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DQ 1- Answer the following question about addiction in 100-150 words

What is the difference between use, abuse, and dependence? Why is it important to understand this difference?

DQ 2- Answer the following question about addiction in 100-150 words

How has society encouraged addictions? Provide examples in your response.

DQ 3- Answer the following question about Personality Disorders in 100 – 150 words

Why are personality disorders separated into clusters? What are the differences between Cluster A, Cluster B, and Cluster C personality disorders?

DQ 4- Answer the following question about Personality Disorders in 100 – 150 Words

Can personality disorders be treated? Explain your answer.

Argue whether or not the success of Colonial America depends on the continuation of the Slave Trade?

answer question twice. 200 word min each answer. APA

Cause-Effect Essay Assignment: Focus on Effects

People are becoming increasingly interested in the nutritional value, safety, and variety of the food that they consume. Science has led to much of that interest. Every week, new food science research is published about which food is healthy and which is not, and often the results change or are contradictory. At the same time, scientists from fields such as genetic engineering and molecular gastronomy are creating new varieties of food or new combinations of food. As a result, consumers are now presented with a huge amount of information and choices about the food they eat. Is this a negative or positive trend?

In your opinion, has science had a mostly positive or a mostly negative effect on our diet – the food we choose to eat? Focus on either the positive or the negative effects, not both. Support your opinion with evidence from the texts provided by your teacher.

Include:
• An introduction introducing the impact of science on our food choices
• A thesis statement focusing on the negative or positive effects of science on our food choices
• Three body paragraphs with clear topic sentences explaining 3 effects
• At least 3 citations of supporting evidence from the classroom texts (Two must be paraphrases and one must be a quotation.) Use the format:
– According to “Eating Well: Less Science, More Common Sense”, we are…
– Carly Schuna in “Exercise and Diet in College” says that……
• A conclusion restating the thesis and concluding with a recommendation or prediction.

Sources:
Use only your own ideas and ideas from the texts in your reading book or from those texts provided by your teacher. You may read additional articles on the topic on the Internet to expand your background knowledge, but please paraphrase or quote only from those articles provided in class. This will ensure that the teacher can help you to learn how to accurately cite sources, paraphrase, and quote before you venture out into your own research projects in future classes.

Take a moment to view the following videos, which discuss the effects of music on the brain:

Does Music Make Kids Smarter?
Health Matters: Music and the Mind

Consider the following scenario:

You are friends with a family who has a 5-year-old son named Howard. Howard loves coming to school gets along with well other children. He has a positive attitude about learning and is persistent when facing challenges. His favorite thing about school is music time. He loves to sing and dance. During center time, he plays with instruments and listens to music on head phones. His school also has a music teacher, and Howard is learning how to play the piano. Howard was recently diagnosed with a learning disability and his cognitive and language development appears delayed. His parents want to put him in an academically focused program that does not include music education. They feel that this type of experience does not address his special learning needs and that more time must be spent on academics in order to bring him up to grade level. What advice do you give Howard’s parents? In your answer, discuss developmental milestones for this age group and cite research regarding the effect of music education and experience on the cognitive development of young children.

You may refer to the national standards for Arts education, ArtsEdge, Standards, or any other state standards you would like.

Take a moment to watch the Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning video

“Themes and projects are strategies for breaking away rigid designated time blocks…Thematic teaching allows children to investigate topics thoroughly in an integrated manner…Project work has been shown to be a successful method of meeting standards” (Benson & Miller, 2008; Helm 2008). Review Chapter 16 of the required text for more information about thematic teaching. Locate a set of standards for math and science and describe a cross-curricular, student-centered project that meets those standards in an integrated way.

Option One:

Share three math content standards and three science content standards. Then, develop a project that meets these standards. Describe your project and identify two ways in which this project is developmentally appropriate. Also explain your approach for making your project child-centered.

Mr. Andrews is a 36-year-old man who has been a life-long career criminal. He has suffered ridicule and has expressed episodes of depression. Currently, he is located at a maximum security prison and has requested that he be reevaluated to go to a medium-security prison for the remainder of his sentence. At the current location, Mr. Andrews has received numerous prison violation tickets for disorderly conduct, assault on an inmate, and not following the instructions of a corrections officer during work detail.

