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Who are the burden bearer, the empty head, and blood & iron in Bread Givers?  Be sure to list their names and, using one specific example for each, explain why they have these nicknames.

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Section I: Essay answers.  Be sure to read each question carefully and answer as completely and directly as possible.  Your goal is to demonstrate your attention to all relevant readings and lecture materials.

  1. Is Ichiro Yamada responsible for his own suffering?  Why?  Why not?  Use two specific examples from No-No Boy to support your answer.
  2. Explain why Sara (Bread Givers) thinks the following (explain the significance of Sara’s word choice, too!) as she finally finds a room to rent after escaping Father’s house: “Like a drowning person clinging to a rope, my tired body edged up to that door and clung to it.  My hands clutched at the knob.  This door was life.  It was air.” Be specific!
  3. Who are the burden bearer, the empty head, and blood & iron in Bread Givers?  Be sure to list their names and, using one specific example for each, explain why they have these nicknames.
  4. Using two specific examples from Santiago’s memoir, show that life writing means writing in the present about the past. In addition, describe how Santiago represents her childhood self. Finally, how are memoirs different from autobiographies?
  5. Explain what Negi thinks about “America” as you provide at least two specific examples of how she learns to think this way. Provide another specific example to demonstrate that the memoir’s representations of America are contradictory.

Section II: Short answers. Write definitions/descriptions/explanations for each of the terms/concepts/historical contexts listed below.  Each is worth 5 points. 

  1. No-no boys and Japanese American Internment
  2. Red-lining and block-busting
  3. Race is a biological fiction, but it is a social fact.
  4. Coexistence of “all men are created equal” and slavery

How does the speech “The March of the Flag” justify American intervention in other countries? What was the justification given for America’s use of the Atomic Bomb?

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  1. How does the speech “The March of the Flag” justify American intervention in other countries?
  2. According to the article in The Arena, what is the “Giant issue of 1900”? What does it say about our involvement in other governments?
  3. What does Huey Long mean by “Every Man a King?”
  4. Why does Woodrow Wilson decide to go to war?
  5. What is the problem with the League of Nations?
  6. What was the justification given for America’s use of the Atomic Bomb?
  7. What do you think about its use and the reasons given for it?
  8. What is the United States doing in Vietnam?
  9. Why do we stay in Vietnam for so long?
  10. What does Martin Luther King Jr. want?
  11. What does Malcolm X want?
  12. According to Betty Friedan, what is “the problem with no name”?
  13. According to Schafley, what is the “fraud of the equal rights amendment”?

Define and describe the concept(s) being investigated using primary sources of information about. the concept (e.g. Self-efficacy – cite Albert Bandura’s publications describing self-efficacy).

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Assignment # 4 Research Proposal Due Week 14

To identify a topic, search CINAHL to explore the literature. Search using the term “Nursing Students”. Then check “Full Text” and check “Research Article”.

Browse through the search results for a specific topic of interest and that appears in a number of studies. Once you find a topic of interest, then search CINAHL using the appropriate terms to do a focused search. For example, “nursing students” and “self-efficacy” or “nursing students and evidence-based practice”. There are many interesting perspectives to consider.

Decide on the specific topic that you will develop into a nursing research proposal. Submit to the professor for approval on Week 3.

Note: Paper must be in APA format.

Cover Page – Title of proposal (includes concept and type of participants), your name and credentials, course number, professor’s name, and date.

Abstract (Written last after the paper completed)

  • Subheadings: purpose of the study, design, sample inclusion/exclusion criteria, setting, data collection, plan for data analysis

Introduction (4-5 pages)

  • Introduction is supported with references.
  • Describe the type of participants that are the focus of the proposed study.
  • Challenges faced by the participants cited from research studies in nursing and allied health.
  • Describe why it is important to study the participants.
  • Define and describe the concept(s) being investigated using primary sources of information about. the concept (e.g. Self-efficacy – cite Albert Bandura’s publications describing self-efficacy). Describe why it is important to investigate. The definition and description of the concept should be approximately 1-2 pages.

Review of the Literature

There should be at least 8 nursing research studies for the main concept being investigated in your proposed study. At least 5 of the studies must be from a nursing journal. Choose the research carefully to present a focused comparison.

For each study provide a concise summary of the study and a critical appraisal.

