Due Tonight by 6pm

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Please follow directions and cite your paper as stated below!!

Please make sure your paper make sense and I am able to follow what you are saying failure to do so will cause points deduction.

Purpose of Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to review the vignette and to discuss the role of Human Services Professionals towards celebrating diversity, understanding perspectives, and how to implement cross-cultural communication.

Instructions:

You have just finished meeting with Dr. Rasmussen for your individual supervision this week. The theme of the session was focused on the relevance of understanding the impact of culture, language, and gender differences with communication when interacting with clients from a variety of vulnerable populations. Towards the end of the session with Dr. Rasmussen, he asked, “Do you mind if I read you a ‘Thank You’ card I received from a foreign exchange student I worked with several years ago”? You said, “Sure”. The note read as such:

17 January 1997

Hi Dr. Rasmussen,

I want to thank you for the opportunity you provided me with. It is one that I will never forget. Here in El Salvador, I struggled most of my life and never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to come to the United States to study for one year. That opportunity was unmeasurable, in which my gratitude could not be put into words. Most people in my community do not make it beyond 9th grade because, after that, education is not free and is difficult for most to pay for. Aside from that, living in poverty is a norm throughout the country due to corruption and the influx of gangs taking over and causing strife throughout the community. When I came there [to the United States], you along with several members of the university embraced me and provided me with opportunities to learn and to not be a negative statistic. I am graduating with my Bachelor of Arts in Human Services degree from Universidad de El Salvador in May. I want to eventually become a social worker so I can be like you and have some impact here in a community that is suffering, just as other communities are throughout the world. I want to thank you for believing in me and for giving me a chance. Please tell hello to everyone at New Directions.

Sincerely,

Andres

Dr. Rasmussen then goes on to say Andres is now the director of a local social services agency in Honduras. In amazement, you thank Dr. Rasmussen for sharing this inspirational story and started to think of the many clients you are dealing with that are struggling to endure through many of life’s stressors. You think of Andre’, an African-American single father, who works minimum-wage jobs to make ends meet, but dreams of opening his own business one day. Ann then comes to mind. Ann is a biracial, middle-aged female, struggling with mental health issues partly due to a chronic domestic violence history. Nick then ‘pops’ into mind. Nick is transgendered, misunderstood by his family and most in his community, and seeks solace in talking about the impact of the constant discrimination that he faces. And, Maria, who was diagnosed with PTSD a few years ago, has been involved in many different programs at New Direction, LLC. At 8, she traveled with her family to the United States from Mexico and was an illegal immigrant that did not know any English. Immersed in these thoughts and having the feeling of wanting to be impactful at a community-level, you impulsively decide to pen your thoughts into a formal paper to the local newspaper-understanding that your paper may not get published. You decide to include this in your work-specific portfolio that you will be submitting.

Instructions: Write a three-page double-spaced paper that discusses the following bullet points:

  • Define your role as a Human Services Professional and how your role impacts the community.
  • Explain the role of celebrating diversity and cultural differences within the community.
  • Discuss the importance of understanding the perspectives of others-particularly as it relates to understanding differing cultural beliefs/customs, language differences, and gender differences.
  • Identify, at minimum, 5 strategies for effective cross-cultural communication and how it can be applicable for professionals working as change agents (to include Human Services Professionals).

APA Requirement: It is important that you meet the minimum page length requirement and that your work is double-spaced throughout. All facts should be cited with a parenthetical in-text citation throughout your work, in addition to, the inclusion of a Reference Page at the end of your work.

HW 3(21)

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Answer any TEN of the following questions.

1. Describe human eye in terms of focal length, iris and sensor.
2. How does a camera lens differ from human eye?

3. Define the term focal length.

4. Define the term field of view.

5. Explpain with mathematics if there is a relationship between the focal length and the field of view of a lens and if so how.

