Category: Essays

In an ideal world, the values of the therapist would not influence therapy or the therapist’s reactions to clients. However, when therapists deny their values or minimize their views on important issues during interactions with clients, this can cause problems in the therapeutic relationship. In an effort to explore the many issues that can arise concerning a therapist’s values and how they affect the therapeutic process, please respond thoroughly to each of the following questions:

Do you think therapists should deliberately reveal their values to a client in therapy? If so, why do you believe this is important? If not, what potential difficulties might this cause for the client or the therapeutic process?
How much importance should a therapist place on helping the client identify and verbalize his or her values as they relate to their presenting problem?
Based upon your response to question 2, explain why a client’s value system is vital or inconsequential to the therapeutic process?
Discuss one practical strategy you could use in therapy to help identify and clarify a client’s value system without imposing your own.

Assignment 2: Discussion—Addiction to Chemical Substances

There is much controversy that surrounds the etiology of addictions. Some theories suggest that addiction is related solely to genetic factors, while others identify environmental factors as the primary influences on addictive behavior. Most contemporary theories support the idea that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to substance addiction. However, there is still much debate about this in the field.

Use the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources to research chemical substance addiction.

Select a category of chemical substances with addiction potential (for example, alcohol, stimulants, or opiates). In this assignment, you will examine this selected substance in detail.

How might a person become addicted to that category of chemical substance? Describe the process.
What are the various genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the development of substance addiction as related to that category?

Support your responses using your readings and authoritative resources. Incorporate theory and factual information in your response such as examples of research findings related to addiction.

Write your initial response in 2–3 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, August 29, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, September 2, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Comment on the points made by asking questions, providing clarifications, giving another point of view, challenging their views, or showing relationships between two or more points in the discussion.

All discussion assignments in this course will be graded using a rubric. Download the discussion rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations

An annotated bibliography of at least five references (see the attached document for a model) and a outline for your final paper on recruitment and incentives to join the military. The outline might include areas such as why the topic is important, contemporary practices, recent research findings, examples of how the issue is being addressed by specific organizations, and your recommendations for HR professionals. At least one of your articles must be on an empirical study published in a academic (or peer-reviewed or refereed) journal. For your final paper, you will review an HR practice or topic (recruitment and incentives to join the military). The paper should be at least 8 pages in length (excluding cover and citations) with at least five different references (one may be the text book). At least one of the references must be from an empirical study. Please make sure the paper is free of grammar and spelling errors.

Below can be used to scope the work and topic for paper

Recruitment and Incentives to join the Military

The Military is one of the largest and recognized organizations in the world. Getting to that point has not always been voluntarily, it was once forced. The driving force behind this was the draft. The draft was used to single out individuals that where eligible to join the military and fight for their country. This was at a time of war when there were not enough volunteers. The only incentive was the fact that you earned the right to say that you fought for your country. In today’s military, the recruitment process has many incentives for new recruits. There is no one that is forced to join and individuals choose to serve at their own free will. The recruitment process is important to human resource managers because it is the key to building todays military by providing eligible, physically fit, and reliable new soldiers. The incentives for the recruiting process allows human resource managers the ability to entice and offer new recruits certain benefits that only the military can offer. Having that flexibility to provide recruitment incentives has ensured that the military will never have to resort back to a forced military again

You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.

CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.

As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.

John has come to you with an internal company memo describing the potential problems with AD23, and information describing the company’s willingness “roll the dice” and continue to market the drug.

Your senior partner has asked you to write a memo outlining the following issues for review by the senior partners.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research examples of intellectual property theft that occurred within the past two (2) years.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Research three to five (3-5) ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety and examine whether PharmaCARE violated any of the issues in question.
Argue for or against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies. Provide support for your response.
Determine the parties responsible for regulating compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, the actions that either these parties or the FDA could / should have taken in this scenario, and whether PharmaCARE could face legal exposure surrounding its practices. Support your response.
Analyze the manner in which PharmaCARE used U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property and if John has any claim to being the true “inventor” of AD23. Suggest at least three (3) ways the company could compensate John for the use of his intellectual property.
Summarize at least one (1) current example (within the past two [2] years) of intellectual property theft, and examine the effect on that company’s brand.
Analyze the potential issue surrounding the death of John’s wife and other potential litigants against PharmaCARE as a result of AD23.
Specify both the major arguments that John can make to claim that he is a whistleblower and the type of protections that he should be afforded. Justify your response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze and assess legal and ethical restraints on marketing and advertising, relative to both consumers and organizations.
Analyze and evaluate laws and regulations relative to product safety and liability.
Explore copyright laws and intellectual property rights and assess how well they balance competing interests.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a written paper and a PowerPoint presentation. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for.

