Day: April 25, 2018

A critical evaluation of the employee relations issues in participation and involvement within the UK and Germany.

You should identify and evaluate the ways in which the relevant actors*, that is, the state, employers and employees (including the trade unions) play a role in the employee relations issue that you have identified. It will also be appropriate and important to critically evaluate the way that these three sets of social actors impact on and influence the balance of power in the employee relations issue you have identified.

In addressing your chosen topic please note the following assessment criteria
1 Demonstration of critical understanding of Employee Relations issues

2 Analysis of the roles of the state, employers and employees (and their trade unions) with regard to your identified topic as appropriate

3 Analysis of the balance of power between the actors (employees & their trade unions, employers and the state) as relevant to your topic

4 Integration of theory and practice (include examples of organizational or government policy and practice where relevant)

AD Law Unit 7 IP 1

In this assignment, you will develop questions and then interview a professional law enforcement officer about his or her perceptions of, and experiences with, intelligence-led policing. It is preferable to interview an officer in the same jurisdictional area as the two interviews you conducted for the Unit 4 assignment. This would enable you to successfully develop your strategic intelligence plan for your final paper as well as complete this assignment.

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate the practices and procedures of intelligence work from the perspective of someone with personal experience in the system. By learning first-hand about the important concerns and experiences of professionals in the field, you will see how it is, from the insider’s view, to work with intelligence in complex organizational and community structures. You will learn how your respondent deals with the challenges, stressors, opportunities, and needs for effective, legally-framed, professionally ethical, and personally moral approaches to intelligence collection, analysis, and application.

Make sure that your approach demonstrates full respect for the legal, professionally ethical, and personally moral rights of your professional interviewee to privacy, propriety, security, and dignity. Guarantee the confidentiality of the interview process by protecting the identity of your law enforcement interviewee. Do not reveal any information that could be used to his or her professional or personal detriment. The foundation of your interview must be to build and uphold trust so you obtain the most candid responses possible. Take a nonjudgmental, neutral, and understanding approach to the interviewee.

Focus your questions on how this professional views the tools of intelligence activities. These activities include any interactions with persons in the officer’s jurisdiction during his or her official duties. Specifically, field inquiries (commonly termed “stop and frisk”), traffic stops, observations of actions by persons, direct contacts both verbal and nonverbal—any interactions that produce information useful to the pursuit of policing services are features of intelligence work. Additionally, ask your interviewee about how tools such as statistical data, crime pattern data, CompStat, and other crime mapping methods are used on a regular basis.

Some of the questions you might ask your respondent:

Background Questions:
How would you describe the basic functions of your agency, department, or unit?
How would you describe your current duties and responsibilities?
How would you describe your general background and training in relation to your work?
How would you describe your political and social views in general?
What values are most important to you?
What do you think are society’s major problems?
Ask additional questions that delve into the background foundations of the interviewee’s perceptions.

Questions About Intelligence Work:
What are some intelligence policies and practices that you feel are most beneficial and effective to law enforcement? What intelligence practices do you feel are least beneficial or effective? Can you describe an incident of each kind of experience that you have observed?
How do you use community-related crime information provided by your agency and other community agencies and sources to organize and prioritize your enforcement duties on a regular basis?
What are your views and experiences with regard to due process and how it has been actually implemented in the course of police work? Please describe incidents of note, both positive and negative, regarding due process.
How do you feel about the legal rights of possible and likely offenders? How do you understand, perceive, and manage the human and civil rights of possible and likely offenders?
What are some crime patterns and trends that you feel are most encouraging and why do you feel positive about these trends? What crime patterns and trends do you feel are most disturbing and even most threatening to public safety in the community you serve?
How effective is the intelligence work you and other persons and agencies are doing in promoting public safety? What tools do you feel could most enhance the effectiveness of your work?
How does the special knowledge of your jurisdiction that you and others in your agency develop help to reduce crime? What tools of your profession do you feel are most useful in helping to predict and prevent crime incidents?
What changes in intelligence operations or procedures would you like to see implemented in your agency?
Ask additional questions that delve into the perceptions of the interviewee regarding intelligence-led policing.

