Day: February 20, 2020

Merchanics monument

February 20, 2020 2 Comments Art, Chicago / Turabian

The goal of this project is for you to research a particular piece of historical metalsmithing that you find interesting.( The piece I chose is called Merchanics Monument.) And the only requirement is that you find it personally compelling and that there is sufficient, published information for you to be able to write your paper.You discover as much about that object as possible including things like:

Who made it?
Where/why was it made?
What does it mean?
what is the history of that object?
what is the historical significance of that object?
what can we learn through that object?

The paper must be fully referenced with footnotes or endnotes. Unattributed information is unacceptable.

Find one real world PR disaster or botched PR attempt

February 20, 2020 2 Comments APA, Marketing

Find one real world PR disaster or botched PR attempt and prepare a essay applying all concepts and applications.

Step 1: Read the case thoroughly with a view to understanding the Public Relations issues illustrated by the case. Make sure you discriminate between information which is relevant and that which is superfluous and/or ambiguous.

Step 2: Define clearly and concisely the basic problems (or issues) in the case. Then identify the main issues. Do not be confused with “symptoms.” Identify the key decisions to be made.

Step 3: Use the information and facts provided in the case to analyze the situation. This would include understanding the situaton, an analysis of the environment (if applicable)– for example, are there particular strengths and weaknesses, external opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis), etc. that should be mentioned?

Step 4: Based on your analysis from step 3 above, identify possible alternative strategy solutions to cope with the problem(s)/Issue(s) you have identified in step 2 above. State any assumptions you make, and feel free to make assummptions in order for the strategies to work. Evaluate the pros and cons of each alternative considered. This should form the main focus of your attention in the case analysis.

Step 5: Recommend a course of action (if appropriate), selecting the alternative proposed in step 3 above. Which would you consider most appropriate to solve the problems you have identified in step 2 above taking into consideration the analysis made in step 3? Include some specifics regarding how the recommendations may be implemented by the marketing team. Note: You should edit your recommendations based on the latest web-information that you can access by going to the company’s website.

Job Roles in Forensic Psychology

February 20, 2020 2 Comments APA, Psychology and Education

Job Roles in Forensic Psychology
Overview
This assignment supports this unit’s readings and discussions on the different careers available in the field of forensic psychology.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

Describe the1 field of forensic psychology.
Describe how a selected job role is unique compared to other mental health forensic careers.
Describe the specialist’s professional role and tasks performed in the selected case.
Apply scholarly research findings to topics in forensic psychology.
Describe a selected article and what the authors communicate about the area of specialization.
Explain the role of a forensic specialist as represented in scholarly literature.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Communicate clearly with appropriate purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
Cite the source using author and year.
Assignment Instructions
Select one of the following job roles, and search the Capella University Library or Internet to find a case in which this type of specialist was involved:

Forensic psychologist.
Forensic psychiatrist.
Forensic social worker.
Forensic counselor.
Search the Capella University Library for one scholarly article on a type of mental health forensic specialist. Use the job role and case you selected above, along with the scholarly article you located, to write a paper in which you respond to the following:

Describe how the job role you selected is unique compared to other mental health forensic careers.
Describe the person’s professional role and tasks performed in the selected case.
Describe the scholarly article you selected and what the author(s) communicate about the area of specialization.
Explain the role of a forensic specialist as represented in scholarly literature.
Communicate clearly with appropriate purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
Cite the source using author and year.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is in professional style with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Resources: Support your position with information from your textbook and from at least one scholarly article.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
Length: 34 double-spaced, typed pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
SafeAssign: Use the SafeAssign Draft option to check your writing and ensure that you have paraphrased, quoted, and cited your sources appropriately. Run a SafeAssign report, saving your paper as a draft. Based on your SafeAssign results, make any necessary changes to your paper before submitting your assignment to your instructor for grading.
Refer to APA Style Central for guidance in using proper APA style. See the APA Style and Format section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using APA Style Central.

