Author: chris

Many companies are “going green” or adopting environmentally-friendly business strategies. Assume you are a consultant to a small food service business. Prepare a brief report summarizing the benefits the business will see if they pursue a “green” strategy.

Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.

Prompt:
In an essay, discuss the social philosophies of the late 19th century and their influence on the progressive movement.

READ all three philosophies before you proceed to write. I will attach the three social philosophies that you will need to discuss.
Discuss each of the three philosophies (what they mean, are saying etc) and then how each INDIVIDUAL philosophy influenced the PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT.
please learn about the progressive movement.

Analyse the main reasons for the success of the Grameen Bank and examine the ways in which weaknesses concerning its impact can be overcome.
Introduction – You must show why the topic is important
Microcredit (MC) is important as it represents a major academic battleground between supporters, who see it as a chance for one of the most marginalized groups – poor, rural females in developing countries to ‘catch-up’ by finally getting access to credit, which will allow them to improve life chances and detractors, who argue that it is part of the unwarranted and unfair financialization of development processes. That is, MC individualises development by lending to one person and putting huge pressure on them to make a success of the loan, measured in economic terms – increased productivity and profits resulting from investments in small enterprises. Moreover, MC has not led to any substantive changes in structural patterns of inequality in countries, such as Bangladesh, where it is prevalent.
Very briefly outline these two opposing views and then move to a focus on Grameen Bank – as the most well known provider of micro-credit globally – for your statement of organization (how you will organize the sections)/thesis. Outline which arguments you will focus on to highlight reasons for the success of Grameen then state which weaknesses will be addressed and how it will be suggested that they can be overcome.
Main Body
1. Background and context – define the concept of MC and summarise briefly its rise to importance in the context of the substantive influence of Grameen Bank. MC rose to prominence in the 1970s, much influenced by the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus. It progressed unevenly through the 1980s and picked up impetus during the 1990s. Currently, it is very influential and has been taken up by large multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, by bilateral donors (DFID) and by grassroots groups, organizing their own MC programmes.
2. Arguments in favour of Grameen Bank as a Success – Divide into economic and social
Economic
Examine the increase in GDP in Bangladesh as a result of the work of Grameen..
Examine effects at the household and village level – females have more disposable income and spend it wisely to improve the diet, the health and the education of family members..
Examine individual effects on lives of borrowers – female success stories – new skills learned, confidence gained, lives transformed.
Social
Gender issues – rise in employment and empowerment of women. The work of Grameen has led to more visibility of women in the productive sector and thus to more acceptance of females outside the reproductive sphere in patriarchal societies.

1. Write a summary of technological devise designed specifically for medical coding.

2. What are the functions of the devise?

3. What are the advantages of the devise for medical coders?

4. What are disadvantages of the devise for medical coders?

1. Outline according my proposal, I will send you the proposal and the teacher’s feedback, you can just read it. 2.Context: Background; Literature review; Research objectives; Methodology; Discussion; Conclusion and References. 3. The references MUST after 2002 ( USE 2002-2015) 4. You must use a large number of data to analysis and statistic, every data MUST have source or evidence. 5.You need to analysis the debt of individual; lender and banks. 6.Reasonable arrangement the word. 7. Specific, not very wide. 8. If my teacher has some advice, I will tell you. Thank you!

Guidelines:
This project must demonstrate understanding of the childcare sector in Ireland – how it has developed and changed. In addition you must research one area of social policy that has positively affected children’s early development and education, providing recommendations on how this area can be further improved/implemented nationally
Your project must follow the structure below;
1. Introduction
2. Aims
3. History of the Childcare Sector in Ireland (approx 500 words)
4. Government Influences & Initiatives – Demonstrate Application to Early Years Sector
5. Legislative Issues – Demonstrate Application to Early Years Sector
6. Social Policy
7. Critical Evaluation of Findings
8. Recommendations
9. Logical Conclusions

Resources: Riordan Virtual Organization and Environmental Scan Paper
Use the Riordan Virtual Organization and research from last week’s Environmental Scan Paper for this assignment.
Decide which competitive advantages Riordan has in common with the companies researched last week, and estimate which competitive strategies Riordan could use to improve innovation and sustainability of business operations both in the United States and in the global market.
Explain why you chose these competitive strategies and estimate how they might affect sustainability of long-term organizational performance.

