Business Acquisitions

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Use the Internet or Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library  to research two publicly traded U.S. companies and download their  financial statements. Assume that you are the CEO of one of the selected  companies. You are responsible for gaining control over the other  company.

You have three choices, any of which you believe that the board of directors will support:

  • Choice 1: Your company acquires 35 percent of the voting stock of the target company.
  • Choice 2: Your company acquires 51 percent of the voting stock of the target company.
  • Choice 3: Your company acquires 100 percent of the voting stock of the target company.

Instructions

Write a 4–5 page paper in which you:

  • Provide a brief background introduction to both the company  that you are working for and the company you are responsible for gaining  control over.
  • Specify the overall manner in which the acquisition fits into your company’s strategic direction.
  • Identify at least three possible synergies that could occur as a result of the proposed acquisition.
  • Select two out of the three choices provided in the scenario  and analyze the key accounting requirements for each of the two choices  that you selected.
  • Suggest one strategy with which you would prepare the financial  statements for your company after the acquisition under each of the two  choices.
  • Select the choice that you consider to be the most advantageous  to your company. Explain to the board of directors at least three  reasons why your selected choice is the most advantageous to the  company.
  • Assume that two years after the acquisition, your board of  directors wants to offer the shares back to the public in hopes of  making a large profit. Assume that in each of the two years your company  and the target company have had the same reported net income as they  did in the year of acquisition. Determine the type of value (that is,  cost of fair value) that you would use to report the subsidiary’s net  asset in the subsidiary’s financial statements, which the company will  distribute to the public with the public offering. Provide support for  your rationale.
  • Use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find at least three academic resources. 
  •  Note: Wikipedia and similar websites are not considered quality references. 

Assessing and Treating Patients With Bipolar Disorder 6630

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The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: An Asian American Woman. Diagnosis-Bipolar Disorder (https://cdnfiles.laureate.net/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6521/05/mm/decision_trees/week_04/index.html) You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

  • Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

  • Which decision did you select?
  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

  • Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
  • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
  • Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

  • Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

References

Ostacher, M. J., & Hsin, H. (2016). The use of antiepileptic drugs in psychiatry. In T. A. Stern, M. Favo, T. E. Wilens, & J. F. Rosenbaum. (Eds.), Massachusetts General Hospital psychopharmacology and neurotherapeutics (pp. 93–98). Elsevier.

Perlis, R. H., & Ostacher, M. J. (2016a). Bipolar disorder. In T. A. Stern, M. Favo, T. E. Wilens, & J. F. Rosenbaum. (Eds.), Massachusetts General Hospital psychopharmacology and neurotherapeutics (pp. 48–60). Elsevier.

Traeger, L., Brennan, M. M., & Herman, J. B. (2016). Treatment adherence. In T. A. Stern, M. Favo, T. E. Wilens, & J. F. Rosenbaum. (Eds.), Massachusetts General Hospital psychopharmacology and neurotherapeutics (pp. 20–26). Elsevier.  

Unit VI Reflect HRD

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Instructions 

As  discussed in the unit lesson, resolving conflict in the workplace   requires  using  interpersonal skills, management skills, and techniques.   Interpersonal  skills  can consist of understanding individual differences,  self-esteem,  self-confidence, communication, teamwork skills, problem-solving   skills,  cultural relations skills, motivation skills, customer service skills,   ethical  behavior skills, and stress management skills. Management skills focus   on the  type of management skill applied such as collaborating, accommodating,   forcing,  avoiding, and compromising. As a member of the workforce, you must be   able to  effectively resolve conflict, either with the use of interpersonal   skills,  management skills, or by applying the recommended ways of responding  to  tension  in the workplace (e.g., overcoming defensiveness, accepting of the  tension, and  resolving the tension).  For  your Unit VI Assignment, please reflect on your knowledge of resolving   conflict  that you have experienced or observed in the workplace. Please  analyze  what you  have learned. Describe how your learned knowledge can be  used. Also,  identify  how this information can be used to resolve conflict in  the workplace  in your  current job or from a past incident you have  experienced. What  steps/methods  were used in resolving the conflict?  Your  reflection paper should be at least three pages in length, including an  introduction, a body that supports your reflection, and a conclusion. Be sure   to  include a title page. The title page does not count toward the total page    requirement

NEED IN 9 HOURS or LESS PLAGIARISM FREE

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Read the scenario provided below and prepare a detailed discussion about how you would use Microsoft PowerPoint to respond to the proposal identified in the scenario. Be sure to refer back to this unit’s readings and to incorporate any outside sources that may be useful in helping you respond to the scenario’s proposal.
 

