Theoretical Perspectives

By the end of this activity, you will be able to:

Identify and explain the three major theoretical perspectives in sociology: symbolic interactionism, structural functionalism and conflict theory and be able to explain each viewpoint in terms of various topics, such as race, gender, class and social change
View the following videos:

“What is Sociology” [MP4 video 2:07 30.4 MB]

“Three Founding Sociological Theories” [MP4 video 5:08]

“Symbolic Interactionism” [MP4 video 4:54]

“Structural Functionalism” [MP4 video 6:52]

“Conflict Perspective” [MP4 video 6:53]

As you complete this discussion, think about the following:

How can sociological theories help us to make sense of the world around us?
In your discussion postings, answer the followng questions:

Pick two theoretical perspectives (structural-functional, conflict or symbolic-interactionist) and compare and contrast these perspectives.
Which one makes the most sense to you?
Which perspective do you find the least helpful for understanding how American society works?

Evaluation Criteria

Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings in the instructions with proper APA style formatting.

For assistance with APA style formatting, visit the Library or the Excelsior OWL.

Your initial post is due by Thursday at 11:59 PM EST. Your responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 PM EST.

After you have posted, read through the postings of your peers. Choose (at least) two of your peers’ posts to respond to. The posts you choose to respond to do not necessarily have to be classmates’ initial posts.

Each response to a peer should be (at least) approximately 100 words in length and should contribute to the discussion in progress. All responses to classmates should be substantive. That is, they should go beyond simple agreement or disagreement with classmates’ posts. Also, be sure that your responses are respectful, substantive, and consistent with the expectations for discussion, as stated by the prompt. Be sure to monitor and respond to feedback to your major thread post throughout the module. Be sure also to reply to your classmates’ postings and that your responses are within the designated due dates for this discussion activity. Please direct any questions you may have to your instructor.

See the Course Calendar for due dates for posts and responses.

Consult the Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it. When you are ready to post, click on the “Create Thread” button for a new thread or “Reply” to respond to a previous post. Then, copy/paste the text from your document into the message field, and click “Submit

Discussions are worth 30% of your final grade and are assessed using the SLA Discussion Rubric [39.1 KB PDF file]. Review the rubric carefully so you understand how you will be graded.

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soccer stadium

PLEASE YOU MUST USE JUST POWER POINT

Egress and Life Safety Analysis – FIRE 2225
Mini-Project

Your instructor is going to be taking the role of a Community Developer and requires your assistance in
conducting researching the groundwork in order to conduct a Life Safety Analyses of various buildings.
1. Conduct research about your occupancy, its occupants, and the egress (or life safety) of those
occupants. Provide a detailed analysis of the following: (Use Chapter 6 of the text to provide direction)
a. Discuss some of the features of NFPA 101 that make it unique, such as discussing the
classification of hazard of contents; construction requirements; protection from
hazards, detection, alarm, and notification; drills and extinguisher training; building
services, etc (other than listed in Ch. 7-10)
b. Occupant characterization – use as a guide the information from Chapter 6 of the text
and NFPA 101: 5.4.5 (with appendix)
c. Occupant reaction and response in emergency situations
d. Occupant risk factors
2. Research a fire of significance that occurred within your occupancy that you can use as a case study
a. Provide a summary of the fire of significance (its cause, reasons for occupant injuries and
fatalities)
b. Write about the fire of significance as it relates contextually to the time period. Identify some
factors that may have led to the fire (and spread) and/or the occupant fatalities.
c. What improvements have been made to prevent loss of life?
3. Develop at least two fire scenarios (as discussed in Chapter 5 of NFPA 101: Ch. 5). You will be
developing a plausible, hypothetical scenario located somewhere in your occupancy. One scenario
should be a Typical or common scenario and the other one should be a high-challenge scenario.
Included in the scenarios should be the following:
a. Ignition factors – source of ignition, material first ignited (and where it ignited for solids)
b. The maximum heat release rate for the material first ignited.
c. Occupant location in relation to the fire first ignited
4. Egress Calculations
a. Discuss what the how you would apply Fruin’s Level of Service to your occupancy (if applicable)
b. Discuss the things that would contribute to time from notification until occupants decide to take
action and time from decision to take action until evacuation commences (pre-evacuation
activity time.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN
Department of Fire Science and Professional Studies
c. Design a scenario for occupant egress and conduct a hand calculation for the time for passage.
Again, this should be a realistic scenario
Write-up
The project should be written up using a program such as PowerPoint. Refer to the format used by the
Projects at CalPoly that are posted on Blackboard. It should have diagrams, pictures, equations, and
explanations of your materials.

