Category: Essays

Windshield Survey -Phyllis Young

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This paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper. Please use the following categories as the first level headings on your paper. See the documents in the APA category in Course Resources for assistance with APA formatting.

[Introduction:] This beginning of your paper should catch the reader’s attention with interesting facts about your community and should include the purpose statement of the paper. This should be one paragraph. APA states that you should not title this as introduction; however, you are still expected to write a separate introduction. The title of the paper should be repeated at the top of page two and centered.

Community Overview: Identify the community that you are assessing by name and state and provide a general description of the community. What is the general character of the community? Statistics should not be included here. Your community should be the area you live or work in and should include a residential area. It should be a large enough area to answer the questions in the text. This should be one paragraph.

Demographic Data: Compile a range of demographic (population description) data for your community by examining U.S. Census Bureau reports. Using this data, describe your community. Compare your community data to state or national data. A summary of this data should be no more than two paragraphs.

Epidemiological Data: Compile and summarize a range of epidemiological (illness, morbidity, and mortality) data for your community by examining data from sources such as city or county health department reports, County Health Rankings (countyhealthrankings.org), or the Centers for Disease Control to describe priority health problems in your area. See the Webliography for applicable sites to search. Compare your community to state or national data. This comparison will help to identify a priority community health problem specific to your community. A summary of this data should be no more than two paragraphs.

Windshield Survey: Provide a summary of your observations from your first milestone. Make sure to discuss observations related to your identified problem. This should be one to two paragraphs.

Problem Diagnosis:

Using the assessment data, identify one community health nursing problem that you consider to be a priority concern.

Relate your choice to one of the Healthy People 2020 specific numbered objectives (not just a goal). Healthy People objectives are located within a topic area under the Objectives tab.

Your rationale should also include why this is a problem in your community and factors that contribute to the problem. Avoid discussion of interventions in this milestone.

Include a discussion of your problem with information from at least two scholarly sources (such as professional journal articles).(Review the documents in the APA category in Doc Sharing for help in determining sources that are considered scholarly—hint, .com websites are not considered scholarly sources). This should beno more than three paragraphs.

Summary: Summarize your community assessment and diagnosis findings and include a brief statement about the problem and the major factors that contribute to this problem. This information should be no more than two paragraphs.

Reference Page: All references should be cited within the paper and should be included on the reference page.

Caring for Populations: Milestone1: Community Windshield Survey Form

Directions: Please refer to the Milestone 1: Community Windshield Survey Guidelines and grading rubric for specific instructions in order to complete the information below. This assignment is worth 150 points.

Type your name, date, and observations directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with the assignment name and your last name; for example, NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith. When you are finished, submit the form to the Week 2 Caring for Populations: Windshield Survey Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your guidelines.

Assignment 2: Harley-Davidson: External and Internal Analysis

Instructions for this assignment: Perform all of the elements listed below.

This assignment has you complete two parts of a strategic business plan. To see how those parts fit into a full business plan, click here for a strategic business plan outline.

Part I – Analysis of the External Environment

As part of the Strategic Business Plan, you have been asked to:

Identify and analyze the major driving forces for change in the external environment of the motorcycle industry.
Analyze the dynamics of competition using Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition. Correctly assess the dynamics of competition.
Provide at least three statistics about the size of the motorcycle industry such as revenue, growth rate, number of units sold by manufacturer/country, etc.
Summarize the strategic issues firms in this industry face and identify their biggest threats.

This section should be titled “The Analysis of H-D’s External Environment.”

Part II – Internal Environment Analysis

Financial

Gather the financial information necessary to do a complete ratio analysis and the Balance Score Card (BSC) key metrics information.

If you were going to create a BSC, what would be the key metrics you would measure in each of the four BSC areas:

Financial
Customer
Internal Business Process
Learning and Growth

Perform a ratio analysis using H-D’s five-year financial performance. Interpret the meaning of the ratios and financial performance.

This section should be titled “The Analysis of H-D’s Current Strategy: Two Views.” Be sure to include the ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.

Competitors

Based on your analysis, you must decide which two competitors present the biggest competitive threat to H-D.

Perform a financial ratio analysis for the competitors after looking at trends in financial performance over five years, and compare the trends to industry averages.

Be sure you have a clear ranking of the industries’ competitors.

This section should be titled “Competitor Analysis.” Be sure to include the financial ratio analysis. You may also include other graphics to support your narrative.

This assignment should be 4 to 8 pages in length

Border security activities and programs in protecting America (See Department of Homeland Security | Border Security)

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Topics

Border security activities and programs in protecting America (See Department of Homeland Security | Border Security)

Once a topic area has been selected, formulate a research question and supporting hypotheses for approval by the instructor at the conclusion of Week One.

Use your approved research questions and hypotheses to develop research variables and a literature review for submission during Week Two.

During Week Three, Four and Five, conduct research and write a research paper that is between eight pages in length (excluding the title and reference page) and includes the following basic structure.

Identify a key issue and explain the supporting research question in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. (1 page)
State one research hypothesis that may answer the research question. You may use one that you formulated for Week One assignment, “Research Project Prep.” (1 page)
Establish research variables for analysis and subsequent confirmation or refute of the research hypothesis. (roughly 1-2 pages)
Present results of research informing the proposed research variables. This research must be supported by at least eight legitimate academic resources, five of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library. The course textbook will not be considered for the resource requirement. (2 to 3 pages)
Analyze the research question and supporting hypothesis. (1-2 pages)
Construct a conclusion of research (results and answer of the research). (1-2 pages)
Include a reference page, which does not count towards the summative assignment’s page total. The reference page should be as long as needed to accurately account for all utilized research materials. Each item of the reference page should be in APA format and include where the reference was located (i.e., Ashford Online Library, Internet, etc.).

