Category: Essays

Outline your team’s Public Involvement strategy as well as the type of Genre as related to BULLYING. Complete the following in your outline:

Identify various techniques available to ensure public involvement, including external stakeholders. Provide rationale for the chosen techniques.

· Include possible challenges with public involvement in the decision-making process. Provide recommendations to overcome anticipated challenges.

· Evaluate three communication genres based on how closely they align to stakeholder criterion.

The use of E-Books has increased in recent years, especially with the advent of mobile E-Readers. A marketing research firm recently developed the following supply and demand schedules for E-books:

Price/E-Book

Quantity Demanded

Quantity Supplied

$18400010,0001650009500146000900012700085001080008000990007500810000700071100065006120006000513000550041400050002150004500

Assignment Guidelines:

Using Microsoft (MS) Excel, construct a graph showing supply and demand in the E-Book market based on the data above. (Save this file because you will re-work it later in the assignment.) When finished, copy and paste or import your graph into an MS Word document.

(Tutorials for working with MS Excel and MS Word can be found through the Tutoring Services and Tutorials link at the top of the page.)

In your MS Word document, below your imported graph, respond to the following:

Explain how the Laws of Supply and Demand are illustrated in this graph.Describe the equilibrium price and quantity in this market.Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $12 in the E-Book market. Explain what would happen in this market.Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $6. Explain what would happen in this market.Now, assume that the price of E-Readers (used with E-Books) drops from $60 by fifty percent. How would this change impact the demand for E-Books? Explain your answer. Then, reconstruct your original graph to show this change and place it in your MS Word document below your explanation.

Remember, quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books, articles, or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources

Read the original passage below, from Richard A. Posner in The little book of plagiarism, Pantheon Books, New York published in 2007 (page 81).

For this assignment you are to paraphrase Posner and include one direct quotation. Refer to the the APA Manual for using quotes and proper citing. Make sure to include the reference for Posner.

“Student plagiarism may be becoming less common as more and more colleges and universities adopt plagiarism-detection software, such as Turnitin, a product of a company named iParadigms. Thousands of colleges both in the United States and abroad have acquired licenses, at an annual cost of about 80 cents per enrolled student, to use the program. The program digitizes each student’s paper, uploads it into the Turnitin database, and searches the database for matches. The Turnitin database is actually a collection of databases. One, the equivalent of Google’s database, is a complete and continuously updated copy of the World Wide Web. Others contain archived materials from the Web, contents of other publicly available databases-and all the student papers that have been submitted to Turnitin for a plagiarism check’ (p.81).

***Posner, R. A. (2007). The little book of plagiarism. New York: Pantheon.***

Included in assignment your paraphrase of the above quote and then write a description of what you found difficult in completing this activity.What was challenging about paraphrasing and not plagiarizing? What strategies did you use to succeed? What tips could you give others who want to successfully paraphrase and avoid plagiarizing?

One aspect of raising healthy children is understanding how to best provide correction when they make poor choices or behave in unacceptable ways. Over the years, there has been much debate over the most effective form of punishment for children. As part of this debate, you have to take into consideration operant conditioning as this is the basis for how effective correction works. Operant conditioning should be considered when choosing how to best administer corrective actions whether the parents choose to use corporal punishment, time outs, or loss of privileges.

Discuss the differences between negative and positive punishment. What are the factors that make punishment effective?
Discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment and elaborate upon when you think it should be used.
Discuss how culture affects the type of punishment used.
Give reasons in support of your responses based on your readings and personal experiences.

Write your initial response in 2–3 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, December 12, 2015, post your response to the appropriateDiscussion Area. Through Wednesday, December 16, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. In your responses, consider the following:

Have your peers accurately identified the differences between negative and positive punishment? Explain your answer.
Can you suggest any other factors that make punishment effective? If so, state them

Calculate the debt to equity ratio of your selected company for the last two years. Discuss in your own words what those ratios reveal about your company in the 9.4 Discussion: Liabilities/Stockholders’ Equity forum.

Watch the video of President Obama’s March 18, 2008, speech at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia regarding the role race played in the 2008 presidential campaign. This speech, sometimes dubbed the “More Perfect Union” speech, can be found in several locations on the Web. Two suggested locations are provided below.

After viewing and reading the speech, write a two-to three-page paper in which you respond to the following questions:

President Obama chronicles the resentments of blacks and whites and states, “Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze….” (Obama, 2008, para. 36.) Do you think the resentments of each subgroup are valid? Why or why not? Do you agree with his statement that the anger and resentments are counterproductive? Why or why not?
In the speech, President Obama quotes William Faulkner, “The past isn’t dead and buried; in fact, it isn’t even past.” (Obama, 2008, para. 27.) What do you think this statement means, and what implications does it have for race relations in the United States?
Do you believe a trans-racial society is desirable and possible in the United States? In your opinion, what changes would have to take place in our culture and/or our communications with one another for this societal change to take place?

Take a look at the World POPClock where you can compare the ever changing world population with years gone by. The current world population is over 7 billion people. Do you believe that the U.S. should be concerned about overpopulation and that immediate action is warranted, or do you believe that the risks of overpopulation have been grossly overstated? What about other parts of the world?

Each discussion answer must be a minimum of 400 words. Also no

headlines please. Will be checked using turnitin for plagiarism.

#1

Within criminal justice, researchers are often faced with a plethora of anecdotal data with little empirical support for such assertions. We have all, no doubt, heard anecdotes pertaining to gang initiation rites, killers stalking baby sitters, or corpses discovered rolled in carpets by hapless hotel maids. Criminal justice researchers depend primarily upon empirical data as the most useful tools with which to explore the nuances of the issues plaguing society. However, one can always ponder the usefulness of anecdotal data. In contemporary research, there has yet to be a consensus pertaining to the proper place and function of anecdotal data. Jacques (2014) discusses both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Respond fully to the following questions:

How would you explain the differences between the use of empirical research data from that of anecdotal data?
How do these differences inform how criminal justice data might be evaluated and interpreted in published research findings?
Is there a place in formal research for anecdotal data?

#2

Within the field of criminal justice, lie a host of intriguing issues and problems. Scholars devoted to research in the area of criminal justice utilize both qualitative and quantitative data in their quest to obtain answers to the many issues inherent in the study of crime and human behavior. It is imperative for ethical, robust, and viable research that data utilized by researchers be applied appropriately and analyzed accurately.

Respond to the questions posed below.

How would you describe the ways in which research data can be applied to a particular problem in criminal justice?
How important is the evaluation and accurate interpretation of data utilized in research analyses

Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

family
workplace
community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.

Submit your response to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 2, Day 7. Your response should be at least two pages long. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

There are eight elements of thought in reasoning. We often use more than one element at the same time. For example, your Point of View includes Assumptions. Therefore, we can assume that these elements are two aspects of the same thing.

Analyze the parts of thought and reasoning and re-organize the eight elements into four distinct categories by pairing elements together similar to the example above. Briefly describe each new category you created and present your reasoning for each category. Include the characteristics of the original eight elements in your descriptions and reasoning.

Example:

Description:

Point of view is …

Assumptions are…

Point of view and assumptions were placed into one new category because