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In the U.S., a psychologist cannot deny that different cultures (including ethnicity, age, gender, religion, and sexual affiliation) play a role in personality development. Consider all you have learned throughout this course as well as how your culture has shaped your personality development. Use the Internet, Argosy University library resources, and your textbook to research the effects that cultures can play on personality development. Answer the following questions: What aspects of your cultural upbringing have affected your own personality development? Think about a friend who grew up in a different culture—how did their cultural upbringing and traditions affect their personality development in a way that differed from your upbringing? Considering everything you have learned in this course, how would you now analyze your own personality? Relate this to the theories of personality development that apply in your case. How will you use these new competencies in your work and personal life? Write your initial response in 3–4 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources, and use vocabulary that reflects your understanding of the concepts covered throughout the course.

Write a 200- to 350- word explanation of the relationship between critical thinking and ethics.

• Are the principles and rules of critical thinking applicable to ethical reasoning? Why?
• If everyone followed the rules and guidelines of logic, would there be a need for ethical decision making? Why?

Use examples from the scenarios provided this week to support your answer.

 

ETH/316 Week 2, Critical Thinking Scenario:

 

Select a provided ethical scenario or choose one from section IV of Thinking Critically.

Analyze your chosen scenario from a critical thinking perspective.

• What is the moral responsibility of all participants?
• What are the stakeholders’ moral failings?
• What ideals or obligations are in conflict?
• What is the best outcome, given the consequences?

Write a 350- to 700-word brief reflection of your analysis by describing the relationship between critical thinking and ethics.

Note. Remember that this should be based on critical thinking, not on your personal opinion.

 

ETH316 Week 2, Sample Team Charter:

 

Each person on the team should take the time to fill in the appropriate information, so others on the team have a way of contacting one another.  This charter will serve as a guide for the upcoming learning team assignment in week 4 and provide information for problem resolution within the group.  Please be specific

You work for your local public health department and they have asked you to create a mailer to be sent out to your community describing the state of your health care market.

Research your local community.

Create a two-page mailer and include the following:

Cultural demographics of your community
Age breakdown of your community
How the demographics and age affect your local health care market
The major health needs of the community
A comparison of your community to the national health care market
Local wellness programs and their effect on health care costs

Also, apart from your mailer, include recommendations for how you might market to your local community.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review Chapter 13 in the course text, Experiencing the Lifespan.
• Spend at least one hour with someone who is older than 60 but younger than 75. You may enjoy this more if it is someone in your family. Do something with that person that he or she enjoys doing. Notice the level of activity, the cognitive issues that arise (especially memory issues), and the social issues for this particular older person. Try to find out the following:
  • What kind of physical activity or activities does this person regularly engage in?
  • What kind of cognitive activity or activities does this person regularly engage in?
  • Does this person have any fears regarding memory or cognitive functioning? Why or why not?
  • What kind of socializing does this person do on a regular basis?

The assignment (1–2 pages):

• Briefly describe the older adult with whom you interacted, as well as the event/activity or nature of your interaction.
• Describe the cognitive, physical, and social activities that this older person engages in on a regular basis.
• Assess this person’s level of activity according to what you have learned about healthy aging.
• For purposes of this assignment only (you do not need to share this with the person), describe what this person is doing that promotes healthy aging, or suggest what this person could do to improve his or her healthy aging.
• Based on the person’s current activities and lifestyle, predict the life satisfaction of this person as he or she ages, assuming a relatively stable health status.

 

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion question, read Chapters 5 and 6 in American Government. In addition, read the following articles: “What Are the Arguments Made in Favor – and Against – the Electoral College?,” “GOP Leaders United in Defense of the Electoral College,” and the ProQuest article “Why the Electoral College is Bad for America.” Also, please watch this week’s videos,Episode I – A More Perfect Union and Episode II – It’s a Free Country regarding the U.S. Constitution.
	Reflect: As the textbook author asserts, the Framers intentionally designed a process for selecting presidents that would minimize the president’s political power – the Electoral College. They hoped this institution would insulate the chief executive from the public because they feared the power of presidents who might be elected by the people. However, the Electoral College has also spawned a long ongoing debate about whether the Electoral College should be abandoned in favor of new methods, which would ensure that the candidate elected has the most popular votes. The controversy over the Electoral College must be understood in order to better understand how and why U.S. presidents are elected.
	Write: In your initial post, summarize how the Electoral College works. Explain some of the main pros and cons in the debate about whether to keep or abolish the current Electoral College process. In addition, evaluate one proposal to change how the system works without formally abolishing it. Would this proposal effectively address some of the cons that you identified earlier in your post? Please explain your response.Fully respond to all parts of the question and write your response in your own words. Your initial post must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations from two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.   Discussion #2   Prepare: Prior to beginning your reflection this week, read chapters 5, 6, and 7 in American Government. Review the videos, Episode I – A More Perfect Union and Episode II – It’s a Free Country regarding the U.S. Constitution. Reflect: The executive and judicial branches of the U.S. national government often seem to operate independently and with little conflict. Many laws are signed by the President and then implemented without a word from the judicial branch. However, there are times when executive decisions are challenged by the judicial branch in a process called judicial review. In addition, there are times when a judicial review has direct impact on your life. For example, when the Supreme Court declared the Affordable Care Act constitutional, many people without health care insurance were finally able to purchase health care insurance. Additionally, when the Supreme Court declared sections of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, some of the constraints that prevented many gay and lesbian couples from marrying were eliminated. Executive Order 13658 on February 20, 2014 also had a direct impact on many business people that contract with the federal government by increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Clearly, the actions of the executive and judicial branches often directly affect our lives. Write: In your initial post, explain how and why the actions of the executive and/or judicial branches have personally affected your life. Fully respond to all parts of the question. Write in your own words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial post must be 200 to 250 words. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.

