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Assignment 2: LASA 1—Create an Interview Guide

By Wednesday, November 25, 2015 complete the following assignment below.

Directions:

During the first week of class you conducted your first practice interview.  You have since had the opportunity to learn about the formal process of interviewing and the techniques used in interviewing. With this new information in mind, it is time to develop a detailed plan for your second interview, which you may conduct face-to-face or over the telephone. Your second interview is broken down into two parts.

1. The first portion, preparing for the interview, is due this week in Module 3 (LASA 1).
2.  The second part of this assignment, conducting and analyzing the interview, is due in Module 5 (LASA 2).

For this week you will be completing A. You will need to:

1. 1. Locate a Volunteer:

      He/she will play the role of “client” seeking help for persistent headaches and problems sleeping. The person you interview can be someone you know personally or you can contact your classmates through the Student Lounge to arrange to interview one another.

      1. The client believes that stress may be part of the problem with his/her symptoms.  Remember that this is a role play, and your volunteer should be aware that this is a practice interview and not a real psychological interview.
      2. Prior to conducting your interview, ask your volunteer to think about stress that s/he can discuss related to the client’s problems (e.g., your client may think about stress from a job or stress related to a relationship with a significant other). However, DO NOT have your volunteer discuss this stress with you prior to the interview. You want to be able to explore this topic in depth during your interview. This scenario is intentionally left open-ended in order to allow students to maximize opportunity to utilize interview skills during the interview.
   2. Create an Interview Guide:
      1. In order to achieve a quality interview, you will need to first plan your interview, which is this week’s assignment (you will conduct and analyze the interview in Module 5).
      2. The purpose of your interview is to gather in-depth information to aid in diagnosis and treatment planning for the client.  You will need to gather detailed information about the symptoms being reported for both headaches and sleep problems (e.g., How often are the headaches occurring?  How long do they last?  What do they feel like?  Has any treatment helped?  Is there any pattern to the headaches?).  You will also need to present a complete picture of the patient.  What is the patient’s gender, age, marital status, and employment status?  Be sure to go beyond these example questions, and provide an in-depth, highly detailed interview with your client.

Interview Guide Topics

The Interview Guide should directly address the below topics.  Use each of these topics as headings within your paper to ensure that you directly respond to each.  You should respond with at least a paragraph for each topic/heading.

1. 1. 1. Identify and summarize the purpose of your interview.  How will the information you gather be used?
      2. Explain how you will structure the interview and your reasoning behind the structuring of the interview. Include a list of topics you plan to cover.
      3. Compose the questions you will use to obtain the information (develop a minimum of 15-20 questions). Be sure that you develop a minimum of 5 open and 5 closed ended questions.
      4. Develop a minimum of 5 examples of paraphrasing, summaries, or

         reflections techniques that could be used during your interview (must have at least one of each paraphrase, summary, and reflection). When you conduct your actual interview, these exact examples you create may not fit depending on the responses of your interviewee, but it is important to start thinking now about how you will incorporate these techniques.  For this Interview Guide assignment, develop hypothetical examples of each type of technique.

      5. Identify the opening techniques you will utilize to build rapport with the volunteer/client.
      6. Identify types/examples of questions you want to avoid during interview.

Include an Analysis Summary:

In addition to the Interview Guide include an analysis (2-3 paragraphs) of your own preliminary thoughts about this client based on the limited information you have about this client. Have you ever known a person with chronic headaches or sleep problems? What is your “gut reaction” to hearing about a patient with chronic headaches and problems sleeping? That the person is a complainer? Is he/she a victim of terrible illness? Spend some time examining your thoughts and attitudes. It is normal for all of us to make at least preliminary assumptions about everyone we come in to contact with, and a good interviewer has awareness of his or her preliminary assumptions. Include the following in your analysis:

1. Identify your own beliefs (sympathetic, unsympathetic, or some mixture of both) and explain how these could affect your interview. Do you think that your beliefs are influenced by your own age, cultural, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity?
2. Identify steps you can take to limit the impact of your own beliefs on the interview. Be as specific as possible.

Start planning now! Remember that you will need a volunteer to role play your client in Module 5. Work on identifying that person now and scheduling your interview well in advance to avoid any possible scheduling delays. You will also need to audio or video record the interview in Module 5 so that you can later transcribe the interview. Make sure you have access to the equipment you will need.

Submit your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Identified and summarized the purpose of the interview.	16
Listed the topics he/she planned to cover during the interview. Explained how to structure the interview and the reasoning behind the structuring of the interview.	16
Composed the questions (5 open ended and 5 closed ended) to be used to obtain the information during the interview.	16
Develop hypothetical examples for at least 5 techniques (paraphrasing, summaries, or reflections) that could be used during the interview.	16
Identified the opening techniques to be utilized to build rapport with the volunteer/client.	16
Identified types/examples of questions you want to avoid during the interview.	16
Identified and explained how one’s own beliefs could affect the interview. Analyzed how beliefs are influenced by one’s own cultural, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.	32
Identified steps to take to limit the impact of one’s own beliefs on the interview.	28
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure APA Elements (16 points): In text citations and references, parap

Assignment Preparation: Activities include the website search, the table review, independent student reading, and research.

