Thursday, February 18, 2016

What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past?

•What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past?
•Have you learned something new about your own racial, ethnic, or cultural history?
•Trends in immigration will continue to shape the demographics of the United States. What will the U.S. population look like in the year 2050? Why do you think so?
•What challenges does the United States face due to the diversity of its people?
   What are the benefits of such a diverse society?
•How can we foster a climate of acceptance and cultural pluralism in the United States?
•In what ways does the media perpetuate stereotyping and prejudice? Provide examples to support your assertion.
•In what ways does the media help foster appreciation for diversity? Provide examples to support your assertion.
•How might individuals and the United States work together to reduce prejudice and increase appreciation for diversity?

•How might you change your own behaviors to be more inclusive and pluralistic?
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On an individual level, research suggests cultural identity is developed through social interaction

Choose ONE of the following Questions and write a 2-3 page paper using APA formatting
1. On an individual level, research suggests cultural identity is developed through social interaction. Based on class discussion, readings and videos, use this model and apply it to your own identify development (choose one or more of your multiple identities) OR how you have seen others go through this process.
2. Take one form of diversity (e.g., age, disability, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation) and describe what you have learned about the impact of stereotyping, prejudice and/or discrimination on this cultural group.
3. Some theorists believe that generalizations can be made about every culture. What generalizations can you make about yours? Write an essay discussing the different dimensions of this cultural reality, from the perspective of the individual, the community and the work place.

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Consider the topics and models covered on attachment, cognition, moral reasoning, developmental models, language, attention, sensation, and perception.

Your Learning Team has been chosen to develop a training model for a local company that provides mental health services.
Consider the topics and models covered on attachment, cognition, moral reasoning, developmental models, language, attention, sensation, and perception.
Create a 10- to 15-slide (not including the title, conclusion, and reference pages) Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that provides this organization with scenarios that would help them to identify when cultural aspects should be considered. Each slide would need to list the model or theory addressed and a scenario to help the organization grasp the key concepts.
•Be sure to include at least three references from scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources •PowerPoint Guidelines and APA format must be used (refer to class announcements) •Submit a MS Word doc of the slide notes

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What examples from your own culture can illustrate the ideas that our behaviors are impacted by our culture more than our biology?

What examples from your own culture can illustrate the ideas that our behaviors are impacted by our culture more than our biology?
How does the search for universals help us better understand human cultural behavior?
How does the identification of cultural universals impact our understanding of what it means to be human?
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Crowding Out


After reading chapters 11, 12, and Special Topic 4, write a 2-page paper describing the economic viewpoints and theories of John Maynard Keynes.
What were his views of the causes recessions and solutions to fixing them?
In each of their views, what place did government have to improve markets?
What does the concept of "crowding out" mean in all of this?
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Identify a global organization with a multinational presence.

This is a paper for Ethics class. It needs to have an Abstract and written in APA format. Also have to create a 5-7 Power point. THANK YOU.
Identify a global organization with a multinational presence.
Identify and research a cultural issue that affects this organization's interactions outside the United States. Define the issue and provide an overview of how became an issue in the organization.
Prepare an analysis of the ethical and social responsibility issues your organization must deal with as a result of being global. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper summarizing the results of the analysis. Include the following:
Identify ethical perspectives in the global organization. Compare these perspectives across cultures involved in the organization. Describe a viable solution for this issue that could be acceptable by all stakeholders.
Prepare MS PowerPoint Slide presentation 5-7 slides, be prepared to present in class.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Should the Ski Pro Corporation make or buy the bindings? Show calculations to support your answer.

1.    Should the Ski Pro Corporation make or buy the bindings? Show calculations to support your answer.
2.    What would be the maximum purchase price acceptable to the Ski Pro Corporation for the bindings? Support your answer with an appropriate explanation.
3.    Instead of sales of 10,000 pairs of skis, revised estimates show sales volume at 12,500 pairs. At this new volume, additional equipment, at an annual rental of $10,000 must be acquired to manufacture the bindings. This incremental cost would be the only additional fixed cost required even if sales increased to 30,000 pairs. (This 30,000 level is the goal for the third year of production.) Under these circumstances, should the Ski Pro Corporation make or buy the bindings? Show calculations to support your answer.

