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Write a paper of 1,250-1,500 words in which you consider the merits of applying ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative inquiry, and case study to the scenario above.

Assume the role of a chief researcher for the state Department of Education who is examining two groups with similar educational deficiencies. One group involved in the study is a rural, ethnically-defined, aboriginal group with a high rate of health issues including diabetes, vision impairment, and heart disease. The other group is also a rural group living on family-owned farms (as opposed to corporate farms) that are in severe decline as a result of years of decreasing rainfall and drought. Both groups exhibit achievement test scores that are more than one standard deviation below the mean at all grade levels, and excessive high school drop-out rates.

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This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.

Directions:

Write a paper of 1,250-1,500 words in which you consider the merits of applying ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative inquiry, and case study to the scenario above. Include the following in your paper:

A brief description of what types of information about the given scenario could be gathered from each of the qualitative methods listed above.
A brief statement of the potential utility and scientific merit of the information to be gathered by applying each of the qualitative methods above to the given scenario.
A brief statement describing which qualitative method(s) listed above would be best suited to the scenario in light of the potential gains in both utility and scientific merit expected from completing the stud

Explain the advantages of using primary source documents in your research on your Final Research Project topic.

Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life. Pearson Higher Ed.

Prepare: Read the articles “Philosophy as Translation: Democracy and Education from Dewey to Cavell” and “Philosophy as Education and Education as Philosophy: Democracy and Education from Dewey to Cavell”by Saitofrom the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library.

Reflect Icon Reflect: As you take notes on the two articles, think about the importance of understanding the philosophy behind taking general education courses and how your courses have taught you academic integrity, global citizenship, and cultural sensitivity.

Write Icon Write: For this discussion, respond to the following prompts: •Describe the implications Stanley Cavell’s ordinary language philosophy has on democracy and education. Provide an example of ordinary language philosophy.

•Examine the ideas of mutual reflection and mutual understanding as it relates to cultural differences.

•Share a learning experience of an ethical or moral lesson based on John Dewey’s quote: “democracy must begin at home.” Explain how that experience has influenced your level of integrity while receiving your education.

Discussion 2:

review the following information from the Ashford University Library:

•Popular & Scholarly Sources tutorial

•Primary and Secondary Sources tutorial

•Primary Vs. Secondary Sources infographic

Takes notes by listing examples and differences between these types of resources.

Reflect Icon Reflect: Compare your list of examples between primary and secondary resources. Good research is a combination of many types of sources. Prior to taking this course, did you understand the differences between these resources and the importance of finding one type of resource over another?

Write Icon Write: Provide your initial post that addresses these prompts:

•Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources used in research.

•Identify a type of resource for your Final Research Project topic that would be considered a primary source and one that might be a secondary source, and explain why they fit in those categories.

•Explain the advantages of using primary source documents in your research on your Final Research Project topic.

•Review two peer-reviewed, scholarly resources from the Ashford University Library that you will use for your Final Research Project, and explain why they were chosen.

•Provide full reference information of the two scholarly articles chosen in APA format at the end of your response.

How has the relationship changed between the U.S. and that country since the doctrine was announced?

DUE 8/27/2015 at 2000 hrs. The first assignment is attached and should be used as described in the instructions.

Assignment 2: Current Events and U.S. Diplomacy

This paper will be a revised and expanded version of the first research paper. Based on your instructor’s feedback, you will first revise the first paper.

Write three-to-four (3-4) new pages that address the following:

Define presidential doctrine and summarize the regional or global events during the Cold War leading up to the formation of the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1.
Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between the country you selected and the U.S. before the presidential doctrine was announced.
Describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and the country you selected in section (2) above.
Describe the effect that the presidential doctrine has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
Assess whether or not the presidential doctrine you wrote about in Assignment 1 doctrine had had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first announced.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

To help you understand this assignment further, the following description and examples may be useful.

Step 1: Define doctrine and identify why a president would want to announce one.

A doctrine is an ideological platform that a president uses to advance a policy towards a country or region in order to accomplish foreign policy goals for the United States, so you will need to expand on this theme.

