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Why and How is business an important player in this issue?

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This term paper should be a culmination of all you have learned in this course. You will be required to develop arguments by integrating course concepts from the readings and lectures. Your paper must:

(1) Be between 2,500 and 3,000 words

(2) Use 12-point Times New Roman font (double-spaced)

(3) 1 inch margin all around with page number listed as in this document

(4) Include citations and bibliography of referenced materials

You will submit document to me as per course outline  (Late papers will be subjected to 20% deduction for every day, or part thereof, late,  but subjected to a maximum of 48 hrs late,  after that the term paper score will be deemed 0).

Directions:

(1) Choose one of the following topics:

  1. a) Climate change
  2. b) Gender/racial inequality
  3. c) Income inequality
  4. d) Indigenous issues in Canada
  5. e) Working conditions/labour issues
  6. f) Animal Rights
  7. g) Pollution
  8. h) Intellectual property/patents

(2) Address the following questions:

Part one:

  1. a) What is this issue and why is it important?
  2. b) Why and how is business an important player in this issue?
  3. c) Who are the key stakeholders? Explain

Part two:

  1. d) What are the broader debates/tensions underpinning this issue (CSR, shareholder/stakeholder, short-term/long-term, corporate power)? Why? Explain your answer in the most convincing way possible.
  2. e) How has business sought to address this issue?
  3. f) What has been the role of other stakeholders (e.g. government, NGOs)?

 

Part three:

  1. g) Make an argument for how this issue should be addressed in the future. What role should business play? What role should other stakeholders (e.g. government, consumers, investors, NGOs) play?
  2. h) What are the potential obstacles or constraints to implementing your suggestion? Explain. How might these obstacles be overcome?

Explain how the process of completing your research project has affected your understanding of an issue or event in society.

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Task: Explain how the process of completing your research project has affected your understanding of an issue or event in society.

Length: At least 1200 words

Sources: No minimum number of sources. Cite any sources you use in APA format.

Due date and grading: This assignment is due by the end of Week 8. It is worth 10% of your course grade and will be graded with a rubric. To view the rubric, access the assignment from the Assignments area of the classroom.

Outcomes you should achieve by completing this assignment

Organize information clearly in an explanatory essay (Course outcomes 1 and 2)
Use an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement and a concluding paragraph to frame an essay (Course outcomes 1 and 2)
Demonstrate accurate grammar and mechanics in writing (Course outcome 3)
Topic

You began your research project by reading an article from the news about a current issue or event in society. Your goal in this essay is to explain to your professor how the research and writing you have done for your research project changed your understanding of that issue or event. You will explain what changes occurred in your understanding and how those changes occurred.

Here are some questions you can consider in developing ideas for your essay:

What changes occurred in your understanding?
Do you know more about the issue/event now than you did before? (Probably!)
Do you look at the issue/event from a different perspective following your research?
Have you reconsidered opinions or assumptions that you held at the beginning of the semester?
How did those changes occur?
Which sources from your research had the greatest effect on your understanding?
Did the process of writing about your topic affect the way you thought about it?
What role did interaction with your classmates and/or professor play in your understanding of your topic?
Organizing and supporting your essay

Your essay must include an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

The introduction should gain your reader’s attention, orient the reader to your topic, and state your thesis.

The body of the essay should include focused body paragraphs in support of your thesis statement. There are various ways you might choose to organize information in the body of your essay. Here are some suggestions you can consider:

You might focus each body paragraph on a step of the research process and how that step affected your understanding of the issue/event.
You might focus each body paragraph on your understanding at a particular time relative to the research process (before, during, after).
You might focus each body paragraph on a particular aspect of the issue/event and explain how your understanding of that aspect developed during your research.
The essay’s conclusion should answer the question “So what?” by placing the essay’s explanations into a larger context. To accomplish this, you can consider addressing one or more of these questions:

Will your current understanding of your event/issue affect your future actions or decisions? If so, how?
What lessons—about interpreting current events, about your field of study, about the research process—can be drawn from the experience of completing the research project?
Is research of the sort done in WRTG 112 a worthwhile activity? Why or why not?
Point of view

First person (I/me/my) is appropriate in this assignment, but second person (you/your) should be avoided.

Formatting your assignment

Incorporate these elements of APA style:

Use one-inch margins.
Double space.
Use an easy-to-read font between 10-point and 12-point.
Include a title page with the title of your paper, your name, and the name of your school.

