sued for injuries and damage

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Little Big Corporation hired Stuart as a delivery driver. Before Stuart was hired, the personnel director of Big Little Corporation not only interviewed Stuart and asked him about his driving record and the status of his driver’s license, but the personnel director also obtained an official driving record for Stuart and talked with Stuart’s former employer specifically about Stuart’s driving record. There was no indication from the interview with Stuart, from his driving record, or from Stuart’s previous employer that Stuart was an unsafe driver.

When Stuart was hired by Little Big Corporation, he was thoroughly trained in the operation of the delivery truck that he would be driving and provided an employee safety manual which he was required to (and did) read.

For seven years, Stuart worked as a delivery driver for Little Big Corporation without any accidents or problems. In Stuart’s eighth year as a delivery driver for Little Big Corporation, while making a delivery, he was distracted by something in the cab of his delivery truck, ran a stop sign and hit the car that was being driven by Peggy. Peggy suffered a broken leg and her car was badly damaged.

Peggy sued Stuart and Little Big Corporation for her injuries and damage, and she was awarded damages against Stuart and Little Big Corporation. Little Big Corporation was considered to be fully responsible for these damages under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

Is that fair to Little Big Corporation? What is accomplished by making an employer liable for the actions of their employees if the employer has done everything within reason to make sure that its employees are qualified and trained to do their jobs safely?

Use APA
format to properly reference your information.

Case Study 11

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  1. Read the Chapter 11 Case Study “Darden’s Global Supply Chain” (p. 468) and watch the video, then write a summary of at least 300 words using the accompanying discussion questions to guide your essay written in APA style, with a reference page and a cover page. APA requires double space. Your essay will be checked for originality via SafeAssign. There is not a target for matching but your instructor will be assessing that you have used your own words with proper in-text citations and quotation marks for direct quotes.
  3. By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.

feedback discussion board

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Hodgman’s “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch” (it’s a satire…relax…), Bissell’s “Thirteen Ways to Look at a Shooter,” or Laska’s “Empire of Ice.” read those topics and give feedback from those below written paragraphs. if you are agree with them then provide example with description , if you are not then also provide example with description. paragparh should not be less than 5 sentences. choose any two from below.

1. I chose “Thirteen Ways to Look at a Shooter.” This caught my attention because I enjoy playing shooter video games and I’m always interested to read the opinion of others on this. After reading the descriptive essay one would gather that the thesis is about how shooter games provoke a negative emotion. An example of this would be when the writer explains that “the goal was to make a real war game, something that felt cruel and strange and oppressive, but also genuinely exciting when it had to be, because every combat vet I know, including my shooter-hating father, has described how beautiful and oddly life-affirming combat can sometimes feel.” When you read through this essay one can clearly picture and paint an image in their head what the writer is describing. Especially when they talk about when they were in Iraq with the tracer rounds, the burning palm tree and the spiraling ground, all allows you to be able to visualize the words.

The second essay I chose is the “empire of ice.” After reading this essay one would get a real understanding of exactly what people have to endure in order to make a living working on the arctic oil rig. As soon as the writer gets off the plane he describes the cold weather so vividly that one might feel exactly how he’s feeling. Starting with his first breathe when he says “I took a breath and felt a sting in my lungs that might have been instant ice.” This gives a clear image of just how cold it is when one first step off the plane. The writer goes on to describe each move he makes and how dangers of every day life there are looming around every corner. Especially when he described the bear cages that were placed around the grounds where they were.

2. For the first article I chose Bissell’s “Thirteen Ways to Look at a Shooter”. As someone who wants to get a degree in game design and development, this article intrigued me greatly. Overall, the thesis of the article is that shooter video games today have become more about senseless violence to earn a profit, and promote inhumane and disgusting actions for the player to preform. As for the descriptive parts of the essay, two major examples can be given from both the beginning and the end. The first is in the opening paragraphs, where the authors describes the gruesome experience they had while watching a play test of Splinter Cell: Blacklist at E3, feeling both “sick and infuriated” at the torture the game promoted. Later, the authors gives another detailed description of a thought experiment on how a game they had planned to help with would have been made. From spiraling helicopters to “gorgeous green spears of tracer-light fire” this essay uses language that lets it fall under the category of a descriptive essay.