Blueprint for Respect: Creating an Affirming Environment in the Courts for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities
Critique of a Scholarly Journal Article –
Assignment Two: This assignment is worth 15% of your grade
You are required to critique a study that was published in a scholarly journal in the area of criminal justice. Examples of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are Criminology, The Prison Journal, Journal of Drug Use and Abuse, etc. If you are not sure if an article is a journal article, please ask me or a Librarian. Let me look at your article before you begin writing. This will be a 3-5 page paper. Reminder: Assignments MUST be completed in Microsoft Word and uploaded as an attachment into Blackboard.
a. Read the article and in one page, give a summary of the article. Include:
1. What was the study about?
2. Who were they studying (sample)? How did they pick their sample?
3. How did they conduct the study? (i.e., a survey, field research, historical documents, etc.)
b. Discuss the author’s conclusions (1 page). What did the author find through this research? What were the Possible sources of information (beyond the literature)?
c. Critique the author’s work – list strengths and weaknesses of the author’s research designs. What were the problems with it? Could it have been done better? Typically most of this information can be found under the sub-heading of “limitations” in the article. This should help you with writing this section.

d. Include a copy of the article with your paper and staple it to the paper. List criteria/reasons for choosing the article.
e. Do not copy directly from the article – I want you rephrase what the author has stated in YOUR OWN WORDS.
f. Do not write in the “I” format.

Read the case study titled “A Successful Downsizing: Developing a Culture of Trust and Responsibility” before starting this assignment.
Write a seven to ten (7-10) page paper in which you:
Describe specific practices that successful project managers apply in exercising their leadership and management roles overall.
Evaluate Judy Stokley’s level of success in developing a culture of trust while implementing her drawdown plan as Eglin Air Base’s new Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) program director. Provide three (3) specific examples to support the response.
Indicate three (3) key learning and behavior modification strategies that Judy Stokley used in order to address AMRAAM’s organizational problems and gain the trust of project team members. Provide three (3) specific examples to support the response.
Analyze three (3) actions that Judy Stokley took in order to change the project team’s culture and create a relationship of trust, mutual support, and teamwork between the government and contractors. Support the response with three (3) specific corresponding examples.
Create a personal leadership development plan for Judy Stokley so that she may be eligible for future promotions to leadership roles beyond program director. The plan should, at a minimum, focus on promoting key leadership behaviors, designate specific strategies to promote a higher level of performance relative to the position, and specify actions that Judy could take to promote the AMRAAM culture in her new role.

How does Didion describe the importance of water? What is your personal opinion on water conservation?
Write at least one full paragraph.
Essay: Holy Water
• In 1979’s The White Album, Californian Joan Didion wrote this essay about her relationship with water.
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• some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive. The water I will draw tomorrow from my tap in Malibu is today crossing the Mojave Desert from the Colorado River, and I like to think about exactly where that water is. The water I will drink tonight in a restaurant in Hollywood is by now well down the Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens River, and I also think about exactly where that water is: I particularly like to imagine it as it cascades down the 45-degree stone steps that aerate Owens water after its airless passage through the mountain pipes and siphons.

As it happens my own reverence for water has always taken the form of this constant meditation upon where the water is, of an obsessive interest not in the politics of water but in the waterworks themselves, in the movement of water through aqueducts and siphons and pumps and forebays and afterbays and weirs and drains, in plumbing on the grand scale. I know the data on water projects I will never see. I know the difficulty Kaiser had closing the last two sluiceway gates on the Guri Dam in Venezuela. I keep watch on evaporation behind the Aswan in Egypt. I can put myself to sleep imagining the water dropping a thousand feet into the turbines at Churchill Falls in Labrador. If the Churchill Falls Project fails to materialize, I fall back on waterworks closer at hand — the tailrace at Hoover on the Colorado, the surge tank in the Tehachapi Mountains that receives California Aqueduct water pumped before — and finally I replay a morning when I was seventeen years old and caught, in a military-surplus life raft, in the construction of the Nimbus Afterbay Dam on the American River near Sacramento. I remember that at the moment it happened I was trying to open a tin of anchovies with capers. I recall the raft spinning into the narrow chute through which the river had been temporarily diverted. I recall being deliriously happy.

