Author: chris

Read “Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html?login=email&rref=collection/newseventcollection/un-climate-change-conference&action=click&contentCollection=earth&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0) by Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 12, 2015, and then address the following:1. How many nations reportedly reached a landmark accord committing them to lowering their greenhouse gas emissions?
2. How many years have UN diplomats been working toward this accord?
3. Who is Ban Ki-moon and what did he say we have for the first time?
4. “At best, scientists who have analyzed [the accord] say, it will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by” how much?
5. The planet-warming carbon emissions that started during the Industrial Revolution could begin to do what as a result of the Paris deal?
6. The deal could be viewed as a signal to global financial and energy markets, triggering a fundamental shift away from what?
7. What was the result of a similar climate change summit meeting in 2009 at Copenhagen? What, in a phrase happened?
8. While scientists once warned that climate change was a problem for future generations, what have recent scientific reports concluded?
9. Who is John Kerry; and with counterparts from what two countries has he spent the past year negotiating behind the scenes?
10. Who is Xie Zhenhua and how did he characterize the deal?
11. What did President Obama of the USA and President Xi Jinping of China announce in Beijing in November 2014?
12. At least how much per year did poorer countries ask that rich countries appropriate as a minimum to help them mitigate and adapt to the ravages of climate change?
13. Despite the historic nature of the Paris climate accord, its success still depends heavily on which two factors outside the parameter of the deal?
14. Is there any legal requirement dictating how, or how much, countries should cut emissions?
15. Starting in 2020, how often will countries that signed the accord be required to reconvene?
16. What is it that “would have been dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate”?
17. A “name-and-shame” system of global peer pressure was created in hopes that countries will not want to be seen as what?
18. Who is Mitch McConnell and what did he say this “unattainable deal” was based on?
19. Who is Arias Cañete and what did he say about “today” and “tomorrow”?
20. What do you say? What are your thoughts about the Paris deal? Can it be achieved? Does it go far enough? What else should be done?

By the end of this activity, you will be able to:

Identify and explain the three major theoretical perspectives in sociology: symbolic interactionism, structural functionalism and conflict theory and be able to explain each viewpoint in terms of various topics, such as race, gender, class and social change
View the following videos:

“What is Sociology” [MP4 video 2:07 30.4 MB]

“Three Founding Sociological Theories” [MP4 video 5:08]

“Symbolic Interactionism” [MP4 video 4:54]

“Structural Functionalism” [MP4 video 6:52]

“Conflict Perspective” [MP4 video 6:53]

As you complete this discussion, think about the following:

How can sociological theories help us to make sense of the world around us?
In your discussion postings, answer the followng questions:

Pick two theoretical perspectives (structural-functional, conflict or symbolic-interactionist) and compare and contrast these perspectives.
Which one makes the most sense to you?
Which perspective do you find the least helpful for understanding how American society works?

Evaluation Criteria

Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings in the instructions with proper APA style formatting.

For assistance with APA style formatting, visit the Library or the Excelsior OWL.

Your initial post is due by Thursday at 11:59 PM EST. Your responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 PM EST.

After you have posted, read through the postings of your peers. Choose (at least) two of your peers’ posts to respond to. The posts you choose to respond to do not necessarily have to be classmates’ initial posts.

Each response to a peer should be (at least) approximately 100 words in length and should contribute to the discussion in progress. All responses to classmates should be substantive. That is, they should go beyond simple agreement or disagreement with classmates’ posts. Also, be sure that your responses are respectful, substantive, and consistent with the expectations for discussion, as stated by the prompt. Be sure to monitor and respond to feedback to your major thread post throughout the module. Be sure also to reply to your classmates’ postings and that your responses are within the designated due dates for this discussion activity. Please direct any questions you may have to your instructor.

See the Course Calendar for due dates for posts and responses.

Consult the Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it. When you are ready to post, click on the “Create Thread” button for a new thread or “Reply” to respond to a previous post. Then, copy/paste the text from your document into the message field, and click “Submit

Discussions are worth 30% of your final grade and are assessed using the SLA Discussion Rubric [39.1 KB PDF file]. Review the rubric carefully so you understand how you will be graded.

