Author: chris

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
(Note: Refer to Review Question 8 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 1-3. Select two (2) editorials / essays / columns (by staff or freelance writers) on a current issue of public policy from two (2) different publications (large metropolitan or national newspaper such as Washington Post or the New York Times or national magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and The New Republic.)Apply the procedures for argumentation analysis (located in Chapter 8) to display contending positions and underlying assumptions for the content of Review Question 8.
Rate the assumptions and plot them according to their plausibility and importance. (Refer to Figure 3.16, “Distribution of warrant by plausibility and importance.”)
Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.
(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 1 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 4-6. Examine Box 3.0 – Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis. Choose one of the following policy issues in the U.S. gun control, illegal drugs, medical insurance fraud, and environmental protection of waterways, job creation, affordable health care, or Medicare.)Apply the procedures for stakeholder analysis presented in Box 3.0 “Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis” to generate a list of at least five to ten (5-10) stakeholders who affect or are affected by problems in the issue area chosen for analysis. (Note: Refer to page 111 of the textbook for a step-by-step process on stakeholder analysis.)
After creating a cumulative frequency distribution from the list, discuss new ideas generated by each stakeholder. (Note: The ideas may be objectives, alternatives, outcomes causes, etc.; ideas should not be duplicates.)
Write an analysis of the results of the frequency distribution that answers the following questions: (a) Does the line graph flatten out? (b) If so, after how many stakeholders? (c) What conclusions can be drawn about the policy problems in the issue area? (Note: Compare your work with Case Study 3.1 at the end of the chapter.)
Include at least two (2) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook to support your views. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Do not use open source Websites such as Wikipedia, Sparknotes.com, Ask.com, and similar Websites are not acceptable 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; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:Examine the nature, characteristics, models, and / or methods pertinent to the structuring of policy problems.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in policy analysis and program evaluation.
Write clearly and concisely about policy analysis and program evaluation using proper writing mechanics.Must be submitted on dashboard. Week 5 assignment, PAD 520.

SLOW DANCE
Matthew DickmanMore than putting another man on the moon,
more than a New Year’s resolution of yogurt and yoga,
we need the opportunity to dance
with really exquisite strangers. A slow dance
between the couch and dinning room table, at the end
of the party, while the person we love has gone
to bring the car around
because it’s begun to rain and would break their heart
if any part of us got wet. A slow dance
to bring the evening home, to knock it out of the park. Two people
rocking back and forth like a buoy. Nothing extravagant.
A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey.
It’s a little like cheating. Your head resting
on his shoulder, your breath moving up his neck.
Your hands along her spine. Her hips
unfolding like a cotton napkin
and you begin to think about how all the stars in the sky
are dead. The my body
is talking to your body slow dance. The Unchained Melody,
Stairway to Heaven, power-cord slow dance. All my life
I’ve made mistakes. Small
and cruel. I made my plans.
I never arrived. I ate my food. I drank my wine.
The slow dance doesn’t care. It’s all kindness like children
before they turn four. Like being held in the arms
of my brother. The slow dance of siblings.
Two men in the middle of the room. When I dance with him,
one of my great loves, he is absolutely human,
and when he turns to dip me
or I step on his foot because we are both leading,
I know that one of us will die first and the other will suffer.
The slow dance of what’s to come
and the slow dance of insomnia
pouring across the floor like bath water.
When the woman I’m sleeping with
stands naked in the bathroom,
brushing her teeth, the slow dance of ritual is being spit
into the sink. There is no one to save us
because there is no need to be saved.
I’ve hurt you. I’ve loved you. I’ve mowed
the front yard. When the stranger wearing a shear white dress
covered in a million beads
comes toward me like an over-sexed chandelier suddenly come to life,
I take her hand in mine. I spin her out
and bring her in. This is the almond grove
in the dark slow dance.
It is what we should be doing right now. Scrapping
for joy. The haiku and honey. The orange and orangutang slow dance.Instruction: analyze this poetry Slow Dance by Matthew Dickman.
Analyze surface level, such as who/what/where/when/why?
Second Analyze depth level, revelation insight means, the significance of the poetry. such as language itself, image. What deep meaning contained in the poetry. what it refers to.
I think this poetry is talks about life.Quote sentence from poetry and analyze it

Case Study 1 answer the Question at the end of Case Study 1. Cite references to support your positions.