Refer back to Assignment 1, and build on whatever doctrine you wrote about then. Say, for example, you selected the Truman Doctrine. Therefore, this is the only thing you will write about in Assignment 2 step 1.

Step 2: Select one country you wrote about in Assignment 1 and describe the Cold War relationship that existed between it and the U.S.

Before the presidential doctrine was announced. In the case of Truman, you would pick either the Soviet Union, Greece, or Iran, since all three were affected by his doctrine. If you are writing about the Eisenhower Doctrine, you would choose Lebanon or Egypt; if you wrote about the Kennedy Doctrine, you would have write about Cuba or Vietnam; if your wrote about the Nixon Doctrine, you would choose either Vietnam, Saudi Arabia or Iran; if you chose Carter, you would select either Iran or Afghanistan; and if you wrote about the Reagan Doctrine, you would select Nicaragua, Angola, Russia or Afghanistan (although there were several others).

Step 3: Describe what effect the presidential doctrine you chose has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.

That is, how did the doctrine change the status quo regionally or globally after it was announced by the U.S.? What happened in Western Europe after the Truman Doctrine was announced? What happened in the Middle East after the Eisenhower Doctrine was announced? What happened with Cuba or Vietnam after Kennedy offered up his doctrine of flexible response? What happened in Southeast Asia or the Persian Gulf after the Nixon Doctrine went in effect? What happened in the Middle East after the Carter Doctrine was announced? What happened in Central America or Africa or the Middle East after Reagan announced his doctrine?

Step 4: Refer back to the country you selected in step two and describe the relationship that currently exists between the U.S. and that country.

How has the relationship changed between the U.S. and that country since the doctrine was announced?

Step 5: Evaluate whether or not the presidential doctrine had had the intended effect of altering the behavior of the one country you selected in section (2) above since the doctrine was first announced.

Does the fact that Márquez is a South American writer have any influence on the developments of this story?

Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez (in the course textbook and attached below). Reflect and respond to the story in a 3- to 4-page reader-response essay.

Remember that reader-response essays are less formal than other types of academic writing. You may use the personal pronoun “I” and may write about whatever strikes you from the story. You may also choose to write from one of the following prompts:

Explain how “good” and “evil” co-exist in this story, and which one you think wins out in the end. Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.
Was the old man with the enormous wings truly an angel? Why or why not? Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.
Gabriel García Márquez is said to have fathered the genre of “magical realism” with this story. What parts of the story felt magical to you and what parts felt real? How do they work together to convey the overall message of the story? Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.
Does the fact that Márquez is a South American writer have any influence on the developments of this story? Does its international setting have any impact on the reader’s potential understanding of the story

Was the old man with the enormous wings truly an angel?

Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez (in the course textbook and attached below). Reflect and respond to the story in a 3- to 4-page reader-response essay.

For a successful paper:

Have a strong thesis statement at the end of your introduction paragraph.
Use a “hook” in the introduction paragraph to grab your readers’ attention.
Use specific textual support from the short story in the body of your paper.
Finish with a strong conclusion that summarizes your main points, restates the thesis in some way, and possibly returns to the initial “hook.”
Proofread for errors in spelling, grammar, and writing mechanics. Vary sentence structure and sentence length to add interest.

How and why could an Alabama Paradox occur?

Assignment 1: LASA 2: The Apportionment Problem

You are a census officer in a newly democratic nation and you have been charged with using the census data from the table below to determine how 100 congressional seats should be divided among the 10 states of the union.

State

Population

Being a fan of United States history, you are familiar with the many methods of apportionment applied to this problem to achieve fair representation in the US House of Representatives. You decide that apportionment (chapter 11, sections 1-4 in your textbook) is the best approach to solving this problem, but need to compare several methods and then determine which is actually fair.

Using the Hamilton method of apportionment, determine the number of seats each state should receive.
Using the numbers you just calculated from applying the Hamilton method, determine the average constituency for each state. Explain your decision making process for allocating the remaining seats.
Calculate the absolute and relative unfairness of this apportionment.
Explain how changes in state boundaries or populations could affect the balance of representation in this congress. Provide an example using the results above.
How and why could an Alabama Paradox occur?
Explain how applying the Huntington-Hill apportionment method helps to avoid an Alabama Paradox.
Based upon your experience in solving this problem, do you feel apportionment is the best way to achieve fair representation? Be sure to support your answer.
Suggest another strategy that could be applied to achieve fair representation either using apportionment methods or a method of your choosing

Business Management.

