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What will represent each period of your life and to whom will each item be important? What values or qualities will people remember about you? How do you wish to be remembered?

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This assignment is designed to give you an opportunity to work with some of the tools that we encourage our clients to use in making life choices, to help you address some of your own concerns and questions around death and dying, and help you to think about how you can make more meaningful choices about your life each day.  To receive a superior grade on this project, you must meet the following criteria: Complete the form(s) for your state of residence:

Georgia or Tennessee Advance Directive for Health Care. This form will be provided for you. Create your written program of your service and attach to your paper. Write your obituary and attach to your paper. You can choose your age for your obituary and create your “future life”. Procure a complete funeral cost sheet (many students visit a local funeral home for this information) Write your paper including:

A discussion of one macro concept of aging in America. Include 3 scholarly references to support your discussion. A description of your funeral including description of the service you’d like to have including type of burial or cremation, “visitation” prior to the funeral service open or closed casket, type of casket, vault, any special services, and burial location. Include your reaction to the costs involved. Memorial Table – Items that represent your life Now assume your funeral or memorial service was beautiful and went as you planned it. Now all of your friends and family members have gathered in your home. They have created a memorial table, filling it with mementos of your life. These will be personal items which had special meaning to you, but also bring the memory of you into clear focus. These items may cover your entire life.

What will represent each period of your life and to whom will each item be important? What values or qualities will people remember about you? How do you wish to be remembered?

Reflection – Personal and Professional Include within your paper a 2-3 page reflective section identify and discussing any personal and cultural attitudes, beliefs or values about dying, death, and bereavement that emerged for you and your loved ones. Include answers to the following questions:

What is your culture? How does your culture view dying/death? What was this experience like for you? Did your family or significant other have reactions to your completion of this project? Did these issues or concerns facilitate or restrict your completion of this assignment? How will you be able to use this assignment as part of your social work practice? Present “Your Funeral” in the forum. You can share (or not share) any part or parts that you choose, but you must share something.

Write a fictitious letter to your dear friend “Mary” who has just found out she is expecting a baby. Be sure to include information that you consider to be crucial for Mary to know.

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Write a fictitious letter to your dear friend “Mary” who has just found out she is expecting a baby. Be sure to include information that you consider to be crucial for Mary to know. Examples of information to include are stages of prenatal development, teratogens to stay away from, the importance of nutrition, stages of labor, birthing options, prenatal yoga and prenatal massage, Lamaze/birthing classes, and prenatal testing. You will present this information in a letter to Mary — how you format is up to you. This assignment provides you the opportunity to evaluate the information presented on prenatal development and select the information that you believe is essential for an expecting mother to know.

Instructions:

Type a 2- to 3-page letter to Mary. It is up to you how you would like to write the letter and what information you would like to include in the letter. Feel free to personalize it however you would like, including personal sentiments or pictures if you wish. In the letter, you must include at least 3 of the concepts that are covered in our text (be specific which textbook concepts you used and include the page/section numbers).  This extra credit assignment is worth up to 20 points and must be submitted before the deadline.  Late assignments will not be accepted.

Briefly summarize and discuss at least five important studies in the field of your research. How is your research related to the previous studies? State your predictions about the signs of estimated coefficients and explain why.

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Write a detailed plan to conduct an empirical analysis in the area of banking or finance. The term paper should include the following sections: 1.Introduction 2.Literature review 3.Hypothesis development 4.Methodology 5.Data 6.Conclusion In each section, the following issues should be discussed:
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Introduction: What is the research topic (be specific, and innovative if possible)? Examples: CEO compensation and dividend policy, evidence from the US. Effect of corporate tax cuts on bank lending.  Example: the importance of the topic, literature gap, your interest and etc. The impact of this topic. Example: potential contribution and implications.

Literature: Briefly summarize and discuss at least five important studies in the field of your research. How is your research related to the previous studies?

Hypotheses: Based on theory and/or existing literature, develop at least two hypotheses. State your predictions about the signs of estimated coefficients and explain why.

Methodology: Describe the research method(s). Example: OLS regression, event study, IV regression, etc. Write down the regression models for testing each hypothesis. What are the advantages or disadvantages of this method? Are there alternatives? If there are potential problems with this method (as suggested in previously studies or according to your knowledge), how do you plan to solve them?