Case Study 1
Ms. A. is an apparently healthy 26-year-old white woman. Since the beginning of the current golf season, Ms. A has noted increased shortness of breath and low levels of energy and enthusiasm. These symptoms seem worse during her menses. Today, while playing in a golf tournament at a high, mountainous course, she became light-headed and was taken by her golfing partner to the emergency clinic. The attending physician’s notes indicated a temperature of 98 degrees F, an elevated heart rate and respiratory rate, and low blood pressure. Ms. A states, “Menorrhagia and dysmenorrheal have been a problem for 10-12 years, and I take 1,000 mg of aspirin every 3 to 4 hours for 6 days during menstruation.” During the summer months, while playing golf, she also takes aspirin to avoid “stiffness in my joints.”

Laboratory values are as follows:
Hemoglobin = 8 g/dl
Hematocrit = 32%
Erythrocyte count = 3.1 x 10/mm
RBC smear showed microcytic and hypochromic cells
Reticulocyte count = 1.5%
Other laboratory values were within normal limits.

Question
Considering the circumstances and the preliminary workup, what type of anemia does Ms. A most likely have? In an essay of 450 words, explain your answer and include rationale.

Case Study 2

Case Study 2
Mr. P is a 76-year-old male with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure who has been hospitalized frequently to treat CHF symptoms. He has difficulty maintaining diet restrictions and managing his polypharmacy. He has 4+ pitting edema, moist crackles throughout lung fields, and labored breathing. He has no family other than his wife, who verbalizes sadness over his declining health and over her inability to get out of the house. She is overwhelmed with the stack of medical bills, as Mr. P always took care of the financial issues. Mr. P is despondent and asks why God has not taken him.

Question
Considering Mr. P’s condition and circumstance, write an essay of 450 words that includes the following and cite references to support your positions.:
• Describe your approach to care.
• Recommend a treatment plan.
• Describe a method for providing both the patient and family with education and explain your rationale.
• Provide a teaching plan (avoid using terminology that the patient and family may not understand).

*** Please see attachment for detailed description and related reading materials for this paper. This is the final project therefore please take it seriously. Thanks a lot. ***
Format: PDF of a Word doc (or equivalent)
Length: Use your own judgement, although I am looking for quality and not quantity.Assignment: Choose a research question for which agent-based modeling (ABM) is an appropriate methodology and design and describe a pseudo-agent-based model that sufficiently explores it.Objectives: The aim of the final project is to give you an opportunity to implement what you are learning in this course. It is also to give you a taste of conducting graduate-level-type of research.Graduate-level research is typically partially based on course material and mostly on personal research. Because this course is relatively short and introductory, you are provided with a text, called Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (referred to in the syllabus as GAS), which can/should serve as the source for most if not all of your personal research. The authors of the text, Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell, are considered pioneers in applying ABM in the social sciences. The text is ideal for the final project because it provides all the necessary foundations for developing a pseudo-ABM. You are advised to read the relatively short text thoroughly and reference parts of it in your final project.A pseudo-ABM is a description of a model that is in words and not code. You are welcome to take your ABM beyond its pseudo phase and actually program it. I will be happy to provide you with advice in the process, if you need it. But because knowing how to program is not a prerequisite for this course, you are only being asked to provide a pseudo-ABM, using the ODD protocol.Grading will be based on:Sophistication – I am not looking for a super sophisticated model. With that said, the model needs to be interesting and have some degree of sophistication to show me that you have done your research and have given the project a sufficient amount of thought. Check with me to see whether the model you are thinking of creating is sufficiently sophisticated.
Cohesiveness – the inclusion of components of the model needs to make sense, from the perspective of the research question and the system being modeled. See CH 5 in the FM_SECASs text.
Completeness – the description needs to include and sufficiently describe all the relevant aspects. See the ODD protocol.
Clarity – the submitted document needs to be well written.The official start date of your work on the final project is May 9th, with the project due on June 5th; giving you four weeks. However, coming up with the idea of what to model and how to model it takes time, so I advise you to start thinking about it and reading GAS as early as possible. The final project represents 20 percent of your final grade, so please take it seriously. You may work on it solo or in a team of no more than two.

