Author: chris

onsider this scenario: You are working as an aide for a representative in your state legislature, and he or she has asked you for a summary of information on a particular interest group. Use the following to prepare your Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Prezi presentation to the representative:

Identify and provide a description of one interest group.

Discuss its connection or relationship to each of the two major political parties in your state.

Analyze the interest group’s relationship with the two major political parties by addressing these questions:

How does the group influence the state government?
What techniques does the group use?
How important is the interest group to your representative?

Summarize the information you found regarding this interest group and provide a recommendation to the representative for responding to the issue with which the interest group is most concerned.

Include at least 8 to 10 slides. Provide detailed speaker notes in the presentation file or in a separate document.

As a member of the Information Security team at a small college, you have been made the project manager to install an access control system (ACS) in a dormitory. The ACS will automatically unlock the dormitory doors via an electronic proximity reader and integrate with an existing security camera system. The cameras are designed to face and rotate to record a person as they use their identification card to unlock the door.

Create a 3-4 page project plan for this project in which you:

1. Include a one-half page project scope statement.

Define five major tasks, each with one to two subtasks. Also write a brief description for each task.
Create a Gantt chart illustrating the project tasks (use Microsoft Project or a similar project management program).
Create a system diagram illustrating the equipment and connections required for this project (use Microsoft Visio or a similar software package).

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.

· Include charts or diagrams created in Excel, Visio, MS Project, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams/charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific Course Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Distinguish between non-functional and functional requirements.

· Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and development.

· Write clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

FOR THE FIRST PAPER, YOU SHOULD USE ONLY THE CLASS MATERIALS PROVIDED. NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE ALLOWED EXCEPT FOR THE CURRENT EVENT DISCUSSED IN YOUR CONCLUSION.

MAKE SURE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU HAVE READ THE MATERIAL and CLEARLY STATE YOUR THESIS IN THE INTRODUCTION AND THE CONCLUSION. PLEASE WRITE: “MY THESIS IS” SO I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ONE.

YOUR ESSAY SHOULD BE AT LEAST 6-7 PAGES DOUBLE-SPACED OR SINGLE SPACED (3-4 PAGES) WITH 1” MARGINS. YOU DON’T NEED A COVERSHEET.

Please Use Chicago Citation Style: http://www.lib.subr.edu/Chicago.pdf. Or go to Purdue Owl

MAKE SURE TO CITE YOUR SOURCES CORRECTLY—ANY QUOTES MORE THAN THREE LINES LONG SHOULD BE SINGLE-SPACED (BLOCK QUOTES, NO QUOTATION MARKS). QUOTES 3 LINES OR LESS SHOULD HAVE QUOTATION MARKS. YOU SHOULD CITE THE SOURCES (HELLMAN AND VANDEN/ PREVOST/Hamilton) EVEN IF YOU ARE PARAPHRASING. YOU CAN USE FOOTNOTES OR IN-TEXT PARANTHETICAL CITATIONS IN YOUR PAPER (YOUR CHOICE).

Late papers graded down ½ letter grade for each day it is late

Check for grammar, spelling and structural errors in your paper—you will be graded down for such errors

MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN WORK—KEEP IN MIND, TURN IT IN HAS ACCESS TO ALL PAPERS

According to Collier (Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion, 1994),

When in 1992 President Salinas de Gortari brought land reform—the issue on which his party had originally risen to power—to a halt, he signaled an abrupt end to a traditional government covenant with the peasantry and deprived many peasants not just of the possibility of improving their livelihoods, but of their power as a constituency. The Zapatistas are trying to reclaim that constituency (Collier, 1994:8).

The above quote says a great deal about the relationship between the peasant sector and the Mexican state that emerged after the Mexican Revolution. It also suggests a relationship between the economic restructuring of Mexico’s economy and the rise of the Zapatista rebellion. Indeed, the transition to free market economic principles and the adoption of neoliberal reform

permanently transformed the lives of Mexicans in the urban and rural sectors of Mexico’s economy. Such changes were social, political and economic in nature.

With this in mind, discuss the significance of the Mexican Revolution to the transition of the New Economic Model (Neoliberalism) in Mexico. How did the Revolution address the problem of “two Mexicos” that emerged under Diaz? What were the goals of the Revolution?

In what ways did meaning of the Revolution change with the Presidency of Salinas de Gortari?

