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Discuss a particular philosophical problem and the different ways it has been attempted to be solved (e.g. the debate between empiricist and rationalists in regard to knowledge)

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Write a paper on any philosophical topic of your choice. (get your topic approved by me!) The goal of your paper is to explain a particular philosopher’s views on a particular philosophical topic (e.g. Descartes’ view on epistemology), or to discuss a particular philosophical problem and the different ways it has been attempted to be solved (e.g. the debate between empiricist and rationalists in regard to knowledge). The paper is an opportunity for you investigate and explore philosophy in an academic way. What it should NOT be is just a report on the life and ideas of a particular philosopher.

What incident led to the founding of the Home Depot? What can you learn from this in respect to overcoming obstacles or failure?

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Write a two-page paper double spaced with no more than 12-point font and 1” margins on lessons that you can learn from the text.   Be sure to include the following items in your paper:

 

  • What incident led to the founding of the Home Depot? What can you learn from this in respect to overcoming obstacles or failure?

 

  • Did the owners have a background in the home improvement industry? Do you believe you would need a similar background or previous experience in a business you would start?  Why or why not?

 

  • Blank and Marcus worked for a particularly difficult manager in their previous positions, Sandy Sigoloff. What lessons can you learn from Sandy’s management style?  Would you employ a similar management style in your future business venture?  If not, how would your handling of employees be different?

 

  • What struggles did the Home Depot go through in their first year of operations? How might this apply to your future venture?

 

  • How did the Home Depot founders revolutionize the home improvement industry? What difficulties did they encounter with the new way they were operating the business compared to their competitors?  How important is your relationship with vendors when selling a product?

 

  • Employees were very important to the founders of the Home Depot. What lessons can you learn from their employee strategy and the skill and pay level of Home Depot employees?  Would you employ a similar strategy in your future business?

Study the case of Kyllo V. United States pertaining to the use of thermal-imaging devices constituting a legal search of a home.What is the holding in Kyllo? Explain the significance of the fact that the thermal-imaging device is not in “general use.”

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Study the case of Kyllo V. United States pertaining to the use of thermal-imaging devices constituting a legal search of a home.
Once you have read the case in its entirety, answer the discussion questions below;

What is the holding in Kyllo? Explain the significance of the fact that the thermal-imaging device is not in “general use.”
Discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court rulings in White, Ciraolo, Reiley and Dow with the decision in Kyllo.
Summarize the argument of the dissent. Do you find the majority opinion or the dissenting opinion more persuasive?
Describe the steps that the police officers in Kyllo should have taken before using the thermal-imaging device.

Analyze the security features within mHealth technologies and list the biggest securities threats for this technology. What is the biggest security/privacy implication facing mHealth technologies.

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Analyze the security features within mHealth technologies and list the biggest securities threats for this technology.
Analyze the privacy features (or lack there of) within mHealth technologies and list all the potential privacy breaches for this technology.
In your own words (from reading the assigned material) what is the biggest security/privacy implication facing mHealth technologies.
Discuss some of the features and methodologies you can use to protect and secure health information when using a mHealth device.
Based on reading the assigned material do you feel the benefits of mHealth technology outweigh the security/privacy issues (explain your answer)?

How would you apply (Mind maps and SQ3R) knowledge to help your students develop their language and study skills?Briefly describe the steps for each of the techniques (Mind maps and SQ3R) analyze them

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Read the articles (1-5) QUESTION 1: Mind maps and SQ3R
-How would you apply (Mind maps and SQ3R) knowledge to help your students develop their language and study skills?
-Briefly describe the steps for each of the techniques (Mind maps and SQ3R) analyze them considering the following questions:
– Would the strategies chosen by the teacher depend on the students’ interest, age, capabilities, and/or level?
– Which would be more specific for beginner/low intermediate levels/high intermediate/advanced, Mind maps or SQ3R?
– Which strategies discussed in the articles will also help you with your studies?
-Do you think you can benefit from them to improve your reading comprehension and study skills? If so, how?

QUESTION 2: Learning Styles and Strategies (Felder’s theory)
Complete the questionnaire and reflect on its results:
What is your predominant learning style? What areas need to be balanced?
How would you provide your students with a balanced learning experience? Can you think of activities that will do this? Think of an activity that would appeal to adults for each type of learning style, i.e., one activity for active, one for a reflective, one for intuitive, and so on.

Describe the advocacy process. Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that improve people’s lives, the advocacy processes have commonalities that transcend the subject of their advocacy

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The Nurse as Advocate.
In a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, you will describe the advocacy process. Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that improve people’s lives, the advocacy processes have commonalities that transcend the subject of their advocacy. There are also differences, although these differences may be more nuanced than obvious.

Describe what you believe to be the drivers for each of the individual advocates.
What factors led the individuals to become advocates?
Discuss the challenges that each of the individuals identified in their writings.
Analyze these drivers and challenges and compare them with your own experience to date as an advocate.
In what ways do you believe you can expand your advocacy skills within the next five years?
On a separate reference page, cite all sources using APA format. Note that the title and reference pages should not be included in the total page count of your paper.

Develop an activity which supports the cognitive development needs of preschool-age children.Create the lesson plan in a Word document.How does the lesson support cognitive development?

