Write on a historical topic of interest to you after Instructor approval.

What were the factors that led to the Progressive Era. What was the role of the Muckrakers? (For this you may wish to refer to some of their writings.) What were some of the results achieved by the Progressives?
What led to the Great Depression? What policies of President Hoovers administration made the Depression worse? What was the New Deal?
What was the Cold War? How did the Cold War begin? Discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis in terms of its cause and American policy during the crisis.

The above are General Subject Areas and are too broad to research in their entirety. Write on a single topic not all of those within the subject area. If you are interested in writing on another topic within the time range of those of Paper 2 discuss it with me first. The assignment length is 1,500 words.

Use a minimum of 3 sources and a maximum of 5. Try to use Journal articles but books are also acceptable. All sources should be written by historians and come from the Palm Beach State Library or the Databases it supports. ( Journals of History can be found in JSTOR) If you are having difficulty getting started check with a Research Librarian at the Library or use Ask a Librarian on the Library web site.

Include a word count and a bibliography. Use Chicago Book of Style for citations and Bibliography. The Noodle Tool supports this style so try it. For Quick reference look at Turabian or A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla.

These are research papers and must be based on books and other peer reviewed materials (Journal Articles and other similar sources). Examples of unaccepted sources include: Encyclopedia Entries, Wikipedia, the textbook, any databases ending in .com ( Including Facts on File, Google, Yahoo, and material from other similar sites), and Films (Unless pre-approved). If you are unsure of a source, see me.

As usual, your team is to choose five (5) stocks for this portfolio.  For this project, you will refine your strategies for selecting stocks. In the last project you measured value strictly according to the stocks book-to-market value (BV/MV), or price to book (P/B). For this project, you will build a portfolio using a top down analysis in addition to stock picking strategies; one that first assesses the nature of the economy, then identifies the appropriate sector(s) and industry(s), then selects stocks with six to twelve month potential using several screening criteria.

You will begin by citing at least three (3) economic experts regarding the economic climate over the next 6-12 months, then progress to sectors and industries recommended by sector and industry experts. You must then use a minimum of four screening criteria of your choosing to identify five stocks for your portfolio.  Consult Chapters 9, 14, 17 and 18 in BK&M, as well as any online sources to aid your strategy. You are free to select growth and/or value stocks, but you must include each stocks P/B ratio if choosing value stocks.
Pages 3    On a separate page, list and describe the selection criteria for your stocks. Please briefly explain why the criteria is valid.

Pages 4-.    For each stock, provide a separate page detailing the company’s business and justification for your choices based on your economic analysis. Your report for each stock should also include a brief analysis (provided by the source of your choice), and the source(s) of your information. You must articulate your rationale for choosing your stocks in your words. 

Assignment Instructions:
Using the resources provided in the attach folder below, compose a brief assignment (500 to 800 words, approximately 2 to 3 pages) about cybersecurity in the workplace. Below are a few prompts to help you focus your assignment. (Do not try to discuss all of these topics. Choose one or two that interest you.)

    Why do companies conduct cybersecurity risk assessments? What do they find out from these assessments?
    Why should companies increase cybersecurity awareness among their employees? How can they do this?
    What are the benefits of regularly updating applications (apps), of password control, and of VPNs?
    What are the benefits to a company and to individual employees of creating a culture of cybersecurity, where employees continue to use best practices outside of the office?
    What cybersecurity risks occur when employees bring their own devices to work? How can companies mitigate these risks?
    What are some resources to help people remain aware of cybersecurity threats and best practices?

Your assignment should:

    Cover the topic completely and accurately. Use what you have learned about critical thinking to provide reasons or evidence for your statements.

    Credit all sources you used to complete your assignment.