  1. a) Summarize each study in one concise paragraph of no more than 15 sentences. Start the paragraph by citing the author(s) and year using APA. Be sure to include the following research steps:
    • Purpose of the Study (quote and provide the page number using APA)
    • Sample Size
    • Description of Sample (describe the actual participants, not the inclusion/exclusion criteria)
    • Describe how the data was collected (names of instruments and how and where participants were contacted and the data collected, reliability of the instruments.
    • Describe how the data was analyzed (e.g. Independent or Paired t-Test, Pearson Correlations, ANOVA, Multiple Regression, etc.)
    • Describe the research findings in words. Do not report numbers, mean scores, etc. (The findings should be one third of the summary)
    • Comment on the quality of the study (e.g. sample size adequacy, instrument reliability,  data collection, results, etc).

Start the last paragraph with the words “In Summary,” and provide a concise and persuasive overview of the research literature in one paragraph leading up to the research question. The key finding of each study is mentioned and referenced.

Identify a gap in the literature that the proposed study will address (e.g. a specific group or situation that little is known about, a deficiency in the type of instrument or method used, inadequate sample size, etc.).  In the last sentence, state: Therefore, the purpose of the study is to…(1 sentence)

Method

            Design and Sample

  • Describe the design of the study (1-2 sentences)
  • Sample, inclusion/exclusion criteria, recruitment of participants, sample size, gender, and age range (1-2 pages)       

            Protection of Participants

  • Protection of participants, requirements to participate, amount of time expected for participation, informed consent procedures, potential risks, potential benefits, maintenance of confidentiality, data storage, compensation for participants (1-2 paragraphs)

Instrument  (1-3 paragraphs)

  • Name the instrument(s)
  • Identify what the instrument(s) measures
  • If there are sub scales, what each sub scale measures
  • Identify the number of items for the entire instrument and for any sub scales.
  • Interpretation of what the scores mean ( e.g. the higher the score on the Herth Hope Index, the higher the level of hope; the higher the score on the Performance Scales the higher the level of disability).
  • Report the Alpha Coefficient from at least two recent studies using the same instrument in a sample similar to yours.

Setting for Data Collection (2-4 sentences)

Steps in Data Collection Process (1 page)

  1. a) Identify who will collect data and how they will be trained. If more than one person is collecting data, discuss how you will determine inter-rater reliability.
  2. b) Describe the process of data collection (e.g. access to data, privacy provision, administration of the tool, any anticipated barriers to data collection).
  3. c) Identify the time frame for data collection (e.g., before you implement the change, how long you will wait before you re-measure.

Plan for Data Analysis (1 paragraph) How will you analyze the data? Is it appropriate given the research questions, research design, and sample?

References: APA format for the Literature Cited in the Paper. Center the word References

at top of page and no bold.

Outline the aim(s) of the study and the research question(s) under investigation. If appropriate, outline the study hypotheses.

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  1. Full Title of Project
  2. Justification of the research & Review of Literature (1500 words approx.)
  • Explain the rationale for carrying out this project.
  • You must include a literature review to support the research
  1. Aims and Research Question
  • Outline the aim(s) of the study and the research question(s) under investigation.
  • If appropriate, outline the study hypotheses
  1. Methodological design and other methodological features of your study
  • Ensure this covers both methodology and methods
  • Explain and justify your chosen methodology, design, and data collection methods.
  1. Participants & Sampling / Sources (Secondary Data)
  • Who will take part in your study? What will the inclusion / exclusion criteria be?
  • How you will sample these participants?
  • What sample size will you aim for and why?
  1. Materials/Equipment
  • If appropriate to your research please include the materials that you will be using
  • g. Questionnaire, interview guide, etc.
  • Include equipment if study uses an experimental design
  1. Procedure
  • Describe the procedure that will be undertaken in the study.
  • How will participants be recruited?
  • Once recruited, what will participants have to do and how long it will take?
  • Provide enough information to ensure that study can be
  1. Ethical implications
  • Identify any ethical considerations related to the study
  • If collecting any personal data or working with <18’ this must be made clear and discussed
  • Note N/A is not an acceptable answer
  1. Data Analysis methods
  • Explain how you will analyze your data once collected
  • Provide more detail than simply ‘qualitatively’ or ‘quantitatively’
  1. References
  • List all references cited using Harvard Method
  1. Proposed Supervisor
  • Indicate up to three supervisors who you think could supervise your project.
  • Please provide the reasoning for your choice
  • We try and match students to their first preference but this is not guaranteed

How can the media be used to affect change in states that do not yet require mandatory reporting?