Data: Based on the regression models specified in the previous section, which variables do you need to collect from where? Example: debt ratio can be collected from Data stream. Specify the details of the sample you intend to collect for the research. Example: From 1995 to 2012, 150 companies except for financial institutions in the US. Compare your sample to the samples used in existing literature. How long will it take to collect and clean the data? What are the challenges in data collection and cleaning? Are there any data samples that could be unique (e.g., data from UK colonies in the 18th century, data from US banks around the civil war, data from the early Prussian imperial era)?

Conclusion: Potential contribution of this research. Possible difficulties/limitations in this research. Are there further studies you wish to conduct in the future?

You are a juvenile probation officer attempting to decide what to do about a court referral before you in order to make recommendations to a judge. Should a case be dismissed? Should a case be diverted to another program? Should a case be adjudicated?

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You are a juvenile probation officer attempting to decide what to do about a court referral before you in order to make recommendations to a judge. You have a number of options: (1) Should a case be dismissed? (2) Should a case be diverted to another program? (3) Should a case be adjudicated? If so, should a case be adjudicated within the juvenile justice system or should the case be waived to adult court?
• Choose ONE case (Case A or Case B)

• Apply what you learned in the chapter and respond in detail as to what you would do in the scenario, and most importantly, WHY.

• Additionally, be sure to identify and define two concepts within Chapter 13 that relate to the type of decision you are being asked to make.
More specifics: • Include your name and Case Study 5 in the upper left-hand corner of your assignment

• Your paper should be roughly 2 pages double-spaced, 1-inch margins and appropriate font size

• Upload your paper in Word format

Case A Brian is a 13-year-old male who has come to the attention of a court for an offense of vandalism. He and a friend “tagged” a school building with graffiti and broke several windows in the school gymnasium. The school principal estimated the total damage and cleanup costs to be approximately $1,300. Brian resides with both natural parents and two younger siblings. The family income is $65,000 annually. Brian admits to the offense but refuses to identify his co- offender. The family has agreed to pay complete restitution. Brian has no prior juvenile record, although he has been disciplined several times in school in the past year for minor violations of school rules. His grades, which were formerly A’s and B’s, have fallen off to C’s and D’s.

Case B Quint is a 17-year-old male who has been referred to a court for aggravated robbery. He is accused of robbing a convenience store and assaulting the clerk. He is a high school dropout with a lengthy history of arrests including robbery, burglary, car theft, and larceny. Quint was adjudicated delinquent for burglary 10 months before the current offense and placed on probation. His probation officer reports that he has been uncooperative and hostile toward supervision. He lives off and on with his mother and three younger siblings. His mother reports that she has little control over his behavior and that he spends many nights away from home. She suspects that he is using drugs.

Compare the arguments and language used in the additional excerpts to your chosen text, drawing upon concepts and theories of discourse analysis outlined in the course.

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Complete a research project that involves collecting and analyzing samples of political or gendered language use. Consider how discourse influences and is influenced by contemporary institutions or ideologies, and how it shapes ideologies of power, control, injustice, inequality, social change, and emancipation. In addition, create a discourse of your own that responds to the topic discussed in your chosen samples. (Note, there are two parts to this assignment.) To begin, choose a public speech, news story, or opinion article on a trending topic of interest to you. It is recommended that you spend some time reviewing the discourse sample you have chosen. Consider the theories of discourse analysis studied so far in this course and how they might be applied to the discourse to better understand the author’s intention, the work’s meaning, and possible interpretations by readers.
Analyze your chosen discourse using four concepts or theories of discourse analysis outlined in your course textbook and other required resources (i.e. use of lexical grammar, Grice’s maxims, intertextuality, etc.).

Assess how language is used persuasively, offensively, effectively, or ineffectively to convey a particular social message or agenda. Locate two other discourse samples about the same topic. These can be excerpts in the same genre, or you may draw from other genres (such as blogs, social media posts, Tweets, video clips, multi-media excerpts, etc.).

Compare the arguments and language used in the additional excerpts to your chosen text, drawing upon concepts and theories of discourse analysis outlined in the course. Assess how the three discourse samples shape and are shaped by ideologies of power, control, injustice, inequality, social change, and emancipation. Remember to incorporate three credible sources (in addition to the course textbook and the three discourse samples) into your discussion.