During his intake, it was noted that Mr. Andrews’s behavior toward authority was aggressive, and his responses to questions were vague. As you look at this reevaluation, it will be very important to use the correct assessment. Both OASys and LSI-R have components that address his socialization, but there has been no treatment plan initiated that addressed his issues.

Individual Portion

Using the information from the above scenario, each individual group member should address the following in 500–700 words:
Indicate which assessment or diagnostic technique (OASys or LSI-R) you would use.
Why do you feel that this diagnostic technique is the most appropriate in the case of Mr. Andrews?
Do you feel that the diagnostic technique that you did notselect would be inadequate considering the circumstances above? Why?
What is the risk level (low, medium, or high) of Mr. Andrews?
Do you feel that a medium-security facility is the ideal option for the incarceration of Mr. Andrews? Why or why not?
Use examples from the scenario to support your argument.
When you have finished, compile your responses to the above questions into a Word document title

Many teams face the challenge of flat performance. Sometimes, teams may underperform by failing to reach their stated goals. For this assignment, you will examine strategies for enhancing the performance of a dysfunctional or underperforming team.

Project 3 / Final Project: Agency Analysis

The assignment is to read the document in the course syllabus labeled “Virtual P D Case Study.” This document describes The Virtual Police Department, medium-sized police department with an average amount of crime.

The student will write a 7-10-page report that addresses the issues and problems listed. The paper must:

Identify the most critical issues/problems facing the Virtual Police Department
Describe how the history of the agency has contributed to any of these issues/problems
Discuss how the department is organized and managed, and what changes should be made to address the selected issues/problems
Discuss the demographic differences in the community and the police department, and what strategies could be implemented to make the agency more reflective of the community
Discuss how the agency culture has contributed to any of the selected issues/problems and describe how to create change in this area
Provide an analysis of the crime statistics and identify strategies/tactics to reduce crime and/or increase closure provide a discussion on possible solutions to any of the other issues/problems selected from the case study

From the same case that you have chosen for Deliverables 1 and 2, you will determine the company’s top advantage(s) and recommend alternative strategies that the company could take in order to beat its competitors.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: (The company i chose was Bank of America)

Evaluate the importance of innovation for the long term survival for your chosen company as well as the industry that your chosen company fits in. Next, recommend an overall strategy in order to foster innovation in your chosen company. Provide a rationale for your response.
Speculate on how you would expect the industry to evolve over a period of five (5) and ten (10) years, based on your analysis on the innovative and technology trends from Project Deliverable 2. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine your chosen company’s top advantage(s) over its competitors. Justify your answer.
Determine two or three (2-3) strategies that the company could use to exploit its innovation breakthroughs, using the top advantage(s) that you determined in Question 3. Analyze the main advantages and disadvantages of each strategy.
Recommend one (1) of the strategies that you determined for the company, and suggest how pursuing that strategy would exploit the company’s advantages over its competitors and minimize its key weaknesses. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Unit V Essay Write an essay describing how knowledge of water-only systems may influence the incident commander’s incident action plan. Your response must be at least one page in length, double spaced, and 12-point Times New Roman font. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations. Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

2nd Assignment

Unit V Homework Using the sample APA-styled paper (title page, abstract, body, and reference page), write a minimum two-page paper that includes the following:

1. First heading (APA Level 1 heading) should be “STPA.” Explain the STPA process, the background behind it, and how it is reflected in systems engineering. Also, describe how the STPA process may be used as a technique to accommodate human controllers. Provide at least one scenario to support your explanation.

2. Second (APA Level 1 heading) should be “Safety-Guided Design Process.” Explain the Safety-Guided Design process as it relates to industrial robotics. Also, describe how it may be used as a technique to accommodate humans within the control systems, including managing and designing for human error and error tolerances.

Provide at least one scenario to support your explanation.

An overview of the types and uses of norms commonly found in psychological results.

Explain the history of psychology.