6. What parameters of a video system determine the parameter named magnification?

7. Describe the concept of lens finder kit.
8. Define the term f-number.

9. Describe what parameters of a lens affect the light input to the camera sensor and how.

10. Compare the features of manual iris and automatic iris camera systems.

11. Explain the principle of operation of an auto-focus lens.

12. What is a stabilized lens? Cite an application of stabilized lens.

13. Compare between vari-focal lens and zoom lens.

14. How does a motorized zoom lens work?

15. What is a pinhole lens? why would you use a pinhole lens?

16. Describe the principle of fiber-optic lens.

17. Describe the principle of tri-focal image splitting lens.

18. What is a relay lens? What is use of a relay lens?

4 pages

Week 2 Case Study: Heart

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Week 2 Case Study: Heart

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook
  • Weekly Concepts
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source

Scenario/Summary

Janet was the tallest person in her family. Her brother used to joke with her and tell her she could play Abraham Lincoln in any play because she was tall and lanky just like good old Abe.

Janet was the star center on her high school basketball team. She had always been tall with big hands and long fingers, perfect for snagging the ball on rebounds. Recently, Janet had begun wearing contact lenses because she was having trouble seeing the hoop clearly. The optometrist had diagnosed her with nearsightedness, something that her parents also experienced.

Recently, while practicing basketball with her high school team, Janet experienced some pain in her chest. She mentioned this to her coach, but since it was the beginning of the season and they had recently started practicing, the coach assumed that she had pulled or overworked a muscle. The coach suggested that she take some Tylenol and apply ice to her chest to relieve the pain.

Five minutes in to their first game of the season, Janet experienced dizziness and motioned for the coach to take her out. As she walked to the bench, she lost consciousness and passed out. The referees couldn’t feel a pulse and started CPR while waiting for the paramedics and ambulance to arrive.

When Janet came to, she was in a hospital bed in CCU of the local hospital. The doctors advised her that she likely had a disease called Marfan’s syndrome. As a result of that disease she had experienced cardiac arrest and that she had a mitral valve prolapse.

Deliverables

Answer the following questions and save your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Provide a scholarly resource to support your answers.

  1. What are the four valves found in the heart and where are they located? Give all names for each valve.
  2. What is a mitral valve prolapse and what causes this in Marfan’s syndrome specifically?
  3. What happens to blood flow (specifically) with a mitral valve prolapse (where would the blood back up to and why)?
  4. If a person were to have a prolapse of the tricuspid valve, what specifically would happen to the flow of blood in that case?
  5. Do you think Janet will ever play basketball again? Why or why not?

Submit your case study document to Turnitin. For more information on Turnitin view the following link: https://chamberlain.instructure.com/courses/23/pages/turnitin

Required Software

Microsoft Office: Word

Grading

This activity will be graded based on the Case Study grading rubric. You can view the rubric below.

Course Outcomes (CO): 2

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of Week 2

different questions that should be answered separately

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1) Auditors and regulators are reminding firms to look closely at their accounts payable to be sure they haven’t inadvertently created debt that might alter leverage ratios and violate other loan covenants. What’s the deal?

2) Major disruptions in global politics and economics will disrupt financial markets. 9/11, the Greek Crisis, and the recent Brexit all being good cases. How do these events impact interest rate expectations and therefore IRP between major currencies?

3) Why would the impact of shares repurchases be different across different time horizons? Do you think share repurchases are more valuable to the firm’s longer term objectives during the times of systemic crises (e.g. COVID19)? 

4) https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/insiders-cash-out-via-ipos-investor-optimism-becomes-excessive-2020-12-1029919751 (Links to an external site.) (also attached below). In your opinion, do insiders’ sales of shares act as a signal that the stock is currently over-valued?  Why? Why not?

5) Consider Apple stock. Apple’s valuations are heavily dependent on intangible assets valuations, as the company is a heavy user of intangible capital in its revenue generation model (think Apps platform). At the same time, Apple is one of the five largest companies in the world. This means that Apple’s stock price changes are systematic to the entire market: when Apple stock rises or falls, markets tend to rise or fall too.

Looking back at the assumption and definition of the APT, in your opinion, does APT apply in the case of the market that is so heavily dominated by Apple? Explain your thinking.

6) In our required readings we covered two papers, both highly critical of the CAPM. The two papers are:

Despite this criticism, CAPM is still being widely used in corporate finance and in some investment management applications around the world.

