Author: chris

Like your previous essay, your assignment for your third essay is to choose a pop cultural artifact. You should choose an artifact that you feel has academic value. Be sure to keep in mind your discussion of the readings and your prewritings for “Education: Popular Culture and the Academy” as you choose your artifact. When choosing your artifact, be sure to consider its original source. In citing your artifact, you will want to be as precise as possible in providing your reader with most relevant citation.
Your Thesis
The thesis of your essay should argue why you believe that your artifact has academic value. (Why would this artifact be worth studying in a course?) This assignment is a bit more difficult than our earlier two assignments because, in order to make a strong academic argument, you will want to think beyond the obvious. While lots of artifacts have educational value in that they teach us something (such as learning our numbers or letters from Sesame Street), this thesis asks you to consider how the popular cultural artifact can help us better understand the world around us or help us grow as people through our consumption of it. In the sample essays for this week, the authors argue how Stephen King,Grey’s Anatomy, and two Loretta Lynn songs from the 1970s can help us come to a greater understanding of the world in which we live. If you are unsure about what constitutes academic value, be sure to read the following article: “The Purpose of a Liberal Arts Education.” Your thesis statement should be an assertive statement that tells the reader how/why this artifact has academic value.
Evidence to Support Your Thesis
Like the previous two essays, in order to support your thesis statement, you will need to provide a careful analysis of your artifact. (Your artifact will be one of the required sources for this essay.) In addition, you will need to explain to your reader how your analysis demonstrates that your position is true.
In developing your argument, be sure to consider the prewriting that we have done in class as well as our in class discussions. You want to be sure that you address the key components of the artifact and the ways in which this artifact provides academic value.
In addition, your evidence for this essay may also draw on two outside sources for support. Please be sure to keep in mind the lectures and quizzes from Weeks 2 and 4 as you go about your research. You will want to begin your research at the library. You will also want to focus your research on as scholarly as sources as you can find. The library catalog and library databases should be the first places that you begin your search. Please be sure to remember the video by Dr. Bob Baker, “Info Literacy 10. Evaluating Information Sources.” Part of your score for your use of in-text citations will consider whether you are using credible sources.
Audience
Your audience is a college educated person who may or may not be familiar with your artifact, but who does understand the concepts covered by the essay. Be sure to use the appropriate academic voice as described in the lesson, The Academic Essay.
Essay 3 Requirements
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Your essay should be typed and double spaced using MLA format.
• This essay should be at least seven paragraphs.
• You will need to be sure to cite your outside sources according to MLA citation guidelines.
• For this essay, use three outside sources. Your artifact will be one outside source. You will also want to find additional outside sources to help with your analysis. Be sure to keep in mind the Citing Sources lectures and quizzes on research as you go about your research. In particular, be sure to start your research at the library and always choose credible sources. If you have trouble finding sources to support your argument, do not hesitate to let me know. I am happy to help.
• Be sure to include a Works Cited page as the final page of your essay. Essays, either rough or final drafts, will not be considered complete without the Works Cited page, and I will not comment on incomplete essays.
• The late submissions (even one minute late) of your rough draft will not receive credit or instructor comments. Rough Drafts without Works Cited pages will not receive comments.
• Late Final Drafts will be deducted ten percent for each day that they are late. Final Drafts without Works Cited pages will not be graded. Final Drafts will be graded using the Composition II Essay Rubric found in the Introduction to Composition II folder.

Essay 3 Readings
From the Book- Discovering popular culture by Anna Tomasino.
PAGES:
• “Education, Popular Culture, and the Academy,” 162-163
• Trussel, 165-168
• Johnson, 202-208
• Franzen, 181-191

Assignment #3

Please read and become familiar with the concepts found in Chapter’s 11-13 of your text. Answer the questions below from the “Concept Checks” found at the end of each chapter of your text and incorporate your answers into a five-to-six page paper:

According to the functionalist perspective, what are two main functions of the family?
Describe changes in family structure in the U.S. since 1960.
Identify and discuss the seven most important changes occurring in families worldwide according to chapter 11 of the text.
What are the main reasons divorce rates have increased sharply over the latter half of the twentieth century?
Explain the findings of Kozol and Coleman regarding education and compare and contrast the differences in those findings.
How do sociologists differ from other scholars in their approach to studying religion?
What is religious nationalism?
Describe three main characteristics of the state.
What is a welfare state?
Can the U.S be described as a welfare state? Why?
Compare and contrast the concepts of democracy and communism.
Define and provide an example of the informal economy and explain if it has a positive or negative effect on the formal economy.
WRITING REQUIREMENTS: Your paper should be at least five-to-six pages in length for full credit. Answers to the questions should be written in a thoughtful, more narrative style with smooth transitions between paragraphs that cogently outlines your thinking rather than providing short, overly simplistic answers.

