The CEO of Enron was responsible for Enron’s scandal. Discuss motivation(s) of the CEO’s engagement in earnings manipulations based on ‘Agency relationship‘

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Video case on Enron Scandal’s Scandal

Answer the questions below after watching the video documentary. (Web link of video is provided on the attached Writer Instructions document)

1. The CEO of Enron was responsible for Enron’s scandal. Discuss motivation(s) of the CEO’s engagement in earnings manipulations based on ‘Agency relationship‘

2. To prevent Enron’s scandal again, firms need to improve their governance mechanism. Discuss two(2) ways to enhance the effectiveness of the governance mechanisms. Your answer should be related to Enron’s scandal (For example, you need to discuss how your suggested governance mechanism prevents Enron’s scandal).

Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.

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Significant educational opportunity

Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.

Describe how you have prepared for your intended major, including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university.

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Preparation for enrolling at the university

Describe how you have prepared for your intended major, including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university.

What do you believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for admissions to the University of California?

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Admissions to the University of California

Beyond what has already been shared in your application, what do you believe makes you stand out as a strong candidate for admissions to the University of California?

Compare and contrast situational influences and dispositional influences and give an example of each. Explain how situational influences and dispositional influences might explain inappropriate behavior.

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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: CHAPTER 12 ASSIGNMENT (TOTAL = 20 points)

Instructions: Answer the following question(s) thoroughly in paragraph/essay format.

Describe the two general types of attributions people use to explain the behavior of themselves and others, and discuss key concepts in attribution theory, such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis.

 

Compare and contrast situational influences and dispositional influences and give an example of each. Explain how situational influences and dispositional influences might explain inappropriate behavior.

 

Define the meaning of cognitive dissonance. Give an example (one not used in class or your text) of cognitive dissonance and how an individual might resolve this

 

Describe how seeking outside opinions can prevent groupthink. Compare and contrast social loafing and social facilitation.

 

The evolutionary theory argues that humans are motivated to perpetuate their genes and reproduce.
Using an evolutionary perspective, describe traits in men and women that humans find attractive.

 

Imagine that you work for an advertising agency, and you’ve been tasked with developing an advertising campaign to increase sales of Bliss Soda. How would you develop an advertisement for this product that uses a central route of persuasion? How would you develop an ad using a peripheral route of persuasion?

 

Explain and provide examples of how people from individualistic and collectivistic cultures would differ in explaining why they won an important sporting event.

 

Most students adamantly state that they would never have turned up the voltage in the Milligram experiment. Do you think you would have refused to shock the learner? Why? Looking at your own past behavior, explain what evidence suggests that you would or would not go along with the order to increase the voltage?

 

What types of studies would be most convincing regarding the effectiveness of meditation in the treatment for some type of physical or mental disorder? What advantages exist for researching the potential health benefits of hypnosis?

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STATE OF CONCIOUSNESS: CHAPTER 4 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)

Instructions: Answer the following question(s) thoroughly in paragraph/essay format.

Describe the changes/stages the human body undergoes as it shifts from deep sleep to REM sleep. What problems can occur if individuals don’t receive sleep?

 

Describe in detail the process of hypnosis. Is hypnosis effective? What are the pros and cons?

 

Freud believed that dreams provide important insight into the unconscious mind. He maintained that a dream’s manifest content could provide clues into an individual’s unconscious. What potential criticisms exist for this particular perspective?

 

Healthcare professionals often work rotating shifts. Why is this problematic? What can be done to deal with potential problems?

 

If theories that assert sleep is necessary for restoration and recovery from daily energetic demands are correct, what do you predict about the relationship that would exist between individuals’ total sleep duration and their level of activity?

 

How could researchers determine if given areas of the brain are involved in the regulation of sleep?

 

What types of studies would be most convincing regarding the effectiveness of meditation in the treatment for some type of physical or mental disorder?

 

What advantages exist for researching the potential health benefits of hypnosis?

Considering the three dimensions of job burnout, explain how various job aspects unique to being a police officer might lead to job burnout in that line of work.

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STRESS, LIFESTYLE, & HEALTH: CHAPTER 14 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)

 

Instructions: Answer the following questions thoroughly in paragraph format (complete sentences).