Instructions for Writing Your Paper:
Analyze the police professional’s perspective of intelligence activities in relation to his or her training, background, roles, and other factors expressed in the interview.
Assess and evaluate the usefulness and benefits of the practices and policies discussed by your interviewee. In what ways do you think these practices and policies are effective, legal, professionally ethical, personally moral, and broadly humane? Do you feel the practices advocated by the professional tend to build rapport, trust, and collaboration with the community?
Assess and evaluate the trends and directions of the intelligence practices and policies discussed by your interviewee. Discuss how the professional uses a variety of community intelligence sources to accomplish his or her daily work. To what degree do you feel these trends, activities, and sources are useful and beneficial?
Assess the impact of your respondent’s perceptions of intelligence work on gaining community support for policing. Do you think this kind of professional perspective, based on reliable intelligence, guides effective policing operations?
Offer suggestions in your paper (but not to the interviewee) on how to enhance the intelligence function described by the professional by improving the quality, effectiveness, legality, morality, ethicality, and humanity of police intelligence activities.
In Addition:
In your analysis, you must apply:
Concepts from your required readings.
Concepts from at least one peer-reviewed scientific research article from a scholarly journal in the Capella library. These sources must be quoted, cited and referenced. Use your conceptual sources to penetrate beneath what the professional tells you to independently analyze and assess the quality of intelligence-led policing derived from the interview.

Assignment: Over the first two-thirds of this semester, we’ve focused on the larger relationship that nature has with how our individual, cultural and species identities are formed.
Your assignment is to write a 2000-word paper outlining for your audience to make a significant change in one of the below prompts for the sake of our continued existence. The problem in question should be focused on a global scale and must incorporate some discussion of how our identity is impacted.
You must explain what makes this problem worthy of our attention; in other words, explain its importance and relevance to our lives. This necessitates you explaining the problem, proving the problem’s existence, identifying the solution, and providing ample evidence that your solution can answer the problem in question. Your thesis is, therefore, a variation of: “Because of X, there is an increasingly probability of Y. Therefore we should Z.”
Your essay should be structured simply with an introduction, body paragraphs to explain your thesis, and a conclusion. Evidence from legitimate sources is key to arguing your point. Use your common sense. Blogs are unacceptable unless they are written by documented experts. News sites are acceptable unless they’re opinion pieces. Evidence from a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is, generally, fine.
You should fully research your subject, educating yourself about what both sides of the argument are saying. If you do this, you will have no problem meeting the page requirements.
1. Sustainable Agriculture Practices
2. Deforestation
3. Conservation of the Oceans
4. The Impact of Mining
5. Fracking for Oil
6. Participation in Cap and Trade Carbon Markets
7. Eco-City Planning
As with any argument, your goal is for the reader to change their beliefs. The essay will not simply be an overview of your topic. While a strong description of its background is necessary, your essay must pass the basics of the Toulmin Test: a claim, reasons to back that claim and evidence to support your reasons. Don’t forget that your audience doesn’t believe that their beliefs are wrong. Establish your authority as a knowledgeable writer, but you must also build commonality and find empathy. If the answers to these questions were obvious, we’d all be on the same side. It’s your job to explain why your perspective is the best for everyone.
Requirements:
– a minimum of 2000 words
– a clear and concise thesis statement
– an introduction that captures the reader’s attention
– an interesting title
– focused, developed body paragraphs
– a conclusion that sufficiently summarizes your argument without being repetitive
– at least 6 credible sources
– use of diction and style appropriate to a formal essay
– be free of grammatical and mechanical errors
– double-spaced and in Times New Roman, 12-pt.
– an abstract AND annotated bibliography
– MLA style for paper formatting, quotes, in-text citations, and Works Cited page (Works Cited is not considered in word count)

A critical evaluation of the employee relations issues in participation and involvement within the UK and Germany.

You should identify and evaluate the ways in which the relevant actors*, that is, the state, employers and employees (including the trade unions) play a role in the employee relations issue that you have identified. It will also be appropriate and important to critically evaluate the way that these three sets of social actors impact on and influence the balance of power in the employee relations issue you have identified.

In addressing your chosen topic please note the following assessment criteria
1 Demonstration of critical understanding of Employee Relations issues

2 Analysis of the roles of the state, employers and employees (and their trade unions) with regard to your identified topic as appropriate

3 Analysis of the balance of power between the actors (employees & their trade unions, employers and the state) as relevant to your topic

4 Integration of theory and practice (include examples of organizational or government policy and practice where relevant)

5 Effective written communication

6 Appropriate referencing to academic texts and journals

The papers should each be a summary in your own
words of a recent (in calendar year 2015 or 2016) publication in the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry (available on-line at Roosevelt campus computers, see: pubs.acs.org). Other journals, both ACS and non-ACS, respectively such as J. Am. Chem. Soc. or Science, may be used provided the article is on an authentically inorganic chemistry related topic.

