Category: Essays

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking by playing the “Believing Game.” The Believing Game is about making the effort to “believe” – or at least consider – the reasons for an opposing view on an issue.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.

In Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you will first read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes: “The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful” at http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf. Next, you will review the Procon.org Website in order to gather information. Then, you will engage in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

Note: In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write an essay geared towards synthesizing your ideas.

Part I -Â Prewriting: Follow the instructions below for this prewriting activity. Â Use complete sentences and adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

1. Select one (1) of the approved topics from the www.procon.org Website and state your position on the issue.

2. From the Procon.org Website, identify three (3) premises (reasons) listed under either the Pro or Con section – whichever section opposes your position.

3.For each of the three (3) premises (reasons) that oppose your position on the issue, answer these “believing” questions suggested by Elbow:

What’s interesting or helpful about this view?
What would I notice if I believed this view?
In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

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 Style 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:

Identify the informal fallacies, assumptions, and biases involved in manipulative appeals and abuses of language.
Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic

Topic #2: Upstream vs. Downstream Transactions

Topic 2: In dealing with intercompany transactions the direction matters. These directions are known as an upstream transaction or a downstream transaction. Please consider the following questions:

Define an upstream transaction and provide an example.
Define a downstream transaction and provide an example.
Are the transactions substantially different? Please justify the reason why each transaction is treated differently

Unit 5 Discussion Part 1 Advance Accounting

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Topic #1: One Plus One Equals One

In the case of human relations, marriages occur frequently. Once the business combination occurs, the assets and liabilities of the company become one. This is the same when a parent company buys a subsidiary corporation. You have noticed in your reading that intercompany transfers must be adjusted. With this in mind, please answer the following questions:

Why are adjustments necessary for intercompany transfers?
What are some ways the financials would be misstated if these inter-company transfers were not adjusted?
Provide an example on how a firm could manipulate the firm’s financial position and how these intercompany entries fix this problem.

The number 4 challenge on a list of ten, as reported by DC Velocity (http://www.dcvelocity.com/), is “The nation’s deteriorating infrastructure”.

Lynch, Clifford. (2010). Top ten logistics challenges for 2011 (and beyond). Retrieved from http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/2010121310_logistics_challenges_in_2011/

Queuing Theory. (n.d.). Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd Ed.; Reference for Business, retrieved from: http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Queuing-Theory.html

In your readings on system dynamics, you have seen that in a system, different entities flow into and accumulate in stocks and then flow out, sometimes into another stock. This is similar to items in a queue or waiting line. But there are some aspects that are different from queues when comparing to system dynamics. For example, water cannot be analyzed using queuing theory, since you would have to track each molecule as you would track a person in a waiting line. Identify how queues are different than items flowing into and out of stocks as characterized by system dynamics.

Provide two specific examples of items flowing through a general system of stocks and two specific examples of items flowing into and out of a queue or waiting line. Discuss these examples, how they are similar and different

What is a code of conduct? What is its role within an organization?

What is the biggest challenge posed by egoism?

Summarize the influences of diversity within a workplace.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length and APA style

For a healthcare organization to be politically viable they must have influential stakeholders. In that, the stakeholders must understand limitations and be able to adopt accordingly. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following:

Highlight and present one key player/stakeholder (i.e., federal, state, or local) in political health policy in your state.
Choose two state/local/federal healthcare organizations. Then, compare and contrast their political viability in terms of one/more of their health polic(ies).
Apply the “method for analyzing political feasibility” as defined in Chapter 10 of your textbook to define your key player’s viability.

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. A substantive response is respectful, professional, unique, highlights the key points you have learned, adds your content knowledge, compares and contrasts, provides further research, is topic-related, and is at least five sentences in length

Technology has proven effectiveness in speed of information transmission, which leads to prompt healthcare service delivery, prompt treatment of illnesses and better health outcomes. Policies drive the success of health technology through practice standardization. However, cost, safety and security, ethics, and legality have all been target areas of health technology policies. In a minimum of 250 words, discuss the following:

Define health technology policy.
List and define two.
What organizations safeguard health policies? List at least two organizations and a policy they safeguard.
Provide a brief description of the U.S. Food Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) role in health policy.

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. A substantive response is respectful, professional, unique, highlights the key points you have learned, adds your content knowledge, compares and contrasts, provides further research, is topic-related, and is at least five sentences in length

Cloud computing is an option for hardware or software and complete information technology (IT) infrastructure solutions. Conduct ample research on the topic of cloud computing, and discuss the following:

What are the different types of cloud services?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of opting for a cloud service solution over an in-house IT solution?
Why is there apprehension among IT professionals about cloud services?
What do you consider to be the greatest risk in opting for a cloud-based solution

Explore the functions of communication in the strategic and program planning processes for a health care organization. Consider the topics discussed thus far and clearly integrate at least five key concepts related to an effective and efficient strategic plan for organizational communication dissemination. Identify three challenges with organization-wide strategic plan communication dissemination and recommend communication strategies to ameliorate these challenges. Your paper must be three to five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published within the last five years. One source must be obtained from the Ashford University Library. All sources must be documented in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Use what you have learned in this module to choose a mortgage for yourself. You may choose a house for sale online as a hypothetical purchase. Using the selling price of the home, the property taxes, and an understanding of your (real or hypothetical) finances, make an informed decision based on what you have learned to choose a type of financing. Give your reasons for choosing the mortgage type. Figure out your down payment, interest rate, points or bank fees, tax and insurance reserves, and mortgage insurance. Does the property require flood insurance? Write your answers in a short paper and use a chart or table to show your figures.

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).

Sources must be cited with APA format.