Q: Can you think of any valid reasons why CAPM is still being used in practical or applied finance?

 

Community Healthy Promotion Programs

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In this writing assignment, you will research the health-promotion resources available in your community.

Step 1 Research the top 5 causes of mortality for adults or children in your state.

  • Select one of the top 5 causes that is partially or fully preventable (heart disease, car crashes, homicide etc. )

Step 2 Write a paper that focuses on resources. Submit a 3-4 page paper that summarizes the health promotion resources available in your community (city, town or county) to address your selected cause of death and recommendations for future programs. The focus of the programs should be on prevention and health promotion, not treatment

In your paper, discuss the following prompts:

  • Describe the programs that promote health promotion on the selected topic in your community.
    • Include the level of community participation in the programs (number of participants, number of included schools etc.)
      • Identify the target population (age, sex, location etc.)
    • Explain the specific health-promotion activities offered, and the level of prevention that is addressed by the activities
    • Include any impact data or improved health outcomes that you can find on the programs
  • Discuss your assessment of available resources in your community: Is the amount of health promotion programs adequate to meet the needs? Are the activities offered effective?
  • Recommend a health-promotion idea or ideas that could be developed into a health-promotion program or programs in your community.
    • Identify the targeted populations with rationale to support the choice.

Cite any sources in APA format.

iRobot Research Paper

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02.02.21 8:00 A.M.

Assignment Headings (5-6 pages)

Introduction And History Of iRobot

  • Provide a brief introduction and history of the company with a focus on understanding where it is positioned and what major challenges it faces today?  
  • By history, I do not mean a chronological re-telling, but crucial points that have made your company distinctive and shaped the way in which your company competes: its organizational capabilities or heritage.  (Do not just reiterate the company chronology.)  
  • For many companies, the original founder still shapes in terms of values and ideas the direction of a company such as Apple did under Steve Jobs.  
  • Do not spend 2-3 pages reiterating the company history unless is it relevant for the future.

The Mission, Visions, Goals, And Strategies Of The Corporation And Of Its Business Units

  • What do they mean in actuality?  
  • What is the company doing to realize them?  

Stakeholders

  • Who are the major (most powerful) stakeholders in your organization? 

Board Of Directors

  • Stead & Stead (2014, 233-234) list five functions of a Board of Directors.  Who is responsible for these functions at your target organization?  How well are they doing?
  1. … they are responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the firm. 
  2. They are responsible for auditing the financial performance of their firms, including being responsible for ensuring that the audited financial statements represent a true and accurate picture of the firm. This is essentially their watchdog role. 
  3. They are responsible for the selection and succession of CEOs as well as the determination of CEO pay. If the CEO loses their confidence, they are responsible for replacing him/her. 
  4. They are responsible for assessing risks and developing strategies that mitigate risks. 
  5. They are responsible for ensuring the ethics and legality of the firms’ activities, thus building and preserving repetitional capital
  • What specific capabilities does your board of directors bring to the boardroom table? What are they trying to do with their appointments?
  • How does the board look through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion?   

Executive Team

  • Include an analysis of company CEO. 
  • Analyze your executive team. Is it diverse?   
  • Find statements they have made to the press, interviews, speeches to their shareholders or employees.  
  • Stead & Stead (2014) argue that leaders should be humble, ethical, spiritual, and have the attitude of a servant. To what degree does the organization’s leadership reflect these attributes? 
  • According to Stead & Stead (2014) “Successfully implementing SSM requires that strategic managers create and maintain effective sustainability-centered relationships within their firms and among their interconnected plethora of stakeholders (p. 246).”  How effective is the organization’s top leadership at creating and maintaining such relationships?

Organizational Structure

  • Describe the overall organizational structure of the company. 
  • What business units or functional areas does the organization have and how much of their sales (monies) go to each area? 

Strategic Evaluation And Control

  • Stead & Stead note that “Strategic evaluation and control processes are used to implicitly and explicitly evaluate whether or not a firm’s strategy is achieving its intended results (p. 237).” 
  • Evaluate your target company’s strategic evaluation and control processes across the Triple Bottom Line: People, Profit, and Planet.  For data on People and Profit, your best source will probably be the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Report, but they may also have a site for sustainability reporting.

