Nature V/S Nurture
Discussion Assignment Assignment 2: Nature vs. Nurture Do you think that behavior is due to environmental factors (nurture) or innate tendencies (nature)? Provide an example of a behavioral characteristic and explain how it may have developed through the influence of experience, heredity, or both. Next, considering Darwin’s principle of natural selection, give two examples of structural or behavioral characteristics that might confer selective advantages to human beings over other animals. By Saturday, August 12, 2017, post your answers to the Discussion Area, thoroughly explaining your answers and using scholarly references to support your argument. Review and respond to at least three classmates’ discussion posts through Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Share your perspectives on their topics and offer your interest in and experience with the topics they have chosen. Presents the grading criteria and rubric for this assignment.
what is your definition of a home
Write a 4-5 page paper using the Pew Research article on “Home” to determine what is your definition of home? What criteria must a place have in order for you to call it home? Can a person have more than one home? Is home where a person is born? Can a person’s home change over the course of a life? How important is it that a person’s family lives at “home”? You can answer all or some of these questions as you navigate what your definition of “home” is, using only the Pew Research essay and your own thoughts. You can use “I” but be careful to not use “I think, I feel, I believe, to me, in my opinion, personally,” etc. as these are just filler words. Also, “you” or any of its variations is never to be used in academic essays. Your essay must be: At least 4 full pages long Use the Pew Research essay somewhere in the body and be cited Be in proper essay format (one-inch margins, double-spacing, indentation, 4 line header, last name/page number in upper right of each page) Have a Works Cited with the Pew Research essay correctly cited on it on at least Page 5 or after
Richard milhous Nixon administration in regards to media and psychology in foreign policy
Instructions: Choose a major case-study: a superpower, a state or a political entity (terror organization, political movement etc.) – in a specific period of time – and analyze its foreign policy making according to the following instructions. Make sure that your paper doesn’t exceed 15 pages. You should get assisted by at least 15 academic sources of information (books and articles) and by any other material if needed. Be prepared to present the essentials of your paper in class, for 20-25 minutes, during the 2nd semester. In your paper include: A. Background – main characteristics of the entity you chose, including ideology, political orientation a general profile of the relevant leaders / decision makers. B. Description of what you are looking at : main developments and events of your case study in terms of foreign policy, such as: conducting relations with other specific states ; managing specific conflicts ; engaging in wars ; conducting international negotiations ; achieving peace agreements etc. C. Description of the main perceptions that create the psychological context for the relevant leaders in their decision making process on the specific issues. D. Description of the leader’s personality and their style of leadership towards the relevant case-study. E. Analyzes of the main characteristics (other than personality) in the core of the leader’s policy making, to illustrate how they conduct their foreign policy. F. Description of the leader’s propaganda strategy and how the use the media for ‘marketing’ their policy.
CLIENTS' AND STUDENTS' RIGHTS AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
Counselors who work with children and adolescents often need to balance their clients’ or students’ rights, their own views of moral and ethical behavior, and the demands of ethical codes and state laws. Choose one of the following vignettes: A 13-year-old boy describes himself as being gay and discloses he has been sexually intimate with his 17-year-old friend LeRoy for the past 3 months. He is worried he may have a sexually transmitted disease. He wants your advice and support but does not want you to tell his parents. A 17-year-old girl reveals she is 4 months pregnant and is terrified to tell her parents or the father of the child; she believes they will force her to keep the baby. The girl admits she has already contacted a couple she found on the Internet to discuss placing the baby for adoption when it is born. She wants your help with her mood as she has been very sad and depressed. A 16-year-old boy who has an underlying medical disorder that causes chronic pain reveals he has been receiving medical marijuana from his dad who has a medical marijuana card. He wants your help communicating with his teacher who feels he has been distant and sluggish in class. Now, answer these questions: Is there anything in this vignette that is illegal? Cite your state law. Is there anything in this vignette that is unethical? Cite the relevant codes from the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics and/or the 2016 ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors. Is there anything in this vignette that conflicts with your personal beliefs? If so, discuss strategies to help you maintain your professional role and objectivity. Follow APA sixth edition style and formatting guidelines in your post.
Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet.
To prepare for this assignment view the following brief video from the American Medical Association titled, “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand.” The video can be accessed through the following link:
https://youtu.be/cGtTZ_vxjyA
Part I: Pamphlet Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants. Use the “Pamphlet Template” document to help you create your pamphlet. Include the following: Select an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants. Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants. Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. A minimum of three scholarly resources are required. Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource. In developing your pamphlet, take into consideration the healthcare literacy level of your target audience.
