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Evaluate this statement in relation to two areas of knowledge.

choose one of these questions and explain, convince me the reasons for choosing the question “In gaining knowledge, each area of knowledge uses a network of ways of knowing.” Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of Knowledge. “Knowledge within a discipline develops according to the principles of natural selection.” How useful is this metaphor? “The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? “Without application in the world, the value of knowledge is greatly diminished.” Consider this claim with respect to two areas of knowledge. To what extent do the concepts that we use shape the conclusions that we reach? “In knowledge there is always a trade-off between accuracy and simplicity.” Evaluate this statement in relation to two areas of knowledge.

Examine at least three (3) evidence-based strategies from the selected articles that could help the individuals enhance their adjustment skills.

Order 52218: Adjustment Case Study

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SubjectPsychology
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Week 4 Assignment 2 SKIP TO COURSE MENU SKIP TO TOP FRAME TABS Content Week 4 Assignment 2 Submission Click the link above to submit your assignment. Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 2: Adjustment Case Study Due in Week 4 and worth 230 points Go to NPR’s StoryCorps Website, located at http://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycorps. Read two (2) articles that were published within the last two (2) months that focus on individuals with major adjustment issues. Next, use the textbook and / or Strayer Library to research evidence-based strategies to help with adjustment. Consider strategies that relate to stress and coping, gender, stages of life, cultural and social issues, and health. When referencing the selected stories, please use this format: Standard Format: Title of the story [Audio file]. (Year, Month Day). Retrieved from website url. Example: A homeless teen finds solace in a teacher and a recording [Audio file]. (2014, March 7). Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2014/03/07/286921391/a-homeless-teen-finds-solace-in-a-teacher-and-a-recording. In-Text Citation Format: The in-text citation for a selected story is an abbreviated version of the title and the year of publication. The abbreviation contains the first three words of the title. Example: (“A homeless teen,” 2014). Textbook Citation Format: Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Publisher information. Example: Santrock, J. (2006). Human adjustment: 2007 custom edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Write a three to six (3-6) page paper in which you: Summarize the two (2) articles you selected from the NPR Website. Describe the major adjustment issues discussed in each story. Examine at least three (3) evidence-based strategies from the selected articles that could help the individuals enhance their adjustment skills. Recommend the evidence-based strategy that is best suited for the people in the selected articles. Provide a rationale for your response. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic 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; Since the only resources you will be using for this assignment are the article and your textbook, you need not include a reference page. 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 is not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Identify contextual variables (e.g., culture) that impact psychological adjustment. Define stress, stressors, and coping strategies, and contemplate their relationship to health and wellness. Identify and describe social psychological phenomena. Describe adult relationships, lifestyles, and issues of parenting and longevity. Identify gender differences and explore gender role stereotypes. Use technology and information resources to research issues in psychology. Write clearly and concisely about psychology using proper writing mechanics. Click here to view the grading rubric.

Analyze the development initiatives using theoretical insights and concepts learned in the class.

Content of the term paper (or What should the paper be about?): For the term paper the student should write about a development project that has been initiated in any city in the global South in order to “improve” the city. The student is expected to write a critical /analytical essay on this development project. In other words, the final term paper should not simply be an empirical account of the student’s chosen development project. Rather the paper (in addition to providing empirical details about the development project such as when it was initiated, who initiated the project, the major stakeholders of the project, the objectives and outcome of the project, the target population of the development project) should attempt to analyze the development initiatives using theoretical insights and concepts learned in the class.

In order to write a good paper begin by reading broadly about your chosen urban development project, then, define an appropriate research question (this is critical), conduct effective focused research that will answer your research question and communicate results in good writing.

Length and structure of the final term paper proposal: 2 page outline that lists your chosen development project, a list of potential academic papers and reports that will used in the paper, identify concepts and/or theoretical insights from class that will used to critically evaluate the project. Argument/ thesis.

Use Course readings to identify and link concepts and insights to create a strong argument/thesis.

*This is a grade 12 bridging course to university, it should be at university level as a professor will be marking it.

