Category: Essays

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that compares the roles and responsibilities of public policing versus private security. Use the ASIS International website (http://www.asisonline.org/) as a resource for this paper. Be sure to address the following:

What are differences and similarities between the two roles?
How does leadership differ between the two roles?
What is the relationship of each role with the criminal justice system?
What are essential policies for each role?
Describe and discuss the importance of a comprehensive security plan, and its key components.
3-5 references

Due Week 4 and worth 240 points

In today’s technology environment, hackers present a substantial risk to a firm’s accounting or business system. As the result of these attacks, firms suffer huge losses, ranging from financial losses to losses in confidence by consumers, creditors, and suppliers. Firms may have made a significant investment in financial and non-financial resources to secure these systems.

For this assignment, research the Internet or Strayer databases and select a company whose database systems have been hacked.

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

Based on the information you researched, evaluate the level of responsibility of the company in terms of the effectiveness of the response to the security breach. Provide support for your rationale.
Imagine that the company that you researched uses a third-party accounting system. Assess the level of responsibility of the software provider to both the business and its clients. Provide support for your rationale.
Create an argument for additional regulation as a preventative measure against businesses being hacked. Provide support for your argument.
Provide at least three (3) recommendations for businesses to secure their systems and assets from hackers. Provide support for your recommendation.
Use at least three (3) 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Examine control and security concepts related to accounting information systems to ensure data integrity and safety.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting information systems.
Write clearly and concisely about accounting information systems using proper writing mechanics

his project requires you to create a quality management plan. To do this, you will:

Identify various aspects of a quality management plan in a healthcare organization.
Apply various processes and tools to enhance quality in a healthcare setting. Seek additional resources from http://www.leanproduction.com/index.html.
Identify workflow processes in a healthcare setting.
Identify quality parameters in a healthcare setting.
Examine the effectiveness of a quality management plan in a given healthcare setting.

The project is modeled on the Shewhart Cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act). You will modify the Shewhart Cycle to make it applicable to your selected healthcare service or program.

Seek additional resources that will help you understand the process being studied as well as planning and quality improvement in general. You can visit the following link for more details on a quality process improvement plan:

www.goleansixsigma.com

Click Resources and then select Lean Six Sigma Tools. Review the steps in sequence; they provide direction to a quality process improvement plan. While you do not need to use the steps in sequence, they provide direction, as given below:

Define: This step describes the importance of the problem within the organization.
Measure: This step relates to the impact of the current condition and target goals for improvement.
Analyze: This step relates to understanding work flow mapping and the value stream as well as understanding root cause analysis (RCA).
Improve: This step identifies improvements to consider in the implementation of change.
Control: This step is about sustainability of change.

Tasks:

Complete a part of the Plan step of the cycle.
Describe the environment, the organization, and the department or program within the organization that is the basis for your project. Describe the selected healthcare setting, specifically its service, staff, equipment, and patients. Identify and describe the scope and nature of the problem.
Assess the environment using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. Interview some stakeholders, such as managers, staff, or customers. Use the interview information to conduct the SWOT analysis. You may also summarize or quote any important or interesting information gathered during the interview.
Select one of the weaknesses determined by the SWOT analysis to create a plan for improvement.

Present the description of the organization, the SWOT analysis, and any interview summaries in a 5-page Microsoft Word document formatted as a report in APA style.
On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format

Assignment 1: Interview Preparation and Discussion

Refer to the Course Project Overview in the left navigation area. Per the Course Project, you have selected a mental disorder to work on for your course project. As part of your course project, you will conduct field research on the practice related to your selected disorder. In your field research, you will interview a mental health professional to learn about the practice related to diagnosing and treating the disorder. In this assignment, you will prepare for the interview.

Provide a brief introductory paragraph identifying and discussing the DSM disorder you have selected (furnish appropriate APA citations and References).
Write ten interview questions that will bring out the information you need.
Formulate questions that ensure an appropriate understanding of the disorder. These questions should assist in differentiating the chosen disorder from those found within and outside its parent category.

Tips for approaching your future Interview with a Mental Health Professional

Ideally, you will select a mental health professional in your local area whom you can interview in person. However, if this is not possible, you may choose to select a mental health professional who is located in another city or state. Some students who live in remote areas may choose to contact state or national mental health-related organizations to find potential interviewees. Such organizations include:

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://www.nami.org/
Mental Health Treatment Facility Locator (SAMHSA-sponsored):http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/MHTreatmentLocator/faces/addressSearch.jspx
Veterans Administration Hospitals Locator (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs): http://www.va.gov/directory/guide/home.asp?isflash=1
The Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Centers Locator:http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/harbor-lights

In that case, you would conduct a phone interview.

Ensure that the person you interview has a background in the disorder you are studying.

By Saturday, January 30, 2016, post your questions to the appropriate Discussion Area

Over the past decades, technology has changed the face of the criminal justice process. The criminal investigation scene now has forensics, ballistics, and DNA, all of which must be introduced as evidence in the courtroom during cases. Due to these developments in evidence, the courtroom has also advanced in relation to the impact of technology on judgment. Attorneys must now have vehicles to present the new evidence to the judge and the jury.