This paper is supposed to be completely first person and should be about my experience on researching and writing my research paper and what I learned from this journey. Below I will be attaching my research paper and other discussion posts to aid the writing process. I am not looking for any sources, but if you do, you can just use the same citations from my essay.
I really need this to sound personable, yet sophisticated, I really need at least a B on this paper to pass my class. Thank you. I hope that the essay is easier to write since I provided all of the necessary sources to complete the essay. Thank you so much again

What are the issues faced by the federal, state, and local governments in balancing public safety while still protecting the constitutional rights of the inhabitants of the United States?

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Refer to Articles 1-3: Public Safety and Constitutional Rights1.What are the issues faced by the federal, state, and local governments in balancing public safety while still protecting the constitutional rights of the inhabitants of the United States? If you owned a business, how would you want control distributed between the federal, state, and local governments, and how much power over making your own decisions do you think you should have in terms of opening and operating freedom? Refer to Articles 1-7: Civil Liberties and Businesses During a Public Safety Crisis2.What rights should government have over businesses for the public good? What do you think are the most important civil liberties (constitutional rights) for both individuals and businesses? What rights, if any, must remain unconstrained by government control? Why are these rights important? What are the most important civil liberties for businesses? Refer to Articles 4-7: Operating a Business Under Shut Down Orders3.What are the ethical issues faced by businesses within states such as Michigan, Texas, where the lockdowns are being maintained very strictly? Are the methods of control being used by state and local governments ethical? How do businesses navigate these situations in order to survive? Is “conscientious objection” by business owners to government shut down orders ethical or unethical? Refer to Article 8: Confucianism During a Pandemic 4.In regards to Confucianism as a cultural influence, what are some of the cultural differences within Asian cultures as compared to American and other Western cultures? How does Confucianism influence perceptions of civil rights, public safety, and the duty of the individual? How would Confucianism impact multinational organizations in China, Japan, and South Korea? What are some of the ethical considerations an American organization needs to address in regards to these differences? Refer to Article 9: Operating Businesses Ethically in Locations Under Totalitarian Control5.Can businesses operate ethically in countries that do not protect civil rights? How would you handle operations in a place such as Hong Kong, given the lack of freedom and emphasis on government control?Refer to Article 10: Ethical Business and Human Rights Considerations During a Pandemic6.What are some of the issues that businesses must consider globally in terms of civil rights worldwide? How must a business do in order to make sure that it is operating ethically internationally?

What distinguishes a team as high performing within a health care environment?

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In a paper of 1,000-1,250-word, address the following: clinical and administrative sides.
1. Why are teams a valuable point of focus when considering quality improvement in health care?
2. What distinguishes a team as high performing within a health care environment? Identify five reasons why high-performing teams are necessary when assessing quality.
3. Discuss how team processes and the varying roles of individuals can impact quality assessment both positively and negatively. Consider elements such as leadership roles, individual responsibilities, delegation of tasks, decision making, ongoing training/education, etc.
4. How does the cross-functionality of a high-performing team enhance its ability to meet the quality improvement goals of a health care organization? How might having an interdisciplinary team potentially create conflict? How could these tensions be mitigated to improve team effectiveness?
5. How do elements such as conflict and change affect the dynamics of the team and its ability to reach a unified goal?
6. Discuss the resources and types of support available that might enhance a team’s efforts for continued quality improvement. Consider how components such as team culture, support, communication, and rewards may come into play.
*Cite at least three scholarly references** Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines*
Due Date: 22-Aug-2020 at 05:59:59 PM
Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
Discuss about the value of teams in health care quality improvement is thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Five distinguishing characteristics of a high-performing quality assessment team are thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Discuss about the impact of team processes and team member roles on quality assessment is thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Give exploration of how the dynamics of a cross-functional or interdisciplinary team influence effectiveness is thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Analyze the effects of conflict and change on a team and its dynamics is thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Discuss about the resources and types of support available for continued quality improvement team efforts is thoroughly explored and clearly explained with relevant details and support.
Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative. Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.

Discuss 2 approaches, one of which should be kaupapa Maori.

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Please discuss 2 approaches, one of which should be kaupapa Maori.
Your essay should be a properly referenced (Harvard) academic paper with a clear structure that demonstrates your high-level academic writing skills. You should demonstrate sound critical analytical skills in your use of Indigenous Studies and other social sciences literature to support your discussion. 1500 words.

