Day: October 19, 2020

Natural Disaster

October 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Recovery efforts are crucial when a disaster devastates a community. The federal government must evaluate the extent of damage to a community to officially declare a disaster. To facilitate recovery, communities rely on the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) to ensure a recovery plan is in place prior to and after a disaster.

For this assignment, research a natural disaster of your choice that has affected a community within the last five years. It is acceptable to select a disaster in a major surrounding area, if preferred. Identify the communitys existing recovery plans before the disaster and evaluate how the recovery plans met the needs of the state, local and tribal governments, and the community as a whole.

In a summary (500-750 words) include the following:

Provide a brief overview of the selected disaster. Include the community involved, the frequency of disasters in the community, and the population affected by the disaster.
Discuss the role of the federal government during the disaster recovery efforts. What factors contributed to the federal government declaring it a disaster? Did the federal government offer additional support in the response and recovery efforts? If so, how?
Did the community have a mitigation plan developed prior to the disaster? Did those plans help the community in responding to and recovering from the disaster?
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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

fairy tale

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Figures in tales are often naive and choose without knowing what it is they are doing. Perhaps Snow White could have done better with a little advice? Maybe Cinderella could have used a good sisterly talk? Or Aladdin could have had time with a big brother? Imagine a fairy tale character wrote into an advice columnist (blog columnist, podcast, Youtube Influencer, or television show, etc.), how would the character describe her situation, and then what advice would you give them?

Write a short paragraph summing up the problem (from the perspective of the fairy tale character).
Write a short paragraph providing some of your best advice on how they could better handle their situation/relationship.

Aligning Performance Appraisals and Compensation Plans

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Aligning Performance Appraisals and Compensation Plans

During the past few weeks, we have learned that there are various methods of conducting employee performance appraisals (e.g., trait, behavioral, ranking, MBO, etc.). Your task for this assignment is to pick one of those methods, explain it, and discuss how it could be effectively used to impact employee compensation.

Your response should consider the potential impact the performance evaluation method could have on at least three different organizational stakeholder groups. Also, your assignment must include your thoughts on what organizations can do to prevent ethical and legal challenges that might from arise from linking the method of performance appraisal you chose to employee compensation.

Your assignment should be approximately 5-7 pages in length (not including cover page and reference list) and include ample scholarly and professional sources to support your key ideas. This assignment will be graded according to the rubric attached below.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

October 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

Wearing a mask is a cheap and easy way to help stop the spread of airborne infections like COVID-19. Its also a sign that you want to help protect other people and have them protect you that were all in this together. Heres some awesome slow-motion schliereHow do you feel about the current situation regarding COVID-19 and mask use in the U.S.?

How do you feel about the current situation regarding COVID-19 and mask use in the U.S.?

Economic Analysis of Asia

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Responses will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
1. Reference to the provided resource in support of the argument.
2. Reference to the class content in support of the argument.
3. Reference to at least one other peer-reviewed article outside the textbook or the provided resource,
where indicated (please remember to cite the sources and show the full references at the end of the
report).
4. Students own critical thoughts about the question.
5. Student answered all questions satisfactorily.

Question 1:
Download UNDP Human Development Data for Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. Replicate the calculation of these countries HDIs for the most recent year (2018).
Provide a one-paragraph interpretation of the calculated HDI and its components, in the context of each country (minimal research required).

Here are the steps to follow:
Go to: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data#.
1) Select each of the three dimensions of HDI: Health, Education, and Income. 2) Select the appropriate indicator (e.g. life expectancy).
3) Download data and open it in Excel.
4) Calculate the appropriate indexes.
5) Put them together to calculate the HDI.

Question 2:
Afghanistan and Pakistan share a long border and history.

1) Download World Bank data ( https://data.worldbank.org ) on the population by age and sex for the two countries and build the two countries population pyramids for the most recent year (2019). What are the similarities and differences in age distribution between the two countries? Do some research to provide an explanation.
     
2) Download the annual estimates of the population totals from 1960 to present. Use a graph to compare the trends for the two countries. Can you use data on the population components (births, deaths, and migration) to explain these trends? (Hint: migration variables include international migrant stock and totals, as well as net migration).

Question 3:
Based on chapter 2 of the Malixi textbook, describe the economic development patterns of Japan since the 1950s. Provide some explanations of these patterns. Please remember to relate these explanations to the models of economic development we reviewed in class (Arthur Lewis, Harrod-Domar, Solow, and others). Length: not more than 2 pages.

Distillation paper

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IN YOUR OWN WORDS, write a brief one-page-or-less synopsis or distillation of the article. The key is to maintain the majority of the purpose and findings of the article without losing any pertinent information

Some important concepts to be to include in your distillation:
The purpose of the research/article.
Any hypotheses that might be addressed.
Basic method.
Experimental manipulations.
What do the results say about the hypotheses?
Major finding(s).
YOUR interpretation of this article.
YOUR distillation may or may not contain all of the above, and may contain differentfeatures, depending on YOUR interpretation of the article.
Additionally, you will provide an APA style reference for the journal article with the assignment.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

October 19, 2020 Leave a comment Art, MLA

Pick one scene that impressed you most from the film. Explain how and why that particular scene is impressive to you. Refer to the assigned reading and think about how your argument is related to it. Include the image(s) from the scene in your journal. The expression of your paper needs to be clear (correct grammar; clear meanings of words). Your argument needs to have a structure (introduction, explanation, conclusion)

In addition, separately from your argument on a scene, write down the keyword from the lecture, which the instructor gives, in your response paper. Also, briefly explain the reason why that is the keyword of the sequence in one sentence.(The keyword is XXX because ….) The reason should be clear by thelecture. You do not need to repeat exactly what the instructor says. Use your own words to explain.