Discussion 2: Law Enforcement: Federal, State, Local and Data Driven Policing

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 5, Law Enforcement Operations and Legal Limitations in the Wright (2012) (PROVIDED IN ATTACHMENTS) text. Review the following REQUIRED resources, Police Practice: Incorporating Hot-Spots Policing into Your Daily Patrol Plan (Hoelzer and Gorman, 2011), FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting (Links to an external site.), https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr and the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (Links to an external site.).https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/NACJD/index.html 

Law enforcement agencies exist on federal, state, and local levels. Address the following questions in your discussion post:

  • What is jurisdiction? Describe the difference between federal and local police jurisdiction.
  • Define evidence-based

 PICK the SECTION that you are MOST interested in and complete your response. Please indicate which section your are responding to and ensure you meet the required length and content requirements. 

  • Section 1. Federal Policing: New York and Microsoft Corporation. Describe the history of federal policing in the United States. Provide examples of federal policing agencies. How are federal policing agencies used to enforce the law? Explain the partnership between New York City and Microsoft Corporation to develop the Domain Awareness System (DAS). Will systems like DAS be able to reduce crime? If so, how?
  • Section 2. Federal Policing: The Minneapolis Preventative Patrol Study. Describe the history of federal policing in the United States. Provide examples of federal policing agencies. How are federal policing agencies used to enforce the law? Research and explain the Minneapolis Preventative Patrol Study. Will programs like the Minneapolis Preventative Patrol program be able to reduce crime? If so, how?
  • Section 3. State Policing: The Hot Spots Policing Program. Describe the history of state policing in the United States. Provide examples of state policing. How is state policing used to enforce the law? Research and explain the Hot Spots Policing program in Lowell, Massachusetts. Will programs like Hot Spots be able to reduce crime? If so, how?
  • Section 4. Local Policing: The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Describe the difference between township (village) police, city police, and county police (sheriff’s office). Are their jurisdictions always distinct? How is local policing used to enforce the law? Research and explain the Cincinnati Violence Reduction project. Will programs like the Cincinnati Violence Reduction project be able to reduce crime? If so, how?
  • Section 5. State Policing: Operation Ceasefire. Describe the history of state policing in the United States. Provide examples of state policing. How is state policing used to enforce the law? Research and explain the Operation Ceasefire in Boston. Will programs like Operation Ceasefire be able to reduce crime? If so, how?
  • Section 6. Local Policing: Operation Cul-de-Sac. Describe the difference between township (village) police, city police, and county police (sheriff’s office). Are their jurisdictions always distinct? How is local policing used to enforce the law? Research and explain Operation Cul-de-Sac in Los Angeles. Will programs like Operation Cul-de-Sac be able to reduce crime? If so, how?

Guided Response: Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly or credible resources, and properly cite any references. 

Nutrition essay

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 Instructions

Putting It All Together

This assignment includes two parts. You are to write a report that covers both. You should have a title page and include references.

Part I.

Modify your intake to meet the following dietary recommendations (already attached).

Your new diet analysis must meet these goals. These should look familiar. They are recommendations we have discussed throughout the class.

  1. Calorie intake is within 200 calories of the calorie level recommended by the diet analysis program. Be sure you selected the correct activity for your daily activities.
  2. All nutrients meet or exceed the target or limit. Be sure not to exceed the upper limit for the nutrient.
  3. The source of calories from carbohydrates is >55% and the source of calories from fat is <25%.

Screenshot the results of your analysis (already attached as JPEG)

Once you have modified your diet, fill in the table below (Table is also attached) Be sure to copy and paste the table into your report. You can add more lines by placing your cursor in the last cell and hit the “tab” button. This will add another line to the table. You may not have the same number of foods in each column.

1)     Foods I deleted from my diet

2)     Foods I changed the amount in my diet

3)     New Foods I added to my diet

Answer the following questions in a short written essay. This summary should be at least one page, double-spaced, 12 point font, and 1″ margins.

