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

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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Course Project Task I

Argument Paper Section 1

Your local town is addressing the following issues in its law-making:

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

2. Should libraries be required to install filtering software or otherwise censor the materials that they provide?

3. Should insurance companies in your state be required to pay for breast reconstruction, birth control pills, or Viagra?

4. Should the use of camera phones be banned in local gymnasiums or other locations?

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.

Assignment 3: Market Plan Section 1 The Waters Bottling Company (WBC)

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Assignment 3: Market Plan Section 1

Preface:

You are the new marketing manager to The Waters Bottling Company (WBC) of Munsonville, NH. They have never done any marketing for their water before so they will need to be educated as to the role of marketing in their company’s success. They started their company last year and want to “do it right” according to their president and founder, Dr. M. Waters. (The M stands for Muddy so he prudently only uses the initial. He also is rather fond of Blues music, which he would like to incorporate into the marketing plan in some way.) They want to sell their crystal clear, granite filtered mountain water to the “right” market. It is your job to identify that target market. At this point, they don’t even know how the product should be packaged or have a name to identify it. You will get to make that determination and carry that product through the entire Marketing Plan.

Imagination and creativity combined with solid marketing concepts will be the basic framework for your report. They will be relying on you for all of the details to make this product successful. They are well funded and ready to bring this product to market, with your help and guidance.

Use the attached Marketing Planning Guide to build your marketing plan for their naturally mineral rich pure mountain water. Be sure to relate the marketing concepts/ theories to this product/ company as you build the marketing plan over the length of the course. The competed sections of the marketing plan will be submitted in theDropbox for each module. Use each of the outline items as headers/ subheads for your analysis. Be concise and apply each of the appropriate concepts to the WBC scenario.

Marketing Planning Guide

Section 1 – The Environment (Module 1)

  • Introduction to Marketing
    • The Marketing Mix
    • The Marketing Environment
    • Marketing and its relationship with other functional areas of business
  • Strategic Marketing
    • Planning Process
  • Strategy
    • Organizational Levels
    • Goals and Objectives
  • Planning Gap
    • Ethics in Marketing

You will create a complete Marketing Plan by the end of the course. You will write the first section of the Marketing Plan for this assignment. Use the guide to identify the sections of the Marketing Plan and the marketing elements contained therein. This assignment will focus on Section 1 – The Environment (Module 1). 

Over the span of the course, you will gather information from a number of probable sources. Some of the sources may include, but are not limited to, the Internet, public libraries, business magazines, newspapers, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, annual reports, consultant/industry analyst reports, databases, Department of Commerce publications, Temple and other university libraries, trade and academic journals, Moody’s, Value Line, etc.

You may be surprised and overwhelmed by the volume of information that is available for many topics, though you may have to do some “detective work” to locate them.

You may find Web sites such as Hoovers.com and Lexis-Nexis extremely helpful.

Create a 4- to 6-page Word document for your Marketing Plan Section. Apply a standard business writing style using the Market Planning Guide sections as your (headers/ sub heads/ bullets) to your work. Be sure to cite your work in the APA format.

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.

By Wednesday, May 28, 2014, deliver your assignments to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Description of the role and function of marketing for WBC.
10
Select/ create a product for WBC to market. Explain the Marketing Mix for this WBC product.
20
Analyze the Marketing Environment.
15
Discussion of the marketing function and its relationship with the other functional areas of the WBC.
10
Define the strategic marketing planning process.
15
Establish an organizational level strategy and include goals and objectives.
10
Discuss the ethical issues concerning marketing.
10
Applied current APA standards for editorial style, expression of ideas, and format of text, citations, and references.
10
Total:
100

Promoting Successful Operational Planning and Implementation How do health care organizations translate a strategic plan into day-to-day operations? For this Discussion, you will examine the intricacies of operational planning as well as how an organizat

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Promoting Successful Operational Planning and Implementation

How do health care organizations translate a strategic plan into day-to-day operations? For this Discussion, you will examine the intricacies of operational planning as well as how an organization can help to ensure the plan is implemented well.

As in Week 3, you and your colleagues have been assigned to small groups for this Discussion. If the group configuration is the same as in the previous week’s Discussion, you may keep the same facilitator or choose someone else to serve in that role. 

Prepare for this Discussion as follows:  

  • Click on the link to examine the Annual Plan Overview document located on the initial Week 4 Discussion area. (You may want to keep this document open in a seperate window) This document provides a brief summary of operational planning decisions this organization has made. It presents strategic goals, key initiatives to achieve goals, and the measures that will be used for evaluation.

  • Select one of the goals identified in this document. Each group member should address a different goal; reserve the goal you would like to address by posting your name and the goal to this Discussion forum. 

  • As you examine this document, think about the actions that are needed to turn a strategic plan into operational reality. How does an organization determine which actions will help to fulfill its strategic objectives? How does it make decisions regarding resource allocation?

  • Review the information presented in the Learning Resources as needed. With this information in mind, consider the following:

    • What are some of the key success factors that might affect implementation?

    • What are some of the barriers that may adversely impact implementation?

    • What considerations might need to be addressed with regard to:

      • Physician involvement?
      • Human resources? 
      • Organizational culture?
      • Capital expenditures?

Post by Day 4 a response to the following:

  • Identify the goal you have selected from the “Annual Plan Overview” document in the first line of your posting.
  • Analyze issues related to operational planning for your selected goal. Describe key steps of operational planning and the considerations related to resource allocation with particular reference to this goal.
  • Evaluate two or more success factors and two or more potential barriers that might influence implementation of the initiatives to achieve this goal. Explain why each of these is important and propose recommendations for addressing them.

Suppose that a 2012 National Health Interview Survey gives the number of adults in the United States which gives the number of adults in the United States (reported in thousands) classified by their age group, and whether or not respondents have ever been

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Suppose that a 2012 National Health Interview Survey gives the number of adults in the United States which gives the number of adults in the United States (reported in thousands) classified by their age group, and whether or not respondents have ever been tested for HIV. Here are the data:

Age Group

Tested

Never Tested

18–44 years

50,080

56,405

45–64 years

23,768

48,537

65–74 years

2,694

15,162

75 years and older

1,247

14,663

Total

77,789

134,767

Case Assignment

  1. Discuss probability. What is its history? What is the theory of probability? How is it calculated? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this technique?
  2. Identify and discuss the two major categories of probability interpretations, whose adherents possess conflicting views about the fundamental nature of probability.
  3. Based on this survey, what is the probability that a randomly selected American adult has never been tested? Show your work. Hint: using the data in the two total rows, this would be calculated as p (NT) /( p (NT) + p (T)), where p is probability.
  4. What proportion of 18- to 44-year-old Americans have never been tested for HIV? Hint: using the values in the 18–44 cells, this would be calculated as p (NT) / ( p (NT) + p (T)), where p is probability. Show your work.

Assignment 2: Discussion—Typical Reasoning [Pin It] Assignment 2: Discussion—Typical Reasoning People often take shortcuts in problem solving and quickly arrive at answers. Known as heuristics, these shortcuts may increase the speed of decisions b

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Assignment 2: Discussion—Typical Reasoning

 

Assignment 2: Discussion—Typical Reasoning

People often take shortcuts in problem solving and quickly arrive at answers. Known as heuristics, these shortcuts may increase the speed of decisions but may also decrease the accuracy of those decisions. The experiment used in this assignment deals with inaccurate decisions based on the conjunction fallacy, where people think the chance of two events happening at the same time is greater than just one event occurring. However, the chance of one event occurring is greater than two events occurring; hence, the fallacy.

Access the CogLab demonstration Typical Reasoning. Follow the instructions to complete the demonstration. Next, answer the following questions:

  • For this demonstration, on average, do participants give higher ratings for single events or conjunctions of events? Based on the demonstration results, did you make your judgments by using objective probabilities? Why or why not?
  • What is a stereotype? How do stereotypes relate to the findings of this demonstration?
  • Respond to the following two situations:
    • You and two of your coworkers have just interviewed a candidate for a job opening at your law firm. Your boss asks you what inferences you made about the candidate during the interview. What can you do to maximize your likelihood of making a correct inference?
    • John is a young, energetic, muscular, and outgoing individual. Estimate the following for him:
        • He is tall and likes sports
        • He is tall, likes sports, and has lots of friends

Write your initial response in 4–5 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.  

