Category: Essays

PharmaCARE (We CARE about YOUR health®) is one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies, enjoying a reputation as a caring, ethical and well-run company that produces high-quality products that save millions of lives and enhance the quality of life for millions of others (Note: PharmaCARE is a hypothetical company that you will to compare to a real company as noted in the assignment criteria below). The company offers free and discounted drugs to low-income consumers, has a foundation that sponsors healthcare educational programs and scholarships, and its CEO serves on the PhRMA board. PharmaCARE recently launched a new initiative, We CARE about YOUR world®, pledging its commitment to the environment through recycling, packaging changes and other green initiatives, despite the fact that the company’s lobbying efforts and PAC have successfully defeated environmental laws and regulations, including extension of the Superfund tax, which was created by Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

Based in New Jersey, PharmaCARE maintains a large manufacturing facility in the African nation of Colberia, where the company has found several “healers” eager to freely share information about indigenous cures and an abundance of Colberians willing to work for $1.00 a day, harvesting plants by walking five (5) miles into and out of the jungle carrying baskets that, when full, weigh up to fifty (50) pounds. Due to the low standard of living in Colberia, much of the population lives in primitive huts with no electricity or running water. PharmaCARE’s executives, however, live in a luxury compound, complete with a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a golf course. PharmaCARE’s extensive activities in Colberia have destroyed habitat and endangered native species.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research companies that have recently experienced negative consequences as a result of the company’s corporate activities. Compare the facts and consequences surrounding the companies you have researched to PharmaCare to support your response(s) to the criteria below.

Write a six (6) page paper in which you:

Describe the key characteristics of a stakeholder and determine all the stakeholders within the PharmaCARE scenario.
Analyze the human rights issues presented by PharmaCARE’s treatment of the Colberia’s indigenous population versus that of its executives. Recommend at least three (3) changes PharmaCARE can make to be more ethical going forward.
Assess PharmaCARE’s environmental initiative against the backdrop of its anti-environmental lobbying efforts and Colberian activities. Support the position.
Decide whether or not PharmaCARE’s actions with respect to the indigenous people of Colberia would be ethical in accordance with each of the following ethical theories:

Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue ethics
Ethics of care
Your own moral / ethical compass
Compare PharmaCARE’s actions with those of at least one (1) real-world company, whose corporate activities led to ethical, environmental, or workplace safety issues and financial loss. Analyze the similarities and differences between PharmaCARE and the company that you chose.
Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze and evaluate laws that protect against discrimination in the workplace.
Examine and assess employee rights to health and safety in the workplace.
Analyze environmental protection laws and assess their impact on organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.

According to studies of graduates of bachelor-degree programs in psychology, entry-level positions tend to pay relatively little and may be relatively unsatisfying. Although the positions, pay, and reported job satisfaction of psychology majors tend to significantly improve many years after graduation, those who enter the workforce immediately upon graduation risk at least a few years of less-than-satisfactory employment (Landrum & Elison-Bowers, 2009; Rajecki & Borden, 2011).

Although graduate school can be a route to a better paying, more satisfying job and career, it is quite expensive. According to the APA (2003), a doctoral degree results in most students entering into debts worth $50,000 to $75,000 or even more. The median debt incurred for a master’s degree is approximately $25,000 (Kantrowitz, 2011).

Using your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources, research choices such as entering the workforce immediately upon graduation or enrolling in a graduate school. On the basis of your research, respond to the following:

Select one of the options: entering the workforce upon graduation or attending graduate school. Identify at least five benefits and at least five risks associated your chosen option. For example, if you choose to enter the workforce immediately upon graduation, identify the benefits and risks of doing so. Cite at least two sources of this information.
Design a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation illustrating the risks and benefits. Include at least one graph, chart, or table to add to the presentation’s visual appeal.
If you have chosen to enter the workforce, imagine you are designing the presentation for a job fair at which you are a recruiter trying to convince new graduates of undergraduate programs to work for your organization.
If you have chosen to enter graduate school, imagine you are designing the presentation for a professional conference where you hope to recruit undergraduate seniors to apply to your graduate program.
Include one slide with a speech or a persuasive narrative, in your own words, to persuade students or recent graduates to make one choice (join the workforce or enter graduate school).
Include at least one slide addressing recent trends in the job market and analyzing whether this is an optimal time to enter the workforce or to continue your studies in graduate school.
Include at least one slide addressing the pitfalls recent graduates from bachelor’s degree programs face and how best to avoid those challenges. One pitfall must be related to the financial risk of or the debt incurred as a result of making each choice (joining the workforce and continuing school).

Click here to review a tutorial on how to design a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Support your statements with information from academic sources, one of which can be your textbook. Be sure to include in-text citations and a reference list on the final slides of the presentation.

Go to EEOC.GOV. Newsroom. Access a document about a recent lawsuit involving race, ethnic, sex, age, national origin, or religion discrimination that was likely to be covered by the media. You should not go back any more than 6 months.

Describe all the alligations, plaintiffs, and resolution of cases.

Document the time periods between the incident and the final resolution.

Search the web for newspaper articles or other media presentations relevant to the case.

Does EEOCs presentation and the media’s presentation take different perspectives? Discuss. Give you opinions backed up with facts.

Cite and Source (I need to know where you got your information to verify

n this assignment, you will practice the basic skills of creating and formatting a PowerPoint presentation. Choose a social media tool. Research how to enroll, its features, and how to best participate. You will use this information to build a concise and informative presentation.

Refer to the attached document for specific details and grading criteria.

