Category: Essays

Due Week 5 and worth 120 points

Use the Internet and / or the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research aspects of biology.

Select an article from a magazine or newspaper that has something in it that pertains to biology. This will serve as the “target article” for this assignment. For instance, you can select an article about medicine, invasive species, nature, conservation, genetic technology, ecology, or any other topic that is related to biology. One purpose of this assignment is to help you become aware of how biology is related to your everyday life.

Write a one to three (1-3) page paper in which you:

Summarize the article in one (1) or more paragraphs, using your own words. Be sure to identify the article using an in-text citation in the body of the paper, as well as a reference in the reference section.
Explain how the article relates to this course. Identify which biological concepts from the course and / or text are relevant to the topic covered in the article. Citing the course text, discuss the ways in which this course does (or doesn’t) provide background information to help you understand the article and the larger issues surrounding it.
Explain why the article caught your attention. Relate the article to your life and to issues that are important to you. Discuss how or if the scientific knowledge about the topic covered in the article affects you directly or indirectly.
Discuss your opinion on how research on this topic should be funded. State whether you think taxpayer monies should support research on this topic or whether such research in this area should be funded by the private sector. Rate the importance of research on this topic, relative to other areas of research.

In addition to the target article, you should use at least one additional resource, such as your textbook or another article. You must have a reference section which contains an APA reference to your chosen article and all other sources. Additionally, you must provide in-text citations (in APA format) to your references in the body of the text. Integrate all sources into your paper using proper techniques of quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, along with your in-text citations.

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:

Use technology and information resources to research issues in biology.
Write clearly and concisely about biology using proper writing mechanic

Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of the effects that war and peace have on the distribution of foreign aid, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 1 through 3.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

Assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Support your response with examples.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:

Webtext Format:
Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.

Lecture Format:
Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.
Example:

University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.

Internet Resources:
Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.
Example:

Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.

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 how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by warfare.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics

Essay #3 Book Analysis/Critique of Ideas: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Discuss any topic you wish regarding this novel. See instructions for Essays 1 and 2.

You must quote three (3) outside sources, once per source, and cite them correctly. Create a Works Cited page. Thank you

DO NOT PLAGIARISE

Use only third person narrative. Italicize the article names, and always introduce the source before writing out the quote. Give a proper work cited page. The professor is very tough on work cited page and the quotes that we use. Make sure you include a introduction to the quote source for each quotations. Also

Attachment is an example essay

For all essays, the format guidelines are listed below:

1,000-word essay,
MLA format.
Works Cited page.
Quotations cited properly. 1 quotation from the piece we are reading for Essays #1-3.

You may not say “you” or “I” in essays 2-4. Stay OBJECTIVE and FORMAL.

No slang or curse words unless you are quoting. Get help in the Writing Center and have your tutor initial your draft for credit which may help a borderline final grade.

You will write essays critiquing authors we have read in class from this section.

Take good notes in lectures.

Look for symbols, repeated themes, plot, setting, character, meaning or moral, author’s intention, social, biographical, and historical background.

What do reviewers, family members, critics, and historians say?

Begin writing immediately, so you have a good chance to do well.

Read each piece BEFORE the day we discuss it. Write your comments and questions. As you read, identify any symbols, foreshadowing in the story, the author’s purpose, audience, effectiveness, and style.
Look up info on the author and the story, why s/he wrote the story and the social context in which it was written, etc.
Take good notes in class. Ask questions and share your thoughts.

Ask yourself how you feel about the characters and their actions or about

the piece and its meanings. How are the characters similar to the author and his family, etc.?

Do your own research on symbols. Google is helpful in this. Think about how WORDS are symbols in themselves, and do some research on the meanings of symbols. Wikipedia, YouTube,QuoteGarden, BrainyQuote are not considered primary sources, but can be your extra sources.

6.