    Check to make sure your paper is well organized and clearly written, with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

    Your submission must include an APA style 

Now that you have practiced writing questions at various levels of rigor, create a blueprint (table) of how you will construct your summative test for your unit. Refer back to your reading from Week 1. You must have three levels of rigor. How many questions will you have at each level for your standard? This should be a good representation of each level. Level 1 questions should NOT be the majority of your test. Remember, you are not yet creating your questions. You are developing a plan as to how many questions you will have at each depth of knowledge. Your test should contain a minimum of 25 questions and should focus on higher-level questions. I will upload the blueprint that the professor wants us to go by. I also will upload the the syllabus that contains the rubric for this assignment on pg. 23.

The rubric for this assignment is located in the syllabus on page 23.

Test should consist of Reproduction and Heredity located on Page 34 and 35 of the 2018 ms_ccrs document.

I also uploaded the test blue print.

You may also let me know of what additional information is needed.

Find an example of either or false positive or a false-negative test result. Explain the implications of either result for both examples and how you would explain to a patient how this could have occurred. Include information about educating a patient about either false-positive or false-negative test results and the next steps beyond doing the same tests again. Your presentation should be a minimum of 6 slides with at least two references and images with the author’s notes. Each slide is required to have authors notes that provide an explanation of the information presented in the PowerPoint.

Describe a recent experience of providing education to a patient, a peer, or the community.
Describe the teaching experience including the following:
Discussion of the educational topic  (use perhaps teaching weight reduction?)
Description of your role in the educational experience
Description of the learner(s) in the educational experience
Discussion of how it was determined that teaching was needed.
Description of the teaching environment
Description of the teaching tool(s) used. If no tool(s) were used, provide a rationale for not using tool(s).
Discussion of the barriers to teaching encountered.
Discussion of the obstacles to learning encountered.
Description of the outcome of the teaching and whether on not there was a need for further education?
As you are sharing a personal experience, it is acceptable to use first person
Cite the textbook to support responses

Bastable, B. S., Gramet, P., Jacobs, K., & Sopczyk, D. L. (2020). Health professional as educator: principles of teaching
and learning. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning

1.    Describe the difference between an independent and dependent variable.
2.    Locate a QUANTITATIVE peer-reviewed journal article in your field and answer the following questions.
    What are the research questions?
    What are the independent variables?
    What are the dependent variables?
    How did the authors measure the dependent variables?
3.    Identify possible variables for your own study.
1.    For quantitative studies,
1.    What are the independent variables?
2.    What are the dependent variables?
3.    What are some ways you could measure the dependent variables?
2.    For qualitative studies,
1.    What is the variable of interest/phenomenon?
2.    What are some ways you plan to collect data to measure the variable of interest/phenomenon?

single space.  please choose from infiviz
As usual, your team is to choose five (5) stocks for this portfolio.  For this project, you will refine your strategies for selecting stocks. In the last project you measured value strictly according to the stocks book-to-market value (BV/MV), or price to book (P/B). For this project, you will build a portfolio using a top down analysis in addition to stock picking strategies; one that first assesses the nature of the economy, then identifies the appropriate sector(s) and industry(s), then selects stocks with six to twelve month potential using several screening criteria.You will begin by citing at least three (3) economic experts regarding the economic climate over the next 6-12 months, then progress to sectors and industries recommended by sector and industry experts. You must then use a minimum of four screening criteria of your choosing to identify five stocks for your portfolio.  Consult Chapters 9, 14, 17 and 18 in BK&M, as well as any online sources to aid your strategy. You are free to select growth and/or value stocks, but you must include each stocks P/B ratio if choosing value stocks.
Pages 3    On a separate page, list and describe the selection criteria for your stocks. Please briefly explain why the criteria is valid.

Pages 4-.    For each stock, provide a separate page detailing the company’s business and justification for your choices based on your economic analysis. Your report for each stock should also include a brief analysis (provided by the source of your choice), and the source(s) of your information. You must articulate your rationale for choosing your stocks in your words.

