in later life: a review and synthesis. Journal of Sex Research, 49, (2-3), 125-141 http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~delamate/pdfs/SexExpressARSR.pdf Doll, G. M. (2013). Sexuality in nursing homes: Practice and policy. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 39(7), 30-37 http://thecarenavigator.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sexuality-in-Nursing-Homes.pdf Lester, P.E., Kohen, I., Stefanacci, R.G., & Feurman, M. (2016). Sex in nursing homes: A survey of nursing home policies governing resident sexual activity. JAMDA, 17(3), 71-74 http://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(15)00552-6/pdf Nicolosi, A., Laumann, E.O., Glasser, D.B., et al. (2004). Sexual behavior and sexual dysfunctions after age 40: the global study of sexual attitudes and behaviors. Urology, 64, 991-997 https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/bitstream/icict/9843/2/Nicolosi%20A%20Sexual%20behavior….pdf http://studylib.net/doc/5758503/the-joys-of-sex-in-later-life Træen, B., Martin Hald, G., Graham, C.A., Enzlin, P., Janssen, E., Lundin Kvalem, I…… Štulhofer, A. (2016): Sexuality in older adults (65+) — an overview of the literature, part 1: Sexual function and its difficulties, International Journal of Sexual Health https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308123360_Sexuality_in_Older_Adults_65-An_Overview_of_the_Literature_Part_1_Sexual_Function_and_Its_Difficulties Træen, B., Carvalheira, A., Lundin Kvalem, I., Štulhofer, A., Janssen, E. Graham, C.A….. Enzlin, P. (2016): Sexuality in Older Adults (65+)—An overview of the recent literature, part 2: Body image and sexual satisfaction, International Journal of Sexual Health https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308127796_Sexuality_in_Older_Adults_65-An_Overview_of_The_Recent_Literature_Part_2_Body_Image_and_Sexual_Satisfaction

The three components of EBP include clinical expertise, best evidence, and patient preference. Often, patient preference and clinical expertise are at odds with each other. Describe a scenario where you might need to mediate this issue and what is the solution when this occurs. It can be a real-life example as well. Requires at least one professional nursing journal to use. No less that 400 words. Simple assignment.

For your formal writing, you will choose one of these three options. You will see that each of them is partly a revision of something you wrote for an informal writing and partly an extension of that initial writing. You are welcome to write on any of these three topics, but you need to make sure there is not a great deal of overlap between your formal writing choice and your Wiki Entry assignment. You likely scored well on your informal writing, and you also likely received written feedback on it (in fact, you may want to favor the informal writings that got more detailed feedback from me for revision into a formal writing). That written feedback, available in the Blackboard gradebook (and in the most useful form if you submitted a doc or pdf that I commented on directly) should guide you first to make sure you’ve done all you can with your initial informal writing. If something could have been better before, this is your chance to revise it. Formal writing differs from informal writing in that it conforms to all the standards of academic writing that you learned in English 101 and 102. That means following MLA format, developing ideas in stout paragraphs with meaningful breaks, and directing readers to follow your argument through meaningful transitions. It also means having a central thesis that responds to the prompt, then supporting that claim with a series of related claims about literary texts which you develop through analysis of literary evidence. Nuts and Bolts The initial draft of your formal writing is due Thursday, July 20. The final draft of your formal writing is due Thursday, July 27. Between the first draft and the final draft, you will receive written feedback from me intended to guide your revision process. Prompts You will choose one of these three to do. You will not do all three of these. 1. When an author lavishes attention on something seemingly unimportant, you should pay close attention. For instance, in “The Guest,” Camus pays more attention to the landscape than you might expect an author of a philosophical tale to do. Look at the paragraph that starts “For some time” on 183. What thematic resonance do you detect in this description of the landscape? If this is more than a beautiful description, what else is it? This informal writing is asking you to use the skills of close reading to connect the descriptive language applied to the landscape in this passage to the larger themes of Camus’s “The Guest.” You need to make a claim that responds to a common view of the story. You are writing for an audience that is not sure these details matter at all, so you’re writing back to a common view that would say something like “this story has lots of pointless details about landscape, and it would be better if Camus just deleted those parts.” You need to support your