Im in group project and we are talking about UPS. please no long paragraphs or sentences just put bullet points that got straight to the point with facts.
Community Engagement Plan
-Identify community organizations that may impact the organization.
-Identify government entities that will impact organizational activities.
-Identify local demographics and how they may impact the organization.
-Identify local, state and national organizations recommended to be joined or supported.
Review the links (budgets) below and answer the following questions: How could this city save money, e.g., in the event of a revenue shortfall? Support your analyses presenting major amounts from the Budget and CAFR. At a minimum, questions to examine include:
What are the largest spending programs of your city?
What sources of revenues support those expenditures? Calculate the percentage of own- source revenue out of total revenues.
How many functions (or services) does the city provide? E.g., public works, safety, utilities, parks, etc. Calculate the percentage of expenditure allocated to each of those functions out of total expenditures.
https://www.coj.net/departments/finance/docs/budget/2019-jacksonville-cafr-sec.aspx
https://www.coj.net/departments/finance/docs/budget/fy21-proposed-budget.aspx
Science in the Books: The Annotated Bibliography
Objective: Identify peer-reviewed journal articles that support or refute the major themes in the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Assess sources to support the research for your final presentation (for credibility, reliability, and relevance) and list references in proper APA format.
Assignment Instructions: An annotation is a summary and evaluation, and your annotated bibliography will include a summary and evaluation of some of the sources (or references) you will use for your presentation.
For this project, you will assess five sources to include:
1) a complete citation for each source,
2) a summary of each source, and
3) an evaluation of each source in the context of the book you selected for class.
Five sources are required for this assignment (i.e., you are to write an annotation for each source).
Use this TEMPLATE to summarize and evaluate each of your five sources.
Citation:
Written in APA reference list format.
Summary:
What is the purpose of the source, review article, original research? What topics are covered? This section is generally 4-6 sentences that summarize the authors main point. Be sure to paraphrase and summarize. Do *not* paste in direct quotes.
Evaluation:
After summarizing the article, it is necessary to evaluate it and specifically relate it to the themes covered in the book you selected for the class. Briefly evaluate how/of the science in this article relates to/supports/contradicts the science in the book. In other words, reflect on the sources potential utility/importance related to the selected book. Do this in no less than 4-6 sentences.
Evaluation: Please review the grading criteria below. Five sources must be evaluated, each based on the following criteria:
Source selection and credibility (12 points)
Sources are from peer-reviewed journals and based on current (last five years maximum range) and credible scientific work either directly or indirectly
Sources such as wikis or blogs are not utilized
APA formatting of the source (12 points)
Source citations are written in APA reference list format
Summary of the source (32 points) approximately 4-6 sentences
The topic sentence included stating the main topic of the source
Explains whether the source is original research or a review of the topic
States main conclusions or findings
Evaluation of source (32 points) approximately 4-6 sentences
A topic sentence stating if source supports or refutes book theme(s)
Provides evidence of the authors authority
States main points that offer evidence of your evaluation
Writing expectations and scientific terminology (12 points)
Summaries and evaluations accurately apply scientific concepts and use scientific terminology correctly
Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation are used throughout
Answer the following questions:
1.”Advertising should be banned because it diminishes a consumer’s freedom of choice.” Discuss this claim.
2. Discuss the arguments for and against the three main views of manufacturer’s duties to consumers. In your judgment, which view is most adequate, and why? Is one view more appropriate than the others in certain marketing areas? Explain and give examples.
Minimum of 250 words per each question. Nothing major is required. It is just a discussion board.
Instructions
Learning Objectives
-Examine the process involved with problem formulation.
-Apply critical thinking to problem identification.
-Evaluate ethical implications of a decision.
Prompt:
-Choose an editorial article (An editorial is an article that presents the writer’s opinion on an issue supported with facts) from the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Browse the library and choose an editorial that addresses a business issue that interests you.
Instructions:
-Write an essay describing the following:
-Citation of the article and a brief summary of its contents
-What are the premise(s) in the article?
-What evidence is presented? Is it credible?
-Can you independently verify the evidence presented?
-How are counterarguments addressed?
-Does the writer represent a particular interest?
-How is language used to develop the argument?
-Do you detect any errors in knowledge, evidence, or thinking?
-Does the writer use any types of appeals or commit any fallacies?
-Overall, how compelling is this article?
Be certain to carefully research your analysis using at least 3 credible sources. Your submission should be 4-6 pages in length minimum and should be a thorough representation of your ability to critically think through the steps above. Use the template provided to ensure you are following APA format.
In this assignment you will develop the conceptual foundation for a strategic practice initiative to improve one or more health care outcomes. This is the first part of a two-part assignment series about the same strategic practice initiative. The second part is the development of a formal proposal for the initiative. This two-step process simulates a real organizational environment.