This is for for a Reading, writing and critical thinking course.
250 word proposal
– Write a proposal that helps business executives distinguish between fallacies and arguments in advertising. To do so, will apply your knowledge of fallacies by discerning logical fallacies within an argument.Consider this scenario:
You were recently brought on as chief advertising consultant for Kataka Foods Inc., a South Korean food manufacturer. Kataka wants to successfully break into the American market next fall, but there appear to be growing concerns that their message may get lost in translation. The following, for example, is a transcript taken from a recent Kataka advertisement. It was shown to an American focus group:Eating Kataka is like climbing Kilimanjaro; it’s not going to be easy, but afterwards you’re on top of the world. Our products are made from 95% natural ingredients, good and good for millions of overweight Americans. Koreans are historically trim, so who better to trust with your dietary goals than Kataka Foods? Recent Kataka funded studies have shown troublesome correlations between diet, exercise, and Alzheimer’s disease. Let Kataka guide you on the path towards a clear body and mind.Next:
Before you can begin steering Kataka ad executives in the right direction, you must first illustrate what is failing in the current approach. In a one-page (250-word) proposal, examine the formal fallacies present in Kataka’s aforementioned advertisement. This proposal will be given to Kataka executives prior to the launch of their American campaign, and should address the following:Identify all formal fallacies within this advertisement. What are the characteristics of each fallacy?
How might these fallacies obstruct Kataka’s intended message?
How can you distinguish between fallacy and argument? How can that knowledge be applied to the Kataka example?
Propose a new advertisement for Kataka executives that is informative and free of formal fallacy.
Highlight the difference between fallacies and arguments. How can each be useful within the advertising industry? When can they be a detriment?

This is for a Reading, writing and critical thinking course.
Assignment: answer the following questions – a paragraph for each – by recording the information you find as you search. All of the steps described below should be completed in the same file. Start each step on a new page and include step number and description (in bold) at the top of the page, but all the steps should be in the same file document.Using your favorite search engine, conduct a search for web sites on the health benefits of acupuncture. Print out and record the first 10 to 20 sites. Then, considering only the electronic addresses of the sites, rank five of the web sites returned from most to least reliable.
Using the printout of web sites for Question #1, determine the authorship or sponsorship of the five Web sites you deemed most reliable.
Using the printout of web sites for Question #1, gauge the purpose of the five web sites you deemed most reliable and worked with in Question #2 (for example: news article, web site feature, promotional material, advertisement, and so on).
Using the printout of web sites for Question #1, write a paragraph about each of the five web sites you deemed most reliable and worked with in Questions #2 and #3. Evaluate each site as a whole, considering its design, its readability, and the value of its links. Which site would be most useful in writing a paper on acupuncture? Which would be least helpful? Why?
Using the five web sites you have been working with in this exercise, make an inventory of all the common elements in these sites. Are they laid out the same way? Do they contain the same kind of information? How many of the same external links do these five sites reference? Then, write a brief response as to why you think these elements appear in each of the five sites. If the sites share nothing in common, consider why that may be so.
Using your printout from Question #1, select one of the five Web sites you have been working with in this exercise and write a 1-paragraph analysis of how the web site’s layout either helps or hinders your understanding of the content.
Using your favorite search engine, start a new search, this time narrowing the search to focus on the negative side effects of acupuncture. Select one of the sites returned, print out the electronic address, and then summarize the content of the site. Remember to provide bibliographic information of the web site you summarize.
Locate an online discussion group on the subject of acupuncture. Select three posted contributions to the list, print them out, read them carefully, and then evaluate whether or not they would be useful for a college paper on acupuncture. Remember to cut and paste a section of each contribution, or else incorporate specific quotes from each to show how you have engaged and examined these postings.
Compare three of the online sources you have found on the subject of acupuncture. Consider the information of one in the context of the other two; see if you can distinguish any singular, untested views from more mainstream views that have been subject to verification.
Using the printouts from the searches you have conducted throughout this exercise, check each of the sites for references to reliable printed sources that are not available online. Make a list of these sources, making a note of any source that is referenced more than once. Then, considering the biases of the different web sites, consider which online publications refer to which kind of printed sources. Are there overlaps? Hypothesize why or why no

