Month: May 2018

The Insanity Defense

View the Criminal Law Myth v Reality: The Insanity Defense is Often Used Successfully video. The link is : http://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/_ph_hsml864468_cc_set.title.Criminal_Law_Myth_v_Reality:_The_Insanity_Defense_is_Often_Used_Successfully__/ph/streaming/careers/2014/cj/mythissues/CH4_MvR.m4v

It would be helpful to refer to the text’s discussion of the insanity defense before tackling this activity.

The insanity defense is one of the more controversial and complex defenses available to defendants. It is controversial because the public thinks that defendants are excused from punishment when found not guilty as the result of this defense. The complexity lies in the link it makes between the medical and legal professions. Discuss the arguments supporting the insanity defense and what opponents of the insanity defense argue.

Consider the legal implications of the following case. Tom Smith had recently escaped from a mental hospital when he was picked up by a concerned motorist. At a highway rest area, Tom killed the motorist by strangulation. He was charged with murder. On two prior occasions, Tom had been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

The defense presents testimony and evidence that Tom has the IQ of about a ten-year-old child. He has a 35-year history of mental illness, dating back to his return from the Vietnam War. Tom suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, unable to recover from the horrors he experienced in the war. He is delusional, and he strangled the motorist because he listened to Grateful Dead rock music, which caused Tom to think he was the Antichrist.

The prosecution had no trouble establishing the elements of the crime. The defense attorneys used an insanity defense (irresistible-impulse test), claiming that Tom belongs in a mental hospital, not a maximum-security prison.

If you were the judge in this case, what would you decide? Should Tom be punished as a criminal or treated as a person with a mental illness?

I want the essay to correspond with my choice being that Tom should be treated as a person

Optimism versus Pessimism in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

In this dissertation, I'd like to examine hope vs. despair in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In this discussion, I want principally to demonstrate this poem as a masterpiece through which Eliot tries to say that from death and sorrow emerge a new hope of rebirth and resurrection.
The Waste Land, in my view, is a contemplative poem through which T. S. Eliot represents the two essential elements of the human being's creation which are birth and death. At first glance, the world depicted in the poem is senseless, gloomy and incapable of revival. In fact, by depicting such images of a deteriorated world, Eliot may want to convey an idea that out of sorrow and death arise hope, and a new promise of life. Therefore, I want the scope of this research to be about analyzing the poem as a good omen of regeneration and rebirth. 

The main points I would like to include in this dissertation:

1. Firstly, I'd like to mention briefly some well-known critics who demonstrated and analyzed this poem as a melancholic depiction of a degenerated world, then I'd like to discuss that this poem is entirely optimistic. It is about the hope after depression and rebirth after death.

2. In order to demonstrate the poem as an optimistic one, I'd like to discuss the following point:

* The relationship between 'form' and 'content'. The fragmentation of the poem : At first sight, in my view, the poem appears as a fragmented and disordered work which does not display a combined view. But all the allusions, scenes and myths used by Eliot are introduced on purpose to give a consistent shape of the poem. Moreover, regarding form and content, I'd like to show the "music" of this poem that Eliot hides behind the form of the poem, and which, in turn, gives a united shape of the poem. 
* Myths, allusions and figures: The Waste Land has been portrayed with various classical myths and historical figures in order to confirm the idea of rebirth and restoration. Some major myths I'd like to include are : the Vegetation myth, The Holy Grail, the story of the Fisher King, the myth of Tiresias, the Philomela myth, the figure of Phlebas, , the Phoenician and the myth of Tiresias. Besides, Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. 

* The Four Elements: I'd like to discuss that the five parts of the poem show a kind of an interaction among the four elements of nature like water and fire, and this, in turn, means life.
* the "city" as a recurrent symbol. The 'city' as a symbol of loss and redemption. I'd like to discuss how Eliot employs the 'city' as a symbol of revival. I'd like, if possible, to refer to the writings of Charles Baudelaire about the symbol of the "city" and Urban landscape in comparison with how Eliot demonstrates the "city" in The Waste Land .

* I'd like to discuss how Eliot employs the images of 'lilacs', 'hyacinth', 'Tarot pack', ' Belladonna – Lady of the Rocks ' and 'The Hanged Man'.

This is a list of some major references I'd like to use together with references you recommend :

1| . The Waste Land: Critique of the Myth, , Cleanth Brooks

2 T. S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry , Elizabeth Drew 

3| "Ulysses, Order, and Myth".,T. S. Eliot

4| The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot., T. S. Eliot

5| Selected Essays, T. S. Eliot 

6| The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 
J. G Frazer 
7| A Collection of Critical Essays on The Waste Land. Jay Martin.