When individuals in an organization get an idea to improve or grow the organization, they develop that idea collaboratively with others in the organization to refine the idea and to test the organizations willingness to support the concept. The hope is that presenting your concept with supporting evidence that its a good idea for the organization will get a nod of approval from your colleagues and organizational leaders to develop the idea further and bring back a formal proposal for approval.
The second assignment in this series is the Strategic Practice Initiative Proposal. The proposal is more developed, using the ideas from the concept paper and incorporating feedback obtained from presenting the concept to the organization (or faculty in this case). The proposal has greater detail than the conceptual paper. (There is a third phase, which we will not do in this course that comes after, and only IF, the proposal is accepted by leadership, and that is to develop an implementable business plan.) You may question why so much process and multiple phases of initiative development is necessary. The reason is, it takes organizational resources to develop ideas, and in a vibrant organization there are abundant ideas. The organizations resources for initiative development are limited, so there has to be a process to filter for ideas that are a priority for development from those that are not.
You will apply the concepts of the Triple Aim: cost, quality and access to a practice initiative in the conceptual paper which later you will develop into a full proposal in the final course assignment. Strategic practice initiatives often take the form of new or redesigned programs or roles. (For example, if you have identified a patient population that faces issues with access to or coordination of care, you might develop a nurse navigator role targeted at that population.)
Nurse leaders use their influence to bring about change that advances patient / population outcomes and promotes the organizations strategies and mission. Nurse leaders do not accomplish this in isolation, rather they develop ideas for practice initiatives collaboratively and promote them to the organizations leadership team to gain buy-in for the support that will be required to accomplish the initiatives, and to assure the initiative aligns with the organizations mission, vision, and strategic plan.
Think of an initiative that will address deficiencies in an organizations current delivery system or an idea that is entirely new to the organization that will improve health outcomes in terms of cost, quality or access. Conduct a search of the professional literature to find examples of similar initiatives and/ or evidence that supports why your proposed initiative will achieve the outcomes you are claiming for your proposal. Consider how the current organization as a whole would be impacted by the initiative. Successful nurse leaders develop their ideas in this way before presenting a proposal to their colleagues. This assignment is designed to reflect that discernment and refinement process in written form. You will not attempt to define in detail cost implications (or new revenue implications) at this stage. That would not happen until after the formal proposal (the next paper) is accepted to go forward into a business plan. Only after the formal proposal gained acceptance from the organization would a full business plan, including a detailed financial analysis, be developed.
This paper cannot exceed 12 pages (not including title page, reference pages, and appendices). You will upload your paper into Module 0 for grading
Rubric
Introduction: Briefly describe the organization and in general terms about what this proprosal is about.
Description of the initiative: Provide a more detailed description of the initiative and how it will impact health care outcomes (cost, quality, and or/access)
Supporting Evidence: Explain the evidence that supports why this initiative will (should) achieve the outcomes suggested. Provide sufficient references to validate your claims.
Organizational impact: If the initiative is a new role, describe what impacts this could have on existing roles, If it is a new program, address how could it impact other programs in the organization or the community. Explain how this initiative aligns with the organizations strategic plan or mission.
Choose a revolution to discuss. You may refer to one of the revolutions listed in our text or you may find a peer reviewed journal article (no more than five years old) that adequately describes a revolution.
A) Briefly describe the revolution in your own words.
B) Apply one structural theory of revolution to this revolution.
C) What was the outcome of this revolution? Your informed response should be based in factual information from which you can create a sociological analysis.
Case Conceptualization
Professor provided a case conceptualization form to fill out where will be questions about a specific case.
I uploaded the PowerPoint paper with instructions and important points from the professor.
I also uploaded a paper with the case conceptualization links of the tiffany’s case videos, which I was assigned. I also uploaded chapter 12 from the book, which will be needed for some questions.
this assignment is an outline that will be used to deliver a 1 to 2 minute speech . The topic that i chose to use for this assignment is highlighted in bold red. I’ve attached the assignment details, the outline template and a copy of strayer writing standards.
Paper instructions
English 103 Paper Three: Movie Thematic Analysis Spring 2020
TOPIC AND CONTEXT
For paper three, you will continue to practice your semiotic and rhetorical interpretive skills from paper two by interpreting a theme, and its cultural significance, from a movie. You will use semiotic and rhetorical analysis of three key signs to support and develop your thematic claim. So heres a question to consider: Thinking back to our authitors comments on cultural mythologies (17) in the intro pages of our anthology (eg, 16-19) and the intro to chapter two (eg, 233-236), why would those involved in creating, funding, and producing movies have particular perspectives, messages, and themes in mind that they would like viewers to accept? Thats the question whose answer you should use to examine the cultural significance of your theme.