The second article I am planning to discuss is “Empire of Ice” by Laska. This essay is told from a first person perspective of events that take place on an oil rig. The thesis of this essay is that while seeming like a simple job we only do because of our desire and want for oil, living on an oil rig can be a hard, emotionally taxing job. Because it is told from a first person perspective, we get in detail descriptions of the environment; from the freezing cold winds to the beauty of the ice landscape. Inside of the oil rig, we are also told it is “squeaky clean and beige like so much of this place. On the whole, the camp has the cozy feel of a college dorm, or perhaps the too cozy feel of a submarine.” These details along with many others from this essay perfectly qualify it as a descriptive essay.

3. After reading Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Shooter I had a hard time finding a direct thesis statement. What I found is that the thesis statement is about the dark side of shooting games and why people want to create or play them. The author describes not only what he saw, but also the way watching it made him feel. He continues to describe games in ways that make the reader feel involved and uncomfortable. What is disturbing is the way that people felt unnerved by what they were playing, but at the same time it was “absorbing”. He also uses a metaphor saying, “It’s quite possible that shooters reveal that somewhere inside every human being is a shadow human being, one who kills and takes and does what he or she pleases.”

The thesis for Empire of Ice: Life on an Arctic Oil Rig is “Who are these people, and how do they get the oil out of the ground?” The story focuses on the job, but mostly on the men that work it. The author uses descriptive writing throughout to help the audience understand what the environment is like. She uses descriptive words to describe the weather and distance, “You have to pile on about twenty pounds of gear just to walk over to the rig, about half a football field away.” This brings the audience to feel the cold and understand there is a long way to go. She describes one of the men as “a weeble that wobbles but won’t fall down”.

Both stories were extremely descriptive. Thirteen Ways connected me by pulling me in on an emotional side where as Empire Ice did the same, but on a smaller level. Empire Ice made me feel more connected by the feel of the location, the relationships between the workers, and their desire to make money.

Exporting and Importing: Business 303

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My declared topic: Exporting and Importing

  1. Declare your topic to the class by posting a new thread in the related DB forum and titling it with the key term you selected. This reserves your topic so that other students cannot use it. Each student must cover a different key term; no duplication of articles or key terms is allowed.
  2. Conduct an Internet search to find and read at least 3 recent articles that relate to the key term you selected. Articles may be found in the International section of any reputable website that focuses on international business, such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, or the Economist. Another good source of information is EBSCOhost, accessible through Liberty’s online library. Websites like about.com, britanica.com, Wikipedia etc. do not constitute scholarly academic articles and references.
  3. Of the 3 articles you’ve read, select the article that you wish to discuss, and write a review of it. In addition, you must post all 3 (or more) recent articles to the reference section—even though you review only one of them. You may provide additional references, but references do not replace 3 articles that relate to your key term. Actually reference the article you review within the article review. Your review must include the following sections (each section must be structured by a heading for each section):
  1. A definition of the key term: this does not count in the 200 word minimum requirement.
  2. A summary, in your own words, of the selected article.
  3. A discussion, in your own words, of how the article relates to the selected chapter and key term.
  4. The complete citation, in APA format, of each of the 3 articles read and any other additional references; these do not count in the 200-word requirement.
  5. All references must be annotated.

bshs/355 prevention program brochure, psychology homework help

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Resource: Brochure Builder or any other elective brochure-building program to build a brochure, such as Microsoft® Word, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign, and Ch. 8 of Human Services in Contemporary America.

Select a social service agency that provides prevention programs. The program’s offered level of prevention can be either primary (prevention as the first defense), secondary (early detection and treatment), or tertiary (rehabilitation and return to the community).

Examples of prevention programs include the following:

  • Juvenile justice programs
  • Youth crime prevention programs
  • Programs preventing violence against women
  • Child abuse prevention programs
  • Substance abuse prevention programs

Research the prevention program offered by the agency.

Create a brochure outlining the program.