Attached is a map of the ocean floor. It shows plate boundaries and features of the continental margin. All that you have to do is drag the letters from below and place them where they belong. You can open the attached tutorial to learn how to add letters and symbols. Complete the following; you only have to label one of each feature except for the earthquakes:
1. Label each of the boundaries listed using the letters or shapes indicated: divergent (D), convergent (C) and transform fault boundaries (TF).
2. Label each of the features listed: continental shelf, (SF) continental slope (SL), abyssal plain (AP), seamount (SM), trench (TR) and a hot spot (HS).
3. Label Iceland (IL), Azores (AZ), Surtsey (SS). St. Helena (SH), Ascension (AS) and Tristan de Cunha (TC).
4. Using the USGS earthquake site (USGS Earthquake Site), label the quakes over a 5.0 magnitude (★) and the quake closest to your location in CA. (∞).below. In the upper right hand corner of the page, you will see an icon that looks like a wheel or gear. Click on it and select 7-days, All Magnitudes, Worldwide. The three lines to the left of the gear provides you with a list of quakes starting with the most recent.
5. Label the following: Rockies (RK), Himalayas (HM), Andes (AN) and Appalachians (AP).
6. Label the following: Hawai’i (HI), Mt. St. Helens (ST), Etna (ET), Pelee (PE), Kilimanjaro (KI), Pinatubo (PI) and Fuji (FJ).
Questions: Make sure that you answer each thoroughly.
• Describe the relationship, if any, of the boundaries in #1 to the features that you labeled in #2.
• Describe the relationship, if any, of the boundaries in #1 to the islands that you labeled in #3.
• Describe the relationship, if any, of the boundaries in #1 to the quakes that you labeled in #4.
• Describe the relationship, if any, of the boundaries in #1 to the mountain chains that you labeled in #5.
• Describe the relationship, if any, of the boundaries in #1 to the volcanoes that you labeled in #5.
• What do you think controls the appearance and form of the continental margin?
• How do you think that the mountain chains in #5 formed?
• Here is a thought question. Reflect back on your answer to questions C and E. Based on those responses, does it seem logical that Kilimanjaro is a much bigger volcano than any of the others, excluding Hawai’i? Hawai’i is a different type of volcano. Be sure to explain your answer.
USGS Earthquake site
When you have completed the map, save it to your computer, and submit it in Schoology.
How to complete the exercise:
Open the “GEO101L_Lab1_Map” file provided below. Expand the image (The bigger you can make the window, not the image itself, the easier it will be!). All of the symbols/letters that you will need are below the image. If not, see the directions below.
• If you click on a letter/symbol, you will see a box form around it.
• If you grab it by a line, not a circle, you can move it anywhere you wish.
• If it is difficult to get the line, you can zoom in or make the box bigger using the circles.
Once placed, you might wish to make the font larger or change the color. Yellow looks good on blue, for example. If, for some reason, the symbols are not the same as indicated, you can use any symbol you wish; just inform your instructor of what each represents. Do not change anything, however, if it appears as it should.
Note that you will probably need more than the single ★. If so, just copy it as many times as you need. The easiest way to do that is to grab it by a line and copy and paste. You may have to shift things around or change your choice a bit if an area gets too crowded with symbols.
When you are done, save the file to your hard drive for backup. You will now want to convert your page into a PDF. This will keep all of your labels in position.
• On a Mac, you can just hit Shift+Command+S and change the format. Alternatively, choose Save as… and change the format.
• On a PC, choose File in the menu, then Save As. Under Save as Type, choose PDF.

PLEASE READ IT VERY CAREFULLY

OK everyone, so here is the skinny on the Final Exam. It is broken into two parts and you will need to go to two places in Blackboard to complete it. There are also two due dates that you must adhere to for the test. For part one you all will be doing one short five paragraph essay from a prompt we have provided for you. To access this part of the test go to the Assignments link in Blackboard and follow the instructions i.e. Read “A Negro Leader Explains Why Colored Men Fought for America, 1919” (Chapter 6, Document 7 of your primary documents reader) and using the essay as a springboard for discussion; write a five paragraph essay in which you discuss at least at least three reasons why black men’s commitment to fighting for the United States was a remarkable act of social responsibility. By “Social responsibility” we mean an ethical framework that suggests that an individual, organization, or entity has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large. Your essay should contain an introduction (one paragraph), body (three paragraphs), and conclusion (one paragraph) and should include evidence from the given text. After you have completed your essay, please grade it using the following rubric: (4) if you think you got an A (90-100) on the essay; (3) if you think your got a B (80-89) on the essay; (2) if you think your got a C (70-79) on the essay; and (1) if you think you got a D/F (60-60 or 1-59) on the essay. Yes, you are self grading this essay. At the top of your essay write in bold print the number you think you got for your essay prior to submitting it. This is a “SafeAssign” assignment so it will check for plagiarism. The essay is available now and we want you all to complete it before 1:00pm on Monday, May 9th. It is not timed but please do have it done by the 9th.

