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How would “Overhead charges” (review the Budgeting chapter if you do not remember learning about this term) impact the two estimates that you have calculated?

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You are going to be the project manager for the construction of a large warehouse for a major international company. Of course, there are many elements involved in constructing such a large facility, but this assignment will consider only one, the laying of the facility’s foundation (which is obviously preceded by site preparation and followed by the actual construction of the building).

In preparation for completing of this element of the project—laying the facility foundation—complete the following:

Locate a source of data for the hourly wages that will need to be paid to those who will pour and finish the concrete foundation (the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States government is a good source for such information). Be sure to document the source of your hourly wage data for such concrete workers.
Locate a source of data for the cost of a cubic yard of reinforced concrete. Be sure to document the source of your reinforced concrete cost data.
Assuming that eight workers will be needed for the completion of the project, that they will work five days per week for 10 hours per day, and that it will take them three full weeks to complete the pouring of the foundation, what is your estimate (based on the hourly wage data that you located) of the labor expense of pouring the foundation?
Assuming that the foundation will require 400 cubic yards of concrete, what is your estimate (based on the hourly wage data that you located) of the cost of the materials needed for pouring the foundation?
How would “Overhead charges” (review the Budgeting chapter if you do not remember learning about this term) impact the two estimates that you have calculated?
How would an increase in the cost of steel (one of the components of reinforced concrete) impact the budget that you had developed?
If the construction site was impacted by a hurricane during the preparation of the foundation (meaning that work had to be temporarily stopped), how would the overall schedule of the construction project be.

How is the uncertainty in project scheduling dealt with? Why is activity-on-arrow (AOA) or activity-on-node (AON) of significant value to the project manager?

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The critical path.
How long it will take to complete the project?
How does simulation determine the probabilities of various project completion times?
What is “slack” and why is it important?
Why is activity-on-arrow (AOA) or activity-on-node (AON) of significant value to the project manager?
How is the uncertainty in project scheduling dealt with?
Should the critical path activities be managed differently from noncritical path activities? Explain.

Using what you know about your chosen area, devise a POP strategy to address the problem. Explain how your strategy can help in overall COP efforts in the area.

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Assignment
Police officials who have decided to adopt the community-policing philosophy need to first understand both community-oriented policing (COP) and problem-oriented policing (POP) programs. Once a particular program has been accepted by all organizational members, there is the need to properly plan for a COP or POP program. The planning process requires various steps or phases, including the following:
Time for consideration of how to prepare the project or program
When to initiate the program or project (the actual full implementation)
A preliminary evaluation of the program or project’s milestones
What follow-up and assessments of the program or project should be conducted
Other planning considerations could include any unforeseen obstacles and problems that could stall the implementation of the program or project.
Assignment Guidelines
In 4–6 paragraphs, address the following:
In your own words, define problem-oriented policing (POP). Compare and contrast it to community-oriented policing (COP), making sure to list both the things they have in common and the unique qualities of each.
Review crime statistics from a location of your choice (such as an area near where you live) using a source of your choosing or by going to this Web site to find real-life problems in an area of your choice: Crime Reports.
Pick a problem in your chosen area. The problem can be very simple and small or wide-reaching and large. Examples of a problem may be vehicle break-ins, vandalism, or theft.
Using what you know about your chosen area, devise a POP strategy to address the problem. Explain how your strategy can help in overall COP efforts in the area. If there is a way to involve information technology in your strategy, be sure to explain.

Educate law enforcement about the dynamics of abuse and neglect cases-What laws protect victims, including the use of protection orders.

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Assignment Details
The prosecutor is getting feedback from local law enforcement officers explaining that they are discouraged from making arrests in cases of domestic violence and child abuse. They claim that they have been neither making arrests in domestic violence situations nor arresting both parties when they go out on a call. It seems that abused women often go back to the abusers, and children who get removed from the homes where they have been abused often return after removal. These occurrences have been especially demoralizing to law enforcement.
One of your jobs in working as a Victims’ Witness Assistant is to help educate law enforcement on the nature and behaviors involved in domestic violence and child abuse. The prosecutor’s office has decided that you should present each of the following topics for the next training session:
Topic 1 Domestic Violence: Your goal is to educate law enforcement to use best practices in the investigation of domestic abuse cases. Include the following topics in your PowerPoint presentation of 5 slides with notes:
How to approach a domestic violence situation when responding to an emergency call
When the parties should be separated
How to interview parties
What information needs to be in the report and why.
How to best help a victim
What laws protect victims, including the use of protection orders
Why victims return to abusers
Length of time it may take to stay away from their abusers
Arrests
The legal standard that is needed to make an arrest in a domestic violence case
What evidence should be collected at the arrest
Whether dual arrests are effective law enforcement
How to assist domestic violence victims
Reluctant victims
Help for victims
Topic 2 Child Abuse: Your goal will be to educate law enforcement about the dynamics of abuse and neglect cases. Include the following topics:
Signs of child abuse and categories (e.g., physical, sexual, and emotional)
Difference between the terms abuse and neglect
Legal description of neglect
Use of guardian ad litem
The legal standards that must be met in a child’s removal from the home
Termination of parental rights
Requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
Role of court-appointed special advocates (CASA) in child abuse and neglect cases
Role of Social Services in abuse and neglect cases