Keyword is: Contradiction

Film:
Blind Swordsman Zatoichi (Zatoichi, Kitano Takeshi, 2003)

Reading:
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema(Durham:Duke University Press, 2000), 207-234, 412-418.

Keyword is: Contradiction

Also, I need 1 image from the scene in the journal.

Originality (your own ideaabout why and how the scene is impressive) is important

I uploaded the reading, please use it and cite it.

the poem is momma by chrystal meeker.

October 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), English and Literature

1. Paper 1 focuses on your interpretation of the meaning of one poem chosen from the previous pages of this module.

2. The paper has a short introduction paragraph, which includes

a lead-in line to get the paper started [don’t start the first line of the paper with the thesis]; this is just a general statement of the topic of the paper,
the title of the poem [in quotation marks],
the name of the poet,
the thesis [your opinion about what the poem means or its major theme or idea].
3. The thesis makes one arguable point about the theme (point, meaning, your interpretation) of the poem. Your thesis is arguable; that is, it takes a stand that other people who read the poem might disagree with but one which you support. The thesis is your interpretation of a theme, point, or meaning of the poem.

4. Include at least two body paragraphs. In the body paragraphs, you will want to

thoroughly explain all your ideas,
make every sentence clear and understandable to the reader
not use any contractions,
not use the words you, your, yours, (second person point of view)
not use the words I, me, mine, our, us (first person point of view)
use the literary present tense of verbs to talk about your poem.  For example, “the man stands in the house remembering”, not “stood”; or “the poem is about a man who has lost his family,”  not “was about a man.”
5. Back up your ideas in your body paragraphs with quotations from the poem.  Put quotation marks around the quotations.  After the quotation, put the line number in parenthesis.  Be sure to lead into the quotation before giving the quotation.  After the quotation tell what the quotation suggests to you or your interpretation of the quotation.  Link this discussion to the topic sentence of the paragraph and to the thesis of the paper. 

6. Since this is a paper about a poem, be sure to use the forward slash correctly between lines of the poem that you quote .  When you quote, quote accurately. Use ellipsis to indicate any omissions you have made from the original quotation. Use square brackets to enclose any change you make in the original, including ellipsis. If your quotation from the poem is long (more than 4 lines of the poem), display the quotation as a long quotation. See pages 52-57 in The Little, Brown Essentials Handbook for information on writing about literature.

7.  End the paper with a short conclusion paragraph that echoes or mirrors the thesis in some way and that wraps up the entire paper.

8. Since this is a first writing, you do NOT need to write title page.  You do NOT need to write an outline page.  You do NOT need to write a Work Cited page. 

9. Give your paper a title that is NOT the title of the poem. Type the title, at the top and centered, on the first page of the paper itself.

10. Assigned length: 300-500 words

11. Avoid using first person (“I” or “me” or “my”) and second person (“you” or “your” or “yours) pronouns.  These pronouns make the paper less formal than a paper for college should be.

12. Avoid using contractions such as “doesn’t” or “isn’t” or “can’t”.  Instead write out the full words “does not” or “is not” or “can not.”  Using contractions make the paper less formal than a paper for college should be.

13. Underline the thesis in your introduction paragraph.  Your thesis shou

Any topic (writer’s choice)

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This first paper is due by October 20 – 1250 word minimum

1. Read the excerpts of Elizabeth Keckleys Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

(2nd edition pp. 365-384)

(3rd edition pp. 310-326)

2. In essay form, Discuss the following:

Before you started reading this, what were your expectations?

What kinds of things should someone know about before trying to read this so that he/she will understand it better?

Which part of her story are you having the most difficulty understanding or connecting with? Is this anything to do with what you thought or learned that is not in line with that thinking?

  What kind of message does the author want the reader to get from this story?

Which part of the story caused the  most intense feelings in you?

How has the author’s style or language appealed to you?
What makes you wonder in this book? What confuses you in this book? Why?

What came as a surprise in this book? Why?

Any additional items that affected you.

There is no research required for this paper (and I don’t really want any), but I do expect quoting from the text. If you decide to do research, limit the research to no more than 10% of the paper, and follow the guidelines listed in the box above.

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History 200

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Hi Continuing from prior work done. Please see part 2 in rubic attached and feedback below.
You set up the topic quite well in your introduction. I do want you to clarify what you mean in your first few sentences though. You start out so broad there that it is unclear what exactly you are trying to say.
Also your thesis isn’t quite a thesis statement. A thesis statement isn’t just describing the intent of an essay it is a summation of your argument. Why is Title IX important? What challenges does it face? This is what you want to answer and make a clear and specific argument in your thesis.
You did add more than just the introduction here. From what you had it looks like  a nice start but there was an odd piece of phrasing. What did you mean by “the Philadelphia state”?
Beyond that I would also like for you to add a little more about the impact of Title IX in the last few decades prior to the changes under Trump.  This is a key part of the course section.