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How should experts in your choice of career distinguish themselves from pseudo-experts who flaunt themselves as authorities or specialists? 

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Writing with a specific career discipline focus.

Considering how to recognize subject-matter experts in your future field or career.

Recognize various ways in which the American public has struggled for direct answers from among medical, scientific, and political experts who contradict one another during the coronavirus pandemic.

Revisiting skills for writing, analysis, evaluation, and, especially, argumentation.

Quoting and documenting

Read Chapter 9: “Arguments of Definition,” 185-204; Chapter 10: “Evaluations,” pp. 210-230 from Everything’s an Argument. Read “The Rhetorical Situation” in Who Says, pp.7-9. Read “W-7: Arguments” in The Little Seagull, pp 43-48.

Now, consider this question: How should experts in your choice of career distinguish themselves from pseudo-experts who flaunt themselves as authorities or specialists?

Now, find two professionally written articles that support your ideas about the skills and characteristics of authoritative experts in your major area of academic focus.

Examine the sample essay format in your Little Seagull, pp. 161-167

A typical single lens camera has a converging lens with a focal length of 50.0mm.  What is the position and size of the image of a 25cm candle located 1.0m from the lens?

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An object 8.0cm high is placed 80.cm in front of a converging lens of focal point 25cm.  Determine the image position and height.

A lamp 10.cm high is placed 60.cm in front of a diverging lens of focal length 20.cm.  Calculate the image position and height.

A typical single lens camera has a converging lens with a focal length of 50.0mm.  What is the position and size of the image of a 25cm candle located 1.0m from the lens?

A converging lens with a focal length of 20.cm is used to create an image of the sun on a paper screen.  How far from the lens must the paper be placed to produce a clear image?

The focal length of a slide projector’s converging lens is 10.0cm.

    1. If a slide is positioned 10.2cm from the lens, how far away must the screen be placed to create a clear image?
    2. If the height of a dog on the slide film is 12.5mm, how tall will the dog’s image be on the screen?
    3. If the screen is then removed to a point 15m from the lens, by how much will the separation between the film and the lens have to change from part a?

What coping strategies are most effective in reducing postpartum stress, focus on specific coping strategies for stress and test the effectiveness of these strategies for mothers who have recently given birth.

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What coping strategies are most effective in reducing postpartum stress?

For this topic, focus on specific coping strategies for stress and test the effectiveness of these strategies for mothers who have recently given birth. Be sure to review the literature to find appropriate measures for stress. Note: A successful paper in this area would not be too complicated and would consider realistic coping strategies that can be compared for effectiveness. It may be helpful to include a control group, but a control group that does something benign rather simply a “no condition” control would likely be stronger comparison.

For the above topic, please answer the following.

1. What can you add to this topic area and how might you go about conducting a quantitative study in this area?
2. What ethical considerations would you want to consider?

Who should we involve when developing the strategic action plan?  Discuss the elements necessary in a strategic action plan executive summary.

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You are answering a total of 2 questions. Each of your answer should be a minimum of 130 – 150 words each. This means at least 1 page for all 2 questions. Make sure to answer each question individually.
Begin Question Prompts;
Who should we involve when developing the strategic action plan?
Discuss the elements necessary in a strategic action plan executive summary.
-Make sure you answer each of the above questions BASED on the readings from the attached reference list, titled, “list of references.” AGAIN, please make sure your answers are coming from the readings, which is listed in the attached “list of references.”
-You must write in APA format.
-Make sure to properly cite your references, both in-text and on the reference page.
-You must use at least 1 reference from the attached reference list for EACH question.
-Make sure you answer each question separately.
-Make sure your are answering each of the questions correctly and completely.

Choose a topic related to U.S. History after 1877 (Chapters 16-28) that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on.Refine your topic. Summarize your topic, your interest in the topic, the questions you want to answer, and a hypothesis you want to test.