I suppose it was partly the memory of that delirium that led me to visit, one summer morning in Sacramento, the Operations Control Center for the California State Water Project. Actually so much water is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know on any given day whose water is where, but to get a general picture it is necessary only to remember that Los Angeles moves some of it, San Francisco moves some of it, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project moves some of it and the California State Water Project moves most of the rest of it, moves a vast amount of it, moves more water farther than has ever been moved anywhere. They collect this water up in the granite keeps of the Sierra Nevada and they store roughly a trillion gallons of it behind the Oroville Dam and every morning, down at the Project’s headquarters in Sacramento, they decide how much of their water they want to move the next day.
They make this morning decision according to supply and demand, which is simple in theory but rather more complicated in practice. In theory each of the Project’s five field divisions — the Oroville, the Delta, the San Luis, the San Joaquin and the Southern divisions — places a call to headquarters before 9 AM and tells the dispatchers how much water is needed by its local water contractors, who have in turn based their morning estimates on orders from growers and other big users. A schedule is made. The gates open and close according to schedule. The water flows south and the deliveries are made. In practice this requires prodigious coordination, precision, and the best efforts of several human minds and that of a Univac 418. In practice it might be necessary to hold large flows of water for power production, or to flush out encroaching salinity in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the most ecologically sensitive point on the system.
In practice a sudden rain might obviate the need for a delivery when that delivery is already on its way. In practice what is being delivered here is an enormous volume of water, not quarts of milk or spools of thread, and it takes two days to move such a delivery down through Oroville into the Delta, which is the great pooling place for California water and has been for some years alive with electronic sensors and telemetering equipment and men blocking channels and diverting flows and shoveling fish away from the pumps. It takes perhaps another six days to move this same water down the California Aqueduct from the Delta to the Tehechapi and put it over the hill to Southern California.
“Putting some over the hill” is what they say around the Project Operations Control Center when they want to indicate that they are pumping Aqueduct water from the floor of the San Joaquin Valley up and over the Tehechapi Mountains. “Pulling it down” is what they say when they want to indicate that they are lowering a water level somewhere in the system. They can put some over the hill by remote control from this room in Sacramento with its Univac and its big board and its flashing lights. They can pull down a pool in the San Joaquin by remote control from this room in Sacramento with its locked doors and its ringing alarms and its constant print-outs of data from sensors out there in the water itself. From this room in Sacramento the whole system takes on the aspect of a perfect three-billion-dollar hydraulic toy, and in certain ways it is. “LET’S START DRAINING QUAL AT 12:00” was the 10:51 AM entry on the electronically recorded communications long the day I visited the Operations Control Center. “Quail” is a reservoir in Los Angeles County with a gross capacity of 1,636,018,000 gallons. “OK” was the response recorded in the log. I knew at that moment that I had missed the only vocation for which I had any instinctive affinity: I wanted to drain Quail myself.
Not many people I know carry their end of the conversation when I want to talk about water deliveries, even when I stress that these deliveries affect their lives, indirectly, every day. “Indirectly” is not quite enough for most people I know. This morning, however, several people I know were affected not “indirectly” but “directly” by the way water moves. They had been in New Mexico shooting a picture, one sequence of which required a river deep enough to sink a truck, the kind with a cab and a trailer and fifty or sixty wheels. It so happened that no river near the New Mexico location was running that deep this year. The production was therefore moved today to Needles, California, where the Colorado River normally runs, depending upon releases from Davis Dam, eighteen to twenty-five feet deep. Now. Follow this closely: Yesterday we had a freak tropical storm in Southern California, two inches of rain in a normally dry month, and because this rain flooded the fields and provided more irrigation than any grower could possibly want for several days, no water was ordered from Davis Dam.