All papers should be typed using Microsoft Word according to the following criteria:

Include a title page and center justify your page in descending order 10-15 spaces from the top: Title of the paper (bold), your name, the course name and number, the name of the instructor, the name of the university, and the semester and year.
Double-space the body of your paper using a font no larger than 12 points and no smaller than 10 points.
Indent paragraphs and double-space between paragraphs.
Right, left, top, and bottom margins should be 1 inch.
Papers should not be written using a bulleted or numbered format, nor should questions be repeated and answered in the body of the text in a numbered sequence. Rather, all papers should be written in a thoughtful, narrative style.
All outside references should follow APA format guidelines.

Overview of Business Process Analysis and Functional Requirements for UMUC Haircuts
For your Case Study Stage 1 assignment, you performed a Five Forces Analysis and justified Myra’s chosen strategy for competitive advantage and the business process that she would like to improve through the application of technology.
In the Stage 2 assignment, you will identify the inputs, processing, and outputs of Myra’s selected business process. Those inputs, processing, and outputs form the functional (business) requirements for an IT system to improve the process.
The first step in identifying the functional or business requirements for an information system is to develop the high level requirements that establish the scope of the system. Myra has selected the Customer and Employee Scheduling Process for improvement using an IT solution, and together you have identified the following high level requirements. The system must:
• Allow employees to enter their availability and desired days/times to work
• Allow Myra to review the employee requests and develop a schedule
• Make the schedule available to employees to review their final work schedule
• Make the employee schedule available for staff to enter customer appointments
• Allow Myra and the staff to enter customer appointments
• Keep track of customer appointments, including stylist and service performed
• Accommodate changes in the employee schedules and customer appointments, and update the schedule accordingly
• Accommodate changes in the customer information stored in the system
• Provide management reports to Myra showing employee workload, customers served, customer contact information, busy times/days, etc.
For this assignment, you will focus on the customer appointment portion of the overall process. The high level requirements are not detailed enough to be used as the functional or business requirements. More detailed requirements are developed using a variety of tools and methods. One such tool is a process model. The process model shows the steps in the customer appointment process. In a process model, rectangles are used to illustrate process steps and diamonds are used where decisions, or choices, are made. You need to be aware that there are other aspects of the process to be considered, as shown in the high level requirements above. The points at which these additional steps intersect with the customer appointment process are shown in the process model with a circle.

Customer Appointment Process Model: The Customer Appointment Process model is separately provided as an Excel file, labeled “Stage 2 Customer Appointment Process Model.”
Assignment: UMUC Haircuts Stage 2: Using the Customer Appointment Process Model, create a document that includes:
I. Introduction
At the top of your paper, show the strategy for competitive advantage that Myra selected and the business process she has chosen to improve, using the following format:
Generic Strategy for Competitive Advantage: xxxxxxx (just name the strategy)
Business Process to Be Improved: xxxxxxxxx (just name the process)
II. Table of Functional (Business) Requirements
Copy the table below into your paper. Using the Customer Appointment Process Model provided complete the table of requirements for an IT system, for each of the numbered process steps, that includes:
• the inputs to the process – include specific items of information or data elements (for example, customer name) entered into the system as part of the process step
• processing or actions that the system takes (for example, check calendar to let person know if UMUC Haircuts is open at the specified time)
• outputs of the process – include specific items of information or data elements (for example, appointment date) that the system will display or print out for the user to see
There are 7 numbered steps in the Appointment Process itself. In addition, there are two other processes that are needed (numbered 8 and 9), but are beyond the scope of the appointment process: a process for entering the time needed and costs for the various styling services; and the payment process that collects customer payments and updates the database accordingly. For these two processes, you should also identify the input needed for the system, what the system is to do with that input (process) and what output the system will need to create or display either immediately or later.
The responses that you enter into the table for each requirement must be aligned to the specific business process to be improved and the data it uses, and it must be appropriate to the UMUC Haircuts business.
Note: Processes are actions that the system will take and should include action verbs. Inputs and outputs are not actions, but are data or information. If you need to use action words (verbs) to describe the input or output, they should be kept to a minimum and put in parentheses.

Table of Functional (Business) Requirements
Steps in the Appointment Process

Process Step Input
Information/data item(s) entered into the system as part of this step Process
Processing or action the system must perform for this step Output
Information/data item(s)/record created, or displayed, or printed out for the user in this step
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

EXAMPLE Using the Employee Scheduling Process
The example below demonstrates what is required for the assignment, using the Employee Scheduling Process, which is shown in a circle in the Customer Appointment Process Model. The process model for this example is separately provided as an Excel file named “Stage 2 Example – Scheduling Process Model.” The entries in the table correspond with the numbered process steps in the model.
Table of Functional (Business) Requirements
Steps in the Employee Scheduling Process

Process Step Input
Information/data item(s) entered into the system as part of this step Process
Processing or action the system must perform for this step Output
Information/data item(s)/record created, or displayed, or printed out for the user in this step
1 User ID and password Verify user id and password against security database “Welcome” screen or “Invalid User ID and Password” message
2 Employee name, dates Locate and present appointment dates for the employee Appointment dates for employee
3 Dates and times available for work (employee name entered in step 2) Record dates and times employee is available for work Confirmation that dates and times have been saved
Formatting:
For academic writing, the writer is expected to write in the third person. In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, and our. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the “self,” out of the writing. This method is very helpful for academic writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.