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Assignment Details

You graduated from the AIU Criminal Justice Bachelor Program only 1 year ago, and you are now the victim rights advocate for your county prosecutor’s office. When you entered the criminal justice program, you never dreamed that you would have a career helping victims of crimes to navigate the criminal justice system. Your duties include everything from comforting a victim of a sexual assault to helping the families of murder victims. You already have had opportunities to help many people, and this type of work makes you feel proud of what you do. You are so proud, and that it is all you speak about to your families and friends. When Grace, the chief attorney, asks you to do something, you try to do your absolute best. The following assignment is no different.
Grace, the chief attorney (CA), asks you to draft a report that she will use in her presentation to the county commission. Her goal is to keep the victim witness assistant positions that currently exist and to increase the number of these positions in the future. She knows that providing victim advocacy is a relatively new concept to the criminal justice system and that the commissioners are not familiar with the concept that the criminal justice system should take a more active role with victims.
Grace needs you to provide information from 8 of the following 12 areas of discussion in 4 pages:
1.Give a definition of victimology.
2.What is the history of victimology, and how has it developed?
3.Explain how it is different from criminology, sociology, or psychology.
4. Who established the first safe houses for battered women? Where and when were these safe houses established?
5.Who established the first rape crisis centers? Where and when were these centers established?
6.How has the civil rights movement contributed to antidiscrimination efforts and the establishment of hate crime legislation and policy?
7.What role have children’s rights groups played in highlighting the problems that child victims face in the criminal justice system?
8.Which organizations might she contact that provide specific advocacy for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and homicide?
9.What services are not provided by government crime compensation programs?
10.Explain the need for all states to require mandatory reporting by religious organizations of child abuse by clergy.
11. How can the media be used to affect change in states that do not yet require mandatory reporting?
12. Research the clergy abuse in a state of your choice, and answer the following:
If mandatory reporting exists, how long has this been a requirement? What organizations are involved in tracking and helping the victims with this type of abuse?
If mandatory reporting does not exist, what alternative processes exist for reporting clergy abuse?
Use the library, Internet, and other resources available to you to conduct your research. Provide APA citations and references.

What warrants are implicit in your argument? Will they be acceptable to the person who reads your paper, or should you provide backing?

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B. Writing Assignment: An Argument about a Literary Work The purpose of this assignment is to discover an issue, make a claim, and write about your interpretation of a story. Edgar Allen Poe is well known for exploring the issues of guilt and punishment in his fiction. Poe’s story presents these issues in a particularly complex way. In order to determine exactly what claim Poe is making about these issues, undertake the following steps:

1. When you have finished reading the story, freewrite for five minutes to capture your original thoughts and reactions.

2. As a class, discuss answers to the following questions:

a. What is this story about? What issues are raised by this story?

b. What is the perspective of the narrator in this story? What makes it difficult to identify with this perspective?

c. Write a claim made by this story; then help list a few of these claims on the board. Which of these claims could be supported with evidence from the text? Which would you like to write about? Write your claim. Read with the class some of these claims.

3. Answer the next four questions to plan your paper.

a. What evidence from the text can you use to support your claim (examples, quotations, etc.)? Underline it.

b. What warrants are implicit in your argument? Will they be acceptable to the person who reads your paper, or should you provide backing?

c. Would your paper be more convincing if you included a rebuttal? What would it be?

d. Will your claim be more acceptable if you qualify it? How would you do that?

Discuss marketing’s role in the competitive positioning of the business. Evaluate a range of marketing strategies that can contribute to organizations competitive advantage.

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Instructions

You have scheduled a presentation meeting with the Board of Director of CraftSupplies. You have set the following topics in your presentation and advised the board that the presentation would not last more than 25 minutes during which you will:

  • Explain the role of marketing to an organization and what the relationship is between marketing strategy and corporate strategy.
  • Describe how a marketing strategy can lead to competitive advantages, and the type of competitive positioning an organization can adopt.
  • Explain how a marketing strategy is developed.
  • Discuss marketing’s role in the competitive positioning of the business.
  • Evaluate a range of marketing strategies that can contribute to organizations competitive advantage.
Delivery
  • 1x prepared presentation
  • The presentation should come with an executive summary and be supported byPowerPoint
Submission
  • 1x PowerPoint slide presentation
  • 1x executive summary
  • 1x lecturer feedback form

Task 2 of 3 –Brochure (AC2.1, 2.2 & 2.3)

Instructions

You must also put together a brochure detailing your services as a marketing firm. Your firm’s strongest point being market research, your brochure should have 3 sections:

  • 1 section covering how internal and external analysis can be used to decide on strategic options
  • 1 section covering the different approaches to internal environment analysis.
  • 1 section covering several approaches to external environment analysis.

Note, although the prices for each internal and external approach should not be included as it would need further discussion, you should make it clear in the brochure that different approaches will be priced at different levels.

