For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following settlements:

  • Southern colonies
  • Chesapeake colonies
  • Middle colonies
  • New England colonies

 

Then, address the following for your selections:

  • Compare and contrast the settlement patterns.
  • What forces and ideas shaped their origin?
  • Examine the influence of religion for those settlements (e.g., Puritanism, Quakers, and the Anglican Church).
  •  Follow-Up Post Instructions
    Compare your selections and analysis of those selections with those of your peers. If they chose different settlements, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same settlements, build on their posts by providing additional information about the settlements that you have not already noted in your own post. 
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Some organizations prohibit workers from bringing certain kinds of devices into the workplace, such as cameras, cell phones, and USB drives. Some businesses require employees to use clear or see-through backpacks when carrying personal items. What other devices might not be allowed in certain facilities, and why would they be restricted? The video on Google’s Data Center may give you some ideas to write about for this assignment.

 

Your written assignment should consist of 2-3 paragraphs.

ONE (Write one paragraph for each)

· Describe certain key advantages of selling goods and services to the U.S. government. Determine the single most significant advantage of selling goods and services to the government and explain why.

 

· Not every business owner wants to sell or provide a service to the U.S. government.  Determine certain key disadvantages of selling a service to the U.S. government and explain why.

 

TWO (Write one paragraph for each)

· Assess the differences between government and commercial contracting in order to determine the biggest hindrance to getting more people engaged in contracting with the government. Support your response.

 

· Not every business owner contracts with the government. Imagine you are in a purchasing role for the government. Assess the situation and then recommend three to five ways in which you could entice more people to become engaged in contracting with the government. 

 
 
 

Assignment Content

  1. Review the following scenario:
    You are an environmental scientist reflecting on the climate changes that have and will occur throughout your lifetime.
    Write a 700- to 1,050-word letter to a colleague describing the environmental conditions that occurred during the last decade and how these conditions will affect future climate changes.
      • 1.Describe the environmental conditions that occurred during the last decade.
      • 2.Speculate about the future climate changes that may occur.

      • 3.Discuss how various aspects of the planet may look 50 years from now. What domino effect may occur because of continuous human impact on the environment?
      • 4.Consider the human connection to hydrologic changes, how global warming will affect the main components of the cryosphere, and the subsequent effects that will cause changes in drylands.
      • 5,Include details concerning what daily living may be like, available foods, effects on animal populations, and cultural changes.

    • *****Cite at least two references.

      ******Format your letter consistent with APA guidelines.

      Submit your assignment.

Each Discussion Question needs to be at least 150 words with at least 1 citation.

 

Discussion Question 1:

With which behavioral psychologist(s) do you most agree philosophically? Why?

 

Discussion Question 2:

What are the central theoretical foundations that support behavioral psychology? What are the central propositions or key concepts of each theory?  What, in your opinion, are each theory’s major strengths and weaknesses?

 

Read:

Watson, J. B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review, 20(2), 158-177.

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Read:

Lattal, K. A. (1992). B. F. Skinner and psychology: Introduction to the special issue. American Psychologist, 47(11), 1269-1272.

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Read:

Goddard, M. J. (2012). On certain similarities between mainstream psychology and the writings of B. F. Skinner. Psychological Record, 62(3), 563-575.

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Read:

Baer, D. M., Wolf, M. M., & Risley, T. R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1(1), 91-97.

URL:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1310980/

 
 
 

Read through the chapter-1 of the recommended text book 

 

Required Text: Kirk, A. (2016). Data visualisation a handbook for data driven design. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. ISBN: 978-1473912144

 

  1. Identify one or a few visualisations/infographics you think are especially effective.
  2. Identify one or a few visualisations/infographics you think are especially ineffective.

 

For each choice, consider the reasons that led you to make that choice?

 

What design or content factors shaped your selection?

 

Please make sure you have an initial post (about 300 words)

Justifying Unethical Conduct” Please respond to the following:

 

  • Unethical conduct is not necessarily illegal conduct; however, the difference between ethical and unethical conduct can be difficult to spot. Using the Internet, identify an example within the last two years of when a company engaged in LEGAL, but arguably unethical, conduct. Next, determine two (2) reasons why this conduct could be deemed unethical and why you believe the company failed to make the right decision.   Lastly, speculate on the ramifications of the company’s arguably unethical conduct on its customer base. Justify your response.
  • What are the purposes of laws as identified in the chapter reading and which do you most agree with?  If running a business, where should a business executive look to find and understand the law that governs his or her business? 
  • What is an Executive Order by the President of the United States and how do and can these Orders affect the decisions management have to make today in business? 
  • Please post your sources and links for your research and information.  Also, please be sure your answers are current, your own work and not coursehero answers.