100 MCQ’S Small Business Management

What kind of pre-employment testing is valid and contributes to overall company performance?

There are a total of 9 questions: 6 in employment law and 3 in accounting. They should be completed today. These questions are not related and should be answered separately with the correlating question number on top. In addition, the answers should be no more than a paragraph or so. References are required.

HRM

A bank in a small town is concerned with the perception of its employees by customers and others in the community. Branch managers are responsible for both the running of the branches and building community relationships. The bank decides that it needs to determine if certain personal habits are creating a negative perception towards customers. The bank decides to monitor its branch manager’s off-duty activities in order to determine if this is creating concerns for the bank. Is the bank legally permitted to carry through this action? Does this constitute an invasion of privacy?

As human resource leaders, future and present, your mandate is recruit, hire and retain a highly qualified workforce–a workforce that is not qualified by virtue of training and experience, but a workforce of integrity–honest, drug free, physically and emotionally healthy.

Pre-employment testing of one form or another has been a part of American business since the early 1950’s. What kind of pre-employment testing is valid and contributes to overall company performance? Are there any kinds of testing that either should be barred or are capable of being used inappropriately?

There are many individuals who use social media sites indiscriminately and do not consider the consequences of their interactions with others or what is posted. Even when they may not identify themselves with an employer, there are others who may access the site who know them personally and may reveal their employer in their postings. In addition, some employers may access their employees’ personal sites out of curiosity or may have a legitimate reason to question the site’s content. Is this invading the employee’s privacy or is it a right of the employer since they may be able to view only what is “public” on the site?

Retaliation has been the number one filed EEOC complaint now since 2010, surpassing racial and sexual harassment and discrimination for the first time then, and since then. Often, disciplinary actions result in EEOC filings. Discipline is an area of Human Resources that can certainly create the potential for legal liability for employers. What are some good guidelines to follow? What are some pitfalls to avoid? How might valid policies be structured and investigations be handled to ensure that retaliation complaints do not result from disciplinary actions?

Employees are becoming increasingly concerned with their rights to pursue a private life free from employer incursion. Technology advances make monitoring of employee workspaces, e-mail, even key strokes entered on a computer traceable. Drug habits are documented to cost employers $60 billion per year in absenteeism and attrition; theft of employer property by employees another $10 billion per annum.

Federal government employees are protected somewhat by the Privacy Act of ’74. But do employees in the private sector have protection against intrusion into their workspace and private lives? Do any of the common law tort remedies offer the potential of privacy rights for private sector employees? Support your response.

Since email is becoming the most common form of “written” communication today, it is important that employers recognize the both the value and the liability of these employment “records”. There are records retention requirements for a number of employment records. For example job applications must be maintained for a specific period of time in accordance with EEOC regulations for use in EEOC investigations. Pay records must be kept for a specific period of time since back pay claims can be retroactive for a specific number of years. Do you think that employers should have a policy on the retention of employee email communication beyond the termination date of the employee? If so, why and how long should the records be retained?

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Class, let’s start with a discussion on current financial disclosures. Should financial statement disclosures be greater? What are the pros and cons for the increased financial information being disclosed by public companies on their company’s Internet websites? Please let me know if you have any questions

Now how do you distinguish between Financial Reporting for GAAP, and full Disclosure. What is Management Discussion and Analysis. Access a public company annual report and analyze its M&A section and how it helps the investors in their decision making process. Please let me know if you have any questions

MD&A section of the annual report is an opportunity for the management to express their plans and provide future guidance and it is a good place for the investors to assess in what direction the management plans to take the company in future. Now let’s discuss about the interim reporting. Do you think interim reporting enhances the quality of information or it distorts the quality of information? Please let me know if you have any questions

Assume the role of a chief researcher for the state Department of Education who is examining two groups with similar educational deficiencies.

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Create a benefits policy that encompasses the scope of benefits and a brief administrative section to address how benefits will be administered in your organization.

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