8| The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London. The City and its Double. , Ian Munro 

9| From Ritual to Romance, , Jessie L Weston

Sport Psychology

In 1,000-1,250 words, you will differentiate the three main roles of sport psychology consultants and their relationship to each other by doing the following:

1. Describe how the field of sports psychology developed in a historical context.
2. Identify each role and what the actions are and ethical considerations within that role.
3. Describe the relationship between all three roles.

Use three to five scholarly resources to support your explanations.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies: 5.5: Differentiate between the three major roles of sport psychology consultants.

Note: Please if you do not have knowledge of this subject, do not request to do it. I also need you to include a doi with each cited source you find. I will provide my GCU library login info. I only want sources from the library!

 

Assignment: Application: Taking a Stand

Effective leaders have a high degree of self-awareness and know how to leverage their strengths in the workplace. Assessments are a valuable tool that professionals can use to learn more about themselves and consider how their temperaments influence their interactions with others.

 

As you engage in this learning process, it is important to remember that everyone—regardless of temperament type or related preferences—experiences some challenges with regard to leadership. The key to success is being able to recognize and leverage your own strengths while honouring differences among your colleagues.

At some point in your leadership career, you will encounter an ethical or moral dilemma that requires you to take a stand and defend your position.

For this Assignment, you evaluate an issue and consider how you could act as a moral agent or advocate, facilitating the resolution of the issue for a positive outcome.

To prepare:

 

To further your self-knowledge, you are required to complete the Kiersey Temperament as indicated in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider your leadership style, including your strengths for leading others and include your results from Kiersey Temperament Sorter to describe potential challenges related to your leadership style.

· Mentally survey your work environment, or one with which you are familiar, and identify a timely issue/dilemma that requires you to perform the leadership role of moral agent or advocate to improve a situation (e.g., speaking or acting on behalf of a vulnerable patient, the need for appropriate staffing, a colleague being treated unfairly).

· What ethical, moral, or legal skills, dispositions, and/or strategies would help you resolve this dilemma? Define the differences between ethical, moral, and legal leadership.

· Finally, consider the values and principles that guide the nursing profession; the organization’s mission, vision, and values; the leadership and management competencies addressed in this course; and your own values and reasons for entering the profession. What motivation do you see for taking a stand on an important issue even when it is difficult to do so?

To complete: (Key Points).

 

Write a 4 to 5 page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

· Introduce the conceptual frameworks of the ethical constructs of ethics, moral, or legal standards and the purpose of the paper.

· Consider an ethical, moral, or legal dilemma that you have encountered in your work environment and describe it.

· Analyze the moral, ethical, and legal implications utilized in this situation. Describe your role as a moral agent or advocate for this specific issue.

· Consider your leadership styles identified by your self-assessment and determine if they act as a barrier or facilitation during this dilemma. 

Describe different quality methods within healthcare.

Course Scenario

Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:

 

• Emergency room services
• Intensive care
• Surgical care
• Obstetrics
• Diagnostic services
• Some rehabilitation therapies
• Inpatient pharmacy services
• Geriatric services
• Consumer physician referral      services

Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them   

Instructions

The CEO has received some resistance from the Board on undertaking a QI program. She has asked you to develop a set of talking points on the pros and cons of common measurement techniques used in healthcare that she can use the next time she runs into a Board member.

Talking points are used to quickly explain something by condensing it into a compelling, but easily digestible, list. If the goal is to increase support for a QI program, the talking points must provide the ideas she needs to convey in order to achieve the goal.

Your talking points should be submitted in a Word document. Your talking points should include the pros and cons of implementing a QI program.    

 

Upon completion of your talking points, please prepare a PowerPoint presentation where you will explain each talking point to the CEO so they clearly understand and can answer questions from the Board.

APA formatting for the talking points, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.

a. Length of PowerPoint should be at 7-10 slides.

b. Highlight specific pros and cons of QI programs.

c. Use the Notes area on each slide as needed to expand on the key points.

Assignment 1: Social Performance Of Organizations

According to the textbook, the current world economy is increasingly becoming integrated and interdependent; as a result, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. Use the Internet to research Apple. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic video on the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial found in your online course shell (Week 4).