How can Artificial Intelligence technology be used to improve customer experience for tourism in South African game and nature parks?

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Approved Research Question – From Lecturer and Notes

How can Artificial Intelligence technology be used to improve customer experience for tourism in South African game and nature parks?

Then you could do for sub-questions
What are challenges for customers of South African game and nature parks? (This could be done with a survey or something?)
How is AI used to improve customer experience in general? (This is actually a background question … perhaps do a SLR?)

And then you could perhaps build a model or framework or something as the answer to the main question.

Finally you should adjudicate. Is the original argument or objection ultimately successful and the best response available a failure? Is the argument or objection sunk? Or can the argument or objection be successfully defended against the best available critique?

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4-6 pages maximum length, double spaced, 11 point font
COMPOSITION: Each question asks you to set out an argument (or an objection — but objections are of course themselves just a certain kind of negatively-intended argument).
Your reconstruction should clearly identify and distinguish the argument’s or objection’s various assumptions, it should clearly explain the inferences made in that argument or objection, and it should also clearly set out the intended conclusion of that argument or objection.
Each question also asks you to present a ‘reasoned evaluation.’ A ‘reasoned evaluation’ will involve raising one or two of the best objections you can to the argument under consideration, or alternatively, one or two of the best replies to the objection under consideration. (The objections or replies might be original to you, drawn from your reading of the secondary literature [with appropriate credit given], or they might come from class discussion etc.)
Finally you should adjudicate. Is the original argument or objection ultimately successful and the best response available a failure? Is the argument or objection sunk? Or can the argument or objection be successfully defended against the best available critique? Grading is based on accuracy, completeness, and philosophical acuity of the essay considered as a response to the question posed. Clear, precise writing is also essential.

(It is important to answer every part of the question; each successive part should be thought of as leading the essay writer step-by-step through the writing of a satisfactory short essay.)

2. In Berkeley’s Three Dialogues, the character Philonous (the spokesperson for Berkeley’s own immaterialist philosophy) argues that the heat that we immediately perceive by sense is “nothing distinct from” one or another kind of pain or pleasure, and therefore “can exist only in a thinking substance” (p.54-56 in our anthology Late Modern Philosophy).
He holds same is true of sensible cold (p.56), and then will extend the same sort of argument to tastes (p.57) and eventually to various of the other ‘secondary qualities’ as well (though these latter sections are not included in our anthology)

(i) Clearly and precisely reconstruct Philonous’s argument for the thesis that the heat and cold we immediately perceive are simply certain kinds of pleasure or pain, and hence can exist only in minds. What exactly does this thesis amount to, and how exactly does Philonous argue for it?

(ii) Explain how one might attempt (as Philonous does) to extend this kind of argument to show that certain other ‘secondary qualities’ (such as tastes and odors) can exist only in the mind.

(iii) Present a reasoned evaluation of Philonous’s argument regarding heat and cold. In the course of your reasoned evaluation, be sure to consider one or two objections to the argument and weigh their merits. In your view, does this argument ultimately succeed? Why or why not?

Why are Weber and Adorno/Horkheimer disenchanted and pessimistic about modernity: the changes brought about in the 20th century by capitalism, science and technology? How does the analysis by Weber differ from the analysis by Adorno/Horkheimer?

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Discuss the following questions:

Question 1:

Why are Weber and Adorno/Horkheimer disenchanted and pessimistic about modernity: the changes brought about in the 20th century by capitalism, science and technology? How does the analysis by Weber differ from the analysis by Adorno/Horkheimer? Would Benjamin agree or disagree with the depiction of the modern world analyzed by Weber and Adorno/Horkheimer?

Would Thorstein Veblen agree or disagree with the depiction of the modern world analyzed by Weber and Adorno/Horkheimer?

Question 2:

The self/identify/personality of individuals is linked to their society. How do Simmel, Du Bois, and the authors of Habits of the Heart (Chapters 7 and 8) analyze this process? Would Freud agree or disagree with the analysis made by Simmel, Du Bois, and the authors of Habits of the Heart?