How do the testimonials provided by Hellman demonstrate and provide insight into understanding how free market mechanisms (NAFTA) would influence the lives of individuals? Were all sectors impacted the same way? (Hellman discusses this in her book) Has Mexico returned to an era where there are “two Mexicos”? Where would you place Mexico today in the context of its political and economic development? Why? (Make sure to cite a current event to support your position, discuss it in the conclusion of your paper).

Make sure to put the discussion in proper historical context by clearly explaining the significance of the Mexican Revolution, the factors that led to the rise of the PRI and ISI (state-led development model and what it entailed) and the factors that led to the adoption of Neoliberalism and its policy prescriptions. Make sure to refer to at least (5) testimonials in Hellman’s work. DO NOT OVERQUOTE. You are welcome to include the documentary LA TORMENTA QUE AZOTO MEXICO (The Storm that Swept Mexico) or any other class materials in your discussion.

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Assignment 1: Alignment of HRM and Business Strategies

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

Select a publicly traded company to research and evaluate its Human Resource (HR) and business strategy, HR department job positions, and ways it markets its company regarding human capital. Some company Websites that provide this information are listed below:

Marriott: http://www.arubamarriottcareers.com/JobDescriptions.html
Allstate: http://www.jigsaw.com/id209321_d40/allstate_insurance_human_resources_business_contacts.xhtml
State Farm: http://www.statefarm.com/about/retirees/news_articles/hr_serv_assist.asp
Ford Motor Company: http://corporate.ford.com/careers/career-paths/human-resources?&ccode=US

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

Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy.
Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department.
Determine which HR job positions you would prefer and explain why.
Analyze how the selected company can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages.
Propose three (3) ways that the company can increase diversity.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other 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:

Examine the role of human resource management (HRM) in organizations and how it supports the organization’s business strategy.
Evaluate human resource strategies and how these strategies align with business strategies.
Create a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Formulate HRM strategies and policies to recruit, select, place, and retain the most efficient and effective workforce.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic human resource development.
Write clearly and concisely about strategic human resource development using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

One of the most common questions the general public asks about intimate partner violence (ipv) is “Why does she stay?” Several important factors need to be mentioned in this regard. First, women do leave abusive relationships. In fact, they leave and return multiple times. (Be wary of any resource that quotes an exact or average number of times that survivors leave. The reality is that we really don’t know, other than it appears to be multiple times for many women.)

Second, when someone asks “Why doesn’t she leave?” they are making the very dangerous mistake of assuming that to leave a violent relationship will cause the violence to cease. According to the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), “Many people still believe that the problem of battering can be solved by separation, but the risk of serious or lethal violence may actually increase after separation” (39).

The greatest risk for serious injury or death from violence is at the point of separation or at the time when the decision to separate is made. Data from a U.S. Department of Justice national Crime Victimization Survey indicates that among women who were victims of violent assault by an intimate partner, women reported that the offender was an ex-spouse almost half as many times as they reported that the offender was a spouse” (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996, p. 39). The reality is that for a large number of survivors to leave a violent relationship does not make things better, rather, it makes things worse. Please see the attached handout, Examples of the Types of Violence Occuring At Separation (linked below).

A third factor to be considered in this discussion involves the very nature of the question “Why does she stay?” Very rarely do people ask, “Why does he batter?, or “Why doesn’t he leave?” Many grassroots activists and feminists believe that to ask “Why does she stay?” is actually victim blaming and fails to hold the abuser accountable for his behavior.

In Module 1, Lawrence Green and his colleagues identified three types of factors that can affect the help-seeking process by either encouraging or discouraging action:

Predisposing factors – attitudes, perceptions, or beliefs that either facilitate or hinder personal motivation to act
Enabling factors–factors that either help by their presence or hinder by their absence like the ability to obtain necessary assistance (limited facilities, inadequate personnel, lack of funds)
Reinforcing factors – characteristics of services or attitudes of caregivers that assist in decision-making like the feedback or attention received.

Linked below is the handout Barriers to Leaving which outlines numerous factors or “barriers” that should be considered when examining the difficulties in leaving an abusive relationship. This list of barriers can be combined with Green’s et. al. work to help explain the challenges that survivors face in their help-seeking process.

For this purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

1. Take a look at the Lisa Steinberg/Hedda Nussbaum Case Study listed in Module 1 along with the linked handouts to this conference topic.

2. Respond to the following questions:

a) Explain the issues affecting the help-seeking behavior of Hedda Nussbaum, including issues in the victim and offender response system that inhibited appropriate intervention

b) Do you think the question “Why does she stay is victim blaming? Why or why not?