In all the essays, when you quote, mention the source and page number, so the professor can easily find it. To quote= verb. A quotation (not quote) = noun. Please remember this

Analyze a Case of Failure to Change

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In this assignment you will have the opportunity to look at an organization that failed to change.

What was the string of minor breakdowns that led to this failure?
What can we learn from their failure?

Using leadership concepts learned during the course, write a paper about an organization of your choice (for-profit or not-for-profit, preferably one located in your locale (Phoenix, AZ) that failed to change within its industry environment or did not anticipate change.

Explain the situation as it existed that led to the crisis, describe the culture of the organization, the quality of enterprise’s leadership, how the organization’s leader/s reacted (or didn’t react) to the changes in the environment, what process or event led to the decline or failure of the enterprise (or organization) and explain what the entity’s leadership could have done differently to prevent failure.

Support your paper with minimum of three (3) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA 6th edition standards

During any 5-day period of your choice during this week, select 3 stories from the online edition of your local newspaper or any credible national news outlet pertaining to a leadership story/report. Write an analysis paper in which you:

Summarize each story.
Read the blogs and comments after the story.
Describe the tone and analyze the nature of the readers’ comments using any concepts learned from your text book, please cite properly from both the newspaper and text book.
Summarize what you learned about the nature of leadership and the reaction of readers when anonymity is assured
What you discovered about the culture of the community in which the story took place as a result of the story and
The nature of the readers’ reactions to the story.

Support your paper with minimum of three (3) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 6-8 pages not including title and reference pages

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA 6th edition standards

Although non-accounting managers use budgets based on past performance and projections of costs and revenues for short-term planning, relying on such information is not enough. Managers also need to predict many of their companies’ future financial conditions and the activities that accompany them. To do this, managers need to answer questions such as the following:

How many employees do you need?
Do you need new equipment?
What level of supplies and inventory should you maintain?
What is your targeted revenue?

In this assignment, you will analyze various forecasting techniques used for budgeting and recommend specific ones for Compnet. You will also analyze various aspects of budgeting.

Tasks:

Using the Internet, select and review resources on budget forecasting, seasonal adjustments in budgeting, and cash forecasts.

Respond to the following questions:

Which forecasting techniques are available for budgeting purposes? Would you consider using more than one technique? Why or why not? What techniques would you recommend for forecasting Compnet’s budget? Why?
How do you get accurate and timely information from different departments so that you can accurately forecast the budget?
When is it appropriate to adjust the budget once it has been set? Support your response using examples. What specific adjustments were relevant to Compnet during the past three years? Why?
Other than financial data, what economic and external variables will you incorporate in making decisions while creating the budget? Why?
If the budget is to be considered a control, what should be done to make management accountable for budget variances?

Submission Details:

By Saturday, January 30, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Monday, February 1, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where

This assignment contains two (2) Sections: Visio Diagram and Design Summary. You must submit both sections as separate files in order to complete this assignment.

Use “Appendix A: Designing Databases with Visio Professional: A Tutorial,” to help you complete Section 1: Visio Database Design. (Note: This tutorial focuses on the use of Microsoft Visio. Open source applications are not covered in Appendix A; however, the use of open source applications within labs is permitted.) Click here to download Appendix A.

After reviewing your database design from Lab 1: Creating a Database Design in Visio, the college has provided more information for the database that they want developed:

For each student, the college needs to track the student ID, student names, addresses, start date, phone numbers and types (such as mobile, home, work), email addresses and types (such as personal, school, work), gender, and birth date.
For each course, the college needs to track the course ID, course name, department, quarters offered, sections, and instructor teaching each course.
For each instructor, the college needs to track the instructor ID, name, address, phone numbers and types (such as mobile, home, work), email addresses and types (such as personal, school, work), gender, birth date, and the courses that each instructor is qualified to teach.
Additionally, the college needs to track the final grades for each student after each course has completed.

