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M4D1: Marijuana: The Gateway Drug?

In a Chapter 10 discussion about the causal link between smoking marijuana and using other illegal drugs, sociologist Erich Goode distinguished between two schools of thought that should be looked at when considering and researching whether marijuana use leads to other illegal drug use: the intrinsic argument and the sociocultural argument. Briefly explain each one and then state which of these viewpoints you support. Explain your choice

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Lab 1: Creating a Database Design in Visio

Due Week 3 and worth 75 points

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.

Use the scenario from Assignment 1: Business Rules and Data Models to complete the lab:

Suppose a local college has tasked you to develop a database that will keep track of students and the courses that they have taken. In addition to tracking the students and courses, the client wants the database to keep track of the instructors teaching each of the courses.

Section 1: Visio Diagram

(Microsoft Visio or equivalent)

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

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

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)

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

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

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.
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

Choose a different author from the list below for each question. Use each author only once.

A. F. Scott Fitzgerald (“Babylon Revisited”) B. Willa Cather (“Neighbor Rosicky”)

1. How would you describe the protagonist in the work of your first author? Clearly identify three of the protagonist’s most important characteristics and supply examples that support your idea.

2. Using the definitions from the course lectures, discuss how the idea of naturalism or modernism is depicted in your author’s work. For naturalism, you will be looking for ways that the characters are portrayed as victims of their society or economy. For modernism, you will be looking for ways the text challenges traditional ideas and/or portrays the failure of the American Dream. Give examples of the particular period you find in the story or poems

Choose a specific visual work to analyze for your Media Analysis Project (MAP). Your project can be on any media; print, photography, television, film, the Internet, etc. You will explore this topic in detail by using the six perspectives. Choose something in which you have a personal interest. If you choose television, feel free to focus on a specific series (not just one episode). If you choose the Internet, focus on a particular website.

You must obtain instructor approval on your topic. Submit your topic as a one paragraph written proposal. Explain not just what your topic is, but also why you chose it.

This “paper” is just 1 paragraph explaining what the topic is and why you chose it. If i get a good grade on it, there will be 2 more parts to it.

Go to the Joint Commission’s Website located at http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/jcfaq.aspx. At “Standards FAQs,” select a field-related manual category from the drop-down list, type in “human resources” in the “Optional Keyword” box, and then click the “Go” button. Next, provide an example of how the Joint Commission has influenced a specific function of HR in a healthcare organization.

Recommend a specific employee training method that you think would be most effective for a healthcare organization, and determine one advantage and one disadvantage of your chosen training method. Provide support for your rationale

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.

The SETI project and other efforts to contact or listen for messages from extraterrestrial life were once funded by our government. Should the government support this endeavor?

Is this search for intelligent life a scientific mission?

What was your answer to the Drake Equation based on the values you used to calculate N, the number of advanced civilizations in our galaxy that are attempting to contact us?

Finally, comment on how you think the news would be received that contact is established with some other intelligence?

What would be the reactions of you, your neighbors, and the citizens of the U.S.

Read “Why Marketers Need To Stop Following Trends And Start Advancing Movements“. Local businesses and organizations transitioning to global markets might concern themselves with many conditions occurring in host foreign countries, including trend. The author identified three strategies that marketers should implement in regards to trend.

1. What are the three ideas?
2. Provide an example of a trendy condition in a local or global arena and how you would implement these strategies in a local or global trendy condition.
3. Is the author right to take this approach?

4. Please see the rubric:

   – Explain the three ideas   1

   – Provide an example of a trendy condition in a local or global arena and how you would implement these strategies in a local or global trendy condition? Is the author right to take this approach? 1.5

   – Using scholarly resources and APA style and formatting  .5

   – Participation and substantive responses 1

Answer each questions sepreatly and total works should be 250 no less.

Discussion 1: Customer Relationship Management:

Choose a water park or other vacation destination.
Create a hypothetical marketing campaign that uses what you’ve learned about the CRM approach.
Describe how you might apply insights about developing long-lasting relationships with customers to retain or reactivate past visitors.

You must use the text and at least one additional scholarly source. (Last week, many of you did not use an additional scholarly resource- Please use journal article, books, e-books, and other peer reviewed materials. These are resources that are considered “scholarly”)

Do not copy and paste information from the Google search, or internet pages, or your text book. If you want to quote something (with proper citation), you should then add your thoughts and discuss how you find that information related to your viewpoint. Do not repeat the facts of the text or DQ. You should bring up fresh ideas, or share your experience related to the topic. You can also ask questions and seek your classmates’ opinion, BUT provide your reflections about your own questions first to show your position before asking others about their viewpoin