3. Please support your response with resources (including in-text citations).

Examples of the Types of Violence Occurring At Separation /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Examples of Types of Violence Occurring at Separation.rtf

Barriers to Leaving /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Barriers to Leaving.rtf

Reference

Emotional abuse is widely misunderstood in our society. Yet, for many survivors, emotional abuse is often described as equally painful, if not more painful, than physical abuse. To be emotionally abused may raise several difficulties for the survivor trying to reach out for help. First, if a survivor tries to get help and has physical signs of abuse then s/he can show that to someone. The questions arises, however, how do you show someone that you’re being emotionally abused? The marks that emotional abuse leave scar someone’s heart and soul and that cannot not be physically shown to anyone.

Second, the fact that emotional abuse leaves no visible wounds frequently makes it difficult for survivors to get the help they need when they reach out to others. For many, unless there are obvious physical injuries, the disclosure of abuse raises the question “Are they really telling the truth?” Often, it may come down to “he said, she said.” Third, many people minimize the impact that emotional abuse has on survivors and discount this form of as abuse as “less dangerous” than physical or sexual abuse. The reality is that emotional abuse has serious short and long-term effects on survivors, including, but not limited to, lowered self-esteem and self-confidence, depression, and suicide.

Another important factor when addressing emotional abuse deals with the manner in which this type of abuse occurs within the abusive relationship. Many physically and sexually abusive relationships actually begin with emotional abuse and, over time and with no intervention, will escalate to include other forms of abuse. If you’re working with a survivor that is being physically and/or sexually abused, the chances are great that s/he is also being emotionally abused. The reverse is not true however. Some relationships begin with emotional abuse and will stay at that level for the duration of the relationship.

The last important point I’d like to make deals with the manner in which survivors deal with emotional abuse. Since so many people in our society don’t have a clear understanding of the complexities of emotional abuse it is frequently difficult for survivors to actually name what they are experiencing as emotional abuse. While survivors may know that their feelings have been hurt, or that they don’t like what is being said (or not said) to them, it is rare to find a survivor who clearly states “I’m being emotionally abused.” Don’t get me wrong here. Some survivors are able to do this, but in over 25 years I haven’t worked with or witnessed many that have. As so many physically abusive relationships begin with emotional abuse, the survivor may not even realize they are being abused until the abuse escalates into physical and/or sexual abuse.

For the purposes of this discussion topic, please complete the following:

1. Interview 3 people about emotional abuse. This is a confidential interview so please do not identify the people you interview by name, address, or personal relationship with you. You will need to do the following:

Identify the person’s age and gender (this is basic demographic data that may help us better understand the responses)

Ask the following questions:

1. How do you define domestic violence?

2. How do you define emotional abuse?

3. Please give some examples of emotional abuse.

4. Do you think emotional abuse is as damaging as physical abuse? Why or why not?

NOTE: Do NOT ask the respondents if they have experienced abuse. Asking this question requires some very special “set up” that we are not going to be doing for this assignment.

3. Once you have completed your interviews please post the results in this conference.

4. Also post an analysis about the respondents’ answers. Postings that do not include an analysis of the responses will lose points. Consider at least some of the following when writing your analysis:

The analysis should be more than whether or not you agree with the respondents.
Do all of the respondents have the same or similar definitions?
Does it appear that the respondents are focusing only on intimate partners or are they including all family members in their discussions?
Are the respondents thorough in their definitions of domestic violence or are they leaving anything out?
Are the definitions/responses inclusive of all types of relationships or just

In 1987 Ellen Pence, a long-time domestic violence advocate with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota, published a workbook entitled In Our Best Interest: A Process For Personal and Social Change (1987) (I’ve found this an excellent resource when conducting support groups for women). In this work Pence includes a diagram that has commonly come to be known as the Power and Control Wheel. This diagram is based on the feedback of hundreds of battered women and outlines the various controlling and abusive behaviors that perpetrators use to control their partners. The “Wheel” has become the signature diagram used to explain survivors’ experiences in abusive relationships. The tactics batterers use to control their partners are without limit. While some are certainly more dangerous than others, all forms of abuse have serious short and/or long-term consequences for the victim, and for those around them.

In reviewing the “Wheel” please note that the tactics within the spokes of the wheel actually work to support and reinforce the physical and sexual violence occurring in the relationship. In some abusive relationships, over time, the abusing partner may decrease the amount of physical violence and rely more and more on the non-physical tactics to control the survivor. This is not true for all abusive relationships, however.