By Sunday, November 22, 2015, post your response to the appropriateDiscussion Area. Through Wednesday, November 25, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Discussion Grading Criteria and Rubric

This discussion assignment is worth 40 points and will be graded using the discussion rubric

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in 500-600 words apply my metaethical theory to some aspect of the issue that was discussed in the reading in order to demonstrate what the moral approach to the issue is.
Every society lives under certain agreeable rules and regulations that guide their operations thereby maintaining social order. Similarly, when adopting a structure of decision making, ethical consideration must be in play to ensure the morals and values of a community are not infringed. Ethics determines whether an action is moral or immoral. The discussion below evaluates the best approach to ethics supported by ethical theories.

Understanding what the greatest benefit for society is the best approach to ethics. The approach gets its guidance from the ethical principle of beneficence. Beneficence principle indicates that every moral action must evaluate what is right as well as good; what generates the largest measure of good over evil (Page, 2012). The beneficence principle explains how an action is moral or immoral as supported by two ethical theories utilitarianism and rights.

Utilitarianism theory states that what is ethically correct should be an action that brings the greatest benefit to society. Based on two types of utilitarianism act and rule, a person act must yield more benefit to people regardless of the person’s feelings and societal constraints (Mill, 2016). It also takes the form of justice and fairness when benefiting society. Utilitarianism ethics dictates determining what action is moral should go beyond personal interest and take the interest of others in the community. Through utilitarian ethics, an action that brings fewer advantages to people is immoral. For instance, if a person intends to use a natural resource like a river to dump factory by-products at the expense of others the action is immoral. However, if he/she uses the same river to supply water to people his/her action becomes ethically correct. In the two instances, the use of the river that offers more benefits, the supply of water, becomes the ethically correct action.

Rights theory indicates that some privileges established by society must take the highest priority. Notably, rights are ethically correct as well as valid as the largest population in the community endorses them (MacKinnon and Fiala, 2014). Rights and utilitarian theories are complementary as they insist on the larger population benefits. Society goals, as well as ethical priorities, are the primary determinants of action morality.

The approach of involving society principles and priorities using utilitarian and rights theories is the best approach to explaining the morality of an action. The community wellbeing takes center stage. As explained by the two theories, an action is correct based on its consequences. Bentham’s Hedonic calculus states that immoral action causes more pain than happiness and pleasure (West, 2013). Therefore, determining the benefits to the society that offers more happiness and benefits should be the measure of action’s morality.

Rule utilitarianism and rights approach focuses on justice and fairness of an action. Besides, it dwells in the principles of beneficence and justice that are imperative while evaluating actions. The principles conform to metaethics that investigates whether ethical principles go beyond individual expressions (McCloskey, 2013). An understanding that action morality takes more than personal feelings appreciates that moral principles are not mere social interventions. Summarily, what makes an action moral or immoral is the benefits accrued from its consequences, the people who benefit from the actions as well as what level of justice and fairness gets associated with the action based on societal principles and priorities.  

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Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future

by Wright and Boorse, 12th edition

16 Multiple Choice Questions

 

1) The future worldwide use of irrigation:

A) is expected to double in the next 20 years due to increasing demands for food

B) is limited by the availability of freshwater, waterlogging, and salinization of soils

C) depends on new technologies to extract more groundwater

D) will require increased reliance on new hydrogen technologies to produce freshwater

 

16) The development of new varieties of grain crops increased productivity by increasing the:

A) surface area of the leaves of the plants

B) size of the roots and ability to absorb water

C) strength of the stems to support more grains

D) size and number of seeds

 

2) In the last 50 years, the greatest progress in addressing worldwide hunger and malnutrition came from the:

A) use of better transportation methods to export grain more efficiently

B) development and use of new varieties of high-yielding wheat and rice

C) reduced reliance on pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers

D) widespread use of sustainable irrigation methods

 

3) Although the Green Revolution has greatly reduced world hunger and malnutrition, it has:

A) doubled the amount of land used to raise crops

B) not significantly increased the productivity of modern agriculture

C) required high levels of increasingly expensive fertilizer and pesticides

D) contributed significantly to the destruction of the ozone layer

 

4) Radiation exposure immediately around a properly functioning nuclear power plant is about

A) less than 1% of natural background exposure.

B) double normal environmental background exposure.

C) 10 times higher than normal environmental background exposure.

D) 100 times higher than normal environmental background exposure.

