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Write a research paper plan to cover a topic in Tennessee History. The paper should be 10 pages, written in 12 point font with one inch margins and double spaced. You should plan to use at least 2 primary sources in your analysis and 2 secondary sources. These sources must be cited. Use MLA format

Sources for Research and Writing Requirement
For Articles:
Go to http://bibliotech.memphis.edu/search~S4/y and check for journals available at the UofM
Library. The UofM also has access to Jstor and Project Muse which can be used to find other
journals. Some journals dealing specifically with Tennessee include:
“The Tennessee Historical Quarterly”
“ Journal of East Tennessee History”
“Tennessee Valley Historical Review”
“West Tennessee Historical Society Papers”
“Border States”

Conventional wars fought on the European models developed by Napoleon involve the leadership in writing and training troops for rules of engagement (ROE). Having ROE has brought both benefits and costs, and broadly training ROE at every level of leadership right down to the foot soldiers allows every participant to make responsible decisions and accomplish the mission as the battlefield commander has declared it. ROE is a management tool with benefits to keep situations under control and aligned with the mission. And yet the ROE in General Westmoreland’s command placed precise limits on what could be done and how it could be done.

The chain of command links everybody in uniformed service to those both senior and junior to them, all the way from the most junior ranks up to the President of the United States. There are a great many levels, but for this assignment we are looking at only six levels.

Looking all the way up the chain of command from the infantry soldiers in Vietnam to the President, write a short paper that will correlate the understanding of ROE with the limited war ideology and its assumptions as seen through the perspective and experiences of the six levels. Write your paper as seen from the following six points of the chain of command (a paragraph for each level plus an introduction and conclusion should be about right):

•individual soldiers in the field;
•batallion commanders;
•division commanders;
•General William Westmoreland;
•Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and
•President Lyndon Johnson.

Exercise 4: Healthcare Challenges, Opportunities, Strategy and Execution

You are the Benefits Lead at a Fortune 1000 company that provides a competitive level of healthcare benefits to your employees, retirees and their families. As with other large employers, you have seen healthcare costs escalate faster than any other good or service in the economy and that expense has started to catch the eye of senior leadership. You also understand, as does the organization, the need for healthcare benefits to attract and retain the right talent.

Your Vice-President of Human Resources has approached you and requested a 1 to 2 page report on the “HR Challenges, HR Opportunities, a HR Strategy for Healthcare and the Execution of that HR Strategy”.

Your assignment for Exercise 4 is to write a report identifying 6 HR challenges and 6 HR opportunities that all businesses face as it relates to healthcare in the U.S. Then, you need to develop a specific healthcare strategy for your company and how you would implement that strategy within your organization by identifying and providing brief detail on 6 actions you would take to support your chosen strategy. Make sure you write your report in a clear, concise and carefully crafted business format.

Compare and contrast consequentialist theory with social contract theory by analyzing usury laws.
Description: Watch the short interview with Harvard Law Professor and Consumer Advocate, Elizabeth Warren: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4025003/usury-laws?playlist_id=87185. Click here for the video transcript.
Also read a transcript of an interview with Warren: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/interviews/warren.html.
Warren argues that the United States needs a return to usury laws that cap the amount of interest charged on loans. Analyze this position from both a consequentialist and a social contract theory perspective. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each theory? Which is to be preferred, and why?

you will focus your attention on topic development, writing your preamble, constructing a problem statement, developing research questions, defining your terms, and setting realistic limitations on your study.
you will examine, through the numerous avenues available to you, the published literature of research on your topic. Please remember to use only scholarly works, and preferably those that have been peer reviewed. Online sources are acceptable if they fall into this category, however, site such as wikipedia should never be cited as their accuracy is questionableDescribe the design of your study. It is here that you will define whether qualitative, quantitative or a combination of both methods will be utilized. You will determine your means of collecting data and describe the sample, research instrument, and procedures you plan on utilizing to achieve this.
The topic of this research will be the examination of the historical prohibition of the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana in the United States. Explain the history of the prohibition of the drug as well as drawing on similarities between the treatments of marijuana to that of alcohol during prohibition during the early part of last century in the US. Discuss the economic impact of marijuana prohibition on the American tax payer in regard to the war on drugs, as well as the impact of lost tax revenue that would be raised if the drug were decriminalized, regulated, and taxed in the manner that cigarettes and alcohol are. Explore why the criminal justice system in the US enforces morality laws at the federal level on certain drugs, and how the war on drugs wastes resources that could be focused on other, more severe threats to the public. The 3 main questions I want explored are, 1) should the federal government enforce marijuana prohibition, in a similar manner to the failed prohibition of alcohol? 2) What are the socioeconomic impacts of the war on drugs, in regard to marijuana? 3) What would the effects of marijuana legalization be on the United States, both positive and negative?