You own a private nonprofit training agency that specializes in providing training in the areas of human resources management, crisis response, and data management. As a result, you have been contacted by several criminal justice agencies in your community about the possibility of your agency creating training sessions that cover crisis prevention and intervention as well as various data management issues (e.g., proper record keeping, accurate data entry, and report preparation). You have never worked directly with criminal justice agencies before, so you do not have any existing training sessions that would meet the needs of the criminal justice agencies. Discuss how you would respond to the proposal presented to you by the criminal justice agencies in your community

Your essay should be two completely full pages in length, not counting title page and reference page, and any information from those sources must be cited and referenced in APA format.

Good News and Bad News Letter

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1. Business formal Good News Letter: write an adjustment letter saying “Yes” to the manager of The Loft, whose letter is in Figure 6.8. Please read page 155 to page 157 to see the letter formats. 

2. Write a bad news letter to an appropriate reader about one of the following situations:

a.  Your company has to discontinue Saturday deliveries because of rising labor and fuel costs.

b.  You are the manager of an insurance company writing to tell one of your customers that, because of a reckless driving citation, his or her rates will increase.

c.  You have to refuse to send a bonus gift to a customer who sent in an order after the promotion period ended.

d.  You have discontinued a model that a business customer wants to reorder.

e.  You have to notify residents of a community that a bus route or hours of operation are being discontinued.

f.  You represent the water department and have to tell residents of a community that they cannot water their lawns for the next month because of a serious water short-age in your town.

g.  You cannot repair a particular piece of equipment because the customer still owes your company for three previous service visits.

Please read page 155 to page 157 to see the letter formats. 

essay help, use of 3 sources

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Overview

For the next two essays we will be expanding the issues discussed so far. For the third major assignment, you will be researching an issue related to composition and then writing an essay that presents the existing conversation about the issue before making an argument. I have outlined your rhetorical situation below, but it will be modified a bit according to your particular focus.

  • Subject:
    • Revision and Peer Review
  • Occasion: special issue of an academic journal showcasing scholarship by first-year writers, additional motivation for the specific focus should be clear from the issue or problem you are addressing
  • Audience: the journal is read by high school teachers, community college professors, university professors, and composition scholars (you may choose to focus on one or two of these)
  • Purpose: to inform about your topic and convince the audience of the truth of something or need to do something

Research

To present the academic conversation and support your argument, you will need at least three scholarly sources. For the purposes of this essay, scholarly means an article from a peer-reviewed academic journal or book from an academic publisher (i.e. university press). One of those sources may be an assigned reading. If appropriate, you can use up to five sources with the additional sources from a scholarly place (academic journal, university press, dissertation), a periodical (news, magazine, or trade journal articles), non-fiction book, or special report. No websites or blog posts are allowed for this assignment.

To find the academic sources, you will want to use the databases available through the college library. This will make it easier to find peer-reviewed sources that you can access for free. Since quality research is important for this essay, you will first make an annotated bibliography. See the Annotated Bibliography assignment description for details.

The Academic Argument

You will need to have four main sections as outlined below. The number and organization pattern of the paragraphs within each section is up to you.

I. Introductions

In this section, you should establish the context for and then provide your thesis statement. Refer to chapter 6 and chapter 11 for strategies.

II. Background

In this section, you should familiarize the reader with basic information about the issue such as what the problem is, causes and effects, or definitions of terms. You should be giving the information in an order that makes sense, and leads to the argument you will make. While you may be introducing multiple points of view, you should not make any claims at this point.

III. Argument

Finally, in this section you should make your own claim of fact, value, or policy that is appropriate for your intended audience. This claim should be supported by sources. You are encouraged, but not required to include a counterargument. Refer to chapter 4 for claims.

IV. Conclusion

This section should wrap up your essay, emphasize the importance of your argument, and leave an impression on the reader. Refer to chapter 11 for strategies.

Requirements

  • 1250 – 2000 words excluding works cited (about 5-8 pages)
  • At least three scholarly sources and no more than five sources total
  • MLA style

WEEK 4 FORUM 4/24/18

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There are three questions within our forum this week.