(Free inquiry) A question that must be answered as an assignment (3000 words) in Islamic finance in 48 hours, for LLM student in Commercial law. Look at the instructions please

Dear writer,
– This order should be an answer of the question below that is written in the attached file (Question and Instructions) as well, the answer must be written as an academic assignment (3000 words) for post graduate student (LLM in commercial law).
– I am a LLM master of law student in an English university in the UK, so, I would prefer my paper to be written by UK writer please.
1. This assignment must be done within the deadline, so I don’t have enough time for editing and proofreading please, you need to be careful of grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes as I am not very good in English language.
– PLEAS IF (ISLAMIC FINANCE) IS NOT YOUR SPECIFIC AREA IN LAW, DON’T TAKE THIS ASSIGNMENT (PLEASE) AS I HAD SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE PREVIOUS ORDER AND WASTED MY TIME AND MONEY! I CAN’T GAMBLE WITH MY TIME NOW; MY DEADLINE WILL BE SOON!
– My assignment should be written in the UK system, it is called OSCOLA.
– Have a look at the attached files please. You will find these files:
* SUKUK, SPV AND BORROWING WITH COLLATERAL?, the question that has to be answered in this assignment) is a statement that has been taken from this published online article (highlighted with yellow colour).
* MODULE INFORMATION, it may be useful to have a look at the books and other sources that the teacher depends on in this module. It would be useful to use the same sources as much as you can.
* Question and Instructions.
– If I like your work, I may choose you to write my other order that will be placed on 5th of May (3000 words), and my dissertation in Islamic finance in June (15000 words).

* The question is:
“It is difficult to treat the structure using SPVs as truly truthful to the concept of ownership as envisaged under the Shariah. Additionally if at the end of the tenure, the originator is obliged to redeem (repurchase) the asset, then this is another indication that what is intended is no more than lending and borrowing arrangement between the originator and the sukuk holders where the SPV will in real sense effectively act as the trustee appointed to hold the underlying asset as collateral.”
Z Abd Rahman

Discuss the implication of the statement as regards the sharia compliance of sukuk structures.

Thanks,

nursing house

YOU MUST USE THE POWERPOINT

Your instructor is going to be taking the role of a Community Developer and requires your assistance in
conducting researching the groundwork in order to conduct a Life Safety Analyses of various buildings.
1. Conduct research about your occupancy, its occupants, and the egress (or life safety) of those
occupants. Provide a detailed analysis of the following: (Use Chapter 6 of the text to provide direction)
a. Discuss some of the features of NFPA 101 that make it unique, such as discussing the
classification of hazard of contents; construction requirements; protection from
hazards, detection, alarm, and notification; drills and extinguisher training; building
services, etc (other than listed in Ch. 7-10)
b. Occupant characterization – use as a guide the information from Chapter 6 of the text
and NFPA 101: 5.4.5 (with appendix)
c. Occupant reaction and response in emergency situations
d. Occupant risk factors
2. Research a fire of significance that occurred within your occupancy that you can use as a case study
a. Provide a summary of the fire of significance (its cause, reasons for occupant injuries and
fatalities)
b. Write about the fire of significance as it relates contextually to the time period. Identify some
factors that may have led to the fire (and spread) and/or the occupant fatalities.
c. What improvements have been made to prevent loss of life?
3. Develop at least two fire scenarios (as discussed in Chapter 5 of NFPA 101: Ch. 5). You will be
developing a plausible, hypothetical scenario located somewhere in your occupancy. One scenario
should be a Typical or common scenario and the other one should be a high-challenge scenario.
Included in the scenarios should be the following:
a. Ignition factors – source of ignition, material first ignited (and where it ignited for solids)
b. The maximum heat release rate for the material first ignited.
c. Occupant location in relation to the fire first ignited
4. Egress Calculations
a. Discuss what the how you would apply Fruin’s Level of Service to your occupancy (if applicable)
b. Discuss the things that would contribute to time from notification until occupants decide to take
action and time from decision to take action until evacuation commences (pre-evacuation
activity time.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN
Department of Fire Science and Professional Studies
c. Design a scenario for occupant egress and conduct a hand calculation for the time for passage.
Again, this should be a realistic scenario
Write-up
The project should be written up using a program such as PowerPoint. Refer to the format used by the
Projects at CalPoly that are posted on Blackboard. It should have diagrams, pictures, equations, and
explanations of your materials.