OUTLINE/ORGANIZATIONAL SUGGESTIONS
INTRO PARAGRAPH
Announce, in your hook, the general topic of your theme. Then, in your thesis statement, you make the specific claim, the interesting, debatable, and useful assertion ABOUT that topic. Thats coherenceinviting your audience to connect the ending with the beginning.
Provide a narrowing transition that gives some historical background of the socio-politico-cultural forces that you believe are relevant to the topic you announced in the hook and the time period to which your text (episode or movie) belongs. Again, you must address the cultural significance of your theme, in your conclusion for sure, and probably over the course of your support for and development of your theme.
A thesis that states your theme (ie, asserts a point, makes a claim about the general topic you announced in your hook) and identifies the key signs that you believe are crucial to supporting your theme. Remember to state your theme as an independent clause, a complete (SVO) idea; otherwise, its just a motif, not a theme. KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO IS CRUCIAL FOR THIS PAPER.
BODY PARAGRAPH ONE
Semiotically interpret your or movie by situating it within a system of relevant associations and differences (Maasik 229). See 230-232 and 294-296 for examples of this kind of semiotic interpretation.
Be sure to at least allude to if not explicitly state one or two key signs whose meanings you will use to build the rhetorical support for your theme as you go through the semiotic analytical process of SIGN (your sign in this paragraph is the movie) SYSTEM SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES MEANING (and meaning here is the unique spot your movie occupies within the system youve identified or constructed)
Conclude by connecting the uniqueness (ie that difference you use to distinguish your movie from the other similar ones in your system) you ended with above (ie MEANING) to your theme.
BODY PARAGRAPHS TWO THROUGH. HOWEVER MANY (depending on how you handle my suggestions below)
Now that youve contextualized your movie (within that system of related ones in body paragraph one), you move on to identifying the two or three signs (more than three is too much I think) in the movie upon which you will build the support for your theme.
Depending on the length and complexity of your semiotic analysis, you may want to make separate paragraphs: one for your semiotic analysis, which sets out the interpretive process by which viewers make the meanings from the signs that you claim the texts (and text here means the movie) producers want them to, and then another for your rhetorical analysis, which explains how the signs meanings produce the emotional and intellectual responses that persuade viewers to accept the theme.
If you think you should address what cues viewers into foregrounding your key signs, then you will explain the composition techniques toorecall Reading Visual Images Actively (29-32) from paper two, but ignore that element if you believe no viewer could miss them.
NEXT-TO-LAST PARAGRAPH: CONCESSION/COUNTERARGUMENT
Recall HW question #4 on 243 on how Neal Gabler (The Social Networks) uses concession in his next-to-last paragraph to strengthen his argument. My take at this point is that by appealing to an ethos of open-mindedness and a logos of pragmatism in his last two paragraphs, Gabler influences us to like and trust him and then accept his claim that, sure, real-life relationships are much harder than television ones, but that very hardness, the challenges that come with authentic human connections is what makes them meaningful and productive.
In your second-to-last paragraph, you will make a similar, Gableresque move
CONCLUSION
Same as the first two papers (or any academic paper for that matter).
Briefly sum up two or three key points and then, more importantly, answer the So what? question.
GENERAL POINTS TO CONSIDER
The target audience, the typical viewers the production staff has in mind, those most likely to accept and then act on the theme you interpret.
The meanings, claims, opinions the producers want viewers to accept and why.
The rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos, eg, but not limited to those) that work to persuade the target audience to accept those claims.
The cultural ideals (attitudes/behaviors we celebrate, promote, and emulate) and taboos (what we condemn, shun, and shame) the episode or movie appeals to, especially in terms of gender, racial, class, and intellectual assumptions (primarily these are appeals to logoi, but I can see pathos and ethos as well).
Similar to the above, the fears and fantasies the show appeals to (primarily pathos here).
How the global community may use all the above to define or understand American culture as a whole and why that communitys view matters.
REQUIRED ELEMENTS (not suggestions):
At least four-and-a-half pages of discussion.
All MLA format (and only 12-point Times New Roman font). See Purdue Universitys Online Writing Lab for basic MLA guidelines: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/.
A Works Cited page with at least SIX entries: your movie or episode; your three SOL articles; your one outside source; and that article on critical thinking and critical pedagogy. COUNT EMTHATS SIX.
At least three quotations from your episode or movie.
At least five quotations from three different SOL readings in chapters three AND four.
At least two quotations from a COC database or another outside-our-anthology source.
description/syllabusyou must integrate whatever passage you choose into your discussion of your themes cultural significance/relevance.