1- Discuss environmental influences on early cognitive development for infants and toddlers.

2- What are notable differences for at-risk infants and toddlers?

3- How would culture differences impact this early cognitive development?

  

Criteria/ 300 Level   Forum Rubric

Possible Points

Student Points

 

Initial post

 

Analyzed the   question(s), fact(s), issue(s), etc. and provided well-reasoned and   substantive answers. 

20

 

Supported ideas and   responses using appropriate examples and references from texts, professional   and/or academic websites, and other references.  (All references must be   from professional and/or academic sources. Websites such as Wikipedia, about.com,   and others such as these are NOT acceptable.)

20

 

Post meets the 300 word   minimum requirement and is free from spelling/grammar errors

10

 

Timeliness:    initial post meets the Wed deadline

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Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Earlier lessons have already provided an introduction to the basics of cognitive development. Cognitive development is the development of thought, mental processes and language. Theories on cognitive development attempt to explain how children develop thought and memory, gain information processing skills, and respond to their environments.

TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:

· Piaget’s view of development

· Vygotsky’s concept of the zone of proximal development as relates to our understanding of early cognitive development.

· Environmental influences on early mental development, including home, child care, and early interventions for at-risk infants and toddlers.

· Individual and cultural differences in early language development, including factors that influence these differences.

Fundamentals of Cognitive Development

Cognitive development in infants and toddlers advances at a rapid rate as the brain matures and children draw on their natural propensity to be active learners engaging with their environment. Several theories help us understand this developmental trajectory and also illuminate how to support optimal cognitive outcomes.

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· Cognitive development is one of three significant branches or domains of development; the other two are motor/physical and social/emotional development. Construction of thought processes are marked by increasingly advanced abilities in thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving as children move from infancy to early childhood, later childhood and adolescence.

Factors Which Influence Cognitive Development

· BRAIN MATURATION

· ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULATION

· SOCIAL INTERACTION

Several factors influence cognitive development in infants and children. These include both genetic factors and environmental ones. Brain maturation is essential to cognitive development. Maturation is any permanent change in thought or behaviour that occurs through the biological process of aging without regard to environmental influences. This is a purely biological process; as the child grows, the brain changes.

Piaget

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is one of the most recognized in the field. The theory’s central tenet is the child is an active learner who goes through stages where thinking advances as a function of specific underlying mental structures and processes. A group called Neo-Piagetians has expanded the original theory by incorporating an information-processing perspective.

PIAGET’S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

ACTIVE LEARNERS

STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Schemes

Schemes are an organized way of making sense of experiences. These are a representation in the mind of a set of experiences, objects, perceptions or actions that goes together in some way. Schemes enable infants and children to understand their world and even to predict what will happen next. The scheme is a key way that the brain organizes information.

According to Piaget, cognitive development begins with simple sensorimotor action patterns like dropping an object to see what happens. As children get older, the patterns of learning become significantly more complex. The child becomes more deliberate and creative in his actions, showing that thought is occurring prior to the action. For Piaget, development consistently precedes learning.

Adaptation

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· Adaptation is one of two processes that explain changes in schemes. Schemes are built through interacting directly with the environment. Adaptation is used to achieve cognitive balance, or what Piaget called equilibrium. When the child is not in a state of balance or equilibrium, changes to the schemes must occur to enable the child to continue to develop and learn. Adaptation occurs when the child feels conflict cognitively between what is believed to be true about the world and what is being experienced. For instance, a child’s scheme of “dog” might be a large dog, like a golden retriever. When the child first meets a chihuahua, the scheme of “dog” must change to recognize that both the golden retriever and the chihuahua are “dogs” even though they look very little like one another.

Organization

· ORGANIZATION, A COGNITIVE PROCESS

· NOT DEPENDENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONTACT

Organization is the second cognitive process that impacts changes in schemes due to the mind’s natural propensity to develop and grow. In the process of organization, when new schemes are formed, the child mentally rearranges and links to other schemes to form a ‘system’ to organize knowledge into schemes that are related and interconnected. To rely upon the previous examples, the schemes of “dog” and “cat” could be part of a system of “pets” or of a larger system of “animals”.

Stages of Cognitive Development

The stages of cognitive development are four stages where all aspects of cognition develop in integrated manner and change in a similar way at the same time. These stages of development are universal and will proceed in the same order for all children, according to Piaget. The first two stages of cognitive development are most relevant to infancy through older toddlerhood.