Case 10 Cooper Processing
CASE 10
The Cooper Processing Company
The Cooper Processing Company (CPC) is a manufacturer/processor of food products. Located in the city of Lansing, Michigan, the company services a national market with processed and packaged meat items such as hot dogs, bologna, sausage, etc. Because the company has been experiencing increased costs in marketing and logistical activities it has hired you as an expert to analyze costs and investments and make recommendations to management. In its most recent fiscal year, the company achieved sales of $100,000,000.
The company sells its products through two separate channels of distribution and each is treated as a profit center with full financial responsibility for income statement and balance sheet. The first channel is to retail grocery stores and supermarkets. The second channel is to foodservice wholesalers who, in turn, sell to restaurants and other foodservice establishments. According to the company accounting records, the retail segment accounts for 60 percent of sales, foodservice for 40 percent. The cost accountant believes that both channels are profitable. He says that the company achieves an overall average gross margin of 60 percent on its sales.
The cost accountant also provides you with the following total costs for various marketing and logistics functions at CPC:
The total of all other expenses at CPC is $15,000,000.
The company’s cost accountant has always allocated all expenses and investments to the channels based on the percentage of sales volume and has used the overall company average of 60 percent gross margin to determine the profitability of each channel of distribution.
You, being much wiser than the company cost accountant, decide to do a little further analysis. The first thing you discover is that, due to differences in product mix sold in each channel, gross margins actually are different in each. You find that the gross margin in the retail channel is 70 percent, in the foodservice channel it is 45 percent.
Next, you find that all of the salespeople are paid a straight salary and all receive exactly the same amount of salary. However, you find that of the 50 sales people employed by CPC, 40 of them are devoted to the retail channel, 10 of them are devoted to the foodservice channel. Since there are no sales managers and each salesperson pays for selling expense out of their salary, this accounts for all of the personal selling expense.
You learn that all sales promotions were conducted in the retail channel.
Next, you discover that there is a great difference in the number of orders placed by customers in each channel and the deliveries to each channel. You find that the retail channel accounts for 70 percent of the orders placed and 80 percent of the delivery expense. The foodservice channel accounts for 30 percent of the orders placed and 20 percent of the delivery expense. Your activity-based approach suggests that this is a reasonable way to trace the costs directly to each segment.
Next you learn that packaging differs for each channel. You discover that retail accounts for 80 percent of the packaging cost, foodservice for 20 percent. (Don’t worry about how you discovered this.)
Next, you discover that only the retail channel requires “labeling.” The company has a machine which applies these labels. The labeling expense of $2,000,000 includes materials, labor, and depreciation of the machine. The machine has an asset value of $10,000,000.
Next, you find that the company has inventory of $10,000,000 (this has also been the average amount of inventory held by the company during the year). You learn that the inventory is specialized by channel. For the retail channel, the inventory is $4,000,000. For the foodservice channel the inventory is $6,000,000. Inventory carrying costs for the firm are 20 percent.
Finally, you learn that the different channels have different terms of sale. Accounts receivable for the retail channel are (and have averaged) $3,000,000. Foodservice accounts receivable are (and have averaged) $1,000,000. You found that the cost of financing accounts receivable is 10 percent.
As hard as you have tried, you cannot find a reasonable basis to trace any other costs or assets directly to the channel segments.
Questions
1. How “profitable” is each channel?
2. What is the ROA of each channel?
3. Any recommendations?

Question 1.

The reading focuses on disciplinarity. Post an insightful comment on the work you have done or will do in your discipline. You may want to consider the following questions: What does disciplinarity mean for you and your studies? Have you taken any courses in your major thus far? If so, what have you learned so far about the “shape of the discipline”? What do you hope to learn? If you have not had courses in your major, what do you expect to learn, or what do you already know from job experience about your major? If you have “real-world” experience in your field of study, how does that compareto what you hope to learn or what you currently are learning?(This is my first semester) (My major is Associate of Science in Health Information Science/Medical Coding Emphasis)

 

Question 2.

 

In a 100-200-word short essay, describe the approach to the essay examination as presented in your reading. You will want to summarize, paraphrase, and condense the information. You might consider organizing your response by glossing over the entire process or by honing in on a particular aspect of the reading.

 

Question 3.

