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Describe your initial expectations relative to the reality of the service learning experience. What specific disciplinary skills (i.e. skills learned in your major or in the MCOB) have you used at your community site?

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Finance Question

You must post a 5-7 page Reflection Journal to Canvas under “#GEA1 Service Learning Experience” by the due date in the syllabus. This Journal should include your Preflection paper, the summary of your service hours, and two pictures of you performing the service at your service organization in an Appendix. Your Reflection should include what happened before, during, and after the Service Learning Experience. Each student will address the questions below.

Initial Expectations: Describe your initial expectations relative to the reality of the service learning experience.

Disciplinary Skills to Apply: What specific disciplinary skills (i.e. skills learned in your major or in the MCOB) have you used at your community site?

My Contribution: How did your contribution specifically supported the goals of the service organization and/or allowed you to make a difference in the community?

New Vision and Mission: Based on the knowledge gained in your service learning experience and concepts taught in this class on developing a mission and vision, draft a new and improved mission and vision statement for the organization. You should include not only the new mission and vision but also an appropriate rationale for the mission and vision including elements of the organization as well as required elements needed in a well written mission and vision statement.

Share, Feedback, and Revision: Share the new mission and vision statement you created with at least two other people capable of giving you feedback on the soundness of your new mission and vision (fellow student, volunteer, or nonprofit employee, etc.). After getting feedback from the first person, revise the mission and vision statements to accommodate the new ideas or suggestions. Do this again with the second person. Document the feedback received and how you revised the statements each time. In other words, you must complete two rounds of sharing and revising your mission and vision statement. Make sure you explain what advice you followed (and why) and what advice you felt didn’t warrant changes (and why).

Diversity Expansion: Based on your experience with the organization and in drafting the vision and mission explain how you might recommend that the organization expand the diversity of those it serves while achieving its mission. Identify diverse constituencies that might benefit from the organization’s services or with whom it could collaborate to extend its mission.

Ethical Dilemmas: Based on your service learning experience, what ethical dilemmas do you think can arise in non-profit organizations?

Ethical Leader Requirements: What is required to be a good ethical leader in a non-profit organization?

The website of the volunteering organization is: https://mealsonwheelsplus.org/

In about 300 words, discuss how “This Life is Weary” is a rewriting of Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”. Why do you think Ihimaera re-told this story?

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English discussion

Watch the following video on postcolonial reading @ https://youtu.be/agdrjeM5TaQ

The texts you read this week are related to one another in multiple ways. How does your understanding of a postcolonial reading from the video, help see the connections between the two texts? In about 300 words, discuss how “This Life is Weary” is a rewriting of Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”. Why do you think Ihimaera re-told this story? And a 200 word random response.

After watching the concert as a whole, how would you rate the order in which the pieces were performed? Would you keep everything the same? Why or why not? Would you change any of the pieces? Why or why not?

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Performance Response

Select a video from the approved list HERE and write a reflection on the music. Include the answers to the questions below, but be sure to write in the form of a review for a newspaper, website, or magazine. DO NOT merely answer the questions in bullet points.

Time and Place (5 points)

Describe how you created a time and a place for your concert viewing experience. Where and when did you watch? With whom did you watch? How did you create an environment that helped you to focus on the music?

Repertoire (5 points)

After watching the concert as a whole, how would you rate the order in which the pieces were performed? Would you keep everything the same? Why or why not? Would you change any of the pieces? Why or why not?

Personal Critique (15 points)

Which work did you find most enjoyable and why? Which work did you like almost as well and why? Which work did you least enjoy and why? Was your like or dislike due to the piece itself, or the way it was played?

  • Poor answer: I like the piece because it was pretty.
  • Better answer: I like the piece because the melody was pleasant and I remembered it afterward.
  • Best answer: I like the piece because the rhythm and direction of the melody in the piano had a strong contrast to the accompaniment in the orchestra. The tension between those two elements gave the piece a sense of “give and take.” The pianist did a wonderful job of highlighting those contrasts, and the conductor did a good job of keeping the orchestra low enough so that the piano could always be heard.

Connection to Course (15 points)

Choose one piece from the program, identify it, and answer the following question:
To what musical elements that we have studied do you see any connections? Explain your choices.

  • Sound: timbre, texture, dynamics
  • Harmony
  • Melody
  • Rhythm: meter, tempo
  • Growth (form)

Personal Reaction (10 points)
Give any other reactions to the experience as a whole. Feel free to mention images, feelings, emotions, mood and the effect of the overall spirit of the music. If you honestly didn’t have any emotional reactions to the music, then explain why you think that is. Be self-reflective and honest.

How can capital structure decisions affect the control of a firm? In other words, would the control issues impact your decisions on how to raise money for your company?

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FINC331 Week 7 Discussion Cash Collections

1. Consider cash collection items. How can a firm minimize this time and what are some of the costs? Do we worry about this as individuals as well? If so, how?