Discuss the process of writing in ‘new’ ways with reference to any text from thismodule.

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CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:1.‘The long-established genres and forms –tragedy, comedy, epic, pastoral, eclogue, lyric, ode, etc. –are ways of seeing the world as ordered, conventional, and static in fundamental ways. When you adopt their rules, you assume a certain posture and a set of hypotheses about the way things are and should be. But if you want to remake the world, you have to start by liquidating the old forms and starting anew.’ Discuss the process of writing in ‘new’ ways with reference to any text from thismodule.

2.‘The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects “unfamiliar,” to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.’ (Viktor Shklovsky)How does avant-garde writing challenge conventional forms of representation? Discuss in relationto any text from thismodule.

3.‘There is no “originality” as such in literature, only new ways of combining and redacting already existing texts.’Discuss with reference to any text from thismodule.

4.‘Literary texts become familiar over time, and our familiarity with them tends to diminish what is monstrous and irreconcilable about them. But in the great experimental texts, we continue to experience that monstrosity, that irreconcilability, as a tear in the fabric of sense.’Discuss with reference to any text from thismodule.ASSESSMENT CRITERIAoDemonstrates understanding of the key concepts and issues in this moduleoDemonstrates understanding of the historical and social context/s from which the text being discussed emergesoUses appropriate scholarly sources and an academic registeroAppropriate presentation andformatting including absence of typographical errors.

Describe the role of the human service provider at this type of organization

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Part 1: Choose three crises from the list.
Substance Abuse
Mental Illness
Intimate Partner Violence
Death
Sexual Abuse/Assault
Diagnosis of Terminal Illness
Chronic illness or disability
HIV/AIDS
Part 2: Complete the “Health and Clinical Crisis Worksheet.” The purpose of this worksheet is to:
describe three different crises related to health or of clinical concerns,
discuss the influence of this crisis on the victim(s),
identify an organization that works with this crisis, and
describe the role of the human service provider at this type of organization

What are some similarities and differences between their responses to injustice?

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Paper details:

Must the Christian always obey civil authority, or are there grounds for civil disobedience? Are there Christian justifications for political rebellion? Required Reading: Declaration of the United Colonies. Available at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/arms.asp Eric Patterson and Nathan Gill (RSG ’13). “The Declaration of the United Colonies: America’s First Just War Statement” in Journal of Military Ethics (2015). Available in Blackboard. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Available at: http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/annotated_letter_from_birmingham/ Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “After Ten Years.” Available in Blackboard. Saint Ambrose: A Letter to Emperor Theodosius. Available at: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/ambrose-let51.asp Letter of Wang Yi (imprisoned Chinese pastor) on civil disobedience: https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/stories/read-chinese-pastors-powerful-letter-released-after-his-arrest/ Discussion: Answer the discussion question above, and keep these questions in mind as you read: -Ambrose, Martin Luther King and Wang Yi are each Christian clergy responding to unjust acts from rulers. What are some similarities and differences between their responses to injustice? -The Declaration of the United Colonies was issued by agents of colonial legislatures–what the Protestant reformers called “lesser magistrates”. How is their response different than the clergymen? Why? Is this response to injustice by lesser magistrates justifiable? Why or why not

Explain why it was easier to end the slave trade than to end slavery itself.