Refer to the Job Roles in Forensic Psychology Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: EXPERIENCING MUSIC

February 20, 2020 3 Comments APA, English and Literature

your assignment is to explore the legacy of the black artist during the Harlem Renaissance in Harlem, New York. Please review the section in Chapter 14: The Modernist World on the Harlem Renaissance and then view these two videos on this movement in art, paying close attention to the sections on music. Then, you will need to choose one of the following artists to write about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PTxdsqfsA
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcDI3EZecbpBLAyA26jl8Q03yD2CxSdaL
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Harry James
Glenn Miller
Tommy Dorsey
Count Basie
Artie Shaw
Ella Fitzgerald
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Fats Waller
Jelly Roll Morton
Willie Smith
Once you’ve chosen a musician, please explore his or her music in depth. In two pages, discuss your artist’s role in the Harlem Renaissance and the humanities. Please refer to the Files section for an assignment sheet with questions to get you started as well as the grading rubric for the assignment.

Hamlet Essay

February 20, 2020 5 Comments APA, English and Literature

Select one of the following two prompts and produce a 4-5 paragraph argumentative essay. This should represent your best writing,as this a summative assessment that should be a demonstration of all that you have learned throughout the year. The weight of the grade will reflect this importance.

1.) Is Hamlet a Hero?
    Or
2.)What is the most tragic aspect of the play

Nursing Standards of Care

February 20, 2020 1 Comment APA, Health Care and Life Sciences

Nursing Standards of Care

* Consider how nurses plan for patient care, using the five steps of the nursing process. 
* Discuss the critical thinking skills that are involved in using the nursing process to develop a nursing care plan.
* Explain how nurses can enhance a patient’s abilities to collaborate the plan of care.
* Write a three page paper, using 2 peer reviewed references.

Porters 5 Forces Essay Assignment

February 20, 2020 3 Comments Business & Finance

  In the 5F5I assignment is assigned five items from the item listed in Porters 5 forces. For each item you need to: (1) explain the item, (2) explain how it affects the specific force, (3) bring real-world example that shows both the item and its effect on the specific force (the effect may be either to reduce or to increase the specific force). There is no need to do any/much research; you can use examples based on your / common knowledge; the example can be of either direction (that is, the effect can be of either increase or decrease in the force); please find new examples (cant use our class examples) 

The five items are;

1.Rivalry: Fixed costs are 

 2.Rivalry: Industry demand growth rate is 

3. Rivalry: Buyers switching costs are 

4.  Buyers: Extent of buyers profits is 

5.  Rivalry: Number of competitors is 

Apply your knowledge of course material to a short examination of womens activism on the local level

February 20, 2020 No Comments Chicago / Turabian, Other

Apply your knowledge of course material to a short examination of womens activism on the local level.  Additional research may be necessary but integration of course material is essential.  Select a subject born any time between the mid-1930s and the early 1950s, preferably someone who became involved in academic, political or community issues.  Interview her/him using the guidelines we develop.  You may want to consider faculty or staff members if necessary. Use the opportunity to compare national and regional trends, to focus on significant or emerging issues, to test theories and to assess social messages.  Include a one-sentence statement of your thesis in the introduction, include bibliography and footnotes using Chicago Manual of Style

Managerial Epidemiology

February 20, 2020 2 Comments Business & Finance

Final Project 

Final Project: Epidemiological Profile Outline:  Report

Objective: Epidemiological Profile Outline: Report. 

For this assignment, you will create a Epidemiological Profile Outline: Report

The purpose of the document is to provide a set of guidelines to help profile writers produce integrated epidemiologic profiles and advise them concerning how to interpret epidemiologic data in ways that are consistent and useful in meeting the planning needs of both prevention and care programs. 

You are encouraged to choose a specific disease and use it as basis for this project.

The paper will be 8 pages long. More information and due date will provide in the assignments link. 

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES (2 points /10%):

Students will create an Epidemiological Profile Outline: Report for the Disease of your choosing.  The purpose of the document is to provide guidance to help writers create integrated epidemiologic profiles and advice on how to interpret the data in ways that are consistent and useful in meeting the planning needs of both prevention and care programs for specific diseases. Integrating prevention and care data should help to streamline the work of health department staff, Disease planning groups, and planning councils by reducing duplicated effort and by promoting consistency and comparability of data and terms in prevention as well as in care planning

You need to read the article (in the additional weekly reading resources localize in the Syllabus and also in the Lectures link) assigned for this week and develop a 8-10-page paper reflecting your understanding and ability to apply the readings to your Health Care Setting. Each paper must be typewritten with 12-point font and double-spaced with standard margins. Follow APA format when referring to the selected articles and include a reference page.

  

EACH PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE THE   FOLLOWING:

1. Introduction (5 points / 25%) Offer an abstract that provide a brief outlook of the protocol and explaining in your own words what is meant by Epidemiological Profile Outline: Report.

2. Your Epidemiological Profile Outline: Report.  (10 points 50%)

The following outline contains the basic content areas to include in an epidemiological profile:

a. Cover Page

Acknowledgements

  • List      members of your epidemiological workgroup, advisory council,      evidence-based program workgroup, and any other key stakeholders.

b. Table of Contents

c. Executive Summary

  • Provide      a brief overview of what the epidemiological profile is, why it is      important, and how it can be used.
  • Provide      a brief list of key findings from the profile.

d. Introduction

  • Describe      your community. Consider including demographic information such as      population size, age distribution, gender, and any socioeconomic      background information that may be available (educational attainment,      employment, etc.).
  • Include      important historical, cultural, and contextual information that might be      relevant to the data included in the profile.
  • Consider      describing your Strategic Prevention Framework      State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) project. Describe      SAMHSAs Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and how developing an      epidemiological profile is a component of .
  • Describe      your epidemiological workgroup. This can include the number of members,      agencies, organizations they represent; how often they meet; where they      meet; and any other information an interested person may want to know.

e. Data Selection Processes

  • Describe      how you collected or gathered the data included in the profile.
  • Discuss      how your workgroup decided which data sources to include in the profile      and which data sources to leave out.
  • Provide      a list of data sources, describing each source. Examples include a youth      tobacco survey, emergency room data from the local hospital,      alcohol-related motor vehicle crash data from local law enforcement, and      community perceptions collected during a focus group. For each data      source, include:
    • A       brief description of the data source
    • The       department, agency, or organization that provided the data
    • How       frequently the data are collected and the years that data are available       for
    • Any       limitations of the data, which might include a small survey response or       inadequate arrest reports
  • Provide      a list of indicators, such as Past 30-day Alcohol Use Among Adults or      Number of Lung Cancer Deaths.

f. Data Dimensions

Describe the criteria you need to prioritize substance misuse problems. These might include:

  • Size      or magnitude
  • Trends      over time
  • Relative      comparisons (for example, one community to another, one age group to      another)
  • Seriousness/severity
  • Economic      cost

g. Body of Report (Findings)

This may include narrative, tables, graphs, charts, and maps. It is also helpful to incorporate a combination of formats. For example, use narrative to summarize findings in a table. Make sure that tables and graphs are clearly labeled.

  • Alcohol
    • Consumption/use       indicators
    • Consequence       indicators
    • Risk       and protective factors
  • Tobacco
    • Consumption/use       indicators
    • Consequence       indicators
    • Risk       and protective factors
  • Drugs
    • Consumption/use       indicators
    • Consequence       indicators
    • Risk       and protective factors

h. Limitations and Data Gaps

  • Discuss      indicators for which you do not have data and consider including      strategies or plans for addressing those data gaps.
  • Discuss      limitations of the data you do have. For example, maybe you have data that      you cannot sort by gender or by age group.

e. Conclusion

j. Appendices, which might include:

  • Names      of State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup members
  • Data      collection instruments used
  • Large,      detailed tables
  • Glossary      of terms
  • Mortality      or hospitalization data: ICD-9/ICD-10 codes (if the tribe uses these data      sources)

ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE:

The assignment is to be electronically posted no later than noon on Saturday, February 22, 2020.