Day: August 7, 2020

Emergency Management

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

This year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency released a comprehensive strategic plan for 2018-2022 that identified 3 key priorities:

Build A Culture of Preparedness
Ready the Nation for Catastrophic Disasters
Reduce the Complexity of FEMA

Construct a 3-5 page paper that describes how to best align current planning efforts for a climate risk topic of your interest with FEMA’s 3 key priorities in the strategic plan. (Please see the attached graphic to get some initial ideas about climate risks.)

Review FEMA’s 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, as well as the other documents and media files for this week to complete this assignment.

*This assignment WILL require additional research.*
USE WHAT I ATTACHED.

My Watershed Analysis

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment Natural science, Not applicable

Watershed Analysis Post,

Find out what your home watershed is, and learn about it. (Hint: you may live in several nested watersheds.)  *MY WATERSHED IS THE LOS ANGELES RIVER WATERSHED.*

LIST
1) the name of your home watershed,
2) its land area in square miles,
3) your favorite place in your watershed, and
3) ways in which your homes water usageand waste watermay impact your watershed
and/or other watersheds. Think about what goes down the drains in your home and where
the water goes after it leaves your home, and if you have a yard, activities that you do in the yard that could impact your watershed

emergency management

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

1.    Provide a brief definition of ethics
2.    Provide aa brief definition of morals
3.    Provide a brief definition of values
4.    Provide a brief definition of altruism
5.    Provide a brief definition of integrity
6.    Provide a brief definition of virtue ethics
7.    Provide a brief definition of conflict of interest
8.    What did Damon Horowitz say about the banality of ethics?
9.    What did Shafali Roy say was the cause of the building collapse?
10.    What was Aristotles definition of Ethics?

Public Safety

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Law

Instructions
For this assignment you will examine and articulate leadership styles, and identify which styles you use and/or would like to use as you develop your leadership skills and knowledge.
To do this you will read the assigned material, use online tools, as well as doing your own independent research, and review your own leadership experience.  You may also solicit the input of friends and family.  Your finished paper will be 3-4 pages long (not including the cover page or reference page, and attachments) presented in APA (6th edition) format.
Your paper should identify at least eight commonly accepted styles of leadership and summarize the characteristics of each. You will then identify the style or styles you use and explain why you chose these styles, providing examples of how you have used them.  Finally, you will identify which styles you would believe it would beneficial for you to use more of and explain why you chose them and how you think they will aid you in becoming a better public safety leader.

show your knowledge

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

1. Discuss four differences between photosynthesis and cellular respiration:
a) First summarize each process,

b)Next discuss four ways the processes differ.

2. Discuss the interconnection between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Include the terms energy, process, ATP, oxygen, carbon dioxide, cells (cellular), producers, glucose, and consumers in your response.

3. Explain why we die in seconds without oxygen. Your response should include the terms ATP, electrons, acceptor, and energy.

4. Read this brief article on Dinosaur Extinction (Links to an external site.). How do hypotheses on the extinction of the dinosaurs relate to photosynthesis? Include the terms wavelength, producers, heterotrophs and photosynthesis in your response.

5. Describe the anatomy of chloroplasts and mitochondria. Explain the activity associated with each structure.

Team Management Activity and Reflection

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Business and Management

This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. Using the Ashford University Library and other credible online resources, find three scholarly, peer-reviewed and other credible sources that provide information on Amazon.coms business structure.
Here is the scenario and situation:
Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazons management training program, and you have completed your BABA degree at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University.
Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?
Now lets apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:
* Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.
    * For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?
* Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
    * Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.
* Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.
    * How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest?
* Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
    * Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?
* Controls: Identity what controls and measures you will implement.
    * How will you apply the four steps of control (these are in Chapter 7; i.e., establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?
Be sure to integrate vocabulary learned throughout this course and citations from the text to support your analysis. The paper should be five to six double-spaced pages in length