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

• Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Social Performance of Organizations
• Tags: BUS475, Social Performance
• Description: First Name, Last Name – BUS475 Assignment 1 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Specify the nature, structure, and types of products or services of Apple, and identify two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success. Provide explanation to support the rationale. 
2. Suggest five (5) ways in which the primary stakeholders can influence the organization’s financial performance. Provide support for the response.
3. Specify one (1) controversial corporate social responsibility concern associated with Apple.
4. Submit a reference page with at least four (4) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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.

 

Technological Advances Essay

Technology in health care has taken many forms over the years. In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the first smallpox vaccination method. A hundred years later, Wilhelm Rontgen discovered how to use x-rays for medical imaging. And in 2013, Japanese researchers grew the first human liver from stem cells. What is next?  How does one technological advance set the stage for further discoveries?

For this assignment you will compose an analysis of 750-1,000 words incorporating the following:

1. Evaluate at a minimum of two different historical perspectives regarding the delivery of health care in the United States. How has technology and the lack of developing technology affected and shaped these perspectives?
2. Contrast and describe two technological advances that have positively impacted health care delivery in the United States.
3. Explain how the two technological advances you selected have influenced public opinion of the changing health care system in the United States? Provide a brief summary of both positive and negative opinions.
4. Forecast how you believe these two technological advances will affect delivery and utilization of health care in the United States in the future. What other factors may simultaneously affect health care utilization?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

 

Assignment 1: Discussion—Modes of Entry and the International Strategy

When an organization decides to expand operations internationally,  one important thing to be checked is how it will approach and enter the  foreign markets being targeted. The choice of which entry mode(s) to be  used in entering international markets should match a company’s  international strategy. The entry mode must also be chosen to align well  with an organization’s structure and the knowledge of the markets.

Using the University online library resources, locate a  minimum of four different scholarly sources on modes of entering global  markets:

 

• Compare and contrast the value of strategic alliances, mergers, and  acquisitions as options for a company to expand their international  operations in a successful way
• Recent examples from business news to illustrate your answers

 

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be  thorough and address all components of the discussion question in  detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the  APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

 

 

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• Make sure your writing

 

• is clear, concise, and organized;
• demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and
• displays accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

 

Formulating A Qualitative Research Study

TOPIC:  Formulating a Qualitative Research Study

To prepare:

 

Using the Learning Resources as a guide, determine a qualitative research topic that is of interest to you and applies to a clinical practice area.

 

With your selected topic, formulate at least one research question that could serve as the basis for a qualitative research study.

Consider which of the following qualitative research methods would best address your selected research question: phenomenology, ethnography, or grounded theory. Why is that method appropriate?

Anticipate any issues (related to ethics, credibility, management, funding, etc.) you might encounter if you were to engage in this research project, and consider how you would handle them.

Ask yourself: What other qualitative methods could be used to address my selected qualitative research topic? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these methods?

 

Post 1-2 PAGES ON : A cohesive response that addresses the following:

 

Summarize your selected qualitative research topic and research question(s) and identify your selected methodology for gathering data about the question(s). 

 

Explain why you chose that particular methodology and how it would be useful to the qualitative research topic you selected.

 

Identify and elaborate on the challenges (related to ethics, credibility, management, funding, etc.) you might encounter if you were to engage in this research project.

 

Describe the strengths and weaknesses of your selected research method (phenomenology, ethnography, and grounded theory) in terms of the research project you selected.

 

Discuss at least one other qualitative method that could be used to research your selected topic.

 

Discussions And Assignments 3

 Diverse Workforce and Rewards

In completing this activity, you will demonstrate the ability to apply theories to design rewards for a changing and diverse workforce.

Consider the usefulness of Porter and Lawler's expectancy theory in regard to rewards. Research the theory using the Excelsior College Virtual Library. The U.S. workforce has transformed from agricultural to industrial to knowledge workers. With this change, expectations have also changed. Add to this generational differences and diversity in the workplace. Rewards must be carefully designed to meet the expectations of this changing workforce.

Suppose you are going to design rewards in your organization. You may identify the expectations of the majority of workers, but you cannot please everyone. Keeping this in mind, respond to the following:

• Using the expectation of flexibility, discuss how you would go about applying the theory to link performance and rewards.
• How would you motivate the diverse workforce spanning two to three generations? Suggest two to three viable measures.

Be certain to integrate the readings and research from the online library to support your opinions. You must cite your sources in text and include multiple references in addition to the textbook for your initial response and your replies.