The sensorimotor stage spans the first two years of life. There are six substages to account for how much cognitive growth occurs during these years. This stage is called the sensorimotor because to advance cognitively, children this age use their bodies, senses and motor skills to explore the world and manipulate things that they encounter within it.

FIRST TWO STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

· Sensorimotor

· Preoperational

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· Substage 1 (birth to one month): Reflexive Schemes. This stage consists entirely of newborn reflexes, including rooting, sucking, grasping, and startling. Newborn infants react similarly regardless of the experience encountered.

Preoperational

The preoperational stage is the second stage in Piaget’s theory, beginning around age two and ending around age seven. Only the very beginning of the stage is relevant for toddlers from ages 24 to 36 months. This stage is called preoperational because thinking does not reliably follow logic or ‘operations’. This lack of logic is visible in a number of different ways in young children.

EGOCENTRIC THOUGHT

ANIMISM

FANTASY VERSUS REALITY

TRANSDUCTIVE LOGIC

ARTIFICIALISM

CONSERVATION-CENTRATION

OTHER TWO STAGES

Neo-Piagetians

Piaget’s theory does not answer questions about the underlying mental processes like attention and memory related to developing cognitive processes. A movement called Neo-Piagetian looks to information processing capacity to explain what is happening in each stage and how children move through the individual developmental stages. Information processing includes cognitive systems encompassing a combination of mental capacities like working memory and mental concepts. Several aspects of information processing improve as the child matures, including basic capacity, particularly with regard to working memory, the child’s processing speed and executive functioning, which encompasses a range of cognitive operations and strategies. Executive functioning includes the ability to control attention, suppress impulses, coordinate information in working memory and increase flexibility with thought and behavior.

Vygotsky

· SOCIO-CULTURAL THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

· COMPLEX MENTAL ACTIVITIES ORIGINATE IN SOCIAL INTERACTION

· PRIMARILY APPLIED TO PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

· SCAFFOLDING

Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist, and a contemporary of Piaget. Vygotsky developed the socio-cultural theory of cognitive development. While Piaget believed that cognitive development was universal, Vygotsky emphasized that children’s cultural context impacts how the child’s cognitive world was structured.

Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of cognitive development revolves around the central tenant that culture and society impact cognition, particularly as skilled others facilitate the child’s budding thinking skills.

Importance of Culture

The socio-cultural theory of cognitive development helps shed light on how culture influences learning and mental strategies. Different cultures value varying thought patterns and ideas. In the West, focusing attention on a single activity is most common, and is valued. Children are supported in directing their attention to a single activity. In Indigenous cultures, children are encouraged to do several activities at once or to multi-task. Culture can be more important where children learn not just through lessons but through their own observations of daily life and activities. Children fall into the pattern and expectations of their own culture because they want to be included in the daily life and experiences of their society.

The skilled other can vary depending upon the child’s culture. In societies or subcultures with extended families, or where siblings care for younger children, these individuals may play a larger role in the child’s learning. Even in Western middle class families, toddlers frequently imitate older siblings, particularly in terms of imaginary play.

Environmental Influences on Early Mental Development

Measurement of mental development in infants and toddlers forms the basis for understanding the influence of physical and psychological aspects of the home and of child-care settings, and subsequently the most effective elements of intervention for those children at-risk for poor cognitive outcomes.

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· Measuring Mental Development: In order to know how environmental conditions impact mental development, researchers and practitioners must know the normal or typical range of proficiency for young children. Several different ways of measuring infant and toddler cognitive functioning are used today to assess the range of proficiency. The best of these use large samples and develop the ‘normal distribution’, broken down by age. The normal distribution is often called the norm group.

Influence of the Home Environment

Observation in the natural environment, particularly the home, and parental interviews are also common. The HOME (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment) checklist is used to gather information about the quality of home life. The HOME checklist has been found to reliably predict language and IQ in toddlerhood and early childhood.

SAFE YET STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT

OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE

EXPLORATION

Influence of Child Care

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· More than 60 percent of mothers of infants and toddlers are employed at least part-time. The majority of these use some amount of child care. A smaller number may rely upon shared parental care or extended family care.