What parts of the lawmaking process does a nurse have an opportunity to influence the final bill passage? List at least two ways that this influence can take place. In your opinion, would one way be preferable over the other?

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Nurse’s Role in Influencing the Legislative Process
In a Microsoft Word document of 2-3 pages formatted in APA style, you will answer three questions related to your opportunity as a nurse and an advocate. The first two questions relate to influencing a bill that is traveling through the legislative process. The third question refers you to the social determinants of health and asks you to think specifically on your role as a nurse in influencing social determinants of health.
Answer the following questions:
What parts of the lawmaking process does a nurse have an opportunity to influence the final bill passage?
List at least two ways that this influence can take place. In your opinion, would one way be preferable over the other?
Reviewing the social determinants of health, select one to respond to this question:
What role can nurses play in promoting health status through policy changes directly affecting this social determinant?
Write each question as a new topic area and then follow with a paragraph or two to answer the question. You may find it necessary to search for answers to the questions outside of the assigned reading.
On a separate reference page, cite all sources using APA format

How do you participate in bringing order from chaos?

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In 250 words, reflect on this week’s course content, as it relates to your ongoing discernment of vocation. What might you be called to do in light of all this? The following (more specific) questions might help:

Creation

How do you participate in bringing order from chaos?
What are places, events, or skills in which you are creative, perhaps in ways that others are not?
What things easily spark or draw your care or compassion?
Designed for Good: Anthropology

In the Image of God:
Two metaphors we used for becoming more like the trinitarian God in whose image we are made are “tuning our hearts” or “joining the dance.”
What are some specific ways that your life (career, relationships, etc.) might be a part of the dance of God?
What are the strings of your guitar that are or could be tuned to the external reference point of God’s song?
In what way are you called to be truly and fully human?
For partnership with God:
How are you called to be a steward of the good world God created?
What are some ways you can sustain creation?
What are some ways you can perfect (improve) creation?
In what way are you called to partnership with God?
Damaged by Evil

How are you called to advance the God-directed campaign at the heart of the universe to “move things toward the center” or “to reconcile all things?”
For instance:
How will you contribute to intimacy rather than distance?
How will you contribute to a trustworthy world rather than a deceptive one?
How will you work for equality and against oppression?
How will you work toward a world of abundance rather than scarcity?
How will you work toward healthy embodiment rather than a fear of bodies?
How will you work to create safety rather than danger? Rochester college student portal login ajones4 password Diamond17 click online scroll down click on christian faith go down to week 3 and
VIDEO: God the Creator (52min)URL
PDF: Creation Stories Note-Taking File
VIDEO: Designed for Good, Humanity in God’s Image (39min)URL
VIDEO: Damaged by Evil (13min) the password for the videoREL1002. please don’t go over 250 words . go to week one and click on sample of journal . that how the paper have to be done.

 

How did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense help give revolutionaries in the Middle Colonies the courage to declare independence?

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Paper details:

QUESTION ONE: How did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense help give revolutionaries in the Middle Colonies the courage to declare independence? Focus specifically on the opinions Paine expressed in support of republicanism, equality, and popular sovereignty in his writing, transcribed below. Describe the impact that Common Sense made on the revolutionaries as they prepared to declare independence. You must refer specifically to the passage below in your answer. If you quote from it, use quotation marks. But it is always better to paraphrase other peoples’ ideas. (Do not do an internet search. That material will not count in your answer. Limit your answers to content from class materials and the textbook.) OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION Excerpt from Thomas Paine Common Sense MANKIND being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be [explained]… But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind. To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession…For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and though himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion…and though they might say, “We choose you for our head,” they could not…say, “that your children and your children’s children shall reign over ours forever.”… [It] is more than probable, that could we take off the dark covering of antiquity, and trace them to their first rise, that we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners…obtained him the title of chief among plunderers; Did [hereditary succession] ensure a race of good and wise men it would have the seal of divine authority, but as it opens a door to the foolish, the wicked; and the improper, it hath in it the nature of oppression… The nearer any government approaches to a republic, the less business there is for a king. It is somewhat difficult to find a proper name for the government of England. Sir William Meredith calls it a republic; but in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because the corrupt influence of the crown, by having all the places in its disposal, hath so effectually swallowed up the power, and eaten out the virtue of the house of commons (the republican part in the constitution) that the government of England is nearly as monarchical as that of France or Spain. … it is the republican and not the monarchical part of the constitution of England which Englishmen glory in, viz. the liberty of choosing a house of commons from out of their own body– and it is easy to see that when the republican virtue fails, slavery ensues…