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Planning a Preschool Lesson

This module addresses the key developmental areas of infancy and early childhood and its relation to cognitive and socio-emotional development in later life including milestones, theorists and theories, and educational practices.

For this assignment, you will develop an activity which supports the cognitive development needs of preschool-age children.

Create the lesson plan in a Word document. See the outline provided below.
After completing the lesson plan, answer the questions in Step 2.
Use citations and references in APA format to support your responses.
Step 1.
Complete the lesson plan, addressing all of the fields.

Step 2.
After you have completed the lesson plan, address the following questions about your lesson plan in a 1- to 3-page paper. Answer each question in a well-developed paragraph. Include an introduction and a conclusion.

How does the lesson support cognitive development?
How does the lesson align with developmentally appropriate practice?
What theoretical foundations support your lesson?

What is your understanding of a value chain and its relationship with the supply chain? Select a big-box retailer and explain/depict its supply chain, value chain, and extended value chain.

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In a document, provide responses to the following questions:
1. What is your understanding of a value chain and its relationship with the supply chain? Select a big-box retailer and explain/depict its supply chain, value chain, and extended value chain.
2. Explain electronic procurement and just-in-time purchasing. Also, briefly explain how electronic procurement tools can benefit just-in-time purchasing.
3. Discuss the differences and key objectives for the following:
1. involving purchasing after completion of the new product development process
2. involving purchasing throughout the new product development process

Analyze a case of job motivation and attitude.How might Lydia’s age or financial situation be a factor in her work motivation and attitudes?

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Individual motivation and attitude play a key role in job satisfaction and in related job performance. In this week, you will analyze a case of job motivation and attitude.

Consider this case:

Lydia is a 58-year-old woman who has worked with Norman Electronics for over 12 years. Lydia’s children are grown and her husband died three years ago, leaving Lydia a tidy insurance settlement. Lydia began working for the company head, Fred Norman Sr., as a general secretary and as the company expanded, she became an assistant to the head of personnel, where she dealt with scheduling interviews and handling related hiring issues for the 250 employees of Norman Electronics. Lydia knew almost all of the employees on a personal basis, and often spent extra hours doing new employee orientation, handling questions, and negotiating with management to settle employee complaints. Lydia was a very valued employee.

When a new position with higher pay opened in the payroll department, Fred Norman Jr., now head of Norman Electronics immediately promoted Lydia. She now was in charge of a group of five accountants whose job was to process the payroll, including computing the bonuses and sales commissions of the employees. After a brief training to orient her to her new responsibilities, Lydia began her new position. Although she was working a similar number of hours as in her old position, Lydia’s performance dropped on the job. The department itself had problems with accuracy and timeliness in delivering paychecks. Lydia herself often came to work late, or called in sick, citing exhaustion and tension headaches as a reason for her tardiness and absenteeism. In just a matter of months, Lydia had gone from being a loyal, valued employee, to a withdrawn employee whose presence in the company was becoming a liability.

Instructions:
For this assignment, write a paper in which you analyze the case of Lydia. Include in your analysis the following points:

  • What work motivation theory might best explain Lydia’s motivation?
  • How might Lydia’s age or financial situation be a factor in her work motivation and attitudes?
  • What tests would you use to evaluate Lydia’s job satisfaction and attitudes in her new position?

Write about someone who has had an impact on your own understanding of what it means to be male, female, transgendered, androgynous, or however you define your own gender

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For your GENDER HERO, select someone who has significantly impacted the way we think about gender in the U.S. today and who is especially important to you.  Stated differently, you are to write about someone who has had an impact on your own understanding of what it means to be male, female, transgendered, androgynous, or however you define your own gender.  Examples could include the author of your textbook, Michael Kimmel, as well as people like Gloria Steinem (writer, activist, publisher), Margaret Cho (comedian and astute commentator), Maya Angelou (writer, poet, performer), and many others, male, female, transgendered, or gender fluid.  Fictional characters are acceptable (you will have to come up with some type of portrait or depiction of that person); authors are acceptable; use your imagination.

You will need to write about somebody for whom outside source material is available.  Part of the point of this assignment is for you to gain experience at assessing the accuracy of material found on the internet.Because many of the gender heroes students write about will not be covered in academic sources, you will need to use popular sources, which make it important for you to think carefully about how accurate they may be.

  1. Using at least two reputable sources beyond your textbook, prepare a 2-3 page paper or a 5 minute YouTube video about this person which includes 1 or 2 visual images. Cite your sources within your paper and in a Works Cited page according to APA style.  You should also use and cite your textbook if it covers information about your gender hero
  2. At a point in the paper where you can logically comment, discuss the sources of information you used to learn about your gender hero and assess their accuracy and usefulness. Did you find that your sources agreed on the main points about your hero’s life?  Is the information they gave believable?  If not, what do you question, and why?
  3. Be sure to give a fairly detailed background on the person you chose. Who is this person?  Where did s/he come from?  How was s/he in a position to do the work you admire?
  4. Using your own words, explain how this individual has affected the way we look at gender and why you think this is important.
  5. Describe what you admire about the person you chose, and what puzzles or disappoints you about him/her/them.
  6. If you were able to sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk with your person, what is a question you would really like to ask her/him/them?
  7. Place your person in context – given what we’ve covered in the class so far, where does he, they or she fit in? (Use your imagination to answer this question – there is no obvious answer.)