Identify Domestic and Global Environments (countries) that are in opposing cultural clusters (as identified in International business: theory and practice) identify which cluster(s) your two countries fit. Identify the socio-cultural parts of each country as related to business for your company.

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Continue working with your chosen worst company (Walmart) and its industry and complete the following:

1-Identify Domestic and Global Environments (countries) that are in opposing cultural clusters (as identified in International business: theory and practice) identify which cluster(s) your two countries fit.

2-Identify the socio-cultural parts of each country as related to business for your company. You will need to examine these with the aid of Geert Hofstede.

3-Identify and discuss the various socio-cultural aspects of each country. Do they differ? How? What are the similarities?

4-How would these factors affect your company’s business in your Domestic and Global Environments?

 

 

Estimate Target’s return on equity (ROE) for each of these two years, using the DuPont decomposition to indicate the profit margin, the asset turnover, and the firm’s financial leverage. Why has the ROE changed? How would you compare the ROE drivers for Walmart and Target?

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Target Corporation describes itself as “an upscale discounter that provides high-quality, on-trend merchandise at attractive prices in clean, spacious and guest-friendly stores.” Target has over 350,000 employees and operates over 1,700 stores in the United States. The firm recently opened stores in Canada, and—like Walmart (see chapter 14 in your text)—it has an online business component. Target also offers branded proprietary credit and debit cards.

For the fiscal year ending January 31, 2012, Target’s EBIT was $5,322,* and its tax rate was 34.3 percent. Its short-term borrowings were $3,786, and its long-term debt was $13,697. In addition, the firm’s book value of equity was $15,821.

 

  1. Estimate Target’s return on invested capital or ROIC.
  2. Compare it with Walmart’s. Are you surprised at the difference?

 

* All amounts related to Target are in millions of dollars, unless otherwise noted.

For the fiscal year ending January 31, 2012 (2011), Target had total revenues of (in millions) $69,865 ($67,390) and net earnings of $2,929 ($2,920). Its total assets were $46,630 ($43,705) and its equity was $15,821 ($15,487).

 

  1. Estimate Target’s return on equity (ROE) for each of these two years, using the DuPont decomposition to indicate the profit margin, the asset turnover, and the firm’s financial leverage.
  2. Why has the ROE changed?
  3. How would you compare the ROE drivers for Walmart and Target?

According to its annual report, as of January 31, 2012, Target’s borrowing costs averaged 4.6 percent, and its tax rate was 34.27 percent. A research report estimated Target’s cost of capital at 10.5 percent. The firm had interest-bearing debt of $17,483. Moreover, Target’s stock was trading at $50.81 per share, and there were 679.1 million shares outstanding. Now, let’s assume Target’s amount of debt is also a market value estimate of the debt. Let’s also assume the current debt and equity values are at Target’s optimal capital structure.

  1. Based on market value estimates, what is Target’s cost of capital?
  2. How does it compare to Walmart’s, and what explains the difference?

Write a 3-4 page scholarly paper that includes: how their personal philosophical statement is compatible with their one chosen theory; how they envision using their selected theory/philosophical statement in their individual nursing practice to improve patient outcomes, via a patient case study.