Child Care Standards

In many cases, parents are not well informed. They may believe that the child care experience for their child is significantly better than it is. Because they think the care is acceptable, even loving parents do not demand improvement in the childcare facility. When parents are selecting a childcare facility, whether a child care center or a home daycare option, the following are signs of a good facility; however, these may not always accurately reflect the care provided.

BUILDING

TOYS

STAFF

SUPERVISION

SCHEDULING

INTERACTIONS

PARENTS

Early Intervention

· EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

· CENTER-BASED VERSUS HOME-BASED INTERVENTION

· HEAD START

· RESULTS

Early intervention programs apply to children at risk for later poor school achievement. These programs include both those directed at children raised in poverty, as well as those aimed at children with developmental disabilities. Children identified as at-risk on the basis of socioeconomic status can benefit from early intervention; these programs can address gradual declines in IQ and poor school achievement. Intervention programs are designed to counteract the effects of poverty. The earlier, longer, and more intensive, the better the results of early intervention programs. Poverty creates a stressful and chaotic homelife with few resources, undermining learning. The lack of a positive home environment, over time, promotes a cycle of poverty.

Language Development

Cognitive development and language development are connected in fundamental and essential ways. Language is one of the most extraordinary human accomplishments, with the early childhood period being the time most language skills are acquired. Several theories of language development exist with varying degrees of emphasis on the innate abilities and the influence of the environment. There are a number of theories connected to language development. These can be broadly divided into innate abilities and environmental impact.

MAJOR THEORIES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

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· The Nativist theory of language development was developed by Noam Chomsky. According to the Nativist theory, language is possible because of innate abilities in the brain. Chomsky believed that grammar was too complex to be taught, so had to be an innate, or inborn, ability. The Nativist theory proposes that all children have a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) in the brain. This LAD is an innate system containing universal grammar or a set of rules common to all languages. The LAD allows children, regardless of their native language, to use these rules once they have mastered a basic range of words.

“Noam Chomsky” by Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina is licensed by CC BY SA 2.0

Individual Differences in Language Development

· LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT RATE VARIES

· GENETIC INFLUENCES

· PERSONALITY AND TEMPERAMENT

· ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Language development progresses at a different rate from child to child. The range of when children produce their first words is fairly wide, from 8 months of age to 18 months old. The average age is 12 months due to a complex blend of genetic and environmental influences.

Cultural Differences

There are cultural differences in language styles from one culture to another, and one language to another. Different cultures may have varied referential vocabulary. Referential vocabulary refers to objects in the environment. Referential language is more common in English speaking Western cultures. Mothers in these cultures are likely to label objects than in some other cultures. Expressive vocabulary refers primarily to feelings and needs. Expressive vocabulary is more common in cultures that value relationships and group membership over individual desires.

Knowledge Check

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Which theory supports the existence of a language acquisition device in the brain?

  

Stages   of cognitive development

 

Interactionist   theories of development

 

Nativist   theories of development

 

Socio-cultural   cognitive development

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Lesson Overview

In this lesson, you have discussed theories of cognition, or thinking and reasoning skills, including language. Both heredity and environment impact the cognitive ability of growing children. Key theorists in cognitive development include the work of Piaget on developmental stages, Neo-Piagetian theories that integrate information processing into Piaget’s theories, and Vygotsky’s theory of socio-cultural cognitive development.

PIAGET’S STAGES

VYGOTSKY

ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Key Terms:

ACCOMMODATION

ANIMISM

ARTIFICIALISM

ASSIMILATION

BROCA’S AREA

CONSERVATION-CENTRATION

EARLY INTERVENTION

EGOCENTRISM

EQUILIBRIUM

INFORMATION PROCESSING PERSPECTIVE

INTERACTIONIST

NATIVIST

ORGANIZATION

PREOPERATIONAL

SCAFFOLDING

SENSORIMOTOR

SOCIAL INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE

TRANSDUCTIVE LOGIC

WERNICKE’S AREA

ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT

Sources:

· AP Psychology. (n.d.) Discuss How Social and Environmental Factors Influence Cognitive Development. Retrieved from http://www.appsychology.com/IB%20Psych/IBcontent/Options/Developmental/Dev%20Questions/2Dev.htm.

· Center for Parent Information and Resources. Overview of Early Intervention. Retrieved from http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/ei-overview/.