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PLEASE YOU MUST USE JUST POWER POINT

Egress and Life Safety Analysis – FIRE 2225
Mini-Project

Your instructor is going to be taking the role of a Community Developer and requires your assistance in
conducting researching the groundwork in order to conduct a Life Safety Analyses of various buildings.
1. Conduct research about your occupancy, its occupants, and the egress (or life safety) of those
occupants. Provide a detailed analysis of the following: (Use Chapter 6 of the text to provide direction)
a. Discuss some of the features of NFPA 101 that make it unique, such as discussing the
classification of hazard of contents; construction requirements; protection from
hazards, detection, alarm, and notification; drills and extinguisher training; building
services, etc (other than listed in Ch. 7-10)
b. Occupant characterization – use as a guide the information from Chapter 6 of the text
and NFPA 101: 5.4.5 (with appendix)
c. Occupant reaction and response in emergency situations
d. Occupant risk factors
2. Research a fire of significance that occurred within your occupancy that you can use as a case study
a. Provide a summary of the fire of significance (its cause, reasons for occupant injuries and
fatalities)
b. Write about the fire of significance as it relates contextually to the time period. Identify some
factors that may have led to the fire (and spread) and/or the occupant fatalities.
c. What improvements have been made to prevent loss of life?
3. Develop at least two fire scenarios (as discussed in Chapter 5 of NFPA 101: Ch. 5). You will be
developing a plausible, hypothetical scenario located somewhere in your occupancy. One scenario
should be a Typical or common scenario and the other one should be a high-challenge scenario.
Included in the scenarios should be the following:
a. Ignition factors – source of ignition, material first ignited (and where it ignited for solids)
b. The maximum heat release rate for the material first ignited.
c. Occupant location in relation to the fire first ignited
4. Egress Calculations
a. Discuss what the how you would apply Fruin’s Level of Service to your occupancy (if applicable)
b. Discuss the things that would contribute to time from notification until occupants decide to take
action and time from decision to take action until evacuation commences (pre-evacuation
activity time.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN
Department of Fire Science and Professional Studies
c. Design a scenario for occupant egress and conduct a hand calculation for the time for passage.
Again, this should be a realistic scenario
Write-up
The project should be written up using a program such as PowerPoint. Refer to the format used by the
Projects at CalPoly that are posted on Blackboard. It should have diagrams, pictures, equations, and
explanations of your materials.

Dear writer,
– This order should be an answer of the question below that is written in the attached file (Question and Instructions) as well, the answer must be written as an academic assignment (3000 words) for post graduate student (LLM in commercial law).
– I am a LLM master of law student in an English university in the UK, so, I would prefer my paper to be written by UK writer please.
1. This assignment must be done within the deadline, so I don’t have enough time for editing and proofreading please, you need to be careful of grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes as I am not very good in English language.
– PLEAS IF (ISLAMIC FINANCE) IS NOT YOUR SPECIFIC AREA IN LAW, DON’T TAKE THIS ASSIGNMENT (PLEASE) AS I HAD SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE PREVIOUS ORDER AND WASTED MY TIME AND MONEY! I CAN’T GAMBLE WITH MY TIME NOW; MY DEADLINE WILL BE SOON!
– My assignment should be written in the UK system, it is called OSCOLA.
– Have a look at the attached files please. You will find these files:
* SUKUK, SPV AND BORROWING WITH COLLATERAL?, the question that has to be answered in this assignment) is a statement that has been taken from this published online article (highlighted with yellow colour).
* MODULE INFORMATION, it may be useful to have a look at the books and other sources that the teacher depends on in this module. It would be useful to use the same sources as much as you can.
* Question and Instructions.
– If I like your work, I may choose you to write my other order that will be placed on 5th of May (3000 words), and my dissertation in Islamic finance in June (15000 words).

* The question is:
“It is difficult to treat the structure using SPVs as truly truthful to the concept of ownership as envisaged under the Shariah. Additionally if at the end of the tenure, the originator is obliged to redeem (repurchase) the asset, then this is another indication that what is intended is no more than lending and borrowing arrangement between the originator and the sukuk holders where the SPV will in real sense effectively act as the trustee appointed to hold the underlying asset as collateral.”
Z Abd Rahman

Discuss the implication of the statement as regards the sharia compliance of sukuk structures.