Include the following:

  • The program’s history
  • How the program started
  • The program’s purpose
  • Whom the program serves
  • A discussion about the level of the selected agency’s prevention programs and rationale. For example, are the programs focused on primary (prevention as the first defense), secondary (early detection and treatment), or tertiary (rehabilitation and return to the community) prevention?
  • If the program serves people locally, nationally, or globally
  • Potential obstacles the program faces in providing services

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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Week #3 Discussion Forum

Course Textbook: Tiel, Philosophy of Human Nature

  1. Engage with St. Augustine
    a. Read Chapter 11: The Love of God of Tiel
    b. Watch Lecture 11: St. Augustine, the Love of God (1 hour and 7 minutes)
    c. Read St. Augustine’s City of God, Book 19: 1-5
    d. Read Epistle to the Romans, Chapters 6, 7, and 8
    e. Watch Lecture 12: St. Augustine, the Peace of God (1 hour and 14 minutes)
    f. Read St. Augustine’s City of God, Book 19: 11-13 and 17 – 24
  2. Engage with St. Thomas
    a. Read Chapter 12: Satisfaction of Human Nature of Tiel
    b. Watch Lecture 13: St. Thomas, the Satisfaction of Human Nature (1 hour and 05 minutes)
    c. Read St. Thomas’s Summa Theologica,
    Pt. I – II Q3: Article 8 / Q4: Articles 1-8 / Q5: Articles 1-8
  3. Engage with St. Thomas
    a. Read Chapter 13: The Theological Virtues of Tiel
    b. Watch Lecture 14: St. Thomas, The Theological Virtues (1 hour 10 minutes)
    c. Read St. Thomas’s Summa Theologica,
    Pt. I – II Q57: Articles 1-5 / Q61: Articles 1-5 / Q62: Article 1-4/ Q65: Article 5
  4. Enage with Richard Hooker
    Read Chapter 14: Transcendent Fullfillment of Tiel

I will show you the link address when you accept the task

Managing Inventory, management homework help

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Introduction
The costs associated with inventory are holding costs and ordering costs. Inventory control systems are used to control the level of inventory by determining how much to order and when to order. This helps to manage the costs associated with inventory – ordering, holding, and shortage costs. In this discussion, apply some of the management concepts and techniques from Chapter 9 to the inventory that you manage in your personal life.

Instructions
For this assignment, compose your response to the following questions:

  • Provide an example of inventory that you manage in your home life, such as computer supplies. Estimate how much it costs you to hold this inventory.
  • Estimate the ordering and shortage costs (shortage costs may not be financial ones).
  • How often do you replenish this inventory, and which of the inventory systems does this most closely resemble?
  • Mentally apply a different system. What would be the pros and cons?

RE: SOCW6210 (WK10) Response to 2 Students)

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Response to Samuel

Summary of Motivational Lifespan Development Theory

Lifespan development is a complex process that cannot innately be synthesized into one simple theory. According to Wrosch, Heckhausen & Haas (2012), “A central assumption in developmental research is that individuals shape, influence, or regulate their development across the life span” (p. 2). That being said, individuals experience several different types of lifespan development depending on their environment and the obstacles in front of them at various points in their lives. The Motivational Theory of Lifespan Development proposes that an individual’s life can be shaped through asserting themselves in their environment (Heckhausen, Wrosch & Schulz, 2010). Lifespan development in this theory rests upon an individual’s ability to set goals and affect change in their lives.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Many strengths exists in the Motivation Theory of Lifespan Development, but there are also some questions as to the application of this theory. Strengths of the Motivational Lifespan Development Theory are mostly based in the environmental aspects and observations that it offers. Looking at an individual’s life in the context of their social environment provides an excellent platform to introduce the idea of individual agency to a person in social work practice. In addition to using this theory in social work practice, it is also a great theory to look at with respect to how people either take control of their lives and affect change or visa versa. Questions still remain with this theory. Most importantly, how does the theory account for different social constructs and political systems? It is a reality that society in various places in this world does not offer a person the ability to affect positive change in their lives from a macro perspective, so how will the theory address this (Heckhausen, Wrosch & Schulz, 2010)? In addition to this, how will the theory account for mental illness in its approach? Some people are unable to motivate themselves in the traditional sense, which necessitates a different aspect of lifespan development. As I stated before, there is no way to apply one lifespan development theory to every human, but these questions are important for further research of this theory.

Application to Social Work Practice

As stated above, I believe that the Motivational Theory of Lifespan Development is an excellent tool to use in social work practice. Sparking motivation in people’s lives is part of what a social worker is trying to accomplish. Educating clients about this theory may show them that they have more control over their lives than they originally thought. Introducing ways that their lives have been shaped by their own motivation, or lack thereof, can be powerful in affecting positive change in an individual’s life.

References

Haase, C. M., Heckhausen, J., & Wrosch, C. (2012, July 23). Developmental Regulation Across the Life Span: Toward a New Synthesis. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0029231

Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., & Schulz, R. (2010). A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development. Psychological Review, 117(1), 32. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0017668

Response to Yana

Analyze the theory of life-span development that you selected:

Life-span development is the process of “understanding and assessing human behavior” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016 p. 8). I chose to focus on Lev Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development. Vygotsky had a similar approach to Jean Piaget but included the importance of sociocultural perspectives when determining the influences of human behavior (Matusov & Hayes, 2000).

Summarize the theory; then, identify the strengths and weaknesses of this theory, especially as it relates to social work practice:

Vygotsky died at an early age but was able to have “a major impact on the understanding of cognitive development” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016 p. 141). Vygotsky emphasized that the social and cultural interactions have an important effect on a child’s development (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). Vygotsky included the effects of the environment a child may be exposed to, their social and cultural circumstances, the different social situations a child may be around, and the effects of a child’s interaction in activities that are in a group setting (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). These principles show us how children observe behaviors and interactions that are then later incorporated mentally (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). Vygotsky’s theory incorporates three important concepts to help understand his perspective. The first concept is the zone of proximal (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). Zone of proximal is defined as “the difference between what a learner can accomplish independently and what he or she can accomplish with the guidance and encouragement of a more skilled partner” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016 p. 142). For example, a child may need assistance in certain tasks that can only be done with the help of others. The second is Scaffolding (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). Scaffolding is “the process whereby adults help children learn how to solve problems or discover principles” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016 p. 143). The last concept is private speech (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016). Private speech is when an individual speaks to themselves and not directed to any other person (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016).

The strengths for this theory is that it does include the social nature of human development and applies it to how a child may react due to their social and cultural interactions and surroundings (Matusov & Hayes, 2000). This may be true of many children but not every person develops at the same rate or may be affected similarly. The weakness in this theory is the fact that the “approaches of development seem universalist (i.e., claiming that there is only one advanced direction for development), decontextual (i.e., claiming there are general developmental mechanisms/skills that independent of the context of their issue), ethnocentric (i.e., claiming deficits in values and practice of the other, not own, communities), and adultocentric (i.e., claiming deficits in values of the children when they are not comprehensibly by adults)” (Matusov & Hayes, 2000 para. 5).

Explain one way you might apply the theory to your social work practice:

Cognitive development theory can help me better understand how social and cultural interactions can have an effect on a child and later in their life-span. This theory uses the effects of these interactions that occur at a young age to how a child may learn to do certain tasks. The tasks are learned through a term called the zone of proximal, where an adult or another person may influence how a child reacts, learns, and completes a task. I do not want to solely rely on this theory, but to be able to recognize when this occurs in a client.

References

Matusov, E., & Hayes, R. (2000). Sociocultural critique of Piaget and Vygotsky. New Ideas In Psychology, 18(2-3), 215-239. doi:10.1016/S0732-118X(00)00009-X

Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Please include 2 APA peer reviwed references

Intercultural Communications–Web Based Writing Assignment

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Web-based Writing Assignment for Week Six:

In a minimum of two pages respond to the following questions in APA format:

1. How has electronic media (the internet especially and self-produced DVD’s) reversed some of this dominant cultural hegemony generated by Hollywood movies by democratizing access to global audiences?

2. What are some of your favorite illustrative examples of other-than-mainstream groups or individuals who have found their voices and audiences on the internet?

3. A currently popular one is the person to person investment web-site to help eradicate global poverty – http://www.kiva.org/ . What is your opinion about efforts like this by NGO’s [Non-Government Organizations]? Do you think this one will make any difference?

Essay of Cost Accounting

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COST ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERIAL DECISION ANALSIS GUIDELINES FOR INDIVIDUAL WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
● Individual Writing Assignments should include the following:

Name of the Article Author Name of the magazine or journal that the article was published in Date of publication (No older than 18 months from the start of the
semester) Page numbers that the article appeared on
● The Individual Writing Assignments should be organized to

include the following sections:
Summary of the article

How the topic described in the article relates to Cost and Managerial Accounting Your opinion of the article (i.e. is this an informative article, how useful can it be, etc. what other issues may exist related to the subject of the article) What you learned from reading and analyzing the article / what you learned specifically about cost and managerial accounting as a result of the article

● Individual Writing Assignments should be 1-2 pages single

spaced

● Subject of the article can be on any topic covered this semester
(For example; job-order costing, activity-based costing, budgeting, ethics, etc.). Review the chapter titles from the text.