Part II: Pamphlet Sharing Experience Share the pamphlet you have developed with a parent of an infant child. The parent may be a person from your neighborhood, a parent of an infant from a child-care center in your community, or a parent from another organization, such as a church group with which you have an affiliation. Provide a written summary of the teaching/learning interaction. Include in your summary: Demographical information of the parent and child (age, gender, ethnicity, educational level). Description of parent response to teaching. Assessment of parent understanding. Your impressions of the experience; what went well, what can be improved. Submit Part I and Part II of the Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants assignment by the end of Topic 1.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Presenting the Budget
“Presenting the Budget” Please respond to the following:
Describe the type of restrictions that may be placed on government revenues. What alternatives should the public administrator examine when met with severe budgeting restrictions?
Describe the type of restrictions that may be placed on government revenues. What alternatives should the public administrator examine when met with severe budgeting restrictions?
Budget
“Writing Budget Justifications” Please respond to the following:
Performance budgeting has been attempted at the local level in recent years all over the country. Address the issues of performance budgeting while answering the following questions: What attributes of performance budgeting make it particularly suitable to local government budgeting? Can the same attributes be as useful at the federal level?
finance
you are the new budgeting and finance administrator for your local government agency. Your first responsibility is to become familiar with the agency, the budget, programs, and capital projects. As the administrator, you will be responsible for analyzing, examining, proposing, and preparing the agency’s budget for the next five years.
Assignment 3: Preparing the Audit Analysis Due Week 7 and worth 200 points
You are to preparing for a challenging City Council Meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas can continue to be funded. Using your local cities (Atlanta or Stone Mountain Georgia) 2015-2016 budgets, analyze the financial plan to respond to the following questions in a two- to three-page paper:
Based on the review of your city’s (Atlanta or stone mountain Georgia) Financial Plan: What is the fastest-growing category of expenditures during the planning period? Justify the answer with examples. What percentage of your city’s (Atlanta or stone mountain Georgia) revenue comes from the general property tax? How much is this tax growing in each year of the financial plan? Justify the answer with examples. Evaluate the existing capacity of refunding or reorganizing existing debt organizations. Analyze the various funding alternatives that can be used to support debt obligations. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Include an abstract and conclusion that you will name (Budget Summary), and attach the budget summary as an Appendix. Include the URL of the location of your city’s financial plan and any other documentation you used for your budget summary. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze the basic skills and tools needed for budgeting for public sector agencies and / or departments. Recommend appropriate policy actions based on the evaluation. Evaluate a budgeting system at any governmental level. Analyze the scope and sequence of budgeting in terms of sources of revenues, purpose of government expenditures, budget cycles, budget preparation, and debt administration. Analyze the steps required for budgeting, such as preparing a budget, making a financial plan, conducting a cost-benefit analysis, and making budget decisions. Examine the key components for presenting and justifying the budget to decision makers. Prepare a preliminary budgeting system for presentation before Congress, state / local government, or other organization. Use technology and information resources to research issues in public budgeting and finance. Write clearly and concisely about public budgeting and finance using proper writing mechanics.
My cities are Atlanta or Stone Mountain Georgia.. Please do an abstract and a conclusion ( call it budget summary) and attach a budget summary as an Appendix.for this assignment. I had attached assignment 2 if needed and please follow the grading rubric to make sure each and every question is answered in the assignment .. please follow each and every instruction for this assignment.
Ballistics Evidence: Scientific Support of Repudiation of Eye-Witness Statements in Ferguson, Missouri
The purpose of forensics investigations and the analysis of evidence is to exonerate the innocent and to provide evidence against the guilty. Physical evidence is used to support or repudiate eyewitness testimony. As this week’s articles and videos suggest, even physical evidence may be difficult for some to accept. Drawing on the readings and additional research, this discussion asks you to evaluate the value of firearms and ballistics evidence and to analyze why it is sometimes brought into question. Evaluate the circumstances that might result in some not believing the scientific evidence. Although you may be inclined toward one position, being able to debate your position involves being aware of the opposing position. In this debate-style discussion, we may have heated arguments and everyone’s commitment to netiquette and mutual respect is expected. Therefore, even if you adamantly oppose the position formulated by a peer, remember to support your opposition using the resources you consulted and ensure your opposition represents an informed opinion. Using the required readings for this week and two additional scholarly resources from the Ashford University Library or other professional resources, evaluate accepted methodologies employed in contemporary crime scene management that relate to firearms and ballistics evidence and how these influence the validity of the evidence. Analyze commonly accepted forensic techniques and contemporary specialized techniques that relate to firearms and ballistics evidence, and evaluate how the use or failure to use these techniques impacts the value of the evidence. Examine judicial expectations and requirements relative to the admittance of evidence collected by forensic crime scene investigators that relate to firearms and ballistics evidence and how the actions, inactions, and the statements of investigators impact the validity and value of evidence. Provide at least one argument in support of each side of the controversy. After considering both sides of the issue, clearly state your position and rational.