Study Questions

Answer the following questions (based on the reading), save it and then submit it to the professor.

1. Who is Eliezer?
2. Remember the discussion about the location of Ur (Module 5). Does the location of the city of Nahor, as given by Davis, influence the location of Ur? Explain your answer.
3. Why was Eliezer’s journey successful?
4. Whose decision was it for Rebekkah to go with Eliezer?
5. How old was Isaac at Abraham’s death? Ishmael?
6. What does the mentioning of Ishmael and his sons tell us about God?
7. “The elder shall serve the younger” tells us what about God?
8. Explain in detail the patriarchal custom of the birthright.
9. How did Esau feel about his birthright (Heb 12:15-17)?
10. What practical lesson can parents learn from the story of Jacob and Esau?
11. When a famine hit the land, what did Isaac do? Be thorough.
12. What do the weaknesses of Biblical characters tell us about the Bible?
13. Give another practical lesson to be learned from the story of Jacob’s deception of Isaac.
14. Which of the interpretations of Isaac’s promise to Esau makes the most sense to you?
15. Did Rebekkah ever see Jacob again? Explain your answer.
16. Discuss the uniqueness of the patriarch’s monotheism.

Identify and describe the components of a person analysis. Include the steps as well as a pertinent example.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Identify and describe the components of a strategic/organizational analysis, including the methods and advantages.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

The local domestic violence shelter has noticed an increase in the number of families affected by substance abuse. They have contacted your agency about providing information on how to serve the needs of this growing population. In your communication, you are to discuss the following:

Discuss interventions for substance abuse situations.
Describe how to help system (family) members to identify and interrupt harmful interaction patterns and practice healthy interaction patterns.

This week you will submit Phase 5, the final phase, of your course project. For Phase 5 of your course project, you will want to review your instructor’s feedback from your Phase 4 submission and make any necessary corrections. Remember if you have questions about the feedback to ask your instructor for assistance.

Once you have made your corrections, you will make your final submission for the course project. Below is a summary of the expectations for Phase 5 of the course project:

Introduce your scenario and data set.

Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.
Classify the variables in your data set.
Which variables are quantitative/qualitative?
Which variables are discrete/continuous?
Describe the level of measurement for each variable included in your data set.

Discuss the importance of the Measures of Center and the Measures of Variation.

What are the measures of center and why are they important?
What are the measures of variation and why are they important?

Calculate the measures of center and measures of variation. Interpret your results in context of the selected topic.

Mean
Median
Mode
Midrange
Range
Variance
Standard Deviation

Discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean.

What are confidence intervals?
What is a point estimate?
What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain.
Why do we need confidence intervals?

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.
Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.
Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence interval.
Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Explain.
What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain.

Discuss the process for hypothesis testing.

Discuss the 8 steps of hypothesis testing?
When performing the 8 steps for hypothesis testing, which method do you prefer; P-Value method or Critical Value method? Why?

Perform the hypothesis test.

If you selected Option 1:
Original Claim: The average salary for all jobs in Minnesota is less than $65,000.
Test the claim using α = 0.05 and assume your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.

If you selected Option 2:
Original Claim: The average age of all patients admitted to the hospital with infectious diseases is less than 65 years of age.
Test the claim using α = 0.05 and assume your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.

Based on your selected topic, answer the following:

Write the null and alternative hypothesis symbolically and identify which hypothesis is the claim.
Is the test two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed? Explain.
Which test statistic will you use for your hypothesis test; z-test or t-test? Explain.
What is the value of the test-statistic? What is the P-value?

What is the critical value?
What is your decision; reject the null or do not reject the null?
Explain why you made your decision including the results for your p-value and the critical value.
State the final conclusion in non-technical terms.

Conclusion

Recap your ideas by summarizing the information presented in context of your chosen scenario.

Please be sure to show all of your work and use the Equation Editor to format your equations.

This week you read and learned about Titchener’s structuralism. As an approach, structuralism attempted to break down consciousness into elements of consciousness for study. It assumed that studying these parts of consciousness would lead to an understanding of the whole.