Use the Argosy University online library resources to research the role of technology in influencing judgments in courtrooms and to select the articles for this assignment.

Submission Details:

By Week 4, Day 3, in a minimum of 250 words, post your responses to the following topics in the Discussion Area.

Select three articles from the Argosy University online library and write a short description of how technology can be used in the criminal courtroom.
Building upon this information, compare the advantages and disadvantages of technology in the courtroom.
Describe the impact of technology on court proceedings and decisions.
Suggest any two technologies that can be used in a courtroom trial. Explain how these technologies can affect case judgment.

Click here to download a list of technological tools that can be used.

By Week 4, Day 7, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Consider the points your classmates make about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of technology in the courtroom. Do you agree with their explanations? Why?

Discussion Grading Criteria and Rubric

All discussion assignments in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 40 points. Download the discussion rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations

Scenario

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In 500 words, respond to the following scenario. Please be sure to utilize at least two references to support your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

A woman delivers a healthy baby just prior to starting a new job at a small manufacturing plant. Within a few months after she starts work at her new job, her infant appears sickly and is hospitalized. The woman discusses her newborn’s condition with her co-workers and finds an unsettling similarity to events that led up to the illness of another female coworker’s child. First, how might you determine if there is a connection between the mother’s new job and her child’s illness? Speculate what factors you might have to address and how would you test to prove that there was a connection. Would the woman have a case if it were taken to court? Why, or why not

Answer the following set of questions in 1-2 pages, Word Document format (12 font; double-spaced). When you have completed the exercise, please submit the document to the ‘Critical Engagement Exercise 2’ dropbox (under the ‘Assessment’ tab on the dashboard above) no later than 8AM on Monday, February 1.

How did Science & Technology change the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? How did it change how people lived? How did it change how people were ruled? Was such rapid advancement a good thing for America overall?

Now: THIS TIME….I want each of you to try this without referring to “I”, “me”, “my”, “we”, “you”, or “us”….and without using contractions

Using the Argosy library, the Internet and other sources, research legal provisions relating to employee privacy and monitoring and respond to the following in a 3 page paper:

Scenario 1: Can you use information from monitoring reports to discipline or terminate the employees? Why or why not?
Scenario 2: Should employees have an expectation of privacy in their vehicles on company property? What can you do, based on the items found during the search?
On which laws or regulations did you base your answer?

Write a 3-page paper in MSWord format applying laws, regulations or case support to the scenarios and make a determination for resolving each one. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Scenario 1: Provided detailed analysis of the privacy issues and presented a legally sound resolution.
32
Scenario 2: Provided detailed analysis of the privacy issues and presented a legally sound resolution.
32
Provided relevant laws, regulations or cases to support the answers to both scenarios.
24
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

This course is Real Estate, not Marketing

Week 8 – Short Paper

Prepare a topic summary of 2-3 paragraphs for each of the following questions and answers:

1. Which of the following is a lien on real estate?

Recorded mortgage (pg 222)

2. A grantor conveys property by delivering a deed. The deed contains five covenants. This is MOST likely a

General warranty deed (pg 106)

3. The states in which the owner gives up legal title of mortgaged real estate are known as

Title theory states (pg 244)

4. What is the difference between a general lien and a specific lien?

A specific lien is a lien against a certain parcel of real estate or other property, while a general lien covers all of a debtor’s property. (pg 223)

Your grade on this paper will be based on the level of your self-reflection and thoroughness in covering the weak areas of your knowledge.

For additional details, refer to the Short Paper/Case Study Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course.

APA Guidelines Required (Title Page, Abstract, Running Head and properly cited references). Questions, see the Purdue Owl website https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Instruction:

Please compose a 2-3 page response to the statement above.

Follow the rubric requirements (attached).

All papers should be per APA Guidelines: title page, abstract, running head and properly cited.

Healthcare Marketing

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Instructions:

In this unit, you become the sole owner of a healthcare organization. You would like to increase marketing potential while maintaining social responsibility within your field. As a new owner, you are not afforded a budget to hire a marketing expert and must develop the marketing strategy and subsequent collateral materials yourself. Your objective for this unit it to develop a marketing package that promotes your healthcare organization. By the end of this unit, you will become the subject matter expert on developing and deploying a marketing strategy for a healthcare organization.

Submit your marketing package as one (1) Word document. To do this, you will need to use Page Break and copy/paste functions.
Your final submission must include each of the following:
Professional letter from you to the local Chamber of Commerce introducing your new healthcare organization to the community. This is your opportunity to make a good, first impression, so be sure to incorporate the elements you would want to promote.
Identify the 5 P’s of healthcare marketing in your organization
Create mission and vision statements
Develop codes of professional conduct which support social responsibility in your select healthcare field
Record a 30-second radio announcement (using a free online voice recorder such as vocaroo.com). You will provide the audio link to your instructor on a separate page in your marketing package.
Design a print advertisement (e.g., billboard, bus, newspaper, etc.). You will provide the print advertisement that you create on a separate page in your marketing package.
All materials in your marketing packet must be completely original. Copying and pasting work from other sources for this assignment is strictly prohibited. Remember, you are developing a marketing package for your own healthcare organization; make it unique.
Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected