Author: chris

Throughout the course, you have been working toward your final project.  This week, you will be submitting a rough draft of that project. Using the information from your outline, your bibliography, and your literature review, combine the information to create a rough draft (you will have the opportunity for this to be reviewed by your instructor and your peers). Pay close attention to the following criteria to ensure you covered everything.

While this is a rough draft of your project, keep in mind that the more complete your draft, the greater chance you have to receive relevant and constructive feedback.

Once you have completed your work, post it to “The Rough Draft” forum (we will return to this forum in our peer review activity in week six).

You have three options in how you can present your final project:

As a Paper

Your paper should be creative and interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned.  It should be a minimum of 5-7 pages in length and you will use APA style formatting with a title page and reference section.  You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-space your lines, and set your page up with one inch margins (See the APA Template included in the Course Resources folder)

As a Presentation

Like the paper option, your presentation should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned throughout the project. Your presentation should be 8 to 10 minutes in length, include visual elements (graphics, pictures, etc.), be presented using a program such as PowerPoint or Prezi, and you should record yourself giving the presentation (consider using screen capture programs such as JING or Eyejot to record your voice—be aware, you may need to create more than one file).

As a Speech

As it is in the other two options, your speech should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned throughout the project.  Your speech should be 8 to 10 minutes in length and include a typed handout.

For All Assignment Types

Your assignment should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of information that clearly addresses the subject chosen.  In addition to the above criteria, your final project should include the following elements:

The Community Organization: Clearly indicate the focus of the organization and the community needs that the organization. A brief historical background of the organization should also be included.

• Discuss any community partnerships that they have.  Suggest additional partnerships that you feel they should have.
• Explore how the cross-cultural challenges and humanitarian considerations are involved.
• Demonstrate how the organization uses volunteers and the economic benefits associated with this (not just “free labor”).
• Illustrate any roadblocks that the organization has faced or potential could face and how they did or might find solutions.
• Describe the organization’s vision for the future.
• Indicate what areas in which you feel the organization could improve.  What challenges (technological, political, economic, laws and regulations, community-based initiatives, educational, etc.) will they need to overcome?
• Discuss potential ways you might be able to contribute to the organization.  How could your own interests, talents, and skills benefit this organization?

Research:

• You will need to include a minimum of ten (10) sources to support your project claims.
• Additionally, you will need to ensure the sources you choose are no more than five (5) years old.

Writing:

• Title your Project
• Introduction: Begin with the attention-getter, tie in the background information, and end the introduction with your thesis.
• Body:
• • Clearly identify the topic of each section. The topic must be a statement, not a question, and should begin with your own ideas and your own words.
  • After identifying your topic, use quotations or paraphrase from your sources to help illustrate the point you are making (be sure to identify the author(s) and source(s)).
  • After you have given support, spend a sentence or two explaining how the example(s) support the section topic.
  • A compilation of your research, your literature review, your methods, (how the data was collected or generated and analyzed), and your results should be included in the body of your project.

• Conclusion:
• • Restate your thesis.  This means that you say about the same thing as you did in your thesis, but you say it differently.
  • After stating your thesis, restate the topics from each of your body sections and emphasize what is important for your audience/readers to remember.
  • End your conclusion with a call to action that illustrates what your audience

Throughout the course, you have been working toward your final project.  This week, you will be submitting a rough draft of that project. Using the information from your outline, your bibliography, and your literature review, combine the information to create a rough draft (you will have the opportunity for this to be reviewed by your instructor and your peers). Pay close attention to the following criteria to ensure you covered everything.

While this is a rough draft of your project, keep in mind that the more complete your draft, the greater chance you have to receive relevant and constructive feedback.

Once you have completed your work, post it to “The Rough Draft” forum (we will return to this forum in our peer review activity in week six).

You have three options in how you can present your final project:

As a Paper

Your paper should be creative and interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned.  It should be a minimum of 5-7 pages in length and you will use APA style formatting with a title page and reference section.  You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-space your lines, and set your page up with one inch margins (See the APA Template included in the Course Resources folder)

As a Presentation

Like the paper option, your presentation should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned throughout the project. Your presentation should be 8 to 10 minutes in length, include visual elements (graphics, pictures, etc.), be presented using a program such as PowerPoint or Prezi, and you should record yourself giving the presentation (consider using screen capture programs such as JING or Eyejot to record your voice—be aware, you may need to create more than one file).

As a Speech

As it is in the other two options, your speech should be creative, interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned throughout the project.  Your speech should be 8 to 10 minutes in length and include a typed handout.

For All Assignment Types

Your assignment should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of information that clearly addresses the subject chosen.  In addition to the above criteria, your final project should include the following elements:

The Community Organization: Clearly indicate the focus of the organization and the community needs that the organization. A brief historical background of the organization should also be included.

• Discuss any community partnerships that they have.  Suggest additional partnerships that you feel they should have.
• Explore how the cross-cultural challenges and humanitarian considerations are involved.
• Demonstrate how the organization uses volunteers and the economic benefits associated with this (not just “free labor”).
• Illustrate any roadblocks that the organization has faced or potential could face and how they did or might find solutions.
• Describe the organization’s vision for the future.
• Indicate what areas in which you feel the organization could improve.  What challenges (technological, political, economic, laws and regulations, community-based initiatives, educational, etc.) will they need to overcome?
• Discuss potential ways you might be able to contribute to the organization.  How could your own interests, talents, and skills benefit this organization?

Research:

• You will need to include a minimum of ten (10) sources to support your project claims.
• Additionally, you will need to ensure the sources you choose are no more than five (5) years old.

Writing:

• Title your Project
• Introduction: Begin with the attention-getter, tie in the background information, and end the introduction with your thesis.
• Body:
• • Clearly identify the topic of each section. The topic must be a statement, not a question, and should begin with your own ideas and your own words.
  • After identifying your topic, use quotations or paraphrase from your sources to help illustrate the point you are making (be sure to identify the author(s) and source(s)).
  • After you have given support, spend a sentence or two explaining how the example(s) support the section topic.
  • A compilation of your research, your literature review, your methods, (how the data was collected or generated and analyzed), and your results should be included in the body of your project.

• Conclusion:
• • Restate your thesis.  This means that you say about the same thing as you did in your thesis, but you say it differently.
  • After stating your thesis, restate the topics from each of your body sections and emphasize what is important for your audience/readers to remember.
  • End your conclusion with a call to action that illustrates what your audience

In the Working Ahead section in Modules 1, 2, and 3, you were informed to collect items to be recycled and log a journal of these items. You were also instructed to select either Module 2 or Module 3 to collect these items.

Your assignment in this module is to submit your weeklong Recycling Journal, along with an analysis of your recycling efforts and an examination of the recycling process.

Be sure to examine what you have recycled in your chosen week and estimate how many grocery sacks of material you recycled—try to estimate the size. Results showing who recycled the most material will be posted by your facilitator in Module 5.

For this assignment, complete the following:

Part 1

Review your Recycling Journal for the week you selected. Write a report that covers the next two parts of this assignment.

Part 2

Based on what you identified as recyclable in one week and using this data, estimate how much garbage your entire locality or city could prevent sending to the landfill. Include the following:

• What is the total population of your community? You may use reliable Internet resources to identify this information.
• If everyone in your community recycled as much trash as you did for one week, how much garbage could your area recycle? To calculate this number, you can use your number and multiply it by the number of people in your community.
• How much trash could your community save in a year? To calculate this number, multiply the weekly estimate for your community by the number of weeks in a year.
• Do you think your community recycles enough? How can the US Government place more importance on recycling?

Part 3

Examine the process of recycling. Include the following:

• Explain how recycled material is reused.
• Describe what happens to recycled cans, bottles, and newspapers after they go to the recycling bin.
• Examine the impact you have on creating renewed resources from these recycled items.

Support your statements with appropriate examples and scholarly references.

Write a 4–5-page report in Word format. Submit the report, along with your recycling journal. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, submit the report, along with your recycling journal to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Adequately used data from the Recycling Journal to estimate how much garbage your community can save from the landfill.	36
Examined the process of recycling, providing a thorough explanation of how recycled material is used as well as how one can impact the creation of renewed resources through recycling.	24
Provided appropriate examples and scholarly references in support.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20

In the Working Ahead section in Modules 1, 2, and 3, you were informed to collect items to be recycled and log a journal of these items. You were also instructed to select either Module 2 or Module 3 to collect these items.

Your assignment in this module is to submit your weeklong Recycling Journal, along with an analysis of your recycling efforts and an examination of the recycling process.

Be sure to examine what you have recycled in your chosen week and estimate how many grocery sacks of material you recycled—try to estimate the size. Results showing who recycled the most material will be posted by your facilitator in Module 5.

For this assignment, complete the following:

Part 1

Review your Recycling Journal for the week you selected. Write a report that covers the next two parts of this assignment.

Part 2

Based on what you identified as recyclable in one week and using this data, estimate how much garbage your entire locality or city could prevent sending to the landfill. Include the following:

• What is the total population of your community? You may use reliable Internet resources to identify this information.
• If everyone in your community recycled as much trash as you did for one week, how much garbage could your area recycle? To calculate this number, you can use your number and multiply it by the number of people in your community.
• How much trash could your community save in a year? To calculate this number, multiply the weekly estimate for your community by the number of weeks in a year.
• Do you think your community recycles enough? How can the US Government place more importance on recycling?

Part 3

Examine the process of recycling. Include the following:

• Explain how recycled material is reused.
• Describe what happens to recycled cans, bottles, and newspapers after they go to the recycling bin.
• Examine the impact you have on creating renewed resources from these recycled items.

Support your statements with appropriate examples and scholarly references.

Write a 4–5-page report in Word format. Submit the report, along with your recycling journal. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, submit the report, along with your recycling journal to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Adequately used data from the Recycling Journal to estimate how much garbage your community can save from the landfill.	36
Examined the process of recycling, providing a thorough explanation of how recycled material is used as well as how one can impact the creation of renewed resources through recycling.	24
Provided appropriate examples and scholarly references in support.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20

Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

• Watch the video titled “Full interview: Matt Lauer and Dallas nurse Briana Aguirre” (17 min 26 s), located athttp://www.today.com/video/today/56243958#56243958. Texas Presbyterian nurse Briana Aguirre who treated Ebola stricken colleagues announced publicly that her protective outfit had rips, as well as gaps in it – exposing body parts to the potentially deadly Ebola virus. She claimed that hospital administration ignored her concerns when she brought it to their attention, and she was given no Ebola training. Briana Aguirre has received praise from colleagues and the media for going public with this information, as well as harsh criticism for being a “whistleblower” from other colleagues and the media. In your opinion, did Briana Aguirre act ethically or unethically in going public with this information? Should she be fired from the Texas Presbyterian hospital? Support or challenge Briana Aguirre’s decision to go public with this information.

 

Assignment 3: Presentation: “Biggest Challenges Facing Organizations in the Next 20 Years”

Due Week 5 and worth 250 points

In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that outlines what you believe will be the biggest challenges facing organizations in the next twenty (20) years.

Faculty Note: For students taking this course online, if there is a hardship for any student in being able to secure a microphone to complete this assignment, the student is allowed to use the notes section of PowerPoint to write a narrative of what they would say if actually presenting / narrating.

Write an eight (8) slide presentation in which you:

1. Provide a title slide (as indicated in the format requirements below) followed by a slide with an introduction to your presentation.
2. Presentation should include your choice of the five (5) challenges you believe organizations will face in the next twenty (20) years. Only include one (1) challenge and your explanation for choosing that challenge per slide for a total of five (5) slides.
3. Provide one (1) summary slide which addresses key points of your paper.
4. Narrate each slide, using a microphone, indicating what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

 

DISCUSSION

• You are now deciding on resources for a project team. You have a choice to staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) 100% to the project, or staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) part time to your project; however, they will dedicate 100% to the activities you assigned them. Using information from the readings, which set of resources will you choose? Or, will you choose a combination of both? Why?

 

DISCUSSION

Business and Government Relations”  Please respond to the following:

• Discuss the main reasons why a business should or should not be involved in political discussions or take a political stand. Use terms found in Chapter 9 to demonstrate your understanding of the material. You can submit your initial discussion post and responses in either written or video format (2-3 minutes or less).

Assignment 2: Interview Analysis

While you can read a great deal about various disorders, being able to identify such disorders when they are present is challenging. To assist you with visualizing the disorders you are studying, you will have the opportunity to view interviews with clients who have been diagnosed with various disorders.

• Click here to visit Faces of Abnormal Psychology.
• Select High Resolution or Low Resolution, depending on your computer specifications.
• Choose from the Select a Disorder menu, and then click View Disorder.

When the new window opens, select the Diagnostic, Case History, Interview, and Treatment tabs to watch the respective videos. As you watch the interviews, note the identifiable diagnostic criteria.

For this week you will be reviewing the following disorders:

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Borderline personality disorder

For each disorder:

1. First review the diagnosis and case history of the disorder.
2. Go to the interview section and choose at least 3 themes, asking at least one question for each.
3. Make sure to keep notes on the questions and the answers that were given.
4. Prepare a case summary covering the following points.
   • Describe the diagnostic criteria for each disorder.
   • List the interview questions that you used. Explain why you chose those questions. Summarize the responses given to your questions.
   • Describe the treatments for each disorder.

Write your responses in a Microsoft Word document, and name it PSY2010_W4_A2_lastname_firstname.doc. By Saturday, February 6, 2016, submit your response to W4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Describe the diagnostic criteria for each disorder.	15
List the interview questions that you used. Explain why you chose those questions. Summarize the responses given to your questions.	15
Describe the treatments for each disorder.	15
Properly cited sources using APA format. Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors.	5

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum to discuss the relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered. For this assignment, there are two parts. Make sure to answer all questions for Part 1 and Part 2 by Wednesday, February 3, 2016. Provide a detailed response to the topic questions in the Discussion Area. For this assignment, post your responses directly in the Discussion Area. Do not use attached documents.

To support your work, make sure to utilize your course and text readings. When asked, also utilize outside sources. As in all assignments, make sure to cite your sources in your work and provide references for those citations utilizing APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between one or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by Sunday, February 7, 2016.

Part 1:

In this era of concerns about health, diet, and obesity, there are a multitude of diets and weight loss products (including pills and surgery) on the market. The social norms seem to be shifting to a healthier lifestyle, with obesity being targeted as a major health problem. This leads individuals to seek help in weight loss and obesity. For example, in order to be successful after bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery), a person has to change his or her lifestyle—which often includes monitoring what he or she eats and when.

• Explain the difference between a person who has to maintain a strict regimen of healthy living and diet to not be obese and a person who is diagnosed with an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa.
• Review the National Institute of Mental Health’s information regarding eating disorders. Describe the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and provide an explanation of the common factors relating to acquiring the disorder, how it is diagnosed, and its treatment.

Part 2:

Impulse control can be defined as an inability to control the desire for a substance or act. The lack of impulse control is seen as a factor related to substance abuse but it is not the only factor. Research information on addictions and the two types of addictions (substance addictions and behavioral addictions). Choose one substance addiction and one behavioral addiction and answer the following:

• Describe each addiction including potential genetic and environmental factors leading to the addiction. Describe the common symptoms, especially those that impact the person both physically and psychologically. Describe the common treatments for the disorders.
• Explain why a person with an addiction may have a difficult time accepting he or she has an addiction, seeking treatment, and abstaining from the addiction without relapsing.

Justify your answers with appropriate reasoning and research from your text and course readings. Comment on the postings of at least two peers, and provide an analysis of each peer’s postings while also suggesting specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question response.

Consider the following scenario.

You are the safety and occupational health professional for your city’s health department. You received a call from a major food-distribution warehouse about some employees who are complaining of dizziness and feeling sick.

 

The scene is a very large warehouse; a significant portion is refrigerated. The illnesses are being reported from a refrigerated section (about 40 degrees F), where workers are blister packing food products on a production line. The warehouse has 20 loading docks, two railroad car lines that end directly inside the warehouse (in close proximity to the production area), a dozen or so gas powered forklifts, and no sensors or environmental monitors of any kind except those associated with the refrigeration systems.

 

The warehouse manager is cooperative, but he points out that he is in the middle of contract negotiations with the union. He is also very proud of the fact that they have special seals on the loading dock doors and throughout the warehouse to keep the cold in and the heat out.