Links for both the Power and Control Wheel and the companion Equality Wheel are posted below.

For the purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

1. Identify a movie, TV program or book in which one of the adult characters is being abused by an intimate partner.

2. Using the Power and Control Wheel as a guide, list the various abusive behaviors and tactics exhibited in the movie. Give examples.

3. Respond to the following questions:

a) What is the survivor’s reaction to the abuse?

b) Is the movie, show or book accurate in its portrayal of an abusive relationship?

c) What is inaccurate?

4. Once you have posted your comments please respond to at least 2 of your classmates’ post.

If you’re having problems coming up with some movies the list below may help:

Gaslight (an early Ingrid Bergman movie and probably the first movie to actually address emotional abuse)

What’s Love Got To Do With It? (Tina Turner’s life story)

Provoked

Sleeping With The Enemy

The Burning Bed

The Color Purple

Enough

Fried Green Tomatoes

For Colored Girls

This Boy’s Life

Not Without My Daughter

You may also want to refer to Lifetime TV, Dateline, 20/20 or similar TV programs.

Power and Control Wheel /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Power & Control Wheel.pdf

Equality Wheel /content/enforced/50634-013924-01-2152-OL4-7980/BEHS 453 Equality Wheel.pdf

The cost of providing public services at a local hospital has been scrutinized by management. Although these services are used as marketing tools for the hospital, the cost and availability of scarce resources require their optimal allocation while minimizing costs.

Two popular programs being assessed for this purpose are family planning (FP) and Health drive screenings (HDS) their costs to the hospital each offering $200 and $400 respectively. The health care manager in charge of operations found three common patterns of resource consumption for each of these services and the available resources, Shown Table EX 10.2

Resource type FP HDS Available resources per month

Staff Time 60 120 480 minutes

Materials 30 90 250 kits

Rent Space 1 3 occassions

a) Formulate this as a linear programming problem

b) Solve this problem graphically

c) Solve this problem using excel solver

d) In a given month how many FP and how many HDS should be offered?

e) With that proposed class offerings, how many kits will be left over (not distributed in classes?)

f) What is the yearly cost of these programs to the hospital?

10.4

A hospital is evaluating the feasibility of offerings among three technologies, on the basis of what would make the most profit. These new technologies are:

1. Closed chest by pass surgery with daVinici surgery robot

2. Gamma Knife

3. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanner

Table EX 10.4 gives the information on profit, the amount of common resources used by each of the three technologies per case, and their available resources per month.

Available

daVinici Gamma Knife PET Resources

Profit$ $2,000 $3,500 $2,000

Total Staff Time 15 12 1.5 2,000 hours

Maintenance 25 25 22 1,500 minutes

Computer Resources 20 25 10 3,000 minutes

a) Formulate this as a linear problem

b) Solve this problem using Excel solver

c) Based on optimal solution, which product(s) should be offered, and how many procedures can be offered in a month?

d) What is the expected contribution of new technology to the hospital’s monthly profits?
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Locate an article specifically related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX Act) of 2002.

Write a 350- to 700-word review of the article. Your review should discuss how the SOX Act may affect ethical decision making in today’s business environment, and the criminal penalties for which the act provides. Please include an in-depth introduction and conclusion.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Part 2…

Write a 85- to 100-word paper detailing the comparison and contrast of common law contracts and UCC Article 2. Discuss topics you are comfortable with and the topics you struggle with, and how

the weekly topics relate to application in the field of government accounting.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Font – Times New Roman 12pt, double spaced, 1” margins all around, and properly formatted citations, footnotes and work cited page.

Your analysis must be a minimum of two pages of typed text not including work cited page. (points will be deducted if format requirements are not met)

A. What type of document did you read? (or was this a primary or secondary source)

B. When was the document written?

C. Who is the author(s) of the article and what is their title? (provide some background information on author and cite your source)

D. For what audience was the document written? (place article in its proper context, if you say the article was written for students – more than likely you are wrong. Think critically about who the audience is)

E. Document information:

i. List three things the author said that you think are important (footnote and cite the source)

ii. Why do you think this document was written?

iii. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? (Quote from the document, then footnote and cite the source)

iv. Discuss two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written. (do not just provide a list of things, you must explain them – points will be deducted if you simply provide a list)

v. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:
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