Landmark Case Presentation

In this module, present your research findings on the landmark cases related to competency to stand trial (CST), criminal responsibility, the right to receive mental health treatment, the right to refuse psychiatric treatment, coercion to mental health treatment, and civil commitment and treatment of sex offenders.

Tasks:

Create a case report for each selected case, including the following headings:

Title and Citation: Provide the title of the case and in which court the case is involved.
Type of Action: Describe the type of the case.
Facts of the Case: Describe the key facts in the case with roles and responsibilities of forensic psychology professionals.
Contentions of the Parties: Explain the relevant points in the contentions of the parties.
Issue: Describe the issue from the viewpoint of the psycholegal question at hand.
Decision: Explain the decision in the case with implications, present and future, for the practice of forensic psychology.
Reasoning: Explain the reasoning provided by the trial judges or justices to arrive at the decision and dissenting opinions, if any.
Rule of Law: Describe the rule of law with regard to the practice of forensic psychology.

Click here for a sample case report, which you can also use as a template to write your individual case report.

Write the case reports in not more than a 6-page Microsoft Word document.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources

Develop an entire home network with a budget of $5,000.00. Your configuration must assume the purchase of associated hardware for access to both wireless and wired connections and a broadband connection. For the purpose of your configuration you must assume the network will be used by four (4) individuals.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Describe the hardware you will purchase or build (inclusive of computers, memory, storage, video cards, printers, routers and cabling). Justify your hardware selection.

Develop a spreadsheet or table within the two to three (2-3) page paper that itemizes the costs from the online retailer(s) of your choice.

Summarize and support the approach you will use to back up your devices.

Suppose you were provided an additional $2,000.00 to enhance your network. Explain the changes you would make to grow your infrastructure. Support your response inclusive of memory, storage, networking and redundancy solutions.

Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources

Create a plaque on Dunbar hotle in Los angeles. write about what it origianlly was and what it is now. Attached is an example. For the plaque, you can just write it out on word. You dont need to put a background or any of that.

Also, create a FLYER on the ^ above mentioned hotel and the black panther party, this should be short but sweet and to the point! Not too short, but just enough information to inform the public. Talk about what the Black Panther Party did, and the positives/negatives of what they did. They improved educaion/health, provided free breakfast, but were also viewed as a violent race and influenced other blacks to become violent.

Do a FLYER on BOTH the hotel and black panther party. Do a small paragraph for each. This is a FLYER, so not a biggo essy. Make sure that this is written as if the peroson you are hading this out too, knows nothing about the topic

in this Application, you will complete the first step of your quantitative research proposal, which is your Final Project for this course. You will begin your research proposal by writing a thorough introduction.

To prepare for this Application:

Review the Campbell and Stanley text, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research.
Review the Final Project Description handout provided in this week’s Learning Resources.

Consider the focus of the quantitative research you would like to propose for this course, your personal interests, and the designs presented in Campbell and Stanley

Review Chapter 1 of the course text, Social Psychology, focusing on research bias and research ethics.
Watch the “Research Methods” video from the Contemporary Videos in Social Psychology DVD. Focus on the various problems that can be associated with different types of research.
Read the online article, “What Is Ethics in Research and Why Is It Important?” Focus on the expectations of ethics for the scientific community, how results are used in the real world, and related ethical issues.
Select one of the following articles from this week’s Learning Resources:

“Intervening to Decrease Alcohol Abuse at University Parties: Differential Reinforcement of Intoxication Level”

“An Attitude-Behavior Model of Salespeople’s Customer Orientation”

“Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Preadolescence: Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions of the Behavior of Girls and Boys”

“The Self-Protective Altruist: Terror Management and the Ambivalent Nature of Prosocial Behavior”

“A Cross-Cultural Study of Environmental Motive Concerns and Their Implications for Proenvironmental Behavior”

Read your selected article thoroughly and think about the following questions:

What was the purpose of this research study?

How were the participants selected?

What kind of design is the study? (correlational or experimental)

How was data collected?

Where might bias exist in the study and for how was it controlled?

What might be the implications of bias in this study? In other words, if the results of this study were applied in real life and bias was indeed present, what might be the results?

Was the study conducted ethically? If so, what strategies did the researchers use to assure that the study was conducted ethically? If not, what could they have done differently?

The assignment (1–2 pages):

Analyze the article you selected by responding to the following questions:

Briefly, what was the purpose of the study and what were the main findings?

Where could bias exist in the study design, in the conduct of the study, in the behavior of the study subjects as they participate in the study, or the interpretation of results? Did the research do anything to help control for bias? Explain. If there is potential bias in the study, how might this impact the use of the study results in the real world or in future research? If the researchers controlled for bias, what might be the results if they had not controlled for bias?

Was the study conducted ethically? Explain in terms of the information you learned in the assigned readings. Would you implement additional strategies to assure an ethical study? Explain

Critical Thinking: It’s How – Not What You Think!

Write a 50 to 100 word short-answer response for the following: 8 discussions

(1) Primary Values of a Critical Thinker?

(2) By focusing on the parts of thinking in any situation—its purpose, question,

information, inferences, assumptions, concepts, implications, and point of view.

(3)How Skilled Are You as a Thinker?

(4)Weak Versus Strong Critical Thinking

(5) One belief I have been taught within or about religion is I have been taught this by (whom?)

(6) As humans we think; as critical thinkers we analyze our thinking.

(7) To what extent do my prejudices or biases influence my thinking?

(8) How do the beliefs I have uncritically accepted keep me from seeing things as they are