• Visit the World Economic Forum website, search for “Emerging Technology,” and learn the technologies listed.
• Review theStrategic management of technology and innovation Table 1.2 A Brief Description of the Disruptive Roots of the Companies and Industries Listed in Exhibit 4.

 

Assignment: Select a product or a service (or a combination of both) where emerging technologies may have an impact on.

You should describe the current state of the product or service, explain the emerging technologies, and offer a few potential impacts on the product or service.

Where appropriate, apply the S-Curves to describe its development.

You may use any one of the following options to present the project that you picked:

 

• A storyboard format
• A slide presentation
• An interactive diagram
• Any other options approved by your instructor

Write a 3+ page, double-spaced essay: Most Important Lessons Learned

 

What was the most important lesson you learned from this course about the innovative process?

What lessons could be learned through the process of learning and failing at an innovative venture?

Can a company be competitive if they do not continue to innovate? Why or why not?

List an example of a company that has been successful due to innovation and forecast what you believe their potential for continued success may be in the next decade?

 

Write in APA format with complete paragraphs (4-8 sentences each).

 

Include an introduction, body and conclusion.

Cite consistently throughout your work in APA format.

Paraphrase rather than directly quote citations.

Write in third person. Include a title and reference page.

For an example of a paper in APA format, please see: Example Paper in APA.

For help with formatting the essay, please watch the following video: How to Write a Perfect College Pape

You will write and submit a 2-3 page essay in APA format (with a proper cover page, well-organized with source citations, and an APA reference list—which do not count towards the page count requirement) that addresses the following:

 

The baby boomer generation, which represents a significant portion of the U.S. population, is reaching an age when its utilization of health services will most likely increase. Additionally, life expectancy continues to improve with advancements in medicine and in community health. Discuss how this aging of such a large segment of the population will affect specific health care delivery services and organizations.

 

Your responses must be supplemented with research from the text, CDC, NIH, and other quality sources to determine answers and solutions.

you choose the topic not docment analysis

 

follow the stops like in document analysis 4, it is eassyes, and look at the example do the same formting.

 

 

in the intruduction back groung about the hoisry make sure you caver everything in the reading dowen bleow.

 

Document Analysis will be in essay form and you must answer all of the prompts and edit your essay before submission to receive full points.

 

{Your analysis must be in Chicago style: look at the simple essay }

Case Study: Heartland Breach

Due Week 7 and worth 50 points

 

Read the article titled, “Update: Heartland breach shows why compliance is not enough” located at the following Computerworld link:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143158/Update_Heartland_breach_shows_why_compliance_is_not_enough

 

Write a two to three (3-4) page paper in which you:

1   Explain whether you believe adherence of regulations such as PCI are enough to protect a company from these types of breaches and why or why not.

2   Give your opinion on whether companies should formulate security controls based on anti-cybercrime techniques, such as end-to-end encryption, or those based purely complying with industry regulations. Provide a rationale with your response.

3   Suggest at least three (3) additional security controls and techniques based on the Heartland and similar breaches such as TJX. Provide an explanation for your suggestions.

4   Determine the types of monitoring that could be implemented to help quickly identify penetrations and hurdle the “point-in-time” security protections that regulations, such as PCI, provides.

5   Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment other than the one linked above. 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:

• Identify common information-gathering tools and techniques.
• Explain the process of network traffic analysis and sniffing and their appropriate tools.
• Compare and contrast defensive technologies.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in cybercrime techniques and response.

Write clearly and concisely about topics related to cybercrime techniques and response using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

In order to learn some of the basic skills necessary to research and develop a formal analysis of a work of art, you will write 2 Compare/Contrast essays> Each essay will compare two works of art found in the textbook. The selection of artworks for each paper is up to the student, but must be selected only from chapters covered in our course (and it is recommended that you choose works that we have covered in our reading previous to the due date of the assignment). You may not write about any work of art that you have already written about in your weekly Discussion Boards. Please read all 4 pages of this assignment sheet before beginning your work.

Your formal analysis must be:
– minimum two FULL pages (maximum 2.5 pages)
– double-spaced in a 12-point legible font
– MLA format with a Works Cited page. (See the MLA Style Guide found under Course
Documents)
– The title of paintings, sculptures, photographs, printmaking works of art should ALWAYS be in
ITALICS
– Be certain of what medium of art you are referring to. Not all works of art are “pictures”; do a
little research and refer to it as a painting, sculpture, work of architecture, photograph, etc.
-Wikipedia is not an acceptable source. This is a user generated with little to no fact checking
so the information cannot be considered reliable.

The first stage of your analysis is to find information about the works and their respective artists, and to document that information. Use the sheet provided to help you gather important information. Be sure to include information about the possible artist influences and reference any special subject matter depicted in the works. After you have had a chance to research the basic information about your particular works of art, try to describe it using the elements of art that we have discussed in class.

The second stage of the assignment will include taking the information you have about the works (including your analysis of the elements of art, subject matter and artistic media), and presenting it in essay form.