Your selection of article must be approved by the instructor to ensure this point and that the appropriate subject area is covered, divided into two in either of two ways as follows: One paper must be on an article describing research on main-group (s or p block) chemistry and the other paper must be on an article describing research on transition metal (d or f block) chemistry. An alternative division is that one paper must be on solid-state (materials) chemistry (i.e., extended structures), featuring any non-hydrocarbon (i.e., not “organic”) materials, such as oxides, etc., and the other paper must be on discrete molecules: coordination chemistry (including organometallics) or biological inorganic chemistry (e.g., studies on metalloproteins or model compounds). You need not understand everything in the article, but explain the researchers’ goals, methods, conclusions, and how the paper enhanced your understanding of inorganic chemistry and was related to the material in the course. Note that the articles must be original (primary) research (Articles or Communications); review type articles (secondary research), which go by various names, including Accounts, Forums, Perspectives, etc., are not appropriate.

Do not use the following words in your essay(unless they are in a direct quote): I(or any version of “I”), you, your, or it.Note: Johnston’s essay is pretty thick, and you will have to read it carefully—and with a dictionaryin hand. Be sure tolimit your discussion to oneof Johnston’sideas; don’t try to summarize and incorporatehis entire essay into your own essay because doing so really won’t work•You should employ 1 semicolon, 1 colon, 1 set of dashes, 1 set of ellipses, and 1 set of brackets (not used around ellipses)in the essay. •Youshould employat least one short quote and one long quote from eachplay,andyou shouldquoteor summarizedirectly at least once from Johnston’s essay.•Be sure to put Johnston and the twoplays on a works cited page. In addition to the above format,your essay should meet the following guidelines: Be sure to have a well-developed concluding paragraph.The body of the essay should develop your own thoughtsregardinghow Johnston’s idea(s)relate to the two plays.In short, you need to begin with Johnston’s idea(s), but make the essay your own analysis of the plays.There should be no other research/sources used in the essay other than Johnston and the two plays. The body of your essay should involve analysis; avoid summarizing the playsorJohnston in the body of your essay.The number of paragraphs in the body of the essay is up to you.Your first paragraph should introduce, summarize/quote,and discuss oneof the ideas Brian Johnston examines in his essay “Realism and A Doll House” (see D2L link). Yourfirst paragraph should end with a clear thesis statement that relates how you will developthis idea brought up by Johnston to A Dollhouseand either Antigoneor Oedipus the King. You are free to disagree with Johnston’s ideas in his essay.Eric R. FishENGL 1020ESSAY #2: A GUIDED RESEARCHED ESSAY ON THE DRAMAWrite a 1000-word(minimum)guided researched essay using MLA documentation and the format detailed below.Your essay should be organized as follows:

Watch the epigenetics video from PBS. Begin your paper by defining epigenetics in your own words and discussing your reaction to the video.
Research and locate one article on epigenetics from a reputable academic source through the College Library (log in with your new MDC ID number. Your password is the last four digits of your MDC ID unless you have changed it). Note that journal articles are reputable sources, as are some government publications based on research (Wikipedia is NOT a reputable source and is not an acceptable source for this paper).
Read the epigenetics article you find. Continue your paper with a discussion of the epigenetics article. Be sure to paraphrase (put things in your own words) and be sure to cite the author(s) of the article you find within the body of the paper and at the end in the Reference List using APA style. Aim for about a page for this part of your paper.

asks:

For this assignment, you are required to prepare a 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes incorporating researched content, summarized and paraphrased in your own words from the reading assignments for this module and material from your state criminal statutes. Do not cut and paste or otherwise copy content directly from the textbook or your state criminal statutes.

Statutes are the laws unique to the state where you live and are passed by the legislature. You are not to use the federal statutes passed by Congress. Start your research on your state home page on the Internet. Look for a link to the state statutes. Another alternative is to do a search, for example, for Colorado state statutes, on the Internet.