Section 1: Modified Visio Diagram

(Microsoft Visio or equivalent)

1. Use Microsoft Visio (or open source equivalent) in which you:

a. Modify the database diagram from Lab 1 with the entities and attributes that the scenario identified (i.e., a college tracking students, courses, and instructors).

b. Create the appropriate relationships between each entity within the diagram.

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Submit the Visio diagram as a Visio file.

Section 2: Design Summary

(Microsoft Word or equivalent)

1. Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you:

a. Discuss the degree to which you believe the Visio diagram reflects the database design.

b. Describe any assumptions that you had to make about the business rules to in order to create the Visio diagram and the associated relationships.

Section 2 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Submit the design summary as a Microsoft Word file.
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 is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational data and information.
Recognize the historical development of database management systems and logical data models.
Compose conceptual data modeling techniques to capture the information requirements.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions

Since the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, there has been a real push in local law enforcement agencies—especially large ones—to incorporate intelligence-led policing techniques.

A part of that strategy has been the creation of fusion centers in all fifty states intended to facilitate the sharing of police intelligence information between federal, state, and local agencies. Consider the Lambert (2010) article, “Intelligence-Led Policing in a Fusion Center” and the “US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Fusion Centers” in the Webliography.

The creation of fusion centers and their operations have not been without controversy. Many civil libertarians have expressed concern that instead of focusing only on real threats, fusion centers encourage the government’s suspicion toward law-abiding citizens and groups that are suspected of potential hostility toward government.

Tasks:

Write a 2- to 3-page paper. In the paper:

Take a definitive stand, with explanations, for or against the use of fusion centers as a local law enforcement tool.
Discuss how these centers may be abused to violate citizen rights.
Explain the difference between the cooperation that occurs through fusion centers and that through other kinds of multiagency activities, such as task forces and joint investigations.
Identify and discuss the possible steps or policies to minimize concerns that some have raised about potential abuses.

Feel free to do additional research on the topic of fusion centers, beyond the reading that has been assigned to further improve your paper.

Submission Details:

Save the report as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc.
By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, submit your report to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Justified the stand for or against the use of fusion centers as a local law enforcement tool.
12
Analyzed and explained the potential use or abuse of fusion centers with regard to violating citizen rights.
28
Analyzed and explained the differences in cooperation between the fusion centers and multiagency activities.
28
Discussed the steps that the police may take to minimize concerns of potential abuses through fusion centers.
12
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in the accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuatio

Assignment 3: Final Project Annotated Bibliography

Craft a research question on the topic you selected in your first discussion question post. Then locate at least five articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to your question that will be used to write the introduction section of your research proposal.

Submit these five citations in the form of an APA-style reference page. Under each citation, write one paragraph summarizing the main points of the article. As you read your articles, keep the following questions at hand; these will help you generate the information about each article.

What were the topic/research questions being investigated?

How was the study conducted (participants, materials, procedure, etc.)?

What did the results reveal?

How might these methodological considerations affect the research findings and the conclusions drawn from them?

How does this article fit in with your paper? How did it influence your own ideas about your paper?

Based on your reading of the literature, what do you expect to find?

Include a hypothesis and a title page for your submission.

Submit your paper to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Wednesday, January 27, 2016. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Created a research question based on a research topic approved by the instructor and submitted a testable hypothesis.
15
Submitted citations in the form of an APA-style reference page for five articles and included a paragraph summarizing each article and discussing its relevance.
40
Ensured that all the articles are from peer-reviewed journals.
20
Submitted a title page for the submission.
5
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Read Case Study “Mead Meals on Wheels” in Chapter 9 of the required text. Using the information in the case study, discuss the following:

MMWC buys the equipment to expand their services. Present a recommendation supporting the type of financial impact the expansion of services will have on MMWC.

Clearly label the calculation of the impact of food costs and the financial impact costs. Use formulas to calculate the costs and format the cells to insert a comma if there is more than three numbers and round to the nearest whole number.

Submit to your instructor your two-to-three page Word document (not including title and reference pages) and your Excel worksheet. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and you must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.