• Analyze the limitations and strengths of the method of studying consciousness in parts.
• Identify and discuss one of the main criticisms of structuralism.
• Briefly compare and contrast structuralism and behavioralism. How did structuralism influence the creation of behaviorism?
• How has structuralism impacted psychology today? As you consider this question, keep in mind the history and culture of the period in which Titchener practiced compared to your understanding of psychology today.

Managing the Checkbook

Describe how you could apply the concepts of budgeting learned in this lesson to your own life. How does your budgeting differ from that of police departments?

W7 Discussion

Below are two separate discussion questions, choose ONE and discuss.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Go to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website: http://www.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/

Click on the links addressing “Reduce”, “Reuse”, and “Recycle”. Assess the information on those pages and evaluate their practicality and usefulness. Of the three concepts, which one do you feel is the most feasible to apply to your daily lives in an effort to reduce waste? List at least two advantages and disadvantages of your chosen concept and defend your choice.

Environmental Worldview

Review the discussion of environmental worldviews in Mini Lecture: Environmental Policy and Worldviews. Post a reflection on your worldview and compare it with the worldviews in the course materials. Provide examples of the benefits of your view and defend your position.

Slide Presentation, Plastic Bags

In a 1-2 page paper, using APA-style formatting, discuss three things you learned from the slide presentation on plastic bags? If you were given the opportunity to address the public-at-large, what would be your recommendation regarding the use of plastic bags? In your closing remarks, include a short catchy phase, slogan, poem, or any other creative statement to emphasize your point of view.

One aspect of raising healthy children is understanding how to best provide correction when they make poor choices or behave in unacceptable ways. Over the years, there has been much debate over the most effective form of punishment for children. As part of this debate, you have to take into consideration operant conditioning as this is the basis for how effective correction works. Operant conditioning should be considered when choosing how to best administer corrective actions whether the parents choose to use corporal punishment, time outs, or loss of privileges.

• Discuss the differences between negative and positive punishment. What are the factors that make punishment effective?
• Discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment and elaborate upon when you think it should be used.
• Discuss how culture affects the type of punishment used.
• Give reasons in support of your responses based on your readings and personal experiences.

Write your initial response in 2–3 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, December 12, 2015, post your response to the appropriateDiscussion Area. Through Wednesday, December 16, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. In your responses, consider the following:

• Have your peers accurately identified the differences between negative and positive punishment? Explain your answer.
• Can you suggest any other factors that make punishment effective? If so, state them.

The use of E-Books has increased in recent years, especially with the advent of mobile E-Readers.  A marketing research firm recently developed the following supply and demand schedules for E-books:

Price/E-Book

Quantity Demanded

Quantity Supplied

$18400010,0001650009500146000900012700085001080008000990007500810000700071100065006120006000513000550041400050002150004500

Assignment Guidelines:

Using Microsoft (MS) Excel, construct a graph showing supply and demand in the E-Book market based on the data above. (Save this file because you will re-work it later in the assignment.) When finished, copy and paste or import your graph into an MS Word document.

(Tutorials for working with MS Excel and MS Word can be found through the Tutoring Services and Tutorials link at the top of the page.)

In your MS Word document, below your imported graph, respond to the following:

Explain how the Laws of Supply and Demand are illustrated in this graph.Describe the equilibrium price and quantity in this market.Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $12 in the E-Book market. Explain what would happen in this market.Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $6. Explain what would happen in this market.Now, assume that the price of E-Readers (used with E-Books) drops from $60 by fifty percent. How would this change impact the demand for E-Books? Explain your answer. Then, reconstruct your original graph to show this change and place it in your MS Word document below your explanation.

Remember, quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books, articles, or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources

Outline your team’s Public Involvement strategy as well as the type of Genre as related to BULLYING. Complete the following in your outline:

Identify various techniques available to ensure public involvement, including external stakeholders. Provide rationale for the chosen techniques.

· Include possible challenges with public involvement in the decision-making process. Provide recommendations to overcome anticipated challenges.

· Evaluate three communication genres based on how closely they align to stakeholder criterion.