“Social responsibility” is an ethical framework and suggests that an individual, organization, or entity has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large. Read “A Negro Leader Explains Why Colored Men Fought for America, 1919.” Using the essay as a springboard for discussion, write a five paragraph essay in which you discuss at least at least three reasons why black men’s commitment to fighting for the United States was a remarkable act of social responsibility. Your thoughtful essay should contain an introduction (one paragraph), body (three paragraphs), and conclusion (one paragraph) and should include evidence from the given text. After you have completed your essay, please grade it using the attached rubric.

Here are the questions (choice 2 questions to answer from every sections.):(1) Answer two of the following short answer questions:
1. In what manner do national governments manage flows of workers, products, and money across the boundaries of their territories? Provide one example for each of these three flows.
2. Discuss some of the limitations associated with achieving the conditions of “perfect competition” in any market. What do these limitations or complications imply for a “fair price” for any product or service in the marketplace?
3. The assumption of private property is the norm within the economic culture of capitalist societies. What are some of the approaches to measuring the utility of a parcel of land, or in other words, its value? In what ways might society change if private property were abolished and all land became collective and public?(2) Answer two of the following short answer questions:
1. Following their extraction, discuss three other phases that commodities derived from the natural environment may go through. Present examples for two commodities.
2. Explain what a carbon trading scheme entails, and discuss three common criticisms of such a system.
3. Under what conditions would the state benefit by constraining worker organization through trade union legislation? In which sectors are such constraints typically imposed, and why?(3) Answer two of the following short answer questions:
1. Drawing on examples from the auto industry, provide four examples of how Fordist production and lean production principles differ in practice.
2. How does a focus on global production networks differ from a focus on commodity chains?
3. Discuss four aspects of vertical integration as a pattern of industrial organization that are a benefit to the parent TNC. In which sectors does vertical integration persist, and why is this the case?(4) Answer two of the following short answer questions:
1. Estimate what proportion of your own life is spent on paid versus unpaid labor. How does your relationship with other household members influence this proportion—i.e., do others in your household “work for you”? In what ways?
2. How do the concepts of ethnicity and race differ? Which is a more useful analytical category, and why?
3. Discuss three differences between a Chinese ethnic enclave in a downtown setting and a Chinese ethnic enclave in a suburban setting—i.e., “Chinatowns” versus “ethno burbs.”Please pay attention that the answers should be short.

This essay must have a Fully references on each sentences and paragraph.
1500 words

I also put the file of my questionnaire for you to look at it for the evaluation and the the charts that you will be create and what you will need to do to achieve this assignment

And please a two pages of REFERENCES

AIM
Why do you think woman suffer from domestic violence more than a man ( Descriptive, redevelop this is an academic manner. This does provide you with the basis to do this.)

Four Objectives
1. To identify the reasons why women suffer domestic violence more than men
2. To critically the caused by domestic violence on the victim and on the society
3. To compare the resulted of either partners or children
4. To make conclusion in resulted in difficulties of insecurities and financial hardship

Section One
Aim and objectives

(these may have changed slightly since your first assignment)

Section Two
Discussion of:
The chosen method (Quesitonnaire) for collecting data (a justification on why your chosen method is appropriate)
The Sample used
Any Ethical issues

Justification of your choice of primary research instrument/method and its design.
What instrument will you use to get the data?
Why is that instrument appropriate?
What sort of structure? What sort of questions will you use? Open.

Sample
What sample method have you chosen? Questionnaire. Who is your sample? Students.
How many in the sample? 14
How many questionnaires? 10. How will they be issued?

Ethical considerations
Permission needed?
Are those who are part of your sample aware of the aim of your research?

Section Three
Data presentation and analysis
Presenting the data – Charts? Graphs? Averages? Themes derived from the data?

Analysis – how does the data compare and contrast to the literature? Analysis of certain questions in relation to other questions?

Section Four
Evaluation of the process
Did you find out what you wanted to find out?
Did you use the right instrument?
Did you ask the right questions?
Did you ask the right people?
Did it achieve the aim?
What changes would you now make if you were to do the research again?
Would you change the aim and objectives?

Conclusions
What did you find out? What were the main points? Does it show areas that need to be further researched?

Important Points
Be critical of your own decisions.

Keep in mind that your critical evaluation of the decisions you made shows your understanding of the subject.

Remember that this is an academic piece of work; therefore, it is important that you include references.