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Students will develop a personal philosophical statement, create a mind map, and select a nursing theorist/theory that is compatible with their individual nursing practice. Students will write a 3-4 page scholarly paper that includes a)) how their personal philosophical statement is compatible with their one chosen theory; b) how they envision using their selected theory/philosophical statement in their individual nursing practice to improve patient outcomes, via a patient case study. The self-created theory mind map will be attached to this assignment, along with APA style references and a title page (these three elements are not counted toward the paper page limit).
NOTE: We strongly discourage students from using Nightingale as well as Henderson’s theories for this assignment. For this to be meaningful and useful in your clinical settings, we want you to use a contemporary nursing theory. Your textbook has many to choose from!
A. Personal philosophical Statement :
The use of a nursing philosophy is the basis for nursing practice and promotes the proper application of nursing knowledge as well as the development of nursing theory and knowledge.
• Develop a personal nursing specific philosophical statement incorporating your personal thoughts, and beliefs about nursing to improve patient outcomes.
• Information regarding your personal philosophical statement will be included in your mind map, and discussed in the scholarly paper. (See below for more details).
B. Theory Mind Map:
1. Incorporate your personal philosophical statement in your mind map.
2. Illustrate the compatibility of your one selected theorist/theory with your personal philosophical statement of how you practice nursing in your mind map. (In other words…provide a conceptual image/drawing of how you envision your personal philosophical statement is compatible with your selected theorist/theory through use of the nursing metaparadigm as you think about improving patient outcomes.
Mind Map Specifics:
• Complete an individual mind map/drawing to illustrate/demonstrate synthesis of course concepts by relating one nursing theory to your experiences as a nurse and application to practice.
• The mind map shows the relationship of the concepts of person, environment, health and nursing by a theorist of your choice as you see the theory helping to improve patient outcomes and as it relates to your personal philosophical statement. NOTE: each theorist has their own unique terms/concepts within each metaparadigm domain concept. We are looking for these terms. No examples of mind maps are given so you can be creative.
• The mind map can be stick figures, pictures, drawings, diagrams, etc. Review the document “How To Create a Mind Map in Word. How To Create Mind Map in Word
Mind map will include:
a. Personal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about the four domain concepts of the nursing metaparadigm:
Person/client
Environment Health Nursing
b. Your personal philosophical statement clearly stated
c. Connection or relationship to one selected nursing theory with your theorist’s key terminology evident in the mind map–theory terms within each metaparadigm domain concept.
C. What is expected in the scholarly paper along with the mind map:
1. Clearly identify and state your personal philosophical statement in the scholarly paper and briefly discuss. Minimum 1/2 page.
2. Discuss the compatibility of your personal philosophical statement with a chosen existing nursing theory in the scholarly paper. Discuss how these two are similar and different. Include details of the nursing theory, including at least 3 core concepts ( not the metaparadigm domain concepts, but rather their actual unique words/phrases/terminology), compared to your philosophical statement. Only select one theory. Minimum 2 pages.
3. Discuss the chosen theory’s application to your current practice in the scholarly paper by providing a specific clinical (case) example of how you would apply this theory combined with your personal philosophical statement to improve patient outcomes. This is a distinct and separate section of the paper. Be sure to use a clear case example and both theory terms as well as the major part of your philosophical statement.

Assign your numbers for mean μ and standard deviation σ. Then select a number “A” below mean μ, and a number “B” above mean μ. Use Appendix Table for the Normal Distribution to find probability that x is between A and B: P (A < x < B).

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As a part of preparation for this week test, let’s practice with another case related to the Normal distribution.
Assign your numbers for mean μ and standard deviation σ.
Then select a number “A” below mean μ, and a number “B” above mean μ.
Use Appendix Table for the Normal Distribution to find probability
that x is between A and B: P (A < x < B).

Here are steps to follow: convert A to z score (let’s call it za),
convert B to z score (let’s call it zb).;
From Appendix table find area under curve to the left of za and to the left of zb.
That will give you P (z < za) and P (z < zb).
If za or zb are not in the table, change your A or B.
Use formula: P (A < x < B) = P (za < z < zb) = P (z < zb) – P (z < za)

Do not just assign numbers, make an example from real situation
where this technique can be applied. For instance see Chapter 6 section 6.3 example 6.11 on page 270 of eText: Intelligence Quotients example. Create your own scenario and values.

Is policing better off today than it was in the 20th Century? Is the de-escalation tactic over-used and or under used?

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Present day, it is evident that policing is going to be reformed in reference to the use of physical force, I believe that extreme constrictions will be mandated, and policing will be revolutionized once again. I will focus on the 21st Century Policing Initiative that has been in the execution stages for the past few years. The community policing elements of this policing initiative have been validated and effective but the elements redressing the use of force have not been as smoothly accepted and transitioned.

The current unrest and national climate that has been exasperated due to the unfortunate incident in which the life of George Floyd was ended by a uniformed commissioned police officer. The repercussions of the pressures from activist and politics that will inevitably have a national impact and revolutionize police operations and tactics.  I am and personally will be experiencing and responsible for leading officers through the rule changes and weathering the contempt for police behaviors by the people police are to serve and protect.

  • Is policing better off today than it was in the 20th Century?
  • Is the de-escalation tactic over-used and or under used?
  • Are the police safer?
  • Is the community safer?
  • Due to the current unrest our nation is experiencing and the shift in our political climate, is now the right time to review the use of force aspects?
  • What are the accepted “rules of engagement?
  • Are officers being hesitant in using force, placing themselves and the public at risk?
  • Will law makers need to enact legislation to redefine the vindication for use of force?