Writing resources:
• William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. (New York: Macmillan, 1959)
• Joseph M. Williams. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. (Glenview, IL, Boston, and London: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1989)
• Kate L. Turabian. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Sixth Edition (or later)

Class Materials and Course

Weekly Schedule
Week 1 September 3
Introduction: Urban Imaginaries (“Global Cities” vs. “Mega Cities”)
• Sassen S (2001) Overview. In The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (pp 3-15). Princeton University Press
• Davis M (2004) Planet of the Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat. New Left Review 26 (March): 5-34

Week 2 September 10
Colonialism, Development and Cities
• Robinson J (2002) Global and world cities: A View from off the map. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26(3): 531-554
• Gandy M (2006) Planning, anti-planning and the infrastructure crisis facing metropolitan Lagos. Urban Studies 43(2): 371-396
Optional
• King A D (2006[1991]) Building, architecture and the new international division of labor. In Brenner, N and Keil, R eds Global Cities Reader New York: Routledge
• Dawson A and Edwards B (2004) Introduction: global cities of the South. Social Text 22(4): 1-7

Week 3 September 17
Postcolonial States and Modernist Cities: Brasilia
• Holston J (1989) Excerpts from The Modernist City: An anthropological Critique of Brasilia. Chicago: University of Chicago

Optional
• Prakash G (2002) The urban turn. In The Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life (pp 2-7). New Delhi: CSDS + The Society for Old & New Media Kalia R (1987) Excerpts from Chandigarh: In Search of an Identity. New Delhi: Oxford
• Scott J (1998) The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique. In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press (pp 103-146)

Week 4 September 24
The Project of Development
• Truman H (1949) Inaugural Address. URL: http://trumanlibrary.org/calendar/viewpapers.php?pid=1030
• Escobar A (1995) Introduction: development and the anthropology of modernity. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press (pp. 3-54)**
• Mitchell T (2003) The object of development. In Rule of Experts: Egypt, Technopolitics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press (pp.209-243)

Week 5 October 1
Development and its Discontents**
• Rankin, K (2002) Social capital, microfinance and the politics of development. Journal of Feminist Economics 8(1): 1-24.
• Cooke B and Kothari U (eds.), Participation: the New Tyranny. London: Zed Books Selected chapters
Optional
• Rodrik D (2006) Goodbye Washington consensus, hello Washington confusion? A review of the World Bank’s economic growth in the 1990s: Learning from a decade of reform. Journal of Economic Literature 44(4) (December): 973-987.

Week 6 October 8
Urban Informality
Bayat A (1997) Uncivil Society: the politics of the “informal people”. Third World Quarterly 18:53-72
Waibel M and McFarlane C (2012) Excerpts from Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and the Informal. Surrey: Ashgate **
Sanyal K (2007) Excerpts from Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post­colonial Capitalism. New Delhi: Routledge**
Optional
Elyachar, Julia. 2002. ‘Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations and The Value of Culture’, Public Culture 14(3): 493-513.
Selections from Roy A and AlSayyad N (eds) Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia.

Week 7 October 22
Midterm Exam

Week 8 October 29
Gendered Geography of Urban Migration and Work
• Cravey A (1998) Excerpts from Women and Work in Mexico’s Maquiladoras. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Wright M (2001) Feminine villains, masculine heroes and the reproduction of Ciudad Juárez. Social Text 19(4): 93-114.
Optional
• Parrenas R (2001) Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work Stanford: Stanford University Press

Week 9 November 5
Housing and the Politics of Squatting
• Appadurai A (2002) “Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics” Public Culture 14(1): 21-47
• Anand N & Rademacher A (2011) Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai Antipode 43 (5): 1748-1772
Optional
Roy A (2005) “Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning” Journal of the American Planning Association 71(2): 147 – 158

Week 10 November 12
Municipal Water Reforms
Goldman M (2007) How “Water for all!” policy became hegemonic: The power of the World Bank and its transnational policy networks. Geoforum 38(5): 786-800
Bakker K (2007) Trickle down? Private sector participation and the pro-poor water supply debate in Jakarta, Indonesia. Geoforum. 38(5): 855 – 868
Optional
• Bakker K (2007) The commons versus the commodity: ‘Alter’-globalization, privatization, and the human right to water in the global South. Antipode 39(3), 430 – 455.

Week 11 November 19
Waste, Modernity and Capitalist Urbanization
Chakrabarty D (2002) Of garbage, modernity and the citizens gaze. In Chakrabarty, D Habitation of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies Chicago: University of Chicago Press (pp 65-79)
Miraftab F (2004) Neoliberalism and casualization of public sector services: The case of waste collection services in Cape Town, South Africa. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28(4): 874-892
Optional:
Herod A and Aguiar L M (2006) Introduction: Cleaners and the dirty work of neoliberalism. Antipode 38(3): 425-434
Herod A and Aguiar L M (2006) Introduction: Ethnographies of the cleaning body. Antipode 38(3): 530-533