mental disorder/ discussion board

NEED MENTAL DISORDER PAPER 5/3/2016 NO MORE THAN TWO PAGES NEED DISCUSSION BOARD POST 5/6/2016Project 2_Mental Disorder Summary1. Check the Excel file in Blackboard for your topic2. Research your topic/disorder. Present information from credible and relevant sources.  • To use the TCC library for sources go here:   .  • For a list of what a source can be go here:    ).  • Here is what MUST be included in your projecto Description of the disorder Definition  Types of the disorder Prevalence Prognosiso Signs/Symptomso Causeso Treatments Biological Psychologicalo Other: In this section you can add any famous cases, newsworthy stories, or interesting facts about the disorder.3. Put the information in an annotated outline or a graphic organizer. Fill in the outline/organizer with brief phrases and words (NOT entire sentences) for each area and CITE your sources for each area. I have provided an example of an outline and a graphic organizer template in Bb in the Project 2 folder.  Feel free to make your own organizer.DISCUSSION BOARD TOPIC I WILL SEND YOU CLASSMATES POSTS FOR REPLIES LATER IN WEEKYou will create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 400 words, demonstrate course-related knowledge, and integrate at least 2 peer-reviewed articles. In addition to the thread, you will reply to the threads of at least 3 classmates. Each reply must be at least 250 words and contain at least 1 citation from a peer-reviewed journal and 1 from the textbook In the case “Singapore Air: Changing to Stay Ahead,” you discover that Singapore Airlines (SIA) has been ranked as the best airline in both independent and customer surveys for nearly 3 decades. It serves as a model of a continuously changing organization—continually modernizing, stretching, and serving customers in ways that stimulate strong loyalty and brand equity. It has been a leader of change in its industry while maintaining a lot of consistency, as well. Reflect on the continuous nature of change in every area of the company and respond to the following prompts as you prepare your thread:

Mini-Portfolio: Collaboration and Shared Leadership

Mini-Portfolio: Collaboration and Shared Leadership

The purpose of this assignment is to help you achieve the course learning goals shown in bold:

By the end of the course, you should have:

Created a final portfolio that draws from your work completed in the program and uses the portfolio-building process to integrate and reflect on your undergraduate education as a whole.
Developed skills in drawing on evidence in your portfolio to support claims about your learning and capacities for various audiences (friends, family, employers, grad school admissions committee, etc.).
Become articulate about linkages between learning portfolios and professional portfolios.
Developed your capacities to present your work orally and in writing to various audiences.
Worked collaboratively with other students to enrich your understanding of interdisciplinarity.
Due by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, in your UW Google Site (Links to an external site.), along with all of the work samples you discuss, and provide the link here in this assignment drop box. Also, please make sure you provide the URL for your Google Site, NOT a Google Doc. If you post the URL for a framing essay on Google Docs, I won’t be able to see any of the artifacts that you talk about. Please bring one printout to class on the due date. Please bring one printout to class on the due date.

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IAS Learning Objective (Links to an external site.): Collaboration and Shared Leadership

IAS students develop their collaboration and shared leadership abilities by learning to work with others to identify dimensions of a project, generate and refine ideas, follow through on the consequences of collective decisions, and pursue specific tasks without losing a sense of the whole. As part of this process, they learn to assess and draw on group members’ histories, strengths, and potential contributions. They develop skills in listening, mediating conflict, playing different roles, and reflecting on the outcomes of collaborative work. Essential to this progress is understanding different ways of managing groups, and reflecting critically and creatively on collaboration processes.

For this assignment, you will create a mini-portfolio focused on your collaboration and shared leadership capacities as described above and as re-interpreted by you in class.