The Capstone Research Project must be at least eight pages in length. You must use at least eight scholarly resources, other than the course textbook, to support your thesis. At least five of these resources must come from the Ashford Online Library. All sources must be properly cited in text as well as on the reference page. The Capstone Research Project must be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style. If you would like to refer to APA samples and tutorials, review the APA Checklist within the Ashford Writing Center, located in the Learning Resources tab in the left navigation bar

Final Paper

This paper will demonstrate your understanding of the key concepts at the core of good project management practices covered throughout this course. Your paper should be based on a project (either theoretical or an actual project) and how issues of management, leadership, and team collaboration were applied to the success (or failure) of the project.

The purpose of this assignment is to apply the central concepts of the course to a project management experience. To do this, define the project particulars for illustrative purposes, explain how the project team was selected, explain how team problems were resolved, discuss how you utilized PM software to manage team activities, and analyze how the project was closed and the impact of the closure on the team. You must use course-related principles and at least five scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library to support the paper’s thesis

This is criminal law homework please follow direction and list references after every set of questions

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Investigative 1 questions. 3-5 sentences per question

1. What are the purposes of criminal punishment?

2. What is burden of proof in a criminal case ?who must meet this burden of proof?

3. Who has the burden of proof to prove an affirmative defense? what is the standard for proving affirmative defense?

4. What are indeterminate sentencing laws?

Investigative 2 questions . 4-6 sentences per question

1. How did the Aprendi role extend the right to trial by jury?

2. Why is this rule important?

Discussion questions. Must be in paragraph form at least 10 sentences long

1. Why do you think that US incarcerates so many more people than other countries?

2. According to the “principle of utility”, is it appropriate to incarcerate such a large number of people?

3. Is it appropriate to incarcerate minorities disproportionately to their representation in US society?

The directions are above each set of questions. The first set needs to be 3-5 sentence

Many cases of political behavior in the workplace concern make-or-break causes of concern. Some employees behave politically in order to preserve their jobs or to obtain a livable salary. However, it is often the case that people behave politically over trivial issues.

For your first post, describe the silliest case of office politics you have ever encountered. Keep in mind that when this event happened it may not have made sense to you. But after reading up on organizational politics from the background materials, does this political incident make more sense to you? What concept from the background materials helps explain this incident the most?

In the business world, the mean salary is often used to describe the salaries of employees of a company. However, the median salary may be a better measure of the salaries than the mean. Which is the better measure of central tendency? Why? Review and respond to the comments posted by your classmates offering your insight on this topic

Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford University is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the issue of organizational power. Do a search on Jeffrey Pfeffer on YouTube or Google Videos, and find one of his videos on power in organizations. Share the link to the video with your classmates and also share your thoughts on the video.

Some specific issues to consider in your first post regarding the video include:

How useful was the video to you in understanding organizational power?
What is your impression of Dr. Pfeffer’s speaking and presentation style? Does he project “expert power” in his presentation? In other words, do you think he practices what he preaches in terms of projecting power and authority?

Discuss the concepts of independent and dependent events. Provide examples of independent and dependent events from the business environment. Include additional examples for your classmates to classify. Review and respond to the examples posted by your classmates, categorizing the events accordingly

By Wednesday, January 13, 2016 complete the assignment presented below.

In order to really learn about interviewing, you must practice doing interviews. There is no substitute for direct experience in learning about interviewing. This assignment will be the first of several interviews you conduct during this course.

Find a volunteer to role-play a client. The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the experience of formulating questions and gathering information during a clinical interview. You are not expected to have mastered these skills in week 1 nor even by the end of this course. Clinical interviewing is a skill that requires a lot of practice and years of training.

Here, you will simply interview the volunteer who is role-playing a client that is having trouble at work. Be sure to develop a plan for the interview ahead of time. What is the purpose of your interview? How will you achieve that purpose?

Be sure to follow the ethical guidelines you have read about, including competence, confidentiality, and informed consent. The interview should be at least 10 minutes in length but no more than 20 minutes.

After you complete your interview, provide a thoughtful discussion of the following:

How did you prepare for the interview? Be sure to list the questions used in your interview and provide a brief summary of the content of your interview.
How long was the interview? How much effort was required to keep the interview to the required 10-20 minute timeframe?
What things made the interview difficult or uncomfortable? Be as specific as possible. For example, were there things you or your client said or did during the interview that were uncomfortable?
What factors made the interview welcoming and comfortable? Again be as specific as possible.
Did you think you were effective in probing and obtaining information?
As appropriate, cite the online content, the textbook, and other credible, scholarly sources to substantiate the points you are making.
Apply APA standards for writing and citations to your work.

Submit your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Describe steps taken to prepare for the interview and submit the questions you will use in the interview.
20
Describe what factors made the interview difficult or uncomfortable and the factors that made the interview welcoming and comfortable.
25
State how effective you were in probing and obtaining information. Discuss what you would do differently if you had to do the interview over.
20
Justify ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from text, peer-reviewed research articles, appropriate professional field-related Web sites, and personal experience.
15
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation