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  • Write a 500-750 word, APA style paper, arguing why you believe political parties are beneficial or detrimental.
  • In your paper also include the opposing position along with your rebuttal (of that opposing position). For instance, if you wrote a paper arguing that political parties are beneficial (and why), then your rebuttal would be that political parties are detrimental (damaging or harmful) and why.
  • Note: Arguing in a paper means to present reasons for or against a thing. For instance: He argued in favor of political parties or she argued against political parties. Then give your reasons in your paper to support your arguments!
  • Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one of your references may be found online (not Wikipedia). The other references must be found in the Grantham University online library.

business law

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Textbook(s)
Melvin, S. & Katz, M. (2015) The Legal Environment of Business: A Managerial Approach: Theory to Practice / Edition 2
The required words count for this is 1,500 words for the whole 4 questions; you must provide at least two (2) scholarly sources. You must provide a reference and in-text citations using proper APA Format for each source used. You must provide at least two (2) scholarly sources. You must provide a reference and in-text citations using proper APA Format for each source used. References go after each questions. All parts of questions must be answer. Also I have put the plan of how to sue for example for 1 will be mixed motive.
Please be sure that your responses are meeting the criteria of academic writing. Please be aware of your spelling, grammar, punctuation, references/citation, etc, should be scholarly, synthesized what you read, and created an analysis in your own words, with reference citations to the sources you consulted, should be carefully proof read for correct spelling, grammar, and sentence construction.
What is the best potential theory of discrimination for the plaintiff to pursue?
1.Mixed Motive- Lian, an American of Chinese decent, is employed as an architect in a large regional firm. His evaluations by his superiors have been mostly positive for two years with the consistent exception that he arrived late for client meetings on a frequent basis. On one evaluation, his superior wrote, “I thought Asians were supposed to be efficient. What happened here?” One month later, Lian is denied a promotion based on his record of “tardiness and other general considerations
2. Disparte Impact-Dothard applies for a position as a firefighter. She is excluded because she cannot lift the free-weight requirement mandated in the job description. Over the past five years, men have passed the test 50 percent of the time and women have passed 20 percent of the time
3.Disparte Treatment- Pettigrew is a woman insurance adjustor for a company that has a rule that no adjustors are allowed to enroll in law school because the employer perceives it as a conflict of interest. The company was aware of several adjustors who were in fact enrolled in law school, but did not act against them. Pettigrew enrolled in law school and when the company found out about it, she was terminated. The other adjustors were all male.
4.Sexual Harrashment- Bronte is employed as a bookkeeper at the nation’s largest toy store where she works with Barnes. Barnes has a reputation as the office comedian and, over the course of several months, has made various jokes related to Bronte’s figure and recommended that she come on casual day dressed in sexy lingerie. Bronte tried to laugh at the jokes, but was in fact very upset about the remarks. When she confronted Barnes about the behavior, he advised her to “lighten up” and told her that he was equally sarcastic toward male employees. Bronte quit one day later.

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As your fourth assignment toward completion of the Session Long Project, you will need to discuss the fragile balance between the need for public health agencies to acquire data and the demand for security of sensitive information. Review the article Ethics in Public Health Research. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC23748…

As public health director in a small county, you must maintain records that track diabetes rates, the incidence of HIV, and immunization records. Recently, there have been at least two breaches when computers were stolen from employees or an outside hacker broke into the system and downloaded data.

Now you must write an open letter addressing the community and explain how the department is going to protect the information. In your letter, address the following questions.

  1. Explain why the health department collects this information conveying the idea of how it serves the greater good.
  2. Discuss the public’s interest in privacy and why this is important in our society.
  3. Discuss why the department needs to infringe on the community’s privacy.
  4. Explain how the department might ensure greater security.
  5. Be sure to identify at least one applicable regulation, statute, or source that supports the ability of the department to collect this information.