 

You cannot identify any discernible odors other than the exhaust from the forklifts when they move by you. There are four women waiting for you in the break room complaining of dizziness and lightheadedness. They are all comparing and complaining about their symptoms. There are 14 employees who work in this area of the warehouse: 12 women and 2 men.

 

 

 

Instructions:

 

Based on the given scenario, develop a plan of action that includes how you would conduct the investigation, how you would identify possible sources of the problem, and your opinion on the likely source. BOS 3001, Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health 4

 

Discuss the standards applicable to possible sources. Include several recommendations you would make to the manager to help solve the problem based on your research into documented best practices for similar situations. Note: You may make assumptions about the scenario in order to propose solutions (be certain to state your assumptions clearly).

 

 

Your Case Study must be four to six pages in length, double spaced. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

ackground

In part II of this assignment, we continue to outline various business aspects of our lemonade stand.   As you continue to learn new concepts in this course, you have seen how a lemonade stand can help us understand and apply these concepts.  In Part II of your lemonade stand we will incorporate concepts from previous weeks and apply these to your newly created company.

Scenario

In week 3, you created a lemonade stand that you opened in your local neighborhood; you created a name, developed a mission statement, outlined a CSR plan, and picked a pricing strategy for this new company. This week you will continue to develop your idea by writing an informal business report that will share your plans with a potential business investor.   A report template is available in Doc Sharing to guide you through formatting of this assignment; however, the main prompts you should address in the report include:

–          Branding strategy.  In Part I, you decided part of the brand when you developed your pricing strategy.   Continue with the other parts of the marketing mix (Place, Promotion, and Product), and discuss how the lemonade stand should be branded utilizing this marketing mix (Chapter 14).

–          Opportunities for new locations.  Your stand in your neighborhood has been very successful and you are considering expanding operations.   In doing so, you will need to outline some criteria for potential new locations (Chapter 15).

–          Promotion plans.  You have a $ 10,000 budget to promote your stand in the local community.  Please outline two or three ways you could promote this business (please include costs involved in these promotions) (Chapter 16).

–          Employee Training.  You have hired several people to run your lemonade stand, as you simply are too involved in the strategic aspects of the business.   As such, you have seen sales drop.   What are some ways you can motivate your employees to improve sales?  (Chapter 10)

Activity

Once you have considered the points above, please provide responses and explanations using the template provided in Doc Sharing (titled “Lemonade Stand Informal Business Report”).  Utilize your textbook and apply the lessons we have learned in previous weeks to develop and support your plans.  By offering support and developing your response, you must provide examples, elaboration, or justification, often in the form of information gathered from your textbook.  When integrating support from your textbook, be sure to use APA style to provide in-text citations within the paragraph and a full end reference on a separate Reference Page after the Business Plan.  Examples of APA formatting are included in the template.

You are to write roughly 500 – 750 words in answering all points posted above for your Lemonade Stand.

 

This informal business report will be evaluated on how well you apply the concepts that are detailed in the textbook to a practical idea.   In order to receive the highest grade, it is required that you review the textbook and cite specific areas of the text in your responses (taking care in citing these properly in APA style).  Additionally, while this is not an English class and while the content of your ideas is most important, grammar and sentence structure will account for a portion of your report grade.  Please be sure to write well-developed responses in complete sentence and paragraph format.

 

Note:  For this assignment and other college writing assignments, please note that when you reference or cite a text, if you use words that are directly from a source, they must be in quotations and cited.   If you are just referencing them and have changed the words, a citation is still required.  One final point, when writing anything in college, you must adhere to the 80/20 rule: 80% of the papers should be in your own words, while 20% make up any citations you may add.  Violation of this rule could result in a zero for the assignment.

 

Grading Rubric

Grading Rubric: Category	Points	Description
Criteria/Creativity	30	Demonstrates a strong grasp of the prompts by fully addressing required components with creativity, insight, and logical application.
Understanding	50	Demonstrates understanding of the course content by applying concepts from the lectures and text and showing citations from the text when addressing the prompts.  The report clearly explains business plans to an investor as the audience.
Execution	20	Responses follow a clear purpose and are written succinctly using strong organization, development, and proper grammar.  Citations and a Reference Page are correctly formatted using APA style.  Word count for the business report should be between 500 – 750 words (not including the Reference Page or template information).
Total	100	A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

 

 

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