Week 12 November 26
Illegal City and New Spaces of Enclosure**
• Vasudevan A et. al. (2008) Spaces of enclosure. Geoforum 39:1641–1646
• Bhan G (2009) “This is no longer the city I knew”: Evictions, the urban poor and right to millennial Delhi. Environment and Urbanization 21(1): 127-142
• Liang L (2005) Porous legalities and avenues of participation. Sarai Reader: Bare Acts New Delhi: Sarai CSDS (pp.7-18)
Comments from Support Team: -I would like the writer to focus on a global south city in either India, Pakistan or Sri lanka.
-Content of the term paper (or What should the paper be about?): For the term paper the student should write about a development project that has been initiated in any city in the global South in order to “improve” the city. The student is expected to write a critical /analytical essay on this development project. In other words, the final term paper should not simply be an empirical account of the student’s chosen development project. Rather the paper (in addition to providing empirical details about the development project such as when it was initiated, who initiated the project, the major stakeholders of the project, the objectives and outcome of the project, the target population of the development project) should attempt to analyze the development initiatives using theoretical insights and concepts learned in the class. In order to write a good paper begin by reading broadly about your chosen urban development project, then, define an appropriate research question (this is critical), conduct effective focused research that will answer your research question and communicate results in good writing.
-Length and structure of the final term paper proposal: 2 page outline that lists your chosen development project, a list of potential academic papers and reports that will used in the paper, identify concepts and/or theoretical insights from class that will used to critically evaluate the project. Argument/ thesis. Use Course readings to identify and link concepts and insights to create a strong argument/thesis.

*This is a grade 12 bridging course to university, it should be at university level as a professor will be marking it.

Analyzes this source, showing at least three reasons you know the information to be bad.

Using the information we learned about in this week’s less, find an online source that would be considered invalid or bad information. Please provide a link or a description for this website. After you’ve done this, please write a short paragraph that analyzes this source, showing at least three reasons you know the information to be bad. Do not include any links that might be offensive or innapropriate for class please.

The formulation of strategy must take into consideration the dynamics of the industry and its competitors.

Introduction
This course uses a capstone approach to tie together all of your learning outcomes through your MBA program with a focus on strategy, management and application. For the Week 2 case study, you will need to use examples of Wholesale Foods and real-world experiences to answer the prompt.

Activity Instructions
For this case response, address the following:

What struck you as positives and/or negatives about Wholesale Foods and their specific strategies?
Are there certain strategic elements that were particularly insightful about what Wholesale does?
Are there any glaring weaknesses that could jeopardize their success?
The formulation of strategy must take into consideration the dynamics of the industry and its competitors. Who are the competitors for Wholesale Foods? Has the Wholesale Foods strategy been influenced by these competitors?
Create a recommendation section on how to adapt the mission, vision and goals of Wholesale Foods, or in the alternative, why they should continue to keep their current position.

All formal papers for this class require headers in proper APA format. For this assignment, headers should include (but are not limited to) the following:

Positive/Negative Strategies
Insightful Strategic Elements
Competition
Recommendation for the Future

Case study assignments must use formal writing, third-person point of view only, use proper APA 6th edition format, include scholarly references and research and provide analysis, not simply definition type writing. The main focus needs to be answering the questions with well-reasoned, insightful analysis. A simple recitation of what is in the case or the text is not adequate. Feel free to make comparisons to other organizations.

Describe how the discovery of vitamins and penicillin helped maintain the well-being of the growing population.

Describe the emergence of government controls in the food industry in the early 20th century
Assignment

The beginning of 20th century government controls on the food supply correlated with the quality of the food supply. The early 20th century food science also grew rapidly. The discovery of vitamins and their food sources gave new meaning to food as medicine. Deficiencies that were not diagnosed as such became curable with the right diets. Nutrition became a new science. Penicillin, first used in World War I to ward off infections, became household medication after its postwar mass production.

Part 1

Primary Task Response: Initial Post. In no less than 150 words, address the following.

To receive full credit for this Discussion Forum assignment and to facilitate an academic discussion, the following 2 parts need to be completed:

Primary Task Response: Must be posted in the forum 5 days prior to the Part 3 due date.
Peer Response: Must be posted 2 days prior to the Part 3 due date.
Part 1

Primary Task Response to Discussion Forum: Within the Discussion Forum area, write up to 150 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

Choose 1 of the following items to discuss for your paper submission.

Option 1

Describe how the discovery of vitamins and penicillin helped maintain the well-being of the growing population.
Give some examples of nutritional diet changes that occurred for the population and how they were beneficial. Use examples to support your claims.
Be sure to use proper APA style and cite all sources.
Option 2

What correlations, if any, exist between the quality of the food supply in the United States and government controls?
Do you believe the quality of food was better, worse, or the same before the government began to implement controls in the food service industry? Use examples to support your claims.
Be sure to use proper APA style and cite all sources.

Describe how you may become aware of the trend in question and why you would want to investigate further.

