1) Questionnaire/interview creation & dissemination to the research participants (undergraduate students at NYU & Columbia University) 2) About 5-7 more references 3) The thesis with all the data collected and analyzed
present the results of this interview and your communication reflection/analysis in a 4-6 page essay, following APA documentation for any source material used as part of your analysis, in addition to the text.
You will interview at least two people who belong to cultural groups other than your own, so that you may reflect on and analyze your intercultural communication competence as well as the importance of cultural diversity awareness. As part of your analysis, you should apply concepts from your studies. Specifically, you should draw on your knowledge of the Five Dimensions of Culture, as presented by Engleberg and Wynn (2015) 1. Individualist/Collectivist 2. Power Distance 3. Comfort With Uncertainty 4. Locus of Control 5. Time and how they affect intercultural communication, as presented in the Communication and Diversity lesson. You will present the results of this interview and your communication reflection/analysis in a 4-6 page essay, following APA documentation for any source material used as part of your analysis, in addition to the text. Properly cite and source all references.
Imagine that you are a first-line manager of a department in a relatively small hospital located in a semi-rural area.
Discussion Question : 1) Imagine that you are a first-line manager of a department in a relatively small hospital located in a semi-rural area. For many months there had been rumors of a possible merger with another semi-rural hospital half again the size of yours located about 12 miles away. Both administration and the board of directors had been declining to comment on the rumors although it was apparent that some kind of negotiations were underway. In about mid-November all managers were officially notified that the merger would take place effective the first of January. The two hospitals were to become a single corporate entity with two locations, and functions and services would be consolidated wherever practical. Describe in detail the possible effects of the merger and all that it entails on you and your position. 2) It is stated in the chapter that the three ways of getting employees to implement change are: Tell them what to do; Sell them on what must be done; and Involve them in determining the substance and direction of the change. For each of the three means, describe an instance in which it is a preferred or even essential approach and an instance in which it is an inappropriate or perhaps even harmful approach. 3) If you were hiring a new employee in your work unit, how would you rank the importance of the following qualities? That is, how much weight would you assign to each in making your decision? Explain. a) Personal values (ex. work ethic and integrity) – Individual intelligence – Conscientiousness in performing the job Some employers use integrity tests as part of the screening process. – Are there problems with integrity tests? Can you test for integrity? – If you were a work unit supervisor, which of the following do you think is more important to improving organizational performance? Explain. – Encouraging employees to participate in work and organizational decisions Setting clear, challenging work goals b) As a manager you realize the supervisors who report to you make errors when they rate their employees (e.g., too lenient, rate everyone the same, etc.). You notice a consultant is offering a training session on how to avoid appraisal rating errors. How successful do you think such a course would be in eliminating these errors? c) As a supervisor, if you asked or surveyed your employees about the importance of pay as a factor in making job decisions, do you think employees would over-state or understate its value to them? – Please, please Your Writers I need a great conclusion at end, and I knew we guys are the best. – Book name Management Principles for Health Professionals by Liebler, Joan and Mc Connell, Charles Jones & Bartlett Learning, 7 Edition, 2016
Explain the play’s (Fences) principal metaphor of the fence.Jim Bono best sums up the play’s overarching metaphor by explaining to Troy, “Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in.
For your Fences final essay, please answer one of the prompts below in a standard, 5-paragraph essay. One intro paragraph that introduces the title, author and ends with your thesis. Three body paragraphs in which you make a claim in your topic sentence, use evidence from the text to support it and analyze how your evidence proves your claim. Close with a concluding paragraph that summarizes your points.Explain the play’s (Fences) principal metaphor of the fence.Jim Bono best sums up the play’s overarching metaphor by explaining to Troy, “Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in.” Who in this play “builds fences?” Think both literally and figuratively. Choose three characters that you believe put up fences throughout the play. Explain what each characters’ “fence” is to them, why it’s there, and whether it is intended to “keep in or keep out.”
select a terrorist strategy used between the 1950s and present day and that has been or is a threat to the United States and its national interests.
