Day: November 16, 2020

Managing Communication

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Please review Chapter 11 (Managing Communication and Cross-Caltural Differences) Power Point attached and write a reflection paper for chapter 11.

Course book: Essentials of Organizational Behavior (2018) 14th Ed. Robbins & Judge; Pearson, New York.

Further details:
Write a paper that integrates the chapter(s) reading with your experience in a work setting (current or prior).  The goal, purpose, and grading will be to relate concepts and content from your class readings to what you have seen/felt at your work site.  Do NOT just write about 1) what you did at work, or 2) give a summary of the text/readings.

alternative strategies

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Respond to the following questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the readings.

This discussion assignment has three parts. You should use brief headings to separate your post into the three sections.

For the first section of your post, review the textbook discussion of alternative rationales for cooperative strategy on the business level. The text suggests that the most effective approaches for creating a sustainable, competitive advantage are complementary strategic alliances. Your first section should justify whether you agree that complementary strategic alliances are the best approach. Be sure to refer to the basic requirements for sustainable competitive advantage that are found in a business-level strategy. Utilize research, rationale, and appropriate examples in your response.

For the second section of your post, review the textbook discussion of the rationale for cooperative strategy on the corporate level. Select one of the three types of corporate-level cooperative strategy alternatives discussed in the text. Using the rationale of business strategy, explain how it can enable a firm to achieve a corporate strategy goal. In selecting and defending your choice, be sure to explain the particular advantages that a cooperative strategy brings. The best class discussion will occur if students do not all select the same corporate-level cooperative strategy alternative to defend.

The final section or paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.

“Your Kids at Risk” Review paper

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment MLA, Psychology and Education

General Guidelines:

Dr. Meg Meeker has written a life-changing book, Your Kids at Risk: How Teen Sex Threatens Our Sons and Daughters. Your assignment is to read the book and write a review of the information. Each student is responsible for obtaining his/her own book. Please provide the following:

Overview (brief description):
Summary (main points of the book):
Assessment (your evaluation and takeaway). What will you do with the knowledge you gained from this bookhow will you use it going forward? Be specific.
Conclusion (any additional points of interest and recap):

This book review should be typed, double-spaced, one-inch margins and a minimum of 4 pages in length.

Academic argument: Can (college) first year composition courses fill in the gaps left by high school English classes?

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment English and Literature, MLA

Write an academic position paper that intervenes in the debate you examined in Unit 2. To do so, youll need to take into account your own conclusions from your Debate Analysis Annotated Bibliography. Given your analysis, what kind of argument should you primarily make (e.g., conjecture, definition, quality, or policy), and for which particular audience should you make that argument? While the conclusion you produced for the Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography tells you where you need to begin, much of the work in writing this academic position paper will involve fleshing out that argument. To do so, youll need to do three things:

Define your audience. (See below!)
Invent or come up with a combination of persuasive appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos that are appropriate for your intended audience (see RC chapters 8 & 10). To do this, youll need to think carefully about your audiences values, beliefs, and assumptions and attempt to find common ground. What values, beliefs, and assumptions do you hold in common with your audience?
Find and cite evidence in support of your particular argument, and frame that evidence in ways that are appropriate for your rhetorical situation (see RC chapter 9).
Unlike our previous units, this academic position paper demands that you do some additional research. You will need to find at least three relevant and credible sources through your own library research and use them to support your argument. Youll include copies of these three sources when you turn in your final academic position paper. You may use 1 source from our previous units but you will still need to find 3 additional sources.

Audience and purpose.

While you have a say in defining your audience and purpose for this position paper, keep in mind that you have to do so within constraints. Your audience has to be one that would value academic forms of argumentation and that espouses one or more of the positions you analyzed in the debate analysis. Similarly, your purpose has to take into account your audience and reflect the conclusions you drew from your debate analysis. Say, for instance, that you think the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate and should be removed from public spaces. However, youve decided to write for an audience of Southern historians who primarily define the Confederate flag as a symbol of heritage. You and your audience thus disagree at the level of definition (e.g., what kind of thing the Confederate flag is), and so you realize that arguing for your ultimate purposeto get the flag removed from public spaces, a policy argumentwouldnt work. So you determine that your purpose should be to persuade your audience to redefine the flag as a symbol of hatred and not heritage. In short, your purpose and audience should follow very closely from the results of your debate analysis. Remember: you are continuing our discussion of how composition is taught at the college level.