Identify an adverse trend (across multiple patients) that could occur within your organization (dialysis)

Part I: Flow Chart

Create a flow chart or step-by-step guide identifying how you will collect, review, and apply data to make a decision that will affect patient care in general.
•Identify the steps you will take to collect, review, and apply data to make a decision that will affect patient care.
•List the type and source of information needed in each step.
•Identify the technologies used in each step.

Part II: Paper

Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper explaining the flow chart or step-by-step guide.
•Describe how you may become aware of the trend in question and why you would want to investigate further.
•Describe the data you would need to collect, the source(s), and why you would need this data.
•Describe the data collection methods you would use and why.
•Describe how the data would affect your response to the adverse trend.
•Explain how you will use the technology in each step.
•Describe any regulatory, legal, and ethical issues related to the use of data and the technologies used.

Explore: Bureau of labor Statistics May 2012 Occupational Profiles.

Read: “Ripping Off Young America: The College Loan Scandal” by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone from August 15, 2013.

Read the 10 part series: “The Tuition is Too Damn High” by Dylan Matthews in The Washington Post from August 26, 2013.

Read: Bureau of Labor and Statistics Data on Earnings and Unemployment rates by educational attainment

Explore: Google: Bureau of Labor and Statistics National Employment Matrix. Here, you can look at data on occupations and industries.

Read: Occupational Employment and Wages News Release. Here, you can find occupations that are emerging or new, many that are high-paying occupations.

Explore: Bureau of labor Statistics May 2012 Occupational Profiles

Explore: Pima’s office of Institutional Research has just posted on the website an Environmental Scan. It has some interesting info. If you make it past page 12 -13, you can see some salaries for some occupational programs. Some of the info in this document may help you. Note, this is one of the rare occaisions when a website has a page number because when you open the file through the url, there are page numbers. Just want to point out that this is one of the rare occaisions in case you decide to use info for any of your assignments.

Discussion 2: Worth 140 points, word count: 350

Initial Post Due by 5 pm on the deadline;
2 Responses Due by 5 pm on the deadline.
Deadlines and word counts are provided on the Calendar.

Answer all of the Questions.

Number each part of your response to earn credit for each part. Correctly numbered and fully explored parts of the post will earn 20 points. Parts not correctly numbered or fully explored will earn as few as zero points.
The correct MLA format Works Cited entry for the article is worth 5 of the 20 points for parts 1, 2, 3a, and 3b.
There is an example of a strong discussion submission that shows how to format with the numbers and the WC entries in the module. You may want to take a look at it before you write your discussion post.
1. What’s Taibbi’s argument?

What were three surprising points he makes?
What were you surprised by in the readers’ comments?
What do you think?
Remember, any sentence that has info from the source must have in-text citation info.
2. What’s Matthews’ argument?

What were 3 surprising points he makes?
What do you think?
Note: There are 10 parts to Matthews’ argument.
If you are citing from 3 of those, then you will have 3 Works Cited citations. There is a way to document more than one source from an author. Look at the OWL for multiple sources from one author. Check out the Sample Works Cited page. Hint: instead of the author’s name, you will use —.

3a and 3b. What other information is out there?

Find 2 articles that discuss student loans and
Write a P for each–label them 3a (your article selection 1) and 3b (your article selection 2). Include in your P:
what the argument is and
what you feel about the article—do you agree or disagree and why.
If you directly quote info, place it in quotation marks and provide the correct in-text citation information.

4. After reading these articles and conducting a little bit of research, what do you think?

If you were discussing this topic with Taibbi and Matthews at a party, what do you think he got right or that he missed or neglected in this piece?
How does data you found at the BLS affect what you think?
5. MLA formatted Works Cited entries for

Matthew’s article(s) If you cite from more than 1, you will need the specific citation from each.
Taibbi’s article in the Online version of Rolling Stone
Two additional articles
Any information you cite from the governmental documents.
If you have cited from anything else.
6. Write 2 Responses: Each worth 20 points when fully explored.

Discuss what the other student found, thought, etc.
Remember, we are discussing ideas, and write with respect and collegiality.
Consider framing your response with words like: I agree with X and Y. I disagree with Q & P. I see what you are saying about A, but I feel B because of —.
The goal is to explain your thinking.
Grading: I realize that is difficult to format the citation with double spacing and indenting all lines after the first in a discussion post; so, what I am looking for is the correct info, in the correct order, with the correct punctuation and spacing.

Explain how you benefited from completing the projects.

Before you use this case study, you
should be familiar with navigation in
the SAP system
Write a one-page critique of the Excel and Part 1 of the SAP projects. Explain how you benefited from completing the projects. List at least two ways the projects could be improved for students.
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