 

In a 100-200-word short essay, address the following questions: When considering the whole essay in revision, how do you understand FACT? What is your definition of each of the letters of this revision strategy? What are some questions that you would ask of the text when considering each letter? How does this approach help to ensure that the essay has a holistic revision approach?

 

Question4.

 

Using what you have learned in this unit’s reading about writing in the disciplines, write a 100-200-word short essay that addresses some or all of the following: What is your major? What “discipline” does that major most easily fall into? Given what you know about your major so far, what types of methodologies are used? What kinds of evidence are considered permissible? What type of documentation format is most often used in that discipline? What kinds of questions does the discipline ask itself? What are some of the writing assignments in the discipline?

 

If you use outside sources, including ther textbooks, you need to use quotation marks for lifted language, as well as in-text and reference list citations

 

 

 

The Books used in the course are The Little Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises Second Custom Edition Jane E. Aaron and The West Encounters & Transformations Levack/Muir/Veldman Custom Edition Volume 1: to 1715

 

 

 

 

 

Question 1 at least 75 words

 

Question 3-4 100-200 words.

 

 

 

Shandra was a senior in her final semester of the Health Information Management (HIM) program at Anystate University in Smithville. She was completing her final courses, which included Trends in Health Information Management, Organizational Management Theories, and her Professional Practice Experience. Shandra was engaged to Andre, the Assistant Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. James Medical Center, with plans to marry after her graduation. Shandra was carrying a 4.00 grade point average going into her final semester and had hopes of becoming a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance specialist after graduation because she had heard that a new position was being created. She was excited to be able to complete her Professional Practice Experience at St. James Medical Center, the only hospital in Smithville, so she would be able to complete the rest of her courses that same semester, continue to live near her family and fiancé, and hopefully get her foot in the door with a chance at the new HIPAA compliance specialist position.
Shandra started her Professional Practice Experience by attending two full days of orientation with a group of new employees. The orientation sessions included information about infection control, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, HIPAA, and quality improvement processes. All students and new employees were required to sign confidentiality statements during orientation.
Shandra did exceptionally well completing all of her assigned tasks during her Professional Practice Experience. She also became close with a number of the staff members in the HIM department and in other areas of the facility. She enjoyed being able to take her breaks and lunches with her fiancé and his friends from the hospital.
During breaks and lunches, Shandra overheard a variety of conversations among hospital staff. Occasionally, they would discuss interdepartmental issues, and sometimes they would gossip about hospital staff and physicians. One conversation was focused on a rumor about Henri Pioche, the Director of Respiratory Therapy. Many of the staff members present for the conversation indicated that they heard Mr. Pioche had been diagnosed with some kind of malignant condition and had been recently worked up to determine the possibility of brain metastasis.
Shandra and Andre took their afternoon break alone together that afternoon. Shandra asked Andre if he had heard any kind of confirmation regarding his director’s condition. Andre had only heard rumors, but of course, he was curious because he would be the obvious next in line for the director position.
When Shandra returned to the HIM department after break, she pulled up Henri Pioche’s records and saw that he had recently had a series of outpatient tests at the facility. She researched further and found that the most recent tests indicated brain metastasis that appeared significant. That evening, Shandra shared her findings with Andre.
The following day, Andre decided to approach Henri about the situation. He simply indicated that he had heard of him having serious health issues. Andre volunteered to help in any way possible and stated he was more than willing to cross-train to expand his duties to be able to cover in case Henri had to be gone for an extended period of time or if anything should happen that he might not be able to return, acting as an interim director until a decision could be made about a replacement.
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Henri denied his health issues to Andre. He did not want anybody at St. James to know of his condition, at least not this soon. However, it concerned him that Andre seemed too confident about his knowledge of his health status, so he contacted the Director of Health Information Management to investigate who may have had recent access to his health information.
A report was run to provide an audit log for access to Henri’s records, and the HIM department director questioned Shandra to determine why she had been in Henri’s electronic health record. Shandra knew immediately that she could not come up with a verifiable excuse, so she decided that honesty was the best policy in this case and admitted that she had looked to see whether what she heard on break was indeed true.

Write a 1,050- to-1,400 word paper that includes the following:

• Answer the discussion questions located at the end of the case you selected.
• Include what therapeutic approach you would apply in this case, and explain why you chose it.
• Describe the ethical issues you may encounter, as well as how you intend to approach them.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Unit I Essay

Using at least your textbook and a minimum of two additional sources, answer the following questions. Your paper should be at

least two pages in length, excluding title and reference pages. Follow APA style guidelines.

.You are the CEO of XYZ manufacturing company. You have decided that you would like to market your product to Turkey.

Consider the following points in your paper; you can make assumptions, but support your work with facts and scholarly references:

. Discuss the reasons why your company would want to expand overseas.

. Discuss what your mode of international business would be and how moving abroad will expand sales.

. How will you minimize risks and acquire resources?

. What are the factors you may face expanding into a foreign market? How might you mitigate those barriers?

Resources: University Library

Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper defining public leadership. In your paper, compare and contrast leadership within the public and private sectors.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

I attached a resource you can use.