· Encyclopedia of Children’s Health. (n.d.). Bayley Scales of Infant Development. Retrieved from http://www.healthofchildren.com/B/Bayley-Scales-of-Infant-Development.html.

· Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (2003). Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. Retrieved from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cognition/piaget.html.

· Lemetyinen, Henna. Language Acquisition Theories. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html.

· Psychology Campus. (2008) Cognitive Development. Retrieved from http://www.psychologycampus.com/cognitive-psychology/cognitive-development.html.

· University at Buffalo.(n.d.). Cognitive Development. Retrieved from http://gse.buffalo.edu/fas/shuell/cep564/lectures/cogdev.htm.

Week 1 history

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  • First, pick an event or topic in US history that you are interested in (needs to be at least 10 years ago). I know choosing a topic that interest you might seem obvious, but it really does make the writing and research much easier.
  • Second, conduct some preliminary research so you have the background and can get some ideas on how to narrow the topic and research questions
  • Third, think about what interests you on the topic/event for your research questions. The research questions should be narrow rather than broad as this is a 4-6 page paper.
  • You must offer background for your event and why it is significant, meaning why is the event important in history?
  • You can use any of the events and scholarly articles (the links to journal articles) that we cover in our weekly themes for your projects. 
Once you have decided on a topic, you will then refine your choice into a focused research question.  A good research question is imperative for it will set the boundaries for your paper, and help guide your efforts.  In developing a research question, you should ask yourself questions such as:

 

  • What happened?
  • Who was involved?
  • Where did the event take place?
  • Why did the event occur?
  • When did the event occur?
  • How did the event happen?
  • What was the outcome, if any?
  • Is there an element about this topic that has not yet been explored?

Final Paper due Wednesday

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Paper has to be 5 pages single spaced:

One of the best ways to learn management is from biographies. You will read at least one biography book of a business leader that you admire, together with more Internet research on the organization they lead, and distill the management lessons such as its management process, style, and culture, and methods, and relate them to topics you have learned through the modules. You will upload a five page paper summarizing the management lessons organized into different topics from our class.  Furthermore, it’s important to conduct critical thinking regarding what lessons you can adopt, and what may not fit your style or personality. List your biography book at the end of the paper, and if any other extra references e.g. articles, videos, books, etc.Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX,  Eric Yuan of Zoom, Jack Ma of Alibaba, Ren Zhengfei of Huawei, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Jack Welch of GE, Steve Jobs of Apple ……The following is a guidance to help you organize your ideas in the paper, although the actual structure depends on your content and you don’t have to strictly force it into this guideline. 

1. Planning and Decision Making: 

2. The Organizing Process

3. The Leading Process

4. The Controlling Process

Based on the past experience, I also have the following feedback:

  1. Be objective in your analysis instead of putting yourselves as the spokesperson for the company. To better understand strategy, we need to be objective in the analyses and not be afraid to talk about failures and mistake. Do not act like a spokesperson or promoter for the company, or include company videos (most of them promotional in purpose), except in the rare necessary occasion, e.g. to explain something complex.
  2. Your focus should be to present your research and analyses in simple and plain language, and steer away from the glossy language taken from company’s own website and propaganda, e.g. “we have the best people”, “we focus on innovation” in a general and abstract way, etc. Hone your ability to condense things into their essences and articulate them concisely, which is a key skill for management. 

P.S. If you cannot find a good biography that interests you, alternatively you can read one of the books below and distill the management lessons learned from it and what could be most usefully applied to your own personality and style. Stephen Covey, 

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

One of the many books by management guru Peter Drucker 

Police Function Paper

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 Final Project

Background

As noted in your text, community policing represents a specific philosophy and practice in law enforcement. It requires police officers to alter the traditional approach to crime fighting as well as actions geared toward solving community problems or issues. Community policing is based on the idea that community support and interaction can prevent crime and solve local issues that confront communities, which ultimately is assumed to reduce the fear of crime shared by individuals and groups in those communities. According to Thomas Frazier, former director of the U.S. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, community policing exists when a “law enforcement agency and law abiding citizens work together to accomplish four things: 1) arrest offenders; 2) prevent crime; 3) solve ongoing problems; and 4) improve the overall quality of life” https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2002/14785.htm

Community policing is defined as involving three key components: developing community partnerships, engaging in problem solving, and implementing community policing organizational features http://discoverpolicing.org/whats_like/community-policing

Community policing, including its numerous variations, incorporates a philosophy that provides the foundational values of a police department. The primary organizational goal is working with individual citizens, groups, and the public and private organizational sectors of a community to identify and resolve issues that impact the living conditions of neighborhoods or a city as a whole. Community-based police agencies have realized that police cannot effectively deal with these issues alone; they need to work cooperatively with others who share a similar desire to resolve problems in the community.