Choose two to four artifacts from your work archive that provide evidence of these capacities. If you like, you can choose one artifact in which your abilities were less developed, and another in which they were better developed, to make a comparison.
Write a 300- to 500-word framing essay that explains your current capabilities related to this learning objective. Keep in mind that you are describing where you are in this moment in time, so it would be helpful to consider what came before this moment and where you intend to go after you graduate, and talk about your work related to this learning objective in those terms. Refer to your selected artifacts and explain how they serve as evidence of your capabilities in this learning objective. You should aim to be as specific as possible in explaining to the reader how the artifacts you have chosen demonstrate your abilities with regard to this learning objective. Remember that your reader will be unfamiliar with your work so you will need to describe it (rather than simply mentioning it). To this end, some of the writing from your annotated bibliography might be useful. If so, feel free to reuse it here.
As you complete this assignment, please draw on the IAS description of this learning objective, your revision of that description, and/or other materials and readings.

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As always, you must properly cite all ideas and words that you borrow from other sources.

HRM DQ question for change MGMT due soon

Good point on retention management having a good role in organization culture and political boundaries that surround change. The business world today must be well-organized and able to adapt to an environment of crossing political and cultural boundaries.  As we probably have seen or been exposed to, boundaries between cultures are becoming vague. In a world of cultural diversity and crossing borders, acknowledging and adapting to differences for an organization is increasingly important, and will be a competitive advantage for the organization that adapts to such changes. 

Week 5 Discussion

\”Growing Cities\”Examine the main reasons why people are attracted to urban areas in the developing world, and select the key issues that make this rural to urban migration such a difficult problem for governments to deal with. Subject:  Sociology Words Count:  200

help

Due Week 4 and worth 175 points In the land of free trade, the public does not view all industries as equal. Do you believe that is ethical? Do you believe that some industries are unfairly targeted? Should it be consumers’ choice to partake in products that are not healthy for them, or do those companies have an ethical obligation to protect people? In this assignment, you will choose one (1) industry to write about. Possible industries to research could be tobacco, soda, alcohol, casinos, or candy companies, just to name a few. Write a one and a half to two (1½ – 2) page paper in which you:  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:  Click to view the grading rubric. 

cyber security

For this assignment, imagine that you are a cybersecurity consultant hired to identify the most significant cybersecurity threats to a company. You can choose any of the following companies: AmazonBoeingCiscoCostcoComcastExxon-MobilWells-Fargo BankYour local electric utility Your local hospital If you want to choose a different company, ask and you may be allowed to. Just be sure to ask early enough. Write a memo to the CEO of the company describing what you believe are the three most serious threats to the company from cyberattacks. These could be attacks directly against the company, or attacks against others than have indirect effect on the company. You memo should describe the threat and who the threat would be coming from (e.g., competitors, disgruntled employees, foreign governments, etc.). You should mention if similar attacks have happened against other companies, since that would be more likely to cause the CEO to pay attention. Keep in mind that the audience for this memo is a CEO. Don’t tell the CEO that the company’s webserver is susceptible to SQL injection – they don’t know what that means and they don’t need to. That’s a topic for a memo to someone much lower in the company. Also, don’t try to tell the CEO what they should be doing to prevent the threats, just tell them about the threats. If they are happy with your work, you will get a follow-on contract where you can provide suggestions for what they can do to prevent them, but not now. The format of the memo must follow the instructions found in the ADMG385MemoFormatting.pdf file (located in the week 5 module). If you’ve taken ADMG 385 you’ve probably seen this. Note that the document is both instructions for how to write a memo, and an example of a memo. And notice how the memo is broken into paragraphs. Some students seem to have great difficulty breaking their writing into paragraphs, but it is much easier to read in smaller paragraphs. Do it! If you have letterhead that you can write your memo on, either from another class or from your own business or wherever, great, use it. Professional letterhead always makes a memo look better, and you are a professional cybersecurity consultant. But letterhead is not required for the assignment. In the memo, the “To” line should not have my name in it, nor should the memo reference this class. Write it as a memo to the CEO of the company you have chosen. The body of the memo must be at least 400 words long. This assignment is worth 5 points total:4 points for the content of the body of the memo. Do you clearly describe the threats so that the CEO can understand? Did you spell check and proof read? If less than 400 words, as usual the maximum score will be reduced proportionately.1 point for following the instructions on how to write a memo. I will be pickier on this assignment than previous ones about spell checking and other errors, The audience for this memo is not your instructor, the audience is a CEO of a corporation that is paying you a crazy amount of money to write this memo. Show them you are worth it and should get that follow-on contract!