The third and last stage of your analysis will be to refine your writing and to make any changes necessary before the next class. THIS FINAL DRAFT IS DUE, ATTACHED TO THE SUBMISSION POINT, BY SUNDAY AT 11:59 P.M. OF THE SESSION IN WHICH IT IS DUE. SEE COURSE CALENDAR AND SESSION FOLDERS FOR DUE DATES.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT:
• All sources should be cited and included in the Works Cited page. Citations should be in MLA format. Plagiarism will result in a zero (0) for the assignment and the responsibility for proof regarding the originality of a paper rests with you, not the instructor.
• If you are absent on the due date it is your responsibility to make sure the paper or project is still turned in on time.
• Late papers and projects may be accepted with the following late penalties:
o If it is turned in within 24 hours of the due date there will be a 10% reduction.
o After 24 hours and up to 2 DAYS there will be a 50% reduction.
o After 2 DAYS the paper or project will no longer be accepted for credit.

Compare/Contrast Essay –
The Formal Analysis

Your analysis will consist of two typewritten pages about the works that you have chosen. This analysis will be in paragraph form, with an introductory paragraph, a conclusion paragraph, and at least three body paragraphs. Your formal analysis must be two full pages, double-spaced in a 12-point legible font (Times New Roman preferred), and in MLA format with a Works Cited page. Each paragraph should be composed of at least three sentences, with no sentence more than three lines long.

Some of the things that you may want consider in your analysis are:

Subject matter – What is depicted in these works? Does the subject matter include any images from ancient mythology or Biblical stories? Is the subject matter a reflection of the time and place in which the artists lived? Were these works done for a famous patron? Include the name of the donor(s) sponsoring the work, if these people are known.

Artistic media – How were these works made, and what are they made from? Are these artists known for any special techniques in their work? How do these works compare with other works from this artist or other artists from the same era?

Elements of Art – Describe each one for your works; also consider the Principles of Design in your analysis.

Be sure to provide smooth transitions between all of your paragraphs. Examples: “Another way that the artist has shown the relationship between colors in the work is…. The quick, broken use of line is mirrored in the texture through…. As we move along the face, we also see….”

Spelling and grammar are as important to your piece as any other aspect of the work, if not more so. If your work has spelling or grammatical errors, then it is clear that you have not put much effort into the piece and your grade will be affected.

Helpful Websites for Preparing the Compare/Contrast Essay
Writing a Compare/Contrast Art History Essay, from the Academy of Art University
http://arc.academyart.edu/writing/essay.asp
Writing the Art History Paper, from the Dartmouth University Writing Program
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/arthistory.shtml
Compare/Contrast Guide, from the ReadWriteThink Site
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/
Helpful Art Links
Mark Harden’s Artchive
-click on the Mona Lisa to access a listing of artists and their work http://www.artchive.com/
Christopher Witcombe’s Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/
Worldwide Art Resources
http://wwar.com/

Researching a Work of Art: Gathering the Basics
Use this paper as a guide in the analysis of each of your works of art. You may want to make two copies of this sheet – one for each work.
Artist: _________________________________________________________________
Year born/year died: ____________________________________________________
Influences? _____________________________________________________________
Style associated with this artist: ____________________________________________
Title of work: ___________________________________________________________
Background info on work: ________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
Critical Analysis of the Work:
Line: __________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Shape/Form: ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
Color: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Value: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Texture: ________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Space: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

 

Initial post of at least 300.

At least three responses to your classmates of at least 125 words due by Sunday.

You must also answer any follow-up questions asked by your instructor.

Review Bill Cosby’s speech : http://www.blackpast.org/?q=2004-bill-cosby-pound-cake-speech 

or at

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm

Now that you have learned about the struggles and triumphs that African-Americans had to endure and I argue are still enduring today, why do you think Bill Cosby in this speech is so angry with the result of all that hard work? What is he witnessing that may provoke his concerns about the children of today? Do you think he is off base with his concerns? Do you see any problems with todays youth and how they perceive freedom, education, civil rights and respect for the past

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckergerg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices Including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area, and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner than later, you plan to go public with an IPO, and then buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.
What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain you answer.
If you expanded and hired additional people to help you, might that give rise to agency problems?
Suppose you heed additional capital to expand and you sell some stock to outside investors. If you maintain enough stock to control the company, what type of agency conflict might occur?
List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
What is block ownership? How does it affect corporate governance?
Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance?

ONLY FOR SHINING STAR 001!.Please discuss the current state of the macroeconomy in Canada.  In particular please discuss the growth rates and gross domestic product, the unemployment rate and lastly inflation.  Please discuss how these variables compare to both the short and long run averages.  In providing answers, please provide where data was obtained.  You can use the internet or more authorative sources such as the Bank of Canada, Statistical Canada (Cansim) dataset or the IMF/World Bank websites.  After you have ascertained this information, please make a determination as to whether the economy is at its long run equilibrium level (full employment), or whether it is in a recessionary or expansionary gap.  (Hint: the economy is rarely at its long run level).    25 marks