As individuals, police officers traditionally have worked toward the goal of bringing together government and private resources to achieve defined objectives in combating crime. Community oriented police officers are trained to make purposeful effort in creating and maintaining personal relationships with citizens, businesses, schools, and community organizations http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2630 and http://www.popcenter.org.

The Project

Welcome to Anytown, U.S.A., an average American city in most respects that, on the surface, appears to be a great place to live and to raise a family. The city has a diverse racial and economic makeup. The city’s population is composed of African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos. The affluent sections of the city experience relatively low crime rates, and the middle and low income sections have seen a rise in crime and a growing distrust for the police. The police department has never used a community policing approach.

Following the lead of Frazier and the general community policing philosophy, as an officer of Anytown Police Department, you have been tasked with preparing a community policing policy for your department. Create a four-to-six-page policy document (for presentation to command staff) that contains the elements listed in the following sections.

Project Objectives

Your document should address ways in which police and citizens work together to accomplish

  • Arrests of offenders
  • Crime prevention in the neighborhoods
  • Improvement of the overall quality of life in the community or city

Additionally, your policy should address the following questions:

  • Based on your research, what kind of training will the police officers of your department need to attend in order to become proficient in community policing? What should be the focus of these training sessions?
  • Would training be provided for the community residents? Why? Provide appropriate reasons for this decision.
  • How would the policy address the protection needs and fear of crime among specific groups such as juveniles, the elderly, minorities, the disabled, or the poor and the homeless?
  • Finally, based on your research, how would the success or failure of this policy be determined? How would the policy be evaluated and by whom?

As you write, be sure to incorporate and properly reference the sources of information obtained through your research and used in your paper. To cite your sources, please follow this procedure:

  1. Use in-text citations to indicate references to information from outside sources. Include the author’s name and the relevant page number(s) in parentheses. Here’s an example: Human beings have been described as “symbol using animals” (Burke 3).
  2. At the end of your paper, include a Works Cited page listing all of the sources you’ve consulted. Use either APA or MLA format for this page. For information on how to prepare this page, go to the Penn Foster Library.

Project Goals

The following are the goals and purposes of this research project:

  • To allow you to demonstrate the knowledge and to display the skills that you’ve acquired from the course curriculum
  • To enable you to use that knowledge to development a strong understanding of community policing and its importance to communities

Grading Criteria

Your project grade will be based on the following criteria:

Content

70 points

Written communication

30 points

Here’s a breakdown for each of these criteria.

Content (70 Points)

The project addresses ways in which police and citizens work together to accomplish

  • Arrests of offenders (10 points)
  • Crime prevention in the neighborhoods (10 points)
  • Improvement of the overall quality of life in the community or city (10 points)

The project addresses training required for police officers to become proficient in community policing and identifies areas of focus. (10 points)

The project identifies training to be provided for the community residents and appropriate reasons. (10 points)

The project addresses the protection needs and fear of crime among specific groups, such as juveniles, the elderly, minorities, the disabled, or the poor and the homeless. (10 points)

The project identifies ways to evaluate the policy changes to determine success or failure (10 points)

Written Communication (30 Points)

You’re expected to submit your own original work, with all research sources used properly cited using APA style. You must also provide a properly formatted Works Cited page at the end of your paper. Your own original, interesting, and academically relevant presentation is of primary importance. Please review the school policy with respect to plagiarism and its definition.

Your project should also include the following elements:

  • An introductory paragraph, a body, and a concluding paragraph
  • Correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. Proofread your work carefully!
  • Clear organization with transitional words and phrases, such as first, however, on the other hand, and so on, since, consequently, next, and when.

Writing Guidelines

  • Type your submission, double-spaced, in a standard print font, size 12. Use a standard document format with one-inch margins. (Do not use any fancy or cursive fonts.)
  • Read the assignment carefully and address all parts of the project.
  • Be specific. Limit your submission to the topic(s) or issue(s) suggested.

APA format required. 4 to 6 page excluding reference and cover page

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