You must reply to at least three colleagues in a manner that extends the discussion. A simple “I agree/disagree” will not be accepted. respond in a manner that further extends the discussion.

post 1

Most people around the globe can see that the US election is one of the most defining in modern American history. Over the last few decades, the clash between Democrats and Republicans intensified. Unfortunately, this election does not just effect Americans, it will affect people from different countries, too, as globalization continues to increase. As we learned in a recent lesson, the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline became a hot topic over the last few election cycles. Republicans view the pipeline as a way to promote job growth while Democrats see it as a threat to dreams of clean energy. As a result, whoever wins the election in a few weeks will affect the pipelines trajectory.

          Since the KXL traverses from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska and then down to Texas in the United States, the majority party come election night matters. If the pipeline is postponed further, it will prevent TC Energy from increasing its production due to the limitations of the current pipeline system. The pipeline has experienced delays for over a decade. Trump allowed a presidential permit to continue working on the pipeline, while Biden, if elected, would rescind the permit. This is an example of a geopolitical risk that TC Energy will need to price into its analysis. Conversely, in 2017, when Trump granted the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, this was an opportunity for TC Energy.

          Similarly in Canada, political risks affect the province of Alberta. In March, during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Premier Jason Kenney secured $1.5 billion (CAD) for TC Energy to complete the project. However, the oil economy within the province has not recovered as hoped under Kenneys tenure.

          Complicating these political risks are risks associated with the global coronavirus pandemic. While this risk affects the entire energy sector, it is still a risk that TC Energy will need to consider in their analysis. In addition, one of the major reasons people are against the Keystone XL pipeline is for the risk of water and ground contamination due to leaks. These health and safety risks affect most companies within the industry, but as lockdowns and social distancing continue, demand has decreased substantially. This in turn adds to the uncertainty around TC Energys Keystone XL pipeline risk vs reward analysis as well as projected earnings for TC Energy over the coming years.

Nickel, R., & Lewis, J. (2020, October 22). Analysis: As popularity slides, Alberta’s Kenney has oil pipeline riding on U.S. vote. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analysis-popularity-slides-albertas-kenney-101114298.html.

Simkins, B. J., & Simkins, R. E. (2013). Energy finance and economics: Analysis and valuation, risk management, and the future of energy (1st ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

post 2

The very first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about the dangers and risks for oil companies is oil spills.  However, as we are entering the election season, it makes me think of the political risk that surrounds the oil industry.  According to Dr. Alfred Boulos, political risk is a broad concept that is intended to encompass the “non-commercial” landscape of international oil and gas ventures. Political risk encompasses such risks as expropriation, revolution, civil disorder, creeping expropriation, unilateral imposition of new taxes and royalties, imposition of export controls or withdrawing licenses for export or import, exchange control restrictions and other factors that reduce or destroy the value of the international oil and gas venture. A company in deciding on political risk may make use of many sources of information and resources: governments, consultants, professors, analysts, and political science experts alike.  The primary way that politics can affect oil is in the regulatory sense, but it’s not necessarily the only way.  Oil and gas are normally regulated so that there are limits on when, where, and how oil can be extracted.  These are things that can differ at the state level as well.  This risk can also increase when extracting abroad.  Foreign affairs come into play and you can see things happen such as deals being made with said countries, as well as, conversely, allowing less extraction.  Regarding oil extraction, companies typically prefer countries with a more stable political environment.  However, some do not look into that as much and will simply go where more oil, no matter if it matches their preferences or not. 

https://www.ipaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PoliticalRisk.pdf

post 3

Like almost all business, the energy industry took a hard hit when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. So far in the pandemic, we have seen the energy industry take a huge hit, forcing companies to lay off a total of more than 100,000 employees. Employment in the American gas, oil and chemical energy has became increasingly sensitive to prices. It is estimated that for everyone $1 movement in prices, affects approximately 3000 jobs. As seen during this pandemic, prices have been extremely volatile, with crude oil barrels reaching negative prices at one point, so it is easy to see why so many jobs have been affected. This is just one risk that energy companies face.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/05/us-energy-industry-axed-107000-jobs-amid-coronavirus-crisis/ (Links to an external site.)