Course Introduction
Topics include the definitions of terrorism; the historical antecedents of modern terrorism; the causes, ideologies, and motivations of terrorist groups; the different facets and strategies of terrorist organizations; and terrorism’s effects on policy.
Work done in this course will be further developed in GVPT 408: Counterterrorism. It may also be used in the program’s capstone course with program-level approval.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk a bit more about the Topic Selection, which sometime causes some confusion among students, mostly due to the way the paper topic is phrased within the Syllabus. Indeed, while will be talking about terrorist strategies and methods throughout the course, we will not specifically do so.
The Government Department mandates the paper topic for this course, and it has very specific requirements. You have to “In this paper you will select a terrorist strategy used between the 1950s and present day and that has been or is a threat to the United States and its national interests. In your paper you will answer the following questions: Why is this method a terrorist strategy? Which terrorists use this method? Why? When is this strategy effective? Why? What are the flaws of this strategy? Why? and What infrastructures support the use of this method? How and Why?” (GVTP 406, Syllabus > Final Paper) These requirements limit your choice greatly, because you have to focus onto a strategy that is/has been a threat to American national security. Additionally, the syllabus uses interchangeably the terms “strategy” and “method,” which its a bit ambiguous.
For the purpose of this paper, you will choose a terrorist method that has been a threat to American national security anytime since the 1950s. Examples of terrorist methods are: Suicide bombings (like the Khobar Towers, or the U.S.S. Cole, or 9/11), IEDs (Oklahoma City, Iraq, but also Boston Marathon), selected killings (The Weather Underground), kidnappings (General Dozier) and many more, but not terrorist strategies like attrition, intimidation, or provocation.
I purposely chose very different instances that took place both in the U.S. and abroad, because the paper asks that you chose a method which has threatened American national security, not necessarily the homeland. The rest of the questions are pretty straightforward: Once the time comes, take a look at the syllabus and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to explain more clearly.
Lastly: This is an article that talks about terrorist strategy. It’s an oldie, but goodie 🙂 and it might help in framing your choice: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1975-07-01/strategy-terrorism If you feel the need for more sources to get you started, please let me know: I have a couple of others up my sleeve 🙂 I hope this helps: If you have any question, please feel free to post here or to email me.
Final Paper
Please submit a finished paper. The final paper must include a brief history of the strategy as well as answer the following questions: Why is this a terrorist strategy? Which terrorists use this strategic method? Why? When is this strategic method effective? Why? What are the flaws of this strategy? Why? and What infrastructures support the use of this method as part of a terrorist strategy? How and Why?
The paper must be 2000-2500 words, excluding the title page, abstract and bibliography, which must also be included with the final paper as a single document. You must include a word count at beginning of the paper.
Papers will be in APA format and must use at least 3 primary and 8 secondary sources to demonstrate the plausibility of a clearly stated, analytical thesis if hoping to earn an A.
Proper grammar and spelling are required.
Papers must be written in Microsoft Word or RTF, double spaced, with no more than 1.25 margins using standard 12 point font.
Restrict your sources to newspaper articles from major national and international papers, published journals and magazine articles, academic sources, and websites from major organizations and government agencies. Course materials may be used as a reference, but it does not count toward the minimum number of sources. Encyclopedias and dictionaries are not appropriate sources for college level work. Online sources are fine, but they must be authoritative sources. Wikipedia, About.com, and other nonacademic websites are not acceptable sources. (Bear in mind that anyone can submit an article to Wikipedia.) If you are unsure about how to determine whether an online source is a good one, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University has an excellent resource guide: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource4.html. If you still have doubts as to whether a source is acceptable, send your instructor an e-mail.
In this paper you will select a terrorist strategy used between the 1950s and present day and that has been or is a threat to the United States and its national interests.
Course Introduction
Topics include the definitions of terrorism; the historical antecedents of modern terrorism; the causes, ideologies, and motivations of terrorist groups; the different facets and strategies of terrorist organizations; and terrorism’s effects on policy.
Work done in this course will be further developed in GVPT 408: Counterterrorism. It may also be used in the program’s capstone course with program-level approval.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk a bit more about the Topic Selection, which sometime causes some confusion among students, mostly due to the way the paper topic is phrased within the Syllabus. Indeed, while will be talking about terrorist strategies and methods throughout the course, we will not specifically do so.
The Government Department mandates the paper topic for this course, and it has very specific requirements. You have to “In this paper you will select a terrorist strategy used between the 1950s and present day and that has been or is a threat to the United States and its national interests. In your paper you will answer the following questions: Why is this method a terrorist strategy? Which terrorists use this method? Why? When is this strategy effective? Why? What are the flaws of this strategy? Why? and What infrastructures support the use of this method? How and Why?” (GVTP 406, Syllabus > Final Paper) These requirements limit your choice greatly, because you have to focus onto a strategy that is/has been a threat to American national security. Additionally, the syllabus uses interchangeably the terms “strategy” and “method,” which its a bit ambiguous.
For the purpose of this paper, you will choose a terrorist method that has been a threat to American national security anytime since the 1950s. Examples of terrorist methods are: Suicide bombings (like the Khobar Towers, or the U.S.S. Cole, or 9/11), IEDs (Oklahoma City, Iraq, but also Boston Marathon), selected killings (The Weather Underground), kidnappings (General Dozier) and many more, but not terrorist strategies like attrition, intimidation, or provocation.
I purposely chose very different instances that took place both in the U.S. and abroad, because the paper asks that you chose a method which has threatened American national security, not necessarily the homeland. The rest of the questions are pretty straightforward: Once the time comes, take a look at the syllabus and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to explain more clearly.
Lastly: This is an article that talks about terrorist strategy. It’s an oldie, but goodie 🙂 and it might help in framing your choice: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1975-07-01/strategy-terrorism If you feel the need for more sources to get you started, please let me know: I have a couple of others up my sleeve 🙂 I hope this helps: If you have any question, please feel free to post here or to email me.
Final Paper
Please submit a finished paper. The final paper must include a brief history of the strategy as well as answer the following questions: Why is this a terrorist strategy? Which terrorists use this strategic method? Why? When is this strategic method effective? Why? What are the flaws of this strategy? Why? and What infrastructures support the use of this method as part of a terrorist strategy? How and Why?
The paper must be 2000-2500 words, excluding the title page, abstract and bibliography, which must also be included with the final paper as a single document. You must include a word count at beginning of the paper.
Papers will be in APA format and must use at least 3 primary and 8 secondary sources to demonstrate the plausibility of a clearly stated, analytical thesis if hoping to earn an A.
Proper grammar and spelling are required.
Papers must be written in Microsoft Word or RTF, double spaced, with no more than 1.25 margins using standard 12 point font.
Restrict your sources to newspaper articles from major national and international papers, published journals and magazine articles, academic sources, and websites from major organizations and government agencies. Course materials may be used as a reference, but it does not count toward the minimum number of sources. Encyclopedias and dictionaries are not appropriate sources for college level work. Online sources are fine, but they must be authoritative sources. Wikipedia, About.com, and other nonacademic websites are not acceptable sources. (Bear in mind that anyone can submit an article to Wikipedia.) If you are unsure about how to determine whether an online source is a good one, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University has an excellent resource guide: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource4.html. If you still have doubts as to whether a source is acceptable, send your instructor an e-mail.
Papers are due at the end of Week 8 as a single attachment via the Assignments Folder.
