Category: Essays

Project description
I will attach two articles that must be referenced throughout parts of the paper, in addition to 3 other credible sources (that must be researched and referenced as well). I will attach the paper guidelines. The main ideas and questions that must be answered throughout this entire paper are: 1. What is the relationship between gender and peace? and 2. What kinds of recommendations can you offer that might encourage more women to seek public offices?. These are the main points that should be discussed in the paper and only reliable and scholarly sources must be referenced and cited. The articles must be read and a thesis must be written as a central part of the entire paper. Please come up with a fabulous and very attractive thesis and please make sure it relates to the 2 articles I have sent as well as the 3 you will find. This is 30% of my grade and I have been dealing with a few losses that I just can’t afford another loss in school at this point. The subject is Peace and Conflict Studies which is not listed in the main subject areas at the top, but my research paper topic involves Gender and Peace Conflict so please focus on the peace and Conflict aspects of the gender conflict and write the paper accordingly. Please make this paper very organized with a nice flow and please do not overdo the grammar with big words. Please just make sure that the sentences are not too complex and pretty easy to understand – still with impressive grammar, but not overdone or hard for me to understand and interpret myself. Please and thank you!

the class is about political economics
i have started doing this research (i will attach a file with my work under the name sae again) what i need now is a model with dependent variable and independent variables i need them to be for example done in panel data with fixed effects using stata for example.using real data for that part.also interpreting the results
also please note that turn it in will be used to check for plagiarism
sources are important to include
i will also attach the proposal that i did and the notes on this proposal were:Professor notes on the proposal:
Look for a base model to use for the empirical part
Add countries like UAE Kuwait
What is the theory mechanism that looks at the relation between education and growth
Will get a lot measurement error especially with education so talk about it
What omitted variables you have
Could have time effect so get time dummies
How to control for logged DV?
DV: education attainment
Make use of Romer /Barro Model
Public vs private education (Saudi almost only public)
Stem fields (example history studies will not help in growth)
i will also attach an assignment that was related to the topic (under the name haj bas)
i want to let you know it is important
to have methods: which has a model with dependent and independent variables and stating clearly what each variable is.
if it is possible to have data from KSA,UAE,Kuwait
also then there has to be a table with the findings and then interpreting those findings
also before the conclusion in the end
it would be good to add a page or so about political reasons that Saudi had all these scholarships in the past 10 years (even though some people would say since its autocracy all the king would be caring about is keeping his place so why care to improve the states of the people) reasons could be like saudi has alot of youth..and they need to keep them happy…wanting to have more diverse society (so moderate theory).. wanting to improve economics..arab spring…
also whats the implications
and then conclusion

What contributes to the act of suicide ?

10-15 page, double-spaced critique covering several readings. Contrast theoretical contributions, differences in concept formation and measurement, the validity of research designs and possible extensions based on the authors’ combine contributions

Rationale. Public managers are expected to hold a diverse finance-related skillset. They must know how to understand financial statements, prepare budgets, develop cost estimates, and provide objective advice and recommendations to disparate stakeholders. This assignment pulls together many of these elements into a single project that allows students to apply classroom knowledge to a real-world phenomena. Done properly, the project is a great contribution to students’ career portfolios. Directions. Select a specific public good or service, or an element of government operations, and analyze the cost of that good or service in a 7 – 10 page, single-spaced paper. It is advisable to select goods or services with defined clienteles, as it is consequently easier to determine a per-client or perunit cost and thus propose, assess, and recommend alternative service delivery mechanisms at lower costs or different levels of quality or comprehensiveness. Papers should satisfy the following elements: 1. Provide a comprehensive description of the public good or service or element of governmental operations. 2. Identify and describe in detail the current costs of provision. What are all the financial inputs necessary to produce your selected public good or service? How is that funding demand met – taxes? Grants? Fees? How many people directly and/or indirectly benefited from the good or service? What is the per-client cost? Make sure to include all on-budget and off-budget costs, as well as anything that may be “hidden.” 3. Identify and describe alternative provision methods. Are there ways to remove costs from provision? If so, what are they, and how much would they save? Alternatively, are there other arrangements that provide a better good or service at the same cost? If so, describe these arrangements. Regardless of your approach, discuss the tradeoffs 4. Formulate an implementation plan. What is necessary to implement the changes/reforms described in the previous section? Be sure to identify all relevant stakeholders and assess the political feasibility of what you propose.
Formatting. Papers must use an 11- or 12-point font in black ink with page margins of one inch on all sides. Papers should be 7 – 10 single-spaced pages. Evaluation. Papers are graded for completeness, depth of analysis, accuracy, and correct grammar. Submissions that in the instructor’s judgment use excessive non-text elements to meet the page requirement will be penalized. Scores on this paper represent 25% of the overall semester grade. Academic Integrity. Standard rules for academic integrity apply to all aspects of this assignment. All alleged instances of plagiarism or other student conduct code violations will be reported to Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards with a recommended sanction of course failure.