4.    What qualitative factors (that is, issues with vendors, customers, or within the product itself) should the Ski Pro Corporation consider in determining whether they should make or buy the bindings?
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Conduct a critique of one blog, one video, and one podcast, which provide information that addresses the topic of your Final Research Paper

Today, the Internet provides an unprecedented amount of information by way of blogs, videos, and podcasts. Conduct a critique of one blog, one video, and one podcast, which provide information that addresses the topic of your Final Research Paper. Assess the authors’ use of bias, validity, and applicability of information. Examine the influence of web-based information on global citizenship and multicultural understanding. Then, compile a list of three factors you believe should be considered when evaluating Internet sources for use in researching information.
The paper must be three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style. In addition to the three multimedia sources you are analyzing, support your points with at least two scholarly sources. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the reference page.
The paper is on teenage bullying and I have the blog and video. The podcast is only a suggested one if you know of a better one let me know.
The blog: http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/related-topics/young-adults/index.html
The video: http://www.pacer.org/bullying/video/player.asp?video=50 The title is Keenan West - Never Ever (The Bully Project)-Y
The podcast: http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/bullying_podcast.html
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Critical Thinking Analysis: Whistleblowers

Critical Thinking Analysis: Whistleblowers The graded homework for Week 5 is your second critical thinking assignment and relates to deviant behavior in organizations on two levels: deviant behavior by organizational officials or officers and whistleblowing, a response to organizational deviance by an employee. Write an essay that addresses these three points: how deviance occurred, what kind(s) of deviance occurred, and at least one theoretical perspective that you think has good explanatory power with respect to this case. In your essay, use these points as subtopic headings (e.g., How Deviance Occurred, Kinds of Deviance, Theoretical Perspective).
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Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation, using a presentation tool such as Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Prezi, on the historical contexts of leadership

Create an 8- to 10-slide presentation, using a presentation tool such as Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Prezi, on the historical contexts of leadership. Include detailed speaker notes. Use complete sentences in the speaker notes, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person presentation. Select someone who used a specific leadership model to mobilize large groups of people within the historical context. Include the following in your presentation: Provide the historical context of your leader. Explain what characteristics make them a good leader and how they fit within the historical context. Describe the leadership actions they took. Explain how this leader has inspired and mobilized others. Identify two leadership characteristics you would like to develop. If the leader were active in a different historical context, would he or she have been as successful? Why or why not? Explain how you have been influenced by the social forces around you in your own leadership development. Include images and references in your presentation to support your presentation.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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Graphic organizers on the Writing and Critical Thinking page located on the SAS Program

Resource: Graphic organizers on the Writing and Critical Thinking page located on the SAS Program Website. Create a 12- to 18- slide using a presentation tool such as Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Prezi, synthesizing historical and contemporary contexts of leadership. Include detailed speaker notes. Use complete sentences in the speaker notes, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person presentation. Select a contemporary leader who worked through a specific leadership model to mobilize large groups of people within the current context. Include the following in your presentation: Provide the current context of the leader you selected. Explain what characteristics make them a good leader and how they fit within the contemporary context. Describe the leadership actions they took. Explain how this leader has inspired and mobilized others. Compare the contemporary leader and historical leader you selected. Create a visual organizer to show the relationship between the two leaders and their leadership model. If the leaders were active in different historical contexts, would he or she be as successful? Why or why not? Drawing on your prior analytical and evaluative work of historical and contemporary views of leadership, identify two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop. Explain how you have been influenced by the social forces around you in your own leadership development. Create two questions for your personal leadership development. Note. The final three items require critical synthesis of all you have learned thus far. Critical synthesis places the focus of prior analytical and evaluative work into a coherent whole that incorporates your original insights and contributions Include images and references to support your presentation.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
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Locate a recent criminal

Locate a recent criminal
  Supreme Court case you find interesting. Provide   a brief summary and properly cite the case.
Write a 700- to
  1,400-word paper in which you answer the following questions:
  What interested you about this case?   What are the sources, purposes, and   jurisdictions of the criminal law related to this case?    What is accomplice liability and criminal   liability? How does it relate to the case?   What is the difference between the various elements   of crime, including actus reus, mens rea, and concurrence? How do they   relate to the case?
Format your paper   consistent with APA guidelines.
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Regardless of the philosophical approach one embraces with regard to the criminal justice

Regardless of the philosophical approach one embraces with regard to the criminal justice system (due process vs. crime control, consensus or conflict model, or individual rights vs. public order), the police, courts, and correctional components must operate within a multicultural society; that includes non-conventional racial and gender roles.
Beginning with the material conveyed in the assigned reading and presentation, discuss how multiculturalism and diversity impact the application of those philosophical approaches by the criminal justice groups (police, courts, and correctional) charged with achieving justice. Expand upon the provided material with scholarly research to support your position. Finally, integrate within your discussion the impact of a Judeo-Christian viewpoint on the implementation of criminal justice to principles inside and outside of the organization.
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Unit 1 Assignment: What happened to the Lindbergh baby?

