the database to keep track of the instructors teaching each of the courses.

Section 1: Visio Diagram 

(Microsoft Visio or equivalent)

1.  Use Microsoft Visio (or open source equivalent) in which you:

a.  Create a database diagram with the entities and attributes that the scenario identified (i.e., a college tracking students, courses, and instructors).

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Submit the Visio diagram as a Visio file.

Section 2: Design Summary 

(Microsoft Word or equivalent)

2.  Write a one (1) page paper in which you:

a.  Discuss the degree to which you believe the Visio diagram reflects the database design.

Section 2 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Submit the design summary as a Microsoft Word file.
• 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 is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational data and information.
• Compose conceptual data modeling techniques to capture the information requirements.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Despite commonly held beliefs about the popularity of presidents, presidents are elected by the Electoral College. This uniquely American institution consists of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. The total number of electors for each state is equal to the number of senators and representatives from that state in the U.S. Congress. The District of Columbia is accorded three electoral votes bringing the total number of votes to 538. Thus, the magic number for winning the presidency is 270 votes.

Research the most recent presidential election using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet and write a paper on the topic. Include the following in your paper:

• Identify the major issues of concern to voters and compare how each presidential candidate addressed those issues.
• Summarize information relevant to the issues and the election.
• Evaluate the validity of each candidate’s arguments.
• Cite your sources and prepare a title and reference page according to APA standards.

Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format (excluding title and reference pages). Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

 

The US minimum wage has long lagged the nation’s productivity growth and inflation rate such that it’s real wage effect is negative, that is, it hasn’t kept pace with either.  Given this, what economic/social problems arise and how can a government “of the people” allow such a low wage level? Discuss this topic in about 150-200 words

 

Library Research Paper

You have decided to open a home for dual-diagnosed clients who have graduated from a residential treatment facility and are in need of housing. You want to be able to support their recovery and prevent relapse in a safe environment for approximately 1 year per resident.

• Use the library, course materials, and Web resources to research the treatment needs of the population you want to serve in your home.
• Write a proposal of 2–3 pages that provides a viable plan to serve the clients’ needs using scientifically supported models of treatment.
  • Explain how the home will meet the needs of your clients.
  • Describe the type of clients who are dually diagnosed (drugs of choice and type of mental illness).
  • Are your clients adults or adolescents (age)?
  • Are your clients males or females (gender)?

Assignment Guidelines:

Write a 350-word summary. In your paper, answer the following questions:

• What are the issues involved in resolving legal disputes in international transactions?
• What are some practical considerations of taking legal action against a foreign business partner based in another country?
• What factors could work against CadMex’s decision to grant sublicensing agreements?
• When the local customs and laws conflict with the customs and laws of an organization operating abroad, which should prevail? Explain why.
• How would you compare the issues in this simulation to the domestic legal issues discussed in your Week One readings? How should companies resolve domestic and international issues differently?

Explain how the political history of Ancient China and its ancient philosophies have impacted modern China today?

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to structure the three thesis points. Your reading this week includes Chapters 17-20, and a summary of one of those chapters is due Friday, also. Be sure to practice quoting in MLA format by including direct quotes with attribution and a citation. See Purdue Wise Owl (link in Websites tab on left of Blackboard screen), for additional help if you need it. We are going to continue sentence combining using conjunctions and proper punctuation, and learn about denotation, conotation, and inferences. See RWACI for further definitions of each. Instructions: MLA I need a summary Due on January 25, 2016 I need a thesis due January 27, 2016

 

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks READING GUIDE                                    Chapters 1-5

 

Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph

 

1. The author uses several similes to describe cells. What simile does she use to describe

 

the way a cell looks? What simile does she use to explain the functions of the different

 

parts of a cell? What do these similes suggest about biology?

 

2. What is mitosis? What beneficial biological processes involve mitosis?

 

3. What simile does Donald Defler use to describe mitosis?

 

4. What happens when there is a mistake during the process of mitosis?

 

5. According to Defler, how important was the discovery of HeLa cells?

 

6. As a high school student, Skloot began researching HeLa cells to find out more about

 

Henrietta Lacks. Examine pages 5 and 6 and write down each step that Skloot took to

 

begin her research.

 

 

 

Chapter One: The Exam

 

1. How long did Henrietta wait between first telling her girlfriends that “something didn’t

 

feel right” and going to the doctor?

 

2. Why does Sadie think Henrietta hesitated before seeing a doctor?

 

3. What did Henrietta’s first doctor assume the source of the lump on Henrietta’s cervix

 

was? What stereotype or bias might this assumption be based upon?

 

4. Why did David Lacks take Henrietta to the public wards at Johns Hopkins instead of a

 

closer hospital?

 

5. Explain what the Jim Crow laws were.

 

6. Who was Henrietta’s gynecologist?

 

7. Review the notes on Henrietta’s medical history found on page 16. Based on the

 

objective details in her medical chart, what can you infer about Henrietta’s life and

 

personality?

 

8. Based on her medical chart, how would you describe Henrietta’s feelings about

 

doctors?

