Answer one of the following using Chapters 9-11:

1) Why should race only be viewed as a socially constructed notion? How has race been misunderstood as a scientific concept? Watch this film to answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKaabcpQloQ

2) What are the three models of human evolution? What are their main arguments and how do they differ?

3) If humans are so successful at using technologies to deal with environmental challenges, does it mean that natural selection is not truly impacting us anymore? Attempt to identify a few arenas where selection can still be actively impacting human allele frequencies.

Answer the prompt with at least 800 words. Use AND define 5 key terms from the appropriate chapter in the textbook in your response (5 key terms minimum for full credit). Please bold or underline your key terms. Please use complete sentences with proper grammar and spelling. All work must be in your own words. Cite any sources you use to complement your own words.

Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Parts 1 and 2, and add Part 3. Plan to include visuals to illustrate the advantages of your proposed solution.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)

1. Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists, using feedback from the professor and classmates.

Provide Part 2: Revision of Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages)

2. Revise your Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages, using feedback from the professor and classmates.

Develop Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers, with Visuals (1-2 pages, for 7-9 total pages)

3. Included a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph.
4. State, explain, and support the first disadvantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical answer. This should be one (1) paragraph.
5. State, explain, and support the second (and third if desired) disadvantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution and provide a logical answer. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
6. Include one or two (1-2) relevant visuals that help illustrate an advantage.
7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
8. Provide a concluding paragraph to summarize the proposed solution, its advantages, possible disadvantages, and answers to the disadvantages. Repeat or paraphrase your thesis statement.
9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategy (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain claims.
11. Support disadvantages and answers with at least two (2) additional quality relevant references. Use at least eight (8) total for Parts 1, 2, and 3. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

• 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.

Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
• Associate the features of audience, purpose, and text with various genres.
• Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
• Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written English. Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
• Revise drafts to improve clarity, support, and organization.
• Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
• Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.
• Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.

The 20th and 21st centuries have produced many business leaders, such as corporate giants like Jack Welch of GE, Daymond John of FUBU, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Herb Kelleher of Southwest. In addition, many hip-hop moguls have risen to prominence, such as Sean Combs, aka P Diddy, of Bad Boy Records; Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam; and Sean Carter, aka Jay Z, of Rock Nation.

Regardless of their business models and industries, organizational leaders are expected to create realistic visions for their companies and the people that they guide. However, such visions often result in vastly different leadership styles. Therefore, experts have concluded that there is no one best leadership style geared towards guiding employees and companies to accomplishing organizational goals.

Using the Internet and Strayer databases, research your favorite senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, President, Founder, etc.) from any organization that has made a strong impact on his or her industry (fashion, music, food, banking, technology, automotive, etc.).

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

 

1. Describe the overall leadership style(s) of your chosen senior executive.
2. Analyze the organizational structure and culture of the company your chosen executive has led, or is currently leading, and determine the company’s approach to human capital management and employee development. Next, explain whether or not you believe your chosen senior executive’s leadership approach has enhanced workplace productivity and the shared vision of the organization. Provide one to two (1-2) examples of your chosen senior executive’s actions to support your response.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of your selected leader’s performance, based on his or her ethical conduct and effective communication. Next, determine whether the chosen leader was successful in motivating and empowering his or her employees and gaining customer loyalty.
4. Determine three (3) best practices that other organizational leaders can use in order to motivate employees and transform their company, based on practices that you believe made your chosen leader successful at his or her company and within his or her industry. Support your rationale with an explanation of the potential benefits that other business leaders may reap from your chosen best practices.
5. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic 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:

 

• Explain the multiple aspects of the managerial planning process and the application of various business- and corporate-level strategies.
• Analyze the importance of ethical behavior to an organization’s culture and the new ethical dilemmas created by globalization.
• Determine viable organizational structures by addressing the key considerations in organizational structure, applying the process of division of labor, and adapting basic structural formats.
• Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.

You have learned a great deal about the roles and functions of the electronic health record (EHR) in healthcare. Write a reflection paper on the EHR, covering the following areas:

• What benefits has the EHR brought to healthcare that the paper medical record did not?
• How has the EHR changed the way healthcare functions today?
• Describe your own healthcare experience as a patient. Has the EHR been a benefit to your care? Explain your answer.

Additional thoughts about the EHR can be included. This is your reflection on the EHR. Your paper 1-2 pages in length and should include an introduction and conclusion.

Was the cold war beneficial or detrimental to united states?

Because of the human aspect of ethics and its links to business success, corporate leaders must be careful about their behaviors, and how they address problems. For this assignment, you must select the code of ethical conduct for one (1) of the following restaurants:

As a basis for your written assignment, you will assume that you are the CEO of your chosen restaurant. Be sure to identify the restaurant you have chosen in your written paper.

 

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

 

1. Describe key areas of the selected company’s code of conduct that are of significant importance to the business, and explain why.
2. Explain the key steps that the company should take to ensure that employees follow the code of conduct.
3. Suggest three (3) ways in which the restaurant can engage in socially responsive activities in the community within which it operates.
4. Use at least two (2) quality resources. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as a quality resource.

