Category: Essays

When Shelly saw Ms. Jones in a wheelchair, she felt sorry for her. She said a little prayer of thanks that she could walk and move freely without any hindrance. However, feeling badly for a person and actually sitting in the wheelchair for another vantage point is very different.

Imagine that you suffered an accident six months ago. The accident left you partially paralyzed from the waist down. You are currently seeking counseling from a professional specializing in working with individuals who have disabilities. It has been a difficult six months. Your central concerns relate to the emotional and physical adjustments you must now make in relation to your family, job, and future plans. You are permanently in a wheelchair and have limited use of your legs but full use of your arms and upper body.

Identify three major issues that you think you would need to work through in therapy. Explain what aspect of each issue is problematic for you.

Explain how your views on intimacy, usefulness, and security will change for you to make the necessary adjustments for living with the disability.

How well do you think you would cope with this situation if you faced something similar in real life?

Submit your response to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, February 3, 2016. Your response should be at least two pages long. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified at least three emotional, relational, or physical issues that could be indicative of a newly paralyzed person.
25
Analyzed how your views on the issues of intimacy, usefulness, and security would be affected during the adjustment period to being disabled.
25
Assessed the ability to cope with this type of disability if it were to happen to you.
40
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Production Economics and Decisions” Please respond to the following:

From the scenario for Katrina’s Candies, determine the relevant costs for the expansion decision, and distinguish between the short run and the long run costs. Recommend the key decision-making criteria that Katrina’s Candies should use for expansion decisions in the short run and in the long run. Determine under what conditions, a company should or should not continue to produce the good or service

Employee Testing” Please respond to the following:

These are 2 discussion questions. Please respond with 2 post.
Evaluate the types of employee testing that companies may require that are discussed in the text. Determine the two tests that you consider the most important. Support your reasoning.
Go to Human Metric’s Website and take the Jung Typology Test™ (sample of the Myers Briggs personality test). Next, examine your test results. Determine whether you believe this type of personality test is beneficial to an organization. Support your position

“Employee Selection” Please respond to the following:

Compare and contrast the structured interview, situational interview, and behavioral interview. Determine which type of interview would be more beneficial when interviewing applicants. Support your selection.
In the selection of the candidate, determine if the manager should make the final choice or if others should be included in the final decision. Support your position

The two primary types of healthcare strategies are prospective and emergent. Each has different characteristics and factors that affect the desired outcome.

Based on your Chapter 1 reading, develop a Microsoft Word table that identifies at least three characteristics of each strategy type. Below this, include at least three factors that affect the type choice and, finally, provide an example of an organizational issue in which this type of strategy would be most successful.

 

Project Requirements: Your table should:

Be well organized, in a Microsoft Word table, and one page in length.
Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA Requirements.

Review the grading rubric, which can be accessed from the Module 1 folder. Reach out to your instructor if you have any questions about the assignment

Health Policy and Politics provided an overview of the values and concepts in health policy. Given your reading of the chapters, explain current health policy debate regarding the Affordable Care Act in the context of values, markets, and morals. In fairness and availability of care, who wins and who loses? Be sure to discuss equity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Be sure to select a point of view, and argue what should be done.

Please be sure to reach out to your instructor early in the week if you have difficulty with the topic.

Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length and conform to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Include at least three scholarly references in addition to the course textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references

Discussion 1

“Freedom of Speech.” Please respond to the following:

Review Texas v. Johnson. Assuming you want to sustain the conviction, make the best argument you can for how that can be reconciled with the First Amendment. Of the opinions that would have sustained the conviction, which do you find most persuasive and why?

Evaluating Van Orden v. Perry, as a public administrator, in the rule of law, explain to what extent your beliefs should affect your reactions to the various justices’ opinions.

Discussion 2

“Freedom of Information.” Please respond to the following:

As a public administrator over a particular entity, describe when public officials should be allowed to conduct their activities in secret. Provide an example.

Evaluating New York Times v. United States, provide an example in which it may be warranted to violate the morality of the freedom of information by publicizing a secret identity to prove a point. Explain how this example warrants the morality violation

Mills (2014) shares in Chapter 6, “the interpretation of qualitative data is the researcher’s attempt to find meaning, to answer the ‘So what?’ in terms of the implications of the study’s findings” (p. 133). He adds that data analysis and interpretation is “. . . a process of digesting the contents of your qualitative data and finding related threads in it” (133).

Analyze the middle school scenario, Flipped Math Class. Explain your process for coding and categorizing the qualitative data. What patterns and/or themes did you discover? Answer the “So What” for your team of teacher-researchers based on your findings. What steps does your team need to take to address these issues before implementing the innovation of a flipped classroom?

Pages 138-139 in Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher provide an example of coding from a transcript.

Resources: Review Ch. 5 and 6 of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art, the Week 3 Electronic Reserve Readings, your Video Reflections, and at least one additional scholarly online or library resource.

Prepare a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you examine the works of photographers working during the 1930s and the work of Abstract Expressionists.

Include responses and discussion of the following in your presentation:

Three photographers who worked during the 1930s
At least two examples of photography from each photographer
A description of the types of subjects photographed
Your opinion on whether or not photography is a fine art form with an explanation
Your opinion regarding how photography has affected American culture

One Abstract Expressionists painter who worked in post-World War II America
At least one art work
A description of the style of the painter and why he or she was interested in this style of abstraction
A description of how this style emerged in post-World War II America and why it differed from the art work of the 1930s

Submit your American Art Before and After World War II Presentation.

For Local Campus students, these are oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations.
For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with speaker’s notes which support and expand upon your bulleted text.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines and include a slide with all references.

Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab above

The demise of the Soviet Union is many times explained in simplistic terms, but what did you learn about the internal contradictions of the Soviet Union, which led to its demise? Explain the impact of Stalinism and the reaction from Khrushchev to Gorbachev in an attempt to save the system.

4. According to the readings, what are the central ideological tenets which guided the formation of the Soviet Union? How do they differ in comparison to liberal pluralism?

one paraghraph for each queation

Please view the 2006 TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. The title of his speech is “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity.” Please view and respond in a 500-750 word reflection paper to Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation. This is not a research report, your own reactions are of primary importance.

Here are 2 questions that might stimulate your reflection and that I would like you to include in your paper:

1. How does this relate to movement and specifically concerning physical education, fitness, and sport?

2. Can you reflect on situations or experiences you had in your education that stifled your creativity?

Take time to analyze and reflect!!