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WRITING ASSIGNMENT # 3B: Defending Slavery Before the emergence of cotton as a primary crop in the south, the invention of the cotton gin, and territorial expansion southward and westward, slavery appeared to be on the decline. These factors, coupled with a rising demand for cotton by the British textile industry, revived the South’s agricultural economy. Although cotton could be grown with or without slavery, the expansion of cotton cultivation and slavery occurred together. When slavery was challenged on moral grounds, southerners chose to defend their “peculiar institution,” as in the words of John C. Calhoun “a positive good.” INSTRUCTIONS: This writing assignment will require you to analyze and discuss primary and secondary sources that relate to the institution of slavery in the United States. • Review the relevant content Chapter 13 of the textbook. • Read this excerpt from a statement made in 1837 by John Calhoun in which he outlines his views on slavery. Note his comparison of a lot of slaves with that of European (and northern) workers. http://highered.mheducation.com/olc/dl/40804/chap13elem1.htm • Read the linked essay: AMERICA IN THE WORLD: The Abolition of Slavery, http://highered.mheducation.com/novella/BbUpdateableLinkReader.jsp?contentid=1676441&isbn=0073513237&passcode=dklfjsdlkf2394ldkjf92384dslk • Read the linked article on BBC-British Anti-slavery http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/antislavery_01.shtml PREPARE AND SUBMIT: Write a well-organized essay, a minimum of 700 words (but not limited to), including supporting details from the documents/textbook/other sources, in which you analyze and discuss the material that has been assigned by addressing the following question: Most southerners defended slavery, even though they were not part of the “Plantation Aristocracy.” According to the readings that you have completed, discuss why they supported slavery, and your response to the claims made by its supporters, and explain why it was easier to end the slave trade than to end slavery itself. ________________________________________ Reminders • Paragraphs in an essay are not numbered. Any questions that are associated with an assigned reading are there to serve as a guide for your discussion. • Your discussion should incorporate all of the information from the documents and or textbook, and outside sources as one essay. • Students are required to research and incorporate into their discussions additional sources that relate to the content. Recommendations can be found in at the end of the textbook chapter in Additional Reading. • All statements must be supported and all sources must be identified and cited, and included in your reference list. This also applies to the textbook. Failure to do so constitutes Plagiarism, and the college has strict policies and penalties for failure to comply. Under the Resources, you will find links to sites that review how to format a paper or essay. I recommend that students use APA or Chicago Style to format their essay. Students should ask their instructor which format style they prefer you to use. • Proofread your work. Make sure that you have looked for all of the spelling and grammatical errors and corrected them, and that you have organized your work into coherent paragraphs. • Prepare the assignment as a Word Document, double-spaced and using a standard font of 12 points. • Submit via the Dropbox as an ATTACHMENT. Any work that is submitted directly into the box will be graded as a 0. Point Value: 100 Grading Criteria: • Analysis and discussion (60%) • Support for discussion (30%) • Organization (10%) Reminder: All written work must comply with standard English rules, such as proper capitalization, grammar, and spelling. The assignment must be submitted by the deadline listed in the calendar

Provide a case conceptualization and a treatment plan from two different theoretical approaches (do not choose integrative approach)

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Berman, P. S. (2015). Case conceptualization and treatment planning: Integrating theory with clinical practice (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc.

Choose two different theoretical approaches, and provide a case conceptualization and a treatment plan from two different theoretical approaches (do not choose integrative approach), separately for the case at the end of this document. There are chapters in the book with examples from different theoretical approaches.

The content of the conceptualization of the same case will differ according to the various theories depending on the aspect of human experience that each theory emphasizes.

The case conceptualization should include an explanation of the client’s presenting problems and diagnosis in the context of the theoretical framework.

A case conceptualization and treatment plan for a client you evaluate is usually quite comprehensive.  For this exercise, since you are limited by the information I provided, I want you focus on certain components. What I want to be able to assess is your knowledge of the two theoretical frameworks you choose, your ability to analyze the case from those perspectives and your ability to develop a treatment plan based on your case conceptualization based on the theoretical models you choose.

Components of a case formulation for this assignment:

Identifying information

Presenting problem

Hypotheses/premise- Brief statement of your understanding of the problem from the theoretical perspective you chose. How is the problem explained from the theory’s perspective? This statement can include the diagnosis of the client.

Background- This is a detailed case analysis that supports the previous statement. It explains the history and background of the client as well as current situation. It includes the client’s strengths and weaknesses from the perspective of the theoretical framework.

  • How do you explain or understand the client’s symptoms, personality characteristics, cognitions, feelings, and behaviors based on the particular theory? How does the theory explain how the problem developed and is maintained? How is it that this person came to have these particular problems? Where are these problems stemming from?
  • Depending on the theory you chose, you may also include: What are this person’s strengths?

Treatment plan

Based on the theoretical framework you chose, develop a treatment plan describing the goals of treatment and long and short term goals. From the theoretical perspectives you chose, state:

  • The goals for treatment (be specific/express in operational terms).
  • The interventions you would recommend based on the theory (be specific in terms of what you would do, what types of questions would you ask the client, what techniques you would use to address the problems identified). The treatment recommendations should follow the theory’s beliefs about what makes people change. Explain why you would recommend these particular interventions. You can give some examples of what you think the dialogue between you and this client would look like.
  • Your expectations of the client’s responses to the treatment would be.

The paper should probably be 8 to 12 pages long (longer, if you are including a lot of examples of dialogue between therapist and client).

Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions about the assignment.