 

5) Nuclear bombs rely upon:

A) a domino effect that causes the nuclear fission of uranium-235 in less than a second

B) a domino effect that causes the nuclear fusion of uranium-235 in less than a second

C) an instantaneous fission of uranium-235 under extreme pressures

D) an instantaneous fusion of uranium-235 under extreme pressures

 

6) Enrichment of nuclear fuel:

A) increases the relative concentration of uranium-235 to only 3-5% to avoid any possibility of nuclear explosion at higher percentages

B) increases the relative concentration of uranium-235 to 30-50% to avoid a nuclear explosion at higher percentages

C) decreases the relative concentration of uranium-235 from 60% to only 3-5% to avoid a nuclear explosion at higher percentages

D) decreases the relative concentration of uranium-235 from 100% to 30-50% to avoid a nuclear explosion at higher percentages

 

7) The actual fission reactions that release energy in a nuclear power plant are about:

A) two-thirds from uranium-235 and one-third from uranium-239

B) one-third from uranium-235 and two-thirds from uranium-239

C) two-thirds from uranium-235 and one-third from plutonium-239

D) one-third from uranium-235 and two-thirds from plutonium-239

 

8) A self-amplifying reaction and a nuclear explosion in a nuclear power plant are prevented in large part by:

A) the regular addition of uranium-239 to the fuel

B) control rods that absorb extra neutrons

C) the production of plutonium-239

D) fuel rods that absorb tremendous amounts of heat

Unit 3 Examination

9) Compared to a nuclear plant, a coal-fired plant:

A) releases more than 100 times more radioactivity because of radioactive elements in coal.

B) requires much less mining and results in fewer mining deaths.

C) contributes to acid rain, and a nuclear plant does not.

D) emits much less carbon dioxide.

 

10) About how much of the sun’s radiation would strike the Earth if the Earth did not have its atmosphere?

A) about 10 times more

B) about twice as much

C) it would be about the same

D) about half as much

 

11) With all of the sun’s energy striking the Earth every second of every day, why doesn’t the Earth overheat and kill us all?

A) The Earth is so large and dense that it absorbs all of this heat.

B) The Earth is overheating regionally, melting rocks into the lava of volcanoes.

C) The Earth maintains a balance by radiating this heat back into space.

D) The atmosphere of the Earth prevents the solar radiation from reaching the Earth’s surface.

 

 

12) The thinning of the troposphere away from the equator is primarily a result of:

A) land masses moving towards the poles

B) shifting of the continental plates due to plate tectonics

C) differences in solar energy striking the Earth

D) the number of clouds in the mesosphere and thermosphere

 

13) The effect of the 2008 recession has

A) speeded up the flight from inner cities to suburbs.

B) made existing properties more valuable.

C) greatly slowed the suburban building boom and the purchase of new houses.

D) reversed the movement to suburbs, increasing the pressure to find housing in the inner city.

Unit 4 Examination

14) Over the past 60 years, as people moved from U.S. cities to suburbs, the people that were left behind in the cities were primarily

A) older, poor people representing ethnic minorities.

B) younger, wealthy people representing ethnic minorities. C) older and wealthy Caucasians.

D) younger Caucasians.

 

15) _________________ ranges from supporting and voting for particular candidates to expressing your support for particular legislation through letters or phone calls.

A) Lifestyle choices

B) Membership in nongovernmental organizations

C) Political involvement

D) None of the above

Step 3: Doing Sociology Assignment

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Purpose

This activity is Step 3 in our semester-long “doing sociology” assignment.  In this step you will go out into the community to identify how globalization shapes social life in our our area. You will observe and compare two local food markets (or grocery stores) and write clear, detailed descriptions of what you see. Your goal for this activity is to use a sociological research method, ethnography, to systematically observe the similarities and differences in these local grocery stores, their physical layout, the products they sell, and the clients that they serve.  The material you gather in this activity will form a major part of your final paper.  

Description

Compare a mainstream grocery store (Select one: Giant, Harris Teeter, Safeway, Shopper’s Food Warehouse, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target) with an international food market (Select one: Super A Market, Food Star Market, Bestway Supermercado, H Mart, Grand Mart, Good Fortune). A number of approved international food markets are shown on this Google Map.

Procedures

This project requires that you make site visits to several locations. You will spend at least 45 minutes at each location making observations.

Step #1: Before you begin your field observations, spend some time thinking about how grocery stores are designed and organized. Use these initial expectations to make predictions regarding what you will find during your visit.