Unit 1 Assignment: What happened to the Lindbergh baby?
Resource: Chapter 1 of your text.
The ability to think critically is a key skill for success in the criminal justice field. It means not taking what you heard or read at face value, but using your critical thinking faculties to weigh up the evidence, and consider the implications and conclusions of the situation.
The criminal justice system encompasses three main components: police, courts, and corrections. These three components interrelate in several ways. First, they interact in the processing of specific cases. For example, police officers’ conduct investigations and make arrests. Offenders must then be processed by the court system, but police officers play a critical role in this process, as they might confer with prosecutors or testify at motion hearings or trials. If an offender is convicted, prosecutors might recommend the sentence and judges may consider prison overcrowding issues when deciding the final sentence.
Second, these components interact at a policy level. The formal and informal decision-making processes of each component can impact the strategies and priorities of the other components. Third, the components are increasingly working together in various ways to respond to specific types of crimes. The interactions between components often result in conflict. Each component focuses on achieving different goals, and the priorities of the different components may not be consistent.
Review the details of the Lindbergh Baby Case.
Write a 1,050-1,400 word analysis of the Lindbergh case. Include the following components in your discussion: APA format
•Discuss how the three components, police, courts, and corrections, apply to this case. •Discuss first appearance, preliminary hearing, and arraignment as they apply to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. •Discuss adjudication as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. •Discuss sentencing as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. •Discuss corrections as it applies to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
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.Discuss any of the causes of organizational conflict(s). Then discuss how best to handle the issues of the conflict(s) that you chose.

answer at least 1 of the following questions of your choice (you can discuss as many as you like): 1.Discuss any of the causes of organizational conflict(s). Then discuss how best to handle the issues of the conflict(s) that you chose.
2.Explain briefly how chronic health issues have an effect on the cost of operating a criminal justice organization. What is the best manner in which to reduce any said cost if you were asked to design the health benefit package?
3.Explore and discuss the major changes that have come to public employee unions since the swearing in of a new U.S. President in 2009.

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Public officials are accountable to the people. They use tax monies and must have the ability to not only justify, but support their budget.

Public officials are accountable to the people. They use tax monies and must have the ability to not only justify, but support their budget.

Please respond to all of the following prompts: •What is a budget? •Discuss the four steps of the budget cycle and why they are important?

Doesn't have to be long
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Compare and contrast two separate cultures and ethnicities that harbor

Compare and contrast two separate cultures and ethnicities that harbor ill-will toward the United States. In a 12-15 powerpoint slide presentation, please compare both of your selections and be sure to discuss the role that socialization and religion play in shaping the beliefs of these cultures. Be prepared to provide why these beliefs are formed, how culture and religion shaped these beliefs and why these cultures are militant in their beliefs toward the United States. No comments

Which do you believe presents the greatest threat to civil society

Which do you believe presents the greatest threat to civil society: a corporation that commits crimes (e.g., murder, environmental crimes, or bribery, etc.), or persons who commit crimes that harm businesses (e.g., embezzlement, fraud, or larceny, etc.)? Defend your response, using at least one example from current events.
United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. (http://www.cpsc.gov/)
Seaquist, G. (2012). Business law for managers. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
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Assume a person accidentally picks up a credit card that is not theirs and uses the card in several instances.


In a 2 page paper, please discuss the following: Assume a person accidentally picks up a credit card that is not theirs and uses the card in several instances.
Can the person be charged with multiple violations of a state statute that makes it a crime to "knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of another?" Why or why not? See State vs. Leyda, 138 P.3d 610 (Wash. 2006).

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Creating Your Dream Job In this assignment, you get the chance to create your dream job

Creating Your Dream Job In this assignment, you get the chance to create your dream job and to build its compensation plan and appraisal performance.
Write a 6 paper paper in which you: 1.Create a job description and specifications for your dream job. 2.Design a compensation and benefits package related to your dream job. 3.Rationalize your compensation and benefits package. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the compensation and benefits package. 4.Imagine this is the only position of its kind in the organization. From this perspective, design a performance appraisal program to assess your job performance. 5.Rationalize your performance appraisal program. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the performance appraisal program. 6.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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:
•Discuss job analysis, job descriptions, and specifications. •Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of employee compensation programs. •Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs. •Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management. •Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

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