You are the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for an e-Commerce company and are concerned about security for your e-Commerce applications. Specifically, your company’s Board of Directors has requested a detailed forward-looking plan with emphasis on securing your Web presence assets. Read the article titled, “Web application security is growing problem for enterprises” located at http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/web-application-security-growing-problem-enterprises-843?page=0,0. Also, be sure research at least four (4) other articles concerning the challenges of Web application security.

Section 1: Written Paper

Write a ten (10) page paper in which you:
Summarize the current state of Web application security for your Board of Directors to understand. Determine any common themes that need to be addressed specific to the Web security.
Describe the techniques and technologies you would use that you would implement to mitigate these security challenges and explain why you chose these techniques and technologies.
Analyze the internal security procedures and practices you will use to validate the security of your enterprise’s Web applications.
Represent your Board recommendations graphically using Visio or Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

Section 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Create a persuasive eight to ten (8-10) slide PowerPoint presentation (not including the cover slide) in which you:

Detail your Board recommendations.
Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information

Imagine you have recently been hired as the Information security director at a start-up health care research firm, where confidential client data is housed in its Data Center. Currently, the company has 100 employees and expects to expand its workforce to 300 in the next three (3) months and the company is moving to a new location in an urban office building across four (4) floors. The security operations and defensive mechanisms have been run in the past by the Networking Department and due to the move, you have a chance to start anew with the company’s security operations to improve its overall security posture.

Write a ten (10) page paper in which you:

Identify what you perceive to be the five (5) most concerning threats to the network, computing environment, and the database operations of the company.
Examine each threat you identified in number 1, in which you:
Explain why this is your perception.
Identify what is at risk from these threats.
Determine how you would design the security controls to mitigate the risks involved.
Determine the security defense mechanisms that you would utilize in order to secure communications from floor to floor in the office space, including equipment and physical controls.
Create an office space diagram detailing the security defense tools, equipment and controls utilized, using a diagramming application such as Visio or Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Explain in detail the defensive mechanisms that you would implement to secure the corporate wireless network, including encryption, authentication methods, and at least two (2) WLAN security tools you would utilize on a regular basis.
Create a wireless network diagram, using a diagramming application such as Visio or Dia based on your explanation in number 5. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Determine whether or not you would utilize encryption technologies on the network and / or computing equipment. Justify your response.
Consider the use of a cloud-based solution for storing the company’s data. Determine the benefits and / or risks that would result using this kind of data storage, and decide whether or not you would utilize this storage option. Justify your decision.
Select a minimum of five (5) security tools that you would implement on the network as security auditing and / or defense countermeasures.
Analyze each security tool you selected in number 8, and determine why / how you would use them as part of your security operations.
Provide an overview of the recovery and continuity plans you would develop to ensure the company could survive a temporary or prolonged disruption. Explain why each plan is needed based on the benefits it provides to the company.
Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include diagrams created in Visio or one of their equivalents such as Dia. The completed diagrams must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted

Law and ethic

 

5-10 pages written paper, original positing and 2 peers for discussion board

The Research Paper must follow APA guidelines and contain the following:

Cover page

Abstract

Introduction (identify and select a WMD event)

Describe the type of event, effects, fabrication, and development of the WMD event.

Describe the environmental, political, economic, and sociological effects of the WMD event.

Summary and conclusions

Reference page

While the level of detail in each section of the research paper will vary, it is anticipated that the final paper will be a minimum of 8 pages in length (not including the cover page and reference pages). Please review the APA guidelines to obtain a description of other formatting requirements.

d baby. What would you want it to be like, and why? Address issues such as (but not limited to):

Physical setting

What constitutes an ideal childcare setting for a 6 month old?

Suppose you were seeking a child-care setting for your 6-month-old baby. What would you want it to be like, and why? Address issues such as (but not limited to):

Physical setting

Personnel qualifications

Health, safety, and nutrition

Mental, emotional, and cognitive stimulation

Cost

Proximity

Support your opinions with citations from at least three academic sources (not websites or popular press).

Word document with separate title page and reference list, not included in the word count

1200-1500 wor

Personnel qualifications

Health, safety, and nutrition

Mental, emotional, and cognitive stimulation

Cost

Proximity

Support your opinions with citations from at least three academic sources (not websites or popular press).

Word document with separate title page and reference list, not included in the word count

1200-1500 wor

Encrypt Words Routine and File Manipulation in Python Program using Notepad

Encrypt the following words using a Caesar cipher with a distance value of 5. Provide an algorithm written in python to generate the cypher.
So Python
Much cipher
Wow
Write a program to open test  File.txt for input, append your name to the end of the file. Print out the number of lines contained in the file and close it. Program needs to be written in Notepad.

discuss why do foreign market participants monitor the Fed’s direct intervention efforts? The media frequency report that “the dollar’s value strengthened against many currencies in response to the Federal Reserve’s plan to increase interest rates.” Explain why the dollar’s value may change even before the Federal Reserve affects interest rates. Your post should demonstrate that you can conduct a scholarly dialogue, and apply one or more concepts from your readings with original analysis and interpretation