SLP Assignment Expectations

  1. Limit your response to 3 pages, not including title and reference pages.
  2. Be sure to utilize at least 3-4 scholarly references to support your discussions.
  1. Be sure to properly cite your references within the text of your assignment and listed at the end.
  2. Be sure to apply critical thinking skills to the write-up of your assignment, especially for numbers 1, and 2 above.

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Use this proposal topic for this discussion:

Autistic children who attend some kind of school based program have better coping skills vs. autistic kids who are home schooled.

Discussion Topic: Non-experimental Methods

Select one of the non-experimental methods (naturalistic observation, ethnography, case history, sociometry, archival study, survey, and correlational research), and describe how you might use this method to study your hypothetical research question (the one being used for your research proposal). Why did you select this particular method for your research study? What do you like and dislike about this method? What differentiates this non-experimental method from a true experiment?

Creative writing

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What kinds of creative writing are you involved with through work, school, or your personal life?

Why do you think so many people use the term politically correct in a pejorative way when the real impetus of the term is to help people be more culturally sensitive and inclusive?

Write a brief personal essay of 700 words on your favorite literary example from the traditional English canon. In essay form, answer the following questions with clarity and precision:

1. What is your favorite literary piece in the English canon?
2. Why is it your favorite?
3. What, specifically, do you think this piece adds to the canon?
4. How might this piece have been limited by the canon?

-write-about-the-woman-based

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1.Outline the story you would like to write about the woman based in the following information.

Be sure to include a description of:

·your main character (the woman)

·her life in 1909

·her life in 1927

·the events that influenced her life in the time span between those years (the events should be actual historical events) and how they affected her.

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Your Play Personality

In this discussion, you have an opportunity to explore the importance of understanding your play personality. Your play personality describes how you engage in play given certain personality factors. Understanding your play personality can inform the development of your personal framework of play. In addition to reviewing this week’s Instructor Guidance, read the What’s Your Play Personality? article by Monroe (2014), who presents the research of Dr. Stuart Brown.

Initial Post: This discussion will be completed in multiple-steps. First, you will make a prediction about your play personality. Next, complete the Your Play Personality and Why It Matters Quiz (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and then formulate your discussion post.

In your post, discuss:

  • Your predicted play personality.
  • Activities that you engage in that support your predicted play personality.
  • The actual play personality results from your quiz.
  • The alignment between your predicted personality and your actual results.
  • The anticipated implications that your play personality has on your personal framework of play and how these can affect the play environments you will create as an educator.

Health Psychology, writing homework help

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Select a topic from one of the following (unless you have been approved to use another):

1. Industry/ Organizational Psychology 2. Sport Psychology

3. Consumer Psychology 4. Forensic Psychology

5. Human Engineering Psychology 6. Positive Psychotherapy

7. Play Therapy 8. Neuropsychology 9. Holistic Psychology

10. School Psychology 11. Political Psychology 12. Evolutionary Psychology

13. Cultural Psychology 14. Psychophysiology

15. Community Clinical Psychology

16. Health Psychology

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in APA format discussing the topic you have chosen. This
paper must be uploaded and submitted as an attachment on the link(click
on “Browse” to locate your file and then click “Upload” to upload your
file) provided within the instructions below. Include the following:

1. In your paper you must discuss the topic chosen by explaining how it is important to not only society but to your own life.

2. Furthermore, tell me about the topic as if you were the instructor teaching someone about the material for the first time.

3. You must have at least three references including at least book in the paper. Wikipedia is not a scholarly reference and will result in a zero on the paper.

4. The entire document must be doubled spaced.

4. References must be written in APA format. Don’t include an
abstract section or tables, I just want you to use the format. In APA
style, the alphabetical list of works cited, which appears at the end of
the paper, is titled “References.”