Requirements.

Length:  1000-1200 words (excluding Works Cited page)
Formatting: 12 pt Times New Roman; 1-inch margins; MLA parenthetical citations and Works Cited page (see WHH pp. 311-322 for a sample MLA paper and Works Cited page)

Management

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

WBS

Deliverables-based WBS
WBS Level 1 is the name of the project
WBS Level 2 has to represent 100% of the scope
Take one or two Level 2 WBS elements and breakdown until you document 50 tasks
Resource Management Plan

List of roles, responsibilities, and skills/experience
Match resources (both people and physical) to the 50 task-level WBS elements
Staffing plan (how will you staff the project)
Organization chart
RACI table (roles against deliverables)

Twin Studies: Understanding Behavior and Nature vs. Nurture

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Psychology and Education

For this assignment you will submit, as a Word document attachment, the first draft (NOT the rough draft), of your Results and Discussion sections.  You should also include your title page and reference section.  Your reference section should only include the sources that you have cited in this section.

– I have uploaded the research paper in progress
– I have uploaded a sample APA 7 paper to show you the correct format for the results and discussion section
– I have uploaded a power point describing the results and discussion section
– Please refer to the articles provided

Compare/Contrast

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Religion / Theology

Students will compare two religions studied in this course. Beliefs, customs, and health issues will be the primary focus of this assignment.

The student must write an initial post of 500 words, comparing and contrasting two religions studied in this course or two denominations within one religion (like Mormonism and Catholicism in Christianity).

Any topic (writer’s choice)

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Analyze GEs corporate strategy. GE is moving away from some of its financial services emphasis and strongly into the healthcare field. Focus on GEs healthcare strategy. Begin your paper with a one or two paragraph background about GE so that anyone picking up the paper would learn something about who the organization is and how they are involved in the healthcare field.

Level of diversification: A firm like GE should have a moderate-to-high level of diversification. What are GEs areas of diversification? Evaluate the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the diversification approach.

International operations: Look at GE’s operations in many countries. Who are their competitors?
Evaluate the similarities and differences of GEs strategy compared to their competitors.

Recent events: Look for GEs engagement in two or more acquisitions or mergers, about which you can collect information. Discuss the corporate strategy and evaluate how it has benefited GEs acquisition growth and product line.

Alliance or joint venture: Select two or more alliances or joint ventures as a meaningful part of one or more of its business units business-level strategy. Evaluate the strategy and how well it has worked. Analyze some of the issues encountered. Assess whether the business-level strategy fits their diversification core.

Based on your research, write succinct discussions of each of these items

Any topic (writer’s choice)

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment MLA, Psychology and Education

Choose an approach to counseling and psychotherapy.  In the paper, discuss the following points, following this outline and using these headings, about 1500 words typed.
I.   Founders – Who founded this approach? What was his/her/their background and influences?
II.   Theory – What is the theory on which this approach is based? List and describe all of the essential concepts.
III.  Goals – What are the goals of this approach?
IV.  Techniques/Treatment – What methods are used by this approach?
V.   Compare/Contrast – Compare and contrast this approach to one covered in this course.
VI.  Evaluation – Is there scientific research that supports this approach? What criticisms have been made of this therapy?
VII.  Personal Assessment – What do you find interesting about this approach? What criticisms do you have?
VIII.  References in APA format

Please choose a topic. Below is a list of possible topics.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
Attachment-based psychotherapy
Bioenergetic analysis
Biofeedback
Brief Therapy
Co-counseling
Compassion focused therapy (CFT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT)
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
Feminist therapy

Grief counseling
Holotropic Breathwork
Internal Family Systems Model
Interpersonal psychoanalysis
Interpersonal psychotherapy
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Metacognitive therapy
Motivational interviewing
Narrative therapy
Object relations psychotherapy
Psychedelic Psychotherapy
Psychodrama
Psychosynthesis
Self-Relations
Schema therapy
Somatic experiencing
Transactional Analysis
 

Hesiod’s Theogony

November 16, 2020 Leave a comment MLA, Philosophy

written analysis of Hesiods Theogony. The paper should (i) clearly articulate the question asked by the author, (ii) articulate the authors conclusion, and most importantly (iii) explicate the authors argument. The purpose is not to interpret or criticize the text, but only to outline the logical structure of the authors argument.