• Submit a document that includes the Table of Functional Requirements.
• Table entries should be single spaced.
• Use APA formatted citations and references for any external sources used.
• Include a title page, and a reference page if references are included.
• Compare your final work to the rubric to be sure you have met content and quality criteria.
• Submit your paper as a Word document, or a document that can be read in Word.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet to research your state’s employment-at-will policy.

Imagine you are a recently-hired Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a midsize company preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). You quickly discover multiple personnel problems that require your immediate attention.

• John posted a rant on his Facebook page in which he criticized the company’s most important customer.

• Ellen started a blog to protest the CEO’s bonus, noting that no one below director has gotten a raise in two (2) years and portraying her bosses as “know-nothings” and “out-of-touch”

• Bill has been using his company-issued BlackBerry to run his own business on the side.

• After being disciplined for criticizing a customer in an email (sent from his personal email account on a company computer), Joe threatens to sue the company for invasion of privacy.

• One of the department supervisors requests your approval to fire his secretary for insubordination. Since the secretary has always received glowing reviews, you call her into your office and determine that she has refused to prepare false expense reports for her boss.

• Anna’s boss refused to sign her leave request for jury duty and now wants to fire her for being absent without permission.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

• Summarize the employment-at-will doctrine discussed in the text and then evaluate three (3) of the six (6) scenarios described by determining:

  • Whether you can legally fire the employee; include an assessment of any pertinent exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine.

  • The primary action(s) that you should take to limit liability and impact on operations; specify the ethical theory that best supports your decision.

• Examine your state’s policy on employment-at-will. Analyze at least one (1) real-world example of an employee or employer utilizing your state’s employment-at-will doctrine in the last five (5) years. Include a summary of the main issue and the outcome in the identified real-world example.

• Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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.

• 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 grading rubric for this assignment will be shared separate

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Analyze the impact of economic, demographic and technological forces on health care delivery, and the concerns relating to ethical, legal, and social issues that influence nursing practice
Apply a solid foundation of research and theory, focusing on the interrelationships and application of these concepts to nursing practice, education, and leadership
Improve population health across the lifespan and across the continuum of healthcare environments through health promotion and disease prevention strategies
Explore leadership and management concepts that directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and professional nursing practice
Assess health among a diverse patient population, devising strategies for the prevention and early detection of disease across the life span
Integrate professional values, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors into nursing practice

Examine one real-world event or recent news story from the last 12 months that you believe demonstrates the topics covered in this course. Predict how this event ties to the new learning in the course.

3.Formulate an opinion and defend your position about how this real-world event or news story applies to the upcoming course content providing at least three examples of why you believe the event connects to the topics of this course. You will submit your answer by posting a response in the discussion forum.

the class is theories in nursing

Strategic conversation is communication that takes place across boundaries and hierarchical levels about the group or organization’s vision, critical strategic themes, and values that can help achieve desired outcomes.

Write a paper on “strategic conversations” & your organization.

Address the following elements in your paper. Explain why each is important in achieving outcomes.

• Open communication climate
• Asking questions
• Active listening
• Dialogue
• Candor
• Using stories for communication

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• 750 word minimum , APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references, no foreign references
• NO plagairism, Safe Assign will be used to detect plagarisim
• Properly Cite

resent a 10-12 PowerPoint slide in which you describe the procedure and process a case manager should take when completing formal referrals and linking clients to services within the community.

Use a hypothetical scenario from previous team presentations. A client who is incarcerated is leaving and you to link him/her up with a community service for continued treatment.

Describe the process, procedure you should take to make the linkup, definitions, background on the case, why is it necessary, what happens if this doesn’t happen, what are your expected outcomes, ultimate goals for this person, is it achievable

• Set definitions
• Background and needs. Why this?
• Expected outcomes

Address the importance of developing an individualized service plan.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Utilize in-text citations, speaker notes, and references.

Select and analyze an article on family-friendly workplace, either for child or elder care. Summarize the article and discuss the need for a family-friendly workplace. Discuss whether all employers should have flexible work schedules to accommodate employees who need to care for sick family members Why or why not?

If an employee needs to take a leave to care for a sick family member, should his or her employer offer partial pay, continue insurance benefits or grant the leave even if it places the employer in a difficult situation?