Once you have located the state statutes, you will search for crimes against property and crimes against persons. Another alternative is to search for the particular crimes after you have completed your reading assignments in the textbook.

In your presentation, you will include:

Five slides on crimes against persons
Five slides on crimes against property
You will establish the elements of each of the crimes and analyze, explain, and justify whether the crime is a felony or a misdemeanor.

This paper is to be written as a research/ reaction paper on the movie you select from the provided options. Specific questions are asked pertaining to each of the movies and it is expected that you answer completely in essay form. Use analysis and offer insight into the concepts of the course by noting examples from the movie. I must read/ see 5 examples of outside sources in this paper. It is not necessary to use MLA, however I require that you use (PARANTHEICAL DOCUMENTATION.) Use parenthesis please! The movie does not count as a source. You will lose points for not providing sources. Please do not write a summary of the movie, I have seen all of them many times. All of these elements are necessary in earning a satisfactory grade on this assignment.
Learning Objectives
The student will be able to recognize, understand, and manage communication concepts which occur in our daily living situations.
The student will analyze one (1) film of their choice and choose one (1) question about the film as it relates to various specified communication concepts necessary to achieve the goal of this assignment. Some films will have more than one question. If there is more than one question choice, the student should choose one (1) of the two (2) questions to answer. If there is only one question, then that is the question the student will need to answer for that film. Please do not choose your own film to write about. This assignment will measure your ability to apply concepts from the text or other texts (other than the movie) to major communication components.
The following pages in this module contain an overview of the possible movies you can choose for this assignment . Each page contains an image, a video of the trailer and two questions. After reviewing the possible choices, select a movie. Your assignment is to write a three (3) to five (5) page paper. The paper should respond to one (1) of the two (2) questions listed on your film overview page.

Required Content
The content of the response paper should include:
Clear identification of the question you are answering in the introduction.
Discussion of the scene(s) and characters.
Definition of concepts and a discussion of how it impacts the scene.
Explanation of your response with dialogue and details.
Facts from authorities and other published information.

Required Format
Your assignment should adhere to the following format requirements:
Typed.
Cite your sources in MLA or APA format. Additional resources to help with proper MLA or APA formatting are available to you in the right-hand sidebars of this module.
Citations – If you use a quotation from the textbook, put the citation in parentheses with the page number. Example: (Adler, Proctor, Towne, 213), It is not necessary to have a Works Cited page at the end of the paper.
Dialogue – When quoting dialogue from the movie, be as accurate as you can and always describe behavioral examples specifically.
IBC – Utilize a format with an Introduction, Body and Conclusion.

1. Discuss the group’s developmental stages (storming, norming, forming, etc.). What factors contribute to the group’s cohesiveness? Give specific behaviors in your response as well as definitions of the concepts.
2. Discuss the role stereotyping and perception play in this movie. Give specific behaviors in your response as well as definitions of the concepts.

I know it is lengthy, please do not bid unless you have seen the movie, and have it.

The first major project for this class is an analysis of one or more of the texts we have read this semester as a piece of cultural criticism. In a standard literature class, we might look at a text and keep the focus solely on the language and world in the text. For cultural criticism, we look closely at the language of the text; indeed, the actual language provides much evidence to support the thesis. However, in cultural criticism we also must account for the historical, social, and political context. There are many ways to approach this analysis. Here are some examples:
A focus on the reception or impact of a text at its time of publication. For example, what were the controversies around Fanny Fern’s columns and what can we learn about her possible impact from reader responses? All essays will have a claim that is the argumentative thesis for the essay. Your good analysis, research, and, the text(s) you choose, function as evidence for the claim. Please use at least five good academic or academically-credible sources that you have found through our library catalogue, the MLA Bibliography, Academic Search Premier, LibSearch, or other databases.•

Grading criteria:
Does the essay have an appropriate yet argumentative claim?•
Is the claim supported with credible evidence and analysis throughout the essay?•
Does the essay demonstrate an understanding of the relevant context, characteristics,•
conventions, etc. associated with nineteenth-century literature and culture?
Does the essay contain clear and credible close readings of a text?•
Does the essay employ at least five academically-credible sources, three of which are•
scholarly and peer-reviewed, documented correctly, using MLA or APA style of
documentation in the essay and in a Works Cited page?
Is the essay clearly and effectively written?•
Is the essay about 2500 words or ten pages?•