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By Monday, January 4, 2016, using the textbook and Argosy Online Library, write a 5-7 page paper using APA standards for citation of sources that focuses on the following:

Interview two different individuals regarding their positions in society.  Analyze their responses regarding:

1. Identify each person’s class, race, and gender.
2. What role has class, race, and gender played in their lives?  How do you see these stratifiers as playing a role, even if the interviewee is unaware of it?
3. Apply one of the sociological perspectives (structural-functional, social-conflict, or symbolic-interaction) to the individuals’ lives.  Why did you choose this particular perspective?  How does it explain each person’s life and life choices?
4. What are some the benefits and limitations to using interview as a research methodology?
5. Analyze each person’s components of culture (language, symbols, material objects, and behaviors) and relate them to his/her stratified position in society.

Please post your completed paper in the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

etworks are a key structure in systems and depending on the system, nodes and links have different names. There are a variety of terms in use depending on the discipline. You will use the terms agent for node and relationship for link in your social organizations. Agents may be people, technologies, computers, machines, and such, while relationships describe the connections between agents. For example, one agent might report to another agent, thus a relationship would be “reports to.” One agent might interact with another agent, such as an ATM, and the relationship might be “obtains information (money) from.” Another example is that one agent, such as a cell phone, might receive information (text message) from a computer. Note: Multiple relationships may exist at one time. For example, one person may report to another person and at the same time the two people may be siblings.

To prepare for this Discussion, review the resources. Then, select an organization with which you are familiar and think about its organizational chart. Consider the formal, informal, and interconnecting networks within the organization.

Post a brief description of the organization you selected and its formal and informal networks. Then, explain which type of network, formal or informal, has more of an influence on leadership and management within the organization and why.

Note: Do not use the organization you chose for your Final Project.

Resources (I WILL BE ATTACHING PDF COPIES)

Denning, P. J. (2004). Network laws. Communications of the ACM, 47(11), 15–20.

Newman, M. E. J. (2003). The structure and function of complex networks. SIAM Review, 45(2), 167–256.

Based upon your reading of the Background materials, and your own additional research, prepare an essay discussing the use of infectious disease as a weapon of international terror.  You should address the following questions:

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of microbes, vis-à-vis destructive “hardware” such as guns and bombs?
• What would be the characteristics of an ideal “weapon bug?”  Things to consider:
  • Vector (i.e., carried by people, animals, in foodstuff, on other goods?)
  • Lethality
  • Transmissibility (ease with which it is spread)
  • Mode of transmission (airborne, direct contact, indirect contact)
  • Arrival mode (airplane, ship, on foot)
  • Based upon the above, select an organism. Explain your selection.
  • Describe the most effective countermeasures.
  • What precautions, if any, should logistics companies take, in addition to those prescribed by government regulation?  Explain.

Make full use of sources.

Assignment Expectations

• Write a well-constructed essay.   Feel free to use tables and bulleted lists, if appropriate.
• The readings may not provide specific answers.  In that event, will need to “fill in the gaps,” using your understanding of the material presented in the Module, and the background sources.
• Style and format must comply with the Writing Style Guide.  (TUI Guide, n.d.) This is not an English course;  however, errors in spelling, grammar and style will be penalized.
• Provide citations and references.  Use of APA style is encouraged, but not required.  Please see the TUI Writing Guide, or visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL, 2015).
• There is no page requirement. Write what you need to write, neither more nor less.

In RA 2, you will finalize the research question on a human services topic that you selected earlier in the course and conduct a literature review to better understand the problem being presented through the research question.

In this assignment, you will get an opportunity to practice many different concepts and skills that you have covered throughout this course.

Tasks:

Using what you have learned about research questions, along with the feedback you received in M4 Assignment 2, present your finalized research question on a topic in the field of human services. Your question should clearly depict the variables being examined and the relationship between these variables.

Gather, analyze, and critique scholarly literature and develop a literature review to address your research question. Use the list of resources that you finalized in M4 Assignment 2, in addition to any other articles that you found since Module 4.

