Category: Essays

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Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Determine how the project fits into the philosophy and mission of the agency. (Be sure to include the need that the proposal is addressing and that the concepts are well articulated.)
Determine the nature of the project and how it will be conducted.
Create a timetable for the project using a table in Word.
Predict anticipated outcomes for the project.
Determine how the results will be evaluated.
Determine the projected expenses associated with the project (new computers, bulletproof vests, lamp posts, motorcycles or horses, replacing broken windows, and computer training for the officers).
Include at least three (3) references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook.

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 the major segments of the grants community: the Federal Awarding Agency, the Pass-Through Entity, and the recipient.
Design a proposal by learning how marketing, analysis, planning, designing, estimating, and publishing play a part in the process.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in grants management and proposal writing.
Write clearly and concisely about grants management and proposal writing using proper writing mechanics

Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness and mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to Hurricanes in Miami, Florida.
Identify the major challenges that Miami and responders will encounter when responding to Hurricanes.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome challenges from a hurricane? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of Miami following the occurrence of a hurricane?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Individual Portion

Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 6–7 slides that provides details about your plan.
Include speaker notes of 200–300 words that will be used when presenting the plan to your superiors

Emergency Plan (Hurricanes): Miami, Florida

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Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness and mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to Hurricanes in Miami, Florida.
Identify the major challenges that Miami and res-ponders will encounter when responding to Hurricanes.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome challenges from a hurricane? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of Miami following the occurrence of a hurricane?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Individual Portion

Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 6–7 slides that provides details about your plan.
Include speaker notes of 200–300 words that will be used when presenting the plan to your superiors.

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In this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of cultural influences on development to create psychosocial workshops for a specific population.

Tasks:

Scenario:

As a human services administrator at a local agency, one of your duties is to write descriptions of the agency’s community workshops to publish in the community’s resource guide delivered free of charge to all residents. These are the titles of the workshops:

Single Moms: A workshop for working mothers to help them balance work and home
Community Living: A workshop for those transitioning from incarceration to society
Caregiver Parents: A workshop for those taking care of aging parents, while also raising a young family
Parenting Teens: A workshop to enable parents to help their teenage children transition to young adulthood

Your community largely comprises blue-collar workers, many of whom are working on either visas or green cards; thus, there are pockets of immigrant communities. Some of the workers are those who were reintegrated into society after prolonged incarceration (more than three years). The median age of the area is thirty-five years, and multigenerational households are commonplace. The public school system is underresourced, and truancy is a big problem. Many students do not complete high school, and standardized test scores are well below what is federally mandated for funding.

Directions:

For each of the four workshops, write a 100- to 200-word description on the basis of the following:

Utilize what you have learned throughout the course to describe specific services that each workshop will include.
Tailor each description to the community and the target audience for the workshop.
Apply cultural and multicultural sensitivity within and across all descriptions. Remember, a single mother may also read the description for community living. Craft your descriptions to be readable and sensitive to all.
Account for individual differences and environmental contexts that will influence developmental changes.
Account for the role of culture in shaping attitudes, values, and behaviors.

For each description, write a two-page rationale. Use at least three references from scholarly sources to demonstrate how you determined which services to offer for each workshop.

Submission Details:

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, prepare a 6- to 8-page analysis paper. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Substance Abuse Assessment Reflection Paper:

– Integrate at least 2 facts related to alcohol use and college students. Fact must be from a credible source and must be from a time frame of 2013-2015. Facts must be properly cited.

– Describe in detail what happened that resulted in you being charged with a violation of the Code and how the University’s policies about alcohol apply to your situation.

– Describe your level of responsibility for the situation that resulted in you being charged with a violation of the Code.

– Describe the risks associated with being under the influence of alcohol, including the impact of alcohol on your behavior throughout this situation.

– Describe how your alcohol use put your experiences at WFU at risk, whether academically, socially, financially, or otherwise.

– Describe the impact, if any, of your actions on each of the following: you, your friends, your family, police, staff, others present or not present, and the community as a whole.

– Will what you have learned from this experience impact how you approach situations involving alcohol in the future? Why or why not?

– Describe how your ability to succeed will be impacted if you choose to continue violating the University’s policies on alcohol. Be sure to include the potential consequences for your personal safety, academic goals, career goals, and social relationships.

– If you were in this situation again, what would you do? What would you consider in making your decisions?

– Discuss your decisions in relation to your personal values.

– Discuss your decisions in relations to your organization’s values (Sigma Nu).

– Discuss how you will avoid future violations of the Code.

– What did you learn about yourself from the Substance Abuse Assessment?

– Were you surprised about any of the information you learned from the assessment and/or interacting with Mr. Abernathy?

– What are suggestions from the assessment will be begin to incorporate into your alcohol use routine?

– What specifics about your drinking habits do you feel need to change?

– What have you learned about yourself as a result of your behaviors and your interaction with the disciplinary process at WFU?

Write a 1,050- to 1,400 word paper in which you address the following:

From the leadership theories discussed in Chapter 14 of your text, identify one theory that appeals to you the most.
Discuss how you would practice this leadership style in your current work environment.
If you are not currently employed, discuss how you would practice this style of leadership in a future job you might like to hold.
Identify 1 article on leadership from Harvard Business Review and discuss how you might incorporate this.

Does knowledge of normative ethical theories lead to better organizational decision making?

2) Is CSR primarily about profits rather than ethics?