claim, which is a response to that common view, with observations of detail from Camus’s story. Formal transition To your close reading of Camus, which you will revise according to feedback you received from me on informal writing one, you will add Gogol’s “The Overcoat.” You are now writing about both stories for the same kind of skeptical audience you wrote for the first time around. You need to make a claim about the importance of descriptive language dedicated to setting, and that thesis needs to allow you to address the different ways in which Camus and Gogol use descriptions of settings in their stories to express their larger themes. Your paper needs to closely read descriptions of settings in both stories, and it needs to compare and/or contrast them in order to provide a synthesis that convinces your skeptical reader that setting imagery is important in both of these stories. 2. When you wrote about “Young Goodman Brown” in informal writing three, one element you addressed was the ambiguity the story explores as it opens gaps between Brown’s experience and what the narrator implies must actually be the case. One instance of that is when the narrator describes the fellow-traveler’s staff wriggling like a snake but then says, “This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light” (529). For your informal writing, you explained the effect of that instance of ambiguity and at least one other instance in the story. Formal transition In addition to revising your take on “Young Goodman Brown,” you will select one other story from our readings this semester in which the author put you in a position where you had to hesitate or question the accuracy of impressions or sensations reported by the characters. Now that you have two stories to work with, you will compare and contrast how they establish that ambiguity and what you think it ultimately means. Your paper will need a thesis statement that will prove something to readers that they didn’t know before about how and why ambiguity works in “Young Goodman Brown” and your second chosen story. 3. In informal writing five, you applied Frank O’Connor’s idea of the little man and the submerged community to Jones and Gogol. Formal transition Choose two stories other than those by Jones and Gogol in which the little man or the submerged population is present. Demonstrate that aspect of the story with reference to O’Connor’s concepts and show how it works there. Choose one more story in which the little man or the submerged population is NOT present. For that story, demonstrate how a more traditional hero is at its center. Your formal writing needs to have a thesis that synthesizes what you’ve found by considering these two stories that work with O’Connor’s ideas and one that works against it.

Sociology Essay : You are to observe (10 hours), record & interpret a social situation (the environment, material culture, people, what they do, say, feel, how it smells- use all of your senses!). Making Observations 1) Pick a scene new or unfamiliar to you. It should be a setting where you have a right to be there. Stay a few hours to observe what people do, see, feel, smell, what it sounds like. 2) If it is an event, plan to stay the entire event (begin, middle and end) 3) How people enter and exit scene may be important 4) Pay attention to the physical surroundings, environment, artifacts, 5) You might note the ethnic affiliation, gender and age of participants but make this a small part of it – you are there to observe what people do. 6) Note people’s responses to change, 7) If note taking is not possible, go to a place right afterwards and type up your observations. The sooner the better. You will forget the important details. 8) If possible, try and interview or talk with someone casually. 9) You might repeat visit if you have that opportunity – people notice more once they get the hang of it. 10) Do not get yourself in a situation you cannot easily handle. Act ethically to other people. Do not do this assignment in a vacuum. Rather, discuss it in class, talk about it with friends, come talk to me, test out your interpretation and get feedback. 11) Last…have fun! Paper Writing Directions: I. Introduce your topic: what are you going to write about and why did you choose it? You might provide some background to tell me about this. II. Record and describe a social situation to the fullest you can. Do not leave out details but describe it to the fullest you can, do not evaluate it yet. a) You might go to a Fair, celebration, demonstration, rally, active college social event, community co-op, church event b) Include what people do and at least one object (house, clothes, ceremonial object, food, and building) III. Analyze it: that is evaluate the social situation based on criteria you select This means you are going to evaluate the social situation in which you observed people doing something….according to criteria you find interesting. It can be social status, rank, economics, reciprocity, political situation, descent, kinship, status, as a form of religious practice, etc. Examples: a) You might consider looking at your social situation for evidence of status or political preference, ethnicity, community. b) You might analyze a celebration you attend in your community. How is this social event a representation of American culture? IV. Interpret: Finally, explain why your observations are important given the context of the situation Remember! Please do not do this in a vacuum – come talk to me and share it with friends. Someone else may have insight into that situation you had not considered, that helps you make sense of what you observed you are observing. *Hint 1 – use people’s behavior and the material remains (i.e., the artifacts they used and wore like clothing, personal objects, toys, homes, ceramics, agricultural tools etc) to help illustrate your points) *Hint 2- you might consider looking at the chapters in the text for terms and issues that are important to you! SUMMARY: Social Science Paper Format: I. Introduction – define the topic, what you are doing this on, and justify this (why did you choose this topic? Last provide some background information to the reader. Assume I know nothing about this topic at all. II. Human Observations all of your unbiased observations on what people are doing in this scene. DO NOT ANALYZE. JUST record what they are doing. III. Analyze your data – summarize your important observations. How do they reflect the people you observed in that time and place? What does this behavior, the environment and artifacts suggest about the social situation you observed? IV. Larger Interpretation – Conclusions: How is this evidence of American culture/society? Write a paragraph that reflects on what you thought about this assignment Specifics: Due the last day of class, Sunday, July 23, 2017 7-9 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt font, 1” margins APA formatting (title page, abstract, bibliography are not part of the 7-9 page count): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01

Write an initial post that addresses the following: Under the tenets of federalism it is possible for citizens to enjoy different rights depending on which state they live in (e.g. recreation marijuana use, right to die, etc.). Address the following questions in your initial post: Define briefly the concepts of national rights vs. states rights. Do you think it is acceptable in the United States for citizens of one state to enjoy rights that citizens in another state do not? Why or why not? Find and include in your initial post aspects of the U.S. Constitution support your position. How would you change existing laws to support your stated position above, if you needed to? ( NOTE: You are not to write your post on those particular examples topics listed above. Rather, you initial post must concentrate on the issue of state vs. national rights and address the question posed in the prompt. If you have any questions or issues, please contact me before your make your initial post) This assignment will be graded in two parts: your initial post (50pts) and your replies (50pts) to other classmate’s post: Part 1: Initial Posts: 1. All initial posts must be written in Arial font, double-spaced, using 12 pt. font size. Your initial post must be a minimum of 10 paragraphs in length. This is a minimum requirement, not a suggested length of your initial response. Posts should be no longer than 20 paragraphs.10 points will be deducted for papers that are either too short or too long. 2. Minimal response length will receive a minimal score. Put some thought and effort into this post. You will be required to do some research for this assignment. Make sure your initial post addresses each of the questions posted above. 15 points will be deducted for each question not addressed. 3. Paragraphs should be a minimum of 3 sentences long. They should be no longer than 5-6 sentences. Proofreading and spelling/grammar checking will improve your overall score. Double and triple check your post before you submit your initial post, as you will not be able to edit them afterwards. Make sure that you include your Works Cited page with your initial post. 4. Within your initial post, you must provide evidence and citations to support your opinions. A minimum of 2 sources are required, but again, this is the minimum required for credit. Wikipedia does not count as a source and will have 15 points deducted from the initial post grade. You must use in-text citations. You may use no more than 1 direct quote and that direct quote is limited to a maximum of 3 sentences. Posts with more than 1 direct quote will lose 15 points off of the overall grade. Posts that do not use in-text citations at all will have 20 points deducted from the overall grade. 5. A works cited section, citing all of your sources in proper MLA format, must be included with your initial post. You must include a works cited even with use of in-text citations. Posts without a works cited page included will have 25 points deducted from the initial post total. 6. Failure to submit an initial post and replies to classmates by the due date assigned will result in a grade of ‘0’ for this history essay.No extra time will granted for any reason.