Thanks,

YOU MUST USE THE POWERPOINT

Your instructor is going to be taking the role of a Community Developer and requires your assistance in
conducting researching the groundwork in order to conduct a Life Safety Analyses of various buildings.
1. Conduct research about your occupancy, its occupants, and the egress (or life safety) of those
occupants. Provide a detailed analysis of the following: (Use Chapter 6 of the text to provide direction)
a. Discuss some of the features of NFPA 101 that make it unique, such as discussing the
classification of hazard of contents; construction requirements; protection from
hazards, detection, alarm, and notification; drills and extinguisher training; building
services, etc (other than listed in Ch. 7-10)
b. Occupant characterization – use as a guide the information from Chapter 6 of the text
and NFPA 101: 5.4.5 (with appendix)
c. Occupant reaction and response in emergency situations
d. Occupant risk factors
2. Research a fire of significance that occurred within your occupancy that you can use as a case study
a. Provide a summary of the fire of significance (its cause, reasons for occupant injuries and
fatalities)
b. Write about the fire of significance as it relates contextually to the time period. Identify some
factors that may have led to the fire (and spread) and/or the occupant fatalities.
c. What improvements have been made to prevent loss of life?
3. Develop at least two fire scenarios (as discussed in Chapter 5 of NFPA 101: Ch. 5). You will be
developing a plausible, hypothetical scenario located somewhere in your occupancy. One scenario
should be a Typical or common scenario and the other one should be a high-challenge scenario.
Included in the scenarios should be the following:
a. Ignition factors – source of ignition, material first ignited (and where it ignited for solids)
b. The maximum heat release rate for the material first ignited.
c. Occupant location in relation to the fire first ignited
4. Egress Calculations
a. Discuss what the how you would apply Fruin’s Level of Service to your occupancy (if applicable)
b. Discuss the things that would contribute to time from notification until occupants decide to take
action and time from decision to take action until evacuation commences (pre-evacuation
activity time.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN
Department of Fire Science and Professional Studies
c. Design a scenario for occupant egress and conduct a hand calculation for the time for passage.
Again, this should be a realistic scenario
Write-up
The project should be written up using a program such as PowerPoint. Refer to the format used by the
Projects at CalPoly that are posted on Blackboard. It should have diagrams, pictures, equations, and
explanations of your materials.

Mini-Portfolio: Collaboration and Shared Leadership

The purpose of this assignment is to help you achieve the course learning goals shown in bold:

By the end of the course, you should have:

Created a final portfolio that draws from your work completed in the program and uses the portfolio-building process to integrate and reflect on your undergraduate education as a whole.
Developed skills in drawing on evidence in your portfolio to support claims about your learning and capacities for various audiences (friends, family, employers, grad school admissions committee, etc.).
Become articulate about linkages between learning portfolios and professional portfolios.
Developed your capacities to present your work orally and in writing to various audiences.
Worked collaboratively with other students to enrich your understanding of interdisciplinarity.
Due by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, in your UW Google Site (Links to an external site.), along with all of the work samples you discuss, and provide the link here in this assignment drop box. Also, please make sure you provide the URL for your Google Site, NOT a Google Doc. If you post the URL for a framing essay on Google Docs, I won’t be able to see any of the artifacts that you talk about. Please bring one printout to class on the due date. Please bring one printout to class on the due date.

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IAS Learning Objective (Links to an external site.): Collaboration and Shared Leadership

IAS students develop their collaboration and shared leadership abilities by learning to work with others to identify dimensions of a project, generate and refine ideas, follow through on the consequences of collective decisions, and pursue specific tasks without losing a sense of the whole. As part of this process, they learn to assess and draw on group members’ histories, strengths, and potential contributions. They develop skills in listening, mediating conflict, playing different roles, and reflecting on the outcomes of collaborative work. Essential to this progress is understanding different ways of managing groups, and reflecting critically and creatively on collaboration processes.

For this assignment, you will create a mini-portfolio focused on your collaboration and shared leadership capacities as described above and as re-interpreted by you in class.

Choose two to four artifacts from your work archive that provide evidence of these capacities. If you like, you can choose one artifact in which your abilities were less developed, and another in which they were better developed, to make a comparison.
Write a 300- to 500-word framing essay that explains your current capabilities related to this learning objective. Keep in mind that you are describing where you are in this moment in time, so it would be helpful to consider what came before this moment and where you intend to go after you graduate, and talk about your work related to this learning objective in those terms. Refer to your selected artifacts and explain how they serve as evidence of your capabilities in this learning objective. You should aim to be as specific as possible in explaining to the reader how the artifacts you have chosen demonstrate your abilities with regard to this learning objective. Remember that your reader will be unfamiliar with your work so you will need to describe it (rather than simply mentioning it). To this end, some of the writing from your annotated bibliography might be useful. If so, feel free to reuse it here.
As you complete this assignment, please draw on the IAS description of this learning objective, your revision of that description, and/or other materials and readings.

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As always, you must properly cite all ideas and words that you borrow from other sources.

here are six quotes I want you to read it and then write under each paragraph, what did you understand from this quote and how this qoute affect your personality and your life.

Please use simple word and simple vocabulary because I\’m international student and my professor is very strict about the way of typing the paragraph. Please do not write less than 500 words.

1- “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

2- “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second\’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

3- “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

4- “When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

5-“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

6- “If you start by promising what you don\’t even have yet, you\’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

Prepare a critical analysis of a qualitative study focusing on the problem statement, study purpose, research question, literature review, and theoretical framework. This can be one of the selected articles from your previous literature review or a new peer-reviewed article.

The completed analysis should be 800-1000 words and should connect to your identified practice problem of interest.