  1. Was making the changes an easy task?
  2. Are the changes realistic?
  3. Is there a particular type of food you found yourself adding and/or deleting?

Part II.

In the next two pages, your summary should be at least two pages, double-spaced, 12 point font, and 1″ margins. Use references where needed.

  1. Relate the changes you made in your diet to five things related to healthy nutrition facts. There is no right or wrong. Be sure to explain your response in detail. Do make the five items obvious such as a new paragraph for each item.

2.   Implement the following and describe your experience. Your discussion should include obstacles and successes you faced implementing the change

  • Obtain all protein through food for a week.

3 Parts

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Writing guidelines

In order to get full points on this assignment make sure to do the following: 1) Follow the word count; 2) proofread and have someone else proofread it; 3) cite sources in-text and 4) include an APA reference list. Final Project should be typed, double-spaced, 12-point standard font, with 1-inch margins. 

· Writing should be professional and use APA guidelines for citations, grammar and mechanics. 

· Please provide an APA reference list for at the end, do your best with videos and websites. 

· Here is the APA link for how to cite electronic sources https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_electronic_sources.html 

· This one helps for confusion of citations https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa6_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_apa_faqs.html. 

· Students are expected to do their own work. Please review the university’s guidelines on plagiarism http://conduct.sfsu.edu/plagiarism

Part 1 Application (10 points) 

· Research and explain a topic/issue relevant to a specific period of child and youth development such as stereotype threat in adolescents that was discussed in the course. 

· Research best practices and strategies designed to address the topic

· Minimum 250 words 

Part 2 Media Entries (50 points) 

· Develop two media entries (Each media entry is worth 25 points) 

· Watch these two TedTalks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czg_9C7gw0o

For each media entry 

o Insert a screenshot of the media and provide the source, date of publication and how it relates to the concepts or theories from the materials in this course. Use in text citations. 

o Then identify the topic/issue that the media piece illustrates and reflect on the connection using your course materials to describe the relationship. Use in text citations. 

o Minimum 300 words per media entry 

Part 3 Reflection (40 points) 

· Write a minimum 500-word reflection on how your understanding of child and youth development has changed throughout this course. 

· Did you have any previous assumptions that were changed or challenged during this course? 

· What are the big takeaways you learned? 

· Reflect on how you will apply what you have learned in this class to working with children and youth. (Address at least 3 topics that we covered during this course specifically and draw on discussion posts and worksheets in your reflection) 

· This reflection should follow the above writing guidelines and should include direct APA citations to course content or readings. 

Health Promotion and Clinical Prevention

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Culturally Competent Nursing

In a Microsoft Word document of 4-5 pages formatted in APA 7 style, you will describe an interview of a person from a cultural background that is different from your own.

Select a person from a cultural group different from your own. You may choose a patient, friend, or work colleague. For the sake of confidentiality, do not reveal the name of the person you interview; use only initials.

In your paper, include the following:

• A complete cultural assessment using the 12 domains from the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence in your textbook, Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach (SEE BELOW).

• A description of implications for health practices.

• Include an introduction, conclusion and complete details. 

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA 7 format. 

***Micro Aspects of the Model On a micro level, the model’s organizing framework consists of 12 domains and their concepts, which are common to all cultures. These 12 domains are interconnected and have implications for health. The utility of this organizing framework comes from its concise structure, which can be used in any setting and applied to a broad range of empirical experiences and can foster inductive and deductive reasoning in the assessment of cultural domains. Once cultural data are analyzed, the practitioner can fully adopt, modify, or reject health-care interventions and treatment regimens in a manner that respects the patient’s cultural differences. Such adaptations improve the quality of the patient’s health-care experiences and personal existence. 

The Twelve Domains of Culture These are the 12 domains that are essential for assessing the ethnocultural attributes of an individual, family, or group: 

1. Overview, inhabited localities, and topography 

2. Communication 

3. Family roles and organization 

4. Workforce issues 

5. Biocultural ecology 

6. High-risk behaviors 

7. Nutrition 

8. Pregnancy and childbearing practices 

9. Death rituals 

10. Spirituality 

11. Health-care practices 

12. Health-care providers