 

9. What did Howard Jones find “interesting” about Henrietta’s medical history? What does

 

this finding suggest about Henrietta’s cancer?

 

 

 

Chapter Two: Clover

 

1. Why did Henrietta end up being raised by her grandfather, Tommy Lacks?

 

2. What are the connotations of the term “home-house”? What does this term suggest

 

about the values of the Lacks family?

 

3. How was Day related to Henrietta?

 

4. Skloot uses vivid imagery and details to describe Henrietta’s childhood in Clover.

 

Locate a passage that you found particularly effective or memorable, and explain why

 

you selected it.

 

5. Describe the relationship between Crazy Joe and Henrietta.

 

6. How old was Henrietta when she had her first child with Day?

 

7. What was different about Henrietta’s second child, Elsie?

 

8. Compare the medical terms describing Elsie’s condition with the terms used by

 

Henrietta’s friends and family. What are the connotations of the two sets of terms?

 

9. How did Pearl Harbor change life in Turner Station?

 

10. Contrast the working conditions of black workers and white workers at the Sparrows

 

Point Steel Mill.

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Three: Diagnosis and Treatment

 

1. How are different types of cancer categorized?

 

2. Summarize Dr. TeLinde’s position in the debate over the treatment of cervical cancer.

 

3. Explain how the development of the Pap smear improved the survival rate of women

 

diagnosed with cervical cancer.

 

4. How did doctors justify using patients in public hospital wards as medical research

 

subjects without obtaining their consent or offering them financial compensation? Do

 

you agree or disagree with their reasoning? Explain your answer.

 

5. How did TeLinde hope to prove that his hypothesis about cervical cancer was correct?

 

6. What was George Gey’s position at Johns Hopkins?

 

7. Explain what an immortal cell line is.

 

8. Explain how TeLinde and Gey’s relationship led to Gey obtaining a tissue sample from

 

Henrietta’s tumor.

 

9. Analyze the consent statement that Henrietta signed on page 31. Based on this

 

statement, do you believe TeLinde and Guy had the right to obtain a sample from her

 

cervix to use in their research?

 

10. Do you think Henrietta would have given explicit consent to have a tissue sample used

 

in medical research if she had been asked? Do you think she would have understood

 

what was being asked of her? Explain your answers.

 

11. Were cells taken only from black patients? Were black patients generally treated

 

differently from white patients in the early 1950s? Explain your answers.

 

 

 

Chapter Four: The Birth of HeLa

 

1. Summarize the main obstacles Gey and his assistants faced in their effort to grow cells.

 

2. Where did the name “HeLa” come from?

 

3. Based on the descriptions of Gey found on pages 38–39, offer three adjectives that best

 

describe his personality.

 

4. Explain how Gey’s roller-tube culturing technique works.

 

5. What happened to the HeLa cells that Mary cultured?

 

6. Gey chose to give away samples of HeLa to his colleagues almost immediately. Do you

 

think this was a good decision? Explain your answer.

 

7. Once HeLa started growing, was Henrietta informed that her cells were being used in

 

Gey’s research?

 

8. What is the implication of the author’s decision to use the term “birth” to describe the

 

initial growth of HeLa cells?

 

 

 

Chapter Five: “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside”

 

1. After her diagnosis and treatment, how did Henrietta behave? What can you infer

 

about her personality based on this behavior?

 

2. According to Ethel’s cousins, why did she dislike Henrietta?

 

3. What was Elsie’s early life like?

 

4. Why did Henrietta and David (Day) Lacks decide to place Elsie in the Hospital for the

 

Negro Insane?

 

5. What specific details let the reader know that sending Elsie away was difficult for

 

Henrietta?

 

6. Why do you think Henrietta initially chose not to tell people about her cancer

 

diagnosis? What does this decision suggest about Henrietta’s personality?

 

7. What important information did Henrietta’s doctor fail to give her before starting her

 

cancer treatment? How did she react when this information was eventually shared with

 

her?

 

 

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Case Study 2: Security Policy

Review the Information Security Policies for The George Washington University and Harvard University:

• The George Washington University:

  http://my.gwu.edu/files/policies/InformationSecurityPolicyFINAL.pdf

• Harvard University:

  http://security.harvard.edu/enterprise-security-policy

Note: Include these two (2) Websites in your references section. These two (2) Websites do not count towards the required number of references.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Explain the purpose of a university security policy and indicate the major reasons why they are necessary. Provide your opinion as to whether a university security policy is more or less important to have than a business security policy.
2. Critique the level of completeness of the George Washington University Security Policy.
3. Critique the level of completeness of the Harvard University Security Policy.
4. Suggest one (1) additional policy or procedure for each university’s policy. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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 challenges of computer security, including different threats and types of attacks.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in Cryptography.
• Write clearly and concisely about Cryptography using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

 

Based on one of the trailers, what do you think is the intended message of the documentary? What are motion pictures able to do that photos and still images cannot, and how does that impact the message being communicated? Can you think of any ethical concerns or controversial issues related to the use of motion pictures as a communication medium? Explain.