3)Should stakeholder-centered models be the future of corporate governance

Either one of the questions can be done

Assignment 1: Part A: Your Marketing Plan

Due Week 4 and worth 200 points

At the end of this course, you will have created a marketing plan for a hypothetical product-based company. Each assignment focuses on a different section of the overall marketing plan. For Assignment 1, you will compile information on the company’s background information, an environmental analysis, your company’s short and long-term goals, and a SWOT analysis.

For information on Website analytics, visit Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics/why/.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

Write an introduction to your company. Describe your company, its location, and the product it makes or the service it provides.
Develop an environmental analysis that includes competitive, economic, political, legal, technological, and sociocultural forces.
Determine the primary and secondary target markets for your company. Next, analyze the primary and secondary target markets that you identified for your company. Be sure to cover the 4Ps, 5Cs and STP.
Decide the main goals that you would like to achieve within the next year (short term) and the mains goals that you would like to achieve within the next five (5) years (long term). Determine the most appropriate ways to measure both short- and long-term goals. Note: Consider the following metrics: tracking downloads of Website content, Website visitors, increases in market share, customer value, new product adoption rates, retention, rate of growth compared to competition and the market, margin, and customer engagement.
Develop both a SWOT analysis and needs analysis for your product. Each analysis should examine four (4) strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for your company.
Use at least four (4) academic resources as quantitative marketing research to determine the feasibility of your product / service. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service. Note: Wikipedia and other 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 the marketing framework including the concepts of the 5Cs, STP, and 4Ps.
Develop strategies to assess performance and achieve marketing goals.
Examine the marketing science of customer behavior and products in the marketing exchange process and create dynamic strategies for competing.
Evaluate target customer segments and positioning products within these segments.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in marketing management.
Write clearly and concisely about marketing management using proper writing mechanics
Below is the apa paper format that is to be used for this paper.

Review the project case. Determine the scope of the District 4 Production Warehouse Move project from the information provided in the case. Using the Project Scope Checklist, prepare a scope document for review and approval by the project sponsor prior to starting the project.

Project Scope Checklist

Project objective
Deliverables
Milestones
Technical requirements
Limits and exclusions
Reviews with customer

Submit your report to M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Wednesday, January 27, 2016.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points

Prepared a project scope document that is ready for sign-off.

30

Determined the complete scope of the project.

30

Included all sections from the scope checklist.

30
Used correct grammar, spelling, and word choice and cited all sources using correct APA style

Your project is to write a 6-8 page, double-spaced mini-research paper, with your subject as Employment Discrimination. Everything you need to know about the project resides below.

Your project requires at least three (3) outside resources besides the textbook. Your paper must be written in APA format, include a title and reference page, and reference your sources both internally (parenthetically) and in the reference page. Please use the APA template in doc-sharing to complete your work.

Employment discrimination law is about prohibiting or encouraging behaviors in the workplace regarding differences in people. It has evolved over the years significantly, and the passage of Title VII, the US. Civil Rights Act, has made more changes to how the US defines the right to work free from harassment and discrimination, than any other law, case, or regulation in the nation. This project has three parts. Part 1 asks you to answer eight questions about employment discrimination. Part 2 asks you to pick one US Supreme court case from a list, to discuss. Part 3 asks you to review pending legislation regarding employment discrimination, and provide a few details about one currently pending (i.e. not yet passed) bill in either your state, or the federal government. Remember, the focus of the project is onemployment discrimination.
Project Part 1:

Answer each of the following 8 questions, in 1-2 paragraphs each. You can use your textbook, or other outside sources to answer these questions. Do not write a book – answer the questions succinctly.

What must a person who is claiming they were harassed in the workplace allege in order to first state a case with the EEOC for each of the following types of harassment:
Sexual harassment – quid pro quo
Sexual harassment – hostile environment
Religious harassment
Racial harassment
Explain the difference between sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and sexual orientation discrimination, as those terms are used legally.
How does GINA protect a person whose mother died of breast cancer from employment discrimination?
Provide one example of a behavior that could be found to be both a hostile environment and quid pro quo forms of sexual harassment at the same time. Explain how a person could argue that this behavior at work was illegal.
Give the main legal reason why every company should have a valid written policy against all forms of harassment (besides the fact it is the “right” thing to do.)
Can an employer require that only females serve female customers and only males serve male customers? Explain your answer using legal terms.
How many employees must an employer or company have working for it to be subject to:
the ADA
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Title VII
IRCA
GINA
Assume you work for a company that has a sexual anti-harassment policy, but not a religious, sexual orientation, or racial anti-harassment policy. Write a one-two paragraph statement to your boss (the HR Director), as to why you believe it would make sense to revamp the policy to include other forms of harassment. Include one example of a real situation where a policy may have protected a company from liability or stopped harassment from happening. (You will find case examples on the EEOC website). Cite that case/situation in your memo to your boss. Provide the amount of damages/fines the company in your example case had to pay as a result of failing to protect an employee from discrimination.

Project Part II. Employment Discrimination Cases.

Many court cases on employment discrimination have shaped, created, and changed the employment landscape. Some protect employees from discrimination, and many protect employers from liability. Settlements and trial court cases do not create legal precedent or changes in the law. However, appeals court cases, and especially the U.S. Supreme Court Cases, do change, shape, and create new law, when statutes are interpreted in binding ways. Pick ONE case from the following list. Read the case. Answer each of the FOUR questions following the list of cases and place them in your Project Part II. Be sure to identify WHICH of the cases you selected.