Psychology

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

Case Study 1
Arlene Amarosi, a working mother, has been under a lot of stress this year. She has been having difficulty getting to sleep and often lies in bed staring at the ceiling while worrying about her problems. As a result, shes often tired throughout her workday and relies on coffee and caffeinated energy drinks to keep her going.
Lately Arlenes sleep has been disturbed even more often than usual. Several times over the past week she has been awakened by disturbing dreams. In these dreams she is always at work, struggling to keep up with an impossible workload. She is struggling with the new software that her company recently trained her to use, but no matter how fast she goes, she cant keep up with the workflow. The dream ends when Arlene wakes up in a panic. It often takes Arlene hours to get back to sleep, and she has been feeling even more tired than usual during work.
1.    Arlene is worried that her recent dream experiences indicate that something is wrong with her. If you were Arlenes friend and wanted to reassure her, how would you help her to understand the normal experience of sleep and dreams?
2.    Which theory of dreaming seems to best explain Arlenes disturbing dreams, and why?
3.    How might meditation help Arlene?
4.    If you were Arlenes health care provider, how would you advise her to overcome her insomnia?
5.    What are some effects on Arlene of her high caffeine intake? What would happen if she just suddenly stopped drinking coffee and energy drinks? How would you advise her to modify her caffeine use?

Case Study 2
When John Buckingham moved across the country to take a new job, he didnt expect to run into much difficulty. He would be doing the same kind of work he was used to doing, just for a new company. But when he arrived on his first day, he realized there was more for him to adjust to than he had realized.
Clearly, John had moved to a region where the culture was much more laid back and casual than he was used to. He showed up for his first day in his usual business suit only to find that almost all the other employees wore jeans, Western shirts, and cowboy boots. Many of them merely stared awkwardly when they first saw John, and then hurriedly tried to look busy while avoiding eye contact.
John got the message. On his second day at work John also wore jeans and a casual shirt, although he didnt yet own a pair of cowboy boots. He found that people seemed more relaxed around him, but that they continued to treat him warily. It would be several weeksafter hed gone out and bought boots and started wearing them to workbefore certain people warmed up to John enough to even talk to him.
1.    What does the behavior of Johns co-workers toward John suggest about their attributions for his initial manner of dress?
2.    Describe the kinds of biases that might have affected Johns co-workers as they formed impressions of him on his first day. Could they have been using a faulty schema to understand him? Is there evidence of the halo effect?
3.    Explain why John changed his manner of dress so soon after starting his new job. What processes were likely involved in his decision to do so?
4.    Johns co-workers seemed very hesitant to warm up to John. How would you explain to John their initial reluctance to like him very much?
5.    If you were the human resources director for this company, what strategies could you employ to prevent experiences like Johns? How would you justify the implementation of these strategies to the company president?

Child Development

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Psychology and Education

Introduction to Child Life
What is child life?
What does a child life specialist do?
Where do they typically work etc
What is a child life specialists educational background?
2. Describe the services that would be provided if they hired a child life specialist at a dentist office.
What skills do you have that are helpful (include the child life competencies and standards of clinical practice).
In what areas are child life specialists needed most?
What specific things could a specialist do in a dentist office?
Why hire a child life specialist over someone with a different degree? What makes a child life unique?
3. Expenses and accommodations: What will it cost them to hire you (budget, salary, toys etc) and how much space do you require to do your job.
4. Summary
Your chance to add any other relevant information and to really wrap-up any information you want them to know about you, your skillset and the proposal.

Please try to utilize peer-reviewed journals and incorporate developmental theory.

Convincing YourBoss The New Cyber Defense Program is Worth-it!

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Computer Science

For this discussion, you need to convince your profit-minded boss that you must invest in a new security program for the business.  This security program is quite expensive ($50,000 initial cost and then $25,000 annually for the license).

Initial Post Guidelines:

– Put together 5 pullet points to your boss on why you must invest in this cybersecurity program. Discuss the pros and cons of this system.  Also, provide an example of a company that was hacked and the damage inflicted on the business (did it go under, were they fined because of the data breach, etc).