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Choose a topic related to U.S. History after 1877 (Chapters 16-28) that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on. Your chosen topic should be focused. Pose a question that you really want to answer. You may want to begin with more than one topic in mind.
Do some preliminary reading on the topic(s). You may begin with the textbook, then further explore the information available. Refine your topic. Summarize your topic, your interest in the topic, the questions you want to answer, and a hypothesis you want to test.
Gather information from a variety of sources. Use a minimum of four sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source.
Examples of primary sources are ones that are used in our discussion forums 2-8.
They are sources that are contemporary to the times under investigation.
An example of a secondary source is our textbook, though the textbook also contains excerpts of primary sources, which you may use as a source in your paper.
Outline the results of your research and the plan for your paper (you are not required to submit the outline).
Write the final draft and be sure to include a Works Cited List, and use the correct MLA documentation style.
Grade Rubric

State the EHR mandate. Who started it? When? What are the goals of the mandate? Describe your facility’s plan. If you have already implemented a system, what steps were taken? Make sure you use the HealthIT.gov website.

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Address EHR implementation strategies for health organizations and describe how EHRs improve patient safety. Consider your own facility’s implementation of its electronic health record, if you have one. If not,contact a large health system in your area and talk to their IT department, or select one of your clinical sites and contact that IT department. Answer the following questions:

  • State the EHR mandate. Who started it? When?
  • What are the goals of the mandate?
  • Describe your facility’s plan. If you have already implemented a system, what steps were taken? Make sure you use the HealthIT.gov website
  • Describe “meaningful use”.

Cambodia does not have a return policy that is relevant to online shopping and have not found use of regret rights. List the current state and issue that the country is facing and lacking.

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Cambodia does not have a return policy that is relevant to online shopping and have not found use of regret rights. List the current state and issue that the country is facing and lacking. Refer to the obsolete contract law that would control product returns.

Chapter II: Consumer protection and Return policy system status of e-commerce in Cambodia.

The current usage of consumer return protection system in Cambodia.

  1. The requirement of return policy system
  2. The sales method application to the return policy system
  3. Legal consequences of return of goods consumer protection system
  4. The issue analysis of consumer returns protection system in Cambodia
  5. The issue of setting up return system of returns without reasons
  6. Uncertain standard of unsuitable return goods
  7. Seller’s unclear obligation
  • Unclear liability and certification of integration of goods.
  1. The usage environmental problem of returning goods system
  2. Legal environment
  3. Social environment

Why are men afraid of getting outside of The Man Box? When Porter says, “my liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman,” what do you think he means by that?

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In class on Friday, we watched a TED Talk by Tony Porter, where he focused on what he calls “The Man Box.” According to Porter, what is The Man Box? What are its core elements? Why are men afraid of getting outside of The Man Box? When Porter says, “my liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman,” what do you think he means by that? As you write up your response, please reference and integrate lecture material and readings by West and Zimmerman attached.

Explain how the cash flow cycle works.Describe how financial management is related to accounting.How do sole proprietorships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, S corporations, and C corporations differ?

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Upon completion of the Required Readings, write a thorough, well-planned narrative answer to the following discussion question.  Rely on your Required Readings and the Lecture and Research Update for specific information to answer the discussion question, but turn to your original thoughts when asked to apply, evaluate, analyze, or synthesize the information.  Your Discussion Question response should be both grammatically and mechanically correct, and formatted in the same fashion as the question itself.  If there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc.  In addition, you must appropriately cite all resources used in your responses and document in a bibliography using APA style.

 Explain how the cash flow cycle works.

Describe how financial management is related to accounting.

How do sole proprietorships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, S corporations, and C corporations differ?

Suppose three optometrists wished to form a business that was expected to last until the oldest one was about to retire. The three had known each other since college and were close friends who trusted one another. What type of firm might be appropriate? Why?

 

Assume you are the HR Director of a medium to large corporation or the owner of a small business. Draft a memo informing your employees on the topic you chose. The purpose of this memo is to keep them up to date on an issue that might affect them or the company.

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Choose one of the topics mentioned in the article that would most likely apply to your career (or expected career).

Assume you are the HR Director of a medium to large corporation or the owner of a small business. Draft a memo informing your employees on the topic you chose. The purpose of this memo is to keep them up to date on an issue that might affect them or the company. At a minimum, your memo should include:

A description of the legal issue in a way that your audience could understand it (in other words, read, analyze, then draft your explanation in language that your employees would understand).
Include an explanation of the current state of that issue/law (this is to help them understand a comparison to what the future might hold).
A discussion on how your company will address that issue when/if the time comes.