Step #2: Next, it’s time to visit the markets.  Spend at least ¾ hour observing at each location. As you observe, be on the lookout for similarities and differences between the two markets.

Use the following list of questions to guide your observations:

Before entering the store notice what kind of cars appear in the parking lot.

Describe the overall store layout (lighting, advertisements, decorations, background music).

What kind of products are being sold? For example – are there fresh vegetables and fruits? Are there packaged and processed foods?  Where did these products come from?

Who frequents this store? What can you tell based on the type of products that are being sold? Also consider the people you see in the store (shoppers & clerks).

Once you leave the store, immediately sit down to write out field notes describing in as much detail as possible what you just observed.

english

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Ten Quotes:  To Kill a Mockingbird

           While reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, be on the lookout for telling quotations from the novel.  Highlight/Underline these and note in the margin which of the assignment requirements each satisfies. 

           One approach is to, every day, type up the quotes you have found from your reading as well as your commentary on them.  When you have finished the novel, you will only need to select the BEST quotes to submit.  Be aware that your opinions on what quotes are significant and why may well change as you read and your understanding of the book deepens. 

           Here are some guidelines:

  • Copy your quotation absolutely accurately. Note the page number(s).
  • Be sure to completely explain your quote and the function it fills in To Kill a Mockingbird. Anyone reading your quotations and explications should not have to read the assignment sheet to figure out what you are writing about.  Think of these as mini-essays, and remember to explain your thinking thoroughly.
  • Format your paper according to class word processing guidelines.

           As an example, if we were doing this project on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, here is one way you could answer #5:

           Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.  In a word, everything that goes to make life precious, that boy had.  So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. (46)

This description of a child who is without parents or a home would be sad, except that the narrator tells us that other boys envy Huck his absolute freedom.  Because the point of view is third-person omniscient, we get an objective description of Huck and learn how he appeals to his friends before we even meet him on the page.  If Huck or another boy told the story, we probably would be as biased towards Huck as his companions are.

Your quotes may be of any length, long or short.  You may begin each quote explanation with the quotation itself, as above, you may use the quote last or you may insert the quote in your explanation. The precise style of each explanation is up to you.

Assignment:

Find quotes for the information below. Remember, the exercises in this module are to prepare you for the final exam.

  1. Select a quotation from the novel that illustrates plot development and explain how the plot is expanding at that particular point.
  2. Select a quotation from To Kill a Mockingbird that depicts a social issue. Explain how and link it to a theme of the work. 
  3. Select the quotation that has the most profound effect on the reader (you again) and explain why.

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2 assignments 

the first one 

I want you to read the pages I POSTED (upload ) and answer these 4 question with a paragraph for each question , critical thinking . try to make it page and a half . double space . font 12 

– The most important information/key concepts we need to understand from these chapters are:

– How can I use the information in the chapters to help me with my daily mindfulness practice?

–  In what ways will the material learned in these chapters help me manage my stress more effectively?

–  What are your thoughts and feedback regarding the information and activities for each chapter?

assignment two: I have attached a sheet called mindful awareness  just fill it out with 2 sentence in each question .

The whole purpose of this assignment is to start getting in the frame of mind that when you encounter a stressor in life, you automatically default to this mindful model to help become responsive vs. reactive. Therefore, this is done weekly with that goal in mind. The chapters that you read can be an inspiration for your journal, however, you can apply your weekly journal to ANY mindful experience you choose to participate in, it doesn’t have to be directly linked to the chapter. Examples of what you may journal about: breathing, eating, cooking, walking, exercising, gardening, journaling, painting etc.

1. Acknowledge (describe the experience).

2. Intentional Attention (describe what each of your senses were experiencing during that moment).

3. Accept Without Judgment (discuss about how you were able to be present in that experience without any external filters or distractions and what that felt like).

4. Action Toward Change (write about what you learned as a result of this experience and how this experience made you more aware for the future).

5. Mindful Meditation Experience (Mindful Practice) write about your thoughts, feelings, and experiences you had during or after your meditation experience.

Each of us is different so we will all have unique experiences and interpret the readings/materials in various ways. There is no right or wrong answer with this assignment. It is meant for you to practice learning mindfulness as part of your daily routine. As long as I can tell you are reading the course materials and are somehow relating it to what is happening in your daily life, what you decide to reflect on is up to you. It is your journal for personal growth and reflection! It is also kept private between student and instructor.