Common Assignment: Prepare a written analytical report on a juvenile delinquency treatment program in your community or any community of your choice. You were asked by the government to assess the juvenile delinquency program you selected in order to reform the existing program and perhaps add a few new ones. The government wants to increase reliance on alternative to incarceration programs, but needs to know if the current program is working. The government is thinking about adding more community programs, counseling, and after-school jobs for older juveniles.
• What is the name of the program you are assessing?
• Where is the program located?
• Have there been any studies completed on the effectiveness of the program you are reviewing for the assignment? What were the results of these studies? If no studies were done, would this have been informative?
• What (if any) positive impact is the program providing for the community and the delinquents?
• Will the program help to curb juvenile delinquency? Why?
• What are the negative aspects of the program you reviewed?
• Give specific suggestions for improving the program (none is not an appropriate answer here, there are always manners in which programs can be improved).
• Explain your reasoning for supporting or eliminating the program.

Instructions- Use the attachment of the needed text to complete the Essay. The textbook used is called the humanistic tradition-book 1 sixth edition. Page 30 and 31
Choose one literary work, one artwork, OR one architectural work from those covered in the text and in class lectures in Unit 1 and
describe it in detail and
discuss your personal reaction/response to the work.
Also, for clarity purposes, please number the sections of your essay 1 and 2 (1=detailed description; 2=your personal reaction/response). Submissions without the numbering will receive an automatic deduction of 20 points.
This essay must be a minimum of 300 words.
Please include a word count at the end of your essay.
Essays without the word count included at the end of the essay will receive a deduction of 10 points. Emailing the word count after the essay has been submitted will not be accepted as a substitute.
Essays less than 300 words will automatically receive a grade of 0
for the assignment.
Students who falsify the word count will automatically receive a grade of 0 for the assignment.
Essays must be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Essays which are not double-spaced and/or in 12-point Times New Roman font will receive a deduction of 10 points.
Essays which contain more than 5 spelling, punctuation and/or grammatical errors will receive a deduction of 10 points.

Gangs have become increasingly more violent over time and have increased their activity in drugs and other illegal activities to support the gang and help recruit new gang members, often from U.S. middle and high schools. In this scenario, you have been asked to begin a gang initiative with a community that has suffered an increase in gang activity over time.
Gangs have become increasingly more violent over time and have increased their activity in drugs and other illegal activities to support the gang and help recruit new gang members, often from U.S. middle and high schools. In this scenario, you have been asked to begin a gang initiative with a community that has suffered an increase in gang activity over time.<br>
Your police department closely follows the community policing paradigm, meaning that it has realized the importance of working with the community as a whole to resolve long-term problems that have often stymied efforts led only by the police in the past. Recently, one of these community groups came to you, as police chief, and asked that you respond to what it feels is an increasingly dangerous gang problem in the community. There have been several serious incidents of violence and drive-by shootings, along with the increase in drug traffic and attempts to gain new gang members in your local middle and high schools.
You recognize that increasing patrols and arrests in the area will only solve the problem short term or perhaps just displace the problem, so you want to seek a more long-term solution.
For this assignment, your police department has picked you to write an action plan that addresses this problem in the community. Your action plan should include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Several initiatives that will assist in rectifying the problems, including the following:
o Educational initiatives
o Local initiatives
• How can the negative effects of violence on children be lessened?
• Do you believe that there should be a limitation on the violent video games children are permitted to play?
• What type of assistance will you ask from the community as a whole?
• What role will the department itself take?
• How will you measure the effectiveness of your plan?

examine Ross’s pluralistic notion of ethics in light of abortion.

Write a paper in which you identify the competing duties involved in the issue of abortion and construct a pluralistic argument for or against abortion. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.

The purpose of this activity is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the feminist approach to ethics and to compare it with other kinds of moral reasoning.
Description: Select a moral problem of your choosing. Compare and contrast a feminist ethics of care with one of the moral theories that we have studied to date (i.e., divine command theory, egoism, consequentialism, deontology, or virtue theory). How does the feminist approach differ from the ones we’ve studied so far? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Which theory do you prefer, and why?