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your peers with feedback on their analysis. How did their analysis compare to yours? Do you agree with the ethical concerns they’ve raised? Why or why not?

 

Purpose:

 

In the first assignment, students are given a scenario in which the shipping manager who has worked for Recycled Furnishings since the inception of the company is getting ready to retire.  The scenario serves to set the stage for students to demonstrate how Management theories have changed over time.  For example, managing 30 years ago is different than managing in the 21st century.

 

Outcome Met by Completing This Assignment:

 

integrate Management theories and principles into management practices

Instructions:

 

In Part One of this case study analysis, students are to use the facts from the case study to determine at least two different organization theories that are demonstrated.  For Part Two, students will compare the 21st century manager to that of the main character in the case study and the implications of change in being a 21st century manager.

 

In selecting an organizational theory or theories that best describe the current shipping manager, students will use the timeline to select a school of thought and a theory or theories of that time frame.  Students will need to research the theorist(s) and theories to complete the assignment and answer the questions below.  Students are expected to be thorough in responding to Part One.

 

In Part Two, students are going to take what they have learned in weeks 1 – 3 and compare the management skills of the current shipping manager to that of you as the new shipping manager.

 

Step 1:  Review “How to Analyze a Case Study” under Week 3 Content.

 

Step 2:  Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced, 12-point font.  The final product will be between 5 to 6 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.

 

Step 3:  Review the grading rubric for the assignment.

 

Step 4:  Use headings following this format:

 

Title page with title, your name, the course, the instructor’s name;

Introduction (one paragraph that briefly describes the situation and tells a reader the main points of the paper;

Part One;

Part Two.

Step 5:  In writing a case study, the writing should be in the third person. What this means is that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing).  If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link:  http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person

 

Step 6:  In writing this assignment, students are expected to support the reasoning using in-text citations and a references list.  If any material is used from a source, it must be cited and referenced.  A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.  View the sample APA paper under Week 1 content.

 

Step 7:  In writing this assignment, students are expected to paraphrase and not use direct quotes.  Learn to paraphrase by reviewing this link:  https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase2.html

 

Step 8:  In writing this assignment, students may use external resources as well as resources that will come from the course. *Please use at least three of the course materials and at least three outside sources/materials in this process.

 

Step 9:  Read critically and analyze the following scenario:

 

Part One

 

Scenario:

 

Recycled Furnishings is a division of an international home furnishing company called Thor Enterprises.  Recycled Furnishings makes glass sofas for outdoor use from recycled bottles and glass. The business has grown rapidly in the last thirty years and now that it has become a division of Thor Enterprises, the company is going international.  The shipping manager for Recycled Furnishings, Robert, has been in his job since the start of the company.  Prior to coming to Recycled Furnishings, Robert worked as a container manufacturing engineer at Damco, a local shipping company and worked his way up to supervisor prior to joining Recycled Furnishings. Robert, a baby boomer, quickly rose to supervisor at Damco because of his ability to optimize the way tasks were performed and his knack to implement processes so workers could be trained to perform their specialized sequence of motion in one best way.  He brought this management style to Recycled Furnishing and helped to improve the methodology of furniture assembly as well as the shipping processes.

 

A major shift in management occurred in the late 1980’s and early 90’s that caused Robert to reconsider his management approach.  For example, advances in technology, the organization joining a union, change in the value systems, organizational design and globalization all affected the culture of Recycled Furnishings.  Robert was successful with this transformation and contributed greatly to the company’s success.

 

In answering the following questions, make sure that the facts of the scenario and the course readings support the reasoning of the answers provided.

 

Discuss the school of thought that best describes Robert’s management style when he first joined Recycled Furnishings.

Discuss the theorist(s) under the identified school of thought that best depicts Robert’s management style. What contribution did the theorist(s) make to Management and why was his or her contribution important to the field of Management?

Select and discuss the school of thought that best describes the management style Robert used once the shift took place? Why is this school of thought the best choice?

Select and discuss one theorist who supports this school of thought. Address the principles of the theory, and how a manager would do his job and interact with his staff.  How does what the theorist proposed support the facts in the case study?

Compare and contrast the current Management thought with Robert’s early thinking;

Part Two

 

Scenario:

 

Recently Robert announced his plans to retire.  You have been hired as his replacement and with the international launch on the horizon you have big shoes to fill.  You feel you are more than capable of handling the shipping manager position and characterize yourself as a 21st century manager.

 

As a 21st century manager, compare the way you will manage versus the way of Robert.

What implications do the changes in management have for the future of Thor?

How will the new approach to the job likely change the shipping division?

Step 10:  Create the introductory paragraph.  Within this paragraph, provide a brief overview of the scenario.  Then, provide a thesis statement and tell the reader the main topics covered in the paper.  The introductory paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper but is typically written after writing the body of the paper (Questions students responded to above).  View this website to learn how to write an introductory paragraph:  http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/donelan/intro.html

 

 

Step 11:  Respond to the questions in Part One and Part Two following the format provided.  Be clear and concise in the writing and make sure the questions are comprehensively answered.