need 15 journal entries describing what I did volunteering at an OB/GYN clinic.

format:

date of activity
what did I do?
what did I learn?
what were the positive experiences?
what were the negative experiences?
what recommendations can you offer to enhance this learning experience

You should have, by now, determined the exact sequence of the polynucleotide inserts that you transformed into the vectors in Week 10. Hint: Determine the exact sequence of PCR products from the templates and primers used in Week 6; then determine which nucleotides were removed from these by the restriction enzyme digests performed in Week 8 and Week 9. The table in the file Summary of Results summarises the quality of the reads for each sequencing reaction; the key explaining the columns is at the bottom of the table. Find your data to determine if you have any quality sequencing results. Each pair has four entries in the table, one for each sequencing reaction you set up in Week 10. Pair 10 have eight entries, four labelled 101 and four labelled 102 – this numbering should make sense to you. A quick look by me and I think Pairs 1, 5 and 17 do not have any reads to analyse – please use the data from a pair working in the same bay – state which pair in your write-up. Each of the folders below contains one file for each reaction (72 files in each folder): Results Sequencing Chromatograms open in Finchtv (on PC s in lab in Peter Wilson building) Nucleotide Sequences Open and analyse each of the pdf files of your Results; these contain a summary of the results for that sequencing reaction with the following sections General Information – the running of sequencing experiment Quality Graph – shows extent of the quality of the data through the read Sequence – shows what sequence has been identified by the read Chromatogram Trace – is what is says
You should now know which of your sequencing reactions has generated a quality read of a nucleotide sequence. Validate these sequence results using the same protocol you followed in Week 5, Part 10. You can use any sequences identified by copying from the summary in the Results folder, using the fasta sequence from the Nucleotide Sequences folder, or extracting the sequence from the chromatogram as you did in Week 5.
For your write-up, you need to consider the following: Did you get complete reads, covering 100 % of your target sequence, from beginning to end, in either direction forward or reverse, with just one primer? If not, what is the coverage (report as % of the total number of expected nucleotides)? If you have reads with both primers for one construct, do you get 100 % coverage and, if not, what is the coverage? Are there any errors (mismatches, gaps, insertions) when you check the alignment against the expected sequences? If yes, check the chromatogram to see if the software has misinterpreted the result or if it is a genuine error in the sequence. You will need to use Finchtv to view the chromatogram, on the PCs in the PC lab in the Peter Wilson building.

Research Proposal: Marxism in Langston Hughe’s Short stories
(the Ways of White Folks)
Statement of a Problem
Langston Hughes is identified as one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance because he was one of the individuals who went through the, “frustration experienced later by quite a number of Harlemites, as upper-class Whites quasi-dictated their cultural standards and expectations for Black arts” (Delgado-Tall 290). Therefore, as a leader in the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes undoubtedly advocated for revolution. Though a significant part of his push for revolution was inspired by the need to fight against racial discrimination as indicated in many studies, the revolution was also characterized by Marxist undertones. For example, the mention of “upper-class Whites” captures class differences that partially instigated the revolution. Even so, most studies on the literary works on Langston Hughes focus on racism but they do not extend the discussion on the relationship between his literary works and Marxism. Therefore, this research will contribute to the understanding of Hughes’ literary works by focusing on Marxism as presented in them. Specific focus will be given to literary works such as Simple and the Ways of White folks short stories. The proposed research will shed light on the influence of Hughes’ immediate socioeconomic context on his literary works. Through this, there can be a better understanding of his contribution to Marxist literature.
Review of the Literature and Research Questions
According to Delgado-Tall, part of the Harlem Renaissance led by Langston Hughes was meant to fight against cultural dictation by the White upper-class (290). Thus, the fight against oppression captures elements of class conflict which are characterized by revolution and upheaval. On this basis, some of the main research questions which this research seeks to answer include:
How do the identified literary works of Hughes utilize setting, characters, language, plot and working-class symbols to portray oppression?
How is the material dialectic represented in Hughes’ identified literary works?
What is Hughes’ treatment of the concept of revolution in the selected literary works?
Methodology
To complete this research, Langston Hughes’ literary works which have been identified will be analyzed through the Marxist lens, a term which stands for a literary theory which dwells on class distinctions and class conflicts. Therefore, by adopting the Marxist lens, this analysis will help the researcher examine the impacts of socioeconomic factors on Langston Hughes’ literary works. As stated in the research questions, elements such as setting, characters, language, plot, working-class symbols, the material dialectic and the concept of revolution will constitute central areas of focus in the analysis. Doing so will lead to conclusive findings on the representation of Marxist concepts in Langston Hughes’ literary works.

This case study is the central individual project for each student within the course. This study serves to help synthesize the material covered in the course. It should bring the essence of the lectures and readings of the course. It should demonstrate the student’s thorough understanding of at least six of the “metaphors of organization” studied within the course (see below) and a capacity to apply these in depth to a chosen case study.