Refer to “Research Critique Part 1.” Questions under each heading should be addressed as a narrative, in the structure of a formal paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

NRS433V.v10R.ResearchCritiquePart1Guidelines_student.docx( Research Critique, Part 1

To write a critical appraisal that demonstrates comprehension of the research study conducted, respond to each of the questions listed under the headings below.
Do not answer the questions with a yes or no; rather, provide a rationale or include examples or content from the study to address the questions.

CRITICAL APPRAISAL GUIDELINES: QUALITATIVE STUDY
Problem Statement
• Identify the clinical problem and research problem that led to the study. What was not known about the clinical problem that, if understood, could be used to improve health care delivery or patient outcomes? This gap in knowledge is the research problem.
• How did the author establish the significance of the study? In other words, why should the reader care about this study? Look for statements about human suffering, costs of treatment, or the number of people affected by the clinical problem.

Purpose and Research Questions
• Identify the purpose of the study. An author may clearly state the purpose of the study or may describe the purpose as the study goals, objectives, or aims.
• List research questions that the study was designed to answer. If the author does not explicitly provide the questions, attempt to infer the questions from the answers.
• Were the purpose and research questions related to the problem?
• Were qualitative methods appropriate to answer the research questions?

Literature Review
• Did the author cite quantitative and qualitative studies relevant to the focus of the study? What other types of literature did the author include?
• Are the references current? For qualitative studies, the author may have included studies older than the 5-year limit typically used for quantitative studies. Findings of older qualitative studies may be relevant to a qualitative study.
• Did the author evaluate or indicate the weaknesses of the available studies?
• Did the literature review include adequate information to build a logical argument?

Conceptual / Theoretical Framework
• Did the author identify a specific perspective from which the study was developed? If so, what was it?
• When a researcher uses the grounded theory method of qualitative inquiry, the researcher may develop a framework or diagram as part of the findings of the study. Was a framework developed from the study findings?)

View Rubric
9 Max Points: 150

Details:
Select either the qualitative or quantitative study method for this assignment. The study method should connect to the practice problem of interest identified in Topic 1. This could be one of the previously selected articles from your literature review or a new peer-reviewed article.

In an essay of 800 -1000 words, summarize the study, explain the ways in which the findings might be used in nursing practice, and address any ethical considerations associated with the conduct of the study.

Refer to the resource “Research Summary and Ethical Considerations Guidelines” for suggested headings for your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

NRS433V.v10R.ResearchSummaryandEthicalConsiderationsGuidelines_student.docx
(Research Summary and Ethical Considerations Guidelines

The summary should include the areas detailed below. You need to describe this research report as though directed toward someone whose findings you want to implement.
Introduction

Background of study:
• Problem (why this issued is being studied)
• Significance to nursing
• Purpose
• Objectives: research question and/or hypothesis
• Concepts, phenomena

Methods of study:
• Quantitative or qualitative
• Research design
• Sample
• Procedures

Results of study:
• What did they find?
• Implications to nursing
• Explain how the findings contribute to nursing knowledge/science. Would it impact practice, education, administration, or all areas of nursing?

Ethical Considerations
• Was the study approved by an Institutional Review Board?
• Was patient privacy protected?
• Were there ethical considerations regarding the treatment or lack of?

Conclusion)

Please, pick up and complete 8 questions in the Case study
Just a few reminders about case studies:Case studies are your assessments in this course. Treat them as you would a test.
Case studies focus on the application of the material so be sure you are comfortable with the material and have reviewed the videos, particularly those that specify “Application”.
There are no time extensions for case studies so please don’t ask.
If your submission is not done on time you lose 10% each day that it is late.
You MUST use the equation editor in case studies. If you are having trouble with it there is a short video on how to use the equation editor (below)
You are only guaranteed one submission on a case study.
You get two submissions ONLY if you complete your first submission in its entirety by the due date. This means that if you haven’t given your best effort on the case study or don’t COMPLETE every question, you will NOT get a 2nd submission.
The 2nd submission should incorporate feedback from me.
On the 2nd submission you only have to redo questions that you missed as well as any fill-in-the-blank or matching questions.
For free response questions you got right on the first submission just write “correct” and I will go back to check that you got the points.
On the questions you must redo, I grade them as a new submission. This means if you leave a question blank that you previously earned partial points on, your overall score on the case study could be lower.
To find your feedback, go into your grade center, click on the assignment name (in blue) and then on the grade (in blue).
If you are having trouble finding your feedback please watch the second video (below)
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Once the case study is no longer available you should be able to see the correct answers by clicking on the same place you do for your feedback.
When working on your final project, incorporate the feedback you received on case studies as well as the correct answers to achieve your maximum grade.
Description-This case study is an assessment covering material from modules 5 and 6.
Instructions-Complete each item of the case study in its entirety using the equation editor where appropriate. Be sure to submit the complete case study by the due date in order for your professor to offer you a second submission.
Multiple Attempts-This test allows multiple attempts.
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