 

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:

 

• Discuss the roles of ethics and social responsibilities in business.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business.
• Write clearly and concisely about business issues using proper writing mechanics.

1000-word (minimum) paper, using APA standards, that addresses the following questions:

Families have changed greatly over the past 60 years, and they continue to become more diverse.

• Why is the family considered the most important agent of socialization?
• What caused the dramatic changes to the American family?  What are those changes?
• Describe the differences in marriage and family life that are linked to class, race, gender, and personal choice.
• Do you feel the trend towards diverse families is positive or negative?
• If the trend changed towards traditional (pre-World War II) families, how would that affect women’s rights?

Because of the human aspect of ethics and its links to business success, corporate leaders must be careful about their behaviors, and how they address problems. For this assignment, you must select the code of ethical conduct for one (1) of the following restaurants:

• Cheesecake Factory (http://investors.thecheesecakefactory.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=109258&p=irol-govconduct)

• Ruby Tuesday (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=83799&p=irol-govHighlights)

• Chipotle (http://ir.chipotle.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194775&p=irol-govConduct)

As a basis for your written assignment, you will assume that you are the CEO of your chosen restaurant. Be sure to identify the restaurant you have chosen in your written paper.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe key areas of the selected company’s code of conduct that are of significant importance to the business, and explain why.
2. Explain the key steps that the company should take to ensure that employees follow the code of conduct.
3. Suggest three (3) ways in which the restaurant can engage in socially responsive activities in the community within which it operates.
4. Use at least two (2) quality resources. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as a quality resource.

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:

• Discuss the roles of ethics and social responsibilities in business.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business.
• Write clearly and concisely about business issues using proper writing mechanics.

Ethnographic Film Review Guidelines – Cultural Anthropology

Film link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PNSf1XJbw

1. Make sure your film review is typed!  It will be approximately three pages, or 10 paragraphs.  You may work with one partner.

2. Due on Monday 04/15/15 in class.

3. Make sure you name and describe the culture(s) in the film.  What is the geographic area where the people live? How do the people make their living?  Does the film look recent or old?  Who made the film?

4. What aspect(s) of culture does the film focus on? (Family, marriage, kinship, food procurement, politics, religion, art, childrearing, sexuality, gender?)

Content Description
5. Paragraph 1: Opening paragraph—can start to summarize the film and

give early suggestions about your general view of the film

6. Paragraph 2: Start or continue summary of film. Be sure to mention those

details that made a strong impression on you—either negative or positive.

State why your reaction was positive or negative.

7. Paragraph 3: Briefly compose the descriptive and non-judgmental

message of the film/video. Why would this message be important to an

anthropologist? To you as a student?

8. Paragraph 4 and 5: Positive things you liked about the film, what did you

like? Why? What did you learn that you did not know before? Use

descriptive words, think about the story, setting, effects used, music used.

9. Paragraph 6: Anything (custom, belief, behavior) that strikes you as

strange. Why? Would you say your reaction was ethnocentric? Did the

filmmaker have any biases? How did you know and what were these

biases. What belief, value, custom of your own culture made it difficult to

appreciate the uniqueness of the culture portrayed in the video?

10. Paragraph 7 and 8: Negative things you thought about the film, what

didn’t you like? Why? Comment on the same type of things that you

mentioned in paragraphs 4 and 5.

11. Paragraph 9 and 10: Talk about the people/animals/early ancestors

portrayed in the film. If the film is a biography, did the film present a

multi-dimension approach?

Are key turning points in the person’s life

presented? What are they? What did you like or dislike about how people

and/or the culture/ or subject was presented? What do you think is the

most important thing you learned and why is this important to you? Can

you think of others who would like/dislike the film? Why? Who are they?

12. Paragraph 10: Final comments—General comments that summarize your

view of the film.  After the last paragraph, give the movie/video a star rating out of 5(excellent) to indicate your rating of the film

As a health officer, you have been asked to discuss the subject of epidemiology to high school students getting ready to enroll in Winterton College.

Your task is as follows:

1. Define to them the field of epidemiology.
2. Briefly list a historical evolution of epidemiology.
3. Explain the terms outbreak and epidemic.
4. Be sure to provide in-text citation(s) and a reference list to support your viewpoints. Please use at least three (3) research sources (not Wikipedia, or fact sheets). Please do so in ALL subsequent submissions.

Assignment Expectations

Length: 2–3 pages.

Your work will be evaluated based on the grading rubric criteria. Review it before you begin working on the assignment.

 

WHO (2014). Infectious Diseases. Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/

WHO (2014). Vector-borne diseases. Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://www.who.int/heli/risks/vectors/vector/en/

Healthline (2014). Disease Transmission. Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://www.healthline.com/health/disease-transmission

About John Snow (2014). Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://johnsnowbicentenary.lshtm.ac.uk/about-john-snow/

John Snow and the Broad Street Pump (2014). Cricket 31(3), pp. 23-31, Nov. 2003. Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html

BBC History (2014). John Snow (1813 – 1858). Retrieved on 4/11/14 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/snow_john.shtml