The following are general instructions for completing the project. You will find a rubric for the grading of the paper in Blackboard, under Assignments, “Practical Case Study”.

GUIDELINES FOR THE PRACTICAL CASE STUDY

In this course, you will examine a number of different ways of viewing organizations. Each way provides a lens that highlights different aspects of organization. These ways of viewing, or metaphors, should be explored in depth within the analysis.

The purpose of this case study is to create an opportunity to apply the ideas and concepts discussed in class and the readings in the analysis of a real organizational situation. The situation may be drawn from your own experience or from some public event on which information is readily available in newspapers, reports, etc. Your choice of organization and situation will be an important one, and will call for considerable judgment and discretion on your part in deciding whether it is feasible to use it for the purposes of the case study.

PRACTICAL CASE STUDY, continued

Be sure to maintain a professional stance in relation to matters which are sensitive and confidential, and disguise the source of your project (unless it is drawn from public records)
through use of appropriate pseudonyms. Confidentiality and the general conduct of the project are entirely your responsibility, so proceed with caution and ethical care.

If you have no other way to identify an organization, you may choose a complex, real life organizational problem/situation as described in a detailed case study or written about in at least multiple sources in the press (for example in Fortune, the Economist, Sloane Management Review, Wall Street Journal, or through a case clearing house such as the Harvard Business School Press. It should not be a case that you have studied in another course, and must be a unique submission with minimal similarity (less than 15%) to other cases or papers submitted via the Blackboard “Turnitin” system. (You will find a Turnitin link under Assignments in Blackboard for your case study.)

In essence, the case study invites you to do the following:

1) Identify an organizational situation that appears to be amenable to the kind of analysis and exploration used in this course: the situation must be sufficiently complex to generate enough material for the writing of a case that meets the specifications described below.
2) Find relevant information and data about the organization and situation.
3.) Consider the metaphors, images, concepts and general ideas discussed in class. Choose at least six of the metaphors to apply to your organization to help to make sense of the situation being described.
4) Write up the case study in a way that relates evidence to theory to provide an appropriate analysis and explanation of the situation described.

Successful organizational analysis rests in an ability to examine any given organizational situation so that its fundamental characteristics are made clear. It is not simply a question of spotting problems and applying appropriate solutions. Rather, it hinges on questions such as:

• What is going on in the situation that you are analyzing?
• How can you account for its characteristics and the way these may be changing?
• How can you make sense of the situation and arrive at an interpretation that allows you to say something concrete about it?

Elements of the Case Study

(a) Brief Summary: Introduction to Your Organization A brief account of the situation being investigated, providing sufficient information for the reader to understand the nature of the organization and its context. This section should include relevant background information as well as a clear statement of the focus of your case study. For example, it is appropriate to provide information on the age, size, and history of the organization, the product or services it provides, and the general nature of its environment. The purpose of this is to orient the reader, so that he or she can acquire an understanding of the industry or sector with which you are dealing, and the general trends it is facing. Following a general introduction, you should focus in on the specific situation of the organization that demands—or did demand– attention.

PRACTICAL CASE STUDY, continued
(b) Analyze the organization using at least six metaphors from the course. Here explain and demonstrate your thorough understanding of the metaphors. Present the organization in terms of the six metaphors, applying these to bring out the critical issues and challenges of the situation. Demonstrate your understanding of the metaphors and their relevance to the case (if you find that they do not appear relevant, choose other metaphors. If you cannot find six that are relevant you should choose a different focal organization!).

The different metaphors that we discuss in class fit different situations. Which metaphors or combination of metaphors best accounts for your situation, and helps you understand and produce the analysis or “storyline” by which you can best gain insight (For more details on this method, see Chapter 11 of Images of Organization). This will call upon your ability to use your information and judge its significance.

For example, you may find that your case is best understood as a situation of organizational politics, one of classic bureaucracy, or one that is best understood in terms of the inability of the organization to adapt to its environment. You cannot make this judgment too early in the course—you will have to wait until you have finished the preliminary analysis. If you are successful in this final stage of the project, you will find that you have a much deeper understanding of the situation studied than you did at the beginning of the course. Your task in writing the final report is to communicate this understanding to the reader.

(c) Offer substantial and clear recommendations for the organization, and show how these emerge from your analysis. Here you can synthesize but go beyond the metaphors.

The report should be approximately ten to twelve double-spaced pages (approximately 4000-5000 words).

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE REPORTS

The following criteria will be used to evaluate the case study
• Demonstrated understanding of the metaphors, and the theories and concepts related to these, which can be used to explain the case situation; a discussion of alternative ways of viewing the case will be particularly valuable when relevant.
• The comprehensiveness and care with which the case situation being analyzed is
described
• The complexity of the case (cases that are very simple and offer little challenge will not necessarily earn a high grade)
• The quality of discussion linking theory to data: the rigor and soundness of your
analysis and general conclusions
• The professionalism with which the report is presented.