Provide an example of a stressful situation that may cause a person to become seriously ill. How would Selye’s general adaptation syndrome explain this occurrence?

Review the items on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Select one of the items and discuss how it might bring about distress and eustress.

Job burnout tends to be high in people who work in human service jobs. Considering the three dimensions of job burnout, explain how various job aspects unique to being a police officer might lead to job burnout in that line of work.

Discuss the concept of Type A behavior pattern, its history, and what we now know concerning its role in heart disease.

Consider the study in which volunteers were given nasal drops containing the cold virus to examine the relationship between stress and immune function (Cohen et al., 1998). How might this finding explain how people seem to become sick during stressful times in their lives (e.g., final exam week)?

 

What is sterilization and what temperature, and pressure is used to sterilize labware? What color is Coomassie Blue- when exposed to:Anionic Compounds? And Cation compounds? How many micro liters is 1mL of water?

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Bio Lab


Pipetting techniques (2 points)
What is sterilization and what temperature, and pressure is used to sterilize labware?
What color is Coomassie Blue- when exposed to:Anionic Compounds? And Cation compounds?
How many micro liters is 1mL of water?
Why do we use a pipette? What are the advantages?
Pigment extraction (2 points)
Write the chemical reaction of Photosynthesis
Name 4pigments used by plants and state the wavelength (in nm) used by each pigment
Waste water treatment (2 points)
What is “Nitrification” and “Denitrification”
Name 4Micropollutants in water
Cell division, mitosis (2 points)
Explain the following terms
· Sister Chromatids
· Homologous Chromosomes
· Diploid
· Tetrad
Your diet and your DNA (2 points)
How many calories does an adult male need per day
Name 7 components of a healthy diet
Name 7 components of an unhealthy diet
What are Telomeres?

What is the relationship between a genome, a chromosome and genes? · Briefly describe the events that occur in each phase of interphase. · Describe the similarities and differences between the cytokinesis mechanisms found in animal cells versus those in plant cells.

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Assigment #2

CELLULAR REPRODUCTION , CELL DIVISION, MITOSIS – 3 POINTS

· What is the relationship between a genome, a chromosome and genes?
· Briefly describe the events that occur in each phase of interphase.
· Describe the similarities and differences between the cytokinesis mechanisms found in animal cells versus those
in plant cells.
· Outline the steps that lead to a cell becoming cancerous.
· Compare and contrast the roles of the positive cell-cycle regulators negative regulators
· Name the common components of eukaryotic cell division and binary fission.

MEIOSIS AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION (3 points)
· Describe the process that results in the formation of a tetrad
· In a comparison of the stages of meiosis to the stages of mitosis, which stages are unique to meiosis and which
stages have the same events in both meiosis and mitosis?
· Animals and plants both have diploid and haploid cells. How does the animal life cycle differ from the alternation
of generations exhibited by plants?

THE DNA MOLECULE (3 points)
· Describe the structure of the eukaryotic DNA
· Discuss the similarities and differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA
· In eukaryotic cells, DNA and RNA synthesis occur in a separate compartment from protein synthesis. In
prokaryotic cells, both processes occur together. What advantages might there be to separate the processes? What
advantages might there be to have them occur together?

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· Explain DNA replication
· Discuss the role of different enzymes and proteins in supporting DNA replication
· Describe 3 different types of DNA mutations and 3 different types of DNA repair mechanisms

From your research, how user-friendly is the information provided by the two organisations to applicants? Does the information provided any indication of how inclusive each organisation’s recruitment and selection processes are?

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Managing People and Careers

Evaluation and conclusions: when evaluating your findings set out in the first part of your report, you will need to consider questions such as:

How similar/or different are the approaches to graduate recruitment in your chosen organisations? From your wider reading of the academic literature how might you account for any similarities/differences?

To what extent do the organisational practices align with the notion of ‘best practice’ in the academic literature?
From your research, how user-friendly is the information provided by the two organisations to applicants? Does the information provided any indication of how inclusive each organisation’s recruitment and selection processes are?

How much information do the organisations provide about future career development opportunities? Remember this is important for the attraction and retention of employees, particularly graduates.

What final observations and impressions are you left with having researched different organisation’s approaches to recruiting and selecting graduates.