Your literature review must be based on:

• Credible research sources
• A minimum of one quantitative and one qualitative research study
• One or two seminal or foundational sources
• At least five peer-reviewed journals and two websites
• Current sources from within the past five years (with the exception of the seminal or foundational source mentioned above)

In addition, your literature review must:

• Synthesize the research and provide a summary of how the selected literature helps support the research question.
• Discuss common themes found in the literature related to the topic.
• Compare and contrast the typical research methodologies found in the literature you reviewed—qualitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods.

Submission Details:

• Compile your research question and literature review in an 8- to 10-page Microsoft Word document. Include a title page and a reference page and apply APA standards to citation of sources, including use of in-text citations and full references.
• Save your paper as M5_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and by Monday, January 18, 2016, upload it to the M5 Assignment 2 RA 2 Dropbox.

RA 2 is worth 300 points and will be graded according to the following rubric.

reate a source selection matrix and use it to select the optimal supplier.  Address each of the following:

1.     Identify a real or hypothetical project (like a project to resurface the parking lot of an apartment complex) for which a product or service (like painting the parking space lines after resurfacing is completed) must be procured during the Execution phase.  In a Word document, briefly describe the project, identify the product or service that must be procured, and identify three possible suppliers (like Painting Company A, Painting Company B, and Painting Company C).

2.     Create a source selection matrix in Microsoft Excel in which you list five criteria (like price, proximity of headquarters to job site, supplier’s projection of how long the painting will take, warranty duration, and attractiveness of payment terms) that are important in selecting one of the three alternative suppliers.

3.     Once the source selection matrix is created in Excel and populated with suppliers and criteria, weight each criteria (using the same scale for all criteria), score each supplier relative to each criterion (using the same scale for all scores), and then multiply the weight of each criterion by the score for each supplier-criterion combination.  Arrive at the optimal solution.   This video provides an explanation of this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-zsALfgTrw.

4.     In the Word document in which you described the project, reflect on this process for selecting suppliers and identify at least one advantage and one disadvantage of it relative to another approach that could be taken.

Support your paper with a minimum of three (3) scholarly references.

Length of MS Word file: 4-5 pages not including title and reference pages.

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Will be plaigarism checked.

As a result of recent campus safety concerns at Capella University, you have been engaged by campus security team leaders to gather and analyze data about on-campus crime rates in schools in the state of Minnesota. Crime data from 181 Minnesota campuses has been compiled in the Campus Crime Data file. Write a management report for campus security team leaders, analyzing and evaluating campus crime data for Minnesota. Include your findings and recommendations for your clients. In your report, be sure to examine the following:

1. What crimes were most commonly committed on Minnesota campuses between 2009 and 2011? Based on the data, would you say the crime rates decreased or increased from 2009 to 2011?
2. The campus security leaders believe that the three-year total crime rate in public institutions is higher than that in private institutions. They have asked you to test that hypothesis. Conduct the test and describe your results. To start, you will:
   1. Formulate the hypotheses statement.
   2. Determine the three-year total crime rate per institution, separately, for private and public institutions.
   3. Use the appropriate statistical approach to conduct and test the hypotheses for difference in crime rates.
3. Your clients would also like you to develop a 95 percent confidence interval for the difference in three-year total campus crime rates between public and private institutions in Minnesota. Report your results.
4. What, if any, ethical issues should concern you in conducting your research?

Select a product or service for this assignment.

Review Ch. 9 of Business Communication about writing effective persuasive messages.

Complete the following two parts to sell the product or service to two different audiences.

Part I:

Write a message to persuade your boss to invest capital resources to develop the product or service for sale. 

Include secondary research to support your argument and explain what you will do in case the selected product or service does not initially sell as much as expected. Cite and reference sources using APA formatting.

Select the appropriate channel for delivering your message based on context, audience, and purpose.

Explain why you selected the channel.

Note: Part I is the basis of your Week 5 Persuasive Presentation assignment.

Part II: 

Write a sales pitch to sell the product/service to the end consumer. The sales pitch that you write could be part of a marketing campaign, which can be the verbiage for a commercial, a flyer, a message posted on social network, and so on. Make sure to identify the context, as per the examples, in which the sales pitch will take place.

Select the appropriate channel for delivering your message based on context, audience, and purpose.

Explain why you selected the channel.

Include an APA formatted title page for the assignment. 

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.