Delivery and Submission
  • 1xbrochure

Task 3 of 3 – Individual Blog Entry (AC3.1 and 3.2)

Instructions

In addition to your service, your company has its own blog and you have been asked to write an individual blog post. You should read the business section of newspaper and write a blog entry reviewing at least 3 strategic marketing decisions made at corporate level, weighing their pros and cons. You are also asked to evaluate approaches to competitive positioning of businesses. Finally, you should also reflect on how strategic marketing decisions influence marketing at lower levels within organizations.

Your blog reflection must be backed up by theory which must be appropriately referenced.

Delivery and Submission
  • 1x blogentry
Summative delivery and submission for all taskstogether
  • Collective assignment totalling 3000words

How should law enforcement be dealing with individuals who have mental health issues?What improvement can be made from practices that are currently in use in Police dealing with individuals with mental health issues?

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Instructions: Read the questions carefully and answer. Whatever point or answer you give justify it by explanation(s). You can do a research but do not copy and paste. Also, make sure you attend to  both questions 1 and 2 and the sub-questions embedded  in them ( questions 1 and 2). Please take it seriously, the questions worth 30 points. If you write better, you will make extra points. Make sure you write your references and in APA style.

  1. Do  you think that the current trend of Police image is improving or worsening?
  2. If worsening, what are the three areas that need improvement? (Support your points with scholarly explanation(s).

                      Or

If improving, what are the three areas Police image has improved? (Support your points with scholarly explanation(s).

  1. How should law enforcement be dealing with individuals who have mental health issues?
  2. What improvement can be made from practices that are currently in use in Police dealing with individuals with mental health issues?
  3. What are the two challenges the officer experience in this area (in dealing with individual with mental health issues)?

 

  1. 2. a.  Should having a criminal record make someone ineligible for a career as Police Officer? (Justify your answers with scholarly explanation).
  2. What do you think about the argument that an officer with a previous criminal past will better understand and relate to the public in which they are trying to serve and rid of criminals?
  3. What advantages are there to hiring someone with a criminal record?
  4. What disadvantages are there to hiring someone with a criminal record?

Test the overall significance of the model by conducting an F test (P-value or significance of F). What does the significance of F (or lack there off) imply?

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1.What is the Sample Regression Equation ? (Answer this question based on YOUR Excel Summary Output).

  1. Which of the Independent variables are significant? Why?  Explain.  Use α = 0.05 in ALL questions. Use only the p-value to explain your answers (No need to go to t tables).
  2. Test the overall significance of the model by conducting an F test (P-value or significance of F). What does the significance of F (or lack there off) imply?
  3. Comment on the Goodness of the Fit (Hint, you look, not at r square like in simple regression, rather, you look at the adjusted r-square).
  4. Comment on the Normality assumption for the residuals for this model. In other word, has the normality assumption been satisfied?  Explain your answer (Hint: you need to run Excel’s Histogram feature for Column of the Residuals. I need to see your Histogram in your Excel file and in here).
  5. Has the assumption of Constant variance (Homoscedasticity) been met?

Explain.

  1. Has the assumption of the Independence of Variables been met? In other words, do we, or do we not have the problem of multicollinearity? Explain.
  2. Do you see any Indication of Autocorrelation? Using Excel Formula commands, calculate the value of the Durbin-Watson test statistics in Excel, using the formula from your Formula Sheet or look below:

Durbin-Watson Test Statistics (Also:  Use the chart for Durbin Watson test provided in the Formula Sheet, or below). For Durbin-Watson TABLE, you can use your textbook or the Internet.

Did the hospital/ physicians allow the parents to be autonomous in their decision-making? Do you see any elements of paternalism on behalf of the physicians?

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Assignment Instructions:

Examine the case of Baby Boy Doe (Darr, 2011, p. 16.) The objective of this assignment is to get you to think critically about real-life ethical dilemmas and the moral principals involved. There is no right or wrong answer, just try to look at this case subjectively. Most of the time, resolving ethical dilemmas is not so “black and white.” Discuss arguments for and against the issues below

1. Discuss what makes this an ethical dilemma (read pp. 3 and 4).

2. Discuss the implications of this study in terms of the moral principles described in chapter 1.

Here are some questions that may guide your thinking:

Respect for persons: Did the hospital/ physicians allow the parents to be autonomous in their decision-making? Do you see any elements of paternalism on behalf of the physicians?

Beneficence: Did the hospital/ physicians act beneficently?

Non maleficence: Did the hospital/ physicians consider non maleficence?

Justice: Did the hospital act in a just way?

3. Finally, do you think that the hospital did all that it could in this situation? Did it act appropriately? Explain.