Benefits of Group Therapy Discussion

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Discussion 1: Benefits of Group Therapy

Group therapy is often utilized when treating substance abuse and addiction for a variety of reasons. Group therapy can provide a level of accountability not found in individual therapy. One form of accountability is the use of “sponsors,” a service that is typically not found in individual therapy. Therapy groups frequently include members who are at varying stages of recovery. This enables group members to interact with others in the therapy group who are struggling with similar issues. Those who are at later stages of recovery can see through the defenses (e.g., minimization, denial, and rationalization) that might be displayed by newer therapy group members. The relapse rates for substance abuse and addiction can be high, and, thus, the cost of treatment can be high. Group therapy provides a cost-effective treatment form by splitting the cost between multiple members.

Sometimes watching something makes the content “come to life” in a way that reading does not. This week you get an opportunity to watch a movie that incorporates group therapy. More specifically, you analyze group therapy movies that are based on substance abuse or addiction.

For this Discussion, review one of the suggested movies in this week’s Learning Resources. As you watch, notice how the therapy group might differ from other non-substance or addiction therapy groups. In addition, examine how the dynamics of the therapy group are therapeutic and how this process is different from individual therapy. In particular, keep Yalom’s therapeutic factors in mind, and see how they play out in the film’s therapy group.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a brief description of the film you selected. Then, explain why group therapy is an effective treatment for substance abuse or addiction based upon what you saw in the film. Finally, explain which therapeutic factors might have the most benefit for people in group therapy for substance abuse or addiction. Be specific and use the Learning Resources and current literature to support your response.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Discussion 2: Experience and Effectiveness in Group Therapy

How might clients feel if they discovered that their substance abuse therapist had no personal experience with substance abuse? Would they feel betrayed? Lied to? Would they even care? Does past recovery experience influence the effectiveness of a substance abuse therapist? Therapy is an intensely personal journey, and it is important that clients trust their therapist to successfully guide them through the process.

For this Discussion, review the media titled “Audio Therapist: Colleague Calling.” Think about how you might respond to your colleague on the phone. Consider the relationship between effectiveness as a therapy group leader and firsthand experience with the recovery process. Use your own words in clear terms, as though you are speaking directly to a colleague.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 your response to the colleague. Include how you would explain to your colleague how she can convey her effectiveness as a group therapist. Provide the rationale for your response to the colleague. Be specific and use the Learning Resources and current literature to support your response.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

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Discussion: Racism and Privilege

In many societies certain groups possess more resources and hold more power than other groups. In some of these societies, racial discrimination and racial tension also exist. While members of the societies may openly acknowledge that unequal distribution of power and racism are present in their society, many fail to examine the complex relationships between privilege and racism. Social workers must understand this complex relationship so they can educate and empower their clients. Empowerment is the cornerstone of social work practice.

In the book Black Empowerment, the author,Barbara Solomon, writes, “Empowerment refers to a process whereby persons who belong to a stigmatized social category throughout their lives can be assisted to develop and increase skills in the exercise of interpersonal influence and the performance of valued social roles” (p. 6).

Empowerment practice is based on a collaborative relationship between worker and client, initiated to promote the client’s power through self-actualization, self-determination, and the fulfillment of personal goals (Gutierrez, Parsons, & Cox, 1998). Further, this process includes increasing your clients’ awareness of the structural oppression that exists and its impact on them. It is the role of social workers to empower clients and to bring about awareness of the inequalities that exist in society. This is done two fold—through work with clients on the micro and mezzo levels and on a macro level through work in organizations and communities.

Social workers cannot effectively empower clients without first understanding the mechanisms of oppression and how they impact their day-to-day work. Then social workers can recognize the impact on their clients’ lives and apply the appropriate skills.

To prepare: Review the case study “Working With Individuals: The Case of Mary.”

By Day 3

Post an explanation of the relationship between racism and privilege. Furthermore, explain how the concepts of racism and privilege relate to “Working With Individuals: The Case of Mary.” Explain the impact of racism and privilege on social work practice. Provide recommendations for how you as a social worker might use an empowerment perspective when responding to Mary. Be specific and provide examples from the case. Also, identify specific skills social workers might employ.

Reference

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen S. M. (Eds.). (2014). Social work case studies: Foundation year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

  • Working With Individuals: The Case of Mary”