(Excellent presentation on Cash Management and various ways companies can increase cash collections.(Cash Management by Dr Chitkara) (PDF file of the article is posted in Content – Week 7 – Articles for Discussion Week 7.)

2. How can capital structure decisions affect the control of a firm? In other words, would the control issues impact your decisions on how to raise money for your company?

3. How can sales be used to develop pro forma financial statements?

(Excellent video on Proforma Financial Statements and Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmekZcOwxQ)

Write an original short story that demonstrates mastery of the voice, character, and plot. The story should also display a complexity and depth of thought and perception.

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Write an original short story that demonstrates mastery of the voice, character, and plot.

  • The subject matter of the story is left to the discretion of the student. There are no restrictions on the subject matter or characters about which students write.
  • The short story should be a MWord document, double-spaced, and with standard margins and 12-point font. The story should be a minimum of three full double-spaced pages and a maximum of five full double-spaced pages.
  • The story should employ compelling authorial voice and word choice.
  • The characters of the story should reflect depth and complexity of sympathy, motivation, and context for their actions.
  • The plot of the short story should include specific problems (personal, mental, physical, etc) with which the characters must contend.

In addition to the criteria for the short story outlined above, the story should also display a complexity and depth of thought and perception.

Identify the main steps in a system selection process and describe the three categories of systems evaluation criteria and explain why each is important.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Identify the main steps in a system selection process and describe the three categories of systems evaluation criteria and explain why each is important. Once you explain the steps leading up to the implementation phase, explain the approach you would take to ensure interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination in systems implementation. Two thirds of your paper should be devoted to addressing your approach.

Make sure each paragraph has 4-6 sentences.

Do the group’s recommendations minimize the harm while maximizing the good? Do they compromise fundamental principles? If so, how? Was it necessary? In other words, what factors guided the group’s decisions? Were they biased? Were they fair?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Just some things to think about during your discussion:

Your dialogue should address the following ideas, points, and questions:

  1. Do the group’s recommendations minimize the harm while maximizing the good?
  2. Do they compromise fundamental principles? If so, how? Was it necessary? In other words, what factors guided the group’s decisions? Were they biased? Were they fair?
  3. Address ideas on justice and bias and who the recommendations favor
  4. Discuss urban vs rural populations, social and economic status, questions of age, race, and ethnicity, questions of health and pre-existing conditions – what took the highest priority?
  5. What covert biases did you see? How would you argue differently than your peers?

Create a 10-15 page paper, citing resources used in the course along with at least 10 (ten) external resources on an instructor approved topic of psychology.

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Psychology Question

Students create a 10-15 page paper, citing resources used in the course along with at least 10 (ten) external resources on an instructor approved topic of psychology.

Of these external resources, at least five must be peer reviewed articles from professional journal or published resource (i.e. book, periodical, dissertation, encyclopedia etc). If you have any questions regarding a source used for the paper, contact your instructor immediately for clarification. The final sources can be any source desired (blog, government website, interview with professional etc.); HOWEVER, it must be a credible, valid source (Wikipedia is not considered a valid source). Not meeting the minimal requirement of sources will reduce the paper’s grade by 10%.

This is your opportunity to show what you’ve learned in a way that you will enjoy! Have fun with it!

Final Project directives, are as follows:

    • APA formatted title page, in-text citations, headings, and reference page (10 points)
    • 10-15 page APA formatted topic paper
    • Introduction (10 points)
    • Body of Paper w/ require resource citations (APA!!) (50 points)
    • Flow and organization should make sense
    • Conclusion (10 points)
    • Reference Page
    • Minimum five (5) peer-reviewed articles (professional journal or published resource)
    • Minimum five (5) non peer-reviewed articles/blogs/resources. Must be credible and valid
    • Academic writing style/tone (grammar, spelling, tone) (10 points)
    • Point of view should be second or third; no first person i.e. “I”, “me”

Discuss the major reasons why this epidemic exists. Discuss ALL of the following. How do we fight childhood obesity? What are three ways to decrease the obesity rates? Whose ‘job’ is it to fix and where do we start?

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Childhood Obesity

For this essay, discuss the major reasons why this epidemic exists. Discuss ALL of the following. How do we fight childhood obesity? What are three ways to decrease the obesity rates? Whose ‘job’ is it to fix and where do we start?

Discuss the relationships between quality outcomes and credentialing and privileging, and discuss future issues in credentialing and privileging.

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CREDENTIALING OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS  by John C. Hyde II

Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, the reader should be able to

  • Understand the need for credentialing and privileging of healthcare providers;
  • Define the steps and elements of the credentialing and privileging process;
  • Discuss the relationships between quality outcomes and credentialing and privileging; and
  • Discuss future issues in credentialing and privileging.