Utilizing both the text readings and the article you researched, write a 2-3 page paper that addresses the following areas in the vignette
For this assignment, you will apply learning theory concepts/construct through the lens of the Christian worldview in addressing the vignette-driven learning challenge.Assignment InstructionsResearch/find a scholarly article showing the application of Skinner, Thorndike, Hull or Pavlov’s perspective as it relates to learning or behavioral modification.Download and review the Vignette scenario [DOWNLOAD].Utilizing both the text readings and the article you researched, write a 2-3 page paper that addresses the following areas in the vignette:The theory’s explanation for the behavior/emotions exhibitedHow the theory can be applied to change/modify the behavior producing more adaptive/positive resultCultural or ethical considerations related to use of this theory with the vignetteSubmit your assignment.Formatting Requirements2-3 page paperAPA format
How can Marcus writing about Van Morrison help you think about why you like (or are interested in) certain artists, songs or performances?
Directions:
After reading Introduction and Caravan. The Last Waltz. 1976 from Greil Marcus
book When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (printable from
Canvas), develop a further definition of yarragh based on Marcus writing about it.
Consider Marcus use of the term as a theory to explain how a particular moment in a
song has reached you in some way, or, as Greil Marcus puts it the moment when the
magic word, riff, note, or chord is found and everything is transformed (7).
Follow these steps to compose your response:
1). Summarize Marcus:
Begin your response by introducing Marcus text with a citation sandwich. Look closely at the Citation
Sandwich handout to see the essential moves. Along the way, be sure to summarize Marcus use of the
term yarragh, and try to come to an understanding about what it means and how/why Marcus is using it
as a theory to discuss Van Morrison.
2). Respond:
Offer your own thinking which connects to the idea you just introduced. To add your own thinking about
the yarragh, write about a particular moment in a specific song that sticks out in your mind; this can be
any song, by an artist of your choice, that can serve as an outside example for you to think further about
this idea of the yarragh.
3). Analyze Your Example:
As you write about your selected song, describe the moment in the song to your readers.
What is the one detail, musically or lyrically, that strikes you?
4). Answer So What?:
So what is it about this moment that strikes you? Is it strange, surprising, beyond expectation, unique in
some way?
5). Come Full Circle:
How can Marcus writing about Van Morrison help you think about why you like (or are interested in)
certain artists, songs or performances?
What is parole? If you were a parole officer and had to decide whether or not to file complaints against your parolees, what violations and crimes would you definitely file complaints about and what would you most likely overlook? Explain your rationale.
Just answer the questions truthfully for this journal assignment the class I’m in is Introduction to Corrections.
1. What is parole? If you were a parole officer and had to decide whether or not to file complaints against your parolees, what violations and crimes would you definitely file complaints about and what would you most likely overlook? Explain your rationale.
2. Several states have made changes to their parole policies in the last few decades. What changes did Florida make to their parole policies? In your opinion, why did Florida make these changes? Do you agree or disagree with the changes?
3. Discuss the different methods of execution in the United States. What is the most commonly used method in the United States? What are some of the controversies surrounding this method?
4. Discuss the cases Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia and the impact that these cases had on the death penalty in the United States.
5. Read an account of a death row inmate. Describe your thoughts and views as you read what the inmate has written. How do inmates deal with being placed on death row? The appeals process can take ten or more years from conviction to execution. Why does it take so long and could this length of time be seen as cruel and unusual punishment?
Write an APA style paper that addresses the following: What professional organization is devoted to this specialty?
COUNSELING SPECIALTY PAPER (32 pts.): Pick a specialty area in the field of counseling such as play therapy, music therapy, equine therapy, etc. Make sure you are interested in it as you can use this as part of your elevator pitch! Write an APA style paper that addresses the following: What professional organization is devoted to this specialty? What are the requirements, beyond the core preparation standards to enter the field as a professional? Does it recognize certification, licensure, accreditation, or other professional designations? What are the demands for employment for persons with this specialty (Statistical figures expected here)? What is being done in the specialization and what is the future? What websites are available for a person interested in this area? You will be expected to have a minimum of three peer-reviewed journal articles referenced in your paper, NOT including websites for the specialty area. This paper is to follow APA guidelines and be 3-4 pages in length (not including title and reference pages). A rubric will be made available online.